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Speaker 1: bill till it goes Dang, Joe Alrico, nice to see you,

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Speaker 1: my friend. The Blue Jays signs of life right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden getting after it a little bit,

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Speaker 1: you gotta feel pretty good. Especially when you lookt the

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Speaker 1: Orioles who are terrible, the Red Sox who can't get

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Speaker 1: out of their own way, especially in the rotation. All

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, those Blue Jays look pretty decent in

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Speaker 1: the East.

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Speaker 2: I've been one of the most pessimistic Blue Jay fans

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Speaker 2: for a long time now, and just looking back over

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Speaker 2: the last three weeks, the Jays are the most prolific

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Speaker 2: offense in the league. It's a good time to be

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Speaker 2: alive here north of the border.

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Speaker 1: Joe there, Well, it always is. Canadians. I've always referred

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Speaker 1: to as the better Americans, and that's my whole life.

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Speaker 1: I always have it, I always will. I love my

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Speaker 1: Canadian friends. They are just the nicest people, and I

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Speaker 1: understand why it is because you don't get outside very often,

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Speaker 1: so you know, when you do see other people, you

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Speaker 1: want to be nice to them because it's cold there

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Speaker 1: so often out of the year. Dylan Cease, he was

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Speaker 1: stone cold amazing yesterday. Seven score listenings, eleven strikeouts. He

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Speaker 1: was the headliner in yesterday's trade video. If you missed it,

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Speaker 1: we were talking about trading for Dylan Cees Joe because well,

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Speaker 1: the expected era, the FIP, all those numbers the x

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Speaker 1: FIP were all in the threes, despite the fact that

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Speaker 1: ERA going Yesterray was over four and a half. The

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Speaker 1: strikeout rate was back above eleven k or nine. The

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Speaker 1: walk rate has come down a little bit. Now. I

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Speaker 1: fear that window might have just completely shut for Dylan Ceas.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you can prime away, but I don't know. After

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Speaker 1: yesterday's incredible start, I think that window might have closed

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Speaker 2: What do you think, Yeah, I think it really depends

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Speaker 2: on the league, because some people will still just look

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Speaker 2: to their you know, season to date rankings and the

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Speaker 2: look at ERA and the look at WHIP and four

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Speaker 2: twenty eight ERA one point thirty WHIP. If somebody is

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Speaker 2: just gonna look at that, you might still be able

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Speaker 2: to get a nice deal for Dylan Cease. And I agree,

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Speaker 2: you know, all those expected numbers are still really good.

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Speaker 3: The walks are a little bit more in control.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know, he walked five guys yesterday, which

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Speaker 2: isn't great, but eleven strikeouts, seven shutout innings versus the Dodgers,

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Speaker 2: We'll take that trade off. And I think if you

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Speaker 2: just look below the surface there there are still gonna

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Speaker 2: be some inconsistencies with Dylan Ceese like there always are,

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Speaker 2: but I agree that he's a really nice by target

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Speaker 2: right now if you can still pull it off.

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Speaker 1: If he can, and look, you got one shot at

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Speaker 1: this bad boy. After yesterday, maybe somebody looks at the

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Speaker 1: eleven k performance, it goes, oh, go to get rid

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Speaker 1: of him now because that four era has driving me crazy.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know. I'm skeptical now. So again he

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Speaker 1: had a window. This is why, yo, this is why

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Speaker 1: bother with those on the twitch. Let's get to Jose Soriano,

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Speaker 1: who actually best had ceased with twelve strikeouts. He was

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Speaker 1: was against the Athletics, and the Athletics have been just

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Speaker 1: terrible here over the last month and change. Joe I

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Speaker 1: had high hopes that. I thought the Athletics might be

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Speaker 1: plucky and fun offensively. They have their moments, but my god,

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Speaker 1: the pitching has been absolutely atrocious. And Soriano's a guy

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Speaker 1: What do you make out of this recent start here

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Speaker 2: I still don't really trust him. The strikeouts have come down,

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Speaker 2: The big thing for me is the stuff was always

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Speaker 2: So I worry a little bit about what to expect

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Speaker 2: from him going forward. I think if somebody's willing to

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Speaker 2: their struggles have not been offensively, they've been a good lineup,

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Speaker 2: but he was able to take advantage of them regardless

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Speaker 2: of that. So if you are able to kind of

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Speaker 2: use that narrative of he just mowed down a great

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Speaker 2: team and sell off him, I'd probably be in favor

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Speaker 2: of doing that.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he's terrible, but I think that.

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Speaker 2: He's not going to be doing that too many times

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Speaker 2: rest of season twelve strikeout type of games.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't either. I think this is an interesting

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Speaker 1: sell off at the peak. I don't think it gets

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Speaker 1: much better than this. We will be answering your questions,

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Speaker 1: as Jerry pointed out four o'clock Eastern today, But I

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Speaker 1: have this couple in the chat that are really intriguing.

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Speaker 1: Lee traded Bubba in a keeper league scenario for Wheeler

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Speaker 1: no cake value. Am I gonna I'm gonna go for it.

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Speaker 1: The question is is he going to regret this in

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Speaker 1: a year or two? I don't know. To me, Flags

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Speaker 1: fly forever, I want the championship. Are you with me? Joe?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I think if you're in a situation where you can

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Speaker 4: compete now, I have no problem with this Bubba.

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Speaker 3: We don't know.

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Speaker 4: Like they called up that mud Zinski guy today, they

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Speaker 4: just have no incentive. It seems like the call up Chandler.

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Speaker 4: So maybe it's another month and a half you're waiting

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Speaker 4: on him. If you're going for it this season, I

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Speaker 4: think that's a good work to make, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Matt On the Mound Morning, Joe and Joe, I

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Speaker 1: was offered Trout for an arm. Excuse me, Trout and

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Speaker 1: an arm for Jackson Merrill. What do you guys think?

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Speaker 1: Hard pass for me? That knee is still bothering him.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that later in the show. That's

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Speaker 1: why he's only dhing. And the fact that it's still

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Speaker 1: we have not seen the last of Mike Trout to

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The fact that it's unarmed leads me to believe it's

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Speaker 2: be a top twenty five or thirty sp Merrill is

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Speaker 2: the true asset there that you should prioritize. Unless that

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Speaker 2: arm turns out to be somebody brilliant. I wouldn't I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't make that move, all right.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of brilliant, Grand Holmes nine strikeouts yesterday, five and

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Speaker 1: a third innings of three run baseball. Max Freed still

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Speaker 1: continues to be excellent. You know, I do have some

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Speaker 1: I do have a bet on Max Freed for Cy

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Speaker 1: at a pretty decent number. So I'm still I'm not

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Speaker 1: rooting against Turry's Google so much as I'm rooting for

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Speaker 1: Max Freed. I just want to put that out there.

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Speaker 1: A good game for Austin Wells too. He drove in

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Speaker 1: a bunch of runs yesterday actually, and if you look

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Speaker 1: at the two for four with a double five rebies yesterday,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Judge in another home run. But I wanted to

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Speaker 1: pull this up here because there was another stat on

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Speaker 1: Sunday Show and I found this stat here I thought

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Speaker 1: was really interesting. The Yankees have a plus sixty two

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Speaker 1: run differential Max Freed's fourteen starts this year, So despite

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Speaker 1: he really hasn't needed the help.

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Speaker 2: eighteen runs in eighty eight innings.

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Speaker 3: He's just easy, brilliant.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Max Free is somebody that I was a

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Speaker 2: and I still think he's going to come back down

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Speaker 2: to earth. But he is one of the better bargains

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Speaker 2: of draft season, it looks like to this point of

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Speaker 1: And you know, I know people want to give the

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Speaker 1: Braves crap for not resigning him. The Braves were never

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Speaker 1: going to give him that many years. It was never

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Speaker 1: Don't be tough on the Brais. Personally, I thought the

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Speaker 1: Yankees were crazy for giving him that long of a contract.

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Speaker 3: Me too.

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Speaker 1: So it's been really good so far. He has saved

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Speaker 1: this rotation period. End of story. Ian hap Hoomer twice

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Speaker 1: walked twice. Great day for Ian Halp, Andrew Abbott, chi

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Speaker 1: Ching got that one right yesterday plus money Baby two

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Speaker 1: or three for the Bets yesterday. By the way, first

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Speaker 1: complete game was a three hit shutout of the Guardians yesterday.

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Speaker 1: One nothing. So Red's offense continues to be all or nothing.

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Speaker 1: But what else is new? That's been the story all day,

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Speaker 1: all year, I should say for the Reds. The story

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Speaker 1: a year for Lucas Giolito has been. He's been awful,

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Speaker 1: just terrible. So I wanted to bet against him yesterday.

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Speaker 1: That did not work out. Joe one unearned run over

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Speaker 1: six innings. Ryan Peppie, on the other side, was really good,

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Speaker 1: three runs, five to two thirds, struck out nine. That's

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Speaker 1: a season high for Pepio, who's been terrific. And I

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Speaker 1: got what I expected out of Pepio. I did not

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Speaker 1: get what I expected of Giolito. I am not buying it.

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Speaker 1: He's one of the most dropped guys in Fantasy baseball

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Speaker 1: over the last two weeks. Do you leave him on

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Speaker 1: that waiver wire if you see him there?

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Speaker 3: Joe, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The strikeouts are just gone. The swinging strikes have always

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Speaker 2: been pretty good twelve thirteen, fourteen percent. He's down at

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Speaker 2: eight percent and the strikeout rate is down at seventeen percent.

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Speaker 2: There's no wiggle room there, especially when the ratios are

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Speaker 2: what they are. And it's not even a situation where

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Speaker 2: he's getting really unlucky. He has a five eighty eight

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Speaker 2: expected era, he has or a four to forty eight Sierra,

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Speaker 2: so he's not just getting screwed or something. It's not

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Speaker 2: a Babbitt issue. It's not a strand rate issue. He's

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Speaker 2: just not really that great anymore.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Lee wants to know.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: I see Joe Piezapia at the Mets parade in November.

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Speaker 1: All right, Joey boy, let's move on with the show

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Speaker 1: We have some transactions. Craig Kimbrel signed a minor league

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Speaker 2: have Nestor Cortez coming back at some point. I think

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Speaker 2: that it's probably just a spot start, and it comes

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Speaker 2: against Saint Louis, who recently hasn't been great. Over the

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Speaker 2: last three weeks they've been pretty poor. But this is

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Speaker 2: not like I saw just looking at Yahoo there were

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Speaker 2: twenty thousand ads of Miserowski yesterday. These people are probably

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Speaker 2: gonna be dropping him again in a week's.

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Speaker 1: Time, probably, I would agree. I do think though next year,

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Speaker 1: when you've got theoretically Peralta, then maybe Woodrof Misowski Henderson.

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Speaker 1: It's a really good looking rotation. In fact, it's such

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Speaker 1: a good looking rotation that it makes you wonder too,

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Speaker 1: like do they this offseason make a move for a

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Speaker 1: bat and try to fortify that offense because that pitching

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Speaker 1: looks like it's pretty good. And since you mentioned Brandon

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Speaker 1: woodro If, I want to introduce a new segment to

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Speaker 1: the show called Dark Joe. And I think this is

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Speaker 1: a really good situation. Brandon Woodroff's never coming back, it's

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Speaker 1: never happening. He'll be on rehab starts forever and ever.

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Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Dark Joe. Whenever you mentioned

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Speaker 1: Brandon Woodriff, that's what happens now from now on, it's

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Speaker 1: a news segment on the program. All right, let's get

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Speaker 1: to fun facts. Mitch Keller is one and nine with

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Speaker 1: a four to one five ERA as quality starts ten

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Speaker 1: times and fourteen tries this year, and he's gone zero

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Speaker 1: to seven in the nine starts in which he's allowed

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Speaker 1: two or three runs. He gets the Cubs next week.

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Speaker 1: Mitch Keller can help a lot of teams. I want

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Speaker 1: to say, if there's a like the Boston Red Sox

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Speaker 1: right now could use Mitch Keller, you know, like there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of teams right now that could use another

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Diamondbacks, they could use Mitch Keller. Mitch Keller

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Speaker 1: might be, dare I say, one of the best guys

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Speaker 1: on the market in the next month here at the

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Speaker 1: trade dying line. Your thoughts on those stats I just

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Speaker 1: gave you, which are pretty absurd considering the Pirates of

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is why I'm not going crazy about

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Speaker 1: the Sandy unconscience dark, because the Pirates are that aturo Sha.

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Speaker 3: That's miserable for him.

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Speaker 2: You got a feel for him on a human level

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Speaker 2: that he's going out there every time out doing his job,

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Speaker 2: and yet he's sitting here with a one in nine record.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a huge Keller fan like I from a

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Speaker 2: fantasy point of view, the win potential is obviously non existent.

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Speaker 2: The strikeouts aren't really there. But there are, like you said,

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Speaker 2: a few teams that could really use him. My Blue

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Speaker 2: Jays I think could really use a starting pitcher. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: if they keep things up, they could go after Mitch Keller.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure.

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Speaker 2: Let me see, what, what does his contract look like.

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Speaker 2: He's got a couple of years left still. He signed

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Speaker 2: through twenty twenty eight, so you know, pirates could probably

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Speaker 2: a little decent return for.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Durant's got a couple of years that there's a

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Speaker 1: there's a deal helps everybody.

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Speaker 2: You know, maybe to throw in something else as well

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Speaker 2: as Keller maybe maybe, I.

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Speaker 1: Don't know, you know what, They're gonna have a logjam

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Speaker 1: when a Bra comes back, and Rafaela is gonna end

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Speaker 1: up being a bench player despite the fact he's a

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Speaker 1: better defensive center fielder. That's just gonna happen. You're not

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Speaker 1: sending Roman Anthony down after all this, like, it's just

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Speaker 1: not happening, folks. So he's here to stay. He's here

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Speaker 1: to play. The question is who's the odd man out there?

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Speaker 1: And you can either keep doing this and throwing your

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Speaker 1: head against you know, the wall with guys like Walker,

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Speaker 1: Muehler and guys like Gilito. Where he can you know,

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Speaker 1: try to get some other bodies in the air and

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Speaker 1: see if he could shake things up a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Maybe move Walker to the bullpen. I don't know, We'll

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Speaker 1: see what he does today. Kyle Schwarber was Welsh's pick

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Speaker 1: for home run yesterday over five three strike gas. I

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Speaker 1: just thought that was fun, So Welsha, enjoy your root

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Speaker 1: Canal today. Also yesterday also fun a little bit of

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Speaker 1: stuff going back and forth with the mascots. So apparently

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Speaker 1: last week Dinger, the mascot of the Rockies, was shooting

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Speaker 1: a shot in case you missed it on missus Met.

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Speaker 1: Who you know, missus Mett. You know, as far as

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Speaker 1: the mascots go, you know she's a hotty right well,

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Speaker 1: we all recognize that missus Met call me. The sign

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Speaker 1: says he's holding up now. Last night, I guess missus

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Speaker 1: Mett decided to go after him here and she had

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Speaker 1: a sign herself. It says, my husband has bigger biceps.

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Speaker 1: Take a hike, Barney ouch. I think the Barney one

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Speaker 1: really hit home there. I thought that was a low

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Speaker 1: blow there. So missus Met says, I'm a married lady,

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Speaker 1: you know, get out of my dms. What do you think, Joe,

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Speaker 1: This is a real picture right here. This really happened

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Speaker 1: in the game last night. I was watching the game

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Speaker 1: and this really happened. And I missed the thing that

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Speaker 1: happened over the weekend because I was coaching flag football

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Speaker 1: all weekend. And then I said, they did a recap

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Speaker 1: of this story, and I said, this is hilarious and

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Speaker 1: I wanted to share with you, Joe.

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Speaker 2: Rico, I'm so glad you saved it for my time

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Speaker 2: on the show, or that it just happened to work

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Speaker 2: out when I was going to be on the show,

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Speaker 2: because I'm not here very often. But it's good to

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Speaker 2: see some fun.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean she called him Barney. That's very emasculating.

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Speaker 1: If your dinger, just like as if the Rocky season

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Speaker 1: couldn't get bad enough, you had Missus met bury you.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty bad, pretty pretty bad. All right, Let's get

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Speaker 1: to the three up and three down. Alejandro Kirk three

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Speaker 1: for five with a Homer Man, he's your boy's been

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Speaker 1: red hot, Joey al Hunter is the second day in

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Speaker 1: a row he's made the ups. Take a minute for

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Speaker 1: Kirk and then we'll go through the rest of ups

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Speaker 1: and down.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is kind of the first year where I

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Speaker 2: wasn't really super in on Kirk after the previous couple

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Speaker 2: of years of disappointments. And he's cut the strikeout right,

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Speaker 2: He's got the batting average way up. It's a three

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Speaker 2: twenty three. Is he going to maintain this pace?

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Speaker 3: Probably not.

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Speaker 2: But if you landed on him as a late catcher

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Speaker 2: or especially in those two catcher leagues like you, you

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Speaker 2: kind of struck gold, especially with the state of the

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Speaker 2: Blue Jays offense right in the middle of that order

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Speaker 2: and doing great things other than runs. Only seventeen runs

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Speaker 2: is kind of crappy, but it's hard to complain about

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Speaker 2: a catcher hitting three twenty three.

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Speaker 1: No, you'll take that, especially nowadays with batting average being

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Speaker 1: tough to find. Jackson Curio two for four with a

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Speaker 1: two run dinger and Louis Robert two for four with

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Speaker 1: a homer.

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Speaker 5: Two.

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Speaker 1: Lance mccullors wasn't great. We're gonna get to him in

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Speaker 1: a second. Logan Evans making the start with Miller out

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Speaker 1: five strikeouts five innings but allowed four runs.

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Speaker 3: No A.

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Speaker 1: Cameron got destroyed by the Yankees six runs. Yak's just went,

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Speaker 1: you know, bananas last night. We'll see what happens today.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna face boobage. That's gona be a really interesting test.

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Speaker 1: Boo bitch and the Yankees too. I want to see that.

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Speaker 1: And Lance mccollors on extra rest, four runs, six strikeouts

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Speaker 1: over five innings. So this was against the White Sox,

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Speaker 1: a start that I think all of us were going,

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Speaker 1: oh yay, he's been so good, let's start him against

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Speaker 1: the White Sox. And this was a reminder, you know,

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Speaker 1: he just didn't look sharp. He didn't look like he

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Speaker 1: had the breaking stuff early on in this game. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's just a one off, you know, or maybe this

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Speaker 1: is just again the ride that is Lance mccollors. So

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Speaker 1: do you think there's a lot of people having buyer's

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Speaker 1: remorse last week over spending on the Colors after this start?

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Speaker 2: Maybe a little bit. But also the White Sox have

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Speaker 2: been not too bad as of late. I think their

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Speaker 2: lineup is actually looking kind of decent, as crazy as

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Speaker 2: that is to say. Talkman at the top me, Droff,

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Speaker 2: Ben and tend He's been good, Vargus has been a

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Speaker 2: good contributor, Caro and teal Luis Robert hitting seventh. It's

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Speaker 2: not as bad of a lineup as we probably perceive

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Speaker 2: it to be. So I'm not going to panic about

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Speaker 2: this for McCullers. He's not going to be a savior

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Speaker 2: for you. But I think if you did purchase him

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Speaker 2: in fab or pick him up on waivers, you're still

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Speaker 2: going to be pretty happy with that as long as

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Speaker 2: you weren't spending you know, ten twenty percent of or

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Speaker 2: overall budget. I think most people got him in the

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Speaker 2: five to seven percent range, and I think that that's

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Speaker 2: kind of proper. Honestly, I think I think that makes

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Speaker 2: a lot of sense, and I think he'll be a

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Speaker 2: pretty good return on investment.

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's get to the injuries, and there are

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Speaker 1: a ton Joe Logan Gilbert six strikeouts over five score lists.

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Speaker 1: That was a great rehamp star for him yesterday and

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Speaker 1: triple A. So my guess is after five innings you're

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Speaker 1: probably going to see him activated very soon. Also, Bryce

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Speaker 1: Miller shut down from throwing for two weeks. He's going

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Speaker 1: to get that PRP injection. He return in four to

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Speaker 1: six weeks and I could grow hairback on my head.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. First, Diamondbacks put Justin Martinez on

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Speaker 1: the io with a ucl sprain his right elbow. You

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Speaker 1: won't see him again this year. I guarantee it. Aaron

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Speaker 1: Nola was shut down after being diagnosed with a stress

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Speaker 1: reaction in his right rib. It's starting to feel like

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Speaker 1: a lost season for Aaron Nola. Are you getting that vibe, Joe?

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Speaker 2: I am, yeah, And I think it means that it's

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Speaker 2: probably Mickable time, and it might make it even easier

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Speaker 2: in a couple months for it to be Andrew Painter time,

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Speaker 2: depending on the way the rest of the rotation shakes out.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure how that'll work.

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Speaker 2: We'll have to see how Lozardo faars I kept thinking

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Speaker 2: that he was going to go on the IL. I

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Speaker 2: can't believe he's making this start today against the Cubs.

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Speaker 2: But we'll see what all plays out there. But yeah, Nola,

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't drop him necessarily, but I wouldn't expect a

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Speaker 2: ton from him either.

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Speaker 1: Gian Carl Stanton played around the corner for me. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Ray two for three with three ribbis and double a summerset.

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Speaker 1: So Yankees expect to get him back soon, which would

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Speaker 1: be interesting how he fits back in that DH spot

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Speaker 1: and where everybody else starts moving around. Do you think

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Speaker 1: this hurts Ben Rice time?

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Speaker 2: I'm really not sure how it's all going to play out,

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Speaker 2: because they have been putting Rice behind the plate a

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Speaker 2: little bit here and there. He plays first, I honestly

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Speaker 2: don't know. I think maybe Trent Grisham is the one

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Speaker 2: who loses playing time just because he is really cooled off.

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Speaker 2: But I'm not sure if they want to put Bellinger

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Speaker 2: in center necessarily, but I feel like it's probably not

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Speaker 2: Ben Rice. If I had to pick one guy in

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Speaker 2: the lineup who probably loses the most playing time, I

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Speaker 2: feel like it would be Trent Grisham.

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Speaker 1: That would make sense. That was smart, smart answer. Nadie

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Speaker 1: Evaldi is on track to throw a bullpen this weekend

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Speaker 1: with his triceps injury. Sean man Iah dealing with that

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Speaker 1: oblique two and two thirds scoreless innings Tuesday in a

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Speaker 1: minor league rehab start for High A Brooklyn. Sea McClanahan

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Speaker 1: said that imaging revealed his arm. Quote couldn't be better

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Speaker 1: end quote. Structurally, However, there's still no timetable for Sea

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Speaker 1: mcclanahan's return, So I don't care. I don't care if

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Speaker 1: everything's great. If you're not with a timetable by now

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Speaker 1: it's the eleventh of June. We don't have a time

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00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 1: frame for you right now. That's not good. Matt Chapman

647
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 1: has been diagnosed with a hand sprain. He's gonna see

648
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 1: a specialist for further evaluation. And speaking of the Giants,

649
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,360
Speaker 1: Justin Verlander, he's gonna face hitters on Wednesday. Now, they've

650
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,880
Speaker 1: got an interesting situation here because bird Songs pitch well.

651
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: Harrison had a good start yesterday. I don't know if

652
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 1: I'm I know he's gonna come back and kick one

653
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 1: of them out of the rotation. The question is do

654
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 1: you kick out Harrison the lefty, or do you kick

655
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:25,640
Speaker 1: out bird Song?

656
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 2: They probably send bird Song back to the pen. They shouldn't, so,

657
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 2: I mean, Verlander should be sitting on a porch somewhere

658
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 2: with a nice tea. I don't think that he really

659
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 2: should be pitching in major league games anymore, but.

660
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 3: It's probably bird Song.

661
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 2: As much as I hate that for how much exposure

662
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 2: I have to him, but I think that that's what

663
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 2: they'll do. He's only been in there for a few starts.

664
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Speaker 2: I think they'll they'll send him back to long relief.

665
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me tell you something, man. This is why

666
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 1: I picked up Kyle Harrison a couple of weeks ago.

667
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 1: This is why I was pushing for it because I'm like,

668
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: you know, I think bird Song is probably the more

669
00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: likely guy to go back into the bullpen because I

670
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: think it helped the most, and I get nobody wanted

671
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: to hear the two weeks ago. Everybody said I was

672
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: crazy and they're right, but I could be correct about this.

673
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: Let's see. Let's see if I'm right or wrong. Jacob

674
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: Wilson was scratched yesterday hamstring titaness, so just monitor that

675
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: in Daily Transaction League. Zibbie Matthews has a I want

676
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: to get this right. A moderate subscapularis strain. I hate

677
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: when my subscapularius car It's like, you know, when you

678
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: get to forty it's the first thing to go. He's

679
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: gonna be shut down from throwing for two weeks. Spencer Arraghetti, though,

680
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: is throwing bullpens as good? Show a Otani forty four pitch,

681
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: three inning, live batting practice. Give me a date you

682
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: would see sho he al Tani throw a pitch in

683
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: the major leagues by Joe Rico.

684
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 3: The fourth of July.

685
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: What that's soon?

686
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 2: Well, if he's the way, if he's already up to

687
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 2: forty five pitches, you get another three weeks. Let's say

688
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 2: even they throw him every six days and expand on

689
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 2: that by ten or fifteen pitches. I think that makes sense.

690
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 2: I don't think it makes a lot of sense for

691
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 2: the Dodgers to push him so much. Like I've feel

692
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 2: like they probably should either have him go just a

693
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 2: couple of innings here and there, or maybe hell have

694
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 2: him as the closer. I don't know if that would

695
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 2: even work out necessarily, but with the revolving door of

696
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott's been eh, Kirby Yates has been kind of

697
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 2: up and down. I wouldn't hate that just to preserve him.

698
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 2: But considering Justin Robleski is throwing the bulk of innings today,

699
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 2: maybe they want him back in the rotation. But I

700
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 2: feel like, yeah, we're about three weeks to a month

701
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 2: out from when we're probably gonna see him. They're not

702
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 2: gonna just say a hundred pitches.

703
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: But look at this comment from Michael Ohtani makes twenty

704
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: stars before Woodroff makes one. Might I might you know

705
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: they've they've most starting pitchers in the major leagues use

706
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: this year. The Dodgers fourteen fourteen different starters this year.

707
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 2: Every single picture that they acquire is a guy who

708
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 2: has a history of injuries or is a high risk

709
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 2: guy in some way or another. So it kind of

710
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 2: makes sense that a lot of their guys get hurt.

711
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 2: But at the same time, it's like there's gonna be

712
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 2: a thirty for thirty. If they still even do those,

713
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 2: they're gonna do something about the Dodgers.

714
00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: And the problem is they do them, but they're like

715
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: on the most obscs, there's like this guy table tennis

716
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: or this guy who ran a marathon in Zimbabwe once,

717
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: like I just I want a thirty for thirty on

718
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley or something like I want something entertaining for

719
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: God's sake. I don't really, it's like, you know this,

720
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: this guy was a member of the you know, Icelandic

721
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: Bob sled team, Like, eh, we need thirty for thirty

722
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: on that ESPN And it's like it's like six hours long,

723
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: three parts too.

724
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're always right.

725
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: Have you noticed this?

726
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 3: Oh god, I missed those. I missed those.

727
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I miss them when they were about players

728
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: I knew in sports I watched. Oh god, stop it.

729
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: They're so bad. And I used to love the thirty

730
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: for thirties and it's so bad. Now you're just so random.

731
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: I think there was one like a video game thing.

732
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: It's like, what are we doing? What are we doing here?

733
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: BMX Rider three part documentary series, seventeen hours long, thirty

734
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: for thirty Blake Snell fifteen pitch bullpen session yesterday, so

735
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: keep your fingers crossed. The first time he's throwing a

736
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: ball since April. April, Mike Trout remains in the DH

737
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: roll again, lingering Soren, it's in the left knee. I'm

738
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: telling you right now, boys and girls, if you don't

739
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: get out for the Mike Trout thing, that's on you.

740
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: It's on you. Chote Managa is gonna make another rehab

741
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: start Saturday, hope as they get him back in that

742
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 1: rotation next week. And your Nolvarez has still not resumed

743
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: swimming a back. So Joe, do you take advantage of

744
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: this rock bottom price for Alvarez or do you just

745
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: want nothing to do with him in a trade because

746
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: you just don't think he's gonna be who he is

747
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: when he comes back.

748
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 2: After seeing the ineptitude of their medical staff with Kyle

749
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 2: Tucker last year and that whole debacle, like what he

750
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 2: come back in September and played a handful of games

751
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 2: or something, we might be looking at the same thing

752
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 2: with yourd on. So unless it's truly dirt floor cheap

753
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 2: you're getting him for nothing, then I think it's probably

754
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 2: a little bit too risky because people are still gonna say,

755
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 2: look at your Valvarez when he's healthy, he's a first

756
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 2: round player, and they're gonna still try and talk you

757
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 2: and given up more than you probably should. But at

758
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 2: this point, I don't think there's a ton of value

759
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 2: there for twenty twenty five.

760
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: All right, let's see we can find some value. Two

761
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: for three yesterday, it's time to get to the best

762
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: bets of the day with Joe and Joe. That's right,

763
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 1: So here we go. Let's give once again New York

764
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: Mets on the run line. Let's do it again, this

765
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: time with David Peterson. Why because the Mets are arguably

766
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: one of the best teams of baseball, which makes it

767
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: easy to bet on them, and the Washington Nationals have

768
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: a lot of issues. Irvin's on the mound the other

769
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: side with the four era, let's go. Peterson's been terrific,

770
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: especially at home. Give me. I can't believe I'm doing this.

771
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: So either I'm embracing this or I'm cursing at Joe.

772
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: I'm not sure which one. Jack Lighter over four and

773
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: alf strikeouts against the Minnesota Twins. So if he does

774
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,959
Speaker 1: it today and he has a good start, he has

775
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: killed the NEPO baby persona. It's dead, it's gone. If

776
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: it's a huge if, we'll see. But over four and

777
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: alf strikeouts, let' see if you can get it. And

778
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: if he doesn't, I'll be so sad tomorrow, so depressed.

779
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants on the run line. Minus one and

780
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: a half two, minus one fifty four right now is

781
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: what you're getting. Robbi Ray on the mound, he has

782
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: been terrific. Just continue to go at the Rockies whenever

783
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: you can. So give me. I'm basically betting on Robby Ray,

784
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: Peterson and mister Lighter today. We'll see how it goes.

785
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: Joe Rico, what do you have for the people today?

786
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 2: So I also have Robbie Ray. I agree with you.

787
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 2: Target the Rockies wherever you can. They strike out almost

788
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 2: more than any team in baseball just over the last

789
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 2: couple of weeks. I like to use three weeks as

790
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,919
Speaker 2: a sample size two, something that I've kind of started

791
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 2: doing a little bit more recently, just because that equals

792
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,359
Speaker 2: like a full season's worth of plate appearances for a

793
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 2: player for the whole team. So it's like six hundred

794
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:40,839
Speaker 2: and fifty seven hundred play appearances. It gives you kind

795
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 2: of a good idea, and the Rockies is striking out

796
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 2: twenty five percent of the time. When you go up

797
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 2: against the guy like Robbi Ray who is striking everybody out,

798
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,879
Speaker 2: this feels like a pretty attainable number, even at seven

799
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 2: and a half. I know it's a high number, but

800
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 2: it feels very attainable at even money. David Festa, I

801
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,839
Speaker 2: know rockaball Deli hates us all rock a ball Delhi

802
00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 2: would probably pull him at four and two thirds in,

803
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 2: but considering he's facing the Rangers, and the Rangers are

804
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 2: a team that strikes out a hell of a lot

805
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 2: and their offense has just been awful this season. Truly,

806
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 2: I think they might be the most disappointing team in

807
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 2: baseball offensively. So I think Fest that even if he

808
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 2: gets a short leash, can still get over five and

809
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 2: a half, and I think get plus money, it's a

810
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 2: really good bet to make. And then going back to

811
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 2: the Rockies game, Kyle Freeland, you know, the walk number

812
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 2: is a little bit interesting here. I thought we would

813
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 2: see a little bit more of a juice number at

814
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 2: over one and a half, but plus one forty five.

815
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 2: He is somebody that I don't really trust too much,

816
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 2: and the Giants actually walk a fair clip about ten

817
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 2: percent walk rate as a team, so this feels like

818
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 2: a very very achievable number against the pitcher who is

819
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 2: just not very good. So David Festo over five and

820
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,720
Speaker 2: a half strikeouts, Robbie Ray over seven and a half strikeouts,

821
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 2: and Kyle Freeland over one and a half walks.

822
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: I think that's the best bet of the day right there,

823
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: especially if you can do a little research and find

824
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 1: out who the umpire is at home play today. If

825
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 1: they have a smaller zone that might be one you

826
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: bet a couple of units on because umpiring has not

827
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: been great the last few weeks at the home plate.

828
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,239
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835
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Speaker 1: Let's get to our home run calls for the day,

836
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: and let's see the board and see what we got here.

837
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:33,399
Speaker 1: We got walky Penguin at twenty one. I'm I'm let's see,

838
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 1: did I hit a home run yesterday? No, Junior Kamenaro

839
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,280
Speaker 1: did not hit a home run yesterday. So I'm still

840
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 1: just floating behind that board. Joe Rico, are you even

841
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 1: in this contest? Broh?

842
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 3: You know, with my kidney stones and my am in

843
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 3: my ankle, I.

844
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 2: Hit a home run lot two days of the season,

845
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 2: and I was thinking, Oh my god, I'm gonna win

846
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 2: the jersey. And then I was on the shelf for

847
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 2: so long that I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have

848
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 2: to do something crazy to I'm back into it here,

849
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 2: so we'll see.

850
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:07,879
Speaker 1: It's a judge. Just take judge every day. You might

851
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: be able to catch up. If you take judge every day,

852
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: you might get on the board, you know, and if

853
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: you hit a couple of times, maybe when he's on

854
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: off days. Nothing's impossible. Right now, Let's get a look again.

855
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor's my pick today, plus three sixty. He's got

856
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 1: great numbers in his career against Irvin. So give me

857
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor. I'm going on Mets today. What could go wrong?

858
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 1: Jo Rico, Where are you going for your home run

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Speaker 3: I'm going Elliott Ramos.

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Speaker 2: I believe it was plus two to ninety on the

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Speaker 2: book that I was looking at, but shop around against

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Speaker 2: Kyle Freeland at course Field right e versus Lefty. This

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Speaker 2: one feels like it's going to happen. He was the

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Speaker 2: guy that hit the home run for me on the

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Speaker 2: first day of the season. So let's run it back.

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Speaker 1: And as Jerry saying, see everybody four o'clock today YouTube again.

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Speaker 1: while Welch sits in the dentist chair and gets those

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Speaker 1: Veneers finally put on, which we've been waiting for for

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Speaker 1: story of the game goes on for Joe. I'm also Joe.

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