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Speaker 1: me Joey p Joe Pie's a p of that of course,
Speaker 1: is the Welsh and it's you, the Peanuts, the Crackerjacks
Speaker 1: hanging out here talking baseball with us. Welsh fun night
Speaker 1: of Baseball. We saw young Paul Sken's take on show
Speaker 1: hal Tani. One got a shot in, the other gut
Speaker 1: a shot in. It was kind of fun to watch.
Speaker 1: I like the Skeens reaction after the home run too.
Speaker 1: Or he was just smiling, going, you got me there
Speaker 1: after the the one hundred hundred hundred in a row
Speaker 1: there to Otani. So that was kind of baseball at
Speaker 1: its best last night, an electric moment in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: I posted somebody like I made the tweet about Skien
Speaker 2: Skeen's bullied Otani like that entire you watched the he
Speaker 2: needed to watch the first inning. I mean, you don't
Speaker 2: see Mookie Betts. I don't mean to be all laughy
Speaker 2: about it. He was absurd. See Mookie Betts look off
Speaker 2: and it was behind on one hundred and one, first
Speaker 2: pitch of the game, behind on one hundred and then
Speaker 2: eight what I think was like a slider on the end,
Speaker 2: or maybe it was just another fastball, and then goes
Speaker 2: out Otani one hundred and one, one hundred and strikes
Speaker 2: him out. Then comes back in the next at bat
Speaker 2: and absolutely murders the ball to dead center. And someone
Speaker 2: tweeted after I did my I was like, hey, you know,
Speaker 2: Otani got bullied. I was like, you know what, That's
Speaker 2: what I love about baseball. That was the game you
Speaker 2: needed to see. There's nothing better than seeing a young
Speaker 2: pitcher like Schemes, who is proving to be one of
Speaker 2: the game's most ridiculous, go up against the greatest player
Speaker 2: in baseball and Otani and then Otani just get him
Speaker 2: right back on both sides. It was a fantastic outing
Speaker 2: Schemes pretty fascinating. I don't how much you watched about
Speaker 2: it in general. Obviously the fastball these guys could not
Speaker 2: catch up on. If you're watching the broadcast too. Something
Speaker 2: I thought was really interesting was they were talking about
Speaker 2: the adjustments that Skeens continues to make He wasn't showing
Speaker 2: that splitter Splinker pitch in the first inning because he
Speaker 2: was trying to go fastball, fastball, fastball, and he's done
Speaker 2: the inverse in other starts. It's a really smart pitcher
Speaker 2: with really smart catchers that are working with him. And
Speaker 2: we've seen that Splinker have like forty percent usage in
Speaker 2: starts against the Dodgers, twenty percent. He went hard fastball.
Speaker 2: Almost fifty of his pitches were fastballs, and Joe eleven
Speaker 2: of his twelve whiffs from the fastball. He keeps doing this,
Speaker 2: no one's going to be able. And he said it too,
Speaker 2: no one's going to be able to properly catch up
Speaker 2: and fully adjust when he's going to change his pitch
Speaker 2: mix game to game. I think it's a it's an
Speaker 2: awesome recipe for a young guy like this and Paul Skins.
Speaker 2: If we got the full season legit top ten sp
Speaker 2: just we know we're not going to we know we're
Speaker 2: not going to get him into September.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. The other takeaway for me and we
Speaker 1: were talking about before the show was, you know, the
Speaker 1: Dodgers are beatable in a short series. You have Jones
Speaker 1: and Skiings go, you know, back to back games, and
Speaker 1: you see w's and w's, and this is what always
Speaker 1: scares me about the Dodgers. Sure, the Dodger are going
Speaker 1: to have a massive win total, but they're not built
Speaker 1: for the short season. They're built for the long season.
Speaker 1: And yeah, depending on how that pitching health finds itself
Speaker 1: in September and October, we'll see. I still think it's
Speaker 1: the Phillies are the team to beat, especially after the
Speaker 1: Strider and a Cooney injuries. I think it's the Phillies
Speaker 1: National League to lose at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: because you know Wheeler is going to be there, Nola
Speaker 1: is going to be there. I'd be investing heavily in
Speaker 1: the Phillies to win the National League go to the
Speaker 1: World Series because they think they're just going to And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I mean, this is the deficit
Speaker 1: of the Dodgers every year too. I mean, we'll see
Speaker 1: maybe a pitcher will get hot, maybe you know Bueller Miller.
Speaker 1: Guys will get healthy, Guys will feel good, guys will
Speaker 1: start looking like themselves. But that's a lot of ifs.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of ifs and butts and candies and
Speaker 2: nuts and we'd all have a merry Christmas. But the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: unlike the Braves, unlike the Phillies, have a robust minor
Speaker 2: league system. If they sometimes they just don't want to
Speaker 2: do it. You know, they make these trades where we're like,
Speaker 2: how do they not give up anybody? They still have
Speaker 2: guy after guy young pitching prospect they have what if
Speaker 2: they wanted to go get Luis Robert, the White Sox
Speaker 2: would listen because they've got mountains of young pitching prospects
Speaker 2: that the White Sox would covet. They've also got those
Speaker 2: hitting prospects across multiple levels. A guy like Andy Peihas,
Speaker 2: you don't want to trade him, but he could be
Speaker 2: the center of a trade the Dodgers if they want
Speaker 2: to get that consistency improvement, which we clearly know is
Speaker 2: a deficit in their rotation. The Gavin Stones are having
Speaker 2: to pick it up. They're hoping Clayton Kershaw is going
Speaker 2: to be healthy later. They want to go make that move.
Speaker 2: They can make that move. I just sometimes maybe back
Speaker 2: to your point where people like feel like are just
Speaker 2: kind of lazy and like, oh, they're just gonna beat
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. I sometimes think the Dodgers are just like
Speaker 2: we're just too good. Like I don't know if they
Speaker 2: continuously know they need to go in that improvement.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a look at the rest of
Speaker 1: the headlines, not about Paul Skins for a moment. Well,
Speaker 1: she got a home run right yesterday with Lindor. Good job,
Speaker 1: Buddy two five with a homer Mets w there. Last
Speaker 1: week's waiver wire video was very fruitful. Gimme Garcia another
Speaker 1: victory for him. He's been closing out games ever since. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jordan Romino go on the IL and Nick Gonzalez droven
Speaker 1: four runs with a double, a single to sack Fly
Speaker 1: yesterday to help the Pirates win in that game that
Speaker 1: we were just discussing earlier. So if you watched a
Speaker 1: Wayverar video last week and GT picked up these guys
Speaker 1: and they're helping you immediately off the wire. Josh Smith
Speaker 1: another good game for him. I know we talked about
Speaker 1: him yesterday. Three for four, homer and double for him.
Speaker 1: Do you think I mean, looking at the slash two
Speaker 1: ninety three seventy seven four, do you think that, no
Speaker 1: matter what happens the rest of season, that Josh Smith
Speaker 1: has earned himself a place in the everyday rotation of
Speaker 1: guys basically for the Rangers, or do you think he
Speaker 1: still gets odd manned out at some point in time.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's like somewhere in between there. I
Speaker 2: don't think he's got one position he's gonna lock down,
Speaker 2: like you know, he can cover Josh Young right now, who,
Speaker 2: by the way, Josh Young I believe is getting ready
Speaker 2: to ramp. I mean he's always getting ready to ramp
Speaker 2: up to come back. It seems like he's always getting hurt,
Speaker 2: but like he'll be back within probably the next month
Speaker 2: or so. What I think with Josh Smith is I
Speaker 2: think he's a guy that is going to lock down,
Speaker 2: like the super util role last year that was kind
Speaker 2: of Ezekiel Duran. So if there's a spot needed at second,
Speaker 2: if there's a spot needed in third, if they need
Speaker 2: a guy in the outfield, where Josh Smith I believe
Speaker 2: has worked all three of those spots, I think he'll
Speaker 2: continue to go. But like I'm not crazy optimistic on
Speaker 2: the profile, almost a fifty spot differential negatively on his
Speaker 2: expected batting average to what he's hitting, really low hard
Speaker 2: hit numbers, incredibly garbage barrel numbers, he's just not an
Speaker 2: impact hitter. He's what he's doing right now for Homer's
Speaker 2: force sot on the bases. That's awesome, that's good. I
Speaker 2: just don't think he's going to be this guy that
Speaker 2: is going to continuously have these big, impactful numbers. He
Speaker 2: doesn't strike out, he'll get it bats. He's great for
Speaker 2: ale only leagues and probably really good for like deep
Speaker 2: sixteen team league only for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, what a win. That's bit if he picked
Speaker 1: him up Yankees continued the Yankee. Aaron Judge triple walk
Speaker 1: drove in five runs. Yesterday. Anthony Volpi was three for five.
Speaker 1: He had a good night. Carlos Dan was awesome, nine
Speaker 1: strikeouts over six things. So he stuck it to me.
Speaker 1: Also in that game, Royce Lewis hopard for the third
Speaker 1: consecutive game. He also technically has four straight games with
Speaker 1: a home run starting the season, which is a Twins record.
Speaker 1: I saw that this morning, which was pretty fun. So
Speaker 1: I told you, man, I was trying everywhere to buy
Speaker 1: by Royce Lewis on the dip and I just couldn't
Speaker 1: do it. He has been tremendous and he you know,
Speaker 1: remember going into the year Steve Gardner. We talked about
Speaker 1: Steve yesterday. Gardner was saying his dark horse MVP was
Speaker 1: Royce Lewis. I mean, I think it might be too
Speaker 1: late for that, missing too late, but still, man, he
Speaker 1: is gonna make quite a push here in the second half.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have a lot of people injuries.
Speaker 2: Be damned with Royce. I legit think Royce is one
Speaker 2: of those guys that has that like first round talent
Speaker 2: that's just floating around. It's the injuries that are holding
Speaker 2: him back. I did a fresh update on my redraft
Speaker 2: ranks on Fantasy Pros and I vaulted him up, like
Speaker 2: put him into that second maybe third round range dynasty.
Speaker 2: I'm doing the exact same thing. I don't know man,
Speaker 2: if he was. I was joking in ITL yesterday Joe
Speaker 2: that I want to find out what the record for
Speaker 2: most homers off of the IL is, because Royce Lewis
Speaker 2: is gonna break that. Like he comes off the IL
Speaker 2: and instantly hits a homer every single time. But unfortunately
Speaker 2: he's going to the IL all the time. He's got
Speaker 2: like he's got a season pass to the IL three
Speaker 2: or four times a year. He takes advantage of it.
Speaker 2: We need to get him off of there. But he
Speaker 2: continuously shows elite, elite hitter in baseball, and if he
Speaker 2: could just be healthy, he's gonna be like a first
Speaker 2: to second round talent.
Speaker 1: Here's an interesting one here for Razor. I just made
Speaker 1: an offer to get Royce for Austin Riley. Who would
Speaker 1: you rather have rest of season? I'd rather have Royce.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're taking on a lot of injury. I know
Speaker 2: Riley's had his little thing, but like you're taking on
Speaker 2: little injury risk. I don't know. I think that's kind
Speaker 2: of even. I'm cool with either side of it. To
Speaker 2: be honest with you, I.
Speaker 1: Think I want the roy side's trade right now. Craig
Speaker 1: Kimberl this was fun. Sucks just for fun. Uh entered
Speaker 1: the game tied to start the ninth, took a loss.
Speaker 1: If you are the Orioles, I know you're not, but
Speaker 1: if you were, I was an Oriole. If you were
Speaker 1: an Oriole, Mason Miller is health there? Right? Theoretically, now
Speaker 1: you have the kind of prospect capital to get one
Speaker 1: for one deal for Mason Miller. Would you flip curse
Speaker 1: Dad for him? Is that too much?
Speaker 2: Not enough? There's zero points zero percent chance the A's
Speaker 2: would consider taking Kurstud for Mason Miller.
Speaker 1: I can why Kurstad immediately becomes probably their best player.
Speaker 2: Mason Miller has already proven to be the Well, No,
Speaker 2: Brent Rooker is their player, and actually kursted Aid is
Speaker 2: kind of Brent Rookie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but Mason Miller has proven to be
Speaker 1: I think kurs Dad is going to be a better
Speaker 1: player than Brent Rooker.
Speaker 2: No. I was talking about this with me. Do you
Speaker 2: have you seen the cost it takes for closers for
Speaker 2: but the cheers are eventually going to sober up and
Speaker 2: realize that no one's gonna pay quite. They are going
Speaker 2: to ask for the world, I promise you for Mason Miller,
Speaker 2: it would cost Jackson Holiday and Kershtodd and maybe more so.
Speaker 2: There's no chance. At to one point, I don't think
Speaker 2: Mason Miller can get traded because a controllable top five
Speaker 2: closer that you not only like have the years, but
Speaker 2: you have the finances on No.
Speaker 1: Well, that's why I'm thinking Orioles, because Orioles have these
Speaker 1: guys like the Norby's of the world and the Golden Cowser.
Speaker 2: I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 1: Your idea is incredible to say, but it's like, look,
Speaker 1: everybody wins here. You get a premium middle of the
Speaker 1: order bat, we get the premium young closer we need.
Speaker 1: Both are controllable for a very long time and cheap.
Speaker 1: Like it just makes a lot of sense. I think
Speaker 1: both of them should come to the table.
Speaker 2: I think it would be Povich, who we're gonna see
Speaker 2: today and we're gonna probably talk about here in a second.
Speaker 1: I think aspecting with the Welsh today, I think it's
Speaker 1: I would cost Povich and it would cost I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't. I just think Kursedad would get it done.
Speaker 2: I think they would want like a holiday.
Speaker 1: I think that's it would be like the first I
Speaker 1: was almost too much because he's an everyday player that
Speaker 1: looks like he could be a stuff. Matt Holway's got
Speaker 1: a question here, Joe and Welsh, would you rather have
Speaker 1: Mookie or Yellich and t Oscar? It's Mookie for me
Speaker 1: and itin't close.
Speaker 2: By What did they say, by a country mile.
Speaker 1: By a country mile speaking of a country going to
Speaker 1: see Chris Stapleton tonight. Now I'm not a country guy,
Speaker 1: and people always say Chris Stapleton's country. I find him
Speaker 1: to be more. I find him to be a little
Speaker 1: bit more southern rock blues, a little more Leonard Skinner
Speaker 1: than he is necessarily like country country. I think I
Speaker 1: do not like country.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a couple of questions.
Speaker 1: I don't like it.
Speaker 2: Will like Christaple, Will there be more boots than nikes?
Speaker 2: There may be a war hat, oh, bud lights galore.
Speaker 1: That I don't know nowadays you know, no, you what
Speaker 1: bud light might not be the best one, but you
Speaker 1: know what there will be because people are already over that.
Speaker 2: It's a country it's a country concert. That's okay. It's
Speaker 2: okay if there's gonna be.
Speaker 1: Boots, very wonky. To my defense, Chris Stapleton is in
Speaker 1: country as a solid musician with intelligent music. Yes, one
Speaker 1: of the great voices of our time. Here his rendition
Speaker 1: of the national anthem two years ago at the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: By the way, oh god, that was amazing. And yes, Jerry,
Speaker 1: it isn't Camden. So if you're out there, come find
Speaker 1: me say hello, it's a good time. I haven't been
Speaker 1: to that venue yet, but here it's really fun. But yes,
Speaker 1: there you go. Let's get to the rookie lookie KATEE Povich,
Speaker 1: obviously as Welsh mention, is gonna make his major league
Speaker 1: debut against the Blue Jays in Toronto. Twenty minutes, so yeah,
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes, twenty five and one three eighteen era
Speaker 1: one to eleven, whip, seventy five k's of twenty one
Speaker 1: walks in fifty six innings. So he has been terrific.
Speaker 1: We'll see if that carries over. Not terrific yesterday with
Speaker 1: Spencer Schwellenbach six runs, four and two thirds innings in
Speaker 1: a loss to the Red Sox so fired, Kate Povich
Speaker 1: was peace and of the prospecting with the Welsh just
Speaker 1: what a couple of weeks ago. I think the prospect
Speaker 1: was segment week a little bit weeks and weeks ago,
Speaker 1: way ahead of the curve. So if you want to
Speaker 1: stay ahead of the curve with all your prospects for
Speaker 1: redraft or dynasty, it's time again for a prospecting with
Speaker 1: the Welsh, because Welsh's country, that's for sure. Whiles she's
Speaker 1: gonna break down some of the prospect movement things are
Speaker 1: going on all the time in the minor leagues in
Speaker 1: Welsh as his nose to the grindstone. Is it nose
Speaker 1: or eyes or ears?
Speaker 2: I know something's on them and I'm going to keep
Speaker 2: it clean, a little bit country and a little bit
Speaker 2: rock and roll. If we're being honest, that's a little
Speaker 2: bit rock and.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the prospects.
Speaker 2: What do you have here for that we got It's
Speaker 2: kind of a three section. I'm going to give you
Speaker 2: the update. One thing I'm really really trying to focus
Speaker 2: on right now when we're doing this, when we're talking
Speaker 2: about prospects, is making sure that we're not just doing
Speaker 2: this as prospects that are going to get called up,
Speaker 2: and it's prospects that are going to be impactful. Because
Speaker 2: I could give you a list of guys that are
Speaker 2: on the precipice of being called up, twenty six, twenty
Speaker 2: seven year old guys that are going. It's the guys
Speaker 2: that we would really prioritize either picking up if they're
Speaker 2: there once called up, or putting a little stashy stash.
Speaker 2: The hitting side really only lives in the big name still.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to give you just an update on
Speaker 2: the guys. If you haven't been following, because James wood
Speaker 2: is at the top of our list is always he
Speaker 2: was hurt on the IL. He has returned to Triple A,
Speaker 2: started to practice. Should be back any day now. That's
Speaker 2: important also, not just because of everything I said a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago when I was like, hashtag free
Speaker 2: James Wood. Hits lefties, hits right, He's does everything. Eddie
Speaker 2: Rosario with the Nationals is currently hitting one eighty one.
Speaker 2: I just want to point that out. Lane Thomas's back,
Speaker 2: Jacob Young has been solid. They got Jesse Winker at
Speaker 2: DH Eddie Rosario one to eighty one though he has
Speaker 2: counting stats. Don't know how much longer they're really going
Speaker 2: to do it, so we can freely say hashtag free
Speaker 2: James Wood again. Kobe Mayo, who was also on the
Speaker 2: IL with the rib thingy, well he started swinging on
Speaker 2: June first. Here. He should be back any day within
Speaker 2: a week, I would say. And he is going to
Speaker 2: be the next guy on the clock for the Orioles,
Speaker 2: as I said Connor Norby would be. I think he
Speaker 2: would be the guy even before Heston Kerstad as long
Speaker 2: as they don't need someone in the next two weeks.
Speaker 1: So he is.
Speaker 2: About to be back. Brooks Lee who got hurt with
Speaker 2: the Twins. He is up with Triple A now he
Speaker 2: just got his first hit. He's going to get in games.
Speaker 2: Royce Lewis were to go down. If Willy Castro doesn't
Speaker 2: work at second, they want to make some adjustments. He'll
Speaker 2: be a guy. And everybody always asks about Arelvis Martinez.
Speaker 2: He's down to hitting around two thirty. So everybody that
Speaker 2: was all big Irrelvis Martinez, it's not going so well.
Speaker 2: All right, So Joey, I've got two pictures free. You
Speaker 2: talked about swellin' backfired. Not big, not a big Spencer
Speaker 2: swelling back guy.
Speaker 1: Right. Well, I mean I'm curious about the Schwellenbach. I
Speaker 1: like to go him. The Schwellenbach. I did add him
Speaker 1: in my homely just to speculate. To see. So far
Speaker 1: it's not but exciting, I can tell you that much.
Speaker 2: Well, I think there's someone to be excited about. It's
Speaker 2: the next guy up, Hirston Waldrop, who I actually thought
Speaker 2: was gonna be the guy that was going to get
Speaker 2: called up. The Braves do this. They they brought up
Speaker 2: Ajoe Smith Shaver from Double A. We knew someone was
Speaker 2: going to get that, but it was Spencer Swallenbach who
Speaker 2: got it. But Herstin Waldrop has moved from Double A
Speaker 2: to Triple A on the are He's got a three
Speaker 2: point zero nine ERA. His first start in Triple A,
Speaker 2: which was I think June second, he went six innings,
Speaker 2: struck out eleven, and walked only one. That's important because
Speaker 2: he has had some walk issues. But why we love
Speaker 2: Hurst and Waldrop it's kind of a splitter phenomenon. Remember
Speaker 2: Brian Woo's pitching today told me he didn't want to
Speaker 2: join that splitter mafia that's going on out there. This
Speaker 2: guy lives off of a splitter. In that start in
Speaker 2: Triple A, Hurstal Waldrop went forty five percent splitter with
Speaker 2: an absurd sixteen whiffs on that splitter, sixteen on that
Speaker 2: pitch alone. He also has got a mid nineties fastball,
Speaker 2: mid nineties slider. He has one of the better full
Speaker 2: season swinging strike rates as well well, at sixteen point
Speaker 2: one percent. So I think with Schwellenbachen, the struggles wall
Speaker 2: drip up and showing command again, he's going to come
Speaker 2: up soon and he is an impact guy that might
Speaker 2: be worth stashing, and you would want one other pitcher
Speaker 2: to keep an eye on you and I have talked
Speaker 2: about this white the White Sox thing, like no one
Speaker 2: good is at triple A. Garrett Crochet is on the
Speaker 2: trade market. You know, Clevenger got hurt. They just got
Speaker 2: Jake Woodford is pitching today. Well, I think Drew Thorpe
Speaker 2: will be the first guy that's going to jump from
Speaker 2: Double A into the majors this year because the White
Speaker 2: Sox are just clearly holding these guys back in Double
Speaker 2: A because they want them to work with Cuero. So
Speaker 2: I think it doesn't matter where they are. All of
Speaker 2: the pictures, dude, They've got Eater, They've got Erie Arty,
Speaker 2: they got Kay Busch, Noah Schultz. Their entire system is
Speaker 2: at double A right now. And Drew Thorpe is the
Speaker 2: best of all of them. One point three to five R,
Speaker 2: twenty six percent K percentage, an almost fifteen percent swinging
Speaker 2: strike rate, one of the best changeups in base. So
Speaker 2: whether when they make the move or not, I think
Speaker 2: Drew Thorpe is going to be the first guy that's
Speaker 2: going to make the big move up. And then finally,
Speaker 2: Joey on my prospecting here, if you guys are looking
Speaker 2: for some deep names and you want to chase some categories.
Speaker 2: These are not guys that I'm stashing, but these are
Speaker 2: guys that can play for those categories. If you're looking
Speaker 2: for homers, start looking at CJ. Alexander with the Royals.
Speaker 2: He's an older prospect, former Brave, actually twenty seven years old.
Speaker 2: He's Blaize Alexander's brother.
Speaker 1: CJ.
Speaker 2: Alexander was in the AFL this year. Has some of
Speaker 2: the biggest, most ridiculous power in the minors. He's got
Speaker 2: eight homers in forty three Triple A games and he's
Speaker 2: hitting over three twenty right now. Always a possibility he
Speaker 2: could come and play maybe some first or some DH
Speaker 2: if the team needs it. And if stolen bases are
Speaker 2: your thing, how about Joe's boy with the Mets, luisn Helicunya,
Speaker 2: who's been playing the whole year at Triple A. He's
Speaker 2: only hitting two forty six. Power has been kind of
Speaker 2: at but he is fourth in Triple A and stolen bases.
Speaker 2: He's got twenty and that might be someone you can
Speaker 2: chase for stolen bases. If those are categories that you're chasing,
Speaker 2: it's a whole lot of stuff. What can you do?
Speaker 2: You can prospect with me, and that's prospecting with the Welsh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, every Thursday live on Fantasy bros am al and
Speaker 1: a b All right, I'm sure everyone in the South
Speaker 1: is now mad at us, but let's go by the way.
Speaker 1: Luis los Angela Coutia not my guy. So man, I
Speaker 1: feel like that's like with the Mets here, it's like
Speaker 1: you always get the off brand stuff like the like
Speaker 1: the Mets will get Rondaconey, you get Luis.
Speaker 2: He's there, doctor Rocket.
Speaker 1: Well he's like you know, you know when your mom
Speaker 1: goes to buy Oreos and she comes back with hydrox, Like, no,
Speaker 1: it's not the same thing. It's not the same thing
Speaker 1: as Oreo. If you want an Oreo, you want to
Speaker 1: call it hydros.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever heard of it. That's what
Speaker 2: they were.
Speaker 1: I don't know do they still do, Like I don't
Speaker 1: know Arizona what they.
Speaker 2: Call like they're not gonna put but I'm talking about
Speaker 2: the cheap version, you know, like it's inad of cheerios.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, CEO's or whatever they.
Speaker 2: Do. They still do, like the remember when off brands
Speaker 2: reel was like the best. It would just come in
Speaker 2: a giant bag. It was like a garbage bag. It
Speaker 2: was like a garbage bag pull of cereal.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's a garbage bag for a garbage.
Speaker 2: They're just like, here's Sennim in Crunch and it would
Speaker 2: just be a big old.
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's like you know you have Juan Soto.
Speaker 1: You know we'll get like pizza.
Speaker 2: He actually has a brother, so.
Speaker 1: Great, we could get it a more off brand stuff. Rap.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the three up and three
Speaker 1: down for Nando Tatis Junior. I got I don't remember
Speaker 1: the last team time. Tatis has made this show. Four
Speaker 1: for four. I mean he's having an okay year, not
Speaker 1: a great year. He's just been kind of fine. Aaron
Speaker 1: Nola seven shoutout innings against the Brewers, Zach Geloff, who
Speaker 1: was my by low guy last week, godon Fanagros dot com.
Speaker 1: Two for three of the solo home this week.
Speaker 2: I know I thought of it. I thought of you
Speaker 2: when I saw it. I was like that show.
Speaker 1: He's much better player than people realized last year with
Speaker 1: fourteen homers, fourteen steels and in half less than half
Speaker 1: a season. Just give him some time. He'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: But Tatis is an interesting one Welsh because I feel
Speaker 1: like we're sitting here, we're talking about soda, we talk
Speaker 1: about Judge' talking about houziy Rmrroz. Look all these guys
Speaker 1: Tatis used to be in that conversation. I haven't heard
Speaker 1: a peep from anybody about Tatist this year, including us.
Speaker 2: I mean he's been What do you think, Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: it's it's a good point. I've I told you, uh
Speaker 2: or I said maybe it was in the cleaning Up
Speaker 2: episode we did discord Fantasypro dot Com slash cleaning Up.
Speaker 2: You guys want to hang out with us. I have
Speaker 2: a kunya in the Dynasty League and I was offered
Speaker 2: Tatist Junior. I mean that's pretty good, especially if you're
Speaker 2: trying to compete. But I'm borderline competing. There's just been
Speaker 2: to your point, there's just been something. I will tell you.
Speaker 2: Savant Page looks great as far as like he is
Speaker 2: underperforming his own batting average. He's got some of the
Speaker 2: biggest hard hit numbers he's put up, he's lowered his
Speaker 2: k rate, he's barreling up the ball. I think it
Speaker 2: might be because we have sky high expectations on players.
Speaker 2: He's gonna end the year being like a thirty twenty
Speaker 2: five guy, maybe a thirty thirty guy, and it might
Speaker 2: be the most unheralded because we are you know, we
Speaker 2: had a Kunia last year, absolutely destroying expectations. We have Otani,
Speaker 2: who's going to destroy those hosely.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I think he's just kind of falling by the wayside
Speaker 2: of tiny bit, but he's still gonna be a He's
Speaker 2: a first round talent that might just be getting closer
Speaker 2: to ten twelve Rangejon Soto's going off. I think we
Speaker 2: just might be fried a little bit, even though he's
Speaker 2: having a pretty dang good year.
Speaker 1: I see the chat so and I understand things are
Speaker 1: regional sometimes, like I'm an East Coast guy, but look,
Speaker 1: if you can see it here, these are hydrocks like
Speaker 1: it looks like an oreo. It comes in the blue
Speaker 1: pat but it doesn't taste like I've never heard of those.
Speaker 1: It's my life. They got their little holes in them too,
Speaker 1: So you know something.
Speaker 2: I mean, it looks exactly like an oreo, but that's.
Speaker 1: A whole it doesn't taste exactly.
Speaker 2: That a horrific name for an oreo.
Speaker 1: By the way, I don't know why it's called hydrocks.
Speaker 2: I don't like a weight loss pill like hydroxy.
Speaker 1: Watched The Food The Food That Built America? The figure
Speaker 1: that guy. I love that show. By the way, what
Speaker 1: shout out if you love that show? On the show?
Speaker 1: Which show? If you watched The Food That Built America?
Speaker 1: You ever watched this show where they do this stuff
Speaker 1: about how Entiman's game or Taco bell or you know,
Speaker 1: all the innovations of things. It's a fascinating program. It's
Speaker 1: on the History Channel. Go go watch it. It's great.
Speaker 1: They the marathons too. I love The Food That Built America.
Speaker 1: It's a great show, great series. It's been on. A
Speaker 1: couple of my students actually played some of the characters
Speaker 1: on it. One of them was one of the Boyard
Speaker 1: d brothers of the chef Boyard One.
Speaker 2: So you know what you should do for tomorrow. You
Speaker 2: should go to the store. Well, you got Chris Stapleton,
Speaker 2: but you should go to the store get Oreos and
Speaker 2: get your hydroxy cut cookies or whatever and do a
Speaker 2: live taste.
Speaker 1: If I eat hydrox cookies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want a taste. I want to see you
Speaker 2: do a taste t.
Speaker 1: Mayor, well, hold on, Mayor, look Mayor's trolling. But Mayor,
Speaker 1: you're from this area, you grew up in Jersey, So
Speaker 1: tell me you've never seen a Highdrox cookie. Of course
Speaker 1: you have. Of course you have. Don't don't don't front bro,
Speaker 1: don't be fronting. Three down Jordan Montgomery six runs, Boy,
Speaker 1: they have his number. Yesterday the Giants the yikes, they
Speaker 1: just beat him all over the ballpark. Uh stop, he's
Speaker 1: already dead. Chris Paddock also seven runs yikes. Not good.
Speaker 1: I guess they kept guessing right on the two pitches
Speaker 1: breast and Garrett was pummeled again to five runs, six hits,
Speaker 1: and two and two thirds. So nobody know there uh injuries.
Speaker 1: Maybe Machado day to day with the hip. Bruce Bochie
Speaker 1: was telling everybody that Chory Seeger's uh hamstring is not
Speaker 1: believed to be serious. Sure, Bruce, sure, sure, I got
Speaker 1: a Hydrox Cookie'd like you to try to Je Polanco's
Speaker 1: hamstring is not going to return when he's eligible today.
Speaker 1: Kent To Maeta was pulled yesterday. Whilsh was totally confused
Speaker 1: by the way I love it. I tweeted that yesterday.
Speaker 2: I almost text you to just give you credit. I
Speaker 2: was gonna text you and say, all right, it's one
Speaker 2: of the funnier things that you've done. You didn't pull
Speaker 2: and have artwork ready.
Speaker 1: I'm saying something. Well, the best part was, you know,
Speaker 1: I got an alert on my phone about Ken to
Speaker 1: my ada and they were like they pulled all the
Speaker 1: bets for him for the day that they cancel all
Speaker 1: the bets, and I put tweeted it out there. I
Speaker 1: was like, this really confused. Well, she had no idea
Speaker 1: exactly what's going on. All the people are like interacting
Speaker 1: with it's saying the best part of the show is
Speaker 1: that nothing dies like the inside jokes and the show
Speaker 1: just never die. And I'm sure there people are joining
Speaker 1: us for the first time, going what the hell are they
Speaker 1: talking about? Don't worry about it doesn't matter. It's just funny.
Speaker 1: It doesn't Kodai Singa, hopefully we'll see him against he
Speaker 1: Zach Eflin made his re emergence from the il No
Speaker 1: decision three hits and four innings, so that's good to see.
Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty told everybody that he's gonna make his next
Speaker 1: start on Tuesday. That's great. And Kyle Tucker might not
Speaker 1: be joining the lineup on Friday and Bregmant might be.
Speaker 1: It seems like Bregman going in the right direction there,
Speaker 1: So again take advantage when these guys are out of
Speaker 1: the line up here. That's what you do on the
Speaker 1: betting side of things. And speaking of betting, it's Thursday,
Speaker 1: so you know what that means. It's time for the
Speaker 1: best bet of the day with Joey p and the Welsh.
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Speaker 1: one or eighteen or over in Kentucky gambling problem called
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Speaker 1: and conditions apply. Now, Welsh, we know it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a shorter slate here, only a few evening games,
Speaker 1: so we really got to talk to that. So I
Speaker 1: kind of hyper focused a little bit today. Slay Chaconi
Speaker 1: and you go in outs recorded under fifteen and a
Speaker 1: half minus one ten. I think it's one of the
Speaker 1: best things you can bet on today. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's getting any other he's smelling twelve outs, let alone
Speaker 1: fifteen Welsh. That's how I think I don't know what
Speaker 1: you want to share about that. I know what's your
Speaker 1: diamondback guy. I'm a little of the best bets on
Speaker 1: the board today.
Speaker 2: I'm a little defensive of Slade Schacconi just because, like
Speaker 2: he was really openly he talked about like what he
Speaker 2: was trying to do early on in the year and
Speaker 2: how he's needed to change not getting cute and just
Speaker 2: attack with his stuff, and it's been a bit better.
Speaker 2: This is a tough matchup, so it's really that's a
Speaker 2: tough that's a tough number. I don't think it's as
Speaker 2: guaranteed as you're saying, but I also won't be shocked
Speaker 2: when he doesn't make it to the.
Speaker 1: Fifth Well, I'm just gonna yeah, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: you gotta get to the fifth inning here for him,
Speaker 1: a task that he hasn't done it.
Speaker 2: His last two stars.
Speaker 1: So we'll see, we'll.
Speaker 2: Be talking about tomorrow, we'll talk about Tatis's.
Speaker 1: May be a little bit more tattoos to come here
Speaker 1: in this segment. Minnesota on the money Line. I know
Speaker 1: they dropped a couple of games here to the Yankees,
Speaker 1: but I think they get one today. With Pablo Lopez
Speaker 1: on the mound plus one thirty five on Minnesota. I
Speaker 1: love the plus money. I know they're on the road.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna get swept by the Eggs.
Speaker 1: Boston run line minus one and a half. They're one
Speaker 1: of the heavier favorites on the day. So sometimes when
Speaker 1: you looking for the run line, you find the heaviest favorite,
Speaker 1: and obviously the money line is gonna be too much,
Speaker 1: so you move to the run line minus one and
Speaker 1: a half. It's minus one thirty five. The juice is
Speaker 1: pretty decent there. But maybe you find your favorite hitter
Speaker 1: in that lineup and you go to them to get
Speaker 1: a hit, and you add that to make a little
Speaker 1: parlay again against the White Sox, and they stink. Parlay
Speaker 1: of the day. I'm gonna go back to Fernando Tattists
Speaker 1: Junior here we were talking about earlier in the show. Today,
Speaker 1: give me tattoos to record a hit, record an RBI
Speaker 1: and the padres on the money line. You put those
Speaker 1: three things together, you get plus two forty five today. Welsh,
Speaker 1: So Welsh, what do you have for the people on
Speaker 1: this teeny tiny Thursday slate?
Speaker 2: It's that I mean, we've seen some smaller ones, there's
Speaker 2: some stuff to be had. I want to bet strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Heights out the size of the slate. It's how it's
Speaker 1: how you use it.
Speaker 2: I was saying, I want to bet strikeouts. I don't
Speaker 2: like any of them. I got a lot of game
Speaker 2: lines here. Everything has gotten really tough. My favorite of
Speaker 2: the day, and it's dicey because it's parlay. But Saint
Speaker 2: Louis Cardinals backed by Sonny Gray and Boston with Tanner.
Speaker 2: How I am putting those two money lines together just
Speaker 2: to win, not playing any run lines. It's just over
Speaker 2: even money plus one oh five. And I actually went
Speaker 2: two units on this one, So Stacey, it's dicey putting
Speaker 2: those two teams in there. But I really love those
Speaker 2: two matchups, so I wanted to back those two another one.
Speaker 2: I really like Seattle Oakland. In the first five, you've
Speaker 2: got Brian Wu and you've got JP Sears. JP Sears
Speaker 2: has been relatively decent. And also these teams A are
Speaker 2: two of the worst first run inning scorers and B
Speaker 2: two of the worst first five inning scoring teams. These
Speaker 2: teams don't even up to four runs on average through
Speaker 2: the first five, so I might have sprinkled a little
Speaker 2: bit on the nurfee. But the play here for me
Speaker 2: is going to be the first five innings under four
Speaker 2: and a half runs. It's on minus one thirty minus
Speaker 2: one thirty five. I really like that play. Then I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go to Atlanta backing Ronaldo Lopez, who I believe
Speaker 2: we may have talked about in the Cleaning Up episode.
Speaker 2: Ronaldo Lopez minus one and a half. It's plus money
Speaker 2: to back them to win by two runs plus one fourteen.
Speaker 2: Those are my three favorite bets of the day.
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Speaker 1: of the day for Thursday.
Speaker 2: Three day straight, Where's my Face Look? Three days straight?
Speaker 1: There it is is very four day streak, fire on fire.
Speaker 1: Look at you finally coming back into focus. So of
Speaker 1: course Mike mayor no help as usual. Uh, there you go, Hydros.
Speaker 1: I'm reading about the history of the Cookie Sunshine Biscuit Company.
Speaker 1: They were debuted in nineteen oh eight when I was
Speaker 1: you know, when I was in high school, and they
Speaker 1: were purchased by Keebler in nineteen ninety six, so there
Speaker 1: you go. Uh. And then they started calling them Droxies,
Speaker 1: which I don't think is that's definitely not a good route,
Speaker 1: like and I guess that didn't last.
Speaker 2: The worst name of a cookie of all time it
Speaker 2: is the I.
Speaker 1: Mean dark chocolate sweet filling there there it is.
Speaker 2: I could hold worse names, but they would all not
Speaker 2: be appropriate for that.
Speaker 1: You can buy them on Amazon. I'm gonna send you
Speaker 1: a box. Look and people saying I'm for Philadelphia, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I remember seeing them in the store and
Speaker 1: even getting them in Philadelphia, because you know, when you're
Speaker 1: in Oh, you're on that cheaper budget you couldn't afford
Speaker 1: the real Oreos, not everybody's buy name brand stuff. Like
Speaker 1: Mike Mayer walking around there, yeah, with his Cheerios and.
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest.
Speaker 1: He's eating fruit loops. I'm eating you know, fruity loops.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a whole different thing.
Speaker 2: Guy, Never a big oreo.
Speaker 1: Guy.
Speaker 2: Oreos are fine. Oreoles are kind of a like occasional thing,
Speaker 2: like like I give me cinnamon Toe's crunch. We're talking
Speaker 2: about cereal earlier, give me or you know, cinnamon crunch
Speaker 2: blankets or whatever the hell they're gonna.
Speaker 1: GeTe Cinnamon and cinnamon is one of the things I
Speaker 1: gotta be in a real right.
Speaker 2: Oh really, Cementto's crunch is greatest thing of all time.
Speaker 2: Give me Cmentto's crunch over oreos every single ten out
Speaker 2: of ten times. Oh no, it's a great take. What
Speaker 2: would you rather have a bowl of cinnamon Toa's crunch
Speaker 2: or like a bucket of your bucket of bleach perkeys.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I'd rather have the Hydrox cookies.
Speaker 1: You know what I think? I think after this, I
Speaker 1: might have to send you a box of the Hydrox
Speaker 1: cookies to your house. What is it? Why do you
Speaker 1: keep getting like desserts sent to your house for the show?
Speaker 1: You get canola He's brought to you? I do, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send you cookies. I'm gonna have to buy some.
Speaker 2: I'm like running in ninety five degree whether I'm trying
Speaker 2: to eat good. Don't send me cookies.
Speaker 1: That's kind of reinduce the smallest one I can find
Speaker 1: of the cookies. And then what we're gonna do is
Speaker 1: we're gonna do live taste test on the air of
Speaker 1: the cookies.
Speaker 2: Ay, that's what good idea.
Speaker 1: Welsh got a home run yesterday, I did not. Again,
Speaker 1: the leaderboard remains the leaderboard at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: Not too much there, thirteen fred Dinger let me know,
Speaker 2: or you know, fred.
Speaker 1: Damerghan might be able to figure that out. But actually,
Speaker 1: you know what, I think it's very possible that I
Speaker 1: might have brought up the wrong home run board. So
Speaker 1: let me see if I can pull up an updated
Speaker 1: one again. You still get the Vlad Guerrero signed that
Speaker 1: Pazzi so far in the driver's seat, I'm still at seventeen.
Speaker 1: Pazzi is still at twenty three. So there's the updated
Speaker 1: board there. So apologies on the wrong board there earlier,
Speaker 1: got so many boards, so many things going on here
Speaker 1: on the show. So Welsh, I'm gonna continue with the
Speaker 1: theme of the show today, which is rediscovering Fernando Tutis Junior.
Speaker 1: So give me tatis for my home run today, Slay
Speaker 1: Chaconi or I'm random Jabroni from the bullpriend of the
Speaker 1: bullpen with a bullprin, any of them from the Arizona Diamondbacks, Welsh.
Speaker 1: Where are you going for your home run call of
Speaker 1: the day?
Speaker 2: Well, Carlos in the chat saying I should go gun
Speaker 2: or gun is a great call, but it's gonna happen
Speaker 2: in five minutes. We're gonna have that game going. I
Speaker 2: am going to go pick on the no named Jake Woodford.
Speaker 2: Give me Raphael Devers for two homers today. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get two homers out of Davis today, off of Woodford.
Speaker 1: Who all right, all right, Mayo is yelling at us.
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