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Speaker 3: Always a pleasure to sit down and chat with you,
Speaker 3: talking some baseball actions. So looking forward to another fun
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Speaker 1: Of the morning. To you look at us, we're like
Speaker 1: the inverse shave I had like a beard. I usually
Speaker 1: quotes I'm all shaved down here and Bubba shaved on
Speaker 1: the top. We would make one big What is the
Speaker 1: cleaning guy? What was the cleaning guy? White? Mister cleanya exactly?
Speaker 1: We would be mister clean if you put us both together.
Speaker 1: There are things to talk about. There's prospect stuff, there's
Speaker 1: call ops, there's bets, and we're gonna do it all here.
Speaker 1: But why not start What would a Leading Off in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two be if we didn't talk about show?
Speaker 1: Hey Otani, we did talk about him yesterday, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know this, but the huge, huge
Speaker 1: change in the MVP Awards have gone at least on
Speaker 1: the odd side, and Otani is now like plus four
Speaker 1: to fifty. But that's not necessarily the thing to talk
Speaker 1: about here, though. Whenever Otani does something it's massively, massively interesting. Actually,
Speaker 1: you know what I didn't even think to do this
Speaker 1: is to look up what the betting is, because yesterday
Speaker 1: it was like six point fifty for Judge and plus
Speaker 1: four fifty for Otani. Well, Otani does a little business.
Speaker 1: He struck out eight batters, getting up to one sixty five,
Speaker 1: putting him in second place in Angel's history for most
Speaker 1: strikeouts through twenty starts. Only Nolan Ryan had two hundred
Speaker 1: and eleven strikeouts through twenty starts. That was in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy seven, which is absurd. Yeah, and Bubba, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take a look. I don't know if you had looked
Speaker 1: to have it up here. I wanted to see if
Speaker 1: the odds moved at all on Otani from yesterday, and
Speaker 1: let's do it here Player Awards, And I'm gonna guess
Speaker 1: it's maybe a no, not an ounce, not an ounce.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's done? Do you think it's done.
Speaker 1: Otani has been such a whirlwind for fantasy guys this year,
Speaker 1: even though the offense hasn't quite been what it was
Speaker 1: last year. Off it's a credible pitching I think has
Speaker 1: even been more stellar. But the odds are not moving whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Plus four fifty for Otani MVP.
Speaker 3: I think the odds are outstanding. I've been saying it
Speaker 3: since day one. Everyone's been like, Oh, Judge, Judge, I'm like,
Speaker 3: Toani is the guy, that's the one you want right there, so.
Speaker 2: You still want it though I do.
Speaker 3: I think he's It's either they give him the cy
Speaker 3: Young or they give him the MVP, or they give
Speaker 3: him both.
Speaker 2: Like you can't ignore what he's doing. It's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: No one else in baseball can pitch an amazing game
Speaker 3: and hit a home run in the same game.
Speaker 2: Just doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I want to make the bet, but
Speaker 1: I get to I don't know if it's a bet
Speaker 1: I would make right now because I think I think
Speaker 1: there's a conspire against I don't. I just don't think
Speaker 1: it's going to happen with where Judge is going. But
Speaker 1: it just sparks the conversation after striking out another eight batters.
Speaker 1: Player props have been really great for him with Tani.
Speaker 1: When we're tall, said and done, we're going to look
Speaker 1: at some ridiculously stupid numbers. The Yankees lost four to
Speaker 1: nothing to the Rays and are now eight and fourteen
Speaker 1: since the All Star break, Bubba, Are the Yankees in
Speaker 1: trouble at all? Are they going to be reeling a
Speaker 1: little bit now?
Speaker 2: Their offense is struggling.
Speaker 3: I love the idea that it's Joey Gallow's fault because
Speaker 3: he can't get on base anymore for the Yankees.
Speaker 2: But I think they'll be fine. They play home things.
Speaker 1: The biggest, like they got worse when he was gone.
Speaker 2: That's that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: That's the joke you see everywhere. So I think I
Speaker 3: think they'll be fine. To get Chapman back in the ninth,
Speaker 3: give home some breathers. That's what's cost him. Homes is
Speaker 3: blown like four straight saved now or something like that.
Speaker 3: So that's a that's a big difference maker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I you know, there's nothing really is else
Speaker 1: to like pick apart from them. You know, they dealt
Speaker 1: with they're injuries. I think they've dealt with most of
Speaker 1: their guys there are. I could see the potential if
Speaker 1: they wanted to mess around with some stuff. If you know,
Speaker 1: the streak gets ridiculous, you know business talking about Aaron
Speaker 1: Hicks being atrocious. They do have a couple pieces in
Speaker 1: the minor leagues that maybe they could bring up those
Speaker 1: what Paraza is kind of the they continuously bring up
Speaker 1: Bestevon Florial, who's really shown that he's absolutely nothing. But
Speaker 1: they do got a guy or two that are floating
Speaker 1: out there. If those we Paraza got picked up, I'd
Speaker 1: be really interesting if they wanted to have that little influx.
Speaker 1: But there's just not a lot of spots for him.
Speaker 1: They're gonna keep going with Lemayhew and ikf That's just
Speaker 1: what they do. Haaveer bay Is yesterday hit one of
Speaker 1: the craziest and one of my favorite pitches of all time.
Speaker 1: I am a sucker. I am a I become a
Speaker 1: completely stupid person. I smile with my teeth out like
Speaker 1: an idiot when I see and it always came from
Speaker 1: my favorite player when I grew up, Vladimir Guerrero. When
Speaker 1: I see a guy hit an absolutely the insane ball,
Speaker 1: when a guy shows no real plate presence, but then
Speaker 1: has the ability to barrow like Vlad would do, where
Speaker 1: you'd have a ball in the dirt and he would
Speaker 1: hit a home run off his shoe tops. Yesterday, a
Speaker 1: ball a slider came in. It looked like a slider
Speaker 1: bounced hit off the ground and Javier Baias, I mean,
Speaker 1: he essentially golf teed it into center field and it
Speaker 1: was an out. But Bubba I was kind of thinking
Speaker 1: about this, like is it still a flyout if the
Speaker 1: ball hit the ground and then he hit it? I
Speaker 1: was I don't know. There was a part of me
Speaker 1: that was thinking like, shouldn't the trajectory of what the
Speaker 1: out was be changed if the ball hit the ground?
Speaker 1: Or I guess, is it still just a normal flyout?
Speaker 1: It didn't feel like a flyout to me. No.
Speaker 3: And I was literally sitting where I am right now,
Speaker 3: editing the Fantasy Pros article with the game on the background,
Speaker 3: and I just like, aw another pop up from Baias.
Speaker 2: He's just horrible right now.
Speaker 3: And then the announcers got into it showed the replay
Speaker 3: my jad has hit the floor, like, oh my goodness,
Speaker 3: here we are again with haave Baya's So I say
Speaker 3: fly out because you know, we're in the staf cast
Speaker 3: revolution and the launch angle is way too high for a
Speaker 3: ground ball, so I'm going fly out.
Speaker 2: But I get your logic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm looking right here. I mean it is that.
Speaker 1: I guess my point is like it it didn't have
Speaker 1: a straight trajectory where it didn't it hit something. It
Speaker 1: hit something before the ball came in. So there's a
Speaker 1: part of me that was like, does this count? And
Speaker 1: it was a manual Class A by the way, and
Speaker 1: I think it's the designation they are pitching. Ninja said
Speaker 1: that it was a slider, but you know, that might
Speaker 1: be the designated cutter or something like that. But I
Speaker 1: wish I could share this on here. The set up
Speaker 1: in the overlays and stuff don't really allow me. I
Speaker 1: do do this on streams, but I'm watching it. It
Speaker 1: is an incredible feat, probably only something Javier Bias could do.
Speaker 1: I wo Hoavier Bias could literally be like a modern
Speaker 1: day era of Vladimir Guerrero if he had, like, you know,
Speaker 1: just even seventy percent, sixty percent of Vladimir Guerrero's talent. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Javier Bias is missing a couple of those key ingredients
Speaker 1: that make Vladimir Gurero so great in what he is
Speaker 1: her hometown one of your hometown teams. I always forget
Speaker 1: if you're a Are you a Giant, your Giants.
Speaker 2: Fan or a diehard Giants fan?
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, I grew up in the Bay Area and
Speaker 1: my family was kind of split. They were mostly A's fans.
Speaker 1: I was the San Francisco fan, but that was for
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers, and I kind of grew up
Speaker 1: on the A's a little bit more than the Giants.
Speaker 1: But you're so then your crosstown rival. The A's are
Speaker 1: calling up Shane Langaliers, one of their top prospects catcher
Speaker 1: who has been phenomenal this year in the Miners. He's
Speaker 1: had nineteen homers, five stolen bases, a two eighty three
Speaker 1: batting average at three sixty six OVP. He played in
Speaker 1: the Futures Game, and if people don't remember, he won
Speaker 1: the Futures Game MVP by crushing at homer. Though maybe
Speaker 1: the most impressive piece was Corbyn Carroll, number one prospect
Speaker 1: in baseball for the Diamondbacks, was on second, went to
Speaker 1: steel third and Lengo Leers had a wrist flick throw
Speaker 1: him out at third. It was actually one of the
Speaker 1: most impressive throwauts I've seen this entire season. Shane Langaliers,
Speaker 1: I think is a dude, especially if they're gonna It's
Speaker 1: the type of guy that could immediately throw him into
Speaker 1: like a middle ish of the lineup for the A's
Speaker 1: because the A's are so bad. This is a guy
Speaker 1: I would be going to look and pick up. And
Speaker 1: I believe the news came down less than a half
Speaker 1: an hour ago that he's getting the call up. So
Speaker 1: what do you think about Shane Langoliers.
Speaker 2: It's very enticing.
Speaker 3: I did see that note earlier when they put Ramon
Speaker 3: Loreno on the IL, which, of course, if you're in
Speaker 3: weekly leagues, that's always the great Tuesday drop. But I
Speaker 3: I did see the Langoliers thing, and I'm curious as
Speaker 3: a guy that you know he's a catcher. Is he
Speaker 3: coming to the DH because Sean Murphy hasn't been great,
Speaker 3: has been horrible, Like, where does Langoliers fit in to
Speaker 3: get regular playing time? Because I do agree that bat's
Speaker 3: very enticing for the stretch run, but where does he
Speaker 3: fit in?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm a couple of pieces torn here. I'm
Speaker 1: torn that, like we talked about with another prospect we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about here in a minute. Could this be
Speaker 1: a short stint you talked about langle You know, when
Speaker 1: Lengliers comes back, he could jump up. This could only
Speaker 1: be a couple of weeks. They could then send him
Speaker 1: to the AFL if they want, and he could have
Speaker 1: full time next year. Again, this is that whole manipulation process.
Speaker 1: Can he work himself in the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean maybe if the team really
Speaker 1: wants to put him behind the plate, I think he
Speaker 1: would dh a decent amount. I think this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a great source of homers. But this is a
Speaker 1: great question. Riley asked, I've been holding Francisco Alvarez in
Speaker 1: a keeper league. Oh well, it's a keeper league. Keeper league,
Speaker 1: you hold. I didn't see the keeper league part. I
Speaker 1: thought you were. I think redraft is an interesting question.
Speaker 1: If you have the ability to hold some prospects in redraft,
Speaker 1: who would you rather have Shane Langleier's up now or
Speaker 1: the potential of Alvarez getting a run maybe in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. I mean, I do think the Mets
Speaker 1: are gonna bring him up. They've talked and talked and
Speaker 1: talked about it. I think they're manipulating this. This is
Speaker 1: the prime example of a guy that he's in the
Speaker 1: top one hundred of most of the lists. He breaks
Speaker 1: camp next year, golden, they get extra picks, you know,
Speaker 1: cheers all around. But Alvarez or Langolier's rest of year
Speaker 1: is kind of interesting, and I think I would think
Speaker 1: I would still hold Alvarez, as weird as that sounds,
Speaker 1: because I think he could be coming up any day
Speaker 1: and I would rather they're him than Langaliers. But I
Speaker 1: would try, and I think a lot of the prospects
Speaker 1: have shown us like make room to just at least
Speaker 1: try to pick them up. But the RBI opportunities are
Speaker 1: going to be kind of few and far between. But
Speaker 1: what do you think Alvarez or she Langliers rest of season?
Speaker 2: For rest of season, I'd say Shane Langaliers.
Speaker 3: But like you said, if you're going to the keeper
Speaker 3: league for the long term, Alvarez seems like the guy
Speaker 3: he could be the future, like just absolute be. He's
Speaker 3: not saying Langoliers can't, but Alvarez looks very very special
Speaker 3: for the Mets. So rest of year, the Lego Langlirs
Speaker 3: He's got the chance right now. You got to take
Speaker 3: that and run with it.
Speaker 1: And this is big power. This is big power. But
Speaker 1: it's going to be a catcher DH situation. And also
Speaker 1: I would just point out I cannot think of his
Speaker 1: name without thinking of the Langoliers if everyone remembers the book.
Speaker 1: But also they did a mid nineties I think it
Speaker 1: was on like ABC. It was like a three part series.
Speaker 1: People don't remember. It was like these people stuck in
Speaker 1: this time portal into an airport and no one's alive
Speaker 1: in the airport, but then they hear outside there's these
Speaker 1: things called the langal Ears, and it's it's one of
Speaker 1: it's one of the worst animations you've ever seen on
Speaker 1: anything ever. Like at the time, I was like, ooh,
Speaker 1: this is scary, blah blah blah. But then you go
Speaker 1: back and look at it, cause I try to rewatch
Speaker 1: it because for some reason, it's one of those things
Speaker 1: that's stuck in my head. It's rough to watch. But
Speaker 1: I always think about the Langoliers and Shane Langalier, But
Speaker 1: no one would probably get that reference. If I photoshop
Speaker 1: the Langoleire on top of his head, Bubba, do you
Speaker 1: remember that?
Speaker 2: No, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: You don't remember the langoalars.
Speaker 3: Maybe if I saw it. It's not ringing a bell
Speaker 3: right now. I'm we're the same age, so it's not
Speaker 3: like you can't pull the whole egg.
Speaker 1: Thank you, doctor. I think it was called the Langoliers.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was like, uh, I don't know, maybe it
Speaker 1: had a different name or something. But those things were gone.
Speaker 1: There were these big balls with razor teeth and they
Speaker 1: would just like eat everything up. And they were eating
Speaker 1: the whole world up, and these people stuck in the airport.
Speaker 1: It was a great, great premise.
Speaker 2: I bet, I bet if I saw it, I'd make
Speaker 2: more sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, doctor Glenny. It had the guy who played
Speaker 1: the blue power range in it that rings a bell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that helped everything. That A couple of injury notes. Edward'sario
Speaker 1: was moved from Monday's game against the Mets with left
Speaker 1: hamstring tightness. I believe he hit a home or two.
Speaker 1: David Fletcher was diagnosed with a left foot contusion. So
Speaker 1: you always funny. Yeah, it was a Stephen King thing. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was called the Lenglers. Thank you, Stephen King.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, in the long line of like really bad
Speaker 1: movie or show makes of Stephen King's stuff. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like a three part series. And yeah, look
Speaker 1: at this. Everybody's with me.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 1: You gotta Bubba, you gotta go do something.
Speaker 2: Well know what I'm doing this afternoon? Gotch.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not gonna it's not gonna replay. Well,
Speaker 1: I promise you that it's not going to do super great.
Speaker 1: But you know it's interesting. These people are just in this.
Speaker 2: I'm sure not reading the books.
Speaker 1: So no, no, no, no, no no no, maybe the audiobook.
Speaker 1: I'm not reading anything. That's Bogman saying. Bogman always tells me.
Speaker 1: He's like, I just read this book. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: did you read a book with your head, hands and
Speaker 1: without your eyes and words? And he's like, well, it's
Speaker 1: still reading.
Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, all right yeah, and so you
Speaker 2: never mind, I'm not going to go any further.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So I want to talk about this.
Speaker 1: Bubba and I were talking about the Soft Air and
Speaker 1: I was almost looking or players to go who would
Speaker 1: you rather on this? But there's really not I don't
Speaker 1: really know what the great play is. Maybe Javier Bias
Speaker 1: and maybe that's the one we were talking about before.
Speaker 1: We talked about this last week and I think it
Speaker 1: was on the Wonky Wednesday show where von Grisham came
Speaker 1: up and they kind of poopooted a little bit to
Speaker 1: be like, hey, listen, this could be short lived. But
Speaker 1: what did we say on the show? We said, regardless,
Speaker 1: go pick him up, do it, get him, find a way.
Speaker 1: It would take a lot for him to be able
Speaker 1: to stick around, and he's doing a lot of that
Speaker 1: right now. In six games von Grisham has played so
Speaker 1: far this year, he's got a four to twenty nine
Speaker 1: batting average. This is the crazy part. Four of six games,
Speaker 1: he already has multi hit games in them. He's got
Speaker 1: two homers, a stolen base. He didn't strike out in
Speaker 1: his last two where he struck out in the first
Speaker 1: four straight, so he had one game without a hit.
Speaker 1: But check this out, every game he's played he scored
Speaker 1: a run on. Von Grisham has been more than we
Speaker 1: could have thought of. And I think it's at the
Speaker 1: point where he has done enough, just like Michael Harris,
Speaker 1: where I think it's going to press them a little
Speaker 1: bit when Orlando Arcia comes back. Maybe the worst case
Speaker 1: is it's going to be are the best cases. It's
Speaker 1: going to be those two platooning. The worst case is,
Speaker 1: regardless of what he does, he gets sent down, which
Speaker 1: we talked about. So but I present to you the idea.
Speaker 1: Von Grisham has been phenomenal. Four of six multi hit games,
Speaker 1: couple homers, looks the part of everything that could stick
Speaker 1: around A do you think he sticks? And b rest
Speaker 1: of season hobby boy is von Grisham.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with von Grisham on this one. I'll
Speaker 3: take the ceiling with von Grissam. I think he sticks.
Speaker 3: If he produces like this, it's pretty simple. They can't
Speaker 3: afford to go away from him. I invested heavily in
Speaker 3: fab this last weekend in Von Grisham wherever I could,
Speaker 3: because I believe in the talent.
Speaker 2: He's better than Orlando Arcia.
Speaker 3: And if he's hitting the way he's hitting, you can
Speaker 3: platoon Ozuna and something else and fill in a spot
Speaker 3: for Grissham somewhere like there's a way to get him
Speaker 3: on the field. So I think the Braves they're still
Speaker 3: fighting what four to four and a half back in
Speaker 3: the East, they want to get there, and he's a
Speaker 3: big piece too it. He's two homers and one steel
Speaker 3: in his first six games, walking twelve and a half
Speaker 3: percent of the time, which is great for young ball
Speaker 3: player making his MLB debut. We saw the power to
Speaker 3: speeding the minor miners. I think Grissom is phenomenal and
Speaker 3: I'm buying in. It could blow up on their face.
Speaker 3: They could literally say, sorry, kid, it's been great. I
Speaker 3: just don't feel they would have called him up for
Speaker 3: a two week deal. I feel like they called him
Speaker 3: up and if he can flourish like Harris, he's staying.
Speaker 1: It feels very much like Harris to me, Like, I
Speaker 1: think it would be pretty hard lived for them to
Speaker 1: be like, well, Orlando RCI is back, so now we
Speaker 1: have to send him down like that. That's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: But again, we don't know the extent of these teams
Speaker 1: wanting to manipulate a lot of this stuff. Though. Here's
Speaker 1: the problem with theirs. Von Grisham wasn't like a firm,
Speaker 1: firm top one hundred. So if they wanted to play
Speaker 1: that game, they could play it next year and he
Speaker 1: will be He'll be very firm, and they would be
Speaker 1: able to get a pick if they break camp. They're
Speaker 1: a dangerous team. I mean, think of Michael Harris, someone
Speaker 1: who was it busisic as a Harris could have had
Speaker 1: j RUD numbers if he played as many games. It's possible,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean the walk numbers are still a
Speaker 1: little bit of a concern for Harris. But I'm all in.
Speaker 1: But it's not fair that this team of Grisham and
Speaker 1: Albie's and Akunya and Austin Riley and.
Speaker 3: They're all and they're all locked up for a long time,
Speaker 3: like this team's gonna have an offensive jugger Na not
Speaker 3: and they can spend all their money on pitching, and
Speaker 3: they still have Max Freed and you know Kyle Wright
Speaker 3: and he's like.
Speaker 1: They're they're loaded and Danceby, I mean forget about Dansby.
Speaker 1: I mean Dansby has just had a I Love Danceby
Speaker 1: nominal year. So I wish I could have thought of more.
Speaker 1: I was gonna present like a Grisham versus C. J. Abrams,
Speaker 1: because Abrams maybe has a possibility to play longer into
Speaker 1: the year. But it's just not close. I mean, I
Speaker 1: like Abrams. He came back up, he's up right now,
Speaker 1: but he went O for four. It's just not close with.
Speaker 3: Grisham, I got I got them for you. I just
Speaker 3: thought of it, and it looks like he might have
Speaker 3: consistent playing time. It's been a little weird last couple
Speaker 3: of days. But Nick Gordon versus Grissom, oh.
Speaker 1: I still have to go the upside. But that's a
Speaker 1: really good one because Nick Gordon has been sneaky sneaky.
Speaker 3: So his power and speed, like you got like his
Speaker 3: barrel rates and stuff. When he plays, he's playing and
Speaker 3: it's impressive.
Speaker 1: It's a tough thing. It's like, you've got this guy
Speaker 1: that's playing at this completely elite level, but it's only
Speaker 1: been for a week. It's like, how hard do you
Speaker 1: want to go on this? Like luckily you're not yours,
Speaker 1: though you might be dealing with a literal like I
Speaker 1: have to choose between Nick Gordon and von Grisham, and
Speaker 1: that might be a rest of seasons. So I could
Speaker 1: see if someone just said, okay, blah blah blah. But
Speaker 1: I think at this point you've got to just you
Speaker 1: got to go off of like he might be here
Speaker 1: for the rest of the way. They're trying to play
Speaker 1: for something, and he's a big spark plug. Now you know,
Speaker 1: if Albi's is back and everything where they're gonna put
Speaker 1: him in the lineup, Maybe put him in the outfield,
Speaker 1: you know, get him out in the outfield to get
Speaker 1: some flexibility out there. Are so von grisham. Make sure
Speaker 1: you hold, make sure you rock. This is a wild
Speaker 1: stat one of the while this we've seen all year
Speaker 1: that Wonky put up. This is from Ryland Domingez on Twitter,
Speaker 1: and I mean, I wish I had this type of
Speaker 1: time to do this stuff. But says if every game
Speaker 1: in MLB this year was played in Williamsport, which is
Speaker 1: the site for the Little League World Series, this would
Speaker 1: be what the home run leader board would be. Are
Speaker 1: you looking at it, Bubba, Yes, I am.
Speaker 2: It's impressed. I was looking at it.
Speaker 1: I was gonna quiz you on what the names would be.
Speaker 1: The number one is not Aaron Judge. The number two
Speaker 1: is not Aaron Judge. Three nope, four, nope. Number five
Speaker 1: on the home run leader board. If everybody played at
Speaker 1: Williamsport would be Aaron Judge with a brisk little one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty homers if we played there.
Speaker 2: This is quite the list.
Speaker 1: It's amazing that he's not at the top. He's number
Speaker 1: five on this, So I thought that was crazy. Number
Speaker 1: four Jake Croninworth, So I mean, this is this is
Speaker 1: a This is actually a really interesting experiment. When you
Speaker 1: talk about doubles being potential indicators of like future power,
Speaker 1: you can see some guys that have got some of
Speaker 1: that doubles power that in the Little League World Series
Speaker 1: it's rocking out. Croninworth would be number four with one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty one little league home runs, Corey Seeger,
Speaker 1: number three with one hundred and five, Freddie Freeman with
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty five Little league home runs, and
Speaker 1: number one. You guys would have never guessed it. Marcus
Speaker 1: Simeon with one hundred and fifty seven Little league home
Speaker 1: runs would be out there, Bubba. I've been sitting on
Speaker 1: this a little bit. I was thinking, first pitch, Arizona's
Speaker 1: coming out here in a couple months for all you
Speaker 1: baseball people, it's a chance if you've ever wanted to
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm giving them a plug. They don't I'm
Speaker 1: not a part of any of they don't even invite
Speaker 1: me to it or anything like that. But I'm out
Speaker 1: here in Arizona. But if you wanted to, like learn
Speaker 1: in some of the breakout stuff. You wanted to meet
Speaker 1: all your favorite analysts, you wanted to hang out watch
Speaker 1: games with them during the AFL. It's a cool place
Speaker 1: to go. A lot of people come out here, and
Speaker 1: I hang out with everybody when we do it. I
Speaker 1: was thinking about contacting one of the stadiums here and
Speaker 1: seeing if I could get together a a little scrimmage
Speaker 1: game for everybody. But how fun would it be if
Speaker 1: we could get like a little Little league home run
Speaker 1: derby at one of the ballparks with a bunch of
Speaker 1: the analysts.
Speaker 3: That'd be amazing because I used to do that when
Speaker 3: I was in Little League. After practice we play home derby,
Speaker 3: so even better.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: We've talked about doing whiffle ball, and when we stayed
Speaker 3: in Mesa last year, there's a gigantic grass area outside
Speaker 3: the stadium, and so we talked about doing like a
Speaker 3: whiffleball like mini tournament, which I think would be hilarious
Speaker 3: out there, like tall seven foot sporer out there trying
Speaker 3: to sidewind it and stuff.
Speaker 1: Just fantasy pros to put put that on me, hire
Speaker 1: me for that, sponsor us, we'll play it. Wouldn't that
Speaker 1: be great? And there we'll have it like as a
Speaker 1: three part video series or something like that.
Speaker 3: Do you guys think I'm entertaining now? Just wait, you
Speaker 3: have to see me run around the bases. That's where
Speaker 3: it gets real.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we get Bogman out here, get Bogman catching.
Speaker 2: See who passes out first, Me or Bogman. That'd be great.
Speaker 1: I'll drop some bombs. I did a BP for the
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks a couple of years ago for media on one
Speaker 1: of their backfields. I was the only one that almost
Speaker 1: hit a home run. I hit the wall on the
Speaker 1: back on their and it was on a pitching machine.
Speaker 1: I got very very close. But I also it was
Speaker 1: a heart to heart of seeing the photos of myself after.
Speaker 1: So it was very depressing that it was very rough
Speaker 1: time for me. And I immediately started working out after
Speaker 1: and I lost a bunch of weight because I was like,
Speaker 1: this isn't great.
Speaker 2: They say, have pictures worth a thousand words. It's so true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you just don't want it to be one
Speaker 1: thousand pounds for sure. Let's go over to some stat
Speaker 1: heroes for Monday. Ian A Halp two for three, two homers,
Speaker 1: two RBI, a couple of runs. Thank you very much,
Speaker 1: Kerry Carpenter. Kerry Carpenter is such a freaking monster in
Speaker 1: the minor leagues this year comes up continues to hit
Speaker 1: three for four with a homer and RBI. That's another guy.
Speaker 1: If he's sitting out there, you should go and pick
Speaker 1: up Kerry Carpenter and put him on your sis if
Speaker 1: you can. Andre Jimenez, he had a homer with three RBI,
Speaker 1: continues to rock three RBI with a stolen base for
Speaker 1: Dansby Nelson Cruz a bomb, Ronald Acunya three for five
Speaker 1: three RBI been a little bit slow lately, and Jeff
Speaker 1: McNeil was a perfect four for four. Christian Walker was
Speaker 1: only one for one with a homer because he walked
Speaker 1: three times. Mount Castle had a homer, Mike Mayer from
Speaker 1: the grave, and Travis Darnault with a homer three RBI.
Speaker 1: Are you I don't know how much you've dug in?
Speaker 1: Are you a speculative ad on Kerry Carpenter.
Speaker 3: For honestly, I feel bad as the first time I've
Speaker 3: heard Kerry Carpenter's.
Speaker 1: Okay, he's not a singer, he wasn't one of the
Speaker 1: Carpenters or anything like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I literally just wrote down on a piece paper.
Speaker 3: Next me to go look into Kerry Carpenter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so carry Carpenter in the miners this year had
Speaker 1: thirty homers. He had thirty homers, hitting three thirteen and
Speaker 1: over one thousand ops. A little bit older, twenty four
Speaker 1: years old. And I want to say I got to
Speaker 1: confirm this. I want to say he was hitting at
Speaker 1: like double Yeah, he was at double A where he
Speaker 1: needed to get out of there, and he hit twenty
Speaker 1: two of his thirty homers in double A. But to
Speaker 1: move up to triple A, he more than dominated. He
Speaker 1: had a couple stolen bases, he hit higher than double A.
Speaker 1: He had eight homers in thirty four games. The bat
Speaker 1: is there, the power is real. The pitch recognition is
Speaker 1: a question if he's going to be able to like
Speaker 1: see major league pitches and how they're going to adjust
Speaker 1: to him. But right now he's doing a little bit
Speaker 1: of business and he's got he's got his bomb to
Speaker 1: two sixty seven. That just might be a really cheap
Speaker 1: guy that people can.
Speaker 2: Take a look at. How do you think about Jim's mtore.
Speaker 1: Over Nolan Gorman. I think the only Gorman and redraft
Speaker 1: is totally turnstile. You could turn him out. Sure, I
Speaker 1: would probably turn him out for gars. To be honest
Speaker 1: with you, at this.
Speaker 3: Point, I would take that gamble. I would do it
Speaker 3: for What about Emmanuel Rivera. I'm a I'm a fan
Speaker 3: of his.
Speaker 1: You know what. You know, it's so funny. Bagman and
Speaker 1: I last night we were just doing something not live,
Speaker 1: and I was talking about it and he gets so
Speaker 1: mad about it because for some reason he thought like
Speaker 1: we should have got something more for Luke Weaver, and
Speaker 1: I was like, this is a great trade. Like Rivera
Speaker 1: is an infielder. The Diamondbacks third base has been embarrassing
Speaker 1: this year, putting out Sergerio al a contract that Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Rivera makes some contact. I don't think he's special necessarily
Speaker 1: in any way, but he's having a good little go
Speaker 1: with the Diamondbacks. There's another guy I would You know what, dude,
Speaker 1: I think I would go Emmanuel Rivera. I think he
Speaker 1: has a chance to stick all year long there where.
Speaker 1: Just think about this. If I would have said this
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year, Kerry Carpenter is prioritized
Speaker 1: for the Tigers over Spencer Troclson.
Speaker 2: That's wild.
Speaker 1: That's a wild wild thing to think about, and it
Speaker 1: makes me kind of sad. The positive pitcher, Sandal Contra
Speaker 1: seven and seven, a seven and seven, a good drink
Speaker 1: and a good stat line. Seven innings, seven strikeouts, and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of I get a lot of people
Speaker 1: hit me up about like, isn't there this reason for
Speaker 1: this guy to be signed? On this guy sign It's like, well,
Speaker 1: Saniel Contra does every single game. This is why it's
Speaker 1: gonna be the n AL. It's not gonna go to
Speaker 1: anyone else. Aaron Savale went six, struck out ten, Jose
Speaker 1: Orchidi struck out four, Ver seven and two thirds. Queto
Speaker 1: eight innings, three strikeouts in areas five with six strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Cquato has been phenomenal, a phenomenal pickup. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's given up like three earned runs this entire season.
Speaker 2: Baba.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been impressive. I'm like waiting for the other
Speaker 3: shoe to drop every time he takes the mound and
Speaker 3: he is continuing and it's good competition a lot too,
Speaker 3: Like he's not just facing scrubs every time.
Speaker 2: It's impressive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just one of those guys. It's like that old
Speaker 1: like Lavon Hernandez and those guys that just they they
Speaker 1: really understand the art of pitching, and then they could
Speaker 1: manage that and they could manage their careers in that
Speaker 1: way and not worry about this stuff. Stat zero's Steven Duger,
Speaker 1: your guy oh for four four strikeouts, a bunch of
Speaker 1: oh for threes with three strikeouts, Patrick Wisdom, Andrew of Alaskaz,
Speaker 1: Miguel Cabrera, Nolan Jones, and Chris Morell. On the pitcher side,
Speaker 1: Madison Bumgarner sucks six earned runs, six strikeouts. You say,
Speaker 1: Kakuci gave up three earned run six total runs, couldn't
Speaker 1: get to the fourth. Mike Minor got lit up. I
Speaker 1: was targeting against him yesterday, four and runs. Carlos Carrasco
Speaker 1: only went two innings, so that not great. And Chris
Speaker 1: Boovich four earned runs over on five and two thirds. Frindos,
Speaker 1: it is home run board time, and would you look
Speaker 1: at this? We have an updated home run board. There
Speaker 1: you go the leader of the pack high Cubby who
Speaker 1: took Eddie Rosario yesterday? What a call?
Speaker 2: Wow? The Stones, what a call?
Speaker 1: Forty three is the number taking the current lead. D
Speaker 1: Blum hot on his tail had Matt Olsen yesterday at
Speaker 1: forty two. We got some forties. Mike Mayer is on
Speaker 1: the list. Go cards, Terry, and as you can see
Speaker 1: the rest, this is what your top ten looks like
Speaker 1: on the Home Run Contest with roughly six weeks to go.
Speaker 1: Roughly six weeks to go, so make sure you keep
Speaker 1: and eye on that, get your home run calls and
Speaker 1: get rocking. And I would have to have an amazing
Speaker 1: run to even get on that board. It'd be nice
Speaker 1: to get on it, like just by the end of
Speaker 1: the year. I guess that's my goal. Friends. It is
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Speaker 1: got the number one total base, the number one strikeout,
Speaker 1: and then I've got the number one plus money total
Speaker 1: base and the number one plus money strikeout, and Bubba,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get your favorite one here in a second.
Speaker 1: So your number one total bass play of the day
Speaker 1: is show hey o Tani. You only need one total
Speaker 1: base versus Seattle. It's Robbie, but it's juiced at one sixty,
Speaker 1: So that's your number one total base, your number one
Speaker 1: and that is over on bet MGM. Your plus money
Speaker 1: total base is Luisa Rise versus Kansas City one and
Speaker 1: a half. It's plus one oh five, so it's just
Speaker 1: about even money. That's on DraftKings. For the total bases.
Speaker 1: On the strikeouts, you've got Alec Minoa as your number
Speaker 1: one strikeout prop of the day. You only need five
Speaker 1: against Baltimore, but it's minus one seventy. So if you
Speaker 1: love love those, maybe you could parlay Otani and Minoa
Speaker 1: together and get plus two hundred odds. And your number
Speaker 1: one plus money strikeout prop is Verlander against the White
Speaker 1: Sox and Dylan Cees. It is six and a half
Speaker 1: and you're getting plus one ten, So Bubba Verlander strikeouts
Speaker 1: Manoa and Otani are juiced a rise in Verlander or not.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite prop of this group?
Speaker 2: Out of that group, I'm going Verlander.
Speaker 3: He's going six plus innings pretty much every time out,
Speaker 3: getting you have six plus k's almost every time out.
Speaker 2: White socks are scuffling.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a great duel between him and Ceas Like,
Speaker 3: give me Verlander and the plus money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that one too. When I saw that,
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm good seven on that. I actually
Speaker 1: really like the Arise one too. I would throw just
Speaker 1: you know, that's the dude at the top of the lineup.
Speaker 1: I'm granking into that one. Yeah, yeah, exactly grank. I
Speaker 1: mean those two are like built for each other. Over
Speaker 1: on the DFS side, the Draft Kings stuff wasn't really
Speaker 1: out on FanDuel. I picked out some pitchers. You could
Speaker 1: tell me, Bubba what you dig. Jose Kintana probably my
Speaker 1: favorite of the day to put together eight and four
Speaker 1: super cheap, Kyle Gibson at eight five, Justin Steele nine
Speaker 1: to seven, and Alec Manoa at ten six. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of good matchups in there. Obviously, Verlander and Caesar
Speaker 1: up against each other. Stack Wise on the implied run totals, Philly, Toronto,
Speaker 1: and Saint Louis were all over five if you're checking
Speaker 1: out implied run totals. So I really like the Jose
Speaker 1: Kintana one, even though he's dirt cheap. What do you
Speaker 1: think about any of the starters or any of the stacks.
Speaker 3: I like Kintana and Justin Steele for great value, as
Speaker 3: you mentioned like them both. I think Cortes can be
Speaker 3: sneaky vers Tampa Bay striking out in nearly thirty percent
Speaker 3: of the time vers lefties over the last month, and
Speaker 3: Robbie Ray as well can be another one you can
Speaker 3: sneak in there. Stack Wise, though I agree with the
Speaker 3: stacks mentioned, the one I'll throw out there and it'll
Speaker 3: be kind of a lead into our next topic. Here,
Speaker 3: the Chicago Cubs get to face Patrick Corbin, So enjoy yourself, folks,
Speaker 3: have a drink on me.
Speaker 1: Uh you know what, that's actually funny. I'm glad you
Speaker 1: said that because I cheated a little bit. I did
Speaker 1: not give you guys the number one plus money strikeout
Speaker 1: prop because it was Patrick Corbin. I said, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not putting it was one above who
Speaker 1: who I give you a Verlander. It was right above
Speaker 1: Verlander based on the projections, and hell, no am I
Speaker 1: coming on here in saying, hey, let's bet Patrick Corbin.
Speaker 1: I don't care what the projections say. Never never betting
Speaker 1: on him there. So I did move it to justin
Speaker 1: Verlander and to your point, moving over to the home
Speaker 1: run call of the day, cubs are popular. Wonky went
Speaker 1: Cubs with fran mill reyes. I looked at it. I
Speaker 1: love targeting against Patrick Corbyn. It's totally the play. But Bob,
Speaker 1: I don't know. You tell me where are you going?
Speaker 3: Well, Wonky, you're a very smart person, so I wanted
Speaker 3: to go with fran mill Ray's as well. He looks
Speaker 3: like he's got a new shot of life. Maybe he's
Speaker 3: not a shot. I don't talk to tatis figure it out,
Speaker 3: but he's played great since coming over the Cubs. I
Speaker 3: like what we're seeing there. I think he takes Corbin deep.
Speaker 3: Corbyn's been a disaster. Disaster and you said franmil was
Speaker 3: that it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Frano mill is going deep.
Speaker 1: So you and Wonkee got Frano mel Me and Mayer
Speaker 1: are going over into that Philly game. He's got Derek
Speaker 1: Hall this really feels like with both other picks. This
Speaker 1: feels like this is the wonky Wednesday, like you get
Speaker 1: extra points if no one else calls it. That's a
Speaker 1: good one. I'm going with Schwarbs. I thought about going
Speaker 1: in other directions, but I'm gonna go with Schwarbs. Top
Speaker 1: of the lineup. Let's get a couple bombs and we
Speaker 1: are Philly and Cubs centric on this. Doctor Glenn, thank you,
Speaker 1: you're giving me my line here now here. I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I kind of forgot at the top. I
Speaker 1: did maybe give up an earned run in the beginning
Speaker 1: when I couldn't remember mister clean. I think this is
Speaker 1: one of the cleanest games I've had on leading off
Speaker 1: in the last couple weeks, maybe since they've took over
Speaker 1: for Joe. I feel like I went at least seven
Speaker 1: and two thirds. So but if doctor Glenn is scoring it,
Speaker 1: you can score. And you're saying I went six with
Speaker 1: one ear and run, I think I kind of went seven.
Speaker 1: I did give up and earn run by not having it. Bubba,
Speaker 1: this is that we score my hosting now when I
Speaker 1: don't fumble it. I think I got lit up yesterday
Speaker 1: at the end, so I think yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: was a very close game. I think it was a
Speaker 1: real queto outing. Okay, maybe I didn't have a big checkouts,
Speaker 1: but I went like seven low earn runs. I think
Speaker 1: this was a solid solid performance there, Bubba. What do
Speaker 1: you got going on in your world right now?
Speaker 2: The usual stuff?
Speaker 3: An article of fantasy pros each week, got some other
Speaker 3: written content, so you can check out on Twitter at
Speaker 3: bead intric and then bench with Bubba coming at you
Speaker 3: twice a week Tuesdays and Thursdays and mlbdfs cicket. So
Speaker 3: fun all over the board. But I'll be back here
Speaker 3: on Thursday to do this again.
Speaker 1: But you got a bitch on Bubba coming up? Aren't
Speaker 1: you in Bloomfield doing one.
Speaker 3: Of the video one On Thursday night, we're gonna recap
Speaker 3: where I'm met. We're in a group of fifteen dumb
Speaker 3: dumbs that are drafting a twenty twenty three draft. We're
Speaker 3: starting the We're doing the first seven rounds and then
Speaker 3: we're gonna pick it up in November to get an
Speaker 3: idea of where everyone's mind's at.
Speaker 2: Like, I can't wait. Does Tatistka in the top one
Speaker 2: oh five?
Speaker 1: We'll see baby, I love that stuff. I like to
Speaker 1: doctor Glenn, think you know what. I'm anointing, Doctor Glenn.
Speaker 1: You are officially going to be the stat caller for
Speaker 1: my on the bookstock and the Langliers reference was a
Speaker 1: big inning, maybe not quite immaculate. I really really appreciate that.
Speaker 1: That was a Bret Pitches inning. Thank you, guys. I
Speaker 1: love that, Doctor Glenn. You are officially annointed. You make
Speaker 1: my performance calls at the end. We'll see what my
Speaker 1: stat line looks like. We need to also track them too.
Speaker 1: We need to see maybe how I do over a
Speaker 1: thirty game season. How do I stack up against the
Speaker 1: pitchers on my performance? Coming up here in a little bit,
Speaker 1: If you guys care, I know it's another thing. Bogmin
Speaker 1: and I are going to be playing the brand new
Speaker 1: madd in twenty twenty three on our Twitch and Twitch
Speaker 1: tv slash in this league. We're gonna go for two hours.
Speaker 1: We played last night, and I want to tell you
Speaker 1: it's going to be a disaster. I almost through my
Speaker 1: controller through the through my window, and I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: so mad, and it's gonna be You're gonna see anger
Speaker 1: like you've never seen it before. And the only plus
Speaker 1: is Bogman paid for the game because I had a
Speaker 1: screw up thing. Otherwise I would be I would be
Speaker 1: called the better Business Bureau. I was so mad. But
Speaker 1: we'll be doing that Twitch dot tv slash in this league. Friends,
Speaker 1: hang around for tomorrow. We got wonky Wednesday. It's always
Speaker 1: the best. Maybe the crown will be back. That's it
Speaker 1: for us. Thank you for everybody hanging out in the
Speaker 1: stat Lions. For Bubba. I'm Welsh. We're out of here.
Speaker 1: He's friends