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Speaker 1: at Leading Off. It is me Joey p that's the Welsh,
Speaker 1: and it's you the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks. We got
Speaker 1: a trade. At the top of the show. We got
Speaker 1: another Yankee starter performance to talk about Welsh, just saying
Speaker 1: and of course we're moving up prospecting at the Welsh
Speaker 1: because tomorrow, well, tomorrow's Independence Day and we're gonna be
Speaker 1: independent of everything. We're taking a day off. We're gonna
Speaker 1: sit by our respective pools or whatever the hell. Welsh
Speaker 1: you got like a swimming hole out there by you?
Speaker 1: What do you got nothing?
Speaker 2: No, we have.
Speaker 3: We have a hose and we can pour some water
Speaker 3: that stays around for about twenty seconds before it evaporates
Speaker 3: into the sun.
Speaker 2: That's what we've got.
Speaker 1: That's what Arizona is. Go to Donnie's house. He's got
Speaker 1: a pool. He's five minutes.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say tomorrow's gonna be resting with the Welsh,
Speaker 3: but it won't be because as it is a birthday
Speaker 3: with the family, so I will be trucking everybody around
Speaker 3: at all.
Speaker 1: The birthdays to celebrate, including the birthday of our great
Speaker 1: nation America. There you go, but Wels, let's dive into
Speaker 1: it here. Let's go at the top of things. Brewers
Speaker 1: acquired Aaron Savali, which is a great move. I feel
Speaker 1: like we just talked about this yesterday, did we not
Speaker 1: that the Brewers needed to make a move in this rotation.
Speaker 1: I still think Dill Hall is a possibility at some
Speaker 1: point sooner than later. However, it would kind of make
Speaker 1: sense to me to let him build up arm strength,
Speaker 1: more get him after the All Star break, let him
Speaker 1: keep pitching through these next two weeks. But Savally, somebody
Speaker 1: much needed. The Brewers are at the top of this
Speaker 1: central division. It makes a ton of sense. How does
Speaker 1: this impact his fantasy value? In your opinion, I.
Speaker 3: Think this is well, that's an interesting question. If he
Speaker 3: starts living up to some of the underlying things. It's
Speaker 3: a little bit, but everything kind of fell apart. I
Speaker 3: mean one thing, it's like an overarching statement. If you
Speaker 3: can't work with the rays, then maybe you've got a
Speaker 3: bigger problem. And maybe we're giving too much clout to
Speaker 3: like their overall development. But the idea was like, oh,
Speaker 3: they're gonna get Savalli in and you know he's they're
Speaker 3: gonna start making these changes and it's you know, hey,
Speaker 3: they're gonna add this here and this is gonna work there.
Speaker 3: And he ended up going a little bit more sinker
Speaker 3: this year over curveball. They didn't really make any of
Speaker 3: those big adjustments like you know, up ticked splitter or
Speaker 3: cutter or.
Speaker 2: Anything like that.
Speaker 3: All of it, to say, is kind of mediocre. He's
Speaker 3: got a five RA, didn't get a lot of wins.
Speaker 3: He does have almost a full run lower expected ERA
Speaker 3: than actual ERA. But strikeouts were down, walks were up,
Speaker 3: expected batting average against was up. So what this is is,
Speaker 3: this is like a guy that has underperformed a tiny
Speaker 3: bit and maybe an environment that I don't think is
Speaker 3: like offensively or defensively that much better for him. But
Speaker 3: this is going to be a team that is going
Speaker 3: to be putting up, hopefully a lot of runs. He's
Speaker 3: going to get into some win opportunities.
Speaker 2: I think this is immediate.
Speaker 3: This this is good for real baseball. This is good
Speaker 3: for real brewers. A guy that can eat innings. That's
Speaker 3: what Savally can do. But is this gonna be great
Speaker 3: for his fantasy value? Probably not. He's going to be
Speaker 3: a borderline streaming streaming type of picture. But this needed
Speaker 3: to happen. They didn't trade any there was like really
Speaker 3: nothing involved Gregory Burrios, but it was a money situation.
Speaker 3: The Races unloaded all that money and the Brewers took
Speaker 3: it on. We'll talk about it a little bit later,
Speaker 3: like how this impacts the Rays rotation.
Speaker 2: But Savale is.
Speaker 3: Going to be in the hunt at least the rest
Speaker 3: of the year. Maybe a few more wins, maybe some
Speaker 3: run support, and maybe a downtick tiny bit on his era.
Speaker 3: But I don't expect this is going to be Brewers
Speaker 3: aren't like this big changing organization for pitchers and whatnot.
Speaker 3: So it's a lateral move and you're probably streaming him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that works for me. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the unfortunate injury news. Royce Lewis. Here we go again.
Speaker 1: Royce Lewis came out yesterday. We removed from Tuesday's game
Speaker 1: with left groin tightness. He's gonna have an MRI today.
Speaker 1: Postgame press conference was pretty clear he feels like this
Speaker 1: is gonna be another eye el stint for him. This
Speaker 1: is this is brutal. I mean, what is in the
Speaker 1: water in Minnesota? Him, Buxton, all these guys, I mean
Speaker 1: A Kilov was another guy who seemed like he was
Speaker 1: always hurt.
Speaker 2: Isn't it fracking? Isn't that a big I don't know,
Speaker 2: but it's fracking.
Speaker 1: Annoying is what it is.
Speaker 2: If it didn't I know, you.
Speaker 3: Know what the Battlestar Galactica, what I know we are.
Speaker 3: We're in a fracking situation here for sure. I will
Speaker 3: say this.
Speaker 2: He was.
Speaker 3: He was toying around a little bit, and in his
Speaker 3: statement at the end where he was like, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't feel good about this was kind of more
Speaker 3: because it always ends bad for him. I don't think
Speaker 3: it was necessarily relative to how he felt. More that
Speaker 3: like last time out of massive caution, they put him
Speaker 3: on the eye L. So that's where he didn't feel optimistic.
Speaker 3: But yeah, one hundred percent Royce, because he's made of glass.
Speaker 2: He's Samuel L. Jackson in Uh, I guess split?
Speaker 1: It was?
Speaker 2: The second movie was.
Speaker 3: I'm Forgetting The Name is m Night Shamalan with Bruce.
Speaker 2: Willis it's a great movie.
Speaker 1: Well it was.
Speaker 2: Then he returned.
Speaker 3: Now the return wasn't as good when they did the
Speaker 3: three guys in the Villain movie. But now I'm forgetting.
Speaker 3: It's like shattered or whatever it was. I can't remember that.
Speaker 3: That is Roy slew is modern day Derek Rose. He's
Speaker 3: become incredible talent. I do expect the twins should absolutely
Speaker 3: baby this situation. Unbreakable, Unbreakable, thank you everybody.
Speaker 2: That's a great movie.
Speaker 3: Unbreakable was like phenomenal, and then they did not I
Speaker 3: love it phenomenal.
Speaker 2: I love unbreaking No.
Speaker 1: I was for something that happened, and nothing happened.
Speaker 2: Well, no water scary, that's what happened.
Speaker 3: And then later they threw the surprise on us of
Speaker 3: the other movie, and then they had the like trio
Speaker 3: villain movie.
Speaker 2: I thought it was fun.
Speaker 1: Was the biggest surprise? You Shyamalan hasn't done a great
Speaker 1: movie since sixth sense. I think that's the big that's
Speaker 1: the plot twist.
Speaker 2: Here's no one coming out though that looks they all.
Speaker 1: Look interesting, and then you then you all do the
Speaker 1: same thing.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, you know, I want to watch that
Speaker 3: Watchers one that's out okay, but all that aside will
Speaker 3: lead into where I think the replacement is. I do
Speaker 3: expect the Twins this guy what they did before is it.
Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about that, and we're gonna talk about
Speaker 3: brooks Ley here in just a tiny bit.
Speaker 2: And I said it last night.
Speaker 1: Yeah at brooks Lee and the Savali trade, opening a
Speaker 1: spot for Shane Boss prospecting of the Welsh boys and girls.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be very hot today. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot to talk about me, the Royce Lewis thing, understanding
Speaker 1: my two cents in here. Depressing, That's that's the only
Speaker 1: word to have because when you see these guys that
Speaker 1: can be one of he is one of the best
Speaker 1: players in the American League. Like he is. He's not
Speaker 1: just the best player in the Twins. He's one of
Speaker 1: the best players in the American League. He's MVP quality
Speaker 1: contender kind of talent. But is this the ultimate by
Speaker 1: low time in dynasty leagues on him? After this, like,
Speaker 1: is this another one we're roll their rise and go
Speaker 1: and throw their hands up and just complete frustration.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's the ultimate time, No, because I
Speaker 3: think like that run that he had completely changed the
Speaker 3: perception of his value. So like a team that's out
Speaker 3: of it, you should be buying him as a top
Speaker 3: twenty five, and a team that's selling can still do that.
Speaker 3: But to your point, it's only a matter of time
Speaker 3: before Royce is I mean, we're all like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: it gets hurt, this kind of stinks, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: But he's two years away from everybody just pissoy talking
Speaker 3: about him like he's Mike Trout, you know, like where
Speaker 3: it's like he'll never live up to it and blah
Speaker 3: blah blah blah, Like he's got to have a healthy season.
Speaker 3: He has not had that. So we know the talent's there,
Speaker 3: but he's too young that we're not going to like
Speaker 3: cross cancel all that stuff, but be on the lookout
Speaker 3: for the news. We still haven't gotten it. He might
Speaker 3: who knows, maybe they'll just throw him back out there.
Speaker 3: I would think out of caution they would do it.
Speaker 3: And then, like I said, with Brooksley, we'll also talk
Speaker 3: about some of the blocks that could be out there.
Speaker 3: But one of the most frustrating players this year because
Speaker 3: of the massive This is like the Nick Cage movie,
Speaker 3: the massive talent God. I can't remember anything now. I
Speaker 3: just watched that stupid movie I bother. Nick Cage is
Speaker 3: in everything.
Speaker 1: There's a that's the one with uh? Is that the
Speaker 1: one with Pedro Pascal?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's got like some long name and I
Speaker 3: just watched it and it was phenomenal in Nick Cage.
Speaker 3: But Nick Cage is that he's in every movie. He's
Speaker 3: got a new movie coming out like next weekend, long Legs,
Speaker 3: some horror movie.
Speaker 1: So he's able weight of massive talent.
Speaker 3: That's Roy s Lewis the unbearable weight of massive talent
Speaker 3: that then ends up getting his legs hurt.
Speaker 1: You need a day off, my friend, that's what you need.
Speaker 2: I just can't again. This is a constant issue. I
Speaker 2: have off.
Speaker 1: I have a great movie Connor Face Off. They're both
Speaker 1: on TNT and TBS at the same time, which will
Speaker 1: be easy.
Speaker 3: This is the easiest answer, by the way, Connor, it
Speaker 3: is Conne every single time.
Speaker 1: I like both of them a lot, but I think
Speaker 1: it's Conna for me too. But it was a summer
Speaker 1: where they came out at the same time. People forget
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 3: There's too much info going in and it's it's convoluting.
Speaker 3: Some of the little tiny things on it.
Speaker 1: Well, let's let's let's extract some info about Louis Heel.
Speaker 1: Four runs, two hits for inning now plus one seventy
Speaker 1: two on the money line for the Reds. Let's go.
Speaker 1: I talked about it yesterday on the show. It was
Speaker 1: a good I have THIRTYI just because of that bad
Speaker 1: hitting yesterday. Like that's it, Like it was just awesome.
Speaker 1: But here we go. This is now three in a row,
Speaker 1: sixteen earned runs at his last nine to two thirds innings. Welsh.
Speaker 1: What more is there to say about Heel at this
Speaker 1: point except something's gonna change here, and it's going to
Speaker 1: change soon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm ready to relent the Heel stuff.
Speaker 3: I can't do it much more. I've made my case
Speaker 3: to where I think he will be for the future.
Speaker 3: But it is he's stacking starts. I watched the start,
Speaker 3: of course I did.
Speaker 2: Didn't bet on it, but I felt tempted to.
Speaker 3: But I watched this start and he was very efficient
Speaker 3: early on, you know, first time through the order. He
Speaker 3: was throwing strikes, he got some strikeouts, he got.
Speaker 2: Out of some mess. I mean, he made.
Speaker 3: Ellie look silly. He did his stuff and then he
Speaker 3: just faltered again. He had a bad walk and then
Speaker 3: he puts something right down the middle. I mean, good
Speaker 3: Lord didn't give up like two homers in this one.
Speaker 3: One of the home it was just dead red middle fastball.
Speaker 3: He's losing his command later and starts and that's a big,
Speaker 3: big worry. This start fastball, change up slider in it.
Speaker 3: There was no Vlo dips if you were concerned. But
Speaker 3: the whiffs were low, no whiffs on the fastball, and
Speaker 3: he had a sixty two percent zone rate. That's a
Speaker 3: little too much. He did have his slider going with
Speaker 3: a fifty percent whiff rate, but he only threw a
Speaker 3: twenty two percent of the time, So you know, like
Speaker 3: I think there's still elite stuff in there. He pumped
Speaker 3: the fastball. He can make these guys look silly, but
Speaker 3: he can't stay consistent into the next innings.
Speaker 2: And that might truly truly be the ware that he's.
Speaker 3: Feeling right now. So I don't know what you do.
Speaker 3: Do you give him the blow, do you give him
Speaker 3: two and a half three weeks off with the All
Speaker 3: Star Game?
Speaker 2: Do you put him to the bullpen?
Speaker 3: When I watch him through the first three innings, I
Speaker 3: still look at a picture that I'm like, you just
Speaker 3: can't shut this completely down. But he fell apart on
Speaker 3: the back event. I will say, though, and shout out
Speaker 3: to Scott White for saying this too, that like you
Speaker 3: would think he gave up fourteen runs and walked thirty six.
Speaker 3: By how the discourse online was about him. He gave
Speaker 3: up three earned runs and he went four innings. He
Speaker 3: just he didn't have a lot of strikeouts. He ended
Speaker 3: up only having three and he got hit far as.
Speaker 1: I mean, the league adjustice to you after a while too,
Speaker 1: I mean, let's be honest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I think there's league adjustment. I actually think
Speaker 3: this is still more about him the.
Speaker 1: Hitch location that I do agree with, but the league
Speaker 1: adjustment is also in there too, where it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: if you you know, if he likes to approach this way,
Speaker 1: let him do that and then work the counts this
Speaker 1: like look.
Speaker 2: No, that's totally true.
Speaker 3: Like you're not going to eat that slider anymore, and
Speaker 3: they're gonna sit on it now.
Speaker 1: I know what you are and look great pictures adjust
Speaker 1: back and some never do. And same thing with hitters too.
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember Jason Hayward, I remember he came
Speaker 1: up like Gangbusters. Eric Cosmer. Guy came up with Gangbusters.
Speaker 1: The league adjustice to them. They ever adjusted back.
Speaker 2: You know what he's gonna do.
Speaker 3: Just gonna call it right now. The next year, just watch,
Speaker 3: it's gonna throw a splinker. This is a guy they're
Speaker 3: gonna add a splinker. He's gonna be a splinker, dude.
Speaker 3: He's changed up slider fastball. Even if he throws at
Speaker 3: ten percent of the time, that type of with a
Speaker 3: big you know, splinker is just like a big power sinker.
Speaker 2: You know it's split.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll have an arm surgery for year. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be great. I can't wait for that. Your not Alvarez,
Speaker 1: another home run two days in a row. I apologize again. Well,
Speaker 1: you know I dragged you into my home run call.
Speaker 1: If you just stuck with Alvaz the last two days,
Speaker 1: you might be on the board. I'm the worst friend, am.
Speaker 2: I Just if some butts, candies and nuts, we'd all
Speaker 2: have them. Marry Chris.
Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez hit seventh. Look, I've made a lot of
Speaker 1: excuses for Julio two forty seven, ninety seven, three twenty seven.
Speaker 1: The excuses are done. Hitting zero sixty nine over his
Speaker 1: last seven games. I still love the player, and this
Speaker 1: brought me back. We're gonna story time with Uncle Joe here.
Speaker 1: Do you remember when JD. Martinez came up with the Astros,
Speaker 1: and that was when the Astros were completely defunct and
Speaker 1: had nobody around him. Remember that it was like JD. Martinez,
Speaker 1: Jadie Martinez was a big prospect that people were very
Speaker 1: excited about it. People forget a little bit about like
Speaker 1: Jadie Martinez. Hype was real, and Jadie Martinez floundered for
Speaker 1: two years with the Astros because he had zero lineup
Speaker 1: protection around him. He gets dropped into Detroit. If you
Speaker 1: recall with Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez and Jadie Martinez
Speaker 1: blossoms into this thirty five home run guy. And it's
Speaker 1: not rocket science. I don't care how good a young
Speaker 1: player is, if you put.
Speaker 2: Him in a situation, it's science if you put.
Speaker 1: Him in a situation with no line of protection unless
Speaker 1: you are Mike Trout. Even Trout, you know at times,
Speaker 1: you know he Mike Trout had pooholes, like he didn't
Speaker 1: have anybody. You know, it was tail end pools. But
Speaker 1: it's still somebody there's nobody for Julio here, and I
Speaker 1: don't know who has to be shaken upside down in
Speaker 1: the Mariners organization to realize that they got to get
Speaker 1: this guy some help. Well, I mean it is frustrating.
Speaker 3: Man, I do and do enjoy your story time. To
Speaker 3: add to what you're talking about, there's a heavy room.
Speaker 3: I don't remember if we talked about it on this show.
Speaker 3: I know he did it TL, but there's a heavy
Speaker 3: rumor that the Mariners and the Cubs have been intox
Speaker 3: with Nico Horner because the Cubs are they're floundering, they're
Speaker 3: bottom of the division there, almost bottom of the attire.
Speaker 2: You need no I agree, but.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no. But here's one thing though with Nico.
Speaker 3: Nico is a that's the start. If it was only Nico,
Speaker 3: it's not what it's gonna do. But Nico's the guy
Speaker 3: that top of the order. He gets on base, which
Speaker 3: none of these other guys are doing, doesn't strike out,
Speaker 3: which all those other guys are doing. He can steal
Speaker 3: bases at a high clip, and he can score runs.
Speaker 2: He is the perfect guy to put at the top
Speaker 2: of the lineup.
Speaker 3: But back to what you said, if you only go
Speaker 3: get Nico Horner and then you were getting like Adam Davoll,
Speaker 3: which I know they're not. That's not gonna work. They
Speaker 3: they've got to make those two trade. You got to
Speaker 3: go and get Nico, which is going to cost a
Speaker 3: little bit, and then you would need to go get
Speaker 3: a Luise Robert, which, by the way, did you see
Speaker 3: the Luis Robert no throw? I mean, have you ever
Speaker 3: seen a guy that doesn't want to be where he's
Speaker 3: at or just doesn't care?
Speaker 2: Like I don't blame you, guys all saw it.
Speaker 1: It was I I want to be somewhere else, by
Speaker 1: the way, the chat, but I talking about Nicholas Cage movies.
Speaker 1: They're talking about The Weatherman, The family Man, The Rock
Speaker 1: is overrated, by the way, Michael.
Speaker 2: But it's a great nineties movie. Though, no, no, it's a.
Speaker 1: Great nineties soft and con a great nineties movies, but
Speaker 1: nothing will the ultimate Nick Cage performance, which is Raising
Speaker 1: Arizona one of the all time weird movies. That's just
Speaker 1: freaking awesome.
Speaker 3: Like, but he he's had some really really good ones.
Speaker 3: The Mandy is a great watch that.
Speaker 1: Series on Netflix. When he was just talking about curse words,
Speaker 1: that was that was pretty entertaining. There is the whole
Speaker 1: thing where it's like the origin of the word frack
Speaker 1: or other words.
Speaker 2: It was this like the Aristocrats.
Speaker 1: No, it was literally like a half hour sit down
Speaker 1: with Nick Cage in a big wing back chair in
Speaker 1: front of a fireplace, talking about the origin of curse words,
Speaker 1: and it was kind of entertain highly.
Speaker 3: I'm in the One thing I want to say that
Speaker 3: this great viral campaign the new movie called Long Legs.
Speaker 3: It's this horror movie that Nick Cage is a part of,
Speaker 3: and there's been all this viral like, oh, it's the
Speaker 3: scariest movie ever, and the trailer dropped yesterday and if
Speaker 3: you listen to it, it's all scary, scary. And then
Speaker 3: halfway through it's like a voiceover of Nick Cage is
Speaker 3: a scary guy, and he's.
Speaker 2: Like you bra miss.
Speaker 3: I laughed out loud, not being able to take it
Speaker 3: serious because it's not Nick Cage in a performance.
Speaker 2: It's Nick Cage is a scary guy.
Speaker 3: Go listen to the trailer. You're gonna laugh the jail.
Speaker 1: Nick Cage is just playing Nick Cage. And that's fine.
Speaker 1: Like some guys just do that. Not everybody is a
Speaker 1: transformational actor. Not everybody's Tom Hardy, you know, like not
Speaker 1: everybody is you know, uh, just Nick and everything that
Speaker 1: people were just not transformational actors. Let's have some fun.
Speaker 1: Bobby Miller was okay, okay, two runs for It's my
Speaker 1: It's better fun against the Diamondbacks. Breton Doyle three straight
Speaker 1: days with home runs, Austin Riley another ding or two.
Speaker 1: He's been hot, and the Marlins look like they're gonna
Speaker 1: be designated Tim Anderson for assignment.
Speaker 2: But now it already happened.
Speaker 1: I don't think actually happened yet. They were talking about
Speaker 1: it happening. Did officially happened already? Ye, the world will
Speaker 1: never know. I was mad that Craig Misch didn't break
Speaker 1: that news. I mean, I think he did well.
Speaker 3: He actually he made on you know, I think it
Speaker 3: was like foul territory in other places. He made all
Speaker 3: the screenshots because he did reference that Tim Anderson was
Speaker 3: no issue in the locker room, which I think a
Speaker 3: lot of people speculated. They said he was actually just fantastic,
Speaker 3: couldn't have been a better teammate.
Speaker 1: The issues were just on the field. He just moved
Speaker 1: on good at baseball. So what does that mean when
Speaker 1: players get designated for assignment or get traded. It means
Speaker 1: when someone gets hurt, all these opportunities open things up
Speaker 1: for prospects, and it's time for prospect and with the Welsh,
Speaker 1: that's right, the wels Shana are going to take a
Speaker 1: look at some young man down on the farm be
Speaker 1: able to help your fantasy team here for rest a season. Welsh,
Speaker 1: what do you have for the people?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not gonna actually talk about, but Xavier Edwards
Speaker 3: is probably gonna be the guy that's going to get
Speaker 3: more run but.
Speaker 1: Not you said you talk about I'm not gonna talk
Speaker 1: about I'm not gonna talk about it, but let me
Speaker 1: tell you guys about five minutes about why Xavier Edwards
Speaker 1: is not a guy.
Speaker 3: All right, So there are two guys that are like
Speaker 3: directly in our face, and brooks Lee is number one.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 3: I put this tweet out yesterday and a couple of
Speaker 3: people brought up some good points. Here's one roadblock to
Speaker 3: a brooks Lee going up with the Minnesota Twins as
Speaker 3: some type of replacement. If Royce Lewis were to go
Speaker 3: down roadblock number one forty man roster. He's not on
Speaker 3: the forty man roster. That definitely throws a wrench into it.
Speaker 2: In that same vein.
Speaker 3: Number two would be like a guy like Edward Julian
Speaker 3: is available and middle infielders, there's really not They're not
Speaker 3: short on any type of middle or you know, even
Speaker 3: third base type of infielder. But the positive I believe
Speaker 3: it's Dan Hayes who covers the Twins.
Speaker 2: He had a tweet out saying.
Speaker 3: Brooks Lee would be the guy, like they were watching
Speaker 3: if Brooksley was going to be pulled for the game,
Speaker 3: and he's saying like they're not going to go to
Speaker 3: Edward Julian, most likely Brooksley would be the player. So
Speaker 3: I said, go and check how and what type of
Speaker 3: availability brooks Lee is in your league right now, because
Speaker 3: as we await this news, he this could be the
Speaker 3: guy hitting three fifty On the year, Brooksley is with
Speaker 3: seven homers and eight doubles in under one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty eight bats. He's hitting three point thirty three in June,
Speaker 3: had just twelve strikeouts and a perspective here, five doubles,
Speaker 3: six homers in the month of June, so he had
Speaker 3: one extra base less in the month than his total strikeouts. Now,
Speaker 3: the last little thing that could potentially hold a player back.
Speaker 3: I don't think it would is he made the Futures
Speaker 3: Game roster.
Speaker 2: So you could.
Speaker 3: Argue a team if they really we know, oh, we
Speaker 3: don't want to take this away from a guy. I
Speaker 3: just don't think that, especially for Brooksley's case, it's going
Speaker 3: to matter. So if Royce Lewis goes on the IL,
Speaker 3: they could go to Edward Julian. I belie they will
Speaker 3: go to brooks Lee and they'll they'll nix that Future's
Speaker 3: Game appearance because he's been kind of imminent for quite
Speaker 3: a while. So I am tentatively picking him up. Number two,
Speaker 3: I'm actually gonna jump since we already talked about him
Speaker 3: to the pitcher. It's Shane Boz and this one. I
Speaker 3: think we're toying around with this almost being official, but
Speaker 3: with Aaron Savale back the move.
Speaker 2: As it was reported.
Speaker 3: I think Mark Tokin mentioned that this was also due
Speaker 3: to Jeffrey Springs coming back soon and Shane Boz, who's
Speaker 3: been really good and there's rumors that Boz could even
Speaker 3: be starting here coming up on Thursday against the World oversheader.
Speaker 1: I think I saw something to that effect, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that would make sense that he would be back,
Speaker 3: but he's got a really good opportunity to stay around.
Speaker 3: Over his last ten ten starts so far this year,
Speaker 3: he's got a four ERA, which is not like the best.
Speaker 3: But in June we saw four more starts with six
Speaker 3: or more strikeouts, but four of his five starts multiple walks.
Speaker 3: The consistency has been his problem, but his fastballs looking great.
Speaker 3: In his uh it's been touching ninety eight, sitting ninety six.
Speaker 3: That's what it did in his last start, where in
Speaker 3: his last start he also struck out seven. He went
Speaker 3: heavy fastball slider, but he's also throwing that curve double
Speaker 3: digit percentage of the time and kind of not doing
Speaker 3: anything with the change up. He had forty two swings
Speaker 3: on pitches only induced twelve whiffs. Ten came from the
Speaker 3: fastball slider. Combo I mentioned that because if he's not
Speaker 3: fooling hitters and not sticking around the zone, guys are
Speaker 3: swinging out a lot of his stuff, and they're also
Speaker 3: just not whiffing. He's found they're falling off a lot
Speaker 3: of stuff. So his effectiveness is going to be interesting.
Speaker 3: But he's a total streamer pitcher, and.
Speaker 2: I feel like you and I have talked about him,
Speaker 2: Joe and if he.
Speaker 3: Were available, are you do you view him as a
Speaker 3: streamer or is a hold if he's called up?
Speaker 1: Uh wait, a streamer or a hold?
Speaker 3: That's what you're saying, like, like, are you looking at
Speaker 3: like you're gonna burn and churn a guy like Shane Bosm.
Speaker 2: He comes up in the hold.
Speaker 1: A hole because of the Savali trade, and I want
Speaker 1: to I'm looking at the rest of the month and saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, when does springs really come back? And are
Speaker 1: there setbacks along the way? You know that stuff is
Speaker 1: still there. There's no variables on the positive side from
Speaker 1: me with Baso, I'd be a hold more than a
Speaker 1: stream with him, also because he doesn't have a pedigree.
Speaker 1: And if anything else, if you're still you know, able
Speaker 1: to make trades in your league depending on when you
Speaker 1: know those get shut down. He if he has a
Speaker 1: couple of good starts, I might look to churn him
Speaker 1: to another team and then bring back something that I
Speaker 1: feel better about, maybe like solidified rotation spot, maybe a
Speaker 1: team a little bit more offense down the stretch that
Speaker 1: I could see myself doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm kind of like leaning in I don't
Speaker 3: feel as optimistic as I think as a lot of
Speaker 3: people do about There's been like some walk issues. This
Speaker 3: stuff is there. I just don't know if it's gonna
Speaker 3: hold and be consistent. But he is coming. So two
Speaker 3: players that are on the verge, and I know we've
Speaker 3: talked to we talked about what we talked about all
Speaker 3: these guys at this point in the season, but Kobe Mayo,
Speaker 3: And for the last time, I'm going to present this
Speaker 3: for the year because I don't think I'll do it again.
Speaker 3: Hashtag free Kobe Mayo. Yes, we are gonna put Mayo
Speaker 3: on all our baseball sandwiches. This year, over two hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty ish bats, Mayo has had hitting three.
Speaker 2: Twenty one with twenty one homers.
Speaker 3: He just hit three ninety five in June and had
Speaker 3: only two games where he did not.
Speaker 2: Register a hit. Ridiculous.
Speaker 3: He currently has hits in ten of his last twelve games,
Speaker 3: including five during that span. So the question is how
Speaker 3: is it going to work? There was actually some and
Speaker 3: I think you said on the show yesterday, some implication
Speaker 3: out there from the Orioles that he is really close.
Speaker 3: So how it works is they are going to have
Speaker 3: to get rid of one of vermon Aias or Jorge Matteo,
Speaker 3: I think easily done by the way Arias is hitting
Speaker 3: two seventeen, Mateo's hitting like two thirty.
Speaker 2: At this point, it's more.
Speaker 3: Defensively, and they do have an issue with having too
Speaker 3: many rookies on the roster, but you get rid of
Speaker 3: one of those guys, then what you can do is
Speaker 3: you can move Westburg over to be the full time
Speaker 3: second baseman, which he has done and I think that
Speaker 3: was even more of a college primary position, and then
Speaker 3: you have one of those guys serve as the primary.
Speaker 3: Kobe Mayo's bat it's elite, It's a lead of elite,
Speaker 3: and as we had mentioned, you know of who is
Speaker 3: worth stashing.
Speaker 2: I love talking about brooks Lee.
Speaker 3: He's fun. I like talking about Shane Boz. Kobe Mayo
Speaker 3: is the one that no matter what you're doing this here,
Speaker 3: he's not getting traded. He's going to be in that lineup.
Speaker 3: You hold one that comes up a lot, and I
Speaker 3: think we are on the verge. Here is Davis and
Speaker 3: Dala Santos with the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2: I know I mentioned him.
Speaker 3: Before, an absurd three forty four average on the year
Speaker 3: with a minor league like, yeah, kids, minor league leading
Speaker 3: twenty six home runs more, nobody has more homers. He's
Speaker 3: already gotten over the one hundred hit mark and he
Speaker 3: just hit three twenty seven with ten homers in June.
Speaker 3: So I put it as we're at the point there's
Speaker 3: not much more to say about him and what his
Speaker 3: profile has been. But you got to look at the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 3: Alec Thomas just got back. They sent down Blaze Alexander
Speaker 3: and that was a big key for a.
Speaker 2: Lot of people.
Speaker 3: Would Blazer Yohanio, you know, would they deal with that
Speaker 3: and get rid of Yohino?
Speaker 2: They didn't.
Speaker 3: Blazer struggled defensively, Johannio struggled offensively. They're disasters. They're gonna make.
Speaker 2: A move quickly. So important.
Speaker 3: Davison de la Santos has been a primary first baseman
Speaker 3: on the year, but seventy innings in Triple A he's
Speaker 3: played third base one error. So to me, it would
Speaker 3: not be a surprise if his futures game is cut
Speaker 3: short like I'm talking about with brooks Lee, or if
Speaker 3: when he leaves the All Star Game he does not
Speaker 3: head back to Reno and he goes straight to the Diamondbacks,
Speaker 3: so yes, I'd be picking him up. And then the
Speaker 3: last is a big speculation marker here for you. Shay
Speaker 3: Whitcomb with the Houston Astros hitting three ten, eighteen homers,
Speaker 3: twenty stolen bases so far this year, coming off of
Speaker 3: a massive June where he hit three forty seven, had
Speaker 3: nine homers and thirteen stolen bases. His profile keeps improving.
Speaker 3: He cut his k percentage down from thirty one to
Speaker 3: twenty one percent this year like Mark Viento's and he's
Speaker 3: walking a career high eleven point six percent. And most
Speaker 3: interesting is that he's been a middle infielder, sec, second baseman, shortstop,
Speaker 3: but recently he's been playing in the outfield and that's
Speaker 3: where they've got some more spots. So I think he's
Speaker 3: a guy that could come up play outfield and serve
Speaker 3: as a super util on the infield and maybe just
Speaker 3: play regular time. So Shae Whitcomb, just be on the
Speaker 3: lookout for him. If he does get a call, he
Speaker 3: might be someone worth picking up. But the rest are
Speaker 3: the big prospects that we are paying attention to.
Speaker 1: There you go, everybody that's prospecting with the Welsh go
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Speaker 1: prospects and check out all Welsh's amazing work over there.
Speaker 1: Welsh a little three up and three down to ask
Speaker 1: Hernandez three for five the double and three RBI Showyotani
Speaker 1: another homer up to twenty seven on the year.
Speaker 2: Did you see that thing?
Speaker 1: He is red hot? Man. The guy just can't be stopped.
Speaker 1: He's unbelievable. It's so fun that we get to live
Speaker 1: in this time to watch Shohal Tani play baseball like
Speaker 1: it is awesome. It's the same thing that happened too.
Speaker 1: It is the thing, like my biggest anger or disappointment,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be, is that I'm an old fart
Speaker 1: on the East Coast and I wish I could say
Speaker 1: more to watch this guy play more. And I don't
Speaker 1: get to do that because I'm going to bed at
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock and these games are like in the third
Speaker 1: inning by then, I'm not gonna do that. Stay up,
Speaker 1: Stay up.
Speaker 3: He is Wow that the way he turned inside on
Speaker 3: it and exploded on the ball and hit it a
Speaker 3: good I think it was like one thirteen.
Speaker 2: Off the bat.
Speaker 1: It's just crazy.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, we don't need to say anything
Speaker 3: about Ittani. It's just it's an awe moment, which he
Speaker 3: does a lot.
Speaker 1: Of race and Rodriguez had an aw moment, racking up
Speaker 1: eight k's and six at a third. Yesterday, three down
Speaker 1: Mitch Keller six runs, five earned, nine hits, not good.
Speaker 1: Spencer Raghetti had a big strikeout performance and then gave
Speaker 1: up six earned runs. Dylan ceased, not good eight hits,
Speaker 1: six earn runs three and two thirds. It's funny I
Speaker 1: almost bet against Cease yesterday too, because if you look
Speaker 1: at his home road splitz not very good or I
Speaker 1: should say drastic, and yesterday there was an opportunity I
Speaker 1: wish I talked about on the show, but I'll live another.
Speaker 3: He kept me from sweeping the betting day too. Is
Speaker 3: that Padre's game in that game kept me out?
Speaker 1: Yeah. He It's funny because I was staying away from
Speaker 1: him yesterday because of the splitz and I was like, eh,
Speaker 1: good because your eye goes immediately, Oh yeah, Dylan ceased,
Speaker 1: and then you look a little deeper doing Seatson if
Speaker 1: I want to do that. Injuries, Clayton Kershaw with the
Speaker 1: shoulder issue, He's gonna throw a bullpen session today. We'll
Speaker 1: see how that goes. Brian Wu with the hamstring twenty
Speaker 1: pitch session over the weekend, so we'll see if he
Speaker 1: has any issues after that or ramps up to another one.
Speaker 1: Jiosh Young apparently was working his way back we remember
Speaker 1: from the surgically repaired right wrist, still dealing with soreness.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're gonna see him this year. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe August. I don't know. Dean Kremer
Speaker 1: is gonna start on Wednesday today against the Mariners. Josiah Gray,
Speaker 1: who were talking about we were excited he was coming back.
Speaker 1: Right elbow apparently not doing well, having some discomfort there.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's not a big deal, but again we'll hold
Speaker 1: our breath. The Diamondbacks placed Jordan Montgomery on the fifteen
Speaker 1: day il Jade Martinez did not play yesterday because it's
Speaker 1: some ankle soreness. Robbie Ray another rehab start on Thursday,
Speaker 1: so keep an eye on that track for him. Javeyre Bias,
Speaker 1: everybody minor league rehabs start started yesterday. I know, get
Speaker 1: excited more, Javi or Bias. A lot of notes on
Speaker 1: the Tigers. Casey Mize going to the io with the
Speaker 1: hamsterring and Jack Flaherty Again that back issue continues to
Speaker 1: go on. He is not going to start today, so
Speaker 1: lots of negativity there. Unfortunately for the Tigers.
Speaker 3: I think they're also being very careful because he's a
Speaker 3: trade candidate.
Speaker 1: He is should be.
Speaker 3: Jack Clarity is an absolute trade candidate, so make sure
Speaker 3: he's right before you get him back out in a
Speaker 3: start and then you pull the trigger on a.
Speaker 1: Move yesterday went against the Yankees with a big plus
Speaker 1: money on the other side. What do the bets have
Speaker 1: in store for us today? Let's find out because it's
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Speaker 1: gonna keep it simple today, going with the Dodgers on
Speaker 1: the run line one and a half is the number
Speaker 1: plus one oh five versus Arizona. Gavin Stone on the
Speaker 1: mountd He's been very solid. Shoey Otani over on the
Speaker 1: one and a half total basis as minus one twenty
Speaker 1: five if you want to go have some more fun
Speaker 1: and go for the home run to run score, whatever
Speaker 1: it is. I mean's a lot of minus money out
Speaker 1: there on him, but minus one twenty five on the
Speaker 1: total basis, I think that's a good enough investment. The
Speaker 1: guy's just red hot. And then Christian Scott back up
Speaker 1: with the Mets. It's a low number four and a half.
Speaker 1: I got this one right from the prop bitcheat sheet
Speaker 1: over on Betting Pros because I was having trouble finding
Speaker 1: a third one I really liked. And this is it.
Speaker 1: At plus money plus one fifteen, I think you can
Speaker 1: get to five against the that's today again. That's Christian
Speaker 1: Scott over on the four and a half strikeouts Welsh.
Speaker 1: What do you got?
Speaker 3: I didn't love a lot of the props. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: dig in a little bit more. I had a lot
Speaker 3: of prospecting stuff to do this morning, so I'm gonna
Speaker 3: dig in more. So that would be a plug of
Speaker 3: course to Bettingpros dot com slash Welsh. If you want
Speaker 3: to check my bets as they sink that I am
Speaker 3: actually full on making. But I got some line stuff here.
Speaker 3: And first up Atlanta, I'm backing Chris Sale kind of
Speaker 3: as I always want to do Chris Sale with the Braves.
Speaker 3: Minus one and a half is plus money plus one
Speaker 3: oh five. So give me the Braves to be up
Speaker 3: by a full run. And I have got some nerfes
Speaker 3: for you today. I am nurfying it. First Saint Louis
Speaker 3: and Pittsburgh, no run first inning. That is going to
Speaker 3: give me our boy Miles Michaelis and Jared Jones. Offensively,
Speaker 3: both of these teams in the first inning are in
Speaker 3: the bottom fifteen of the league and first inning scoring
Speaker 3: Jered Jones solid, you know, three and a half ERA,
Speaker 3: and I just think offensively, these teams match up versus
Speaker 3: the pitchers where we can hold down a run. This
Speaker 3: is around minus one thirty five, so it's a little
Speaker 3: bit you stuff the other one. It's going to feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: This is gonna feel really uncomfortable. It's around minus one twenty,
Speaker 3: could be to minus one ten, no run first inning,
Speaker 3: A's and Angels, And I think you can understand why
Speaker 3: I'm doing this. I'm pitting on the offenses here, but
Speaker 3: also on the pitching side half decent. Daniel Davis, who's
Speaker 3: pitching for the for the Angels, had a pretty good start,
Speaker 3: bunch of strikeouts recently, and joe Yestis have been good,
Speaker 3: so expected numbers, FIP numbers kind of more in their favor.
Speaker 3: I'm again these two teams are like bottom ten in
Speaker 3: the league in first run scoring, so I'm taking Oakland
Speaker 3: Angels no run first inning and Saint Louis Pittsburgh no
Speaker 3: un first inning. And I'm gonna run this back because
Speaker 3: I missed it yesterday because of San Diego. But this
Speaker 3: is my plus one and a half runs through the
Speaker 3: first five parlay. So I take three teams that are
Speaker 3: plus one and a half, so they're major ly juiced up,
Speaker 3: and that gets me to plus money. I'm one and
Speaker 3: one so far on these this year, and today I'm
Speaker 3: backing Philly, Boston and Pittsburgh. So I'm backing Zach Wheeler
Speaker 3: against the Cubs Brian Beao, and we've got Jered Jones
Speaker 3: going up against the Cardinals. Both all three teams plus
Speaker 3: one point five runs to the first five innings. That
Speaker 3: pays out around plus one twenty playing that sucker again
Speaker 3: today for my little parlay of the day. And if
Speaker 3: I see any props, I like bettingpros dot Com slash
Speaker 3: well there.
Speaker 1: You go, follow us there and download the Betting Pros
Speaker 1: app to start by smarter, not harder, Welsh. Let's take
Speaker 1: a quick look at the home run board el scale
Speaker 1: at the top of thirty Larry C at twenty nine,
Speaker 1: be Trot at twenty nine. Somebody's gonna win that Vlad
Speaker 1: Guerrero that I'm still stuck at twenty three for the
Speaker 1: weekend Boo spoiler alert. I'm just going with Shoeotani today,
Speaker 1: so if you don't like it too bad, Welsh, I
Speaker 1: do not want you to come with me for this one.
Speaker 1: I've been I've been a mush for you on Monday
Speaker 1: and Tuesday. So who are you picking for your home
Speaker 1: run call today?
Speaker 3: Though I even thought about it because it looks like
Speaker 3: it's Christian Mania making his major league debut with the Diamond.
Speaker 1: Because it was TVA this morning when I got up
Speaker 1: and I was like, Oh, who's pitching against so Tony?
Speaker 1: Oh TBA lock it in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny. Eric says, I would go Gunner. I
Speaker 3: would go Gunner, but he's going up against Logan Henderson
Speaker 3: now today, I've played this one before and I think
Speaker 3: I cash on one of them. I'm going with Riley Green,
Speaker 3: so good matchup overall. Give me Riley Green for the
Speaker 3: home run today. And I'm really not sure what that
Speaker 3: number will be.
Speaker 2: Nineteen, maybe I'll be out.
Speaker 3: I'm still I'm consistently four or five away from getting
Speaker 3: on the board. So again me on the home run board.
Speaker 3: Joe leaving for football, Joe is still plus money.
Speaker 1: I want to know. I know we're not gonna be
Speaker 1: here tomorrow, but we've got some fun stuff planned because
Speaker 1: the All Star Break is a weird time. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna have a review of the Futures Game, We're gonna
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Speaker 1: releasing then, so we won't be live medicated shows. If
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Speaker 1: looking at the future of baseball. These are gonna be
Speaker 1: very important shows for you, So we're gonna have those
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Speaker 1: also leading off, won't be live those first couple of
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Speaker 1: and all that fun stuff. I will have some thoughts
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Speaker 1: a little fun show about our all star teams for
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