Speaker 1: Welcome in peanuts, welcome in cracker Jacks. To leading off
Speaker 1: right here on Fantasy Pros, I am Chris Welsh and
Speaker 1: joining me for the first time on the podcast is
Speaker 1: Andrew Seifer, who you can hear on Fantasy Pros. Got
Speaker 1: some podcast action going on, Andrew, what's up, buddy. We'd
Speaker 1: met for the first time, like thirty minutes ago. We
Speaker 1: get the podcast together.
Speaker 2: We're old buddies at this point.
Speaker 1: Chris right, exactly exactly about what people going on articles
Speaker 1: and podcasts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I've been writing the Waiver Wire article over
Speaker 3: Fantasy Pros all season. I have actually taken a little
Speaker 3: break over the last month from that because I was
Speaker 3: traveling in England for a month actually, so that was
Speaker 3: pretty cool, following some of the other kind of football
Speaker 3: that they play over there for a little while. But
Speaker 3: diving back into my baseball work now, I host a podcast,
Speaker 3: rest of Season Rankings podcast.
Speaker 2: We talk baseball.
Speaker 3: We update our rankings earlier on in the season, just
Speaker 3: about every week now it's maybe every two weeks, but
Speaker 3: we keep up with rest of season value.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I'm doing some football stuff as well over there,
Speaker 2: so it's good times, you know.
Speaker 1: The rest of season ranks. It's a whole another ball game.
Speaker 1: I love the concept of the podcast I just just
Speaker 1: finished and released over on the in this League Patreon
Speaker 1: it in this league dot Com my rest of season
Speaker 1: baseball ranks. And this is like my third or so
Speaker 1: update and the changes you go through and probably the
Speaker 1: biggest change. And I'll just throw this out to everybody
Speaker 1: when I was going through all of them and remind
Speaker 1: you this isn't from the beginning of the season. I've
Speaker 1: done an update theoretically every single month. Was the huge
Speaker 1: move I made for Michael Harris. I pushed Michael Harris
Speaker 1: up into an elite territory. I did it for my
Speaker 1: Dynasty ranks as well, very very different. Oh is my rank?
Speaker 1: Is my audio a little bit different today? Let's see? Oh,
Speaker 1: you know what? My audio is different. I'm going to
Speaker 1: change us up here in just a second. But Andrew,
Speaker 1: you know what, talk about Michael Harris while I fix this.
Speaker 3: Well, you picked a great subject. I love Michael Harris.
Speaker 3: I've been in on him since day one. You know,
Speaker 3: in my home league, it's a keeper league where you
Speaker 3: can keep six players, and so the bar's pretty high
Speaker 3: for keeper value.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 3: I jumped at the opportunity to add Michael Harris bid
Speaker 3: fifteen bucks of my one hundred dollars. Fab nobody else
Speaker 3: bid a dollar on him at the time, So I
Speaker 3: had a feeling.
Speaker 2: And the reason was. I don't know if you saw
Speaker 2: what Marquise.
Speaker 3: Grissom said about Michael Harris before he got called up,
Speaker 3: but I've never seen anyone throw the amount of praise
Speaker 3: at a player that he did. And the main thing
Speaker 3: he said that stuck with me was he said, this
Speaker 3: kid is different, like mentally, he's ready for the prime time.
Speaker 3: He's not going to back down from the bright lights.
Speaker 3: And he compared him to guys like Barry Bonds and
Speaker 3: all sorts of insane pressure to put on a you know,
Speaker 3: young kid coming up to the big leagues to a
Speaker 3: title contending team. But Michael Harris just got it done
Speaker 3: from day one in you know, roto leagues, category leagues,
Speaker 3: especially with stolen bases he brings to the table. He's
Speaker 3: like a true five category stud right away.
Speaker 2: And I love meet Michael Harris.
Speaker 1: Michael Harris was from a dynasty perspective, probably the biggest move,
Speaker 1: and then even from a redraft perspective, when you look
Speaker 1: at some of the outfielders that have come back down.
Speaker 1: So if if someone would ask me, like, hey, rest
Speaker 1: of season ranks, what would be the biggest change, I
Speaker 1: would have said, Michael Harris immediately jumped in. Michael Harris
Speaker 1: was kind of my biggest change. We got a whole
Speaker 1: bunch to go through. Actually, gonna take a look at
Speaker 1: some of the waiver guys here in just a tiny
Speaker 1: bit a bunch of waiver changes. We'll go through the
Speaker 1: home run contest. Who had some bombs this weekend, which
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give a little hint, doesn't look like a lot.
Speaker 1: Does not look like a whole lot of homers were
Speaker 1: hit over the weekend. So the board does have a change.
Speaker 1: Though it does have a change. We have one defined
Speaker 1: leader and we'll go through all that in bets, dfs
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But over the weekend, how about
Speaker 1: a headline news of Jacob de Gram. Jacob de Grom
Speaker 1: gave up only two runs in five and two thirds
Speaker 1: of an inning on Sunday and a win over the Braves.
Speaker 1: Only gave up I think a loan two run homer
Speaker 1: to dance by Swanson at the top of the six.
Speaker 1: He had one walk, but twelve strikeouts. Retal World had
Speaker 1: a nice little breakdown talking about how his slider had
Speaker 1: absolutely bonkers eighteen whiffs on twenty swings, which is ridiculous,
Speaker 1: and he had maxed out at just under one oh two,
Speaker 1: which is now, by the way, two straight starts that
Speaker 1: he has hit that one oh two marker on the
Speaker 1: fastball the slider. He is throwing higher on average than
Speaker 1: most are averaging their fastball, and the slider looks completely
Speaker 1: on point. Jacob deGrom is back to being the best
Speaker 1: pitcher in baseball rest of season rank Andrew, this is
Speaker 1: fantastic to have you on. How did you approach and
Speaker 1: how do you guys approach Jacob de grim because I
Speaker 1: kind of fought with everybody because I'm a little more like,
Speaker 1: you know, in like like this, I'm like that I'd
Speaker 1: blind my eyes for Jacob de Grom, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: he's there, He's the best. Right before he came back,
Speaker 1: I ranked him at the tippy top level. But what
Speaker 1: say you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I once it was clear he was
Speaker 3: coming back, within a matter of of a week or two,
Speaker 3: he was already inside my top five starting pitchers rest
Speaker 3: of season. But you know, the real trick with the
Speaker 3: rest of the season rankings was how to approach him
Speaker 3: a month ago, two months ago, when you knew he
Speaker 3: was going to be out a lot longer. But you
Speaker 3: also know just how good he can be. And with
Speaker 3: starting pitchers, you know, in particular, they can make as
Speaker 3: big an impact in two months as a lot of
Speaker 3: players can in four months, five months. You know, we've
Speaker 3: seen this time and again with de Gram and with
Speaker 3: guys like Kershaw on his prime. These guys maybe they
Speaker 3: only throw one hundred innings in de Gram's case, it
Speaker 3: could be less, but the impact is still huge. And
Speaker 3: in our you know, at my site, we come at
Speaker 3: it from like a standard twelve team five by five
Speaker 3: kind of perspective. So there I feel like you really
Speaker 3: want to shoot for upside, you know, you don't you
Speaker 3: want to stash guys who can make a real difference.
Speaker 3: So I had trouble ever moving to Grom outside of
Speaker 3: like my top one hundred or so overall players, even
Speaker 3: when we knew he was going to be out for
Speaker 3: a couple more months. So now, yeah, he's definitely right
Speaker 3: at the top.
Speaker 1: I put him in at four. I've got him at
Speaker 1: four right now on my rank and this was before
Speaker 1: that last start that he had, so twelve strikeouts, looks
Speaker 1: back in it. Mac shus Or Jacob A Gram rest
Speaker 1: of season, Andrew, that's really tough.
Speaker 2: They're both so good.
Speaker 3: After seeing that, I think I have to give a
Speaker 3: slight edge to Gram just because we just see as
Speaker 3: great assures. Or Is de Grom has been even better,
Speaker 3: went healthy over the last couple of years, and it
Speaker 3: seems like he's completely healthy now.
Speaker 2: So I love Mac shors Or. He's one of my
Speaker 2: fair players in the game.
Speaker 3: He's also an easy top five starting pitcher rest of
Speaker 3: season for me.
Speaker 2: But I still give a slight edge to Gam.
Speaker 1: I give that too. Oh my internet, hopefully my internet's
Speaker 1: not too wonky for everybody. This is becoming a good
Speaker 1: show this morning. Can you hear me? Am I am?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're fine now, I hear you. Yeah, just a
Speaker 3: little choppy on the video, but you're getting okay.
Speaker 1: Well, you guys don't need to see me that much.
Speaker 1: We can play a stock picture up here. Here's an
Speaker 1: interesting concept I want to throw out. So something funny
Speaker 1: happened before the show where I was looking at Rotal
Speaker 1: World News and I saw a piece of news that
Speaker 1: I didn't read really quick, and it hit my brain,
Speaker 1: and the news was George Valaeia getting a promotion. And
Speaker 1: if anybody knows me or follows me, knows that I
Speaker 1: love George Valaira probably more than any other prospect, simply
Speaker 1: also because he is someone that I've followed since before
Speaker 1: he even came over Stateside, and I've interviewed him and
Speaker 1: I talked with him, and just I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be a great prospect. And of course I didn't read
Speaker 1: the news correctly and it was him going from a
Speaker 1: promotion from Double A to Triple A. But it brought
Speaker 1: up It brought up a concept that I've been thinking
Speaker 1: about and not really sure how to rationalize. Is how
Speaker 1: we've got top prospects in the game who are probably
Speaker 1: close to ready. George vlaiird be one of them, Corbyn,
Speaker 1: Carrol Gunner, Henderson. Yet people are always asking, Hey, are
Speaker 1: they gonna come up? Are they're gonna come up? And
Speaker 1: I've kind of been at a loss because of one
Speaker 1: major point. Baseball is now giving a advantage for teams
Speaker 1: to have a prospect break with their roster opening day.
Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez. The Mariners are going to get a first
Speaker 1: round pick, a compensatory first round pick now because of
Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez. There's an advantage for teams like the Guardians,
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks and the Orioles to wait and bring these
Speaker 1: guys up. And that's a big speculative thing. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about wivers here in a second, but everyone's always
Speaker 1: speculating on the next big prospect. When will Gunnar Henderson
Speaker 1: come up? But I don't know if these guys are
Speaker 1: gonna come up because of the advantage of the teams have.
Speaker 1: Do you think, Andrew, it's even worthwhile speculative adding some
Speaker 1: of the top top players like Gorman, Carolyn, Gunner Henderson
Speaker 1: because of this or do you think you would move
Speaker 1: completely away assuming especially teams like the Orioles and Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: they needed everything they can do. There's no reason for
Speaker 1: them to bring up so they could take advantage of
Speaker 1: that new rule next year.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean again, this is I hate to hedge, but
Speaker 3: this is so format dependent, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Because like in a dynasty league, these guys have been
Speaker 3: rostered for like two or three years. Sure, in a
Speaker 3: redraft league, I don't know if they necessarily need to
Speaker 3: be picked up. And then in like a keeper league,
Speaker 3: it really comes down to the specific rules there.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I think it's fine if you have a deep bench
Speaker 3: and you want to shoot for the moon and shoot
Speaker 3: for extreme upside, like these guys present that, you know,
Speaker 3: So like if I never want a roster or something,
Speaker 3: that's the same thing that you can find ten of
Speaker 3: on the waiver wire. So if I have some you know,
Speaker 3: fourth outfielder on my bench just wasting away and they're
Speaker 3: not special, sure I'll take a shot on one of
Speaker 3: these guys, knowing that there's probably a one to ten
Speaker 3: chance or less that it actually pays off. I don't
Speaker 3: have a huge problem with that, but I do think
Speaker 3: generally speaking, in redraft leagues, some of these hot prospects
Speaker 3: tend to be a little bit overrated.
Speaker 1: And I think right now what I would do for
Speaker 1: everybody else. The more I've thought about this is I
Speaker 1: do think there's an opportunity for it, because I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know the rule one hundred percent, but I
Speaker 1: do believe as long as a guy hasn't lost prospect
Speaker 1: eligibility that they would still qualify for this. I believe
Speaker 1: if that's true. I could see guys like Gunner and
Speaker 1: Corman Carroll getting called up in September where they cannot
Speaker 1: lose a prospect eligibility and then could break roster. If
Speaker 1: it is about pure call up, then you shouldn't expect
Speaker 1: to see them either way. What I'm getting at though,
Speaker 1: is the last week in August might be the time
Speaker 1: if you want to speculate for a run. The reason
Speaker 1: why those two Corban Carroll specifically would be so interesting
Speaker 1: is because of hitting at the top of an order
Speaker 1: and stealing bases, which could be a league winning thing
Speaker 1: for category leagues in roto. If you're trying to get
Speaker 1: those last minute stolen bases. Gunnar'd be a little bit tougher.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he'd run as aggressively or hit
Speaker 1: in the middle of a lineup right off the top
Speaker 1: of Corbyn. Carroll would be one of those. But it
Speaker 1: had me thinking because of just how ridiculous I mean
Speaker 1: Andrew saw me. I was like, oh, Jorge, let's getting
Speaker 1: called up, and then as I did it, I was like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, this is a triple A. I'm so dumb,
Speaker 1: And I was like, Wow, why did they call him
Speaker 1: up from double A and I had to go through
Speaker 1: that whole process and my brain was frying here. Some
Speaker 1: injuries froll the weekend. Anthony Rizzo missed the entire weekend
Speaker 1: with the back injury. Keep an eye on that. George
Speaker 1: Springer finally did hit the il with an elbow injury,
Speaker 1: which is going to be a good probably short term
Speaker 1: with Marorfield. We'll see what happens once Springer comes back.
Speaker 1: Ronald Akoonya was a late scratch on Sunday with lower
Speaker 1: body soreness. They also lost Darnaul, who sat out Sunday
Speaker 1: with a leg injury after a collision on Saturday. The
Speaker 1: negatives were X rays were negative for a fracture. The
Speaker 1: positive fantasy boost would just continuously be Will Contraras, who
Speaker 1: has been just such a stud and if he gets
Speaker 1: full time go that would be great. Chris Morel Outsunday
Speaker 1: with a hamstring strain, Mickey Moniac out with a fractured fringer,
Speaker 1: and Amelio Pegane out indefinitely. But who cared because Jorge
Speaker 1: Lopez came in and be the guy. Did you get
Speaker 1: hit at all by the Were you a big saves
Speaker 1: speculator this year? Because Johan Duran and Emilio were like
Speaker 1: the classic I'm not going to draft high closers, hold
Speaker 1: on to them, and then Jorge Lopez just completely takes
Speaker 1: that away from them. No.
Speaker 3: See, I was on the opposite side of I had
Speaker 3: horror Ha Lopez, and I was kind of sweating it
Speaker 3: a little bit because I also had Taylor Rodgers, and
Speaker 3: you know, I had a few closers that I was
Speaker 3: worried We're going to be losing their jobs, and I,
Speaker 3: you know, or hey, Horey Lopez has been amazing this year,
Speaker 3: but I wasn't sure. I mean, the Twins are not
Speaker 3: a team that has typically just deployed a single closer,
Speaker 3: so I thought he would still get some chances. I
Speaker 3: wasn't sure though that he was going to be the guy.
Speaker 3: But as a Hornelo Haz manager, I'm sort of relieved
Speaker 3: by the usage that we've seen from him since they
Speaker 3: acquired him.
Speaker 1: He's one of the scariest I completely agree he's the
Speaker 1: quintessential closer that loses their job at the trade deadline,
Speaker 1: like him and Gregor and Soda Gregory Soto. I like
Speaker 1: those two. I was assured they were going to lose
Speaker 1: their jobs, and neither one did neither one did. They
Speaker 1: both get to keep it, one staying at home and
Speaker 1: one being traded, but you know, in a fantastic destination
Speaker 1: and helping and improving their value, which actually brings us
Speaker 1: to a little transition of waivers. We usually don't haven't
Speaker 1: talked about a bunch of waivers on Mondays, but I
Speaker 1: thought this would be a good thing to do, and
Speaker 1: I picked up two guys. Lots of different waivers stuff.
Speaker 1: So many people cover it really well over it. In
Speaker 1: this league, we try to do a full look at
Speaker 1: all the different sites on Mondays. When we do a
Speaker 1: Monday episode. My buddy Vlad Sedler from FTN, he'll do
Speaker 1: out a sheet where he'll put out and here's what
Speaker 1: my fab looks like. And fab and waivers are not
Speaker 1: all created equal because unfortunately, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: the industry that talks about it is talking about it
Speaker 1: from a high stakes a standpoint and talking about it
Speaker 1: from like an NFBC standpoint, which isn't necessarily always what
Speaker 1: everybody else is doing. But what it does do is
Speaker 1: it highlights players you should be taking a look at.
Speaker 1: And the number one player I actually went and looked
Speaker 1: over at CBS's platform over the last seven days. That
Speaker 1: made a big change and was also on a lot
Speaker 1: of waiver claims if you were played in a waiver
Speaker 1: based league. Was Felix Batista when we talk about we
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, closer roles changing, or this is
Speaker 1: the addition by subtraction where he gets the role because
Speaker 1: you know they move out. He was eighteen percent owned
Speaker 1: last week, fifty five percent this on a CBS that
Speaker 1: was a thirty seven percent change in that time. He
Speaker 1: hasn't had a whole bunch, but he did. I think
Speaker 1: after the trade he'd give up a run on the third,
Speaker 1: but he picked up a save on the fifth. Hasn't
Speaker 1: jumped into games yet. I saw a lot of people
Speaker 1: making the move that Felix Patista was one of the
Speaker 1: biggest beneficiaries on the trade deadline. If Felix Batista is
Speaker 1: still out on the wire, is he an absolute must
Speaker 1: pick up in any format right now because of being
Speaker 1: a closer, or do you think he belongs in that
Speaker 1: little like run of pseudo closers that are not necessarily trustworthy,
Speaker 1: like I could see in smaller leagues, like guys like
Speaker 1: Soto and him just be sitting around available and people
Speaker 1: being able to churn out closer Hunter Strickland as well.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think he's a bona fide stud as
Speaker 2: a closer. I really do you know.
Speaker 3: This is a guy who if you look at his numbers,
Speaker 3: I mean he's he's had over twelve k per nine
Speaker 3: at every step of the miners. He's continued it in
Speaker 3: the majors. Very manageable walk rate this year at two
Speaker 3: point ninety six walks per nine. You know, I think
Speaker 3: the Orioles obviously have been a better team than people
Speaker 3: were expecting, so there's been more save opportunities for Jorge Lopez,
Speaker 3: and now those could be there for Batista and I
Speaker 3: just you know, it has to be a saves league,
Speaker 3: because this is the thing. If you're not counting saves,
Speaker 3: these relievers don't accumulate that many innings, so that makes
Speaker 3: them less interesting perhaps, although even in innings capped leagues,
Speaker 3: the ratios he can give you and the strikeouts he
Speaker 3: can give you can really help as well. So I mean,
Speaker 3: it wouldn't surprise me at all if he was like
Speaker 3: a top ten closer and fantasy value the rest of
Speaker 3: the season.
Speaker 1: I mean, that would actually be kind of shocking to
Speaker 1: me outside of like the peripherals more than it's such
Speaker 1: like Orioles picking up that many games for him to
Speaker 1: be able to lock down saves to be a top
Speaker 1: ten guy, especially because you added like we added Devin
Speaker 1: Williams to the mix, like Devin Williams was added into
Speaker 1: the crew. I think an easy top ten closer Horay Lopez,
Speaker 1: you could argue could be in that territory now because
Speaker 1: you know Atlanta ate itself up. You lost Rice Iglesias,
Speaker 1: who comes out of the top ten. You had a
Speaker 1: little bit of a question Atlanta with Kenlly Jansen and them.
Speaker 1: Hoorray Lopez goes into a situation with like being on
Speaker 1: such a great offensive team and now Pugne out. If
Speaker 1: they don't implement any type of rotation, Lopez could be
Speaker 1: a top ten Batistas wouldn't be the underlying stats. It's
Speaker 1: it almost it's not Edwin Diaz in a seventeen K
Speaker 1: per nine, but it's like a thirteen K for nine,
Speaker 1: manageable ish walk right and under two Eira like those
Speaker 1: are really great numbers for a closer. I think the
Speaker 1: underlyings could be of a top ten closer for him
Speaker 1: to finish would be big. But either way, he's only
Speaker 1: fifty five percent on in CBS leagues, which is probably
Speaker 1: going to be relatively lower in others. We found if
Speaker 1: you play on like Yahoo and ESPN, you're probably going
Speaker 1: to find the percentages lower than ESPN leagues, and that
Speaker 1: might be something to look at. Two other guys on
Speaker 1: the young side, Miguel Vargas, who I think is just
Speaker 1: an absolute stud, top ten prospect moving forward on my
Speaker 1: list and he'll graduate off of it. He was thirty
Speaker 1: percent owned last week, up to forty two percent owned
Speaker 1: this week. Hasn't really popped off necessarily a whole bunch,
Speaker 1: but you see the low k rate hasn't walked yet,
Speaker 1: just a couple of hits. He does have a stolen base.
Speaker 1: If he's given the run by the Dodgers, he is
Speaker 1: someone that you're going to want to hold onto. And
Speaker 1: then Bubba Thompson was a big one that was a
Speaker 1: little bit more like late run for people you know
Speaker 1: who weren't dealing in the trade deadline, was only one
Speaker 1: percent owned up to eight percent on on CBS. Got
Speaker 1: a couple of stolen bases, but showing off some of
Speaker 1: his INACQUI what's the word, I'm looking for his negatives
Speaker 1: as far as a hitter goes, as far as making
Speaker 1: contact and striking out that he's a little bit more dicey,
Speaker 1: especially when like Cole Calhoun comes back. But if not,
Speaker 1: stolen bases something you can always chase. Is this a
Speaker 1: stolen based time? Would are you in a mode where
Speaker 1: you would want to sacrifice a little bit of consistency
Speaker 1: maybe on a batting average player batting average, a little
Speaker 1: bit of homers to speculate on a guy like Bubba Thompson,
Speaker 1: for really could be like game changing stolen bases rest
Speaker 1: of the way through. I think he stole like forty
Speaker 1: stolen bases early on this season. Would you sacrifice a
Speaker 1: middle line outfielder to speculate on stolen bases with Bubba?
Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 3: I mean I do think as we get later in
Speaker 3: the season and you see more of the managers in
Speaker 3: your leagues kind of dropping off and maybe moving their
Speaker 3: mind to football or something like that, it's going to
Speaker 3: be easier to find those stolen bases on the waiver wire.
Speaker 3: So you can kind of even wait and see maybe
Speaker 3: and see who's who's running and if he you know,
Speaker 3: because sometimes these players pile up the steels in the
Speaker 3: minors and then they come up and they're kind of
Speaker 3: cautious about fitting in to the team ethos and they
Speaker 3: don't want to make the wrong impression and get the
Speaker 3: red lights, so sometimes they are a little more conservative
Speaker 3: on the bass paths when they first come up. So
Speaker 3: you could you could probably play wait and see on that,
Speaker 3: but you know, generally speaking, yeah, I mean, this is
Speaker 3: the time of year where you might find you know,
Speaker 3: earlier in the year, we saw John Birdie do this,
Speaker 3: and we could see somebody else do it. Pull of
Speaker 3: John Birdie over these final two months and just like
Speaker 3: steal twenty bases twenty five bases between now and the
Speaker 3: end of the season, and he could could be the guy.
Speaker 1: A fun fact, won't you put on here this day
Speaker 1: in baseball nineteen I'm sorry, eighteen seventy seven, the first
Speaker 1: recorded time that a catcher used a mask. I would
Speaker 1: love to see what that mask looks like in eighteen
Speaker 1: seventy seven. I want to say, it's like just a
Speaker 1: cow's skull. Just they just put on the skull of
Speaker 1: a cow and they just they're like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what that looks like, but I would give anything.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I don't want to see.
Speaker 3: I don't want to see any photographs of the injuries
Speaker 3: the catchers suffered prior to wearing masks.
Speaker 1: You imagine their fingers, Oh my god, their fingers are
Speaker 1: probably just messes.
Speaker 2: Just and their noses.
Speaker 3: Man, their nose must have been broken in like eight
Speaker 3: places every season.
Speaker 1: Oh and they just you know, dust it off, and
Speaker 1: they're just like, grab me a beer, you know, for
Speaker 1: let like it's just like, I can't I can't even
Speaker 1: fad here. Stat heroes. Let's go over to stat heroes.
Speaker 1: This weekend. Tristan McKenzie went eight struck out eight, only
Speaker 1: giving up two hits, walking one. Hazus Lozardo seven, striking
Speaker 1: out six with only one hit. Tyler Anderson also went seven,
Speaker 1: struck out three. Matt Manning a rare positive performance seven
Speaker 1: four hits, seven strikeouts, Corman Burns six innings, nine strike strikeouts,
Speaker 1: Andrew He's just Lozardo. Lozardo one of the biggest upticks
Speaker 1: as far as velocity goes we saw from this season on.
Speaker 1: The fastball had more injury problems can but been consistent.
Speaker 1: Are you in a trustworthy place with Jesus Lozardo rest
Speaker 1: of season or is he a stream streamable guy.
Speaker 3: That's worthy might be hard to say, but I'm definitely buying,
Speaker 3: let's put it that way. I'll take my chances with him.
Speaker 3: Let's let's let's say that because I was sort of
Speaker 3: buying into the breakout earlier in the year before you know,
Speaker 3: things went off course for a month or two. But
Speaker 3: he's back now and his you know, CSW percentage is
Speaker 3: thirty one point nine percent. That would be top five
Speaker 3: among starting pitchers if he was qualified, if he had
Speaker 3: thrown enough innings to qualify. So he's got phenomenal stuff.
Speaker 3: This is also a team that seems to have a
Speaker 3: very strong track record of developing these young pitchers, so
Speaker 3: I'm going to, you know, trust it a little more
Speaker 3: for that reason as well. So yeah, I really like
Speaker 3: the upside with Lozardo. I would certainly be buying into
Speaker 3: him right now.
Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger three for three. This is not April Fooles
Speaker 1: went three for three, two homers, two RBI in game
Speaker 1: this weekend. Paul de Young had a homer, Nick Mayiton
Speaker 1: had a homer, Derek Hall with a bomb, Some Young
Speaker 1: Philly homers. Mike Strimsky had two homers. Aernato four RBIs
Speaker 1: going three for four, MJ. Melndez with a six RBI performance,
Speaker 1: Kyle Lisbell on the threes on the RBI, DJ Lamayhew
Speaker 1: with a homer, Andrew von three for five homer two
Speaker 1: RBIs good performances. I don't necessarily trust the Cody Bellinger,
Speaker 1: but always watch for it. Be it's not crazy to
Speaker 1: think that Bellinger can go off for a back end
Speaker 1: half performance. Part of the time. I always just say, like,
Speaker 1: even though the Dodgers are struggling, like in this last
Speaker 1: little recent barely just swept the Dodgers, I would pay
Speaker 1: herd attention to Bellinger on the back half because this
Speaker 1: is what he does. He gets that month towards the
Speaker 1: end of whatever part of the season is, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we're like, could we do Cody
Speaker 1: Bellinger again? Can we do that again? Like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna do this again, because you can't just hit
Speaker 1: two twenty the entire season and talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever physical changes he's trying to make or swing changes
Speaker 1: that consistently don't work in season, but it's not it's
Speaker 1: not the behole behind Cody Bellinger that he can't pull
Speaker 1: like a month together and really go, you know what, Okay,
Speaker 1: Miguel Vargas or Cody Bellinger rest of season Andrews.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hear what you're saying, because I mean we've
Speaker 3: seen it. I mean, that player exists under in Codyer somewhere.
Speaker 3: It's just that it's like it's the pure skills that
Speaker 3: he has, but it's the consistency that he lacks. Vargas
Speaker 3: is kind of the opposite. I mean, Vargas is kind
Speaker 3: of like Vinnie pas Quentino type of profile from the miners,
Speaker 3: except with some speed built in too. So you know,
Speaker 3: I really like the profile for Vargas. I do think
Speaker 3: with these rookies, though we do see nine out of
Speaker 3: ten times they kind of struggle and start slow. So
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, I like, I think I have
Speaker 3: to slightly lean Bellinger, even though it's probably going to
Speaker 3: be gross, But if he ends up hitting like eight
Speaker 3: homers and stealing seven bases or something like, it will
Speaker 3: still be reasonably valuable.
Speaker 1: Only argument I could give you is if you play
Speaker 1: in the league that's just got some guys out there.
Speaker 1: Because I play in a lot of leagues that got
Speaker 1: no guys like they're deep. It's either like a deep
Speaker 1: benched league with twelve or it's a sixteen team league.
Speaker 1: So the so like the wire just sucks. There's nothing
Speaker 1: ever out there. But if there is stuff out there,
Speaker 1: what I would say is this is, if you can
Speaker 1: break your curse of Cody Bellinger and you can pick
Speaker 1: up a Megael Vargas and if he doesn't work out,
Speaker 1: you are now allowing yourself a better probability of picking
Speaker 1: up and just using that as a streaming spot. And
Speaker 1: I really do think if you look at the season total,
Speaker 1: you're better streaming tyler Naquins of the World in the
Speaker 1: Vogel box and putting in other places over Cody Bellinger
Speaker 1: than you are just rostering him, even though Wonky brings
Speaker 1: up a good point, dropped him everywhere in the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, so that Harris should be right upon.
Speaker 3: Us and I I just traded Andrew Vaughan, so that's
Speaker 3: why he just hummered.
Speaker 2: So oh okay, yeah, same idea.
Speaker 1: Continuously going over on the stat zeros Corey Abbott seven
Speaker 1: earned runs, giving up four homers this week and no
Speaker 1: boy O Frankie Montas told you my concern when he
Speaker 1: got traded would be how is how is he going
Speaker 1: to go with a long ball? How is he going
Speaker 1: to go with getting hit up? He got hit up
Speaker 1: six earned runs and three on Wayne Wright six earned runs,
Speaker 1: Tucker Davidson six earned runs. On the hitters. We had
Speaker 1: a multitude of four strikeout guys. Jose Barrero, who you know,
Speaker 1: I went bonkers on the trade deadline. I'm like, guys,
Speaker 1: Spencer Steer. You know they just traded for Spencer Steel.
Speaker 1: He's got twenty homers. Look for him to play short
Speaker 1: and move Kyle Farmer, and the Red just said, nope,
Speaker 1: we're gonna move Kyle Farmer to third like you said.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna play Jose Brera the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: Four strikeouts going oh for four, Billy Hamilton o for
Speaker 1: four with four strikeouts, and Zebby Zavala over five with
Speaker 1: four strikeouts. So there you go. Also, Austin Riley will
Speaker 1: contrast Michael Harris all struck out three times against the Mets.
Speaker 1: Dang Old Jacob de Gram gets him again. Frindo's the
Speaker 1: home run leaderboard. I believe I got a shore bomb
Speaker 1: on Friday I don't think I got any others on
Speaker 1: the weekend, but it didn't really matter. Look at that,
Speaker 1: we got a new number one, or at least a
Speaker 1: new or new number one. I think Highcove had been
Speaker 1: up there now in the solo lead with thirty nine homers.
Speaker 1: De Blum has thirty eight. Mike Mayor is right there.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, guys, right now, I can feel you
Speaker 1: giving it to him. I can just feel this is
Speaker 1: what you guys are gonna do. You are gonna give
Speaker 1: that home run leaderboard to Mayor. I feel it by
Speaker 1: the end of August, so please don't do that. Step
Speaker 1: up the game, and I don't know what I can do.
Speaker 1: I haven't stepped up the whole year. I'm somewhere in
Speaker 1: the late high twenties or something like that, so I'm
Speaker 1: just not in a competitive range where I think I
Speaker 1: can catch up with a bunch of guys. But Night
Speaker 1: King of the North had williadamis go Cards, had jose
Speaker 1: Al Tuve to get up on the board, and we
Speaker 1: got a nice tight race of let's see eight, let's
Speaker 1: see the eight guys or so I'm sorry, seven with
Speaker 1: thirty six or more homers within three homers of each other,
Speaker 1: so it is a very very tight race. Friendose go
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Speaker 1: the top ones on there. If you want to go
Speaker 1: scour all of them, go check it out. And then
Speaker 1: I picked out two that I like, and Andrew, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you all four and you tell me which
Speaker 1: one you like the best at the end. The two
Speaker 1: for the Betting Pros cheat sheep. Number one bet of
Speaker 1: the day, as far as our algorithm goes, is Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge on the total base front versus Seattle. It's a
Speaker 1: little juice minus one twenty seven but one and a
Speaker 1: half over. I believe that is on UNI bet, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna see it something similar everywhere else. It's a
Speaker 1: number one not only total base bet, but the top.
Speaker 1: The number one strikeout bet is Justin Dunn, who is
Speaker 1: getting called up by the Reds formerly the Mariners, and
Speaker 1: his strikeout prop is only three and a half, so
Speaker 1: I think that's why they like it. Their algorithm has
Speaker 1: him at just under five and it's plus money at
Speaker 1: one twenty five. So those are the betting pros ones.
Speaker 1: The two that I picked out today Wilson Catreras, who
Speaker 1: I like total bases. I'm getting plus money at one
Speaker 1: twenty five for two total bases. And I created a
Speaker 1: little parlay here because I don't like a lot of
Speaker 1: the strikeout props today and a lot of them are juiced.
Speaker 1: So I put this together. Pair Blake Snell strikeouts under
Speaker 1: which is seven and a half, so I got to
Speaker 1: be under eight, and Kegan Thompson strikeouts over three and
Speaker 1: a half at four. So those are the two you
Speaker 1: would pair together. You get really good probably plus two
Speaker 1: two fifty money. So you've got Aaron Judge total bases
Speaker 1: done strikeouts, controllers total bases or my strikeout prop. Andrew,
Speaker 1: what do you like?
Speaker 3: Oh man, Well, I really like the way Blake Snell
Speaker 3: has been pitching lately with the strikeouts, So I don't
Speaker 3: think I.
Speaker 2: Can take that one.
Speaker 1: I don't like dine Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Don't think I can take that one.
Speaker 3: I mean it's always easy to say Aaron Judge for anything, right,
Speaker 3: you can pick any number. Well, he's facing Logan Gilbert, right,
Speaker 3: and it's.
Speaker 1: The only none plus money one on here.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, so I don't know about that one either.
Speaker 3: Justin Dunn, maybe that's the way to go.
Speaker 2: Was what did you say?
Speaker 1: The number one? It's only any four strikeouts? Is that
Speaker 1: three and a half? Three and a half?
Speaker 3: And so yeah, I mean I guess the only question
Speaker 3: is how many innings does he throw, right, because I
Speaker 3: mean this is his first start of the season, so
Speaker 3: it's hard to know. But I mean, yeah, I'll go
Speaker 3: with that one. That's that's a low number.
Speaker 1: I like this by Wonkey. The best home run bet
Speaker 1: was Joe gotten one this weekend, which I completely agree
Speaker 1: with Wonkey. Just quick on the DFS, just a couple
Speaker 1: things to throw out two guys as far as pitchers go, DK,
Speaker 1: you got Bassett at nine to three. Kegan Thompson is
Speaker 1: six seven. I sneaky, sneaky, like that one. Maybe pair
Speaker 1: Basset with arm sorry Keigan Thompson with a with a
Speaker 1: Chris Bassett at like nine point three over on FanDuel
Speaker 1: or Zach Gallon. I think I meant to copy zat
Speaker 1: Gallon on here. Gallon and Thompson I think would be
Speaker 1: sneaky to pay up on hitters. Bassett is ten to
Speaker 1: four on FanDuel, nine to six for Gallon on FanDuel
Speaker 1: as well. And if you want to stack, there's only
Speaker 1: two teams with implied run totals over five today. It's
Speaker 1: Toronto and the Mets. But I also kind of like
Speaker 1: the Cubs, as I've been picking on Keegan Thompson as
Speaker 1: someone I dig that leaves us to the very end.
Speaker 1: Here the home run contest, Andrew, this is the first
Speaker 1: time on our guests actually did pretty good last week.
Speaker 1: I think we had three homer calls through the week,
Speaker 1: so got to give a hat tip to them. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was only two for them and I had three
Speaker 1: last week. Who was my best week? I think I
Speaker 1: had was last week? So one homer to win it all? Andrew,
Speaker 1: who do you got for today?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: I know I was just saying some nice things about
Speaker 3: Justin Dunn, but I'm gonna pick on Justin ten. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go with Pete Alonzo. You know, I just think
Speaker 3: he's been hitting really well.
Speaker 2: He's on a tear lately.
Speaker 3: He's got twenty nine boonds on the season. Like I said,
Speaker 3: done making his first start of the year. It just
Speaker 3: seems like a plumb opportunity for Pete Alonzo to go yard.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with little BVP Action three homer lifetime
Speaker 1: Matt Chapman has got on Jordan Lyles where he's got
Speaker 1: an over nine to forty slug, an over three fifty
Speaker 1: batting average, a bunch of doubles or one double, but
Speaker 1: three homers. It's the most homers versus anybody. He's been
Speaker 1: heating it up a little bit and I like that one.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna just play a easy one, not a
Speaker 1: big name. I'm gonna go with Matt Chapman for the day.
Speaker 1: And I don't see any of the other homer and calls.
Speaker 1: I don't see Wonky with a new one or Mayor.
Speaker 1: So go and check out on the app you guys
Speaker 1: can get in. I think it's one of the premium
Speaker 1: things for fantasy pros. You can get in on the discord.
Speaker 1: You can get into all the amas, the chats, and
Speaker 1: you can partake in the home run contest, maybe make
Speaker 1: a little late run, maybe make some noise at the
Speaker 1: very end, and you can get a whole bunch of Homer's.
Speaker 1: Probably not gonna win it unless you go perfect through
Speaker 1: the rest of the If you go perfect every single
Speaker 1: day you call a homer, you have a chance to
Speaker 1: win this. But you know that's how you get and
Speaker 1: take part in all of this fun stuff. Andrew, we
Speaker 1: did it. That was the first episode AND's gonna be
Speaker 1: with me. I think every Monday through the rest of
Speaker 1: the season, and even on a couple of Thursdays, we'll
Speaker 1: be able to rock all of this stuff again. Give
Speaker 1: a plug again Twitter handle and the podcast. But also
Speaker 1: do you have I don't remember, did you have any
Speaker 1: new articles coming up baseball over on Fantasy Pros or
Speaker 1: did is it football side?
Speaker 3: Now I'm gonna be I'm gonna be jumping right back
Speaker 3: into the waiver wire. So I'm gonna be writ in
Speaker 3: the Fantasy Pros waiver Wire article every Saturday. It will,
Speaker 3: you know, come up every Saturday morning, So keep an
Speaker 3: eye out for that. Twitter at Andrew Underscore Sipher and
Speaker 3: then just hammering away at my own site. It's ROS
Speaker 3: rankings dot Com and the Rest of Season Rankings podcast, which,
Speaker 3: like I said, we're focusing on rest of season value,
Speaker 3: but we're also doing some football stuff there as well.
Speaker 3: It's up on Apple and Spotify. So give it a listen.
Speaker 1: Do it, do it, friends, this is what I want
Speaker 1: to do. My brain. Did you guys see my brain
Speaker 1: just fry again earlier today? This is what we need
Speaker 1: to do. We need to start having a counter and
Speaker 1: it's like a perfect game. Don't call it if I'm
Speaker 1: having a perfect game. But let's see if I cannot
Speaker 1: have big jumble Like last week, Andrew, my brain completely fried,
Speaker 1: Like on Thursday and Friday, I was called may or
Speaker 1: Nate and I kind of had a fry here. I'm
Speaker 1: known to like create fake words and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: but I think I need I want the chat to
Speaker 1: rock in here. Let's see if I can get some
Speaker 1: perfect games, some no hitters, some perfect games. You guys decide,
Speaker 1: Maybe you know I have a little jumble of a word.
Speaker 1: I gave up a hit. If I completely brain fart
Speaker 1: and call somebody something wrong, I just gave up a homer.
Speaker 1: Let's get me some lines. Let's start lining the show
Speaker 1: every single day. Let's see how I can pull out
Speaker 1: the rest of the week starting from right now. No, Donnie,
Speaker 1: we're not going to do it a drinking game. It
Speaker 1: is way too early in the morning. But let's see.
Speaker 1: I need to have a perfect game tomorrow. I'm hoping
Speaker 1: to put that together. I need to get my brain
Speaker 1: back fried and do it good for you guys, and
Speaker 1: maybe you know, be on the right mic, not at
Speaker 1: internet issues all that stuff. All right, friends, I am
Speaker 1: Chris Welsh. I find me on Twitter? Is it the
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Speaker 1: want to hang out doing a little bit of football action.
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Speaker 1: on the Patreon for prospects for rest of season. That
Speaker 1: is it, though it's leading off. We'll be back again tomorrow. Peanuts,
Speaker 1: Cracker Jackson, we love you. It's Andrew Welsh. We're out
Speaker 1: of here. Peace.
Speaker 2: Uh