Speaker 1: Colon your stocking. Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to
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Speaker 1: That of course is the Welsh. He's back and fresh
Speaker 1: from I don't know. It seems like a five day
Speaker 1: weekend now. I don't know how long this guy hasn't
Speaker 1: been here, but it's nice to see him back. The
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Speaker 1: to get to this morning. Here obviously all the recap
Speaker 1: of the games from last night, the stat heroes and zeros,
Speaker 1: today's prop bets, dfs, and a whole lot more. But
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Speaker 1: code leading off when you do the Welsh. It's nice
Speaker 1: to see you again, my friend. People said that you
Speaker 1: started a witness protection program for yourself after the Byron
Speaker 1: Buxton injury, but now that it seems like things are
Speaker 1: going okay for him, it's okay for you to come back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I told you in a text. I'm in my
Speaker 2: secret underground bunker. By the way, right now, it's a
Speaker 2: different setting. I will not be similar to Groundhog's Day.
Speaker 2: Will not be coming out until Buxton returns, and it
Speaker 2: is and it's not no sleep till Brooklyn. It is
Speaker 2: no pod till Buxton. And I am wearing my Buxton
Speaker 2: heart right here, and I am not taking or listening
Speaker 2: to any and all of your guys's Buxton nonsense. None
Speaker 2: of you in the chat, none of you. Joe Buxton
Speaker 2: will return and it will be glorious.
Speaker 1: Well, that's good, I hope, so I want him to.
Speaker 1: That's good. Let's get to last night something that wasn't glorious.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to start on the down note. Garrett
Speaker 1: Cole versus the Tigers one and two Thursdy Innings pitched
Speaker 1: five walks, three K's shortest start of his career. Tis
Speaker 1: a career high in walks. Are we concerned about this, Welsh?
Speaker 1: Or is it just it was forty three degrees in
Speaker 1: Detroit and we're just gonna chalk it up to that
Speaker 1: and move on.
Speaker 2: I think it can be both. I think it'd be
Speaker 2: a little bit of both. I don't think we're all
Speaker 2: giving enough credit to how much weather is affecting a
Speaker 2: lot of this stuff. I mean even the minor leagues.
Speaker 2: We're seeing some crazy stuff happen in the minor leagues
Speaker 2: of really really great players. And look at you know,
Speaker 2: look at the weather, look at the cold, look at
Speaker 2: guys that are used to warmer weather stuff. We've given
Speaker 2: an excuse to a lot of gut you know, Shane Bieber,
Speaker 2: who's actually going today, one of those guys we've given excuses,
Speaker 2: a little bit of an excuse to for vlo dips
Speaker 2: and spin dips and stuff like that. I think it's
Speaker 2: a little bit of both. I think the concern is
Speaker 2: the value of coal as like the number one guy.
Speaker 2: He's been showing this more and more over the last
Speaker 2: couple of years, of these little inconsistent blow ups. And
Speaker 2: I think the concern is him being the like easy
Speaker 2: number one overall pitcher. That's a concern. He might be
Speaker 2: more middling. The not concern is like, yeah, it's like
Speaker 2: really really bad weather right now, super cold, you know,
Speaker 2: doesn't have spider tack to use anymore. You just got
Speaker 2: to deal with your your snot or whatever. Would you
Speaker 2: see that whole thing where he's like and they're just like,
Speaker 2: hey was that spider attack. He's like, no, it's boogers.
Speaker 2: It's just boogers guys. So it's a little bit of both.
Speaker 2: It'll call him a BMB.
Speaker 1: Who is the best picture in Fantasy Baseball? Is it
Speaker 1: Max Schurzer who dropped a ten k's on the on
Speaker 1: the Giants last night? I mean, geez, he looks fantastic.
Speaker 1: It was pretty chilly last night city Field. I mean,
Speaker 1: who if you had to say and anoint the number
Speaker 1: one I know theoretically is that guy, but he's not
Speaker 1: available right now. So who is the number one picture
Speaker 1: in fantasy?
Speaker 2: Yeah? See, that's tough. Like I don't think there's a
Speaker 2: definitive and I don't think we're gonna know until I
Speaker 2: don't even know if we're gonna know this year. To
Speaker 2: be honest with you, it might be one of those
Speaker 2: situations where you go and you're just like nah, you know,
Speaker 2: Like like the running back, if you talk about who's
Speaker 2: the greatest running back of all time, it's like there's
Speaker 2: like four different answers everybody goes with. I just don't
Speaker 2: know if we have that guy right now. Corbyn Burns
Speaker 2: has been kind of probably the closest to it. I'll
Speaker 2: give you that Church is the closest to the guy
Speaker 2: that we can anoint right now as the guy. But
Speaker 2: even then, I think it's tough to give, like a
Speaker 2: how old is he? I mean, you're a little bit
Speaker 2: seventy five years old.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure so. But Corbyn Burns has been Look,
Speaker 1: I mean, if Corbyn Burns was pitching for the Mets
Speaker 1: or the Cubs or the Dodgers, I think that would
Speaker 1: probably be our answer straight away. And you know what,
Speaker 1: I shame on me for not even bringing him up
Speaker 1: first over Sureser. But Surez has been so consistent. And
Speaker 1: what I think it's this teams of he hasn't lost
Speaker 1: a start in twenty one starts. There's a crazy thing
Speaker 1: like that. I mean, that just continues to just go
Speaker 1: and go. More notes from last night, More headlines. This
Speaker 1: was kind of fun. Ken Lee Jansen saved a game
Speaker 1: for the Braves in Dodger Stadium, getting Freddy Freeman out
Speaker 1: in the ninth inning playing for the Dodgers. It was
Speaker 1: it was very bizarro. It was like that Marvel What
Speaker 1: If series. It was kind of weird, but it was fun. Max,
Speaker 1: that's one of.
Speaker 2: My Dodger friends. That's one of my Dodger friends too.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what was that experience like? And he was
Speaker 2: like not good, wasn't comfortable? Was not comfortable And I
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1: Surreal, No surreal and trying and hurt too. I know
Speaker 1: they brought in Kimber, but we'll see what happens. Freed
Speaker 1: strikes out eight in that game, seven shoutout innings, big
Speaker 1: important start again, let's not freak out about April pitching starts.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to Freddy perlt to turning things around
Speaker 1: this week, hopefully whichever Rodgers does two. So this is
Speaker 1: your time to pounce. Some people were panicking about some
Speaker 1: of these pitchers. I know, you know, Garret Cole might
Speaker 1: be one. We could have a bigger discussion about baby tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Many Machado socks are two run home run against the
Speaker 1: Red Soywer Stevenson in that game, heads out of the
Speaker 1: seven day concussion with a collision at the plate. More
Speaker 1: to come on that a little later. Also, Joe Muskgrove
Speaker 1: another guy just grossly undervalues Joe Bosgrove. Seven strikeouts for
Speaker 1: him in this one, two earned runs, twenty one K's
Speaker 1: two walks in his last three starts for Joe Musgrove,
Speaker 1: we were fighting over him pitcher in baseball. I think, yeah, we're.
Speaker 2: Fighting over him. This is one of those guys not
Speaker 2: to be like ooh eh, I was telling you all
Speaker 2: about this guy. But this, like you guys know, if
Speaker 2: you go back and look at like what we're Welsh guys, Muskgrove,
Speaker 2: one hunter. If you took Muskrove in any of your
Speaker 2: drafts on the Draft Wizard and Fantasy Pros during the preseason,
Speaker 2: you'd have gotten a good grade for me because that
Speaker 2: was a guy. Whether he was my number one and
Speaker 2: I pushed off a pitching or he ended up being
Speaker 2: like a two or three. I wanted him on every
Speaker 2: single team, and on a team that's got this big
Speaker 2: clump of similar pitchers like win Snell's healthy, and you
Speaker 2: got Darvish and you know if Clevenger is healthy and
Speaker 2: stuff like that. All these guys, Joe Musgrove is the constant.
Speaker 2: He's a consistent and constant pitcher, and that's what makes
Speaker 2: him also so good. Not that he's like insanely electric,
Speaker 2: like you're gonna get fourteen fifteen strikeouts out of him
Speaker 2: on a given night. Is he is consistently putting out
Speaker 2: the starts that you need, and especially in April. Right now,
Speaker 2: I think we can appreciate it more because of how
Speaker 2: inconsistent everything is.
Speaker 1: I would agree, And look, Musgrove is a guy that
Speaker 1: I was talking about so many shows in the preseason,
Speaker 1: Welsh about if you're gonna build your rotation with a
Speaker 1: bunch of guys who are in that one a conversation
Speaker 1: that you can get a little bit after that. Corbyn Burns, Walker,
Speaker 1: Bueller group start with Joe Musgrove. And I can't tell
Speaker 1: you how many teams I got Musgrove on right now.
Speaker 1: I'm very glad that I do. I know in our
Speaker 1: fantasy pros are in house league with all the developers
Speaker 1: and the content people. We play against each other. I
Speaker 1: have Musgrove very happy about that. Starting again. Yes, Robbie
Speaker 1: Ray rebounds with a quality start against the Rangers. Told
Speaker 1: you go buy him when you can, and that window's
Speaker 1: probably gone. Garrett Whitlock nails down to save for the
Speaker 1: Red Sox. I've got some pures of him too. Keep
Speaker 1: an eye on this one, Welsh. You've got a reaction
Speaker 1: to the Whitlock save. What are your thoughts? Share him.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean, I'm like, whitlock stuff is top tops.
Speaker 2: You know, this reminds me of he Actually it's not
Speaker 2: the same stuff, so I should digress a little bit
Speaker 2: about that, but it reminds me of like Ammanuel class
Speaker 2: A in that like class A was a guy who
Speaker 2: wasn't closing, who had electric stuff. Garrett Whitlock has electric
Speaker 2: stuff and he is so locked in and then put
Speaker 2: and they put him in the leverage role. I don't
Speaker 2: remember what they call it, but he's got that high
Speaker 2: leverage role where it's wherever they are in the I know,
Speaker 2: I saw that wherever they are in the you know,
Speaker 2: in the order coming into the seventh, eighth or ninth.
Speaker 2: Garrett Whitlock was a guy I was heavily invested in
Speaker 2: preseason and had ranked up. But once they verbally committed
Speaker 2: to Matt Barnes and were continuously talking about stretching out
Speaker 2: Garrett Whitlock, it moved him down quite a bit. But
Speaker 2: he was still one of those guys where if you
Speaker 2: want to take, you know, your long shot. There were
Speaker 2: a couple of those guys, you know, even Camilla Davalik
Speaker 2: when he didn't get the job, he was kind of
Speaker 2: that guy Whitlock is gonna be a huge payoff. And
Speaker 2: you know, to give credit, never in my life was
Speaker 2: I a big early closer guy until this year. I
Speaker 2: always pressed against everybody, but there were so many inconsistencies,
Speaker 2: ins and so much we didn't know I had to
Speaker 2: invest early. But this is gonna be a year where
Speaker 2: the anti closers are gonna have such a win. It's
Speaker 2: like the no running back strategy next year, because you're
Speaker 2: gonna go and look back and you're gonna have a
Speaker 2: team that got Taylor Rodgers, let's say, as the sixteenth
Speaker 2: closer or fifteenth closer, and then they got Garrett Whitlock free,
Speaker 2: and those two guys might be theoretically will be top ten.
Speaker 2: If Garret Whitlock is the closer in Boston, Darren said,
Speaker 2: I think you might be a top five closer in baseball.
Speaker 2: So there's gonna be some big wins for the late closers.
Speaker 1: And probably some close games too because they're starting pitching
Speaker 1: is middling right now a little bit, so you know,
Speaker 1: until Chris Sale comes back healthy. So that's always the key.
Speaker 1: Good offenses, middleingue, starting pitching or vice versa that gets
Speaker 1: games closer and that gets you more safe opportunities in theory.
Speaker 1: So Whitlock and you know me, I don't like to
Speaker 1: pay for closers ever, so Whitlock obviously a lot of
Speaker 1: shares here. So this was encouraging Ronald Acunia doubles and
Speaker 1: his triple A rehab debut Tuesday, So that's very exciting.
Speaker 1: Look almost almost a home.
Speaker 2: I had a couple ITL Army members that were there
Speaker 2: and sent me a video and they thought it was
Speaker 2: a homer and it hit off the top of the
Speaker 2: wall and it ended up being a ended up being
Speaker 2: a double. But you know, one thing to throw out
Speaker 2: there as well, if you're talking prospects of Max Meyer,
Speaker 2: who I don't mean to change the subject on it,
Speaker 2: but ronald'cunya looked good a key he was playing in
Speaker 2: the outfield as well. Remember that he wasn't just d hing,
Speaker 2: which I think is going to move this assignment along
Speaker 2: really really early. But Max Meyer was fantastic, and that's
Speaker 2: a guy with the Marlins who I think, I think
Speaker 2: it's going to be up in the next month. I mean,
Speaker 2: he was dominating. The only thing that he really got
Speaker 2: took in advantage of was was Ronald Acunya, but still
Speaker 2: he I think hel d Acunya one for three, So
Speaker 2: look out for Max Meyer and Ronald Dacunya. Gonna be
Speaker 2: a payoff. And I think you're gonna I think it's
Speaker 2: a legit shot. You get him back on Monday, I
Speaker 2: really do.
Speaker 1: Well, that would be fantastic. I mean, I think that's
Speaker 1: that's ahead of everybody's expectations. You'd love to see it,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. And actually we talked to the little
Speaker 1: prospect stuff yesterday, and there's another prospect we talked about
Speaker 1: yesterday that had another big day. We'll get to that
Speaker 1: in a second before we do last thing here on
Speaker 1: the headlines. Alex Cobb lands on the ten day IL
Speaker 1: with the groin issue. So it was very clear he
Speaker 1: was uncomfortable. I think I think it happened at the plate,
Speaker 1: at the plate and then he tried to pitch through
Speaker 1: it and then that was it.
Speaker 2: Issues Joe, just want to point that out.
Speaker 1: Not a whole lot of comfortable groin issues. You know,
Speaker 1: here we go. We haven't done this in a while.
Speaker 1: Joe's tough guys, so I don't know if this is
Speaker 1: a real tough guy or fake tough guy. I will
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Speaker 1: So tell me he's this real tough guy or fake
Speaker 1: tough guy, Cracker Jackson, Peanuts, It's Tommy Fam on Luke
Speaker 1: Void slide to the Tyler Stevenson and I quote, I'll
Speaker 1: clean this up here because we're a PG family show.
Speaker 1: If Luke wants to settle it, I get down really well,
Speaker 1: anything boy tie whatever. Like I said, I've got an
Speaker 1: owner here who will let me use his facility. So Fam,
Speaker 1: I'm out. And that's from Tommy Fam. But the reds
Speaker 1: fake tough guy or real tough guy.
Speaker 2: Welsh Tommy Fam, Oh tough guy. Tommy Fam famously was
Speaker 2: stabbed at a gentleman's establishment a couple of years ago
Speaker 2: in a fight that he decided to jump into and
Speaker 2: he was stabbed and he was just standing outside the
Speaker 2: club stabbed and then you know he missed a little
Speaker 2: bit time and he came back Tommy Fam absolute time.
Speaker 2: I mean, i'd also say hardo. You know, maybe we
Speaker 2: could have a segment Welsh's hard os phrasing and Tommy
Speaker 2: Fan would.
Speaker 1: Do hope we could keep the PG rating with that one.
Speaker 1: I think so, you just I think the YouTube police
Speaker 1: might come for a now, Luke Voight.
Speaker 2: I would pay to see that fight because Luke Void
Speaker 2: is quite the specimen in person. I got to see
Speaker 2: him and talk. I talked to him during spring training
Speaker 2: and he's quite the big guy, quite the big guy.
Speaker 2: Tommy Fam is a scrapper though, so I wouldn't hold
Speaker 2: it against him. Just as long as he can stop
Speaker 2: getting stabbed.
Speaker 1: That would be over under on times Joey P has
Speaker 1: been stabbed one and a half. Well, I'll said it
Speaker 1: one and a half. You want to take the over
Speaker 1: the under on that.
Speaker 2: You just set that up, I'm gonna have to say over.
Speaker 1: We'll give you the answer after this next segment. We're
Speaker 1: more of that over over under on on Joey P.
Speaker 1: One of the half Peanuts a cracker track. You can
Speaker 1: comment to your in interact like the video while you're
Speaker 1: at it.
Speaker 2: Is that on betting pros on the on the prop
Speaker 2: cheat sheet?
Speaker 1: I saw it this morning.
Speaker 2: I think we should add it if we could get
Speaker 2: the uppers to please get the stab marker for Joe.
Speaker 2: Piece of it a wells to just one and a
Speaker 2: half stabs I'm giving.
Speaker 1: I'm giving full time on the one and a half
Speaker 1: to see if it's the overrun the under in times
Speaker 1: I've been stabbed in my life. Can we talk about this?
Speaker 1: Two things. Pitch clock is working at triple A because
Speaker 1: game seems to be moving efficiently. It seems to not
Speaker 1: only just you know, speeding up the overall time, but
Speaker 1: also picking up the pace, which is not a bad thing.
Speaker 1: And you know, look, evolution is good and you're going
Speaker 1: to see it next year, so get used to it.
Speaker 1: A scoring is down, though, so they're talking about the
Speaker 1: ball being dead and again, I think this has a
Speaker 1: lot to do with these forty degree temperature as well
Speaker 1: as personally. You know, these guys came from Florida, Arizona.
Speaker 1: Now they're playing in forty five degree weather. This is
Speaker 1: not fun. So I'm not going to put too much
Speaker 1: about this.
Speaker 2: But the Inosarus did make a comment he was holding
Speaker 2: a ball, and you know, I don't know how anybody's
Speaker 2: telling the difference. I know there's a scene difference that
Speaker 2: a lot have seen. Ino seem to think that they
Speaker 2: might be back to the dead and ball, And my
Speaker 2: interpretation was it might have been about the physicality of
Speaker 2: the ball and not so much the numbers, because I
Speaker 2: agree with you from a numbers perspective, like crazily weird weather.
Speaker 2: I mean, how many games have we already had canceled
Speaker 2: White Sox missing games. I've had people in the Midwest
Speaker 2: telling me it is unusually cold right now. We've seen
Speaker 2: a ton a ton of cold, cold games, So I
Speaker 2: think that has a role to do with some of
Speaker 2: the offense being down. But it might be a correlation
Speaker 2: to both, you know, I mean baseball. For whatever reason,
Speaker 2: this is like there, where's Jimmy Hoff a buried situation.
Speaker 2: They'll never tell us what ball is out there, They'll
Speaker 2: never tell Well, I don't know why the ball is
Speaker 2: such a mystery. Why why is it such a mystery.
Speaker 1: Because every year they're trying to make somebody else happy
Speaker 1: instead of just saying this is the game, Go play
Speaker 1: and and just tell me you do with this? Too
Speaker 1: many home runs? You know, the people playing about this.
Speaker 1: Then the pitchers complain that the seams are not high,
Speaker 1: they're too high. They're this everyone's got to complain about
Speaker 1: the ball every single year. Just play hit the ball,
Speaker 1: hit them.
Speaker 2: You know what's wrong in sports in general, and baseball
Speaker 2: is so bad if not to get into that whole, like, hey,
Speaker 2: what's you know? Why is baseball not speaking to everybody
Speaker 2: in the numbers down? But secrecy in sports is the
Speaker 2: worst thing you can do. And I don't understand why
Speaker 2: they haven't. No sport is picked it up when you
Speaker 2: have things that you don't understand, like and baseball has
Speaker 2: probably double all the other sports combined. I mean I
Speaker 2: don't understand. I still don't know what icing is, and
Speaker 2: I don't really understand soccer and red cards and yellow
Speaker 2: cards outside of people flopping and flying around. But like
Speaker 2: baseball has got, you know, their service time manipulation and
Speaker 2: when does that clock start? And then there's the rule
Speaker 2: five and then there's being designated for assignment, but that's
Speaker 2: not the same as waivers and what kind of ball
Speaker 2: are we? The secrets in sports are not good. You
Speaker 2: want people to understand the game top to bottom, and
Speaker 2: probably what kind of ball you're using is relatively important.
Speaker 2: The closest it's ever come is football in the PSI
Speaker 2: Tom Brady situation. We shouldn't have these dumb questions. It
Speaker 2: should be pretty nobody.
Speaker 1: Everybody was docked during their own balls, Like everybody thought, well,
Speaker 1: there's just balls when you go to the game. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: everybody brings their own balls to the game, where nobody.
Speaker 1: I don't think the general public kind of would understood that.
Speaker 1: Here's a fun one from Jay full Medal k Joey
Speaker 1: getting stabbed over, probably because he ain't angry walking in
Speaker 1: a scrap, so there he goes.
Speaker 2: So there's a mere Italian. Then like you're Italian?
Speaker 1: So I think there's nothing to do with me being Italian.
Speaker 1: This had to do with my profession for twenty years.
Speaker 1: So I will answer the question. The answer is over
Speaker 1: because you forgot Welsh for twenty years scored fighting in
Speaker 1: combat and actually the irony is I was stabbed twice
Speaker 1: on back to back nights of a run of a
Speaker 1: Romeo and Juliet in the big fight scene where Romeo
Speaker 1: supposed to come and break up the fight. Ironically, the
Speaker 1: guy playing Tibbleton, I'm playing Miracucio, caught me right in.
Speaker 1: You know, the Romeo comes. He came in a little
Speaker 1: too hot, moved the blade. Blade went boom right into
Speaker 1: my side. Now, luckily we were in full costume. It
Speaker 1: was like a you know, look at us, it's like
Speaker 1: a Romeo and Juliet and everyone's just wearing black or whatever.
Speaker 1: We were in full garb, so it went in. It
Speaker 1: broke the skin. Not too bad, whatever, We're good.
Speaker 2: That's what I was curious. It's like our definition.
Speaker 1: Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, there's the next night.
Speaker 1: It happens again, same spot. Now here's the thing. Now,
Speaker 1: if you have any sort of culture, you know that
Speaker 1: after this mar Q show gives a big speech basically
Speaker 1: Tommy fam style tells everybody to go screw themselves. And
Speaker 1: I get to do this speech. And I'm really mad
Speaker 1: tonight because now I am stabbed, and I could tell
Speaker 1: that I'm bleeding a little bit. I can tell this
Speaker 1: is bad news right here, and I can tell that
Speaker 1: this is not gonna be good when I have to
Speaker 1: go look at it. And that was a beautiful performance.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that, so the the over under
Speaker 1: if you went over you won that bet. That should
Speaker 1: be on bet MGM. I don't know why it wasn't.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, we don't need to get into the
Speaker 2: logistics of you know, how far and how deep or
Speaker 2: anything like that, but you know.
Speaker 1: What good enough?
Speaker 2: Welsh? Yeah, just enough. Joe has been stabbed more times
Speaker 2: than Welsh has, but I would.
Speaker 1: Define the next day we all had to sit down
Speaker 1: in the chat and say, look, we have to fix this.
Speaker 1: Something's wrong here because and everyone thinks all these fake swords,
Speaker 1: No they're not. They're not.
Speaker 2: Guys. Listen, We're gonna have to have a meeting. Please,
Speaker 2: no more stabbing. I know it's hard, and I know
Speaker 2: it's difficult, but please stop stabbing.
Speaker 1: Is there a union representative I can speak to? All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Nolan Gorman because yesterday we talked about
Speaker 1: he's hitting six home runs already in six games. Now
Speaker 1: he's got a home run in five straight games. Seven
Speaker 1: home runs and seven straight games for him Gorman playing
Speaker 1: second base, but now with the DH I feel like
Speaker 1: this is an easier move. He still strikes out a ton.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I care at this point I
Speaker 1: think he is a good speculative ad right now, because
Speaker 1: why not add him now if you have the benchroom
Speaker 1: to do it, and then just wait and see what happens,
Speaker 1: because you can move Tommy Edmond all over the field.
Speaker 1: Who cares? You got the DHWN the National League. This
Speaker 1: is the other thing about the National League that I
Speaker 1: don't think we ever talked about. There's an opportunity to
Speaker 1: move these prospects up faster because there's another spot in
Speaker 1: the batting order for guys. And I don't think that's
Speaker 1: an angle that any of us really talked about. I
Speaker 1: haven't heard anybody talk about it. So we're talking about today.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on Gorman and the adding him? Sneaky?
Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, I'm a I'm quite a fan. I had
Speaker 2: actually just posted about this Yesterdad. I didn't even know
Speaker 2: we were gonna talk about Gorman. I had posted that someone
Speaker 2: on the end this league Patreon, like probably in January,
Speaker 2: made a post to me and said, uh, I'm looking
Speaker 2: at your ranks and you have Nolan Gorman higher than
Speaker 2: anybody I've ever seen, and I'm like the highest in
Speaker 2: the list, and I'm like, listen, the power is for real.
Speaker 2: Also a really solid kid. I had just I interviewed
Speaker 2: him in this past AFL which is on Prospect one.
Speaker 2: He's a super smart kid who always had contact issues,
Speaker 2: never had power issues. I actually watched him when he
Speaker 2: was in high school, which out here in Sandra dal
Speaker 2: O'Connor High School, going up against Matthew Liberatories, his good friend,
Speaker 2: and he's always had the power, but it was contact issues.
Speaker 2: And he was talking about how he had got to
Speaker 2: spend some of the off season and spring training with
Speaker 2: Nolan Ernado and Paul Goldschmith, and that's a pretty good
Speaker 2: toutelage for a guy that just needs to revamp that
Speaker 2: swing a little bit more for contact. And he's moving
Speaker 2: over to second base, and I think it's it's you know,
Speaker 2: the strikeout numbers are still there, but he's putting up massive,
Speaker 2: big power numbers. And you know, I don't from a
Speaker 2: speculative standpoint, if you've got the room, you've got the
Speaker 2: roster spot, you've got maybe in any spots. Sure they
Speaker 2: want to get him up relatively soon and the DH
Speaker 2: opens up, you know, a positionless bat if you need it,
Speaker 2: which that might be the guy. And he's got flexibility
Speaker 2: where he could play third, he could play first, he
Speaker 2: could play second base. So I do think he could
Speaker 2: come up sometime in May, especially if he keeps hitting
Speaker 2: like this. There's nothing more to learn, but I wouldn't
Speaker 2: be breaking the bank, and I would worry that there's
Speaker 2: going to be some strikeout issues with him. And a
Speaker 2: fun fact on him. In my interview, I asked him,
Speaker 2: just coming back to the beginning of the show, I
Speaker 2: asked him the toughest pitcher he's faced, and he cited
Speaker 2: Max Mayer. So maxim or Max Meyer with the Marlins,
Speaker 2: he said was the toughest pitcher he had faced in
Speaker 2: all of the minor leagues. So just bringing that back
Speaker 2: for you guys looking to baby pick him up.
Speaker 1: And I see use of the word tutelage too. Excellent
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, here we go. We're gonna fly through
Speaker 1: these because we've got a lot of other things to
Speaker 1: get to. So pictures yesterday. The stat heroes we talked
Speaker 1: about freed a case are ten K's. He was great.
Speaker 1: Kyle Gibson just three strikeouts, but keeps giving you a
Speaker 1: quality starts. That's what he does. We have Corbyn Burns
Speaker 1: looking great. Ten k's no walks back to being corben Burns.
Speaker 1: Yeah's against the pirates, but who cares. It's still good.
Speaker 1: Must grow very good. A nice bounce back for Adam
Speaker 1: Wainwright two six k's he was old rocky and his
Speaker 1: last start. Robbie Ray bounced back as well. The hitter
Speaker 1: Sal Perez two dingers for him, Wander Franco three for
Speaker 1: five with a home run, two doubles, excuse me, one double,
Speaker 1: two rbi. CJ Cron, what a monster. He's got six
Speaker 1: home runs leading the league. How about your CJ Cron.
Speaker 1: That's one of your dudes.
Speaker 2: Last year, I feel like this year, this year too,
Speaker 2: a year too. I wasn't making big investments on first Baseman.
Speaker 2: Not that you don't love, you know, Matt Olson and
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman. But the guys that you wanted on the
Speaker 2: back end were Joey Vado, who's been eh, CJ Cron
Speaker 2: way way up, big big bats in Colorado.
Speaker 1: Love it yeah. Also Kyle Schwarber two for four with
Speaker 1: a home run. Boy, the Phillies can't buy a window.
Speaker 1: They're in a tough spot every day. Joejaray's got a
Speaker 1: different lineup with the Phillies. It's crazy what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Manny Machado two for four with a dinger through thirteen games,
Speaker 1: when Charles hitting three sixty five with three homers, three steals,
Speaker 1: ten RBI. I was making a case for Manny Machado
Speaker 1: being a kind of an interesting MVP candidate because if
Speaker 1: he has a great season and Tatisa's gone for half
Speaker 1: a year, you can make that narrative for Manny Machado.
Speaker 1: I would watch that market very carefully. Tommy Edmond continues
Speaker 1: to be hot, Heneo Suarez sighting, he's got a home
Speaker 1: run here, go stat Zeros. Though fran Barvaldez was bad,
Speaker 1: six earned runs, Garret Cole was bad, Alex Cobb injury whatever,
Speaker 1: Logan Webb also not great. Those Mets continue to roll.
Speaker 1: And then on the hitting side, I could tell Marte
Speaker 1: Oh for eight, three CA's and the double dip not great.
Speaker 1: Dalan Carlson oh for five to two. Case is Dylan
Speaker 1: Carlson a by low hitting a buck fifty eight right now?
Speaker 1: Wel she you're a little worried about Carlson.
Speaker 2: I'm a little bit worried because he had gotten that
Speaker 2: lead off spot and they're gonna, Like, I'm worried the
Speaker 2: permanent takeout is something that's gonna affect his fantasy value
Speaker 2: long term during the season, especially even if he gets
Speaker 2: it kind of back together. If he can't reclaim that spot,
Speaker 2: him hitting seven or eight is going to be relatively detrimental.
Speaker 2: Just another case. I had to say, I am shocked at
Speaker 2: the struggles that continue to keep going on with these
Speaker 2: like second year ish type of players, you know, pseudo
Speaker 2: third with the COVID and whatnot, that the continuous issues
Speaker 2: are still going on. You know, Dylan Carlson, the guy
Speaker 2: was a contact run kind of a five toolish player.
Speaker 2: I think the power his power was always played up
Speaker 2: a little too much by a lot of prospect people.
Speaker 2: But the continued issues with hitting are worrisome. But I
Speaker 2: will tell you this, if he keeps struggling, this could
Speaker 2: be one of those things that does bring a Gorman
Speaker 2: up because they need some live bats and Gorman has,
Speaker 2: you know, all that infield position eligibility as well as
Speaker 2: being able to dage. Not that he could play Dylan
Speaker 2: Carlson's spot or anything like that, but they can just
Speaker 2: move guys around. I mean, Tommy Edmond, you know can
Speaker 2: be moving around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, our favorite lineup builder yesterday, by the way, both sides.
Speaker 1: Jereby Pania went yard yesterday for the Astros and what
Speaker 1: a Welsh's doing, so another good night for him him
Speaker 1: bad nights by the way. Joey Gallow with the Golden
Speaker 1: Sobrero over four with four ks and the buck twenty
Speaker 1: one with fifteen strikeouts. Congratulations, Joey Gallo, You've done nothing
Speaker 1: to help your team. Radfield dever is an over Christian
Speaker 1: Yelich at a Grand Slam they went right back to
Speaker 1: an over with two k's and Kyle Tucker. This is
Speaker 1: your chance, slaves and gentlemen, by Kyle Tucker. It's not
Speaker 1: going to get lower than this buck o three batting average.
Speaker 1: He's still got two home runs of this deal. Just
Speaker 1: buy him, don't worry about it. Yesterday JP thirty four.
Speaker 1: Our boy JP jumps up six home runs next to
Speaker 1: Sal Perez double dong last night, so he's at the top.
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Speaker 1: Let's go today. I looked at Jose Ramirez total bases
Speaker 1: one and a half. That's over on at MGM. I
Speaker 1: like the over on that one. Shane Bieber for earned
Speaker 1: run total is an interesting one at one and a half.
Speaker 1: I actually think the over on this one is the
Speaker 1: way we go against the White Sox and then Wit
Speaker 1: Maryfield have been kind of quiet this year. He's down
Speaker 1: to point five in the total. Excuse me, point five
Speaker 1: and hits. Wit Maryfield gets a hit tonight, he's gonna
Speaker 1: win your money. So I like that one over on
Speaker 1: FanDuel Welsh. Anything that sticks out to you in the
Speaker 1: prop market. Not as good of a day today as
Speaker 1: he was yesterday, but still certainly some things on the
Speaker 1: board we're looking at.
Speaker 2: I got a couple kind of anti to your Shane
Speaker 2: Bieber one. I really like Tim Anderson's total base marker
Speaker 2: over on DraftKings. It's paying plus money for one and
Speaker 2: a half, and he's got a pretty long track record
Speaker 2: with just essentially a three hundred batting average versus him
Speaker 2: with a couple doubles and singles him leading off. He's
Speaker 2: just going to get more opportunities. It's cold weather. They
Speaker 2: had a game postpone. The spin is down, the villa down.
Speaker 2: This seems like a prime spot for Tim Anderson, and
Speaker 2: it's paying you plus money at plus one forty five
Speaker 2: over on the total basis, and a little peek into
Speaker 2: what we're gonna talk about shortly. I like the Chris
Speaker 2: Bryant total base marker as well. It's one and a half.
Speaker 2: It's minus one twenty five, So you just need two hits.
Speaker 2: That is on bet MGM is the best marker right now,
Speaker 2: those two, and if I were digging a tiny bit deeper,
Speaker 2: I kind of like a med Rosario. Hits are singles.
Speaker 2: You just need one single. He's been absolutely crushing the
Speaker 2: ball as of late, at least from a hard hits standpoint,
Speaker 2: and you just need one single. It's minus one forty three.
Speaker 2: Maybe a nice little parley piece.
Speaker 1: All right by the way JP, who's leading the home
Speaker 1: run races. Four of his six home runs are sal Perez,
Speaker 1: so the two he had Salparez and the double dong
Speaker 1: nights twice, so good job. I mean, you should just
Speaker 1: take sal Prez in perpetuity, see if you end up
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Really, I was thinking about that. It's kind of a
Speaker 2: strategy to that if you just took the same guy
Speaker 2: throughout the season, you might get forty or something. You
Speaker 2: might need to put a little blow on doing that.
Speaker 2: You might need to, like you can't have a guy
Speaker 2: more than a days or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know what I want everybody. I
Speaker 1: don't want to be like major League Baseball sometimes and
Speaker 1: I want to take away the fun. I want people
Speaker 1: to have fun. If that's their strategy, that's what they
Speaker 1: want to do. But you know what, guy goes through
Speaker 1: a Cole Street, you start getting a little antsy, start
Speaker 1: falling down the leaderboard. Something to think about. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about starting pitchers tonight over on DraftKings. You got Bassett
Speaker 1: and Rodin pretty expensive going against each other. Jose Burrios,
Speaker 1: who has not been good, going against the pavet in Boston,
Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert at nine point eight on DK is the
Speaker 1: most interesting one to me. He's got a good matchup
Speaker 1: against Texas. I would go that route, and then again
Speaker 1: it's expensive. It's nine point eight. If you want to
Speaker 1: take a shot on Burrios, maybe you can hear in
Speaker 1: a tournament. But instead I would go to either Bassett
Speaker 1: or Rodin, or do multiple lineups and switch them in
Speaker 1: and out, because they've both been so good. It's just
Speaker 1: a matter of which one you get. Right now on FanDuel,
Speaker 1: you got more games than their main slate because they're
Speaker 1: starting games at six forty. DK's just starting them at seven,
Speaker 1: So Sandy al contra is at nine point two, Renos
Speaker 1: at nine k and be cold again for the Yankee
Speaker 1: starter there showey Otani. Don't love him in this start
Speaker 1: at nine point one. It's a little expensive for me.
Speaker 1: If I'm gonna pay up that much, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to the top again, ro don or Bassett, pick one
Speaker 1: of them, or pivot off Logan Gilbert there nine and
Speaker 1: a half. Okay, that's kind of more strategy there. The
Speaker 1: stacks of the night. I like the Cubs and Tampa
Speaker 1: game because it's nineteen mile an hour wins blowing out
Speaker 1: to left field tonight in Chicago boys and Girls, So
Speaker 1: Chicago Tampa. I think there's gonna be some home runs there,
Speaker 1: just saying. Also, everybody on Minnesota is cheap. The entire
Speaker 1: team on DK is cheap, but you never get that,
Speaker 1: So you might as well pile up some of these
Speaker 1: twinkies there and see what you get on DraftKings besides
Speaker 1: all of the twins and literally all of them, which
Speaker 1: is crazy. Ian Happ is also three point nine k
Speaker 1: on FanDuel. You got with Maryfield, it just two point seven.
Speaker 1: Halp is two point eight, Schwindell two point eight in
Speaker 1: that same game I keep talking about in Chicago, and
Speaker 1: a Kilbido is at two point two there for the Tigers.
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Speaker 1: If you want Welsh, where are you going for your
Speaker 1: home run? Call tonight? Who's going yard?
Speaker 2: Well, our friend Go Cards in the chat said, man
Speaker 2: can't believe is meant either beither. Okay, we'll just say
Speaker 2: beither can't believe beither kb nor I don't even know
Speaker 2: who the other person is has a dinger? Gat Go Cards.
Speaker 2: Having a rough morning here, but go Cards.
Speaker 1: Go Cards. You need to slow down? Yeah, slow down?
Speaker 2: But is leading to where I'm going to go with
Speaker 2: mister Chris Bryant. He's going to get his first dinger tonight.
Speaker 2: Absolute great, great track record against e Flyn, hitting over
Speaker 2: six hundred and eight hits in thirteen at bats, doesn't
Speaker 2: have a homer that will change tonight. Chris Bryant also
Speaker 2: has a hit in every game but one he's played
Speaker 2: in this season. And that's why I really like the
Speaker 2: total base marker that I gave you as far as
Speaker 2: the props go, and I like him getting on the
Speaker 2: board for the homer, and I will take mister blue
Speaker 2: eyes Chris Bryant.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna take mister Suzuki with that nineteen mile
Speaker 1: an hour winter field tonight. Let's see if we get
Speaker 1: a dinger out of Saya Suzuki here, are gonna keep
Speaker 1: riding this train while he's been hot, see if he
Speaker 1: can go yard again. So all takes a Zuki, Mike
Speaker 1: mayer Or, and Mike Mayor's taking Austin Riley tonight. So
Speaker 1: make sure you get those home run calls in and uh,
Speaker 1: you get him in there as soon as you could
Speaker 1: possibly can that we lock in your vote. And I'm
Speaker 1: I just still got one. I can't get one in April.
Speaker 1: That's one too, shake this dust off. I've got one,
Speaker 1: you've got one. I think Mayor has two, Bogman's got one.
Speaker 1: We got to pick up the slack here a little bit.
Speaker 1: The peanuts of the crack Attracts are kicking our rear end.
Speaker 1: But that's okay. I'm not an April guy. Started off
Speaker 1: slow in April last year. Too cold here in the podcast.
Speaker 1: It's cold here in the podcast too. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like my head. Yeah, terrible Welsh. Any final thoughts besides
Speaker 1: good to have you back here today.
Speaker 2: I'm just glad to be back. I'm very excited to
Speaker 2: see Buckston come back, and everybody shut up. That's gonna
Speaker 2: be fantastic Almayer has three Why.
Speaker 1: Is Mayor He's always.
Speaker 2: Here to correct us with all his stuff. Uh No,
Speaker 2: I'm glad to be back. Apologies for missing my normal schedule,
Speaker 2: which for everybody is Monday, Thursday Friday. I will be
Speaker 2: back tomorrow but not on Friday, and hopefully get back
Speaker 2: to it next week with all the chaos. But no
Speaker 2: Chris Bryant prop time Buckston returns. All is right in
Speaker 2: the world very very soon.
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