Speaker 1: Welcome in friends. This is leading off.
Speaker 2: I am Chris Welsh and joining me today is the
Speaker 2: wonkiest of the penguins. It's the wonky Penguin On Twitter,
Speaker 2: Kelly Kirby making her debut.
Speaker 1: Kelly, how are you?
Speaker 3: I am doing quite well? How are you?
Speaker 2: I apologize that, like all the years that you've been watching,
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, there's Joe, and there's Dan Harris and everybody,
Speaker 2: and then your first one it's with the Welsh. But
Speaker 2: I am very happy to be doing the first show
Speaker 2: with you. And oh, I don't know, maybe the most
Speaker 2: ridiculous day of the entire baseball season for you to
Speaker 2: come on as far as news goes, because we've got
Speaker 2: the MLB trade deadline, which built up went for down
Speaker 2: just a tiny bit. We had the return of the
Speaker 2: greatest picture in the land, and things have not changed.
Speaker 1: There's no more run support.
Speaker 2: But who would have thought that all of that could
Speaker 2: be overshadowed by really really sad news last night, the
Speaker 2: passing of absolute icon baseball icon, Vin Scully. Kelly, and
Speaker 2: I know I think you even tweeted out a tributor
Speaker 2: to about just your experience ninety four years old, sixty
Speaker 2: seven years between the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: just it's such shocking because of the age, but just
Speaker 2: the scope of what was going on yesterday, that we
Speaker 2: ended that day of baseball with the passing of an icon.
Speaker 3: That's true. I'm here representing the Central time zone and
Speaker 3: for many, many years I would stay up as long
Speaker 3: as I could to watch a Dodgers game when he
Speaker 3: was calling it because he just has he just was perfect.
Speaker 3: He had a perfect voice. He more than any other
Speaker 3: broadcaster ever, was able to use silence so masterfully, like
Speaker 3: he would call the what happened, and then he would
Speaker 3: just kind of let you be, let you listen to it,
Speaker 3: and he was just brilliant. So I really appreciated him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I had a I started to pose
Speaker 2: the question though it's not really necessary, but it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, this was the baseball's version version of like
Speaker 2: John Madden and losing John Madden.
Speaker 1: In football, and you know, you could ask, like which.
Speaker 2: One is more iconic, and maybe John Madden in like,
Speaker 2: you know, the even I mean, they both just you know,
Speaker 2: had a grand scope of outside of the game Madden
Speaker 2: to the video games and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But I mean the the Icon of Icons. I pulled
Speaker 1: up this. I thought this would be interesting.
Speaker 2: It is ten amazing facts about Vin Scully's career. I
Speaker 2: would just burn through real quick for everybody, kind of
Speaker 2: in celebration of him. This article is a little bit old,
Speaker 2: but these aren't really going to change. So here are
Speaker 2: ten facts for you about Vin Scully's career. Did you
Speaker 2: know he was the youngest who ever broadcast a World
Speaker 2: Series game? Imagine this twenty two years old. Can you
Speaker 2: imagine twenty two years old like to play nineteen fifty
Speaker 2: five at twenty two years old.
Speaker 1: There's no chance. There's no chance I was doing any of.
Speaker 3: This stuff, not at all at twenty two. No, that
Speaker 3: would have been impossible.
Speaker 2: Number nine he gets he got a salute from the
Speaker 2: umpires before every single game. I thought it was an
Speaker 2: interesting one. He got his big break broadcasting a college
Speaker 2: football game. It was a Maryland football game. Which actually
Speaker 2: is going to come up, I believe in a trivia
Speaker 2: question I have. I almost gave it away by giving
Speaker 2: you a little bit more. He's called nineteen no hitters.
Speaker 2: Nineteen no hitters. The first one was Boston Braves pitcher
Speaker 2: Vern Bickford, and the last one, how perfect. Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, very interesting. The last couple this is just
Speaker 2: like a random one. They said he can make a
Speaker 2: grocery list sound amazing where I think they have a
Speaker 2: video of him reading off some like that. He was
Speaker 2: once a seventies daytime star. He hosted a variety I
Speaker 2: did not know this daytime variety show called The Vin
Speaker 2: Scully Show on CBS, which had skit, celebrity interviews, stand
Speaker 2: up comedy, and even singing. If only Vin Scully was
Speaker 2: singing on there, that would have been great. He could
Speaker 2: have been the original voice of Monday Night Football because
Speaker 2: apparently in nineteen seventy ABC the executives were wanted to
Speaker 2: give the job to Scully, but they ended up going
Speaker 2: in a different direction and he had I think he
Speaker 2: passed on it as well. He once played college baseball
Speaker 2: against a former president.
Speaker 1: That would be President George H. W. Bush.
Speaker 2: He was a center fielder in Fordham back in nineteen
Speaker 2: forty seven. He once I think this is the famous
Speaker 2: one I saw, and well, actually I'm going to tell
Speaker 2: you the other one real quick. His favorite player was
Speaker 2: actually a giant in Willie Mays. And then the one
Speaker 2: I saw going around Twitter yesterday. Kelly was that he
Speaker 2: had once raised Jackie Robinson on ice skates.
Speaker 1: Sure sure it.
Speaker 3: All sounds like Vin Scully type things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it does.
Speaker 2: Probably a lot of memories out there for a lot
Speaker 2: of people in in experience over time of getting to
Speaker 2: hear you know, your childhood grew up with you know,
Speaker 2: Vin Scully, And I mean there's only so many iconic,
Speaker 2: you know, personalities in baseball that are doing commentary. We
Speaker 2: don't have it the same way. But very sad you
Speaker 2: don't need to keep going through it. But ninety four
Speaker 2: years old Vin Scully taking kind of over the top
Speaker 2: of the news because it's a big deal. But we
Speaker 2: did have the return of Jacob de gram who was
Speaker 2: right back in form. Kelly went five innings, allowed three hits,
Speaker 2: one earned run, struck out six, did not hit the props.
Speaker 2: Someone pointed out, I was all over the Welsh game
Speaker 2: or the Mets game. The Welsh was, and I was,
Speaker 2: and boy did that look like old school Mets Kelly.
Speaker 2: It's full over in my mind. No run support. He
Speaker 2: got pulled early, but he was hitting one O two.
Speaker 2: Your thoughts on the return of Jacob de Grom, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, I think he looked good, and I was actually almost,
Speaker 3: i don't know, bolstered by the idea that it was
Speaker 3: kind of a normal outing, Like it wasn't, you know,
Speaker 3: fourteen strikeouts and five innings and so it kind of
Speaker 3: looked like, yep, he was back. And then to watch
Speaker 3: the bullpen kind of just you know, like you said,
Speaker 3: I'm like, here comes classic to your own, like the
Speaker 3: Mets played right into it for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was super disappointed too, because I mean, you
Speaker 2: guys know, I was aggressive on really anything with him.
Speaker 2: Yesterday they had a B squad out there that was embarrassing.
Speaker 2: The minute to Grom got out, they got lit up
Speaker 2: for whatever reason, and you expect maybe to hold back
Speaker 2: a little bit, but that they went fifty nine pitches
Speaker 2: on to Grom. That was super disappointing. But you know,
Speaker 2: I'll go down with the ship on that one. Every
Speaker 2: day he looked phenomenal. If for anyone watching fastball sitting around,
Speaker 2: you know, anywhere from one o two to ninety nine,
Speaker 2: his slider looked phenomenal. He had a pinpoint strikeout just
Speaker 2: whether he was putting it on the corners or.
Speaker 1: Below, and he looked great. He just looked right back.
Speaker 2: Into form, which I think is the really big plus here.
Speaker 2: Something the monitor will be when are they going to
Speaker 2: unleash to Gram And it's probably going to be a
Speaker 2: few starts here, but de gram right back into form
Speaker 2: and it was a huge, huge bright point to yesterday. Now,
Speaker 2: the trades, I don't even know how we begin with this, because.
Speaker 1: There were a litany of them we talked.
Speaker 2: Luckily we were able to talk about Wan Soto's trade
Speaker 2: yesterday on the show because I think it happened like
Speaker 2: ten minutes before we went live. We definitely were missing
Speaker 2: some big moves. Let me start with that. Who was
Speaker 2: the biggest surprise in your mind that didn't get moved?
Speaker 2: We had no Pablo Lopez, we had no Carlos for Don,
Speaker 2: We had no Ian Happ, no Wilson can Trast and
Speaker 2: no JD Martinez probably the biggest five that did not
Speaker 2: get moved. Which one kind of held you back the most?
Speaker 2: Did you think was going to get traded that didn't?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm a Cubs fan, so I'm going to just
Speaker 3: say that the two of that, I sat on the
Speaker 3: Fantasy Pros news desk and I just kept refreshing Twitter
Speaker 3: and just waiting for it, and it got to be
Speaker 3: about like four thirty pm my time, and I was
Speaker 3: at a different job and I'm just sitting there, going,
Speaker 3: We're going to trade though, right, Like I mean, it
Speaker 3: just kind of when it didn't happen, I thought, okay,
Speaker 3: so what are we doing? What's the plan here? So yeah,
Speaker 3: that was the one that was just totally surprising to me.
Speaker 2: We were doing a live stream on our twitchet TV
Speaker 2: slash in this League and we ran a poll like
Speaker 2: after the first hour, it was like, all right, who's
Speaker 2: the next big guy to get traded? And the poll
Speaker 2: was like unanimous. Wilson controllers everyone was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: Wire is totally getting traded. That was the biggest shock
Speaker 2: to me because that's a guy that's on two months
Speaker 2: and he's a free agent. But I think what it
Speaker 2: ultimately came down to was the compensation they can get
Speaker 2: if he signs elsewhere and get a pick versus what
Speaker 2: teams were willing to give up, which I'm still surprised
Speaker 2: no one stepped up the Mets. Obviously, they said the
Speaker 2: ask was high, and the Mets didn't really do anything.
Speaker 1: We did have a couple big moves.
Speaker 2: I think We had a lot of like fine moves,
Speaker 2: but a couple big ones. This one came after the
Speaker 2: trade deadline had passed, but obviously it came in before
Speaker 2: wit Merrifield going to the Blue Jays in a nothing trade.
Speaker 2: Mexicus Dill Shaman, Taylor, Siamont Taylor had a decent mind
Speaker 2: League season. But whit Mayfield goes from the Royals. The
Speaker 2: obvious insanity of all of it is, Okay, he's not
Speaker 2: vaccinated in Toronto and whatever that's going to be besides
Speaker 2: all that, not at that point, and nonsense, him going
Speaker 2: into that lineup.
Speaker 1: Though, he's a huge boost.
Speaker 2: And we ran a poll as well, like who was
Speaker 2: the biggest trade impact?
Speaker 1: But all of them, and I think Wit came in.
Speaker 2: Number two because we were also including, you know, days before.
Speaker 2: If WIT's hitting two and you've got him sandwich between
Speaker 2: George Springer and some version of Vladimiric Garero, Alejandro Kirk
Speaker 2: and all that, the run opportunities are huge.
Speaker 1: They love to run. He's going to continue to do that.
Speaker 2: How big of a boost do you think whit Mayfield
Speaker 2: going to Toronto, assuming he plays all the games, is
Speaker 2: Kelly Well?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think for both fantasy and real life.
Speaker 3: It's a huge boost. Springer's like dealing with the elbow
Speaker 3: injury again, so he'll probably kind of take his place
Speaker 3: for a little bit, but the amount of running that
Speaker 3: they do, and also I think Maryfield getting motivated is
Speaker 3: kind of a big deal as well, Like I feel
Speaker 3: like he plays a little bit harder when he's motivated,
Speaker 3: but being able to just kind of stand on base
Speaker 3: and then trot around whin Vladier Kirk homers in his
Speaker 3: counting stats are going to go up. It really should be.
Speaker 3: That was actually the biggest one from a fantasy impact
Speaker 3: that I think he's the one that will have the
Speaker 3: biggest change.
Speaker 2: Yeah, from yesterday, I think that is true from the totality.
Speaker 2: You know what actually ran away with it on our
Speaker 2: polling was Trey Mancini. Trey Man scene actually ran away
Speaker 2: of everybody's and I think you actually put it in
Speaker 2: the chat yesterday of the implied homers that he would
Speaker 2: have had in Houston. So, you know, it's a big
Speaker 2: one with Maryfield, especially if that team gets going again. Toronto,
Speaker 2: I don't think made the big impactful moves. I think
Speaker 2: they kind of swung and miss figuratively in the trade
Speaker 2: market of you know, some guys that they wanted to get,
Speaker 2: but this does bolster their offense. Another big one, Tyler
Speaker 2: Moley goes to the Minnesota Twins. They needed some help,
Speaker 2: especially if you're going to be at the top end
Speaker 2: of this division.
Speaker 1: They got I think.
Speaker 2: Their clothes and Jorge Lopez, which I really like. That
Speaker 2: trade Maley was a good one. They traded Spencer Steer,
Speaker 2: Christian and Karnashiel and Strand and Steven Ajar. I have
Speaker 2: been saying watch Spencer Steer because I think he's a
Speaker 2: sneaky ad as someone.
Speaker 1: The Reds could bring up.
Speaker 2: Now he's hit twenty homers Sugg a little bit tiny
Speaker 2: bit in Triple A, but twenty four years old in
Speaker 2: Triple A. Twenty bombs had made a lot of early
Speaker 2: season contact and right now, like what is it, Donovan
Speaker 2: Solano is at third base, so I think they can
Speaker 2: move Kyle Farmer over to third. Steer could finish out
Speaker 2: the years a shortstop to really see what they have
Speaker 2: with him. He could have some fantasy impact. But Molly
Speaker 2: to the Twins is such a huge, huge boost that
Speaker 2: you now, just like Luis Castillo, you have run support,
Speaker 2: you have a better def you have. Really everything is
Speaker 2: better there. So I would say probably from a pitching standpoint,
Speaker 2: that's got to be one of the top ones, at
Speaker 2: least on trade deadline day is improving.
Speaker 3: I think anytime you take anyone out of great American
Speaker 3: ballparks from a pitching standpoint, they have to get an
Speaker 3: automatic boost, and Minnesota had. Minnesota's ballpark can play both
Speaker 3: ways depending on what's going on, but for the most
Speaker 3: part it plays like a pitcher's park. And for the Twins,
Speaker 3: you know, I live in Minnesota, and every year when
Speaker 3: the regular season's done and the Yankees sit in the playoffs,
Speaker 3: I mean, we just kind of were like, look, good season.
Speaker 3: Let's not even bother. So it's nice to have at
Speaker 3: least one picture that we can you know, kind of
Speaker 3: be like, yeah, let's do that before we start, you know,
Speaker 3: praying for Dylan Bundy to just like good Dylan Bundy.
Speaker 1: Everyone shaking hands like good job, good job.
Speaker 3: We did literally like yeah, he was like what good
Speaker 3: try good good season.
Speaker 1: So next year we'll get them next year.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: There were some other I'm gonna rottle off some of
Speaker 2: the hitting ones and you tell me which one you like.
Speaker 1: The most.
Speaker 2: Harrison Bader went to the Yankees. Brandon Drury leaves the
Speaker 2: Reds in a full full time role to presume full
Speaker 2: time role, but it could be a little platoony with
Speaker 2: the Padres. Joey gallow goes to the Dodgers. You had
Speaker 2: Eric Costmer was kind of the big shocker. Eric Cosmer
Speaker 2: turned down going to the Nationals yesterday and that did
Speaker 2: not anything. He ended up getting moved in a Red
Speaker 2: Sox trade. So between Eric Hosmer, Joey Gallo, Brandon Drury,
Speaker 2: Harrison Vader, which move did you like the most from
Speaker 2: a fantasy perspective.
Speaker 3: Well, I know that Mayer's most excited about Hosmer. He
Speaker 3: made that quite clear on Twitter. But I would say
Speaker 3: the one that makes me actually the most excited, weirdly
Speaker 3: is Gallo to the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Really, I feel like.
Speaker 3: He can't get worse, and I feel like New York
Speaker 3: was crushing him.
Speaker 2: And you know what, Gallo, you test him, You can
Speaker 2: he get get worse?
Speaker 1: You test him?
Speaker 3: I know, I mean, you know it's like you that
Speaker 3: interview that he gave just really like I thought, yeah,
Speaker 3: let's just get him out of here. And the Dodgers
Speaker 3: certainly can use, you know. I mean, if just don't
Speaker 3: put him in Belager back back, I think that would
Speaker 3: be right.
Speaker 2: Here's what I'm voting for for the Earth. It is
Speaker 2: tune in baseball. If you get Muncie, Gallo and Bellinger
Speaker 2: back to back, please do that. And I am here
Speaker 2: for I will live stream that if I can get those,
Speaker 2: So it might be the most exciting thing you could
Speaker 2: have in the entire baseball season, that you could have
Speaker 2: an immaculate inning that you should tune in for an
Speaker 2: immaculate inning.
Speaker 3: That is.
Speaker 1: I don't get the trade. I hated it, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you.
Speaker 2: It's a good thing, I guess for Gallo, I just
Speaker 2: didn't understand it overall. Like the Brandon Drury one, It's
Speaker 2: probably not a big fantasy boost, but I think it's
Speaker 2: one of I guess, if you look at from a
Speaker 2: boost perspective, Gallows actually probably is the best because he's
Speaker 2: got a probably a better opportunity for some playing time
Speaker 2: there where Drury didn't really help himself. But I still
Speaker 2: feel like he is the best asset across all of
Speaker 2: those all those hitters.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's just kind of the reverse Molly to me,
Speaker 3: where I'm like, you're taking him out of that ballpark,
Speaker 3: and I think he because I'm not sure what his
Speaker 3: splits were. I looked at but at home I was
Speaker 3: he was like a perennial home run call for me,
Speaker 3: especially if he left he was on the mountain, but
Speaker 3: on the road, I was kind of like, I don't know.
Speaker 3: And also, you know with the padres, but now they
Speaker 3: can really go right, left, right left, I mean right
Speaker 3: down the road.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you get versus every single lefty like he's
Speaker 2: the most against all day long on the pictures, just
Speaker 2: kind of cleaning it up here. David Robertson went to
Speaker 2: the Phillies, which that looks like that could be a
Speaker 2: closer situation. Rice, like Glacias, for anybody that paid really
Speaker 2: high on him, goes to the Braves, which is a
Speaker 2: little dicey because you know, Kellen Jansen's not healthy, but
Speaker 2: when he's healthy, you assume he has the gig.
Speaker 1: So he's a little bit of a big question.
Speaker 2: Mark Anthony Bass was in another trade between Robertson.
Speaker 1: Here's a question.
Speaker 2: Who's more valuable the rest of the season, David Robertson
Speaker 2: or Rice Galacias.
Speaker 3: I mean in fantasy I think because Robertson is probably
Speaker 3: going to step into the closure role. And I think
Speaker 3: someone I saw on Twitter said that Jansen was going
Speaker 3: to retain the closure role in Atlanta. So Robertson, But
Speaker 3: I yeah, again, I feel like Phillies closers have some
Speaker 3: sort of weird curse sometimes all the way back to
Speaker 3: like Mitch Williams. But yeah, so I would go with
Speaker 3: Robertson in a saves Holds league. I would way rather
Speaker 3: have I Glaciers.
Speaker 2: One percent well, because he doesn't really lose any value.
Speaker 2: If anything, he goes to a better opportunity to save
Speaker 2: hold league.
Speaker 1: You could argue rys Iglesias improved.
Speaker 2: Exponentially his value leaving the Angels and going to a
Speaker 2: team like Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I could completely agree with that.
Speaker 2: But that's what's so funny about this is like David
Speaker 2: Robertson goes into like a clear role.
Speaker 1: This is a funny thing.
Speaker 2: I just thinking about Full Metal had put in Gallo
Speaker 2: and Bellinger could be the downfall.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers to think about this.
Speaker 2: Yesterday, within the last forty eight hours, the Padres traded
Speaker 2: for Josh Aderjuan So and Josh bell and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: brought in Cody Joey Gallo, Cody Bellinger too. I could
Speaker 2: say the same thing. They're the same player, so really
Speaker 2: interesting perspective. If the Padres don't.
Speaker 1: Win, it's going to be embarrassing.
Speaker 2: On the injury front, there's a whole bunch. Drake Scouoble
Speaker 2: ended up landing on the IL after that left arm
Speaker 2: fatigue that we were given. Probably gonna play him really
Speaker 2: easy the rest of the year. Justin Turner going on
Speaker 2: the ten day IL retroactive to July thirtieth. John Gray
Speaker 2: was placed on the fifteen day or with an oblique injury.
Speaker 1: You talked about it, Kelly talked about it.
Speaker 2: George Springer was out again last night, hasn't played since Saturday.
Speaker 2: Always nagging injuries. Abby so Garcia's got a hamstring. Byron
Speaker 2: Buckston did not play day to day with knee issues
Speaker 2: out of Monday and Tuesday, and David Bednar did not
Speaker 2: get a save opportunity, which had everybody freaking out for like,
Speaker 2: you know, twenty minutes on Twitter, but he was dealing
Speaker 2: with some back issues. So, Kelly, do you have a
Speaker 2: Byron bucks in comment? You need to get off your chest?
Speaker 2: Do you need to get out Byron bucks You can't
Speaker 2: do it in the chat. You can't ras me you
Speaker 2: know about Byron buctions. Do you need to get something
Speaker 2: off your chest?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean I the trade deadline in one
Speaker 3: of my more intense leagues was over on the weekend
Speaker 3: and I benefited from a Buxton for a Rose Arena
Speaker 3: trade because a couple of picks came with it. But
Speaker 3: the whole time as I received Buxton, I thought, oh, no,
Speaker 3: like it's just a I feel so I feel so
Speaker 3: bad for him, but I also can making jokes. You
Speaker 3: quiet acquired him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so now you're on the train. Okay, so
Speaker 2: breaking news. The Walke Penguin officially team Byron Buckston. Just
Speaker 2: want everyone to know. So anytime he does anything, make
Speaker 2: sure to tweet the Wonky Penguin to let to let
Speaker 2: Kelly know.
Speaker 3: Here another breaking news. Now that he's on my team,
Speaker 3: he won't play the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: So okay, he'll be perpetuity, He'll never get done. Yeah,
Speaker 2: here's a fun fact that you actually put on the
Speaker 2: sheet here.
Speaker 1: Wan Soto has a career OPS of one to sixty.
Speaker 2: Only four players have had a higher OPS through their
Speaker 2: age twenty three season.
Speaker 1: It's almost a trivia thing.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do it because we have another
Speaker 2: good piece of trivia, Ted Williams, Tykab, Mike Trout and
Speaker 2: Albert pool Hooles.
Speaker 1: That is quite a group to be added to.
Speaker 2: And just remind you, I don't you know, we've never
Speaker 2: we talked about the impact and the biggest trade that
Speaker 2: we've ever seen. We've never seen a guy at this
Speaker 2: age with this type of success in their career be
Speaker 2: tray like this, which makes it so unique.
Speaker 1: And the path that he's.
Speaker 2: Going on younger than probably I think usually you see
Speaker 2: the number like half of the guys that were just
Speaker 2: drafted the MLB Draft. I mean, he's still in that range.
Speaker 2: Another thing is that game you play. I always played
Speaker 2: this where it's like, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I'm just young enough. You know, I'm still young.
Speaker 2: Enough like your thirties, like I can still play or
Speaker 2: something like that, Like Wan Soto is gonna be in
Speaker 2: that forever where it's like he's still in the same
Speaker 2: class of guys in the minor league. So that's a
Speaker 2: very very interesting one. Here is a trivia question and
Speaker 2: Kelly gets to see it. You guys don't so I
Speaker 2: talk to you guys about the fun facts of Vin Scully,
Speaker 2: and this one.
Speaker 1: Popped up here.
Speaker 2: Vin Scully's first professional radio assignment, as I mentioned, was
Speaker 2: a college football game played at which major league ballpark?
Speaker 2: So it was Maryland versus Boston University in nineteen forty nine.
Speaker 2: Any guesses at which major league ballpark the college football.
Speaker 1: Game he announced was.
Speaker 2: I thought this was a really, really fun, interesting one.
Speaker 2: Anybody in the chat wants drop that in. We can
Speaker 2: go and we can give you credit if you can
Speaker 2: get this, because there's no chance.
Speaker 1: I would have got that.
Speaker 2: This Ariza Giza, Actually the Yankee Stadium is incorrect. There's
Speaker 2: probably only so many that you guys can guess. We'll
Speaker 2: go through some stat heroes. Kevin Gosman eight innings, one hit,
Speaker 2: ten strikeouts. Muh, Kevin Gosman even more double muh muh.
Speaker 2: Spencer's Strider six and two thirds, one and run, three hits,
Speaker 2: thirteen strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Kelly.
Speaker 2: I have been a Spencer Strider guy for quite some time.
Speaker 2: I've talked on here about how I got a tongue
Speaker 2: lashing on the dumb Twitter about me asking even asking
Speaker 2: the question. By the way, Spencer Striter or Aaron Ashby
Speaker 2: and just all the people losing their minds about it.
Speaker 2: Usually when you do something wrong, everyone lets you know,
Speaker 2: Wonky thank you very much yesterday reminding me about Fran Morays.
Speaker 2: Nobody likes to tell you when you do things right.
Speaker 2: I am starting to get a couple more trickling in
Speaker 2: about how I've been on Spencer Strider.
Speaker 1: Is Spencer Striter.
Speaker 2: Moving into an elite territory for you? Or do you
Speaker 2: think even you know this is like a Dynasty versus
Speaker 2: Redraft question. I know there's a question on this year
Speaker 2: versus maybe innings that are gonna come down, but do
Speaker 2: you think he is an lead option this year? And
Speaker 2: how elite in a longer dynasty format?
Speaker 3: I love him? So you actually kind of talked me
Speaker 3: into him in a couple of different leagues, mostly Redraft. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know you're you're my hero now, but yeah, he
Speaker 3: I hesitate to call him elite just because I've seen
Speaker 3: him do some weird stuff, but at that kne rate, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, I think, what do you think? Top?
Speaker 1: Oh? Am?
Speaker 2: I redraft my Redraft ranks. I'm updating this Friday. I
Speaker 2: think they'll be released and I moved him up another
Speaker 2: bump I actually trade it from. I gave up one
Speaker 2: of the bigger hauls that I've get up in quite
Speaker 2: some time in a dynasty league the other day, where
Speaker 2: I gave up a couple big prospects and a first
Speaker 2: round pick, I gave up Josh Young. I know it's
Speaker 2: go'da be crazy for Josh Young and James Wood and
Speaker 2: a first rounder and a sixteen teamer, but I believe
Speaker 2: in him and I needed some more starting pitching, and
Speaker 2: I feel really good about, as you know, just acquiring
Speaker 2: him yesterday.
Speaker 1: He has got this is what I want to look at.
Speaker 1: He doesn't.
Speaker 2: He's still not under the qualifications, which is super annoying here,
Speaker 2: but under k per nine on the season, if you
Speaker 2: open it up a little bit, he is the number
Speaker 2: one k per nine in all of baseball with eighty
Speaker 2: or more innings with a thirteen point seven to six
Speaker 2: k p nine. Above show Heyo Tani, above Dylan CEA's,
Speaker 2: above Christian Javier and above Shane McClanahan.
Speaker 1: That's the territory. Yeah, it's top twenty. It's top twenty
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: The worry you have is that he's going to be uh,
Speaker 2: you know, limited on his innings at this point, he
Speaker 2: and like you said, it's a little no pun intended
Speaker 2: wonky as well in game where it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: command can go all over the board.
Speaker 1: That's why I've.
Speaker 2: Been comping him to like Shane McClanahan, light like it
Speaker 2: reminds me of the same thing. McClanahan had some command
Speaker 2: issues early on and really got it. Gram Ashcraft eight
Speaker 2: and one third, three strikeouts, Corey Abbott five innings, three strikeouts.
Speaker 2: On the hitter front, Jorge Matteo had two bombs with
Speaker 2: five homers. All of the late late rounders are cheering.
Speaker 2: Hassan Kim, looking like he's going to become a utility player,
Speaker 2: goes four for five. Marshall Lazuna Trent Grisham both had
Speaker 2: a couple of bombs. Mookie Betts homer, going three for five,
Speaker 2: Carson Kelly had a homer. Jershan Profar was five for
Speaker 2: six with two RBIs Eloy perfect three for three, Jake
Speaker 2: Crona worp one homer, two RBI. If we're going back
Speaker 2: to the question, Darryl, that's right. It was in Boston
Speaker 2: Finway Park nineteen forty nine, Maryland versus Boston University. Vin
Speaker 2: Scully's first ever professional radio assignment, and it wasn't baseball,
Speaker 2: but it was at Finway, So good job for Darryl
Speaker 2: hitting out.
Speaker 3: Wasn't it also super cold that day? He I think
Speaker 3: they put him up on like he was outdoors, like
Speaker 3: just sitting kind of on the side, and it was
Speaker 3: He's from what I remember, he just said it was
Speaker 3: like ridiculously cold, ridiculously Wendy so boss it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's a weird stereotype. Like I when I think
Speaker 2: of like nineteen forty nine, it's always cold. In my mind,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter where in the country, it's just cold.
Speaker 2: Like if if someone says, hey, that day in nineteen
Speaker 2: forty nine, doesn't matter the country, the state, the city,
Speaker 2: it's cold. To me, it's super cold. People are wearing jackets.
Speaker 2: There's there's you know, just depressive lifestyle. I just you know,
Speaker 2: maybe maybe prohibition is still coming.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just anything like post sixties. I'm like, it's super
Speaker 2: cold there. So yeah, I would think it's unbearable. On
Speaker 2: stat Zero's Corey kannebl five earned runs, couldn't get out
Speaker 2: of a full inning. Brad Keller. Brad Keller, Actually there's
Speaker 2: a trade rumor going on. He didn't and he gave
Speaker 2: up eight earned runs five and two thirds. Alex would
Speaker 2: got lit up six earned. Spencer Howard. There's a Spencer Howard.
Speaker 2: What I bet him against next week? Last week he
Speaker 2: was the Spencer Strider and then he finally got lit up.
Speaker 1: He gave up six earned runs and four innings.
Speaker 2: That strikeout prop he was the number one on betting
Speaker 2: pros did not work out. Logan Gilbert got lit up
Speaker 2: a little bit six earned. Jamison tie on five earned runs,
Speaker 2: though he did hit the.
Speaker 1: Strikeout mark I believe.
Speaker 2: I think it was five and a half or four
Speaker 2: and a half yesterday and he got six even though
Speaker 2: he got beat up a little bit on the hitters front.
Speaker 2: Charlie Blackman oh for five with three k's, India had three. Solano,
Speaker 2: who I just mentioned why you should look at Spencer
Speaker 2: Steer had four strikeouts yesterday going oh for five.
Speaker 1: That's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Melndez, Nelson, Cruz, Alec Bohm, Candelario, Jadie Martinez and Andrew
Speaker 2: ben and Tendi all three strikeout games, which is no bueno.
Speaker 1: No bueno, guys.
Speaker 2: We have an updated home run leader board.
Speaker 1: Walk wou'd you have yesterday?
Speaker 3: I had rowdy twelves yesterday.
Speaker 1: No rowdy, I didn't get mine.
Speaker 3: Oh no, he got he got one.
Speaker 2: Oh you did get one. See what a beautiful thing
Speaker 2: we have you on. I wish we could get you
Speaker 2: on the board. But look this race right here, Die
Speaker 2: Blam and night King North are coming for High Cubby.
Speaker 2: High Cubby has been if I you can tell me, Kelly,
Speaker 2: I don't recall. I don't think high Cubby's had a
Speaker 2: homer in quite some time. But maybe I'm wrong about
Speaker 2: that because maybe they jumped up. But dee Blom and
Speaker 2: Knight King are right on the tail. Mike Mayor at
Speaker 2: thirty five, my boy Delgado down there at thirty three,
Speaker 2: and yesterday fifteen correct calls. Last night on the top board,
Speaker 2: Deeblam had Mooki, Night King had Paul Goldschmidt, Mike Mayor
Speaker 2: had Mooki, and then a whole bunch of other gold
Speaker 2: Schmid's actually got everybody else on the board.
Speaker 1: And that is quite the market. Do you know where
Speaker 1: you're at, Kelly, I.
Speaker 3: Am one above you, which thanks said, I'm yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: not sure. I got two in the first week, and
Speaker 3: then I think I took all of may off, so
Speaker 3: everyone ran away, and I was kind of just still
Speaker 3: sitting there thinking should I just start calling Judge? You know,
Speaker 3: it got ugly for a while.
Speaker 2: I think the same thing. I like you said that
Speaker 2: You're like, yeah, against you. It makes me sad, But
Speaker 2: I kind of have the same thing.
Speaker 1: Like you know, for the.
Speaker 2: First three months or two months I was on here,
Speaker 2: I was only on here three days a week, and
Speaker 2: I wasn't really calling them on the other ones. But
Speaker 2: you know, I just it hasn't necessarily been my thing.
Speaker 2: But you guys are running away with it and doing fantastic.
Speaker 2: But I would still point out Aaron Judge in real
Speaker 2: life baseball has more home run calls than us who
Speaker 2: have been calling it Monday through Friday. Who can get
Speaker 2: three homers in a day? And Aaron Judge is still
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Speaker 1: Maybe you could do checking it out.
Speaker 2: I've got your top total base and your top strikeout
Speaker 2: prop for the Bettingpros dot Com prop cheat sheet if
Speaker 2: you want to check it out. And I apologize, Donnie,
Speaker 2: I still have not got the crown. It's actually my
Speaker 2: kids first day at school. It's the perfect day to
Speaker 2: have gotten it because my daughter can't be mad that
Speaker 2: I grabbed the tiara. I apologize, Kelly. I know you
Speaker 2: said it was a must. I completely forgot. Everybody is
Speaker 2: on me about the Tiara.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I had to take my kids to school
Speaker 1: so early this morning.
Speaker 2: I will bring it out next show that I'm on
Speaker 2: with Wonky. I promise you I will have the Tiara.
Speaker 2: But Wonky, we've got the top two total This is
Speaker 2: the top total base in top strikeout option for Betting
Speaker 2: Pros prop cheat sheet, the number check it option. Jalen
Speaker 2: beaks at on DraftKings at one and a half I
Speaker 2: think is the over. That's all they have again, there's
Speaker 2: a projected four four to five I think, so it's
Speaker 2: a great marker, and Kyle Schwarber the total base king
Speaker 2: here it is at half, but it's minus one fifty five.
Speaker 2: That's actually the best juice that you can find, either
Speaker 2: one of those. You're into Beaks on the strikeout or
Speaker 2: Kyle Schwarber at just one total base today, So.
Speaker 3: Beaks, it's just going to be an opener. Yarborough's coming
Speaker 3: in I think inning two or three, so the one
Speaker 3: and a half is you know, it looks good though
Speaker 3: up against Toronto, I think that he can get that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I swear we're over no problem. And that's
Speaker 3: one and.
Speaker 1: That's where the projection is.
Speaker 2: And I will tell you guys, today total bases are wild.
Speaker 2: They're in the top thirty projected on the prop sheet.
Speaker 2: There was not one that I saw that was plus money,
Speaker 2: or maybe there was only one. It's a crazy market today,
Speaker 2: so I'm being careful. The one I did find I
Speaker 2: thought was the best in my mind was Rafael Devers,
Speaker 2: which is at minus one oh five, so almost even money.
Speaker 2: Up against the Astros. You've got and you've got a
Speaker 2: left you got a right hander. For Rafael Devers, this
Speaker 2: is his money spot, hitting three thirty three against righty.
Speaker 2: So I love Ralph field Devers at almost even money
Speaker 2: over on FanDuel and the other one you know, fool
Speaker 2: me once. But Freddy Peralta, I know he's returning his
Speaker 2: strikeout numbers at six and a half, but it's it's
Speaker 2: plus one twenty six against Pittsburgh. So I can't help
Speaker 2: myself on that one. I do worry about the how
Speaker 2: late he can go into games, but I feel like
Speaker 2: he'll go a little bit further than Jacob de Grom.
Speaker 1: Real quick DFS stuff.
Speaker 2: I just want to point out some of the big dogs.
Speaker 2: Al Kintara on FanDuel eleven point two today, Peralta's ten
Speaker 2: point five. Maybe a good play matchup wise is Joe
Speaker 2: Ryan at eight point four and implied implied run totals
Speaker 2: if you want to stack some players guys over five.
Speaker 2: Cleveland Mets and San Diego Mets the highest implied run
Speaker 2: total today. And I know it didn't work out yesterday,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna go right back to it because, like
Speaker 2: I said, I can't help myself and Kelly, I'm going
Speaker 2: with pe Alonzo on the home run call today. I
Speaker 2: almost went mart I went back to the Marte total
Speaker 2: basis yesterday I ended up not doing it, but I
Speaker 2: am going pied Alonzo on my home run call today.
Speaker 2: I cannot help myself. And if it happens again and
Speaker 2: the Mets are gonna met me, I don't know what
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: Where are you going?
Speaker 3: Look? You know, I try to find people who are interesting.
Speaker 3: I try to find people that are kind of not chalky.
Speaker 3: But I can't see Juan Soto not homering off of
Speaker 3: cool Chad in San Diego like I. If he plays,
Speaker 3: I think he's going yard at least once. So yeah,
Speaker 3: because they have to pitch to him. Now, what an
Speaker 3: amazing what an amazing turn of events?
Speaker 2: Lineup protection is It's quite a thing. It's absolutely quite
Speaker 2: a thing. And I still have I don't know who
Speaker 2: Mayor has Do you know who Mayor's call is? He's
Speaker 2: not putting on the sheet anymore.
Speaker 3: So, Oh, I saw it, but I don't remember.
Speaker 1: Okay, who cares about it? And it's just Mayor whatever,
Speaker 1: It's just Mayor, No big deal. Kelly, You're off the
Speaker 1: hot seat. You did it. You did awesome.
Speaker 2: The Wonky Penguin on Twitter, what's uh you? What stuff
Speaker 2: do you have going on? Over at Fantasy pros that
Speaker 2: people should check out.
Speaker 3: First of all, shout out to Pans and Cracker Jacks.
Speaker 3: You are my people. I love you, and also high
Speaker 3: Mom and Dad because I think they're in the chat
Speaker 3: ready to defend me and I'm like, they're friends. It's
Speaker 3: fine over on Fantasy Pros. I mean, I'm like, Mom,
Speaker 3: you're not gonna have to find anyone. But anyway, on
Speaker 3: Fantasy Pros right now. I wrote a streamers article last weekend,
Speaker 3: but I would really like if you just ignore it
Speaker 3: because I had Brad Keller in last night, but tonight
Speaker 3: I do, but today I have Brady Singer and I'm
Speaker 3: a little obsessed with him. Otherwise, Yeah, you know, we've
Speaker 3: just got a ton of the amount of content that
Speaker 3: comes out every day on fantas Pros and cutting pros
Speaker 3: is amazing. So I get to kind of have my
Speaker 3: hands in it, and it's awesome, and.
Speaker 1: I want to give a hat tip to you. I've
Speaker 1: said it to you off air, you know.
Speaker 2: I know it's been a transition and I everybody's dealing
Speaker 2: with it a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know, I gotta say it's actually pretty good.
Speaker 2: I've got no real negativity, and I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people have hung out. But I know it's difficult
Speaker 2: for everybody to go from like Joe all the last
Speaker 2: year hosting all of this year and then you're kind
Speaker 2: of thrown in with me, and I know that can
Speaker 2: be jarring for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, I.
Speaker 2: Think I've I've seen all good stuff, everybody hanging out,
Speaker 2: and I'm super happy about that that hopefully I'm making
Speaker 2: the transition easier and still fun and not as weird.
Speaker 1: And Kelly is a big part of that. She has
Speaker 1: been a.
Speaker 2: Huge, huge help to putting together the show sheets on
Speaker 2: the back end, which I was not expecting, and I
Speaker 2: was a pleasant surprise on Monday and it's been a present,
Speaker 2: pleasant prize the whole way through. So I just want
Speaker 2: to publicly thank you for the great job that you
Speaker 2: do on the back end of putting some of this
Speaker 2: stuff together.
Speaker 1: So thank you very much.
Speaker 2: And friends, that is it. You're going to get to
Speaker 2: see more of Kelly in the near future. Here, the
Speaker 2: Wonky Penguin, the Welsh. It is leading off. Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: Bye bye, So you