Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Leading Off Live. This is Fantasy
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Speaker 1: We can get business day casual all in the front
Speaker 1: right now, and let's get to the headlines of what's
Speaker 1: going on here. It is opening day and lots of
Speaker 1: lineup news. So Welsh, why don't you take us through
Speaker 1: some of the lineup news that's going on right now,
Speaker 1: including maybe one of the worst lineups we've ever seen
Speaker 1: on an opening day.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, the worst lineup. We need to run a
Speaker 2: poll if we can. I need something in here. I
Speaker 2: don't know if Cali can do this. We're gonna get
Speaker 2: to it. Here's my t's the worst lineup of all
Speaker 2: time in the history of baseball opening days is happening today.
Speaker 2: But we'll get to that at the bottom. So here
Speaker 2: are some interesting notes for the lineups that we've seen
Speaker 2: Ellie batting three today, A lot of people talking about
Speaker 2: the five toolness of like RBIs or whatnot. He's in
Speaker 2: the three spot, with Matt McClain in the two spot,
Speaker 2: very fantasy, valuable on both sides, Cees in the seventh spot.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that does anything for you. You'll
Speaker 2: do little stops in between some of these, anything do
Speaker 2: it for you? With Ces at seven? I don't really
Speaker 2: love that.
Speaker 1: Uh well, I mean, look, Le's just be happy he's
Speaker 1: in the lineup, you know. I mean it sounds like
Speaker 1: we've been like straight to greatness for CS. And you
Speaker 1: remember when we were breaking him down as a prospect.
Speaker 1: My big thing was that he's got a giant hitch
Speaker 1: at his swing. And I told you, when you get
Speaker 1: to the big league level, the better pitchers are going
Speaker 1: to take advantage of that with the breaking stuff for
Speaker 1: the other things they could do and then jamminy inside.
Speaker 1: And he has struggled a little bit at the big
Speaker 1: league level. He was mash and mighty league pitching. I
Speaker 1: like Ellie in the three spot. I love Elli, and
Speaker 1: I got a ton of Ellie sharers. Ellie's my home
Speaker 1: one of my home league keepers. So we had that
Speaker 1: draft last night. I love it because I wanted to
Speaker 1: see him get the RBI as well as you know,
Speaker 1: the stolen bases and everything else in the run scored,
Speaker 1: so you know, when those guys get up to that
Speaker 1: one spot, two spot, you know, sometimes the RBI they
Speaker 1: don't always tick up to where you want. So that
Speaker 1: I do like. And the Marlins lineup he is gross. Yea,
Speaker 1: let's you go through you.
Speaker 2: Just want to get right into it. Yeahah, let me
Speaker 2: just play out through some of these other ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: By the way, boy, these lineups all right. James Wood
Speaker 2: is two, he's hitting in the two hole. Love that.
Speaker 2: Dylan Cruz in the eighth spot. Hate that. Just want
Speaker 2: to throw that out, Absolutely hate that. Andres Jmenez cleaning
Speaker 2: up for the Blue Jays today. Okay, I didn't have
Speaker 2: that on my bingo card for opening day. Andre Jimenez
Speaker 2: from the four spot. Matt Wallner is leading off again.
Speaker 2: It's a trend we saw in spring training, so I
Speaker 2: think that's fantastic. Just want to let everybody know that's
Speaker 2: a confirmation the Saint Louis Cardinals through all the players
Speaker 2: that you love at the bottom of the order. They
Speaker 2: hate them. Jordan Walker seven, Victor Scott eight, Mason Win nine.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to monitor that they put Brendan Donovan
Speaker 2: at three. And the single worst lineup I have ever
Speaker 2: might not just be Opening Day. I need to hear
Speaker 2: in the chat if you can give me a worse one. Oh,
Speaker 2: I've got worse. I've got I have it as too.
Speaker 2: You can read it in a second. Then worst lineup
Speaker 2: of all time in Opening Day, maybe worst lineup I've
Speaker 2: ever seen in a baseball game. I have seen Arizona
Speaker 2: Fall League rosters that look exponentially better than this. I
Speaker 2: cannot believe the Marlins are putting this lineup out. So
Speaker 2: Joe present us with this incredible atrocity.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go, Xavier Edwards than Stours hitting second,
Speaker 1: playing left, Bride at DH, Murvus at first, Lopez at second,
Speaker 1: Coenine and Ryefield not Jeff Conine, mind you not Senior
Speaker 1: Hill at centerfield, Paulli at third, four Tes at ketcher.
Speaker 1: This is this is a joke. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: this is an absolute, filthy, horrible joke. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know what are we doing here, Marlins, and I
Speaker 1: see in the chat. Somebody put it in there. I
Speaker 1: guess if I can find it, Miami should sell the team.
Speaker 1: I had a tweet earlier today. Go find it at
Speaker 1: Joe Pisap of seventeen on the big Twitter machine because
Speaker 1: I was rebooting baseball movies for twenty twenty five and
Speaker 1: one of them that I rebooted was Major League. And
Speaker 1: what I said is the new theory of the story is,
Speaker 1: in an effort to sell the team cheap ownership assembles
Speaker 1: the worst group of players possible to move to Miami.
Speaker 1: But they forget they've already got a team in Miami
Speaker 1: that's doing that. So instead they just signed Trevor Baller instead.
Speaker 1: And that's that's it. That's it. That's the tweet, folks,
Speaker 1: crazy tweet.
Speaker 2: It's no good, But I gotta tell you real quick.
Speaker 2: I immediately went to go look at at the Paul
Speaker 2: skin strikeout numbers because that's the lineup that Paul Jeans
Speaker 2: is going to be going again.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that. That's on the docket for today.
Speaker 2: Let me know if you agree that that is the
Speaker 2: worst lineup that any team has ever put out, We're
Speaker 2: not going to do it. The whole show but just
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Speaker 1: I love a good subcard. Love that. Also, can we
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Speaker 1: Here's a question for you from whips Well on four
Speaker 1: pm Eastern Wednesdays, We're going to do just a Q
Speaker 1: and A for an hour with just you guys taking
Speaker 1: your questions, but on demand on YouTube, so you can
Speaker 1: still watch on YouTube. It'll be on the YouTube. I
Speaker 1: want to get to a couple of questions because rosters
Speaker 1: are going to lock in for people. Would you drop
Speaker 1: Jared Jones and pick up Robby Wright or Gavin Williams. Yes,
Speaker 1: I would pick up both of those guys to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, So drop Jones, pick up both of
Speaker 1: those guys. Priority. Who is it for you?
Speaker 2: Rayer Williams I would probably go Gavin Williams, but both
Speaker 2: really cool, both hiccups. I'm not super anti Jerry Jones
Speaker 2: like for the season, but I do think it could
Speaker 2: hold down those are No one gets those options, by
Speaker 2: the way, so good on you.
Speaker 1: For this one's from Smitty two. Would you rather have
Speaker 1: Colton Kowser or Cedric Mullen on your roster?
Speaker 2: Colton Kowser?
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. Also today, some great pitching matchups,
Speaker 1: because opening day you always get the number one guys
Speaker 1: Peralta Rodn. Okay, that's all right. You've got Wheeler on
Speaker 1: the mound today, but not the greatest magically outside and
Speaker 1: Gore we like him as a sleeper. But there's some
Speaker 1: premium matchups here today, some really good ones. We've got
Speaker 1: Michael King and Chris Sale. That's a good one. Hunter
Speaker 1: Green and Logan Webb should be really fun. Hopefully Sonny
Speaker 1: Gray is feeling better. Him and Pablo Lopez should be entertaining.
Speaker 1: I'll contra in Skien, so although the Marlins are putting
Speaker 1: out a trash lineup again, I've already bet the over
Speaker 1: on Skien strikeouts. I might have to laugh or bet
Speaker 1: that today. I just don't know how long he's gonna
Speaker 1: pitch in that game, because that's the first game. That's
Speaker 1: my only problem. Scoble Snell, that to me is the
Speaker 1: ultimate matchup today that I want to see those lefties
Speaker 1: on the mound? Which one is your favorite of all
Speaker 1: the matchups you got out there today on the mound?
Speaker 2: I mean getting to see schemes in al contra I
Speaker 2: think is phenomenal. Tariq's Scooble and Snell. I'm a little partial.
Speaker 2: I want Garrett Crochet is a singular picture that I'm
Speaker 2: really hyper focused on. But yeah, I think Scooble Snell
Speaker 2: is the best lineup here is a piece of news
Speaker 2: that came down. Tanner Byby scratched today. Nothing terrifying, just sick.
Speaker 2: Just he's hanging out with Mooki.
Speaker 1: Or going on the flu. The illness is going on,
Speaker 1: so at least it's not an arm issue or anything
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: Ben Lively is going to get the start. So no
Speaker 2: Tanner Biby today.
Speaker 1: All right, In case you missed it too, Just a
Speaker 1: couple more headlines to go through. The Mariners signed cal
Speaker 1: Rawley to a six year, one hundred and five million
Speaker 1: dollar contract extension, So good for cal Rawley, power hitting catcher.
Speaker 1: We like him. And then the Red Sox did confirm
Speaker 1: we talked about this on the live stream yesterday that
Speaker 1: Raphael Dever's No Duh is going to be the DH
Speaker 1: for the Red Sox in twenty twenty. Of course, is
Speaker 1: because he's a terrible defender. He's been a bad defender
Speaker 1: for his entire career. And you could play Christian Campbell
Speaker 1: at second, you could play Alex Bregman at third. You
Speaker 1: can cast us it first d HD Effers, and you've
Speaker 1: got a legit lineup a lot like right now out
Speaker 1: there the buzz, and I'm on the buzz too. I
Speaker 1: was on this buzz as soon as the Garrett Coole
Speaker 1: injury happened. But a lot of people are picking the
Speaker 1: Red Sox right now. That number is gonna change for
Speaker 1: that division.
Speaker 2: You turned into Jerry Seinfeld there for about then. You're
Speaker 2: like the buzz. Everyone's talking about the buzz.
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Speaker 2: You don't even like Seinfeld, I don't, I don't, I'm not,
Speaker 2: but you just I.
Speaker 1: Used to love Seinfeld. The older, I get I'm tired
Speaker 1: of it. Like you know, some shows you can watch
Speaker 1: over and over again and just never get sick of that.
Speaker 1: What I'm starting to get a little sick of.
Speaker 2: I finally hit Always Sonny's kind of a never get
Speaker 2: sick of type of show.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I started watching the first couple of seasons
Speaker 1: that I gotta pick it up again. I gotta pick
Speaker 1: that up again. Bo Wait, what was your favorite matchup
Speaker 1: for the pictures today?
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess I would say the Scoople Snell
Speaker 2: one is probably the one that jumps out. But what
Speaker 2: is my sale Michael, I don't know that's the one,
Speaker 2: But like I'm hedging is good. Yeah, I'm hedging because
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, I love like Skeens in Alcntra. It
Speaker 2: could be awesome, but like Skeens might be the best
Speaker 2: watch because guy might have seven strikeouts in one inning.
Speaker 2: And I know that's not impossible, but that's what that's
Speaker 2: what this Marlin's lineup might give to him. Like the
Speaker 2: alt line might be one of the most outside of
Speaker 2: Tyler O'Neil to hit a homer. So we did this
Speaker 2: on the live stream just to let everybody know what
Speaker 2: you're in for today. Five straight years Tyler O'Neill has
Speaker 2: hit a homer on opening Day. I believe most of
Speaker 2: the books have said it is the number one bet
Speaker 2: home run bet of the day is Tyler O'Neill, and
Speaker 2: it's right around three and a half to one. Outside
Speaker 2: of that, it might become Paul Skean's alternate strikeouts are
Speaker 2: going to be the big one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think it's wrong. Whip says a question
Speaker 1: Ober at Saint Louis or lu Goover's Cleveland this week?
Speaker 2: Man, that Saint Louis lineup is not super great.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: See I'm not the biggest Ober guy, but I would
Speaker 2: go ober.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ober, here's another one from the Muffin Monster, the Vientos.
Speaker 1: Is he worth getting in a ten person head to
Speaker 1: head league? I think so? I mean absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2: He's the top ten team league, top one hundred players,
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Without a doubt here. All right, then Josh Low or
Speaker 1: Jason Dimingez another.
Speaker 2: One like as a today thing.
Speaker 1: I let's think it's a today thing.
Speaker 2: I would say Josh Low Dimingez pushed down in the
Speaker 2: lineup pretty hard, but.
Speaker 1: Isn't uh well, Pepio's on the mound today right for
Speaker 1: the Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a horrible but I mean, I'm just saying,
Speaker 2: like dimingas.
Speaker 1: They're going against the Colorado Rockies, which more on the
Speaker 1: Rockies in just a second. Now it's opening days, so
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Speaker 1: wait for that where you have to buy those costumes
Speaker 1: pretty soon. But we're gonna do our all Welsh all
Speaker 1: Joe teams today. And these are the players that we've
Speaker 1: attached ourselves to over this offseason that you've heard us
Speaker 1: talk about a million times if you watch us on
Speaker 1: the YouTube channel, and if you're just joining us for
Speaker 1: the first time, we're probably gonna talk about them a
Speaker 1: million more in season as well. So here's my group,
Speaker 1: and again, these are players that I think that between
Speaker 1: all the shows, all the drafts, all the discussions, all
Speaker 1: the write ups, everything that we've done, I think have
Speaker 1: led us to some of these players. And I'm looking
Speaker 1: at this and now, if I could get this as
Speaker 1: a team, I'd be so happy. I would roll with
Speaker 1: this here opening day and any day. So here is
Speaker 1: my All Joe team for twenty twenty five. Logan Ohapi
Speaker 1: a catcher, first base, Trystan Cassus again, two guys that
Speaker 1: I think are gonna have big power seasons. Then I
Speaker 1: have attached my name in the bold predictions that Welsh
Speaker 1: might have mentioned once or twice on the Live Stroom
Speaker 1: yesterday on YouTube. That is out there on Fantasy Bros.
Speaker 1: Jackson Holiday twenty twenty season. That's my bold prediction for
Speaker 1: Jackson Holiday. We'll see if I'm right. Mark Vientos aforementioned
Speaker 1: third base again in this lineup. I don't see how
Speaker 1: he is not going to produce thirty home runs potentially
Speaker 1: one hundred rbi or more. And then the runs Gord
Speaker 1: as well, I think will be there. This is a
Speaker 1: very formidable Mets lineup. Those are words that I rarely
Speaker 1: have put together in my entire lifetime of being a
Speaker 1: Mets fan. Matt McClain is my shortstop. That's my infield Welsh.
Speaker 1: Give me your infield of your All Welsh team. All right.
Speaker 2: I've been pretty i guess, staunch about the I like
Speaker 2: quite a few catchers, but Austin Wells has been the
Speaker 2: guy I've talked a ton about gonna, you know, get
Speaker 2: lead off potential for the Yankees. And you know, I
Speaker 2: don't even think I looked for the Yankees today. Is
Speaker 2: he leading off? He is leading off? How sexy is that?
Speaker 2: So Austin Wells has been the All Welsh catcher at first,
Speaker 2: Christian Walker, we had a little bit of a bumpy
Speaker 2: road there, but you know he's back. He's going to
Speaker 2: be in the lineup. So Christian Walker all first baseman.
Speaker 2: Marcus Simeon. I've said, I really like getting him later.
Speaker 2: So that is my all second base pick. You know,
Speaker 2: right around like the sixties seventies, I am one of
Speaker 2: the highest rankers on Junior Camonaro and I'm gonna hold
Speaker 2: to it. At third base, he's there, and I am
Speaker 2: one of the absolute highest on Ellie Day La Cruz not.
Speaker 2: I mean, someone might have him at one, but I've
Speaker 2: had him top four the entire season, so Walker, Simeon Camonaro,
Speaker 2: Ellie Day La Cruz. Those have been with Austin Wells
Speaker 2: have been my my infield all Welsh picks.
Speaker 1: One of the funny comments here I see in between
Speaker 1: one of the odds they nail the best bets of
Speaker 1: the day intro one hundred percent, because I don't think
Speaker 1: we're doing the intro anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the intro.
Speaker 1: We're just doing bets. But we can still do it
Speaker 1: if you want to do it, Welsh. We could as
Speaker 1: a bit. I mean I'm not we.
Speaker 2: Could do it today. Maybe all right, I do it today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, it's time for okay, but we're not
Speaker 1: doing it now. Now that's a tease. That's what they
Speaker 1: call it. The business. All right, let's get to the
Speaker 1: outfield and the starting pitcher and reliever here. Ronald Acunya,
Speaker 1: I keep talking about it because I keep hearing things
Speaker 1: little birdies are telling me. Might be as early as
Speaker 1: the first week of May, just saying I'm hearing that.
Speaker 2: Berties.
Speaker 1: You know me. I know people. I know people on
Speaker 1: the inside. I got a guy over here, I got
Speaker 1: a guy over there. I know some things. Lawrence Butler
Speaker 1: another one that i've really been just pounding the table
Speaker 1: for that. I think could have a huge breakout season
Speaker 1: that I don't think we've seen the best of him.
Speaker 1: We saw the best of what he could be for
Speaker 1: a stretch last summer. But now you got to put
Speaker 1: over a full season and I think he can do that.
Speaker 1: I love the move out of that ballpark two for him.
Speaker 1: Louis Robert just going way too late. I've been talking
Speaker 1: about him so much. I think Louis Robert is going
Speaker 1: to be great in April and May because he desperately
Speaker 1: wants to get the heck out of Chicago. And then
Speaker 1: my utility bat, I got one more bat and it's
Speaker 1: back to Junior Kaminaro again. This was the guy that
Speaker 1: I went all in on last year. It wasn't great.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to, you know, get crazy and the
Speaker 1: really the post hype sleepers here of you know, Jackson Holliday.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say sleeper for Junior. I'm an Arrow,
Speaker 1: but the post type guys a little bit where maybe
Speaker 1: the bloom was off the Rows just a tad because
Speaker 1: last year didn't go up to expectations. Well, this year
Speaker 1: I have expectations. My starting pitcher, Blake Snell. Everybody's heard
Speaker 1: me talk about it. Let all those big pictures go.
Speaker 1: Give me Blake Snow. I think he has a real
Speaker 1: shot to win National League so young. And my relief
Speaker 1: pitcher Pete Fairbanks he drafted last night last draft, and
Speaker 1: I did draft your guy Austin Wells in that league too.
Speaker 1: You should be very proud of me, Welsh.
Speaker 2: Very proady.
Speaker 1: Fairbanks cheap closer. Give him to me. I want them,
Speaker 1: especially now with that mcclanhn injury. Now things are a
Speaker 1: little getting a little dicier in that rotation. Gotta move
Speaker 1: Rasmis and then there so Welsh, give me your outfielders
Speaker 1: for the All Welsh team and the two pitchers.
Speaker 2: Wyatt Langford at the top of the outfielders. I've talked
Speaker 2: about getting him or James would love seeing James would
Speaker 2: hit two today, by the way, but White Langford I
Speaker 2: had been very very loud about in that article that
Speaker 2: you could check out that we talked about on the
Speaker 2: livestream that I said seven hundred times Mike Trout, Mike
Speaker 2: Trout coming in at number two, because yes, Mike Trout
Speaker 2: is someone I am invested in in this year and
Speaker 2: I am hoping that we are going to get a
Speaker 2: significant amount of games. Number Three Victor Roebliss. I love
Speaker 2: Victor Robliss. I have to have them on every single
Speaker 2: team going on bas skills, obp, batting average, but the
Speaker 2: stolen bases. Whether I've got an Ellie at the top
Speaker 2: or i got a whole lot of power, I want
Speaker 2: Victor Robliss at the end as a fourth or fifth
Speaker 2: outfielder just because of the dominant stolen bases. He could
Speaker 2: bring my utail Brent Rooker. I've I took Brent Rooker
Speaker 2: in quite a few spots. I'm very much in on him,
Speaker 2: even if there is a batting average regression that's in
Speaker 2: tow and on the pitching side, I had to cheat
Speaker 2: a little bit because, like I think you can go
Speaker 2: either way with the starting pitcher. For me, all I
Speaker 2: talk about is Garrett Crochet and I've done for six months.
Speaker 2: But I also only talk about Spencer Schwellenbach. So I
Speaker 2: think I get both of them. I'm gonna put both
Speaker 2: on there. Those are my rotational pieces everywhere.
Speaker 1: Cheat, No, it's Schwellenbach. You don't get to claims.
Speaker 2: Well, see I thought it was Crochet then, But like
Speaker 2: I'll let the people decide if I only get one,
Speaker 2: you can either one day.
Speaker 1: Obviously a fan of the show, Michael Harris for sure,
Speaker 1: Joe Pi's a p A guy, Yeah.
Speaker 2: For you my closer Andris Munnos would be my final closure.
Speaker 2: By the way, a couple pick up things here hit
Speaker 2: a goal already on the subs. Congratulations you guys freaking rock.
Speaker 2: I think it was Mayor of all people.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that makes me feelips hat. Let's just pretend
Speaker 1: it wasn't Mayor. Let's pretend it was cousin Dottie instead,
Speaker 1: who found his way to twitch. You know, when you
Speaker 1: get close to fifty and you can find you wellt
Speaker 1: We'll pretend it's an accomplishment.
Speaker 2: And we've had multiple people in the chat talking about
Speaker 2: where is the hometown gear? Where are the hats? As
Speaker 2: I said before I literally did on the live stream yesterday,
Speaker 2: my dog has eaten all the hats. You are welcome
Speaker 2: to send in to me a little venmo at the
Speaker 2: Welsh and if you do, I will go get a
Speaker 2: hat tonight in Arizona. But yeah, we have to start
Speaker 2: the hat fund because my dog has eaten like half
Speaker 2: of my hats. We're down to fantasy pros and the
Speaker 2: Savannah Banana. So that is why.
Speaker 1: I said Sarah McLaughlin song kind of you know, like
Speaker 1: just slow move it. You know what we could do that.
Speaker 1: Let's take some slow videos of the hats that he's
Speaker 1: chewed up. Yea, they want him to Michael Kelly, he's
Speaker 1: not doing anything and he'll, uh, he'll make a little
Speaker 1: sad video about it with some sad music and AI.
Speaker 1: It'll be great. It'll be fantastic. So those are our
Speaker 1: all Welsh all Joe teams. I saw some people saying that.
Speaker 1: I someone said they had my entire infield, which is
Speaker 1: kind of cool. Actually, that's that's awesome. I love that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do a little three up and three
Speaker 1: down some of the things that are going on in MLB.
Speaker 1: Three up. Zavid Edwards says he's gonna steal sixty bases.
Speaker 1: He better uh because that's the only way he's gonna get.
Speaker 2: He might be all the bass for the Marlins. He
Speaker 2: might be the only basis based on that team.
Speaker 1: Seriously. Uh, Spencer Steer is going to play today. He
Speaker 1: did avoid the injured list, so that's positive. And Christian
Speaker 1: Campbell uh. On Tuesday, by the way, hit a couple
Speaker 1: head home runs. You need a two run home run there.
Speaker 1: So he's starting to heat up a little bit with
Speaker 1: the bat, which is great. The fact that Campbell made
Speaker 1: the team is great also. You know, in all the
Speaker 1: buzz of Christian Campbell, uh, Rafaela has had a really
Speaker 1: good spring and I feel like nobody's talked about it
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got and he got the center field gig.
Speaker 2: Like they made the commitment that they weren't going to
Speaker 2: take him off of it. Yeah, you know, it's a
Speaker 2: good point. I actually had rafael A pretty high and
Speaker 2: then I just kind of moved it like not even
Speaker 2: have like I'm against him. It was just like, oh,
Speaker 2: this guy's moving up, and this guy's moving up. It
Speaker 2: has quietly been a pretty pretty good spring, and I'm
Speaker 2: you know, the Red Sox have not I'm gonna check
Speaker 2: one more time. Then they haven't released their lineup. I'd
Speaker 2: be very curious at where he's going to be. We
Speaker 2: know It'sion.
Speaker 1: Here's the spring numbers for him. You look for the lineup,
Speaker 1: I'll give you the spring numbers for him. Three sixteen
Speaker 1: four h nine, OBP five twenty six, lugging nine thirty
Speaker 1: five ops in forty four played appearances to homers, ten rubies,
Speaker 1: two steals, and he also had six walks just four strikeouts,
Speaker 1: more walks to strike all of a sudden like Rafaela,
Speaker 1: who might qualify a multiple positions depending on your league
Speaker 1: eligibility rules. That could be one. Where's he in today.
Speaker 2: So that they do not have the Red Sox lineup?
Speaker 2: I imagine it will be. But I do have two
Speaker 2: other interesting I want to throw this at. Two lineup
Speaker 2: adjustments are really interesting ones that popped up this guy.
Speaker 2: I think should have been your You too, Kyle man
Speaker 2: Zardo batting five today for the Guardians. That's a very
Speaker 2: significant one.
Speaker 1: The earlier projections I know on Fangraus had him hitting
Speaker 1: right after Josey Ramirez. So that's not the case anymore.
Speaker 2: Well, but he's hitting five. That's still good with Santana.
Speaker 2: And then how about this one. So a lot of
Speaker 2: people are pushing back on me, They're like, oh, wait,
Speaker 2: you know, Marlin's really stink. But wait, you see the
Speaker 2: White Sox. I'm like, nah, dude, Roberts in there, but
Speaker 2: check this out. For the White Sox, Miguel Vargas, your
Speaker 2: leadoff hitter, that's a very interesting one, especially for his
Speaker 2: on base skills. So Miguel Vargas leading off for the
Speaker 2: White Sox might be a sneaky ad in deeper leagues
Speaker 2: just based on that skill set and the atbats he's
Speaker 2: going to get.
Speaker 1: Here's a question here from game again, who steals more basses?
Speaker 1: Victor Robliss or Xavier Edwards?
Speaker 2: Ooh thank Xavier Edwards.
Speaker 1: Edwards too.
Speaker 2: Possibly, but it's going to be super close. Like that, dude,
Speaker 2: he has really really good like four hundred OBP Xavier
Speaker 2: ed Words does he's going to get on The only
Speaker 2: way they're going to manufacture runs is if he can
Speaker 2: steal three bases in you know, one round, Like he's
Speaker 2: going to have to steal home.
Speaker 1: Prime wants to know Ramos or Garrett Mitchell head to
Speaker 1: head season long. I like both these guys, to be honest,
Speaker 1: So if I'm just picking one, it's a little trickier. Man.
Speaker 1: I think I would pick Ramos, but it's close.
Speaker 2: I would go with Ramos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I like Mitchell. I think Mitchell can be
Speaker 1: pretty good. By the way, b D I'm waiting for
Speaker 1: the new City field menu talk. We're all here for it.
Speaker 1: Look best food in baseball. What like two years in
Speaker 1: a row they've been voted So the Mets, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: too bad. They're not the best team in baseball ever,
Speaker 1: but best food in baseball. We have certain, you know,
Speaker 1: levels that we're striving for as an organizations might.
Speaker 2: Chance for you. This year got to potentially be excited.
Speaker 1: So those are the ops. Here are the downs. Vine
Speaker 1: Pascuentino is gonna be reevaluated today to determine if he
Speaker 1: can play today in opening Day. So if you have
Speaker 1: your lineups that are set daily, pay attention to that.
Speaker 2: I can tell you he is in. He is in.
Speaker 2: He did actually okay, he's hitting three for the Royals today,
Speaker 2: So it's indeed, wit pas Quentino.
Speaker 1: Well, look at that. See how it down became it
Speaker 1: up so quickly. Look it was down, now it's up.
Speaker 1: It turned straight around.
Speaker 2: So good.
Speaker 1: The Rangers did option Evan Carter and did triple A.
Speaker 1: Just wanted to put that out there one more time.
Speaker 1: And Mickey Moniac had gotten released. I remember I just
Speaker 1: a couple of shows ago. We had a big conversation
Speaker 1: about how how can you have the whole board and
Speaker 1: pick Mickey Moniac is the number one overall pick and
Speaker 1: I remember screaming about it and arguing on Serious XM
Speaker 1: Radio when I was on there with all the prospect guys.
Speaker 1: I think Mayo actually was one of them, not Mike Mayer.
Speaker 1: I was like the real Mayo and and I was like,
Speaker 1: how how can you see that? But good news, I
Speaker 1: guess for him. The Rockies picked him up one mere
Speaker 1: one million dollars. So we'll see what has so, you know,
Speaker 1: again maybe turning where it's opening day, we're trying to
Speaker 1: be positive here, that's what we're trying to do. And
Speaker 1: speaking of being positive, I'm positive of one thing. The
Speaker 1: best way to manage all your lineups today and every day,
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Speaker 1: I use it for all my football leagues. I use
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Speaker 1: be a tool, use the tools. My playbook is a
Speaker 1: great tool, all right. Welsh injury time. We don't like this,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna go through it quickly. Jared Jones ucl
Speaker 1: sprain in his right elbow. I don't know if we
Speaker 1: see I know the optimism. Here we go again, the
Speaker 1: cock eyde optimist of opening day. A lot of people
Speaker 1: go oh a couple months, you know, we'll see him
Speaker 1: in June. And holding my breath as we were looking
Speaker 1: before earlier, Gavin Williams, Robbie Ray. There were guys out
Speaker 1: there in some of these, you know, more shallow leagues.
Speaker 1: Go get those guys period, end of story. Welsh, I
Speaker 1: will set the over under at eleven and a half
Speaker 1: games for Jared Jones in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: You want to go over under, Oh, that's really tough
Speaker 2: because six to eight weeks, but then that's probably for throwing,
Speaker 2: so you're probably three months out if everything goes right,
Speaker 2: I think that's an over. I'm going to go with
Speaker 2: the under because I am absolutely terrified that they're going
Speaker 2: to be like, hey, cool, you know we're about eight weeks,
Speaker 2: let's start throwing in stuff and then we're going to
Speaker 2: feel something again, and they shut him down like that's
Speaker 2: a it's a story as old as time. So I
Speaker 2: I in the same token, I'm cool with picking him
Speaker 2: up and putting him on the IL and stashing, especially
Speaker 2: if there's not a lot of great options. But I'm
Speaker 2: not putting in a lot of hopes right now. This
Speaker 2: this is not great. It's good that there's no structural damage,
Speaker 2: but we'll see, and you know, I've already got a
Speaker 2: dead bet because of it. But Jerry Jones, I'll go
Speaker 2: under eleven and a half. But it could be close.
Speaker 2: It really could, because if he does get out there,
Speaker 2: you know, like we I think based on that timeline,
Speaker 2: he can get that number.
Speaker 1: You get set this at where I could set it
Speaker 1: at zero point five, and I'll take the under. I
Speaker 1: don't think we see him this year. That's me. I'm
Speaker 1: miserable over there. You know. I thought, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: it's all these years of spending time with Mike Mayer
Speaker 1: where I've just become a miserable person. I don't know
Speaker 1: what happened. I think I'm just realistic now where I
Speaker 1: see these injuries, and I think it's the fantasy manager
Speaker 1: in me that always wants to be like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: listening to you. Six to eight weeks, yes, and remember this,
Speaker 1: remember the code I senga stuff just last year at
Speaker 1: this time, right, Oh, it'll be a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: I'll ramp up. And I said nope, I said forget it,
Speaker 1: don't count on him, don't look. And it worked again.
Speaker 1: Same thing. I know, Garrett Cole. You know I kept
Speaker 1: saying and pending doom, and I wasn't right last year.
Speaker 1: I was right in the long run.
Speaker 2: Was the way rafaela Red Sox lineup just came out nine.
Speaker 2: He is hitting nine though, way pray you back in
Speaker 2: the lineup. That's good.
Speaker 1: That's that's where we're gonna start. That's where we're gonna start.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Christian Campbell batting six h Bryce
Speaker 1: Terrang batting ninth. Do I roll the dice on the
Speaker 1: kid because the better spot in the lineup? I do
Speaker 1: it anyway because it got the better bat forget it.
Speaker 1: Look if Bryce Terrang goes from you know, fifty something
Speaker 1: steals to thirty steals and doesn't make any progress with
Speaker 1: the hit tool at all this year, I don't think.
Speaker 1: I think Bryce Rang is going to be a huge
Speaker 1: He's a huge fade for me, but I think he
Speaker 1: was going to be a huge disappointment this year potentially.
Speaker 1: So uh and everybody. Jerry's here. I love seeing all
Speaker 1: the peanuts and cracker Jacks here. I know it's a pain.
Speaker 1: I know it's another app I get it. I understand,
Speaker 1: but look, it's best for business, right. We're trying to
Speaker 1: grow this channel. We're trying to grow what we do
Speaker 1: with Fantasy ros MLB. They said it would never work,
Speaker 1: and we've proven them wrong every single time, and we're
Speaker 1: going to continue to do it as long as you
Speaker 1: stay with us. So we appreciate you more injuries. Let's
Speaker 1: fly through these. Frankie Montas a week or two away
Speaker 1: from a throwing program again, that'll be a while for him.
Speaker 1: Royce Lewis, it's not me if you heard this before.
Speaker 1: Ten day IL officially with the hamstring strain. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. How does the Twins'
Speaker 1: training staff just not completely fired at some point? Like?
Speaker 1: What are they doing over there and getting these guys ready?
Speaker 1: Zach Geloff ten day IL with the hammade fracture and
Speaker 1: his right wrist, that's typically not great. Clark Schmidt, we
Speaker 1: anticipated the Yankees got a bunch Schmidt. He's gone to
Speaker 1: the IL. We knew that was gonna happen. Retroactive to
Speaker 1: the twenty fourth Stanton to the IL, also retroactive the
Speaker 1: same day, and same thing with DJ Lemayhew. So all
Speaker 1: on ten day IL fifteen for Schmidt. Will see how
Speaker 1: that goes. And then Alexis Diaz goes in the IL
Speaker 1: with the hamstring strain. Now, you were talking yesterday Welsh
Speaker 1: that maybe his job isn't safe. I kind of don't
Speaker 1: go that route. I think Diaz is the best guy
Speaker 1: there for that job. And when you have a veteran
Speaker 1: manager like Francona. He's gonna go back to Daz, but
Speaker 1: you seem to be a little more uneasy about that
Speaker 1: close situation.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think I don't think I said that,
Speaker 2: but maybe I eluded that. Yeah, I mean, Alexia is
Speaker 2: the closer. But gram Ashcraft has been talked about. And
Speaker 2: then what was mentioned yesterday was Tony Santillion they really
Speaker 2: like get thrown in there. Yes, yeah, but there was
Speaker 2: something a little bit that, a little bit gram ash
Speaker 2: Craft of maybe holding just because you know Dia is
Speaker 2: a little wonky on the end of last year and
Speaker 2: the injury. But I agree Francona is like a classic
Speaker 2: old school manager, like they're going to give Diaz the opportunities,
Speaker 2: but if you have the injury, you have one of
Speaker 2: those guys. Let's just assume it's Santillion right now. Is decent,
Speaker 2: Diaz comes back and struggles, then he's gone. But I
Speaker 2: think Diaz is still a really good stash people. Some
Speaker 2: people got him late in drafts. I'm not doing anything crazy,
Speaker 2: but I am picking up Santillion or Ashcraft right now,
Speaker 2: just for a little interm of saves, because I do
Speaker 2: think the Reds are going to win some games of
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: Question from b D Who do you anticipate opening or
Speaker 1: happening with the second base job with the Mets? Seems
Speaker 1: like Baty is the stronger side of the watoon. But do
Speaker 1: I think that holds? I think it's going to hold
Speaker 1: early on. They have a lot of time energy invested
Speaker 1: in Batty less in Acunya. So I think for the
Speaker 1: Baty situation, this is the kind of last dance for him.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of trade rumors this offseason that
Speaker 1: maybe Beaty would go in a package for a guy
Speaker 1: like Dylan Ce's or something like that. He's had a
Speaker 1: good spring playing second base is not his position now,
Speaker 1: He's a third baseman by trade. He looked good at
Speaker 1: times at second, not so good some others. So let's
Speaker 1: see defensive LYE what goes on. It's funny if you
Speaker 1: take Acunya and Batty, those guys would start on the
Speaker 1: Marlins tomorrow, right, you know, like you think about how
Speaker 1: a team like the Marlins could repopulate if you gave
Speaker 1: them Mauricio Acunya, right and Batty boom, You just completely.
Speaker 2: Repopulate that team two to four hitters, right, and give me.
Speaker 1: Back al Contra and we're good. But that's the thing is,
Speaker 1: I think they want Beatty to play. I think they
Speaker 1: want him to finally have a good showing at the
Speaker 1: major league level. I would not be shocked if late
Speaker 1: inning you see him come out for Acuna though, just
Speaker 1: for defense. Well, so that's the one thing. So in
Speaker 1: those tighter games, is it going to cost Beaty some
Speaker 1: of bats? Maybe here and there, but I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: looking at that right now. I think Beaty is of
Speaker 1: all the guys that I wanted that second base grouping,
Speaker 1: I think Baty right now is the best investment. Do
Speaker 1: you have any thoughts on that second base situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I think he's probably you know,
Speaker 2: like I said, stronger side of the latoon. I think
Speaker 2: he's going to get that first opportunity. But you also didn't.
Speaker 2: You didn't have Luis on Halakunya make the roster for
Speaker 2: no reason. But I would bet on Beatty right now
Speaker 2: and just you know, monitor how it goes. Better defense,
Speaker 2: probably on Acunya side.
Speaker 1: All right, before we get to the best bets of
Speaker 1: the day, and we've got some good ones for you,
Speaker 1: and of course the home run calls we're still doing
Speaker 1: the home run calls. It's opening day. I wanted to
Speaker 1: have some fun here, and you know, there's always new
Speaker 1: things to talk about, right Every year you get new uniforms,
Speaker 1: every year you get some new logos and things that
Speaker 1: are going on right now. But the Chesapeake Bay Bay
Speaker 1: Socks or Chesapeake Bay Sox, I guess is the better
Speaker 1: way to put it, viral a couple of days ago
Speaker 1: because they have a new logo Welsh. And you know,
Speaker 1: whenever you have these new logos, there's channels, there's approvals,
Speaker 1: and I always think it's amazing. We talked like like
Speaker 1: the hats, take the hat where everybody's looking at it
Speaker 1: and going, well, that's kind of you know about maybe.
Speaker 2: I won't say those names, but yeah, the textest one.
Speaker 1: But I want you, for those of you who might
Speaker 1: have missed this, I wanted you to take a look
Speaker 1: at this logo right here. Now. Remember they are the
Speaker 1: oyster Catchers. That's not so logog yeah, it's and the
Speaker 1: ball placement, you know, I understand.
Speaker 2: It's I can't I don't see the all. I can't
Speaker 2: find it.
Speaker 1: No comments, uh, you know for me on that about
Speaker 1: you and not being able to close. There you found it.
Speaker 1: Now there you go. Also fun, you know, looking for
Speaker 1: new shows, especially you know this time of year.
Speaker 2: Severance, the Hat show, that's the hat I need. But
Speaker 2: that I was gonna say, we're gonna.
Speaker 1: Do the hat fund. This is the hat fund I
Speaker 1: think we need. I think this is this is absolutely
Speaker 1: the hat. This right to the top. Can you buy
Speaker 1: it or take it off the market already?
Speaker 2: That's the only thing I I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Let's find out, all right anyhow.
Speaker 1: And Donnie's mad because I went on Donnie's show, cousin Donnie,
Speaker 1: and he's like, why did you tell me about this?
Speaker 1: Obviously he's running right now to whatever the team store
Speaker 1: is to get this hat. Also the show Severance, I've
Speaker 1: heard nothing but good things. So new season of Baseball.
Speaker 1: I always look for a new season of a show
Speaker 1: to pick up. Have you been watching the Severance. I
Speaker 1: haven't been watching it.
Speaker 2: I'm my half fish way through season two now.
Speaker 1: Everybody keeps talking about this guy and how much he
Speaker 1: looks like Barry Bonds from like nineteen eighty seven. Did
Speaker 1: you agree with them? Like, I mean, I saw this
Speaker 1: and I thought he really does kind of have this
Speaker 1: This actor I don't know that it was it. Mister
Speaker 1: Tillman Leave is his name, right, I think.
Speaker 2: That's the I think that's the actor's name, because I'm
Speaker 2: forgetting now the god I'm forgetting, like the name.
Speaker 1: It's like Tamel Tillman is the name of the actor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it says it really does have a Barry bondsish quality.
Speaker 1: Would you approve this biopic?
Speaker 2: That's absolutely I mean that look right there. It's not
Speaker 2: just like, oh hey he has some features. He literally
Speaker 2: has the look of Bonds with the Pirates in the
Speaker 2: early years. The mustache, the hair. Yeah, one hundred percent,
Speaker 2: it'd be great.
Speaker 1: All right, So a little fun things, uh, Tyler saying
Speaker 1: severance is very good. Uh, there is another person here?
Speaker 1: Why so hard? What's our hood?
Speaker 3: That is?
Speaker 1: Why should I love the names here? That's what we get?
Speaker 2: Why so hard?
Speaker 1: No, I don't know. Maybe maybe because they were at
Speaker 1: that uh.
Speaker 2: That absolutely derailing at the end of this there.
Speaker 1: You go, Well look we are obviously back in full
Speaker 1: effect here. All right. Well you know what time it is,
Speaker 1: don't you.
Speaker 2: I think I do.
Speaker 1: It's time for the best Bets of the day with
Speaker 1: Joey p and the Welsh. I still like doing it.
Speaker 1: I want to do it anyway. And as Welsh alluded
Speaker 1: to before, we've got some big time pitchers on the mound.
Speaker 1: I'm going right for Paul Skins eight plus strikeouts alternate
Speaker 1: plus one twenty I throw three units on this and
Speaker 1: just sit back and enjoy the show. Because that Marlins
Speaker 1: lineup is horrendous and Skeens doesn't have to go even
Speaker 1: six innings to get this, Like I get this in
Speaker 1: three innings almost, and like, I don't know, man, I
Speaker 1: just that lineup is so bad. This might be the
Speaker 1: newtroll last year, Remember it was the White Sox. Where
Speaker 1: are the White Sox? Oh good, let's just go invest
Speaker 1: in whoever's playing against them. It might be the Marlins.
Speaker 1: That a little trickier today for the wins because Sandy's
Speaker 1: on the mounta and Sandy is great. Also, Garrett Crochet
Speaker 1: eight plus strikeouts plus one twenty eight is also on
Speaker 1: that board too. I think it's early to latter both
Speaker 1: of these, just because I imagine they give me on
Speaker 1: pitch counts. But it would not shock me if both
Speaker 1: these guys got to double digits today. The other thing
Speaker 1: I thought was interesting, and this is on FanDuel, and
Speaker 1: right now, if you are looking to make your first bet,
Speaker 1: go to Fantasybros. Dot Com slash leading off because over
Speaker 1: there on FanDuel you can place your first bet for
Speaker 1: five bucks and get two hundred in bonus bets if
Speaker 1: you win the bet. So we're doing a deal with
Speaker 1: FanDuel this year. They have Garrett Crochet's velocity on the
Speaker 1: first pitch. I want to get your take on this,
Speaker 1: because ninety nine mile an hour, ninety nine miles per
Speaker 1: hour or faster for the first pitch for Garrett Crochet
Speaker 1: plus five fifty ninety eight to ninety eight point nine
Speaker 1: plus one sixty six ninety seven to ninety seven point
Speaker 1: nine plus one thirty two, but ninety six point nine
Speaker 1: or lower. So it just comes in as a ninety
Speaker 1: six mile hour fastball right.
Speaker 2: Or eight off speed pitch or an off speed pitch.
Speaker 1: So I bet the ninety six or under ninety six
Speaker 1: point nine or under thinking you know, maybe you know,
Speaker 1: I think everybody thinks, well, you know, the the energy,
Speaker 1: the emotion, the adrenaline pumping. Sure he might just first
Speaker 1: pitch ninety nine and you're like, oh, here we go,
Speaker 1: Eric Crochet. Well I saw value with the ninety eight one,
Speaker 1: and I saw value with the ninety six point nine.
Speaker 1: I was curious what your take.
Speaker 2: Was on this, oh man, Like I'm tempted to go
Speaker 2: what was I wish? I mean, I'd have to research
Speaker 2: this because I'd be curious what he was sitting in
Speaker 2: spring and where the average velo sits. I feel like
Speaker 2: I want to take. I mean, there's a reason it's
Speaker 2: plus five fifty by the way, I feel like I
Speaker 2: kind of want to take or how I would do
Speaker 2: this is go ninety eight to ninety eight point nine
Speaker 2: like a full unit, and then maybe you do like
Speaker 2: a quarter of a unit on the ninety nine, or
Speaker 2: you just play the ninety nine. I get what you're saying,
Speaker 2: though I'm not sure that you're gonna go first pitch secondary,
Speaker 2: but this is fun. And then I mean the in
Speaker 2: the schemes one is what skeens.
Speaker 1: One is one oh one are faster at plus three
Speaker 1: forty one hundred to one one hundred point nine plus
Speaker 1: two ninety ninety nine to ninety nine and a point
Speaker 1: nine plus three forty and then ninety eight point nine
Speaker 1: or slower minus one sixteen, Which is funny because they're
Speaker 1: really telling you now, skemes is, and I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: data behind this of who's the first pitch, fastball, all
Speaker 1: this situation, but I just you don't see that very often.
Speaker 1: My quick parlay of the day money line Phillies with
Speaker 1: Wheeler on the mound, money line Angels against the White Sox,
Speaker 1: the Trolls continue, and then on Friday, if you can
Speaker 1: get both of these, you might be able to cash out.
Speaker 1: But on Friday you get the Tampa Bay Rays with
Speaker 1: Pepio on the mound against the Rockies. So I've put
Speaker 1: that together in a little parlay that over Thursday Friday a
Speaker 1: little bit. This is cool before we get to your bets,
Speaker 1: Luceros here in the chat. I hope I'm saying that right. Apparently,
Speaker 1: in celebration of Women's History Month, as a result of
Speaker 1: their response from the logo, the Oyster Catchers are going
Speaker 1: to donate ten percent of merch to the charity that
Speaker 1: supports cervical cancer survirus. That's awesome. See, see you can
Speaker 1: have something that comes up it's funny, and you go,
Speaker 1: you know what, it's funny, We're keeping it. Let's do
Speaker 1: something good about it. That's really funny, but it is
Speaker 1: a can we get a look at that logo one
Speaker 1: more time?
Speaker 2: I mean, do we need that? We do you want
Speaker 2: to do at the end of the show.
Speaker 1: Maybe the end of the show. Oh, there it is.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of people that approve, you know, and
Speaker 1: just that look that's great. See the catching the oyster.
Speaker 2: Look great on night. It'd be a great hat. I
Speaker 2: gotta be honest with you, it would look We got
Speaker 2: to look and see what it looks like.
Speaker 1: After all right, let's get to Welsh's bets of the day.
Speaker 1: Make our home run calls. Today is a long action spectacular.
Speaker 1: Because it's the first leading off of the season, we
Speaker 1: like to have fun here, so Welsh, give us your
Speaker 1: best bets for opening day.
Speaker 2: All right. I love betting on Mike Trout today. Mike
Speaker 2: Trout his total basis is really interesting. It's really good
Speaker 2: plus money if you want to do that going up
Speaker 2: against Sean Burke. I love the hit run and RBI
Speaker 2: one point five over on the hits runs and RBI,
Speaker 2: so you know, he could one single in a guy
Speaker 2: and then you're golden. You don't have to worry about
Speaker 2: him getting a double. I'm really not sure that's gonna
Speaker 2: be a problem, but right around minus one ten, minus
Speaker 2: one fifteen for one point five, so two of at
Speaker 2: least a hit a run in an RBI number two.
Speaker 2: I actually have this up on the Betting pros app.
Speaker 2: If you guys want to go and download the Betting
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Speaker 2: you can follow Mayor and everybody. You can check out
Speaker 2: what our full cards look like. We have them sync,
Speaker 2: have them sync to my sports books. But we also
Speaker 2: could put best bets up. I put this as the
Speaker 2: best bet of the day. Zach Efflin's strikeouts three point
Speaker 2: five over good plus money. I got it around one
Speaker 2: thirty on FanDuel. It's sitting around one twenty four right now.
Speaker 2: And part of the reason behind it is he's not
Speaker 2: a big, big strikeout guy, that's absolutely for sure. But
Speaker 2: he hit this number in Opening Day last year. He
Speaker 2: went a significant amount of innings last year. I think
Speaker 2: he will do the same. And the back half of
Speaker 2: this Blue Jays lineup, I'm not so sure he's going
Speaker 2: to get it. To start. You know Bishett and Vladigerrero,
Speaker 2: but you do have Santandero, but then you're looking at Jimenez, Springer, Wagner,
Speaker 2: Ernie Clement, and Alan Rodin are all at the back
Speaker 2: half of the rotation. If he's going and you get
Speaker 2: two stabs at those guys. I love four strikeouts for
Speaker 2: Zach Efflin at plus money. I'm a first five better
Speaker 2: you guys know that. Give me Red Sox first five
Speaker 2: innings money line. And Fandel had one of the best
Speaker 2: odds minus one twenty eight, so that is for them
Speaker 2: to be winning through the first five innings. If they're tied,
Speaker 2: you get your money back. So it's pretty sweet, so
Speaker 2: Red Sox first five money line. I've also got a
Speaker 2: couple bets on Betting Pros if you guys want to
Speaker 2: go check that out. There's a Phillies one in there,
Speaker 2: a couple other fun things. I will give you a
Speaker 2: fun parlay though, one hit for Vladimir Guerrero Junior, Alex Bregman,
Speaker 2: and Mike Trout almost two to one plus one ninety
Speaker 2: three for all three of those guys to get one
Speaker 2: hit today. That's a fun little hits parlay. But you
Speaker 2: can check out all this stuff over at Betting Pros
Speaker 2: if you want to follow us see our bets. Just
Speaker 2: want it, you have to follow us. You could just
Speaker 2: peruse it. And those are just a few of my
Speaker 2: bets for opening day.
Speaker 1: Now, run contest still going on. You can join it
Speaker 1: at Fancy Rose dot com slash chat. That's our discord.
Speaker 1: There's a channel in there where you can make your
Speaker 1: home run calls the big prize. Well, and now it's
Speaker 1: it tomorrow because we have the big board tomorrow. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tease everybody with that too, So tomorrow you'll see
Speaker 1: what you're playing for besides our undying respect. But it's
Speaker 1: funny because game day here says manifesting Mike Trout healthy season. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what that's where I'm going for my home run
Speaker 1: call today plus three point fifty. You can find it
Speaker 1: right now. I like Trout to go yard. My alternate
Speaker 1: was Anthony Santander, and I'm giving you an alternate because
Speaker 1: guess what. Welsh never ever picks the same guy as
Speaker 1: me and wants to stay there, and today he's finally
Speaker 1: learning to hold hands with me and walk across that
Speaker 1: plane into the cornfields, a field of dreams, and get
Speaker 1: a home run call with me. So you also like
Speaker 1: Mike Trout today to go yard.
Speaker 2: This I can go and I can talk myself off
Speaker 2: of it. I think there's a couple good guys. My
Speaker 2: alternate would be Vlad. I really like Vlad today, but
Speaker 2: I had for days been and locked into Mike Trout
Speaker 2: for a couple of days, and this is where I
Speaker 2: wanted to go with my home run call obviously, like
Speaker 2: you know, the matchup against Sean Burke and everything. He's
Speaker 2: hitting three. I just like everything to it. I like
Speaker 2: trying to get out to a hot start. Love the
Speaker 2: odds at three and a half if you want to
Speaker 2: bet it. But that is my home run call. I
Speaker 2: logged it in the Fantasy Pros discord, so we are
Speaker 2: both officially even though I got Vlad, you got Santandero ironically,
Speaker 2: but Blue Jays, we're gonna official Trout.
Speaker 1: My official one is Trout. I'm trying to help the
Speaker 1: people if they're looking for another one today. Santantarra's my
Speaker 1: other one. So so everybody's given their home run calls
Speaker 1: here in the chat. That's great. You gotta go to
Speaker 1: the discord Fancybros dot Com slash chat that's where you
Speaker 1: gotta log them except me because I'm famous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did log mine, but I didn't need to
Speaker 2: the whips. This This was me all last year. If
Speaker 2: you followed too whips. As soon as I said that
Speaker 2: goes oh lock Vladen Now, anytime I gave a caveat,
Speaker 2: it was always on the other side.
Speaker 1: So locks Santander against his old team too. You gotta
Speaker 1: love that. You gotta love that. A little bit of
Speaker 1: a little bit of extra juice there. I love also,
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Speaker 1: but it's the close of the first leading off. It's
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Speaker 1: one thing you're excited to see today you're most excited
Speaker 1: about for opening Day.
Speaker 2: I am most excited to see my Diamondbacks. Put it
Speaker 2: to a dear friend of ours, Justin Steele. I'm going tonight.
Speaker 2: I will be at Opening Day with mister Scott Bogman.
Speaker 2: So Scott Bogman's the number one excitement to see. He
Speaker 2: is in town here in Phoenix, and I will see
Speaker 2: him in many hours from now watching the Dimonbacks live
Speaker 2: from Phoenix.
Speaker 1: For me, it's Wan Soto in a Mets uniform. Because
Speaker 1: now It's real now, it is really real. That lineup
Speaker 1: just came out to Lindor Soto, Alonso Viento's hitting four,
Speaker 1: Nimo five, Marte Taylor Acuna and turns catching with Clay
Speaker 1: Holmes on the mound. So amazing times. Here to be
Speaker 1: alive as a Met fan and again Mets fans with
Speaker 1: expectations not historically the best thing, but we'll see how
Speaker 1: it goes. So long show today, I hope you enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: It will be a little bit shorter most of the
Speaker 1: time because we know you got to get in and
Speaker 1: out for your daily baseball. That'll do it for us,
Speaker 1: but the story of the game goes on for the Welsh.
Speaker 1: I'm Joey p. We'll see you next time, kids, Appy
Speaker 1: Opening Day.
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