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Speaker 1: That of course is the Welsh that it's you, the Peanuts,
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Speaker 1: breaks sort of kind of we still have a day
Speaker 1: off from baseball before we come in here and chat
Speaker 1: lively a little bit today, a little abbreviated version. Nothing
Speaker 1: to really bet on today, nothing really going on there.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll talk a little futures, we'll talk about All
Speaker 1: Star Game. But speaking of the future, if you missed it,
Speaker 1: run to the YouTube channel, watch it on demand. Well
Speaker 1: should an amazing, incredible, unbelievable job of breaking down the
Speaker 1: MLB draft. So if you're playing dynasty or keeper leagues,
Speaker 1: or just your redraft leagues where you got to get
Speaker 1: familiar with some of these guys in college baseball who
Speaker 1: are coming in even in the high school ranks too,
Speaker 1: Well Should an incredible job. We just did a whole
Speaker 1: show about that. We did some futures as well on
Speaker 1: there too, from that game from the past weekend Welsh.
Speaker 1: We're out of practice. I didn't know how to start
Speaker 1: the show right today. We had a couple of days
Speaker 1: off there. You know, you didn't put up the right
Speaker 1: thing in this before you called Thursday Friday. We're a mess,
Speaker 1: like we're out of routine and we're just a complete
Speaker 1: and utter disaster. Oh same.
Speaker 2: What sorry, sorry everybody? Sorryybody improvement, I would say, oh,
Speaker 2: st hey man, Yeah, that's about.
Speaker 1: How trying to hit every note, you end up hitting
Speaker 1: every single note the right ones.
Speaker 2: Or none of them. So sometimes when you try to
Speaker 2: hit them all, you hit none of them. That's about
Speaker 2: how the start of this was. Yeah, we're completely out
Speaker 2: of practice. Apologies for your ears everybody.
Speaker 1: We're not checking ourselves though in anywhere tomorrow.
Speaker 2: This is no, no, no, We'll be good.
Speaker 1: We're okay. Just don't get worried about us. We're okay, everybody.
Speaker 1: It's fine.
Speaker 2: We were a little out of practice, but I'm very
Speaker 2: glad to be back with everybody. It was very I
Speaker 2: don't know, it was disjointed. I was very disjointed this
Speaker 2: entire week, not having all of you beautiful people talking
Speaker 2: to live. But glad to be back. Glad you guys
Speaker 2: enjoyed those videos. We had a couple of fun ones
Speaker 2: and we are back in the saddle.
Speaker 1: We are and look we were going to the whole
Speaker 1: thing about the anthem and then you know there were
Speaker 1: reasons for it. So now I don't want to make
Speaker 1: you know any reasons about anything anymore, which is it's like,
Speaker 1: why can't we have something fun for a second and
Speaker 1: like just enjoy something being bad like I want to,
Speaker 1: But now I feel guilty about I don't know. I
Speaker 1: was at the Foo Fighters concert last night a city
Speaker 1: field by the way.
Speaker 2: How was that singing?
Speaker 1: Incredible? I mean, much better singing great second time I've
Speaker 1: seen them. Unfortunately the concert got cut in half. The
Speaker 1: irony is they tried to squeeze ever long in because
Speaker 1: of the lightning and the horrible thunderstorms that were coming,
Speaker 1: and literally they started singing every long had to stop.
Speaker 1: They were trying to squeeze it in because the knew
Speaker 1: they might not be able to come back. And I
Speaker 1: was like, I thought, I you promised not to stop
Speaker 1: when I say when? And I did. That was very ironic,
Speaker 1: And then they stopped so whatever, Well, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the All Star Game. Welch the American League. I mean,
Speaker 1: if he's like, the easiest thing to bet on every
Speaker 1: year is the All Star Game where it's just the
Speaker 1: American League, American League, American League. Our boy, Jared Duran
Speaker 1: coming with MVP.
Speaker 2: Oh, show interesting home run. I'm glad we're talking about
Speaker 2: that because the one big debate if you guys, and
Speaker 2: this is another fun thing, this will be like you know,
Speaker 2: like piecing. It's like a show.
Speaker 1: It's like a series.
Speaker 2: If you want the origin story, go back and listen
Speaker 2: to the Fantasy All Star video. Because the one big
Speaker 2: like argument debate we ended up having was about Jared Durant.
Speaker 2: You would put Kyle Tucker in and we went back
Speaker 2: and forth about Jared Durant, and Jared Duran goes out
Speaker 2: and wins freaking MVP in that game and looked phenomenal.
Speaker 2: And yes, Otani did of course as well. But wow,
Speaker 2: you talked to me about some Jared Durant.
Speaker 1: Oh. Jared Duran one of my favorite guys going into
Speaker 1: the season. He's been a category filler all year, and
Speaker 1: I mean filling up the categories. I love him in
Speaker 1: Points League. I love him in rot. I mean I
Speaker 1: felt like every show he did, whenever there's some sort
Speaker 1: of value conversation or rankings about outfielders, no matter what
Speaker 1: it was, Jaron Duran always came up. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you and I were, I think sky high on
Speaker 1: Jared Duran, which is hilarious because the ECR was not
Speaker 1: going into this year nearly where it needed to be,
Speaker 1: nor was the ADP catching up there. And that just
Speaker 1: goes to show you as a reminder everybody, ADP is
Speaker 1: a guideline. It's not an absolute. I mean, don't get
Speaker 1: all crazy about ADP. Sometimes, if you like a player
Speaker 1: and you want to get a player, go get a player.
Speaker 1: And I don't be crazy because you can wait to
Speaker 1: at least that vicinity of round. But Jared Duran has
Speaker 1: been terrific and another I think lesson in patience, right Welsh,
Speaker 1: because when he came up, there were some you know,
Speaker 1: ups and downs, but now you see him kind of
Speaker 1: taking off and becoming this, you know, fantastic All Star
Speaker 1: caliber player. And it was so it was the Otani
Speaker 1: home run that was also fantastic. U Ti Oscar beat
Speaker 1: my boy Bobby Wit. I picked Bobby Wit if you
Speaker 1: watch the videos here, I got him at plus six
Speaker 1: hundred before he went to plus I think it was
Speaker 1: four by the time it went up there, but ta
Speaker 1: Oscar edged him out there. What'd you think of the
Speaker 1: new rules and the whole derby action there? What do
Speaker 1: you think of it?
Speaker 2: That was fine? Actually it was very confusing how they
Speaker 2: were explaining it. But then it was like, I gotta
Speaker 2: tell you, I think the whole like you have this
Speaker 2: many baseballs was actually really stupid because it was like
Speaker 2: they lined up the forty to the time. Just get
Speaker 2: rid of one of them, then give us the baseballs
Speaker 2: or get rid of the time. You're making that more confusing.
Speaker 2: I thought the structure was good. It was a little
Speaker 2: bit long, but I liked the top four guys going in.
Speaker 2: I got waxed in it because I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: Peter Longs are road handed, and then Gunnar Henderson. They
Speaker 2: all stunk, and then I was really really rooting for
Speaker 2: Bobby Witt. But you knows, so, yeah, it was h
Speaker 2: you would have done that for the money. I was
Speaker 2: out of the money at that point, but that was
Speaker 2: pretty great.
Speaker 1: Well, mine was Garcia and I should have listened to
Speaker 1: Miss Misch was like the hometown guy never wins, and
Speaker 1: he's right home that guy never wins his thing. But
Speaker 1: I thought I wasn't even that. My whole thing with
Speaker 1: Garscia was guys who generate their own power, and Wit
Speaker 1: was guys who had the stamina to get through this
Speaker 1: weird athletic trial, because that's what it is, It's an
Speaker 1: athletic trial. And Wit to me was that guy. Let's
Speaker 1: se if we can help Barry out, He's got a
Speaker 1: question here for his Barry for end of the show,
Speaker 1: Trade away, Reagan's Volpi Lane, Thomas, Ian happ and get
Speaker 1: Grayson Rodriguez, Ronaldo Lopez, Jose, Miranda Neto and Profar. What
Speaker 1: do you make of this one here? Grayson Rodriguez, Reagan's,
Speaker 1: let's take that first, because that seems like those two
Speaker 1: entities are pretty even. Your thoughts on that and then
Speaker 1: the rest of this deal, because I think where you
Speaker 1: stand on that kind of determines the rest of this deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of tough because I guess you could
Speaker 2: be like Raynaldo and Grayson for Reagans and if you
Speaker 2: I like to do that in trade sometimes, like figure
Speaker 2: if you can do the cross off, So if you
Speaker 2: cross those guys off, then it's like Volpy for Miranda,
Speaker 2: Neto for Ian Hap, and Profar for Lane Thomas.
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I think I Reagan's I like the most. Lane Thomas
Speaker 2: has stolen so many bases in the first half, Bagman
Speaker 2: and I actually I've talked about this format, Joe, where
Speaker 2: our home league it is first half rodo and there's
Speaker 2: a champion crown. The season's over at the all Star break.
Speaker 2: Then we redraft in the second half and we play
Speaker 2: head to head, and as what we did last night,
Speaker 2: we just redrugged. I didn't win the first half, but
Speaker 2: some felt I may some felt I may have won
Speaker 2: the draft last night for the head to head, and
Speaker 2: I took to Lane Thomas was a massive target of mine,
Speaker 2: just because you know, some of the injury, under performance
Speaker 2: as far as batting average goes, but tons of stolen bases,
Speaker 2: home run potential. So it's just like, I don't know, man,
Speaker 2: I think Reagan's is the best single player, and I
Speaker 2: think Lane Thomas and Volpi are both kind of underrated
Speaker 2: in that I dig Profar and whatnot, but I would
Speaker 2: I would hold pat unless you have the only caveat
Speaker 2: is like you are desperate for that extra pitching need
Speaker 2: of Rinaldo. But Rinaldo is one of my big like
Speaker 2: regression second half players. I think he's not going to
Speaker 2: maintain us up to ere. So give me Reagan's give
Speaker 2: me the Reagans.
Speaker 1: Still listen to Q and A. If you got questions,
Speaker 1: We've got answers. Drop him in the chat. Here's one
Speaker 1: from Shane trade Zach Gallen for Garrett Crochet. Who do
Speaker 1: you like more rest of season? This is a tricky one.
Speaker 1: I ever thought we'd be here at a tricky one.
Speaker 1: I have my feelings, but I can't wait to hear
Speaker 1: yours on this one.
Speaker 2: I would go Crochet because I would too.
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 2: I just don't think Crochet is going to be limited
Speaker 2: at all at this point. I feel very confident. So
Speaker 2: I did some CBS hits this past week, and I
Speaker 2: did one yesterday, and we were talking about the second half,
Speaker 2: and they're asking who is the player at the trade deadline,
Speaker 2: the biggest player to be traded, And I think there's
Speaker 2: a lot of guys on the table. There's actually trade
Speaker 2: rumor right now that's out that the Mariners and the
Speaker 2: Rays are talking. They've been talking about Eastack Pradies for
Speaker 2: a long time. Radio Rosearina might be on there. I
Speaker 2: think there's a lot of in theory guys. The one
Speaker 2: I feel confident about is Garrett Crochet. Like I said,
Speaker 2: Garrett Crochet because I think he will be traded. He's
Speaker 2: the number one war pitcher in baseball, number one in
Speaker 2: strikeout so far, and like, if he's going to be traded,
Speaker 2: he's not going to be in any type of innings
Speaker 2: limit here. So Zach Gallen has underperformed like he had
Speaker 2: those first two starts when he came off of injury.
Speaker 2: Then the fastball kind of tapered back down. He's getting
Speaker 2: just really funky with his pitch, mixed stuff. Right now
Speaker 2: he's getting a hit. I think Garrett Crochet is kind
Speaker 2: of an elite territory, so yes, I would take him
Speaker 2: over Gallon.
Speaker 1: All right, let's play a little game here, Welsh, I
Speaker 1: got a game for you. I was looking at some
Speaker 1: eras and ops's. I want to get your take on
Speaker 1: if they can get better here in the stretch runt
Speaker 1: of the season all start of Dansby Swanson eighty seven
Speaker 1: games ops of six thirty two Bloch. He's also hitting
Speaker 1: two twelve. Is there any improvement coming for Dansby Swanson
Speaker 1: or is this a guy that is just uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I said to the time this was a weird signing
Speaker 1: for the cub I did not think it was the
Speaker 1: best use of their money. He's been okay for the
Speaker 1: most part, but I don't think he is a great player.
Speaker 1: Swanson nine homers thirty one rb odd. You think he
Speaker 1: picks things up in the second half, yes, or now.
Speaker 2: I think he improves, but I don't think he's awesome. So, like,
Speaker 2: here's the deal. He's hitting two twelve and that's not good.
Speaker 1: So it was calling Carol for the record, by the way,
Speaker 1: with a six thirty five ops, they're like right neck
Speaker 1: and neck. So I assume you would say Carol over
Speaker 1: Swanson has the better chance to pick things up.
Speaker 2: Yeahah, yeah, absolutely yeah, Like I uh, for Swanson, the
Speaker 2: improvement is just that he will be better, but I
Speaker 2: don't I don't know if it'll still be relevant. He's
Speaker 2: got a two just about a two to fifty expected
Speaker 2: batting average. He does have a career high in his
Speaker 2: hard hit rate, and his barreling is just about the same.
Speaker 2: Those are a couple of metrics i'd put together to
Speaker 2: look and just go, okay, Well, he's also performing pretty
Speaker 2: well against fastballs and breaking pitches. He will probably find
Speaker 2: some type of a stride, but I don't think it's
Speaker 2: going to be anything that I that's probably not replaceable,
Speaker 2: even maybe on the wire, like if you know Luis
Speaker 2: Roumandfo when he's back healthy, like I'd rather have him
Speaker 2: than Danzby Swanson.
Speaker 1: Here's another one, Androsamenez eighty nine games played so far
Speaker 1: this year, five homers, forty five RBI, hitting just two
Speaker 1: fifty two ops six forty three. Again, he's either some
Speaker 1: of the worst ops's of goll qualifiers in Major League
Speaker 1: Baseball six forty three. That's pretty paltry. He doesn't have
Speaker 1: fifteen steals. Is a men as a bylow for you?
Speaker 2: I am going to go on the BI low, Yes,
Speaker 2: simply because I think this team is really really hot.
Speaker 2: He ended July two hitting two ninety five. June took
Speaker 2: him way down, but he had three Actually every single
Speaker 2: month besides June he had hit over two sixty, which
Speaker 2: is a definite positive. And he has had three or
Speaker 2: more stolen bases every month except July. But also, just
Speaker 2: like you know that ballpark that I was doing this
Speaker 2: in my defense, by the way, just a funny little
Speaker 2: anecdotal thing. I was on the road a wire yesterday
Speaker 2: with James Anderson and we were doing first year player
Speaker 2: stuff and this whole like, hey, guys, it's probably Travis
Speaker 2: Bazana and Charlie Condon. It seems like it's only Charlie
Speaker 2: Condon for every single person that I see. Condon is
Speaker 2: the number one guy in Colorado for first year player
Speaker 2: and Bazan is the other guy. But I'm bringing this
Speaker 2: up because in some of the defense I talked about
Speaker 2: how that right field has become better for hitters. It
Speaker 2: is actually the number one home run ballpark factor for
Speaker 2: left handed hitters in baseball. In the number one the
Speaker 2: most homers have been hit by left handed hitters in Cleveland.
Speaker 2: So I'm just saying overall, from a ballpark factor of perspective,
Speaker 2: that destination has become a better place to hit. So
Speaker 2: I think you can run yourself into a few more homers.
Speaker 2: I think he's going to continue to keep stealing bases.
Speaker 2: I think there's some upside on the bat still. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I think Hamena that really any most of the guardians
Speaker 2: are really good byes right now. Like, I'm still into
Speaker 2: Josh Naylor and everything, so yes, I think Kamenez is
Speaker 2: a buye.
Speaker 1: I have a few more to throw at you on
Speaker 1: the hitting side, but first let's talk your Carlos off
Speaker 1: the ledge. Would you keep Helio Ramos or grab Rhys Hines?
Speaker 1: I think I know the answer, but help Carlos here.
Speaker 2: I would keep Ramos. I still think Ramos as Reese
Speaker 2: is like going crazy?
Speaker 1: Is going crazy?
Speaker 2: I just like I will be shocked if it holds
Speaker 2: in the second half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, Cody's talking about Condon, which a guy
Speaker 1: we broke down the show. I am not nearly the
Speaker 1: Condon guy everybody else is. We'll see if I'm riding
Speaker 1: wrong over the long term, I'd get the Colorado thing,
Speaker 1: but whatever, Colorado doesn't feel like what she used to be.
Speaker 1: A couple more here, I want to throw out Glabor Torres.
Speaker 1: Eightalm runs, thirty five ARBA hitting two thirty one, A
Speaker 1: six fifty four ops. Clearly has been a huge disappointment
Speaker 1: for the New York Yankees this year. Do you believe
Speaker 1: that Glaber Torres had a hot streak in him? Because
Speaker 1: this was a player just last year that everybody was
Speaker 1: super excited about and very anxious to draft this year.
Speaker 1: And it's weird. This is a contract year for him too,
Speaker 1: if memory serves and things a kind of fallen apart here,
Speaker 1: So can he save his free agency and save his
Speaker 1: second half?
Speaker 2: You maybe want to do that, like do you believe it? A?
Speaker 2: Thank God love?
Speaker 1: By the way, I would get craft for singing on
Speaker 1: the show, I just want to point out, well, she's
Speaker 1: now sung twice on the show, so don't give me
Speaker 1: a lot anymore for me singing on the showing a.
Speaker 2: Lot people give you crap for it. We sing all that,
Speaker 2: but you, I will say, one disaster of putting you
Speaker 2: and I together. We're both like singers, and we're probably
Speaker 2: like the top end of people that want to sing
Speaker 2: on podcasts one of one of one of a plural way. No,
Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm not super optimistic. Could it happen, sure, absolutely,
Speaker 2: But everything has just been bad and this is like
Speaker 2: a total me wrong type of guy too. Like the
Speaker 2: profile changed last year came in the strikeouts lowering and
Speaker 2: him not getting ate up by sliders, and that's completely
Speaker 2: regressed this year. His strikeout rate is actually the second
Speaker 2: worst of his career right now, there's no real expected
Speaker 2: stats in his favor. He has a career, a second
Speaker 2: career worst in his barreling. He's hitting balls way less
Speaker 2: hard and all all he's doing is just off of anything,
Speaker 2: is off of fastballs. Right now, he cannot hit breaking pitches,
Speaker 2: so he just needs to change of scenery. But I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna, you know, I'm not gonna buy into labor
Speaker 2: in the second half.
Speaker 1: Switch around to the pitching side. Kevin Gosmin sitting at
Speaker 1: a four or five zero era. Last year, he was
Speaker 1: sitting at a three one six over thirty one starts.
Speaker 1: This year, the whip is at one point three to
Speaker 1: one the year before one point eight one. Goslin's been
Speaker 1: one of the steadiest guys in MLB. He's made three
Speaker 1: straight years of thirty one or more starts. I was
Speaker 1: gonna say thirty. That's like giving him enough credit. Thirty
Speaker 1: one or more starts. This year he has been spotty.
Speaker 1: I think, to say the least, Kevin Gossman find some
Speaker 1: sort of stability here in the stretch run. Or is
Speaker 1: Kevin Gospin a guy too that maybe some contender kind
Speaker 1: of knocks on the doors the blue Jays, you know,
Speaker 1: feel like they're kind of out of it. It's interesting
Speaker 1: because Gossman Gosman of twenty twenty two, twenty three, any
Speaker 1: of these last couple of years would be an absolute changer.
Speaker 1: But the gospel we've seen this year doesn't look like
Speaker 1: anything except a guy who's just grossly inconsistent. What do
Speaker 1: you make a Gosmin's first half, you know, slash a
Speaker 1: little bit more, and what do you think he could
Speaker 1: do for everybody in the second half of the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not a big buyer on him. Looking here,
Speaker 2: that fastball has just been bad, just dead red middle
Speaker 2: this year. It's got an almost three hundred batting average
Speaker 2: against an expected batting average that's quite a bit higher.
Speaker 2: The same thing has happened with the splitter. It's a
Speaker 2: two oh seven but a two forty two expected. Those
Speaker 2: are both worse than last year. Split fingers a little
Speaker 2: bit more on the zone. Four seam has been higher
Speaker 2: in the zone. And guess what, he's a two pitch pitcher.
Speaker 2: That equates to eighty eight percent of his pitches. Otherwise
Speaker 2: he throws a slider. I don't know. Expected spat stats
Speaker 2: don't say a whole lot he has not been a fishing.
Speaker 2: His strikeouts are down, and his four and a half
Speaker 2: ERA hasn't expected era worse over five right now? So
Speaker 2: can he be better? Sure, there's a track record he
Speaker 2: just had. His two starts in July were really good.
Speaker 2: Am I gonna buy him? No? I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I think he's just going to be inconsistent.
Speaker 1: It's so weird. I mean, he's always been a two
Speaker 1: pitch pitch. Everybody's been dominating, So I don't understand why
Speaker 1: overnight those.
Speaker 2: Pictures have become but those pictures become more inefficient. That's
Speaker 2: the same thing happened with like Christian Javier, where Christian
Speaker 2: Javier dominated that one year, then all of a sudden
Speaker 2: it was like, oh, well, if one of them doesn't work,
Speaker 2: you're screwed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess so. I guess so. In terms of
Speaker 1: looking at closer spots too, is there anybody that you
Speaker 1: think has been sort of, I don't know, a struggle
Speaker 1: bust this year in terms of the closer job that
Speaker 1: people should be worried about in the second half, if
Speaker 1: anyone getting replaced in your opinion, when you're starting to
Speaker 1: look ahead, or as we also say too, this is
Speaker 1: a great opportunity to start adding some guys in some
Speaker 1: bullpens speculatively before trade deadlines. Are you adding a set
Speaker 1: up guy in Oakland? Are you adding set up guys
Speaker 1: in other spots to potentially take over for saves and
Speaker 1: maybe August September get some cheap saves in those rotal leagues.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean one guy had been at well they
Speaker 2: were uh well, yeah, one guy had been adding was
Speaker 2: justin Martinez. It But that's kind of contingent on the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks moving Paul Seawald. I think he would move into
Speaker 2: the closer spot a really cheap one. Tanner Scott's going
Speaker 2: to get traded by the Marlins and that might leave
Speaker 2: aj Puck back in because they moved him back to
Speaker 2: that bullpen roll. So maybe he gets some saves. So
Speaker 2: that might be one of those. Yeah, And I do
Speaker 2: think there's gonna be some guys that also lose it,
Speaker 2: maybe the Phillies spot. I know Phillies have been like
Speaker 2: Hoffman Alvarado, but maybe what they go and do is
Speaker 2: they make a move for a closer. Maybe they go
Speaker 2: and if the if let's just hypothetically say, like the
Speaker 2: Astros were to be out of it, they could go
Speaker 2: to a guy like a Hater or something. Bednar might
Speaker 2: be available. If the Pirates were out of it, there's
Speaker 2: a potential that like those guys could lose some of
Speaker 2: those saves. So I'm moving away from any team that
Speaker 2: has any pseudo playoff team that has a closer. I
Speaker 2: want to get out from that immediately and even get into,
Speaker 2: you know, some of the more boring guys. I mean,
Speaker 2: Kirby Yates is super boring, but that team's not going
Speaker 2: to give up and he's gonna continuously get saved. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a little bit windy right now. But the two
Speaker 2: on the top of my mind where the Diamondbacks and
Speaker 2: the Marlin situation where I was speculating simply because like
Speaker 2: Martinez throws like one hundred and one hundred and two
Speaker 2: and Carlos actually brings up the Royals, that might be
Speaker 2: another one. MacArthur might be one of those that loses
Speaker 2: his gig as well if the Royals go and make
Speaker 2: a bullpen move.
Speaker 1: It's important to get ahead of those closer games for sure.
Speaker 1: I want to run through this great article on Fantasy
Speaker 1: pros dot com with some of the bold predictions for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season. I want to give me
Speaker 1: like thumbs up, thumbs down, Yes, no, on some of these.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna throw some of these pieces at you.
Speaker 1: Vlad Guerrero Junior will put up first round numbers in
Speaker 1: the second half. That's from you, Welsh thumbe. I'd love that.
Speaker 1: That's a great one. That's all right, I'm just teasing.
Speaker 1: I'm just teasing. Marcus Simon will lead the league and
Speaker 1: run scored rest of season. What do you think of that? Oh?
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm big on that's bing. That's my thumbs up,
Speaker 2: because I do think Marcus is in for a big
Speaker 2: second half.
Speaker 1: Elie de la Cruz will finish with one hundred stolen bases.
Speaker 2: I say, no, who wrote the Marcus Simeon one Marcus.
Speaker 1: Simon one was Chase Davis from our own fantasy.
Speaker 2: Pros Ellie will score one hundred runs in the second half,
Speaker 2: one hundred.
Speaker 1: Stolen bases when all of a sudden, though, he will finish
Speaker 1: with a whhh.
Speaker 2: No think I think I do think he's gonna get
Speaker 2: to eighty.
Speaker 1: I think eighty would be fun. In seventy five more realistic.
Speaker 1: Jared Duran as a top five fantasy player and becomes
Speaker 1: a consensus number one heading into twenty twenty five. No,
Speaker 1: I agree. That's Mike Mayer, by the way, So you've
Speaker 1: been spending too much time together the two guys.
Speaker 2: It wasn't about Maulcastle.
Speaker 1: Well, I think he had is quote on that Francisco
Speaker 1: Lindor finishes the year as a top seven overall fantasy player.
Speaker 1: Do you think that's achievable?
Speaker 2: So this is like the second half, He'll be a
Speaker 2: top set seven in the second.
Speaker 1: Remainder of the season, remainder of the season, second half,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say no, that would mean like someone like
Speaker 2: Soto or Judge or Ellie would have to.
Speaker 3: Now, so now I don't think so Paul Skene's gonna
Speaker 3: finish the second half?
Speaker 1: Is the consensus SP one in fantasy?
Speaker 2: Agreed?
Speaker 1: I do think that that's all worm saying that one.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, we are going to talk about schemes. I
Speaker 2: think is the number one sp next year?
Speaker 1: All right, let's see if you know who this is,
Speaker 1: code I Sanga will be one of the top second
Speaker 1: f pitchers in MLB and fantasy down the stretch. What
Speaker 1: do you think about that? Oh?
Speaker 2: Do you want me to guess who wrote that? Is
Speaker 2: what you want?
Speaker 1: No, No, I didn't the chat. It's actually Scott Engel.
Speaker 1: By the way, Peanuts and it's someone named Peanuts sick
Speaker 1: cracker Jack. I think.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say no.
Speaker 1: All right, very good. Now there's a bunch of these
Speaker 1: on here. Go to the Fantasy Bros dot Com on
Speaker 1: the MB section. Check out the rest of them and
Speaker 1: all the there's there's ideas and stats to back these
Speaker 1: all up. And I thought they were pretty fun to
Speaker 1: kind of throw out there. Speaking of fun, the Brewers,
Speaker 1: the Dallas Kiko experiment for them is over outright to
Speaker 1: Triple A Nashville. I don't think you're gonna see him again.
Speaker 1: I think they've seen enough.
Speaker 2: I heard no fun though.
Speaker 1: Well at another spot. And so the Brewers is gonna
Speaker 1: be kicking tires. Uh maybe deal Hall. We'll see, I
Speaker 1: don't know. We'll see how that goes. Noahs Kinderguard said
Speaker 1: he's gonna shed a couple pounds and he's gonna make
Speaker 1: a comeback next year. Will Noahs Enderguard make a team
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five? Wells yes or no? Okay?
Speaker 2: So out of spring training or are you saying, well.
Speaker 1: Out of spring training, and I know he's gonna someone's
Speaker 1: going to take a flyer in spring training. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: that's the nature of spring training and pitching.
Speaker 2: Big no, big old fat no, no, no, A cinder
Speaker 2: guard is done.
Speaker 1: Oh, I agree, I agree. Let's run through some injuries here.
Speaker 1: Matthew Boyd struck out seven, allowed one run, zero earned
Speaker 1: in three innings on Tuesday in a minor league rehab assignment.
Speaker 1: So keep an eye on Matthew Boyd in deeper leagues.
Speaker 1: Is Sterry Ruiz remember him zero for four minor league
Speaker 1: rehab game? Uh? Yesterday? And Alex Cobb allowed one run
Speaker 1: in three and a third innings. He's also working his
Speaker 1: way back. So is Tyler Molly too. Uh on that
Speaker 1: elbow issue that Tommy John he struck out five in
Speaker 1: two and two thirds. Now, Tyler Molly when he was
Speaker 1: right was a great strikeout pitcher. He's floating around right now.
Speaker 1: Do you want to take a guess a gander if
Speaker 1: you will, on the roster percentage.
Speaker 2: Of Tyler Molly right now on ESPN?
Speaker 3: No, not on ESPN's zero. We have everything is zero
Speaker 3: on ESPN. Let's say CBS it's three percent. ESPN, it's
Speaker 3: zero percent, CBS, it's eight percent.
Speaker 1: Close seven percent. Now I would be adding this guy in.
Speaker 1: I mean, why wouldn't you add this guy speculatively?
Speaker 2: I would, Yeah, I think so. I mean I think
Speaker 2: the Rangers would are gonna need and want maybe some
Speaker 2: rotation help. There's a really interesting thing that popped out
Speaker 2: today too, And this is this weird like where are
Speaker 2: the Rangers at as far as like competing for a
Speaker 2: wild card in the division?
Speaker 1: That's where they are.
Speaker 2: Well, there was a rumor that Nate Evaldi might be
Speaker 2: a trade option that they might explore that.
Speaker 1: I said this a couple of weeks ago, and I
Speaker 1: think I want to bring this up again, and I
Speaker 1: think it is the Rangers are a weird team that
Speaker 1: can have cake, can eat it too. They have Molly
Speaker 1: coming back, maybe to Gram come back. They just got
Speaker 1: Shores are back a couple of weeks ago. They could
Speaker 1: move some pieces of this rotation still pretend like they're
Speaker 1: in it, quote unquote. They're five games back of the Mariners.
Speaker 1: That's it, seven and a half out of the wildcard.
Speaker 1: That might be a little trickier, but like you can
Speaker 1: either go all in and keep the Evaldi or you
Speaker 1: can trade they Evaldi, maybe get something else to help
Speaker 1: you and still possibly catch the Mariners with the way
Speaker 1: the bill person were playing.
Speaker 2: But that could be one of the things, like if
Speaker 2: a guy like Molly were to come back and they
Speaker 2: felt that they can optimize by moving Evaldi and then
Speaker 2: Molly could move into the rotation. Maybe I don't think
Speaker 2: it really happens.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 2: Molly's an interesting speculative one. I'm just not sure, like
Speaker 2: I'm running to the wire to go and pick up
Speaker 2: Tyler Molly in speculation, Like I would wait till he's healthy,
Speaker 2: he's back, they say, hey, we're gonna put you in
Speaker 2: the rotation and he's gonna get regular starts, then I
Speaker 2: might be a little bit more interested in him. Once
Speaker 2: he's healthy and in the rotation, I think you're good.
Speaker 2: I also just don't think he's a guy that like, ah, crap,
Speaker 2: you missed your opportunity because he's not. I don't think
Speaker 2: anyone's going to be running for Tyler Molly unless you're
Speaker 2: in a deep lea a deep league where you got
Speaker 2: to do it. Yes, then I do agree.
Speaker 1: All right, let's run through some fun things. There's no
Speaker 1: official bets today. Tomorrow we'll be back with the regular
Speaker 1: schedule programming. Aaron judge hit sixty plus regular season home
Speaker 1: runs plus two fifty Aaron are judged to hit plus
Speaker 1: sixty three regular season home runs plus five hundred, and
Speaker 1: he love for either of these specials.
Speaker 2: What's he at right now? Thirty two?
Speaker 1: Yeah, somewhere thirty three.
Speaker 2: So then what is the sixty?
Speaker 1: It's sixty thirty four thirty four, We're both wrong. Sixty
Speaker 1: plus home runs plus two fifty sixty three plus home
Speaker 1: runs plus five hundred.
Speaker 2: I might that's sixty is interesting. I'm probably not placing
Speaker 2: that type of bet, but it's I mean, it's within target.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 1: Paul skeans one hundred and fifty plus strikeouts, you get
Speaker 1: him minus two to twenty five one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: five plus strikeouts plus one forty two hundred plus strikeouts
Speaker 1: plus five hundred.
Speaker 2: Crap, where's he at? That's like, that's going to be
Speaker 2: the big key. I don't know how many.
Speaker 1: I don't think it matter where is he at? It
Speaker 1: matters like what what's left in the tank.
Speaker 2: That's well, but if if he's at like one twenty
Speaker 2: right now, run those by me. It was one fifty.
Speaker 1: It's not even at one hundred right now.
Speaker 2: Broh, Yeah, well that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He's at eighty nine strikeouts at sixty six innings, and
Speaker 1: then what were the number whatever in the minor league?
Speaker 1: So what do you threw it?
Speaker 2: One to fifty was minus, one fifty was minus yes,
Speaker 2: and then one seventy was plus money.
Speaker 1: One fifty was minus two twenty five, one seventy five
Speaker 1: was plus one forty plus one forty to seventy.
Speaker 2: I think I might do that one seventy five. I
Speaker 2: think they're in this right now. There's no reason they're
Speaker 2: going to push back on it. I think I would
Speaker 2: play that one seventy all.
Speaker 1: Right, league winners, American League Yankees plus two forty Oriels
Speaker 1: plus three hundred Twinkies plus six fifty Guardians plus seven hundred,
Speaker 1: and then you got the Astros and Mariners at plus
Speaker 1: eight hundred and nine hundred. I still love Baltimore three
Speaker 1: to one. I'm not gonna be shaken. That was my
Speaker 1: World Series pick. I'm still in American League, Welsh, where'd
Speaker 1: you go?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with the Yankees. I'm gonna stick with
Speaker 2: where I was before. Now, the Orioles I think are
Speaker 2: a great bet, especially because they haven't made any moves yet.
Speaker 2: And if they go and there's a lot of rumors,
Speaker 2: if they go and make a big rotation trade, I
Speaker 2: think that could change things. I just don't think that's available.
Speaker 2: And I still I think the Yankees are going to
Speaker 2: be They're going to be coming.
Speaker 1: Dodgers in the National League. Plus one seventy five Phillies
Speaker 1: plus two ten two to one on the Phillies is
Speaker 1: where I am still again, Yes, sir, Phillies Orioles, that
Speaker 1: was my world series going into this year and I'm
Speaker 1: sticking to it. Braves at plus four fifty are super
Speaker 1: tempting because if there is somebody in a short series
Speaker 1: two that I would fear, it's you know, can you
Speaker 1: get Chris Sale three times in the seven game series?
Speaker 1: Can he dominate? Maybe maybe he can, and maybe those bats,
Speaker 1: maybe the Braves just for once get hot at the
Speaker 1: right time and not be this juggernaut team that's so good,
Speaker 1: you know throughout the rest of the season, kind of
Speaker 1: falls apart a little bit as you get to the
Speaker 1: you know, into October, so it'll be a very different
Speaker 1: path for them, kind of flip flopping with the Philly
Speaker 1: in terms of momentum. So maybe it's better for the
Speaker 1: Braves to be chasers as opposed to the chase for
Speaker 1: you know a little bit. And then World Series Dodgers
Speaker 1: plus three twenty, Phillies plus four twenty, Yankees plus five
Speaker 1: to fifty Orioles plus seven hundred and Braves plus eight hundred,
Speaker 1: I stillct the fight in Phyllis plus four twenty. I
Speaker 1: think they can get it done. That's where I am.
Speaker 2: How about you, Yeah, I am with you. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: also go with the Phillies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: I was in on the Yankees in the in the
Speaker 2: off season when it was kind of laughable, and then
Speaker 2: they just came out and they were ridiculous. One of
Speaker 2: the highest run differential teams, Yankees are the second highest
Speaker 2: in MLB, highest in AL and run differential. They also
Speaker 2: have the best road record right now, and think of
Speaker 2: how garbage they've been for the last fifteen games. Yet
Speaker 2: they're still monsters. And they are one of only two
Speaker 2: teams that have a top five runs scored per game
Speaker 2: and ERA per game. They are one of the five
Speaker 2: best in ERA and one of the five best in
Speaker 2: runs scored the other by the way Philly, So I
Speaker 2: like both of those in there. I think Yankees is
Speaker 2: an interesting bet, but I'm gonna go with you with
Speaker 2: the Philly Welsh.
Speaker 1: Did you know I've got street cred? Because according to Larry,
Speaker 1: Joe just dropped a bra, My junior high students would
Speaker 1: give him so much street credit. That's right, that's our
Speaker 1: why I live with a middle schooler. My daughter is
Speaker 1: twelve or will be twelve in a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of bra and yas queens and
Speaker 1: aggressive and get it.
Speaker 2: I forgot your daughter and my son are like within
Speaker 2: these days and age because my son in August August, well.
Speaker 1: It's looking more and more likely Joey P and family
Speaker 1: will be out via spring break next year in Arizona.
Speaker 1: So live shows with myself, Welsh cousin Donnie two who
Speaker 1: knows live from the backfields. It's gonna be a good time.
Speaker 1: We'll definitely get this bra Brah, It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: Speaking of shows, tomorrow, we'll be back with the regular
Speaker 1: old leading off. But again, there's no games today, so
Speaker 1: if you need more baseball fix, I'm begging you go watch.
Speaker 1: We had our All Star Game special on the channel.
Speaker 1: We also just had our MLB Draft review in Futures Review.
Speaker 1: Check that out. It was so good. It's right here
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Speaker 1: Welsh's top ten the breakdowns of the first round of
Speaker 1: all the guys that went in Major League Bay.
Speaker 2: I also did an article with that if people want
Speaker 2: to check it out.
Speaker 1: God, you're so versatile.
Speaker 2: I did a lot. It took no break. I did
Speaker 2: a first year player article where I teared out probably
Speaker 2: like close to twenty of the first year player guys.
Speaker 2: And then that video is also linked on the article.
Speaker 2: So check out the article and watch that video that
Speaker 2: Joe and I did on the draft and a little
Speaker 2: bit of futures game.
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Speaker 1: for the Welsh. I'm Joey p. We'll see you next time, kids, peace.
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