Speaker 1: Sprinkles of kwan, Let's play ball.
Speaker 2: Welcome in everybody a Leading Off right here on Fantasy Pros.
Speaker 2: It is me Joey p Joe Piezapia and we're happy
Speaker 2: to have here again on Leading Off sponsored by Bett MGM.
Speaker 2: And my host today is the Mayor, Mike Mayor, who
Speaker 2: really supports this entire show. I'm just a sham, I
Speaker 2: am just a front man. Mike Mayor basically powers this
Speaker 2: entire program, in this entire Fantasy Pros site. It seems
Speaker 2: like this week too, with our boss off, so Mike
Speaker 2: Mayor doing double duty.
Speaker 1: He's hosting, He's doing.
Speaker 2: Lots of things, and very successful with that because he
Speaker 2: called get another home run, right, you've got two on
Speaker 2: the board.
Speaker 1: I have zero.
Speaker 2: Still I started off slow last year, so this kind
Speaker 2: of feels like maybe I'm just the guy who doesn't
Speaker 2: like the month of April. But Mike Mayor, it's great
Speaker 2: to have you back on the program today, my friend,
Speaker 2: how are you?
Speaker 3: It's great to be back.
Speaker 4: And like you're saying, I didn't remember, I didn't realize
Speaker 4: when I agreed to do the show this week that
Speaker 4: my boss would be off this week. And so I'm
Speaker 4: regretting that decision a little bit right now, but.
Speaker 3: Happy to be here.
Speaker 4: And I may power like the stats behind the show,
Speaker 4: but I know I can just put whatever I want
Speaker 4: in this sheet and you're just gonna run with it anyway.
Speaker 3: You don't even have to look. You're like Ron Burgundy.
Speaker 1: You'll just like go yeah, oh, yeah, oh. I will
Speaker 1: totally read whatever's in the show sheet, right or wrong.
Speaker 1: I just take it. I just assume it's correct.
Speaker 2: By the way, you have one fan here, Riley Hoffin says, hell, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's Mayor So obviously your cousin, So.
Speaker 4: Kiley is also the power behind the dingerbot in the discord.
Speaker 2: Ah well, Riley, you just went up with just one
Speaker 2: small tick. Then, in my book, also small is finally
Speaker 2: we get some good baseball advice for payre oh Man.
Speaker 2: This is a tough crowd. By the way, today we're
Speaker 2: gonna go through our home run calls. Well, later we
Speaker 2: got some props for you. We're gonna talk dfs too.
Speaker 2: It's a very weird slate on Fan Duel today. The
Speaker 2: way they broke it up. It's we'll get to that later.
Speaker 2: But let's art with some of the good things that
Speaker 2: we saw last night. And if you listened to us
Speaker 2: yesterday and you were on draftings and you paid Hazu's
Speaker 2: Lozardo along with Alex Cobb, like mayor, I think we
Speaker 2: did okay last night with that pairing. What do you
Speaker 2: think of those two guys performances last night?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they did really well.
Speaker 2: I don't have you can't get you can't get analysis
Speaker 2: like that anywhere, folks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they did really well. Like I was trying to
Speaker 5: think of, yeah, you know they're they're good, They're good
Speaker 5: at baseball. Lizardo is I don't think I have any
Speaker 5: Lizardo shares. I do have some Cob shares because I
Speaker 5: wanted to get some of that Giants magic. And of
Speaker 5: course his velocity is already up, so he was like
Speaker 5: sitting at ninety five last night, you know, just with
Speaker 5: whatever the Giants do to like make these you know,
Speaker 5: these pictures better. And he had some good metrics, which
Speaker 5: which makes sense is why the Giants like went after
Speaker 5: him the off season. And then Lozardo is just a
Speaker 5: wild card, so yeah, he was going for because of
Speaker 5: how he finished last season. He was going richer for
Speaker 5: my you know, too early for my taste in some drafts.
Speaker 5: I don't have any Lizardo shares. I do have some
Speaker 5: cop shares, but twelve Trikkuds for Lazar, ten for Cobb.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty good night, very nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got Kabba sitting on my bench in my
Speaker 2: home league this week, So there you go.
Speaker 3: Good stuff.
Speaker 1: But that's okay, that's okay because I.
Speaker 2: Well, it's hard. I've got Schureser, Verlander, Hunter Green in
Speaker 2: that league.
Speaker 1: I have.
Speaker 3: Good that you can't.
Speaker 1: The team is so good. I was like, I can't
Speaker 1: sit Max Scherzer for Alex Cobb.
Speaker 2: So we'll see how it goes. We'll see things go.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get some of the headlines from last night.
Speaker 2: We'll start with you Darvis shortest outing of his career
Speaker 2: versus the Giants last night, and that same guy the
Speaker 2: game with Alex Cobb. So first off with the Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: was great, all right, you know, no hits there for
Speaker 2: six things, and then yesterday one in two thirds, nine
Speaker 2: earned runs.
Speaker 1: Is this a great opportunity to go buy you, Darvish everywhere?
Speaker 1: I think it is?
Speaker 3: What do you think I think it is?
Speaker 4: I'd be a little scared. And you know, after that
Speaker 4: first start against the Diamondbacks. You know, everyone was kind
Speaker 4: of like, you know, is this him locked in or
Speaker 4: is this just the Diamondbacks? And you know, since we're
Speaker 4: gonna stream against the Diamondbacks every game pretty much this
Speaker 4: entire season, and it was probably a little bit of both,
Speaker 4: and a little bit of both. Yesterday was about like
Speaker 4: as bad as he has looked ever. I think I
Speaker 4: saw it was like the shortest start of his career.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh, you know, look for you, Darvish. I
Speaker 2: know he's no that year older, but he's done this
Speaker 2: before and in early bad starts. Don't worry me. That's
Speaker 2: not something. As long as the health is fine, that's
Speaker 2: the only thing. And yeah, it should scare you. But
Speaker 2: scared money don't make money. You gotta go in there.
Speaker 1: You gotta try, especially in a pitching marketing.
Speaker 3: Scared money don't make.
Speaker 1: It's a saying. But you could pretend I just made
Speaker 1: it up.
Speaker 3: That's fine.
Speaker 2: Also say as Azuki, I didn't make this up. He
Speaker 2: went deep twice yesterday through four games, getting four to
Speaker 2: seventeen with three home runs, eight Ribby's four walks.
Speaker 1: He looks great.
Speaker 2: But I always caution everybody whenever you have somebody come over.
Speaker 2: In fact, earlier today I had was on Matt Williams show,
Speaker 2: Friend of Ours, Friend of the program here, and we're
Speaker 2: talking about Suzuki, and I was talking about, well, you know,
Speaker 2: if you remember when Marcus Thames came back over from
Speaker 2: playing in the international leagues, he came back and he
Speaker 2: was a house on fire and then you found, as
Speaker 2: you know, the problems he had. I remember Kasmat Tsui
Speaker 2: getting off to a great start. Look, Suzuki might be
Speaker 2: better than all those guys. But I think the point
Speaker 2: I'm trying to make is this run that he's having
Speaker 2: here is great, but I expect his best run to
Speaker 2: be at the front of the season where people are
Speaker 2: still new and they're just gonna challenge him with fastballs. Yes,
Speaker 2: it's a good matchup against the Pirates. Sure, we like
Speaker 2: where things are going with all that, But when he
Speaker 2: faces better pitching and there's more of a book on him,
Speaker 2: I start to worry.
Speaker 1: So I'll put this to you. What do you think
Speaker 1: of Suzuki what you've seen so far?
Speaker 2: Are you buying in or is this another guy too
Speaker 2: perfectly sell high candidate in terms of what he's doing
Speaker 2: so far? Maybe it's not sustainable.
Speaker 4: I think you can kind of say yes to all
Speaker 4: of those things I am buying in. I am a
Speaker 4: little concerned I would I don't. I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 4: I would sell high depending on what the offer would be.
Speaker 4: But I'm kind of the opposite. I'm happy that he
Speaker 4: started strong because of the worry is that, you know,
Speaker 4: he comes up when he struggles immediately and he just
Speaker 4: looks lost. He's at least proving he can handle major
Speaker 4: league pitching, even if they adjust to him. He kind
Speaker 4: of showing that he can do this for now, and
Speaker 4: he looks fantastic.
Speaker 1: He does.
Speaker 2: He does, there's no doubt about that. All right, let's
Speaker 2: move on to another one here. Who else looks fantastic?
Speaker 2: How about my boy Louis Robert? So Welsh is gone
Speaker 2: because he doesn't get you know, he's gone the day
Speaker 2: that I take my victory lap on Louis Robert, who's
Speaker 2: got four stolen bases so already on this year. That's
Speaker 2: the thing. My bold prediction was a thirty thirty year
Speaker 2: from Robert. He's got four steals already. I'm loving this,
Speaker 2: and who knows, maybe off.
Speaker 1: To a good start with the MVP. What are your
Speaker 1: thoughts on Louis Robert Homer and stole two bases yesterday.
Speaker 1: Not too shabby.
Speaker 2: He's got a three seventy five average and oh a
Speaker 2: ten thirty seven ops. What are your thoughts on early
Speaker 2: Robert that we've seen so far in a week.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 4: I'm also in an auction league with our good friend
Speaker 4: Dan Harris, and it's like a semi keeper league where
Speaker 4: you have to like keep people and then you have
Speaker 4: a salary and decide whether you want to extend them
Speaker 4: and stuff. I made one of the worst baseball decisions
Speaker 4: of all time when I extended Kristin Yelich for.
Speaker 3: Forty four dollars out of two hundred dollars budget. So
Speaker 3: that was horrible.
Speaker 4: But I do have Luise Robert very excited, especially about
Speaker 4: the four stolen bases. He's leading the league in stolen bases.
Speaker 4: Like you said about some other players, health is going
Speaker 4: to be the concern, you know, is he going to
Speaker 4: stay healthy for a full season? And what does a
Speaker 4: full season from Louise Robert look like? And also you
Speaker 4: mentioned Welsh's off for today for your Louise Robert Victory lab,
Speaker 4: He's also off after an zero for five Byron Bucks
Speaker 4: to day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I noticed that.
Speaker 2: It's kind of kind of an odd timing with all
Speaker 2: of that, but I'll be sure to bring that up
Speaker 2: to him. I'll be sure to sip my tea when
Speaker 2: I do in my little Star Wars mug that I've
Speaker 2: got today.
Speaker 1: Look he's he's a one.
Speaker 2: Of those forest stormtroopers with the speeder bikes. That's what
Speaker 2: I got today.
Speaker 1: But also somebody.
Speaker 3: Fun things Where you are.
Speaker 2: I do I you know what, you sit here in
Speaker 2: the office all day. You need a little bit of whimsy,
Speaker 2: That's what I say. So I've got a little I
Speaker 2: got my Star Wars months. I've got one too, where
Speaker 2: you pour it in there and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: like all the lightsabers light up. That's pretty cool. Let's
Speaker 2: take some questions for the peanuts and crackerjacks. Here's a
Speaker 2: good one from mister Freeze. I'm in a twelve man
Speaker 2: category league with two keepers. Just got offered a trade
Speaker 2: where I received Wander Franco and Shane Bieber for trade
Speaker 2: Turner and Luis Severino. Your thoughts, Mike Mayor on this one.
Speaker 2: While I set my tea.
Speaker 3: I think I would take it. I'm not as high
Speaker 3: on Wander Franco.
Speaker 4: I always feel like I say his name weird as others,
Speaker 4: but Treya Turner, at least.
Speaker 2: Because you put a question mark at the end of it,
Speaker 2: Wonder Franco Franco Frank I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah I would.
Speaker 4: I would take this just because like, Franco plus Bieber
Speaker 4: is more value than Turner plus Severino. Even though I
Speaker 4: like Turner more and I'm not as high on Franco
Speaker 4: as others.
Speaker 2: I agree, I am high on Wander Franco, and I
Speaker 2: say it with authority, no question marks in my voice.
Speaker 1: Wanda Frankel. But yeah, I think that combination is a
Speaker 1: better combination.
Speaker 2: As much as I like trade Turner, You've got many
Speaker 2: more years ahead, I think of Wander Franco. We got
Speaker 2: like a decade of Wander Franco coming up, at least
Speaker 2: the race things. So that's why they game all that money.
Speaker 2: Trey Turner, what you got another three four years?
Speaker 3: Maybe?
Speaker 2: I mean, if you can keep them forever, I mean,
Speaker 2: that's a wonder Franco's such a star, all right.
Speaker 1: He also is a star.
Speaker 2: Stephen Kwan when a new segment we like to call
Speaker 2: your Daily Kwan, So Stephen Kuan has yet to have
Speaker 2: a swing and miss through one hundred and fifteen pitches
Speaker 2: that he's seen so far through Tuesday's games.
Speaker 1: You know, this is the lost art form of contact.
Speaker 1: And I like this. I like what Stephen Kwan brings
Speaker 1: to the table. I know he's got a ceiling.
Speaker 2: Maybe he's a ten to ten guy at best, But
Speaker 2: I think if you're in a points league and you
Speaker 2: picked up Stephen Kwan, I think you just ride this
Speaker 2: train as long as it lasts. But what do you
Speaker 2: think about this Stephen Kwan run. It's the best first
Speaker 2: year run I saw on MAB network since Jay Bruce,
Speaker 2: who is not necessarily a big contact guy, which was
Speaker 2: kind of ironic, but one of the streakiest guys you'll
Speaker 2: ever see in baseball, Right, Like remember the Jay Bruce
Speaker 2: months where he'd look like at MVP and then months
Speaker 2: where you're like, are they gonna send this guy down?
Speaker 1: But Stephen Kwan, I mean, I keep saying in Points
Speaker 1: league to ride this wave and.
Speaker 2: Rodo I get maybe he's kind of capped in a
Speaker 2: certain degree, but he's gonna give you a batting average.
Speaker 2: So what do you make of the early Kwan We
Speaker 2: talked about with Welsh yesterday, but I want to get
Speaker 2: the Mike Mayer take on it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Welsh made a lot of good points.
Speaker 4: I feel like he was a little bit too Debbie
Speaker 4: down there on Kwan. But like you said, like home
Speaker 4: run steals, you're probably not gonna get a ton of
Speaker 4: either one. But I mean batting average and just like
Speaker 4: putting the ball in play right now, I mean, who
Speaker 4: knows how long this is gonna gonna go for and
Speaker 4: if the guardians excuse me, kind of like fall off.
Speaker 4: Maybe he does run a little bit more, Maybe he
Speaker 4: does steal fifteen bases, because those bad teams tend to
Speaker 4: let their runners run a little bit more because you
Speaker 4: know who cares. So like I mean, there, we have
Speaker 4: a lot of players, especially like this season, it seems
Speaker 4: like that are going to be kind of like boom
Speaker 4: or bust, like power guys with low average. If you
Speaker 4: can sprinkle in a quan there and kind of like
Speaker 4: build a perfect player with two players with you know,
Speaker 4: with his average and you know, maybe run some runs
Speaker 4: and stolen bases.
Speaker 3: Take it. Let's have some fun and ride the magic.
Speaker 1: I like to sprinkle in some quan wherever I can. Oh,
Speaker 1: go Quan sprinkle never.
Speaker 3: Never last year, by the way, and show Hey now
Speaker 3: this year we have the Daily kwand we did.
Speaker 1: Have today in show Hey. Now it's your Daily Kwan,
Speaker 1: which I kind of like.
Speaker 3: I like the Quan.
Speaker 2: He always reminds me of Jerry maguire when people getting
Speaker 2: juniors talking about the Kwan. I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: the same spelling or not, but whatever, it's fine. Let's
Speaker 2: go to Joe's Tough Guys. And again this Tough Guys
Speaker 2: is you know, this crosses all genders and all platforms here,
Speaker 2: so I don't want to get into a pronoun argument here.
Speaker 2: But Alyssa Naked became the first female coach to take
Speaker 2: an on the field appearance in a major league game yesterday,
Speaker 2: So congratulations to Alyssa.
Speaker 1: That's huge.
Speaker 2: It's very important the women in baseball. We saw earlier
Speaker 2: a couple weeks actually last week, not a couple weeks.
Speaker 2: You know, last week we saw the Yankee manager. It's
Speaker 2: just it's great to see baseball becoming more encompassing, more inclusive,
Speaker 2: and it's great to see the women in coaching in
Speaker 2: the NFL and in Major League Baseball. I think it's fantastic.
Speaker 2: You're seeing the NBA, You're seeing all over the place,
Speaker 2: so it's great. So congratulations to Alyssa Naken. Also Alec
Speaker 2: Boom because I'm gonna go back here because if you're
Speaker 2: watching the Mets game last night, and I was, Alec
Speaker 2: Bohm came up and pinch hit and got a standing
Speaker 2: ovation from the crowd. However, I do want to mark
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure fifty percent of it was sarcastic.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm.
Speaker 2: I was watching the faces of the people, and I
Speaker 2: saw some people like that's our guy. And then I
Speaker 2: saw a bunch of other people who had probably been
Speaker 2: in South Philadelphia for a few hours before the game
Speaker 2: showing up and going.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah like that. So you take it for what
Speaker 1: it's worth.
Speaker 2: But either way, it's I guess better to be sarcastically
Speaker 2: applauded than not applauded at all. God knows I'm sarcastically
Speaker 2: applauded every single day, so good for him. Fun facts
Speaker 2: Albert Poohos hit his six hundred and eightieth home run
Speaker 2: last night. Such a feel good story. Him being back
Speaker 2: in Saint Louis makes me feel more warm and fuzzy,
Speaker 2: and my Tom tum I like it. Wan So to
Speaker 2: his hundredth home run last night, and Max Schrzer makes
Speaker 2: his four hundredth career start today against the Phillies, so
Speaker 2: that should be a good one. Nola and Sures are
Speaker 2: going head to head. Let's talk about the sat heroes.
Speaker 2: Mayor ty Lowell, Tylor McGill, Taylor McGill, five and a
Speaker 2: third five K's who needs Jacob de Gram That's all
Speaker 2: I say. I mean, we have Tyler McGill. So what
Speaker 2: do you make of him right now? I mean, because
Speaker 2: to me, this is a dude that's gonna make twenty starts,
Speaker 2: probably at least the way the Spen's rotation is set up,
Speaker 2: I think there's a really good chance that's going to happen.
Speaker 2: Hlosi's up high. He's a big, strong kid. Showed you
Speaker 2: last year he belonged in the big league, showed you
Speaker 2: a good demeanor on the mound. Showalter seems to love him,
Speaker 2: has nothing but great things to say about him. So
Speaker 2: what do you make of the early success for Tyler
Speaker 2: the Terrible?
Speaker 3: I'm very intrigued. I was not in.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I was not in on McGill. Like coming into
Speaker 4: the season, I was kind of like, you know, like
Speaker 4: pooh pooing him. And then I watched, like you, I
Speaker 4: watched that start yesterday and it was impressive, despite his
Speaker 4: like really strange wind up where he just stands there
Speaker 4: and like takes like just like turns to the side
Speaker 4: and then and then throws like he's gone out of
Speaker 4: the stretch. He talked a little bit about he kind
Speaker 4: of like he studied other pictures, like other like large people,
Speaker 4: large human beings like him, and learned how to gain
Speaker 4: more velocity. And it looked like he's not like one
Speaker 4: of those pitchers who's like really trying to like reach
Speaker 4: back and you know, throw gas.
Speaker 2: Got good mechanics, very repeatable, easy mechanics is what I
Speaker 2: look at, like I usually throwing.
Speaker 3: Gas, and it looks good he does.
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, whenever you're around Shureser and
Speaker 2: de Gram and those guys and those kind of pitching minds,
Speaker 2: it's hard not to get better. I feel like, I mean,
Speaker 2: I think I kind of felt like watching Chris Bassett
Speaker 2: too is like another notch for Chris Bassett that I
Speaker 2: haven't really seen in Oakland. And that first start with
Speaker 2: the Mets, I know it was on the first start.
Speaker 2: I know was the Nationals, but still I just got
Speaker 2: a little excited about it.
Speaker 4: And it was a good juxtaposition to Zack Wheeler, whose
Speaker 4: velocity was down yesterday.
Speaker 2: Now, Wheeler's a guy that I've been off, and you
Speaker 2: know that I dropped him significantly in the rankings going
Speaker 2: into the season. Anytime somebody whispers about a shoulder or anything,
Speaker 2: I'm out. I don't want to hear it. I don't
Speaker 2: want to hear the whispers. I don't want them in
Speaker 2: my head. I don't want them on my team. No good,
Speaker 2: no bueno. So keep an eye on that. Start making plans.
Speaker 2: Hey Zu's Lozardo, Hey Zeus. Twelve k's no decision. As
Speaker 2: the Angels, we crushed that one. We crushed Alex Cobb.
Speaker 2: Matt Brash, we didn't give enough love to yesterday. He
Speaker 2: may his major league debut against the White Sox. Six
Speaker 2: k's for him. Who would you have rest of season
Speaker 2: Matt Brash or Jesu's Lizardo.
Speaker 3: That's a tough one. Indeed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd probably roll the dice on Lizardo, but I
Speaker 4: would not do so confidently because he scares me.
Speaker 3: Because that badar is still in there. Somewhere there's.
Speaker 1: There's good Lozardo this bad Lizardo.
Speaker 2: I worry about the limitations on both, but I feel
Speaker 2: like Lozardo has less because I don't know, Marlins have
Speaker 2: less to prove. Like whatever, you want to go pitch today, Okay,
Speaker 2: go pitch.
Speaker 3: I got off in run support too.
Speaker 1: That is that is also true.
Speaker 2: But you know, also it's it's not gonna be fun
Speaker 2: going up against the Angels for Brash and going up
Speaker 2: against the Astros too. Not that the East is all
Speaker 2: that easy either, but it's certainly close.
Speaker 1: It's very close.
Speaker 2: So you uh yeah, if you're in Peanuts and Crackerjacks,
Speaker 2: tell me who you want. You want Jesus Lozardo or
Speaker 2: do you want Matt Brash? Give your justifications, put it
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Speaker 1: He likes Hayesus.
Speaker 2: I'm also a big fan of Hajesus from or that
Speaker 2: Jesus as it were, from Big Lebowski. One of my
Speaker 2: favorite characters ever, one of the funniest characters ever. Although
Speaker 2: I never saw the standalone movie. Did you ever see
Speaker 2: the Lebowski standalone movie about that John Tatero character? I
Speaker 2: never saw it?
Speaker 1: Is it any good?
Speaker 4: I've never seen that. There's a movie other than The
Speaker 4: Big Lebaski about the Labata there is.
Speaker 2: They made it just about his character, but I don't
Speaker 2: know anybody who've seen it if you've seen it.
Speaker 1: Also Peanuts and Crackerjacks.
Speaker 2: So far, Lozardo's SEMs to be winning in this unofficial
Speaker 2: poll that we've running. Right now, Let's go to some
Speaker 2: of the hitters who are good. Marcelo a Zuna two
Speaker 2: dingers last night, say a Suzuku you mentioned he had two.
Speaker 2: Sal Perez had two. Everybody went double dong last night.
Speaker 2: Of course I wish I called one of those guys.
Speaker 1: I did not.
Speaker 2: Tyler Naquin also two for three. He's a guy that
Speaker 2: got a lot of shares of in the leagues, just cheap.
Speaker 2: Tyler Naquin, Jose Ramirez at a big day with the
Speaker 2: home run six Ribies, Ozzie Albi's a home run three
Speaker 2: for five, and Cedric Mullins a home run in for RBI.
Speaker 2: So there you go. You like that, Mayor, you feel
Speaker 2: good about that.
Speaker 4: I was not feeling good about Cedric Mullins because he
Speaker 4: was struggling until last night. I don't think I have
Speaker 4: any shares in so many leagues. I don't think I
Speaker 4: have any shares, just because I was a little nervous
Speaker 4: about like the Cedric Mullins price tag after what he
Speaker 4: did last year, because he was being priced for just
Speaker 4: what he did last year, not like any kind of discount,
Speaker 4: and so that made me a little nervous. So I
Speaker 4: don't have any shares. But he looks good.
Speaker 2: Naw Waukee Penguin, says Lozardo in redrafts brash in other formats.
Speaker 2: That's probably She's always the voice of reason here on
Speaker 2: the show. Also, are the balls juiced again? She wants
Speaker 2: to know, Mayor, you need to do some investigative journalism
Speaker 2: in your free time.
Speaker 1: Do you have any free time?
Speaker 2: And this is this is the kind of journalism that
Speaker 2: got you that check mark isn't it.
Speaker 3: It is?
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is the work you have to do if
Speaker 4: you want the little check that I have on the
Speaker 4: screen right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even want it anymore, so that I
Speaker 1: don't I don't care. I don't care.
Speaker 2: All right, let's give you because there's seventeen. That's why
Speaker 2: there's only one other one. And I'm clearly more famous,
Speaker 2: or at least more Twitter famous than him. But whatever, team,
Speaker 2: let's get to the stat zero's you, Darvish, Patrick Corbin
Speaker 2: so much for a good spring?
Speaker 1: Six earned runs? Gross terrible?
Speaker 2: Uh, Daniel Lynch not good? Six earned runs from him?
Speaker 2: Show you o Tani four for twenty five go buy
Speaker 2: him everywhere? Byron Buckston, oh for five, three strikeouts. I
Speaker 2: recognize that guy. Mitch Hanniger also off to a slow
Speaker 2: start in the year. He's over five with two k's
Speaker 2: cold Wong big oh for five four. Lots of golden
Speaker 2: sombreros last night. Lots of hat tricks, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: The strikeout community. Rehyese Hoskins also off to a little
Speaker 2: slow start. A slow night for Vlad too. Also, Jared
Speaker 2: Kellnick won for fifteen to nine ks to start the season.
Speaker 2: Kirl Off he goes to the IL. I believe we
Speaker 2: saw that right, hitting just a buck fifty nine, so
Speaker 2: that's not great. Bobby Wood Junior hitting one hundred under
Speaker 2: five games. I'm not worried about Bobby Whitt. I'm not
Speaker 2: worried about kirol Off. I am worried about Kellenick. I
Speaker 2: felt like Kelnick should have started the year in Tripa
Speaker 2: a build up his confidence, then let him come back up.
Speaker 1: I didn't like starting him in the big leagues to
Speaker 1: start things. I'm worried.
Speaker 2: I'm concerned birth short term and long term. Here's my plan.
Speaker 2: I want to know what you think of it. I
Speaker 2: think he's gonna be one of the most dropped guys
Speaker 2: in April. I don't trade for him unless it's a
Speaker 2: dynasty keeper thing. You want to take a shot. That's
Speaker 2: fine in redraft leagues. Just wait for everyone to drop him,
Speaker 2: then add him to the bench and speculate that way.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on Kellennick's early struggles, Mare.
Speaker 4: I'm concerned too, because I was buying in this offseason,
Speaker 4: like last year was gross. He did finish I don't
Speaker 4: even want to say strong, because he didn't finish like
Speaker 4: that strong, but like comparatively strong to how much he
Speaker 4: struggled over the summer.
Speaker 3: He finished strong.
Speaker 4: I was hoping, like being know, a full off season,
Speaker 4: full spring training, which we didn't get, that he would
Speaker 4: look a little bit better. I still believe in the talent,
Speaker 4: and I'm you know, I'm still gonna like like you said,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to trade for him, but if he
Speaker 4: gets dropped, I'm going to pick him up. I have
Speaker 4: him in TGFBI, which isn't great in a big, deep
Speaker 4: late league like that. Nothing I can do there. Like
Speaker 4: I said on our Points mock draft a few weeks ago,
Speaker 4: this is kind of my worry with Bobby witt In
Speaker 4: like in non points leagues, but in points leagues, I'm
Speaker 4: completely fine because I figured this was going to happen.
Speaker 4: Kiroll Off, I have a ton of shares of and
Speaker 4: I'm concerned because not only did he struggle, but he's
Speaker 4: back to the IL and that was kind of what
Speaker 4: happened last year with the wrist.
Speaker 1: YEP it is. It's no good. Kirol Off was one
Speaker 1: of those guys.
Speaker 2: So I took his like a utility guy, a little
Speaker 2: first base, lat outfield, kind of move him around. Don't
Speaker 2: like it By the way. Thanks JP, stepped up here.
Speaker 2: The Jesus role is the name of the movie with
Speaker 2: John Taturo, and uh, if you're a John Taturo fan,
Speaker 2: he says, it's got some moments and I am so
Speaker 2: might have to check that out at some point.
Speaker 1: Thanks JP. See I love my Peanuts and Cracker Jacks
Speaker 1: always getting the job done. Uh, here you go.
Speaker 2: Here's another question for you. Here a closer situation for
Speaker 2: the Red Sox. I've got Barnes, but I'm a little
Speaker 2: concerned as from Brent Cox, one of the Peanuts and
Speaker 2: Cracker Jacks.
Speaker 1: So mayor would your take on the Boston safe situation?
Speaker 3: You got one great, great question.
Speaker 4: I'm in I'm in a group text with our old
Speaker 4: friend too Much Tuma and Dan Harris, and we've been
Speaker 4: talking about this for days, especially because Tuma and I
Speaker 4: are both Red Sox fans and Dan is in like
Speaker 4: an expensive league, and he's like, should I pick you know,
Speaker 4: should I pick up Jake Deekman? What's coming up with
Speaker 4: Matt Barnes. And the answer is, I have no idea.
Speaker 4: I think they want Matt Barnes to like take the
Speaker 4: job and have that job. He struggled. I mean first
Speaker 4: half last year, Matt Barn's is the best closer and
Speaker 4: basse second half, which you know is a little concerning
Speaker 4: because it's also when they started like cracking out on
Speaker 4: sticky stuff. He was like one of the worst relievers
Speaker 4: in baseball, and he got an extension, and I think
Speaker 4: they still want him to take the job. I don't
Speaker 4: think he's yet to pitch this year because he's been
Speaker 4: out with the back injury or whatever it is. He's
Speaker 4: not on the il, but he's been injured. And then
Speaker 4: you saw a Deacman get a save, Garrett Whitlock, who
Speaker 4: was just threw four innings yesterday of no hit balls
Speaker 4: or I was.
Speaker 2: Gonna say four good innings too, And I've got him
Speaker 2: as an RP and a lot of spots in deeper
Speaker 2: leagues too.
Speaker 1: I like I like Whitlock's arms.
Speaker 4: So I think it'll be Barnes, but it's also going
Speaker 4: to be probably he might not be like a real closer.
Speaker 4: He might just be like the head of the committee
Speaker 4: unless he lose ahead of.
Speaker 1: I think you should do is you got this is
Speaker 1: like one of those bullpens.
Speaker 2: I actually want to have all the guys, you know,
Speaker 2: some of the Bullpen's is not worth investing in all
Speaker 2: the guys.
Speaker 1: This one might be because well because if.
Speaker 2: The other, if Whitlock becomes the guy, I think he'd
Speaker 2: be very good. You know, if the pivot guy is
Speaker 2: also very good potentially, then have a guys. If the
Speaker 2: pivot guy is a big downgrade, it's just a pivot,
Speaker 2: then I'm not so concerned with it. Today's Slate, We've
Speaker 2: got something very exciting too, because at twelve thirty five,
Speaker 2: right after the show's over, Nick Lodolo is going to
Speaker 2: make his major league debut. Hunter Green came out throwing
Speaker 2: gas that first one Lodolo, the left handed version of him.
Speaker 2: I'm shocked that he's up here in this shurly making starts.
Speaker 2: But then again, I guess I shouldn't be at Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: What are your expectations for Lodolo? And are you a
Speaker 2: Lodolo guy or a Hunter Green guy? I'm a Green guy,
Speaker 2: But what's Mike.
Speaker 4: Mayor if I'm picking between the two, I'm a Green
Speaker 4: guy just because I mean, have fun.
Speaker 3: And see how fun did he looked the other day?
Speaker 3: It's super digits. I do like a Lodolo, though everybody.
Speaker 2: Likes a little you know what, I like a little
Speaker 2: kwan on my Lodolo's at a little sprinkle of the
Speaker 2: kwan on there. All right, let's talk about the home
Speaker 2: run leader board, which makes me upset right now. Up
Speaker 2: in Adam lawnmower Man four point four, love that name,
Speaker 2: and JP, who I've got much props for today, so
Speaker 2: I'm actually happy about this. This is a good peoples here,
Speaker 2: especially JP. He's helping me out with that movie question.
Speaker 2: They're all up to three home runs out of the gate.
Speaker 1: Very good.
Speaker 2: JP jumped up from two home runs thanks to Sal Perez.
Speaker 2: That's all you need that double dong night so far
Speaker 2: up and Adams up at the top with three, lawnmower Man, JP,
Speaker 2: Mike Mayer up there with two, so that's disconcerting. I
Speaker 2: need to get on the board in the worst way
Speaker 2: before we get to our home run calls.
Speaker 1: In DFS.
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about the prop market
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Speaker 2: like my responsible wagers, and I've got some for you
Speaker 2: today that are responsible. I think we hit the k
Speaker 2: prop on Cobb yesterday too. I think we talked about
Speaker 2: that one memory serves. But let's talk about today, because
Speaker 2: today we've got Corbyn Burns right now. BETMGM six and
Speaker 2: a half is the number. Projections have him at eight
Speaker 2: point six y four over on the Fantasy pro side,
Speaker 2: so that's a differential over two.
Speaker 1: I love that one. I love for him to bounce
Speaker 1: back against that Baltimore lineup today.
Speaker 2: Give me all the Corbyn Burns. Austin Riley total bases
Speaker 2: is at one and a half on BETMGM. We've got
Speaker 2: him projected against Washington, who can't pitch at all, at
Speaker 2: two seventy five. Two point seventy five, I should say,
Speaker 2: and then Nadie Evaldi if indeed the weather works out
Speaker 2: here in this one. In a little tenuous situation there.
Speaker 2: We've already had one game canceled today with Saint Louis
Speaker 2: and Kansas City. But Nadi Evaldi's strikeout prop over on
Speaker 2: the fandul side five and a half. We're projected at
Speaker 2: six point three seven, So a little variance there. Detroit
Speaker 2: has some strikeouts in that lineup, but the Corbyn Burns
Speaker 2: one is the one I go to, and that right
Speaker 2: now you can get at minus one twenty eight. Not
Speaker 2: too bad, but again I think investible. Any props stick
Speaker 2: out to you or any feelings about some of the
Speaker 2: ones that I threw out.
Speaker 3: There, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4: And let me say I'm loving this Betting Pros Baseball
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Speaker 3: I've been looking forward to this.
Speaker 2: Well. The prop bet cheat sheet at Bettingpros dot com
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Speaker 1: I go there and you know what it helps in
Speaker 1: the DFS.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. I was looking
Speaker 4: at the basketball one like leading up to baseball season.
Speaker 4: I was like, this is really cool, but it's basketball
Speaker 4: and I'm not the biggest basketball guy, and I was like,
Speaker 4: I can't wait for the baseball So I've just been
Speaker 4: kind of like staring at it every morning since the
Speaker 4: season started. And the one at the top right now
Speaker 4: is Garrett Cole over five and a half strikeouts, And
Speaker 4: I like that they show you, like the the you
Speaker 4: know what the line is, what the best book is,
Speaker 4: the projection, and then what the difference is. So like
Speaker 4: the over under is five and a half, the projection
Speaker 4: is eight point twenty seven. So he's got the biggest
Speaker 4: difference in projection versus the line. And so like, I've
Speaker 4: just been like betting like all these.
Speaker 1: And I keep I said it last week.
Speaker 2: I said it actually all on the Sunday show too,
Speaker 2: on the TV show I do on Sundays on Sports Grid,
Speaker 2: I said, the k props are coming in like crazy.
Speaker 1: They're factoring too much.
Speaker 2: I think the lack of innings pictures are throwing instead
Speaker 2: of where Major League Baseball is right now in terms
Speaker 2: of the strikeout rate being extraordinarily high and the fact
Speaker 2: that pictures are typically ahead of hitters early in this season.
Speaker 2: That combination is far more important than the all this
Speaker 2: guy's only going to go five innings, I don't care.
Speaker 2: He's still gonna strikeouts six seven guys. You see how
Speaker 2: many last night five and a third right from Zarto
Speaker 2: or five innings from Cod.
Speaker 1: They get double digit ks from those guys. The k
Speaker 1: rates keep smashing those k props until further notice.
Speaker 2: I will give you the notice until then, smash away
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Speaker 2: go get some All right, let's talk about the slates
Speaker 2: for dfs, because they're so weird. You got a ton
Speaker 2: of day games, you got noon starts, you got games
Speaker 2: have already started, games are starting right after you got
Speaker 2: games every hour on the hour.
Speaker 1: It feels like today. So DK has a four game
Speaker 1: main slate.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk about that because FANDUL has chopped up
Speaker 2: the slates in such a weird way that it makes
Speaker 2: me make that face. I told you before that that
Speaker 2: John c Riley gift where he's got the big hair
Speaker 2: in the glasses.
Speaker 3: Huh. I think I pretty much did that.
Speaker 2: So that's gonna be that's an NFT right there. Somebody's
Speaker 2: gonna clip that. I know they are, I know my
Speaker 2: peanuts and Crackerjacks. That's gonna be up on discord later.
Speaker 1: So there you go. I you know, one more time,
Speaker 1: just in case, let's get to there.
Speaker 2: Don't encourage them there starting Pitcher picks Frankie Montas six
Speaker 2: point nine k over on DK love this one, same
Speaker 2: game against McClanahan. This is one of those rare instances
Speaker 2: where I think it's okay to go into the same game.
Speaker 2: I've done this before. I think you can do it
Speaker 2: because I think both offenses are a little lackluster and
Speaker 2: if you get one to come out with the victory
Speaker 2: and the other to come out with a quality start,
Speaker 2: then you've done pretty well. I continue to go to
Speaker 2: Corbyn Burdens in cash games tournaments. I like Mantas and
Speaker 2: I would say Robbie Ray at nine point four is
Speaker 2: another one you could pivot to also, again, just continue
Speaker 2: to check on that one. In terms of lineup builders
Speaker 2: for DraftKings today, Ty France four point two, I can
Speaker 2: not a lot of especially on this night slate tonight,
Speaker 2: not a lot of value to be had. Dylan Moore
Speaker 2: two point eight. Over for Seattle, those two guys Rodriguez
Speaker 2: three point four. Basically, if you go all in on Seattle,
Speaker 2: you get some you get a little bit of discount there.
Speaker 2: Stephen Piscatti at three k, Aaron Hicks a two point eight,
Speaker 2: not a lot of value, So you got to get
Speaker 2: Pittrick right. So either stay away tonight or play Burns
Speaker 2: or Ray in cash or instead pivot to the do
Speaker 2: the duo of Frankie Montas and Shane McClanahan. You could
Speaker 2: also mix and match Burns Montas, but I wouldn't get
Speaker 2: fancy here.
Speaker 1: Just keep it simple.
Speaker 2: That being said, let's keep it simple for the home
Speaker 2: run calls. Now, Mike Mayer, you selected somebody that I
Speaker 2: was thinking about. So now if he goes yard, I'm
Speaker 2: going to be super pissed tomorrow. Who is your guy?
Speaker 2: Who are you calling your shot with? Who's going yard?
Speaker 4: Well, now, I really want him to go yard if
Speaker 4: it's going to have the added benefit of upsetting you.
Speaker 4: So I'm going to go with Freddie Freeman against Chris
Speaker 4: Paddock and the Twins.
Speaker 3: The wind blowing out? Sign me up.
Speaker 2: All right, that's a good one. I love that wind
Speaker 2: blowing out. I'm gonna go with Pete Alonzo the Polar Bear.
Speaker 2: Let's go a little ballpark there. Aaron Nola can struggle
Speaker 2: at times, that's for sure. So I want to see
Speaker 2: my boy the Polar Bear go yard in this one.
Speaker 2: And if you want to make your home run calls,
Speaker 2: I'm telling you plenty of time to get on the board.
Speaker 2: We're just starting here in April. What was the number
Speaker 2: of the winner last year? Was in the forties, did
Speaker 2: we what do you remember that number?
Speaker 1: Off the top of your end, was it seven hundred coming?
Speaker 3: We still have it in the in the sheets, so
Speaker 3: I can look right.
Speaker 1: Now we do, I'll well look at that, do we really?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 2: For me?
Speaker 3: Our overall number so for all of us combined, was
Speaker 3: one and eighty two.
Speaker 1: Yes, But what was the winning number last year?
Speaker 3: We need number? Was Randy and Gokars tied at thirty six?
Speaker 1: Thirty six?
Speaker 2: Okay, I thought it was forty, so thirty six and
Speaker 2: I probably called.
Speaker 1: Thirty five just in my sleep.
Speaker 2: But whatever, h tonight again or today this afternoon, Alonso
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman. If you want to get your home run
Speaker 2: calls in, you better do it soon. Go to Fantasypros
Speaker 2: dot com and look for the discord chat so it's
Speaker 2: Fantasypros dot com slash chat.
Speaker 1: That's how you join.
Speaker 2: And again to call the home runs, you have to
Speaker 2: have your premium membership ready, which is again it pays
Speaker 2: for itself. If you're playing in a lot of leagues,
Speaker 2: you want the premium membership anyway, because we've got the
Speaker 2: tools that help you manage all your leagues one spot.
Speaker 2: So you have to keep going back and forth to
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Speaker 2: do all your things right from there, especially in those
Speaker 2: daily trans leagues too, and then on top of that,
Speaker 2: you get access to the home run contest stages with
Speaker 2: us and all those fun things. So that's Fantasypro dot
Speaker 2: Com slash Chat. And then you look for the home
Speaker 2: run call area, which is a little channel there. It
Speaker 2: says HR channel, not home run. It's home run. It's
Speaker 2: not a human resources just to be clear, that's a
Speaker 2: different channel that Mayor constantly drags me into because he
Speaker 2: makes complaints about me. Mayor, before we head out for
Speaker 2: the day, any final thoughts on this day of baseball,
Speaker 2: this slate that's basically all day baseball.
Speaker 1: Just take a day off work and sit around. What
Speaker 1: do you think?
Speaker 3: No, no final thoughts.
Speaker 2: Well great, I'm so glad you were here today. I
Speaker 2: can't wait for Welsh to come back tomorrow. So Byron
Speaker 2: Bucks can go zero for ten over that. So in
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Speaker 1: That'll do it for us. But the story of the
Speaker 1: game goes on for the Mayor. I'm Joey P. We'll
Speaker 1: see you next time.
Speaker 3: Kids,