Speaker 1: Home run, Julio Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to
Speaker 1: Fantasy pros. This is leading off, brought to you by
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Speaker 1: p Joe piece Appier with you, Christopher Welsh with you
Speaker 1: as well, the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks, the early start
Speaker 1: time all week at eleven am. Because my children. You know, look,
Speaker 1: they have camp. They have to get out of the
Speaker 1: house for at least a week or so do some things.
Speaker 1: The kids ruin all your plans. I mean, no matter
Speaker 1: what you've laid out there, they just ruined them. Welsh,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know this better.
Speaker 2: I just don't tell you that. They just don't tell
Speaker 2: you that.
Speaker 1: Don't tell you.
Speaker 2: They don't tell you. Hey what, I can't go out
Speaker 2: all day to rookie League and watch seventeen year olds
Speaker 2: hit all day long and I can't do it day
Speaker 2: and night. Everything I can't, Dan, I have kids. What
Speaker 2: kind of camp are they doing?
Speaker 1: By the way, Yeah, speaking of kids, though, one kid
Speaker 1: that's not ruined. What's that? Oh? Well, they're both a camp.
Speaker 1: One is doing a soccer camp and the other one's
Speaker 1: doing like a multi sport camp and it's only like
Speaker 1: for three hours a day. Like it's kind of breaks
Speaker 1: up the day a little bit. You know. I don't
Speaker 1: like my kids. Some people have to, you know, they work,
Speaker 1: They put their kids in camp, you know, full time
Speaker 1: all summer. I like to give them a little bit
Speaker 1: of a break, hang out, read books, go in the pool,
Speaker 1: play with their friends, take them to do stuff, all
Speaker 1: those kind of things. Kind of spend some extra time.
Speaker 1: And because I feel like, you know, we take breaks,
Speaker 1: like they should get in a little break too. But
Speaker 1: at a certain point in the middle of the summer,
Speaker 1: it's good that they have a little structure for a
Speaker 1: week or two and they do some stuff and get
Speaker 1: out of there, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I get out of here, get out of here.
Speaker 2: You It could have been like sword fighting camp or
Speaker 2: I don't know, it just could have been something.
Speaker 1: You're right with me, It could have been anything. There
Speaker 1: is actually at the school where they're doing one of
Speaker 1: them is doing the sports camp. There was actually a
Speaker 1: Harry Potter thing. I don't know if it's quidditch. I
Speaker 1: don't know what they're doing, but I wanted to sign
Speaker 1: up for that. I was not allowed. I was told
Speaker 1: it was not allowed.
Speaker 2: As they don't have an adult camp. An adult I
Speaker 2: mean they have like the baseball one where you can
Speaker 2: do it for a couple days during spring train. We
Speaker 2: need i'bout like an adult Harry Potter camp. Or that's
Speaker 2: that just LARPing. I think it's just I.
Speaker 1: Think that's just I think, yeah, I think that's just
Speaker 1: mother's basement. And yeah. But one kid who certainly made
Speaker 1: some history last night, Julia Rodriguez. Oh boy was he good?
Speaker 1: Now he did not win the home run derby. Hopefully
Speaker 1: you watched it because it was it was super entertaining.
Speaker 1: It was great to see old man Albert Pools make
Speaker 1: it out of the first round. That to me, that
Speaker 1: warned my heart. I was rooting for him to do it.
Speaker 1: He did it. I like it, and I liked him
Speaker 1: doing it in the Cardinal Jersey gave me kind of
Speaker 1: all the fields of the you know, all time great
Speaker 1: Albert Pooholes. I made one wager, as I said, I
Speaker 1: was going to narrow down the field. I did put
Speaker 1: money on Sodo last night, and I'm trying to let
Speaker 1: everybody know, like you can wager and not be a
Speaker 1: complete degenerate and lose your house. You can do this
Speaker 1: have a little fun. I put twenty bucks on FanDuel
Speaker 1: on Wan soda last night to win the Derby small
Speaker 1: Field easy to understand. I knew the basically. I knew
Speaker 1: I had almost a coin flip chance with Soto too.
Speaker 1: I thought I had a fifty percent chance of getting
Speaker 1: it right because of the bracket and situation he was in.
Speaker 1: And guess what, one hundred and forty bucks later. Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's it. That's fun. That's a bill like
Speaker 1: that pays a wireless bill in your house, or.
Speaker 2: Something that pays for quidditch camp or quidditch camp ye
Speaker 2: or quidditch camp exactly.
Speaker 1: So someone shakes the stigma of all that Welsh. I
Speaker 1: think we need to start shaking the stigma of like,
Speaker 1: oh Betty, it's a weird and no it's not. You
Speaker 1: can do it, have some fun, make small bets and
Speaker 1: come out actually better than DFS most nights, to be honest.
Speaker 2: Well, the people that everyone likes the unit shaming and
Speaker 2: it's like, you know, if someone goes out and bets
Speaker 2: ten or fifteen bucks, people are like, oh, I agree,
Speaker 2: I completely agree. You don't have to get nuts, you
Speaker 2: don't have to do crazy bets. You really, you don't.
Speaker 2: You can find just one thing you like. You can
Speaker 2: only come out of the woodwork when stuff like this happens.
Speaker 2: You can have some fun, you absolutely can, and last
Speaker 2: night would have been a prime example of it. Can
Speaker 2: I ask you a question, though, sure you really think
Speaker 2: that Kyle Schwerver struggled like he did? You really don't
Speaker 2: think there was a little bit of like, whoops, ooops,
Speaker 2: little thing here, little thing here for good old Albert
Speaker 2: Poolholes that I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Me well, you know, actually, speaking of the pitching and
Speaker 1: stuff like that too, Juan Soto's pitcher did not do
Speaker 1: him any favors last night. Holy crap. When you watch
Speaker 1: the guy who was throwing to Julio last night, who
Speaker 1: literally was just he was like throwing darts at the
Speaker 1: exact same location.
Speaker 2: You mean you mean Keith from the Precious Gemstones As
Speaker 2: I read it out, that was if you watch that show,
Speaker 2: that was Keith from the Precious Gemstones. One percent. That
Speaker 2: guy was amazing, but he's got amazing stories.
Speaker 1: But dude, he was throwing darts in the same location
Speaker 1: every time, and Julio was just rocket baseballs out one
Speaker 1: soda was so good of a hitter that anytime a
Speaker 1: ball is six inches away or even three inches away,
Speaker 1: I should say he's hitting the ball the opposite field
Speaker 1: and just hitting the line drive doubles. He can't change
Speaker 1: how good he is as a player, which I think
Speaker 1: it is always a fascinating thing to watch him. But
Speaker 1: he's so good of a hitter that eventually I always
Speaker 1: feel like he's gonna win out in these kind of things.
Speaker 1: And Peter Alonzo looked at a great job. You know,
Speaker 1: Peter Alonzo takes it so seriously. Would you think of
Speaker 1: him deadlifting in between.
Speaker 2: That goes that goes on the the what is it?
Speaker 2: The Welsh's hardos and the Joe's hardos and the Welsh's
Speaker 2: tough guy whatever it is, Like, I love that stuff.
Speaker 2: I love that about Peter Alonzo taking it way too seriously. Also,
Speaker 2: did you see the interview after the first round. He
Speaker 2: just had like no part of only like they're just like, hey,
Speaker 2: how what do you think about this? He's like, yep,
Speaker 2: I hit the heart. He just wasn't into like getting
Speaker 2: into crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: He was just so and he takes it so serious
Speaker 1: and I always wanted but it's it's so awesome. Like
Speaker 1: I feel like we all want our athletes to be
Speaker 1: for our entertainment, to take it that seriously. They care
Speaker 1: so much. I do. And I think that Peter Alonzo
Speaker 1: just gets it, like he just understands. And that's why
Speaker 1: I feel like everybody just loves the dude. He's just,
Speaker 1: you know, likable guy. He gets it, he understands, he
Speaker 1: understands winning is important. He understands these events are important
Speaker 1: to the fans. It I love that dude. He's great.
Speaker 1: I do too.
Speaker 2: One interest an interesting dynamic was you're talking about like
Speaker 2: the bad pitching. Acunya was dealing with the same thing.
Speaker 2: He looked like frustrating, especially really early on.
Speaker 1: But why don't they have a pitching machine, Welsh? I mean,
Speaker 1: why shouldn't they?
Speaker 2: I mean, we have pitching strategy. Maybe that's as part
Speaker 2: of the strategy is picking the guy who throws you
Speaker 2: from pitching machine, can't I mean, that's it can just
Speaker 2: bump up up. But some of these guys have a
Speaker 2: certain way they want to be pitched, and you know,
Speaker 2: but you can set up.
Speaker 1: The pitching machine to get that location they want and
Speaker 1: then just feed and feed and feed, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean in theory. I again, it's a great question.
Speaker 1: And then it would be even where that you take
Speaker 1: the human error element out of it. That's I don't know.
Speaker 2: But an interesting dynamic was did you see when Acunyan
Speaker 2: knew like he wasn't they went to over a shot
Speaker 2: of him on the ground just on his phone scrolling
Speaker 2: because he was so frustrated, Like that was a different
Speaker 2: type of taking it too serious by the way, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: he was openly frustrated with the bad pitches. Did all
Speaker 2: Right had the highest TV I think of the day
Speaker 2: of any of the home run hits, And then he
Speaker 2: was on his phone and as Alonzo hit it, He's
Speaker 2: just sitting there scrolling on his phone. I was like, man,
Speaker 2: I love that, But I also can appreciate I.
Speaker 1: Think now you understand how him and Freddy Freeman had
Speaker 1: their issues. I think when you see the moments like that, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe you know, I got Kuny's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a powder.
Speaker 2: But I also I can appreciate that type of like
Speaker 2: pettiness of being like you're just you're so blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: and you're just like I'm not gonna even watch, like
Speaker 2: I'm gonna show you how mad I am, and I'm just.
Speaker 1: Appreciate the Spike store. You appreciate it. It's good. There's
Speaker 1: a there wasn't a look. Like I said, it was
Speaker 1: very entertaining. If you missed it, go back and watch it.
Speaker 1: I also thought the the Derek Jeter special after that
Speaker 1: started was very good. I watched that too. The Captain.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you watched The Captain last night
Speaker 1: after the derby was over, but that was good. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be a funny series for sure.
Speaker 2: Randy Wilkins, who's done some stuff with recently, did a
Speaker 2: great panel at Picture Con last year with Picture List
Speaker 2: was the one who that together if I remember maybe
Speaker 2: that was a Jordan one. But real quick on because
Speaker 2: I feel like we're going to move out of this.
Speaker 2: A couple of stats from the home run derby.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sure.
Speaker 2: There were some amazing bets like coming back to what
Speaker 2: you were saying and destigmatizing like being able to bet.
Speaker 2: You also could go nuts. DraftKings last night had the
Speaker 2: ability to draft like exit velocities on players and the
Speaker 2: ability to draft total home runs and matchups and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. And the highest EV was one seventeen of
Speaker 2: any home run last night when we went to Ronald Acuna,
Speaker 2: who had an over of one I believe thirteen and
Speaker 2: a half. He was the number one I saw of
Speaker 2: EV's one seventeen. The total home run total was two
Speaker 2: fifty one and a half.
Speaker 1: To bet.
Speaker 2: There were two hundred and ninety one homers hit, so
Speaker 2: that went over. The average exit velocity was one of
Speaker 2: four point six and the average distance of the homers
Speaker 2: was four hundred and sixteen feet.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what's interesting too. You know, we had
Speaker 1: spoken at length, and I know I was talking about
Speaker 1: it everywhere. This is a young man's game now, the
Speaker 1: way they've set it up, and the guys who were
Speaker 1: in the final were under twenty five years old. You
Speaker 1: have to be athletically really fit to withstand the rounds
Speaker 1: and the time of this and the way you can
Speaker 1: have the timeouts and the bonus time and all this stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, and that was something that was clear. Next year,
Speaker 1: you get Julio in Seattle, hopefully doing this in front
Speaker 1: of the hometown crowd. By the way, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you thought about that, but that is going to
Speaker 1: be fun and I will put my money on Julio
Speaker 1: in that one. I think the energy from the crowd
Speaker 1: will be a special moment there.
Speaker 2: Well, the one thing that was wild, I don't know
Speaker 2: if we talked about it on here. I had found
Speaker 2: this out right after we did the show yesterday. But
Speaker 2: he did a practice round. Julio did thirty seven homers.
Speaker 2: He had put on early on, his number went from
Speaker 2: like eighteen up to twenty six yesterday, and all day
Speaker 2: long his numbers were just right. Julio's rising, rising, rising,
Speaker 2: and you can look at it and be like, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't know if he can really put that together,
Speaker 2: And then he showed he did with two thirty plus rounds,
Speaker 2: thirty seven homer's in a practice round. He was able
Speaker 2: to put that in game. And by the way, just
Speaker 2: the last thing on it, if you remember, he started
Speaker 2: the game off with a swing and miss, with an
Speaker 2: absolute swing and miss on the very first pitch, and
Speaker 2: then the crowd kind of got on him and he
Speaker 2: proceeded to drop thirty plus homers on there. It is
Speaker 2: a young man's game. It's going to be super fun.
Speaker 2: And God knows the list of guys we're going to
Speaker 2: get next year, maybe even some of the you know,
Speaker 2: top prospects. We're sitting around now maybe a little Bobby
Speaker 2: Wit definitely.
Speaker 1: You know what. The other thing too, I don't like
Speaker 1: is when they change the ball on them and the
Speaker 1: bonus time you don't change the color of the baseball
Speaker 1: on guys when they're in a groove hitting. It's it,
Speaker 1: really And every single time nobody hit a first pitch
Speaker 1: home run or a second pitch home run. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: every time they switched to that ball, it took them
Speaker 1: like two or three to get an adjustment to it.
Speaker 1: And even even the announcer was saying it last night too, And.
Speaker 2: I'd like three point contest when they do, you know,
Speaker 2: like the weird ball.
Speaker 1: For the works up here, but in practice it doesn't work.
Speaker 1: It's theoretically I get it, it's cool, but it's super
Speaker 1: annoying to the play because they were locked in and
Speaker 1: the way they look for the baseball and it's a
Speaker 1: different rotation. It's totally I agree with that.
Speaker 2: I agree with that fun fact a ton of the
Speaker 2: baseballs were autographed, so as they were being hit and
Speaker 2: people were getting their souvenir, people were collecting autographed baseballs
Speaker 2: from the home run derby, which I thought was a
Speaker 2: really cool added thing. I don't know how many they did,
Speaker 2: but many of them were so you know, you know
Speaker 2: what else twenty three miles of Homer's.
Speaker 1: Starling Marte hanging out with Jan Soto, that all that
Speaker 1: did was just fuel my Mets.
Speaker 2: Fire, fueled the little bit of the fire.
Speaker 1: Did you think about that? I mean you had to
Speaker 1: be thinking about that in your back of your head.
Speaker 1: You be like, Joe must be watching this, going yes, yes,
Speaker 1: starting Marte recruit.
Speaker 2: I was a little shocked with the amount of like
Speaker 2: just trade talk that was going on. I mean, you
Speaker 2: had Muster only go on and be like, hey, he's
Speaker 2: getting traded in the next fifteen days.
Speaker 1: Oji.
Speaker 2: You got reporters asking Soda. Sodo had the best responses ever.
Speaker 2: They asked him, hey, what do you think about, you know,
Speaker 2: hitting in New York And he goes, oh, I love
Speaker 2: playing against the Mets, and he said laying against the
Speaker 2: Mets like six times and uh and even players were
Speaker 2: being asked. Manny Machado commented on it. It was a wild
Speaker 2: situation that I don't know, man, I will tell you
Speaker 2: I was fifty percent that he gets traded by the deadline,
Speaker 2: like sixty. Now I moved a little bit top after
Speaker 2: all that it was really really a good situation.
Speaker 1: But meet me at the ninety nine. That's where I
Speaker 1: want to be.
Speaker 2: National's going to go trade generational talent. Guy who just
Speaker 2: runs a home in Derby. What are they going to
Speaker 2: trade him for? The team is goingna to unload, whether
Speaker 2: it's Padres or the Mets. They are going to have
Speaker 2: to unload their system to make this work. The Nationals
Speaker 2: cannot lose face on this, even though they already theoretically
Speaker 2: are all right.
Speaker 1: Some other news and notes optimism that Joe Musgrove is
Speaker 1: going to be assigning a contract extension with the Padres.
Speaker 1: That would be a very good move for the Padres.
Speaker 1: A show ay Otani unlikely to pitch in the AFSCAR game.
Speaker 1: No surprise there. You are going to get Clayton Kershaw starting,
Speaker 1: which makes a lot of sense. I think it's fun.
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium, blah blah. Yeah, that Haam is going to
Speaker 1: start for the American League. Yes, Well, did you see.
Speaker 2: Your former co host Craig Mish kind of got out
Speaker 2: and like a very very intense like he's still together
Speaker 2: in the fall. No, I don't know, I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't know what you guys do. But I'm just saying,
Speaker 2: what you guys do in the in the shadows, I'm
Speaker 2: not fine cheet on man, that's your only go okay.
Speaker 2: But he had a tweet where he was like, I've
Speaker 2: never it was like, I've never been so disappointed. What
Speaker 2: a missed opportunity, Like he was pissed that al Kintara
Speaker 2: did not get.
Speaker 1: The Oh he well, look he's following. He's the Marlins
Speaker 1: beat hit. He's not wrong. I mean, he's not wrong.
Speaker 1: This is baseball building the theater. I mean there is
Speaker 1: only one pitcher who deserves to start for the National League.
Speaker 1: It's very clear who that guy is. And they went
Speaker 1: with Kershaw, who is good theater. And to me, I
Speaker 1: get that it's it's the starting of the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: But to me, from the rating standpoint, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: early inning ratings anyway. Keep Kershaw a little bit, have
Speaker 1: him be the second guy to keep people watching so
Speaker 1: he gets that ovation when he takes the man when
Speaker 1: he walks out like that could be cool too. It
Speaker 1: also be the old guy, asked King, saying, look, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm old. The back isn't what it used to be.
Speaker 1: I need to do my routine be able to start
Speaker 1: if you want me to pitch in this game. Otherwise
Speaker 1: I can't come in the third inning like that work
Speaker 1: doesn't suit for me.
Speaker 2: Bob Bagman was pretty a suit about this. That just
Speaker 2: snickers an old old school manager. Let the veteran go,
Speaker 2: hometown guy. I hadn't put that together. Missu's actual tweet was,
Speaker 2: I'm so disappointed beyond words for Sandy. I love history
Speaker 2: and ceremony more than anyone, but this is complete horse
Speaker 2: little poop emoji once in a lifetime chance missed. I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, that's a pretty intense thing. I get it,
Speaker 2: probably the most deserved, but you do have to think
Speaker 2: of the context of LA and a guy that's right there.
Speaker 1: It just makes look it's good for the business of baseball,
Speaker 1: but it's not the right decision. But I understand. I said,
Speaker 1: I think the real thing here, more than anything, is
Speaker 1: probably Clayton Kershall saying, my routine is very set. If
Speaker 1: you want me in this game, I've got to do
Speaker 1: the pre in routine in order to get ready for
Speaker 1: it nowadays because my body doesn't respond like it did
Speaker 1: when I was twenty seven years old. And I think
Speaker 1: that is a fair assumption too. When you factor that in,
Speaker 1: it is unfortunate though for all contra I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's just is. The Rangers selected the top prep arm
Speaker 1: porter in the fourth round, so we get Welsh's take
Speaker 1: on that. Also, we had some injury news to talk about.
Speaker 1: Steven Strasburg out for the year. Pretty much official at
Speaker 1: this point, not that anybody was waiting breaking news, breaking news.
Speaker 1: Is Steven Strasbourg done? Period, Well we're gonna see him
Speaker 1: you again.
Speaker 2: He was done. I made a stupid bet with Bogman
Speaker 2: this year that I thought, back half you might get
Speaker 2: you know, Strasburg out there doing the thing and just
Speaker 2: you can't do it. He's just just breaks apart.
Speaker 1: Just snaps syndrome and another career telling him he was done.
Speaker 2: He is done. I'm the Nationals would probably. I'm surprised
Speaker 2: the Nationals haven't come to him with like a Bobby
Speaker 2: Bonia type of thing, like can we just stretch this
Speaker 2: out over the next thirty five years and just new
Speaker 2: ownership money because it's a contractual nightmare. One of the
Speaker 2: reasons you could theorize that might be conflicting with Wan Soto,
Speaker 2: you know, the some of the rumors at least is
Speaker 2: the supposed offer to Juan Soto is so backloaded because
Speaker 2: the Nationals have got some serious money still tied and
Speaker 2: Strasburg is one of those issues that maybe that is
Speaker 2: part of it.
Speaker 1: Is it worth a nets? Like if you're the Mets
Speaker 1: or the Dodgers or anybody, is it worth not moving
Speaker 1: the prospects and taking Strasburg's contract back in the deal
Speaker 1: with Sodo.
Speaker 2: I mean I will never sit here and be a
Speaker 2: money guy like that. I'll never be like, oh hey,
Speaker 2: let's just financially get a little bit better. No, you
Speaker 2: should take all the pieces you possibly can because here's
Speaker 2: the other thing, Like the Nationals, where's the appeal if
Speaker 2: you get to Juan Soto, what's the appeal? Is just
Speaker 2: a bunch of money. Like they're you know what they're
Speaker 2: gonna do, agree, Texas Rangers. They're going to have to
Speaker 2: go and sign and spend half a billion dollars on
Speaker 2: guys like Corey Seeger and Marcus Simeon. And that's not
Speaker 2: what you want to do to create a whole new era.
Speaker 2: You want to build with within. You want to have
Speaker 2: a star or two to get people that want to
Speaker 2: come play with you, and you just completely start over.
Speaker 2: I don't particularly love how the I mean, the Rangers
Speaker 2: are doing this in an interesting way. It's not ideal,
Speaker 2: and I think that's where the Nationals are headed.
Speaker 1: So I Rangers could have John Gray, Jack Lighter, Kamar
Speaker 1: Rocker and a pretty decent little team.
Speaker 2: But again that's decent. I mean, the Nationals are a
Speaker 2: huge market team. They want to be highly competitive. Look
Speaker 2: at the money and look at the people that they've
Speaker 2: let go because of the next guy. You know, the
Speaker 2: next guy goes to pay this other guy, and ultimately
Speaker 2: once they pay him or can't pay him, they just
Speaker 2: move along. They got to figure something out. You can't continuously.
Speaker 1: But you're not gonna I'm telling you right now, if
Speaker 1: you if you package soda with Strasbourg or Corbyn or
Speaker 1: whoever you're taking along with it, they are not going
Speaker 1: to get the same hall of prospects. No, there's no
Speaker 1: way that, there's no way that all comes together. You
Speaker 1: might get one premium one and that, but you're not
Speaker 1: going to get the backup truck of prospects and unloading
Speaker 1: one of those two major contracts. I just don't think
Speaker 1: you're gonna get.
Speaker 2: I would back up the truck. I would ask them
Speaker 2: to back up the truck.
Speaker 1: That's what I would do too, But it's kind of
Speaker 1: an interesting conversation to have Chris Sale undergo surgery manufractured finger.
Speaker 1: Frankie Montos is cleared for Thursday, so fingers crossed. The
Speaker 1: entire Oakland A's organization is going to be going to
Speaker 1: churches all over the local area and lighting candles, hoping
Speaker 1: that Frankie Montos makes it through five innings so they
Speaker 1: could trade him. The Angels place Mike Trout on the
Speaker 1: ten day IL, and Mike Trout says he's going to
Speaker 1: be captain of the Team USA team in the World
Speaker 1: Baseball Classic. So there you go. There's your there's your
Speaker 1: Mike Trout news of the day. Here's a leading off
Speaker 1: mailbag question from our own Larry C. Who do you
Speaker 1: think will be the first player from yesterday's draft to
Speaker 1: make it to the big League's Welsh.
Speaker 2: That has been a very common question right now. Well,
Speaker 2: this exact question were I did a CBS hit that's
Speaker 2: up today and we were going through this. The first
Speaker 2: part is I don't think there's any guy that does
Speaker 2: the jump, you know, that does the whole like, hey,
Speaker 2: we're not like Carrott Crochet, we're not going to play
Speaker 2: in the miners, but that's not necessarily what you were asking.
Speaker 2: My gut tells me the first is one of two
Speaker 2: guys and the outside shot. If the Angels were a
Speaker 2: really good team, I would have said Ben Joyce. Ben
Speaker 2: Joyce his famously throws one hundred and five miles an
Speaker 2: hour at Tennessee. He's a back half reliever, could be
Speaker 2: an instant closer. And as I said, like, I think
Speaker 2: a guy that throws one hundred and five you could
Speaker 2: probably throw in right now. But the Angels suck the worst,
Speaker 2: so why would you go and do that? That would
Speaker 2: be one And also, oh, I guess no. I think
Speaker 2: Garrett Crochet was a volunteer as well, so that could
Speaker 2: be part of that. The other guy is Jacob Berry
Speaker 2: with the Marlins, and Miss actually covered this as well.
Speaker 2: They're gonna start pushing and moving and Jacob Barry was
Speaker 2: with U of A moved to LSU, big big time team,
Speaker 2: and I think that's a possibility that he could be
Speaker 2: out there with huge, huge power. Doesn't strike out like
Speaker 2: one of those big boppers, does he actually walked, I
Speaker 2: believe more than he struck out in the miners. So
Speaker 2: that's like my gut feeling. But I really think it's
Speaker 2: a big clump of players that seem a lot. I
Speaker 2: want to say Kumar Rocker, but I haven't heard the plan.
Speaker 2: But that's a guy's old enough for you.
Speaker 1: You got to figure. Look, you know, you don't want
Speaker 1: to waste too much time. You're to waste a year
Speaker 1: last year, he's older than was he twenty three twenty four?
Speaker 1: Like he's old.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and that's the thing. If they do what
Speaker 2: they did with Lighter last year, then I'll say no.
Speaker 2: And what they did with Lighter last year is they
Speaker 2: just said go have fun and workout. They did nothing.
Speaker 2: He didn't pitch it all professionally, and then boom, you're
Speaker 2: at double A this year. But if they push him
Speaker 2: up to double A this year, I think there's a
Speaker 2: legit shot they might look at him breaking camp next year.
Speaker 2: It depends on the medicals, and it depends on how
Speaker 2: aggressive they go, because they've also shown they can be
Speaker 2: the opposite of aggressive with Lighter last year. So I
Speaker 2: would say Ben Joyce, Jacob Barry, Kumar Rocker are my top.
Speaker 2: And then obviously you know some great college guys like
Speaker 2: Kevin Parrada, brooks Ley Brooksley probably not with the twins.
Speaker 2: Those are a few options.
Speaker 1: I love that you loved Parada because as a Mets fan,
Speaker 1: I was a little, you know, kind of surprised at
Speaker 1: the pick in some ways. But I was like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess if they think Alvarez is a
Speaker 1: piece to move, then I got every players that catching
Speaker 1: systems sooner than later.
Speaker 2: So he's just great. Yeah, And as I've speculated, like
Speaker 2: I told you before, was very attached to the Nationals,
Speaker 2: so just something to watch. The Nationals were coming to him,
Speaker 2: were like this, they were in all the mocks. It
Speaker 2: was proud oft to the Nationals.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do a little Kamara Rocker trivia sort
Speaker 1: of kind of prior to who was the last player
Speaker 1: taking the top ten of two different MLB drafts. If
Speaker 1: you know the answer, drop it here in the chat.
Speaker 1: Who's the last player to be taken top ten in
Speaker 1: two MLB drafts? So again, you have to be somebody
Speaker 1: who subscribes to Fantasy Pros MLB. Let's see if anybody's
Speaker 1: got some answers in there before Welsh, before Welsh ruins
Speaker 1: it for every prospect knowledge. I think you are because
Speaker 1: you're too smart about these things. Sometimes don't ruin it.
Speaker 2: But I don't think I'm going to My guess I
Speaker 2: think is wrong and it's because of this. Do you
Speaker 2: want me to wait or wait?
Speaker 1: Let's do the home run board and then we'll come
Speaker 1: back to it. All right, here's the home run leaders
Speaker 1: at the all star break, High Cobbies at thirty five,
Speaker 1: Diplommeat thirty two, Larry c A thirty one. Now this
Speaker 1: was going into yesterday's home run derby. We will factor
Speaker 1: in all the derby stuff. I'm sure there's a lot
Speaker 1: of complicated math that has to happen. So again, this
Speaker 1: is heading. This is not from the derby last night.
Speaker 1: This was heading into the derby on Monday, so I
Speaker 1: just wanted to be clear about that. But still high
Speaker 1: cobbies up at the top. Very exciting times when it's
Speaker 1: time to be alive. All right, Welsh, I will let
Speaker 1: you throw out an answer here, and somebody is in
Speaker 1: the chat also that has an answer.
Speaker 2: So that was my answer was Mark Pelle. But the
Speaker 2: reason I think I'm wrong, because if I'm remembering correctly,
Speaker 2: I actually think of Pelle was twelve to the Pirates.
Speaker 2: The year before and then he went top or is
Speaker 2: this correct? And it is Markpell? That was my guest.
Speaker 1: It is Markapelle. Oh, it is Mark one, and ten's
Speaker 1: ten okay.
Speaker 2: For some reason, I was thinking it was twelve.
Speaker 1: And I remember getting into a legit Twitter beef about
Speaker 1: Mark Pell versus John Gray, and I think it was
Speaker 1: with oh Mike Ginella, who was one of the great
Speaker 1: baseball fun people who I actually love. Mike, and we
Speaker 1: were arguing back and forth about Markpelle and John gra
Speaker 1: I was like, how can you watch these two guys
Speaker 1: pitch to think that Marcopelle is better than John Gray?
Speaker 1: I don't understand how any I was like, you're right,
Speaker 1: Like he's gonna have a tougher road because he's in Colorado.
Speaker 1: But you know what, John Gray's in the big leagues
Speaker 1: right now. In John Gray in Texas in the last
Speaker 1: thirty days looks awesome by the way, I mean, not good,
Speaker 1: well awesome. Can we look at the last thirty days
Speaker 1: of John Gray and just sit back and be like,
Speaker 1: what it's really good? You? What else is good? Being
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Speaker 1: We have the American League as favored one and a half,
Speaker 1: the Juices plus one sixty eight over on that line.
Speaker 1: Here we have the money line just to win outright,
Speaker 1: the American League at minus one oh six, the National
Speaker 1: League minus one ten. The total is seven and a half.
Speaker 1: Welsh is a very good number, as all all Star
Speaker 1: games are. Do you think it goes the over or
Speaker 1: the under man?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just such a crew of pitch I
Speaker 2: would go with the over. I think on this, I
Speaker 2: think there's just some massive offense at the top that
Speaker 2: it could stutter a little bit. The NL is littered
Speaker 2: with relievers, and I think the back half is going
Speaker 2: to be a heavy, heavy amount of relievers, which I
Speaker 2: think could get hit just a tiny bit. More So,
Speaker 2: I guess I would lean the over. I would not
Speaker 2: bet the line anywhere. I guess if you did, you
Speaker 2: would want to take the two runs on the American League,
Speaker 2: but I don't really like those. I would stick to
Speaker 2: the over total for me, and that would be seven
Speaker 2: and a half.
Speaker 1: All right. You also have All Star MVP the odds
Speaker 1: for Otani at the top plus four eight, the Iron
Speaker 1: Judge at plus six hundred, Vlad at plus eight fifty,
Speaker 1: which you think is awful, Like that is an awful setting.
Speaker 1: I don't know why he's up there. Goldshman at plus
Speaker 1: nine to fifty. Excuse me, go Mookie Betts at plus
Speaker 1: nine to fifty, Paul Goldshman at plus thirteen hundred, Gen
Speaker 1: Carl Stanton plus thirteen hundred. Do you like any of
Speaker 1: these top six favorites or do you like anybody in
Speaker 1: the long shots? To me, it's always a long shot
Speaker 1: guy who comes in later and like hits a bomb
Speaker 1: off a reliever, Like that's That's what I'm looking for.
Speaker 1: And I'm going tonight with my home run call for
Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez, by the way, to do that, because the
Speaker 1: dude's locked it, So give me Julio off some slap
Speaker 1: nut reliever later in this game, and who knows he
Speaker 1: could win the MLB All Star Game MVP award.
Speaker 2: Just say that's a good point actually, because he will
Speaker 2: be coming in, knows where to hit him. It probably
Speaker 2: will be relief. I just told you a bunch of
Speaker 2: relievers in the NL. That's an interesting one. I think
Speaker 2: my bet here is one of my favorite things to do.
Speaker 2: I'm probably going three long shots, betting them all the same,
Speaker 2: slicing a little bit of the odds off, but going
Speaker 2: in that range, like maybe I take a ton one
Speaker 2: and then I take two long shots. I like Mooki
Speaker 2: just simply being hometown, and maybe something like Julio. Maybe
Speaker 2: I go a Judge Mooki and then one other long shot.
Speaker 2: I still throw a Kunya in there. I mean, I
Speaker 2: CuNi had a one seventeen ev I believe he's leading off,
Speaker 2: so I wouldn't throw him out of that. But I
Speaker 2: kind of like your Julio idea. That's a fun one
Speaker 2: as well. But I would go three. I would go three,
Speaker 2: even if you're a ten buck guy, just go ten
Speaker 2: to ten, get three of them and get some go.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I was just gonna say. Find three people,
Speaker 1: you know, find one of the big favorite guys maybe,
Speaker 1: I mean, Otani's always a good one, very public player,
Speaker 1: you know, So I get the Altoni one, you're still
Speaker 1: getting more than four to one on Altani. Take a
Speaker 1: Julio and then take somebody in the middle like that's
Speaker 1: that's that's the approach, that's what you do and have
Speaker 1: some fun. You'll take thirty bucks, maybe hit one. If
Speaker 1: you don't, you don't, it's a good time. But if
Speaker 1: you take I would I would suggest this be in
Speaker 1: for a penny, in for a pound, Like, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna take three American League guys, you might as well
Speaker 1: bet the American League to win two and see if
Speaker 1: you can put that all together.
Speaker 2: That's a great point. And if and if you go,
Speaker 2: you know, the one and a half runs, you're getting
Speaker 2: almost one and a half on your money.
Speaker 1: If you're right now on fandom. So I would I
Speaker 1: would strongly look at that. Look at what bet MGM
Speaker 1: has to offer you as well, where we have our
Speaker 1: leading off promo there. So Welsh, do you have somebody
Speaker 1: who thinks gonna go yard tonight? I'm going Julio. Who
Speaker 1: are you going with?
Speaker 2: Ooh? Big night tonight. Let's see I'm gonna go I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go Judge. I think Judge is gonna put off
Speaker 2: a big, big homer. Would have loved to see him
Speaker 2: in the home run contest and.
Speaker 1: Definitely would have been fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would have been fun. You know what else
Speaker 2: would be fun? What if we got like a MIGI
Speaker 2: or pool Holes bomb tonight. That would be the legacy
Speaker 2: guys would more likely. I feel like, but I want Julio.
Speaker 2: I want Julio to do it. I would love for
Speaker 2: the young kid to get it. But if we want
Speaker 2: to play the speculation game and the conspiracy side, let's
Speaker 2: get one Soto again. Let's get one Soto in the
Speaker 2: MVP of this. Let's get him hitting a homer, and
Speaker 2: then let's just laugh ourselves to sleep for the next
Speaker 2: two weeks of rumors. Becauseladies and gentlemen, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: a wild couple weeks. So make sure you guys are
Speaker 2: hanging out with us because the trade deadline, oh my god,
Speaker 2: be nutting.
Speaker 1: The trade deadline is gonna be super fun. I might
Speaker 1: have to like, I think we're gonna get action well
Speaker 1: before the trade deadline, though, I really do. I wish
Speaker 1: the break, you know, because I think that with the
Speaker 1: the extra wildcard, like the expanded playoffs, I think put
Speaker 1: more pressure on teams to make moves earlier, like you
Speaker 1: don't want to wait to the deadline. I think also
Speaker 1: going to be dead to.
Speaker 2: Move off, like there's a diamondbacks for one of those
Speaker 2: that could have been selling off way earlier and have not.
Speaker 2: And when it comes, you know, push comes to shove here,
Speaker 2: there are teams that are gonna have to make those decisions.
Speaker 2: So I think the lack of moves is to what
Speaker 2: you're saying. But that's why you are potentially gonna have
Speaker 2: a flurry of teams that have to you know, you.
Speaker 1: Will get two waves. I think you're gonna get an
Speaker 1: early wave here out of the break of bigger trades,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna get that Okay, we really are
Speaker 1: out of it, let's start dumping. You'll get some surprise deadline.
Speaker 1: But I think any of the montass Castillo, even Sodo deals,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to be deadline day yields.
Speaker 1: They really don't. I'd be surprised. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: get worked out ahead of time, maybe closer to it.
Speaker 1: But I think it's I'm telling you, buckle up, Buttercup,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. I know. August first is the
Speaker 1: day where I'm not supposed to, you know, be doing
Speaker 1: baseball anymore. But August second, I might have to pop
Speaker 1: in here and do the show. I mean, like, I mean,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, we might have to come in here.
Speaker 1: If it's a huge trade deadline and if there's a
Speaker 1: Sodo trade. I mean, I feel like we have to
Speaker 1: do some sort of you know, special event. I mean
Speaker 1: I kind of agree.
Speaker 2: I might have to put that on the schedule. Joe
Speaker 2: might have to come back at least.
Speaker 1: If it's the METS, I'll be in the hospital trying
Speaker 1: to recover.
Speaker 2: Actually, you know what, if you're not allowed back on.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I'm gonna be looking like, you know,
Speaker 1: like was that the party Monster. That's what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: look like. I'm gonna have all the beads with the sunglasses.
Speaker 1: I'll wear my crown, the whole thing. If one so
Speaker 1: it is a Met, that is gonna be the greatest
Speaker 1: show in the history of the universe.
Speaker 2: I will be a not safe for work show.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, get all the beats ready, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be crazy town. Enjoy the All Star Game tonight. We'll
Speaker 1: be back again tomorrow. Tomorrow show Welsh and I are
Speaker 1: going to update our rest of season ranks. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have some debate about that. Our top fifteen to twenty pitchers,
Speaker 1: We're gonna go through those guys. We're gonna go through
Speaker 1: our top overall players too. For those dynasty leagues or
Speaker 1: the keeper leagues where you think you're out of it,
Speaker 1: who are really the best ten assets in fantasy. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about all that. So just because there's no
Speaker 1: baseball being played on Wednesday, we're gonna be here still
Speaker 1: talking plenty of fantasy because there's a lot left in
Speaker 1: the season to go. That'll and of course check out
Speaker 1: ITL and in This League podcast where Welsh has all
Speaker 1: that prospect stuff. If you're in dynasty leagues and you're
Speaker 1: not listening to Prospect one, if you are not paying
Speaker 1: attention to what Welsh does on spots like CBS on
Speaker 1: stuff in this league, you're crazy. So go join the
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Speaker 1: people here so please go support those two guys and
Speaker 1: all the great work they do. But again, you, Eric Cross,
Speaker 1: to me, that is the short list of people that
Speaker 1: in terms of prospects, it doesn't get any better than
Speaker 1: those two guys, in terms of breaking it down for
Speaker 1: your dynasty league.
Speaker 2: So Thursday on itl offenis baseball, Eric Cross.
Speaker 1: Oh my yeah, I mean come on, go right now,
Speaker 1: what's the lowest Patreon you can do on on this?
Speaker 2: You get like a buck, They're not gonna do much.
Speaker 1: Five bucks, five five dollars. Come on, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: come on, five bucks, five bucks for all that content,
Speaker 1: good times. All right, that will 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, Pea