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Speaker 1: course the Welsh fresh off a home run from Mike
Speaker 1: Trout from the Wheel Welsh. The wheel was the gift
Speaker 1: that gave last night. I couldn't believe it, yet at
Speaker 1: the same time, it felt like there was a little
Speaker 1: magic in that spin yesterday and here we are. You
Speaker 1: are back up trending in the home run board. How
Speaker 1: does it feel to give up everything to fate? I
Speaker 1: have done this before. I hate to say, I've done
Speaker 1: this before with wheels. I've done it with We did
Speaker 1: a thing called the Coin one year with betting where
Speaker 1: we flipped coins for football picks and it literally was
Speaker 1: really good for like two weeks.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 3: I said it on the show. We spun the wheel.
Speaker 3: Everybody had fun with it. But I said, you guys
Speaker 3: don't understand the power of the wheel.
Speaker 2: I promised you didn't understand it.
Speaker 3: I clipped it and tweeted it last night, and sure enough,
Speaker 3: I didn't even see the home run happen. I was
Speaker 3: doing something. I looked down at my phone and it
Speaker 3: was the wheel. The wheel, Mike Trout. You guys got
Speaker 3: to experience the power of the wheel. So the wheel
Speaker 3: is back for another round today. Even though I questioned,
Speaker 3: what do we do if the wheel works? Do we
Speaker 3: move off and do I make the pick? Or do
Speaker 3: we continue with the wheel. But Joey kind of thought
Speaker 3: we continue with the wheel.
Speaker 1: I think it continue with the wheel. If it ain't broke,
Speaker 1: don't fix it. I think if the wheel gives you
Speaker 1: a home run, you take it and you pay respect
Speaker 1: and homage to the wheel. Let's pay respect and homage
Speaker 1: to our Penis and Cracker. Jacks Lee Gie, a good
Speaker 1: friend of the show, can't be their lot to get
Speaker 1: this question, though, wants some us to answer. It sounded
Speaker 1: ridiculous a few weeks ago. But should I bench Bregman
Speaker 1: for Michael Bush at third base? It doesn't sound crazy
Speaker 1: to me. Michael Bush is red hot and another home
Speaker 1: run yesterday. I would do it. And I'm the biggest
Speaker 1: and well show this Alex Bregman guy there is I'm
Speaker 1: not worried at all. Whatever gets a day off, not
Speaker 1: a big deal. But look, Welsh, as far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 1: if Bush is hitting, you play Bush, what do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta roll with it right now. I mean,
Speaker 2: he is hot as hot can be.
Speaker 3: And I said, he's gonna come down, and that's where
Speaker 3: you know you're really gonna be tested. But at the
Speaker 3: end of the year, I think when we look categorically,
Speaker 3: you're gonna be in a good spot. Bogin and I
Speaker 3: actually yesterday we're talking a lot about this, and you know,
Speaker 3: I was really hitting home. We were talking about this
Speaker 3: on itl like he's I think he's gonna be a
Speaker 3: top one hundred guy, and I think that's gonna manifest
Speaker 3: from what the total stats look.
Speaker 2: Like at the end of the year.
Speaker 3: In comparare, he asked me a really great one, Joe,
Speaker 3: who would you rather rest of season Michael Bush or
Speaker 3: Nolan Jones. And now one's tough because Nolan Jones has
Speaker 3: the speed department in but he has been pretty atrocious lately,
Speaker 3: Like from a now perspective, a.
Speaker 1: Good weekend though, he went, You'll like he's starting to
Speaker 1: come out of it. He had a good weekend in Toronto.
Speaker 3: So from a perspective, you could go with the Bush. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you could go with Bush now. But rest of the
Speaker 3: season it's a bigger question. Rest of the season nights
Speaker 3: still go Nolan Jones. But it's not crazy Cooda. Dakota
Speaker 3: Harrison new subscriber loves the channel.
Speaker 1: Of course you do, Dakota. I have received an offer
Speaker 1: listen to this for Tanner Howck for Kirby or Max Freed.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you can get Kirby right now, Dakota,
Speaker 1: make that deal right Welsh, I mean, why are we
Speaker 1: even talking here?
Speaker 2: Wait, they get one of those two for how or
Speaker 2: Freed for how or they want your your.
Speaker 1: They received an offer for Tanner How that they roster it,
Speaker 1: says I roster how because again it's almost too good
Speaker 1: to be true. You take it, you take it, you
Speaker 1: run like get you.
Speaker 2: Go, get Kirby. I watched Kirby start last night.
Speaker 3: You know he got got a little bit, little bit
Speaker 3: on the runs, but six strikeouts, he was still pumping
Speaker 3: ninety six, laid into the game that pin point command. God,
Speaker 3: I'm forgetting the batter who it was, But he threw
Speaker 3: this back door slider on the outside corner, and that,
Speaker 3: to me, I wanted to clip.
Speaker 2: It if I could.
Speaker 3: Baseball makes it really super easy by the way, to
Speaker 3: like get their you know, clips and share it online.
Speaker 2: Good job. But I wanted to clip.
Speaker 3: That because that's like the exact exact thing I'm talking
Speaker 3: about with Kirby in that command. That's elite level stuff
Speaker 3: as he is getting into his own. So if you
Speaker 3: could trade ten or how to get George Kirby, by god.
Speaker 2: You go do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is like the easiest move of the year.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to some of the other headlines here.
Speaker 1: We did Mike Trout two for five of the homer
Speaker 1: Mike Bush, our boy, Mikey Bush, five straight games with
Speaker 1: a homer. I mean, that's incredible. I think it's Merle
Speaker 1: Kelly too, our boy Merle. Aaron Nola was terrific. You know,
Speaker 1: the strikeout prop was high yesterday and Nola hadn't really
Speaker 1: delivered on a high one yet. And I faded it,
Speaker 1: yes or I didn't touch it. I didn't bet the under,
Speaker 1: but I didn't touch it. And of course he goes
Speaker 1: out there strikes out nine and seven third of.
Speaker 3: Course, because I put him in my trade video. I'm
Speaker 3: out on him. I will say it was the Rockies.
Speaker 2: I just want to point out, like this, my was
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 1: That's why I was opportunity, That's why the number was
Speaker 1: really high. And I thought after Reese's starts, like, okay,
Speaker 1: well maybe it'll be like a seven or something. It
Speaker 1: was eight and a half or sorts of eight. I
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, and he went over it anyway,
Speaker 1: but still too close to call bounce back starts. Yesterday
Speaker 1: talked about Kirby, you mentioned it. I know the era
Speaker 1: is still at six and a half. I don't care.
Speaker 1: Joe musk Grove three runs and six in things much
Speaker 1: better start for him against the Brewers. By the way,
Speaker 1: the Brewers look like, you know, they're dealing with a
Speaker 1: yellowish back injury now then who knows what that's gonna
Speaker 1: lead to. That's bad news for them. And Zach Efflow
Speaker 1: has been a little up and down so far to
Speaker 1: start the year. A good start, no runs and six
Speaker 1: and a third for him. Who's against the Angels, but
Speaker 1: he didn't qualify for the decision. But good to see Kirby,
Speaker 1: musk Grove an Efflin all look good? What did not
Speaker 1: look good? Yesterday? Welsh? We ended the show, we had
Speaker 1: our meetings there. It is all of a sudden, get
Speaker 1: a message I think it was. Was it from Kelly?
Speaker 1: I think it was the Wonky Penguin dropped it in
Speaker 1: our little slack chat about the Marlins optioning Max Meyer
Speaker 1: to triple A. So Edward Cabrera coming up, and I thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe it's just like kind of a roster move situation
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. But still, this is literally the
Speaker 1: best picture on your roster right now. He's got a
Speaker 1: two to one two era over seventeen things in three starts.
Speaker 1: He's already come back from Tommy John this babying of
Speaker 1: pictures did and work with Perez. So like, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't understand here what's going on? So explain this
Speaker 1: to me, like I'm a five year old Welsh. This
Speaker 1: is very frustrating, and I have my heared a lot
Speaker 1: of places and I was, you know, looking forward to
Speaker 1: actually playing him in fantasy baseball. Why are we worrying
Speaker 1: about innings on the sixteenth of oh, I should say
Speaker 1: even yesterday on the fifteenth of April. Why are we
Speaker 1: worried about innings for a team that's not going to
Speaker 1: compute anyway where you could shut this guy down in
Speaker 1: August for all week here Welsh, make it makes sense
Speaker 1: because I have lost my mind.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's an interesting thing on the back end.
Speaker 3: I hadn't thought about it. It's like you're not going
Speaker 3: to be in it, and you could just shut him down.
Speaker 2: And there's theer cushions. I hadn't thought about that.
Speaker 1: I was like, God, Ramsey shut him down.
Speaker 3: Well, if you didn't hear shut him down, if you
Speaker 3: didn't hear skip there, he's got to learn to throw
Speaker 3: a two seamer.
Speaker 2: So that's why he's got to go. He's been super awesome.
Speaker 3: But they he literally said like, yeah, we want to
Speaker 3: go down to the minors and you know, get a
Speaker 3: two seamer to kind of.
Speaker 2: Help that stuff. Uh, we could probably do that at
Speaker 2: the majors. It's it's lame stuff. It's back.
Speaker 3: I wish I had a great answer for you. I
Speaker 3: wish I could explain it to you. I'm gonna probably
Speaker 3: talk like a six year old trying to figure it out.
Speaker 3: But logically, this team doesn't know how to maintain pictures
Speaker 3: in their arms. This is like a proven track record now,
Speaker 3: So my only assumption is the babying of babies. They
Speaker 3: pushed Uri Perez a little bit last year, if you remember,
Speaker 3: they actually like you know, they sent him.
Speaker 2: Down and they kind of pushed them toward.
Speaker 3: But maybe that's what's in the back of their head.
Speaker 3: Also knowing this, by the way, maybe in the grand
Speaker 3: scheme of and I'm not trying to make excuses, but
Speaker 3: in the grand scheme of like maintaining the arm, it's
Speaker 3: better for them instead of having him go six all
Speaker 3: the way through August and shut him down, is to
Speaker 3: pare him down and have him doing these three inning
Speaker 3: stints throughout the season and then shut him down towards
Speaker 3: the back half of the year for his maintenance. You
Speaker 3: never know, but all I know is they do everything
Speaker 3: wrong with pitcher. Hell, so they're going extra crazy. But
Speaker 3: when they said that he needed to go down and
Speaker 3: do it two seemer, that was like, don't talk to
Speaker 3: us like we're complete morons. Don't treat us like, oh,
Speaker 3: you sent him down because he had to work on
Speaker 3: some stuff when he's absolutely been dominating. That was the
Speaker 3: most offensive, stupid claim. And it sucks because he had
Speaker 3: looked awesome. This guy coming off with Tommy John. I
Speaker 3: I almost put him in the cell video because he's
Speaker 3: not going to get a whole, big old set of innings.
Speaker 3: But now it's worthless because he got sent down to
Speaker 3: the miners, so actually opportunity to April.
Speaker 1: He's made three starts like this isn't July, and I
Speaker 1: get it, like I understand. Yes he's not long for
Speaker 1: the season. Yes he's gonna have limitations within games and
Speaker 1: overall in the workload, but it just I just I
Speaker 1: can't wrap my mind around this at all. And look,
Speaker 1: he will be back up. I think we all know
Speaker 1: that to be sure, but holy crap, this one's just annoying.
Speaker 1: Jerry Nelson, our good friend Jerry in the chat, Joey
Speaker 1: p I'm eating a chicken parm sandwich and listening to
Speaker 1: you guys. I'm jealous. I wish I was a chicken parmsan.
Speaker 1: I'm starving and join.
Speaker 2: In the morning for me, Joe, It's.
Speaker 1: Never too early for a chicken palm riddle time, all right,
Speaker 1: speaking of early little Sterry Rowiz news a little early
Speaker 1: in the show today, pinch it Homer for them. He
Speaker 1: gets called up and they let him pinch it and
Speaker 1: he goes yard, So that's fun. Jordan Montgomery, after getting
Speaker 1: obliterated this past weekend, will make his season debut for
Speaker 1: the Dbacks on Friday against the Giants. Well, she excited.
Speaker 2: I am very very excited.
Speaker 3: I don't care at all about those triple am I
Speaker 3: especially don't care about like PCL numbers. I don't care
Speaker 3: about what he did in the miners. I am very
Speaker 3: excited about that. This is a really great defense that's
Speaker 3: going to be there supporting him. Hopefully the offense keeps
Speaker 3: picking up. But Jordan Montgomery definitely going to be a
Speaker 3: value from where he was drafted.
Speaker 2: Falling, falling, falling because he hadn't signed.
Speaker 3: A little bit dicey in his very first start, you know,
Speaker 3: because the innings and what he did in spring. This
Speaker 3: is one of those guys kind of similar to Blake Snell.
Speaker 3: Everyone was freaking out about Blake Snell.
Speaker 1: Oh give up.
Speaker 2: Seven runs and oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Well this is still.
Speaker 2: Ramp up period for him. This is like his spring training.
Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm I'll buy opportunities on Blake Snow right
Speaker 2: now on dirt cheap, because he doesn't look good early on.
Speaker 3: He's ramping up. But put that over to Jordan Montgomery
Speaker 3: as well. I don't expect him to go bonkers right
Speaker 3: out the gates or anything like that, but yeah, he's
Speaker 3: gonna be a value with the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 1: Kevin has a question, should I pick up a story
Speaker 1: of Ruiz and drop Whitten Mirfield?
Speaker 2: I think so absolutely estary.
Speaker 3: They send him down and they did the like you
Speaker 3: need to learn to hit, and he did all of that.
Speaker 3: He got on base, hit a home run, so he's cured.
Speaker 3: I'm sure he'll be a thirty homer guy. Now, God,
Speaker 3: I am salty today about this Max Meyer thing.
Speaker 1: I'm pissed. I'm happy about the wheel, happy about your
Speaker 1: home run, but I am salty about the Max Meyer thing.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the rookie. Lookie Welsh. Jack
Speaker 1: Lder gets the call he's gonna start on Thursday. Here's
Speaker 1: then the thing, this is a very controversial prospect. He's
Speaker 1: an EPO baby. He was a great college pitcher that
Speaker 1: hasn't translated to the minor leagues until recently. So the
Speaker 1: question is are we buying the switch being flipped here
Speaker 1: that he has now gotten it. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the lights have gone on and Jack Lder is going
Speaker 1: to fulfill the prophecy.
Speaker 2: I am buying it. And it's funny you mentioned the
Speaker 2: NEPO baby.
Speaker 3: I was just on the Eyes Have It podcast on
Speaker 3: Baseball HQ with Chris Blessing and we were telling this
Speaker 3: story about how excuse me, how Chris, myself and Eno
Speaker 3: were on the backfields here and Blessing comes over and
Speaker 3: taps me on the shoulder and he goes, yo, look
Speaker 3: and we were watching these Royals prospects and Jack Lighter
Speaker 3: is on this side field throwing, and his dad is there.
Speaker 3: Al Lighter is there, and he has taken a pretty obvious,
Speaker 3: like personal touch into his development and the Rangers they
Speaker 3: wanted to go in a different direction north south, east
Speaker 3: west pitching, and it's kind of been a poll for
Speaker 3: the last couple of years with Lighter. He had a great,
Speaker 3: great collegiate career and power, fastball, good breaking ball, but
Speaker 3: it's been all over the board. The command hasn't been there.
Speaker 3: In fact, Jack Lighter, when COVID ended and they did
Speaker 3: this Royals Rangers, was the first baseball game that was
Speaker 3: finally going to be played, or maybe it wasn't even
Speaker 3: maybe it was on the Baseball Agreement when there was,
Speaker 3: you know, maybe be a shutout whatever, and it was
Speaker 3: Lighter versus Bobby Witt, and you saw some command. I'm
Speaker 3: saying all this to say, like the stuff has always
Speaker 3: been there, but he hasn't been able to put the
Speaker 3: tools together, and that fastball has been inconsistent, which doesn't
Speaker 3: set anything else up. But they have been very very
Speaker 3: direct with him, and we've seen the results. We've seen
Speaker 3: the results this year where you've seen big the induced
Speaker 3: vertical break, the way his pitch is coming out looks bigger.
Speaker 3: The fastball has commanded better sitting ninety six, his secondaries
Speaker 3: are working better. My deal with Jack Lighter, I have
Speaker 3: been stubborn about him because I think he has the
Speaker 3: workings of being like a front ish line type of starter,
Speaker 3: and it just hasn't come together. And sometimes it takes
Speaker 3: an entire minor league career into the majors for it
Speaker 3: to work, and it has worked over the last couple
Speaker 3: if his command can hold.
Speaker 2: Think he has the type of stuff to.
Speaker 3: Be a pretty dang good starter in the major So
Speaker 3: I'm kind of a by on Lighter, but I'm not
Speaker 3: the biggest buy on any rookie pitcher. Very very early
Speaker 3: on I don't know how this is gonna go with lighter,
Speaker 3: but I'm encouraged by all the work and i think
Speaker 3: that's a positive sign more than it is like a mirage.
Speaker 3: And I put him in my prospect article from whatever
Speaker 3: two weeks ago. Is a guy that you should pay
Speaker 3: attention to because he's going to get an opportunity soon.
Speaker 2: What is the matchup on Thursday. I'm completely forgetting the
Speaker 2: wrong I'll.
Speaker 1: Look at the matchup. You talk about the Dodgers because
Speaker 1: they're bringing up somebody to pitch as well, so you
Speaker 1: talk about that. I'll look at the matchup here for later.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the hit actually Andy PayPass, that's the other big
Speaker 3: call up which is really exciting. Andy Peyhas is a
Speaker 3: fascinating dude who was just like he was this big
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say it was kind of an overweight prospect
Speaker 3: from a long time ago with big power. Completely retransformed
Speaker 3: his body and he has looked awesome.
Speaker 2: In fact, I kind of told this online. You know,
Speaker 2: you know that picture.
Speaker 3: We don't like to talk about your Verbauer, who had
Speaker 3: that little showing in the minor leagues. Andy Peyhas when
Speaker 3: he went up against the Dodgers was the dude that
Speaker 3: absolutely dominated him. I mean, his ability to make contact
Speaker 3: and fight in at bats has been fantastic astic, and
Speaker 3: so far this minor league season, he's had five homers,
Speaker 3: two stolen bases, sub twenty percent strikeout rate and hitting
Speaker 3: over three seventy. He still has the raw power once
Speaker 3: his body came back to being more fit, he still
Speaker 3: has the bat speed, if not more, that was always there.
Speaker 3: And I'm really encouraged that he's gonna be up. He's
Speaker 3: a pay attention to type of guy because he's gonna
Speaker 3: hit like way low in the lineup. But I don't
Speaker 3: know if he'll come up soon. But I do love
Speaker 3: me some Andy Payas, and I do love me some Jackliders.
Speaker 3: So these are both two that I'm I've watched these
Speaker 3: guys for a long time, so I'm pretty excited about
Speaker 3: all Right, Well, it's the Thursday matchup.
Speaker 1: Oh you're gonna love this. It's your best friend Ken
Speaker 1: to Maida against the Tigers.
Speaker 2: I love it. You know what I'm down.
Speaker 3: I'm down if you want to take some risks and
Speaker 3: maybe blow up your ratios. I'm down to play the
Speaker 3: jack liber again to.
Speaker 1: Maida, I mean, that's like the perfect. Welsh guy Mitchell
Speaker 1: Parker beat the Dodgers in his MLB debut yesterday, five
Speaker 1: innings to run, Ball struck out four, Spencer Aarraghetti was
Speaker 1: charged for two runs of five. K's a better outing
Speaker 1: for him, although I mean anything was an improvement on
Speaker 1: that first one was a lost today more on the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves though they lost to the Braves yesterday. But
Speaker 1: again more of the Braves today because Hunter Brown HOI
Speaker 1: model and twenty three hits and seven innings so far
Speaker 1: in three starts, like this could be this could be
Speaker 1: the end of Hunter Brown. Today. We're gonna talk more
Speaker 1: about that when we get to the beding today because
Speaker 1: I want to take advantage of that one. I am
Speaker 1: just honed in, zeroed in on that when Jackson Curio
Speaker 1: went two for four with a two run homer and
Speaker 1: Louis Barland not a good start for Louie eleven hits,
Speaker 1: two homers for Earn.
Speaker 3: Lost like you talk about him, like you know him,
Speaker 3: like loe ooee, that.
Speaker 1: Wasn't the best start because of Louis. You know, it's
Speaker 1: all right, don't worry about you. Come over. You have
Speaker 1: some Canoli's, you have a little little espresso you relax
Speaker 1: a little bit, maybe next time.
Speaker 2: What's a canole I think I've had? Isn't it like
Speaker 2: just like frosting? No, No, like I've had before. I mean,
Speaker 2: I've been here.
Speaker 1: Why am I even doing the show?
Speaker 3: Isn't it like us good thing rolled with the frosting
Speaker 3: or something?
Speaker 2: What's the thing? Joey, Joey Cannoli?
Speaker 3: What's but I'm just saying, explain to Canoli to me,
Speaker 3: like I'm.
Speaker 1: Saying, you don't know what a conan? No?
Speaker 3: No, Like I know what it is, but like I could,
Speaker 3: I obviously clearly could not describe a.
Speaker 1: It's a dessert, the Italian dessert. It's the fried dough
Speaker 1: that's rolled, right, you ll okay? Well, you first you
Speaker 1: roll the dough over, you fry it and it becomes
Speaker 1: like a little shell, and then you pipe in various
Speaker 1: sort of Italian cream. Usually you've got chocolate chips on
Speaker 1: the ends, or at least inside. I think it's always
Speaker 1: better when people do it all the way through. You
Speaker 1: put the chocolate chips in the cream, and then you
Speaker 1: pipe the whole Thing's supposed just the chocolate chips on
Speaker 1: the end, because you want the chocolate chips everywhere. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they do some like of the zest of like orange
Speaker 1: or lemon. I'm not crazy about that necessarily. I like
Speaker 1: it old school style.
Speaker 2: The lotion on the skin or else. It come on, man, no.
Speaker 3: Not like I just I've had a conoli once or
Speaker 3: twice in my life.
Speaker 1: But I know you're in Arizona, and I know it's hard.
Speaker 1: I know Olive Garden is like the most Italian thing
Speaker 1: album sticks. Oh my god, it's delicious.
Speaker 2: Can I do this?
Speaker 1: Yeah? All right, let's move on because I might just sorry.
Speaker 1: The first time I've walked off the show this year.
Speaker 3: I wanted to be sure I had the canoli in
Speaker 3: my head and knowing exactly what it was.
Speaker 2: Let's do can only reviews soon.
Speaker 3: Let's get some canoli. Sure, I'll get the best conoli
Speaker 3: from Arizona. You give them from New I don't mind.
Speaker 1: The deconstructed one too, Like there's places now and some
Speaker 1: like the high end grocery stores. I'll do the canola
Speaker 1: cream with the chocolate chips, and then they make just
Speaker 1: conoli chips so you can kind of just dip and
Speaker 1: eat them. So the ratio is a little bitter. It's
Speaker 1: almost like a like a dessert nacho kind of thing,
Speaker 1: which I'm also all four, But what are just do?
Speaker 1: Three up and three down? Sunny Gray Blank the a's
Speaker 1: for six sittings. We talked about that struck out six.
Speaker 1: Great start for him. We talked about him yesterday. It
Speaker 1: was a good start. Hopefully you had him in your
Speaker 1: line up. Jackson Merril three for five continues to hit
Speaker 1: Welsh Jackson Merril, like you were on it. Credit to you,
Speaker 1: and I was a big Seth Logo guy. I know
Speaker 1: the strikeouts are tear elling behind. I know it hasn't
Speaker 1: been good in the strikeout department, but seven shot Yeah
Speaker 1: it was a White Sox, But who cares? Seth Lugo
Speaker 1: has been good. Did you see to smalk All, I mean, Cutter, Crawford,
Speaker 1: all those late guys we talked about, they've all hit
Speaker 1: and it's funny these guys in the top three rounds
Speaker 1: are all busts.
Speaker 3: I think it was Pitching Ninja that shared. I'm not
Speaker 3: sure I've ever seen I know there probably has been,
Speaker 3: but he shared that Seith Lugo through a curveball.
Speaker 2: I don't remember what he called it, but it.
Speaker 3: Over thirty four rpm, thirty four hundred rpm on this spin,
Speaker 3: Like three thousand on spin is a big number, Like
Speaker 3: that's something We're like, whoa thirty four? It was the
Speaker 3: most just crazy curveball. I don't I like Seith Luga.
Speaker 3: That's why I took him yesterday in the Royals for
Speaker 3: that first five to be up by a run. He
Speaker 3: is one of those sneaky dudes, and that's what makes
Speaker 3: the Royals sneaky right now. Man, that rotation from Reagan's
Speaker 3: to Waka to Lugo to Singer, it is pretty underrated
Speaker 3: and you got to pay attention to them every single day.
Speaker 3: There's some good opportunities because guys like Lugo and Walk
Speaker 3: they are just kind of still sitting out there.
Speaker 1: Saint Louis is not New York go cards, but yes,
Speaker 1: I do know that there's some spots there in Saint
Speaker 1: Louis that have some good Tian food. There was also
Speaker 1: a big mafia contingent around there in the Kansas City
Speaker 1: area and all that stuff. Those are the ones that
Speaker 1: ran the casinos. If you watch the movie Casino, you
Speaker 1: know this kind of stuff. But they actually there is
Speaker 1: a Midwestern, you know, sort of Italian patch there where
Speaker 1: you can get some good.
Speaker 2: Food, the Holy Canoli's. It's the Holy Canoli Gangs.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the downs. Gink go blew
Speaker 1: a second save. Don't worry Ginkle. I know Welsh has
Speaker 1: gone full Ginkle, but I don't know if he's still
Speaker 1: in full Ginkle or not. Because Seawald is throwing bullpen sessions.
Speaker 1: I believe today Frankie montas not a good star brand.
Speaker 1: Five runs against the Mariners, No bueno there, and Tyler Glass,
Speaker 1: Now what the hell happened here? Six runs up against
Speaker 1: the Gnats. Like you know, I was tempted. It was
Speaker 1: also a high number, and I said, I'm gonna stay
Speaker 1: away from this one too. It feels too good to
Speaker 1: be true against the Gnats. It was a part of
Speaker 1: me that was like, man, that money line the Nats
Speaker 1: was huge yesterday. I thought it was like plus four
Speaker 1: hundred or something like that, and I was like, party
Speaker 1: watch just betted on principle, and I should have. I
Speaker 1: did not.
Speaker 2: But what I didn't say yesterday I'm a dummy. I thought,
Speaker 2: Oh no, blah blah blah. I'll tell you one thing
Speaker 2: I think that's happening.
Speaker 1: I think CJ.
Speaker 3: Abrams might be like a star star you know, like
Speaker 3: last year, oh hey, he clicked on the second half
Speaker 3: and stole a bunch of bases, and the power was there.
Speaker 2: I even looked in the off season.
Speaker 3: There's some stuff I just didn't love as far as like,
Speaker 3: like I thought he was maximizing this profile of hitting
Speaker 3: and he as far as power goes, and he would
Speaker 3: still steal a bunch.
Speaker 2: But listen, guy might just be an absolute superstar.
Speaker 3: He's walking more, he's hitting almost three hundred, four homers,
Speaker 3: three stolen bases. He's got an ISO over three hundred
Speaker 3: right now. I mean that's the like we all didn't
Speaker 3: trust that CJ. Abrams was going to make this big move.
Speaker 3: But check this out as well. Hard hit numbers are
Speaker 3: up twelve percent barrel rate. What I didn't like last
Speaker 3: year was like a six percent barrel rate with a
Speaker 3: big launch angle. He's hitting the ball in the air
Speaker 3: higher seventeen degree launch angle. He's more doubled at twelve
Speaker 3: and his hard hit numbers are up. And by the way,
Speaker 3: he has an almost fifty point higher expected batting average
Speaker 3: than his actual batting average.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 1: C J.
Speaker 2: Abrams might just be a star. That's one big piece
Speaker 2: of it. But I don't know what the hell happened
Speaker 2: with glass now and I lost money.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, it was certainly weird, by the way, because
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about canolis now since that conversation, so hungry.
Speaker 2: I forgot.
Speaker 1: It comes over from State Aland for Christmas every year,
Speaker 1: and there's a place by her that does the chocolate
Speaker 1: dipped cannolis. So that's the whole thing. The fried dough.
Speaker 1: Then they dip it in chocolate, so it's like a
Speaker 1: hard chocolate shell. Oh my god, then they pipe it.
Speaker 1: My god, those are delicious, and.
Speaker 2: She's go to New York just for this.
Speaker 1: She bought them, She forgot them at her house. She
Speaker 1: waited in line for an hour, got them, forgot to
Speaker 1: bring him to the house. She came over the next
Speaker 1: morning to bring me canoles. That is good family. That's family, right.
Speaker 3: I feel like if I were to come to by
Speaker 3: the way, if everyone doesn't. Joe's been trying to get
Speaker 3: me come to New York for years, and I told came.
Speaker 1: Over last year for August for the for the draft.
Speaker 1: I made full Sunday dinner, you know, I made. I
Speaker 1: made all the meatballs and pasta, I made sauce, I
Speaker 1: did the garlic, brend. I did the whole thing. I
Speaker 1: even made short ribs in the sauce. I did the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Now the problem is, well, she's not a
Speaker 1: big meat guy.
Speaker 2: But you know what, like I think, like it isn't.
Speaker 1: My Italian meats. If you come to my house, I'm.
Speaker 2: Not gonna touch your Italian meat, not at all.
Speaker 3: But I want to say, like, if it weren't for
Speaker 3: tax season, I don't have any money anymore. So I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be spinning a sign on a street after this show.
Speaker 3: I would be flying out there. It would be amazing
Speaker 3: if I could go out there, and then you could
Speaker 3: give me the tour of great like New York foods
Speaker 3: and then home cooked meal after that's not your Italian meat.
Speaker 1: Well that's your loss, all right. The White Sox here
Speaker 1: some injuries, Eloya menez Off, the il Saya Suzuki on what,
Speaker 1: of course, with a right oblique strain. Jake Berger went
Speaker 1: on the Ale yesterday with what a left oblique strain?
Speaker 1: So again it's elbows and obliques, folks, I don't know
Speaker 1: many left oblique straight Nationals placed kybri Ruiz on the
Speaker 1: ten day IL with influenza. How often does this happen?
Speaker 2: Isn't that just the flu that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean I don't know if he's got like
Speaker 1: a pre existing condition thing or he is asthmatic or
Speaker 1: whatever it is, but I was a weird one that
Speaker 1: popped up. Also, the MRI on South Perez dealing with
Speaker 1: a Grade one groin strain, so we'll keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that one. Verland, Who's gonna throw another session today,
Speaker 1: hopefully I have better results than the last one, because
Speaker 1: I mean it's just a bullpen's As long as he's healthy,
Speaker 1: that's good. We mentioned Yelick before not in the starting
Speaker 1: lineup yesterday, so again the back issue rearing its head
Speaker 1: again for Yelich is a shame. That's why I just
Speaker 1: couldn't draft him anywhere just no matter what I know.
Speaker 1: He got off to a good start and last year
Speaker 1: was better. But Romano could be activated today for the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays. Paul Sewald we mentioned before throwing the bullpen
Speaker 1: session today and also throwing a bullpen who was also
Speaker 1: out with oblique just like Seawald is Jon Dorant, So
Speaker 1: good news there. So there you go, lots of injuries
Speaker 1: getting you up to date, so Welsh. That brings us
Speaker 1: to Tuesday's Best Bets of the Day with Joey p
Speaker 1: and the Welsh. There you go, everybody, welcome. The best
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Speaker 1: had some good discipline yesterday. Today no discipline. I am
Speaker 1: just looking for Hunter Brown. I'm squaring at all the
Speaker 1: braves props you can get today. I wanted my favorite
Speaker 1: one I think is the easiest is Matt Olsen. Are
Speaker 1: driving a run. Guys are hitting three years of fun
Speaker 1: fun facts left. He's a written three forty six against
Speaker 1: Hunter Brown right now with a nine to seventy ops
Speaker 1: of course, Matt Olson rocking right handed pitching, hitting three
Speaker 1: twenty against Righty's point five RBI over at plus three
Speaker 1: one thirty five. It's a great number plus one thirty
Speaker 1: five just to get the RBI, just to drive in
Speaker 1: a run. I love this. Hunter Brown's give up twenty
Speaker 1: three hits at seven innings. This could be, like I said,
Speaker 1: the start that sends Hunter Brown packing to the minor leagues,
Speaker 1: which is unfortunate, but you know, it's just where things are.
Speaker 1: Garrett Whitlock another guy we mentioned earlier in the program today,
Speaker 1: love this number. You're getting a small number over four
Speaker 1: and a half strikeouts at plus money plus one oh eight.
Speaker 1: Love this one two. Logan Gilbert under seven and a
Speaker 1: half strikeouts. Logan Gilbert's good, but seven and a half
Speaker 1: is a big number minus one thirty five. The juice
Speaker 1: is a little tough on this one, so if you
Speaker 1: compare it with something else, I would do it. But
Speaker 1: I like the under in the CA's there for him,
Speaker 1: the over in the case for Whitlock, and the over
Speaker 1: on the RBI point five total four again plus money
Speaker 1: for Matt Olson. If you want to put the Braves
Speaker 1: on the money line at minus one twenty, you do
Speaker 1: that against the Royals as well, money line one eighty six.
Speaker 1: So you take the Royals against the White Sox, the
Speaker 1: Braves against the Astros. Take those money lines, put those
Speaker 1: negatives together and you get a positive at plus one
Speaker 1: eighty eight. So that's your part lay of the day.
Speaker 1: Welsh what do you have for the people on this
Speaker 1: Tuesday slate of betting.
Speaker 3: I didn't even realize that you had the logan Gilbert
Speaker 3: won because that's what I honed in on as well,
Speaker 3: Logan Gilbert under.
Speaker 2: Seven and a half strikeouts. It's a little dicey because
Speaker 2: it's the Reds.
Speaker 3: It's a big number, and Logan Gilbert has been kind
Speaker 3: of a strikeout machine early on. I believe two of
Speaker 3: us first three starts he's had eight strikeouts. The other
Speaker 3: one he had seven. So it's been really good there.
Speaker 3: But I mean from a career trajectory standpoint, he's not
Speaker 3: like a rattle off seven plus strikeouts four five, six games.
Speaker 3: The Reds have been striking out a little bit, but
Speaker 3: at the top of the lineup, I don't know. They
Speaker 3: held Kirby at Bay a tiny bit, going six inning,
Speaker 3: six strikeouts. I just think this is too high of
Speaker 3: a number. So that's why I'm tailing you on this one.
Speaker 3: I'm going Gilbert on the under. I'm getting a little
Speaker 3: bit crazy today. I was off to such an insanely
Speaker 3: red hot start. I am gonna get a little bit
Speaker 3: wacky to try to pick it back up because I've
Speaker 3: been kind of stagnant. I had one bad day last week.
Speaker 3: Everything else has just been kind of even keel, even keel.
Speaker 3: These were a couple that I like. And I'm going
Speaker 3: with a no run first inning parlay. I'm taking two
Speaker 3: teams parloy parlaying they're not to score a run in
Speaker 3: the first inning together, and I'm taking San Francisco in Miami,
Speaker 3: and I'm pairing that with Pittsburgh and the Mets. The
Speaker 3: Mets one, Josek Kitana has actually been pretty good. You
Speaker 3: got Jared Jones in there. I love that pair. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna put that bad boy with the Miami side, which
Speaker 3: you've got Jordan Hicks, who I'm kind of on Jordan
Speaker 3: Hicks a little bit today and Ryan Weathers. Both of
Speaker 3: those teams haven't been scoring a whole bunch in the
Speaker 3: first inning. So all of these, you know, from like
Speaker 3: a statistical standpoint, just haven't been big scores in the
Speaker 3: first inning.
Speaker 2: So that's why put them together.
Speaker 3: Get over two hundred plus two oh seven on that parlay,
Speaker 3: and then I'm going with what I'm calling the four
Speaker 3: K parlay. Most of our all these guys are projected
Speaker 3: to have over most of their strikeout props are like
Speaker 3: four and a half, even like a five and a half,
Speaker 3: and I am putting them on an alt line to
Speaker 3: throw four strikeouts. Chris Paddock, Jordan Hicks, and you mentioned
Speaker 3: the Braves, Ranaldo Lopez, get all of them four K,
Speaker 3: four K, four K.
Speaker 2: Plus one sixty one for my four K parlay of
Speaker 2: the day.
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Speaker 1: best bets of the day with joeyp and No Welsh
Speaker 1: four Tuesday and MLB. All right, everybody, it's time to
Speaker 1: get to the home run board now. Welsh, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're on the board just because you got
Speaker 1: one yesterday. I don't see you on there, still behind
Speaker 1: but still nonetheless positives there for the Welsh. Also, everybody
Speaker 1: reminder tomorrow we are going to have some fun stuff.
Speaker 1: Cleaning up is gonna be tomorrow. Everybody loves that, so
Speaker 1: we're gonna be back doing that again. So here we go,
Speaker 1: Let's let's spin the wheel, shall we wellsh here we go.
Speaker 1: We're gonna click to spin the wheel of Homers today.
Speaker 1: I've got some other fun announcements too after the wheel.
Speaker 3: But you're doing mine, you do under your home run
Speaker 3: call first, or just going with mine?
Speaker 1: No, No, the wheels too good. Easy. Look, mine's easy.
Speaker 1: It's matt Olsen, folks. Spoiler alert. Plus you can get
Speaker 1: this at four to one money today, so take it
Speaker 1: everywhere you can, is my call.
Speaker 2: We've got new names.
Speaker 3: We got Aaron Judge, Vladdie Jordan Alvarus, we have Matt Olsen,
Speaker 3: Bobby Way Junior left on here first comment if if
Speaker 3: it lands on that the first person with the name
Speaker 3: will pick. And then we got a couple duds, Edward Oliveris,
Speaker 3: Mark Canna and Masataka Yoshida. One of these guys will
Speaker 3: be the home run pick of the day. So let's
Speaker 3: spin the wheel, my friends.
Speaker 1: We see weal weel weel weel so exciting. I love
Speaker 1: all that is and my home man all right, Oh no, oh,
Speaker 1: Mark Conna, that's uh, there you go.
Speaker 2: That's who it is.
Speaker 3: Mark Hannah is going to be my home run of
Speaker 3: the day, So yay me thank you so much. Weel
Speaker 3: but as I've always said, trust in the wheel, and
Speaker 3: I guess trust in Mark Canna.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna have to spend the wheel again. Mark Hannah's
Speaker 2: not in the lineup.
Speaker 3: The chat has said they didn't another spin this wheel.
Speaker 1: Wheel. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: All right, I put a new name. I put a
Speaker 2: new name.
Speaker 1: Here we go. First of all, you know who likes this.
Speaker 1: This guy, he's very excited about this. So here we go.
Speaker 1: All right, So Jackson Holiday is very excited. Here we go.
Speaker 1: Conna is not starting today. Let's go through and.
Speaker 2: Put John Peterson back on.
Speaker 3: We put Jack Peterson on it for Mark Canna and
Speaker 3: the winner.
Speaker 1: Oh this was my second choice of the day. Bobby Wit, Junior,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, the wheel has spoken.
Speaker 2: Yep, So there you go.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: Bobby Wait, Junior. The wheel doesn't lie. It gave us
Speaker 3: an opportunity. Maybe it's a by opportunity on Mark Cannon.
Speaker 3: But Bobby Wait, Junior, that's going to be the call
Speaker 3: today for the wheel home run if it does it again.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, everybody look.
Speaker 1: At top of the board, still bows and o's I'm
Speaker 1: joining at the top at nine. I'm at eight, still
Speaker 1: tied for second place. Did not get a homer yesterday,
Speaker 1: but I feel like Matt Olson's gonna help me out today.
Speaker 1: Great show today, got the youth movement, got guys coming
Speaker 1: through here. You know, of course we got guys we
Speaker 1: like getting sent down. That's frustrating, but that's okay, that's okay.
Speaker 1: We taught Welsh what a cannoli was, so it's not
Speaker 1: a complete lost cause. And shout out to mister Buster
Speaker 1: who shouted out there that Connor wasn't starting today right now,
Speaker 1: So I spend.
Speaker 2: A sign Joe.
Speaker 3: I don't have money anymore, and I'm broke because the
Speaker 3: taxes in the government, so I gotta go spend a sign.
Speaker 3: I'm working on my skills, so I got to make
Speaker 3: some extra money here.
Speaker 1: So right, well, you work on your skills. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go way for today, but we'll be back tomorrow for
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