Speaker 1: Yelich cycles through. Let's play ball, Welcome in, and everybody's too.
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Speaker 1: baseball for you today. We got a recap of the
Speaker 1: games yesterday, look ahead to the games today, and a
Speaker 1: little fun in between. Welsh. It's good to see you again,
Speaker 1: my friend. And how's your baseball and going?
Speaker 2: It's going pretty good, my friend.
Speaker 3: I watched the multiple no hitters the other night, or
Speaker 3: the attempted no hitters that I feel like I've been
Speaker 3: ruining by the way.
Speaker 2: We had one.
Speaker 3: Trying to remember who it was now I'm completely forgetting,
Speaker 3: but it was some days ago and I tuned in
Speaker 3: immediately lost it. Verlander had it, immediately lost it as
Speaker 3: I tuned in. I think he got one out and
Speaker 3: then boom and then actually getting a no hitter. Go
Speaker 3: through with Redebt. Me's was fun, a little bit of
Speaker 3: cycle action. It always brings up actually one of my
Speaker 3: favorite questions, even though I know this is a couple
Speaker 3: of days old, but I haven't been here. One of
Speaker 3: my favorite questions of what is you know, more unique
Speaker 3: no hitters or cycles? As Christian Yelich hit for the cycle.
Speaker 3: It's one of my favorite debates because Bagman has always
Speaker 3: completely dismissed cycles, and I actually think cycles are really
Speaker 3: important and really exciting and about as unique as a
Speaker 3: no hitter.
Speaker 2: So it's been good. It's been a good.
Speaker 3: Week of batump calls, cycles, no hitters, all the fun
Speaker 3: stuff I want in baseball.
Speaker 1: Well, it's nice to see Christian Yelich being Christian Yelich again.
Speaker 1: First and foremost, I mean votes very well. For any
Speaker 1: shares that you have of the Milwaukee Brewers going forward
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, maybe winning the National League, maybe even
Speaker 1: winning the World Series, they're gonna need him to be
Speaker 1: Christian Yelich. I firmly believe that. But what's so hard
Speaker 1: about the cycle is the triple. That's the one. The
Speaker 1: home run is easy, the single and double. It's the
Speaker 1: triple that really everything has to kind of break right,
Speaker 1: because it's got to be an actual triple, not a
Speaker 1: double in an error or some other kind of weird
Speaker 1: thing that happens where you end up getting a third base.
Speaker 1: That's the trick. You know.
Speaker 2: What's interesting what you're saying too, is when the triple's.
Speaker 3: The last hit for you to get, it almost makes
Speaker 3: the cycle like ten times more unique and more special
Speaker 3: because sometimes you get a guy they'll get the triple
Speaker 3: out of the way in the beginning, and then you
Speaker 3: get a homer, and then you get a double. How
Speaker 3: many times have you seen you know, a single be
Speaker 3: the thing that you need for the cycle, but you know,
Speaker 3: to lock it down with a triple, I think actually
Speaker 3: might be. I don't know, it might even be more
Speaker 3: special than a homer. Like you said, like a homer
Speaker 3: is a homer, but a triple is a very unique
Speaker 3: placement of the ball and a speed around the base
Speaker 3: path that I think make it so fun.
Speaker 1: It's a placement of the ball, it's a hitting it
Speaker 1: to the spot where you know you don't have a
Speaker 1: guy in the outfield has got a great arm exactly
Speaker 1: where the ball caroms off the wall. There's so many
Speaker 1: things that can go into it. Triple actually becoming one,
Speaker 1: and good on Christianellich. Congratulations to him forgetting that. Let's
Speaker 1: get to the other headlines. Miles Michelis throws one run
Speaker 1: in the blowout against the Orioles. Wilson Contrera stays hot
Speaker 1: with homer three runs scored for Wilson Contreras. Contreras has
Speaker 1: been terrific for the Cubs. He's been one of the
Speaker 1: lone bright spots. I imagine he would be a very
Speaker 1: tantalizing player. The Cubs have not locked him up. I
Speaker 1: have to imagine somebody out there is going to want
Speaker 1: to bring in a Wilson Contreras. Do you think, yeah,
Speaker 1: any takers there. I know the Yankees have been mentioned
Speaker 1: for him, but he would be a huge addition for
Speaker 1: a club in the in the thick of it, I
Speaker 1: think later on.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think he'd be a huge addition.
Speaker 3: I just don't think the Cubs want to move off
Speaker 3: any more pieces. I'm not sure that they want to
Speaker 3: put him out there. I think that's going to be
Speaker 3: part of the problem. I mean, the Cubs kind of
Speaker 3: completely failed at what we assumed was going to be
Speaker 3: an offseason where they were going to go and spend
Speaker 3: all that money that they traded off, and they just
Speaker 3: kind of went to Suzuki. You know, they didn't weren't
Speaker 3: able to bring in any other stars, and they are
Speaker 3: piece and some piece of some wins together. But Suzuki
Speaker 3: struggling the pitching staff is pretty gross. It's a relatively
Speaker 3: non existent bullpen. So by those standards, Wilson Cortreros would
Speaker 3: make sense to move off, but I just don't think
Speaker 3: they would.
Speaker 2: Plus, he's interesting. He's got some.
Speaker 3: Really, really really good underlining, hard hit numbers that seemed to,
Speaker 3: you know, seem to allow him to continue to be
Speaker 3: a really impactful bat that I think it would take
Speaker 3: a haul that no one wants to pay for.
Speaker 1: No one's gonna yeah, well shall see, we shall see,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Luke Void Hoomer twice yesterday for the
Speaker 1: padres Reeze Hoskins home and for three straight games in
Speaker 1: a row. I wish I'd been picking Reeze Hoskins. That
Speaker 1: would have been nice. The other night I picked Bryce
Speaker 1: Harper instead, did not go well. Alec Thomas his first
Speaker 1: major league home run for the year.
Speaker 2: See that bomb too, You see that bomb?
Speaker 1: Did?
Speaker 3: Like this, dude, I can't get over It's somebody that
Speaker 3: I have watched this kid, you know, pretty much since
Speaker 3: he came up. Is a skinny, kind of small kid
Speaker 3: who showed all the stuff and then this year and camp.
Speaker 3: I have that picture I tweeted out in camp where
Speaker 3: I was like, dude, he got jacked like he got
Speaker 3: his dad's a former strength coach with the White Sox,
Speaker 3: and he hit this hom or if nobody really paid
Speaker 3: attention to it yesterday where it was it was a
Speaker 3: bomb opposite field and he just put his body right
Speaker 3: across the ball, doesn't even look it actually is very
Speaker 3: reminiscent of Corbyn Carrol if you watch him in the
Speaker 3: minors and how he hits, just kind of a smaller,
Speaker 3: skinnier guy that you see the contact and you're like,
Speaker 3: all right, that might be a flyout, it's not. And
Speaker 3: Carol hit it opposite field really really beautiful swing. He's
Speaker 3: really hitting well to start and making a really good
Speaker 3: case to stay with the Diamondbacks. So they don't throw
Speaker 3: him back down when you know, stupid Carson Kelly gets active.
Speaker 3: They got so many guys that they could just let go.
Speaker 3: I really hope they let him continue to go because
Speaker 3: he's hitting the ball, he's making great decisions, he is fast,
Speaker 3: probably the fastest player on this team, and he's a
Speaker 3: great defender and he's a really really solid Deeper League
Speaker 3: fantasy option right now, because he's doing a little bit
Speaker 3: of everything. If just a diambation is still more basis
Speaker 3: would be great.
Speaker 1: What's the Prospect one breakdown on Alec Thomas for those
Speaker 1: people in redraft and dynasty leagues.
Speaker 2: In what respect of like how you want him.
Speaker 1: Both in, like how you value him, what kind of
Speaker 1: profile you think he's going to be. Yeah, you mentioned
Speaker 1: he was a smaller kid. He's bulked up. He's you know,
Speaker 1: showing a little bit of power. Now. He's been in
Speaker 1: this organization for a few years now. He is not
Speaker 1: new necessarily.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and like I said, you know, his
Speaker 3: dad has been been in baseball as a strength coach.
Speaker 2: He's a really, really smart kid. He's worked with a.
Speaker 3: Bunch of Well I didn't I had this interview with that,
Speaker 3: this really funny interview with him on Prospect one, and
Speaker 3: he was late to it. And I've had a couple
Speaker 3: of instances of I've had I've been stood up by
Speaker 3: a couple guys and he was like really late to it.
Speaker 3: And when we finally got going, he's in this like
Speaker 3: big hotel and it got like green behind him and
Speaker 3: I have it on video and he apologized, and he was.
Speaker 3: And then but then he proceeds to tell me stuff
Speaker 3: I can't talk about on air because he's like, Oh,
Speaker 3: I've been training with this player, and this is a
Speaker 3: guy that not only from the strength side, he's also
Speaker 3: worked with a lot of major leaguers like one on one,
Speaker 3: which I always thought was pretty special.
Speaker 2: But he's five tool player. He can hit for power, he.
Speaker 3: Can run diambacks, don't run a whole bunch, makes really
Speaker 3: smart decisions, and was kind of contact approach first guy.
Speaker 3: But he has continuously grown in as he's seen you know,
Speaker 3: seen more pitches. Uh, he's building into.
Speaker 2: That power and that contact is translating into power. So
Speaker 2: I really like him.
Speaker 3: I think he's the kind of top of the order
Speaker 3: lineup type of guy where when Cormyn Carroll comes up,
Speaker 3: these two are gonna, you know, these two are gonna
Speaker 3: do stuff. But I don't know if Alex is gonna
Speaker 3: be a yeah. I don't know if he's gonna be
Speaker 3: like a twenty five Homers type of guy. If this
Speaker 3: is a cheap comp but it could be like Ben
Speaker 3: and Tendy, like think of a guy like Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Was gonna say, it's gonna be more like a benin
Speaker 1: Tende Michael Brandtley kind of guy like you know where
Speaker 1: he's got, not Michael brand batting average.
Speaker 2: Michael Brantley.
Speaker 3: Well, well, he's just so unique because when I think
Speaker 3: of him, I think of like he is just batting average.
Speaker 3: He doesn't run like Alec can really run if they
Speaker 3: if they absolutely Bradley.
Speaker 1: Used to run when he was in Cleveland back in
Speaker 1: the day. Brandley would steal some paces for you, Like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I'm thinking of like right now, you're
Speaker 3: thinking of older Michael Brandley, but like younger Michael Brantley.
Speaker 1: Was a guy who's good for fifteen swipes, would say,
Speaker 1: I kind of profile by Peterson.
Speaker 3: And Thomas has stolen double digits bases in every minor
Speaker 3: league season he's played, and he's moved multiple levels. He
Speaker 3: stole thirteen last year, fifteen in twenty nineteen, and he's
Speaker 3: hit double digit homers in the past two years, with
Speaker 3: eighteen coming last year and another. He had twelve triples
Speaker 3: last year, with twenty nine doubles through two levels of
Speaker 3: the miners. He's just he's one of those guys you profile.
Speaker 3: When you see him, you're like, oh, he's a little
Speaker 3: bit smaller the list HM at five eleven, one seventy five.
Speaker 3: Dude's probably five to eleven, maybe five to ten, but
Speaker 3: he's probably like a buck ninety now and he just
Speaker 3: makes it happen. So I think he could be a
Speaker 3: twenty twenty Guy's what I'm getting at. I don't know
Speaker 3: if the window is too much higher than that, but
Speaker 3: it's on a Diamondbacks team that you know, they get
Speaker 3: some offense going. They don't have a lot of other
Speaker 3: incredible options, but they do have the ability to be stupid.
Speaker 2: And send him down.
Speaker 3: I just think he's a unique, a unique prospect to
Speaker 3: look at that is not as sexy as Rush Lewis
Speaker 3: or you know, obviously Torkal Sin or any of those
Speaker 3: type of guys. I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: he could really sneak in and have a solid season
Speaker 3: if the Diamondbacks let him stay. So sorry, that was
Speaker 3: a big homer Ish conversation on That's okay, that's all right.
Speaker 1: Also, yesterday Labor Torres hitting a home run driving in five.
Speaker 1: I got hobby or Baia is getting the day off today,
Speaker 1: and I've been talking about this yesterday. Uh, And I
Speaker 1: think this is the perfect time. And I'm not a
Speaker 1: hobby bias guy. Everybody knows that. But I know value
Speaker 1: when I smell it, and this is value. Right now,
Speaker 1: he's getting the day off. He's gonna get better eventually,
Speaker 1: because it can't get much worse. It's just the law
Speaker 1: of baseball averages.
Speaker 2: Saying that right now. By the way, I like, there's
Speaker 2: so many guys.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of guys. I mean, Marcus Simeon with Maryfield.
Speaker 1: Remember we talked about with Maryfield for weeks, buying with
Speaker 1: Maryfield at the home run yesterday.
Speaker 3: It's going to get better, only if you could only
Speaker 3: buy one Hobby Bias or Marcus Simeon.
Speaker 1: Simeon because I like his overall profile better. To tell
Speaker 1: you the truth, Hobby bias has always been a too
Speaker 1: much strikeout for me. And it's not like Simeon's being
Speaker 1: good is new. I mean, you go back to twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen with the Oakland A's you saw in the second
Speaker 1: half how he was just thrushing the ball, and I
Speaker 1: mean it's him on this trajectory is not a surprise
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 3: Of what's interesting about you saying Simeon, And here's the problem.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure there's anybody that's been worse. I mean,
Speaker 3: you look at his Baseball Savant page. You throw up
Speaker 3: in your mouth. He's not doing anything. There's no redeeming
Speaker 3: factor to Marcus Simeon right now. But to that point, though,
Speaker 3: this is a guy that' said forty Homer still twenty bases,
Speaker 3: how can you don't even have a logical explanation to
Speaker 3: be like, all right, guys, here's the thing that's gonna
Speaker 3: make him better.
Speaker 2: It's just like here, No, he's so bad.
Speaker 3: How can you be You can't be this bad. You
Speaker 3: can't get this money and be this bad for this long.
Speaker 3: It's got to turn around. But I am actually surprised
Speaker 3: you said Simeon over him. But Simeon does when he's on,
Speaker 3: he is a better player than when Bias is on.
Speaker 1: I agree, and I think Simeon there's also that that
Speaker 1: underlying factor that people still don't believe in him, no
Speaker 1: matter how many good seasons he's had to believe in
Speaker 1: Hovey Bias. Well, he's proving it. But but I mean,
Speaker 1: let's go back a couple of years ago. Oakland, who's fantastic, right,
Speaker 1: goes to Toronto fantastic to me. This is the classic
Speaker 1: guy who's now thrust into the you're the guy role
Speaker 1: with a lot of money in a new place, with
Speaker 1: not a lot of line of protection, And of course
Speaker 1: this is what's gonna happen. He's going to go south
Speaker 1: for a little while. And we've seen it happen to
Speaker 1: better players than him. We've seen it happen to Carlos Beltram,
Speaker 1: We've seen it happen to Bryce Harper. We've seen it
Speaker 1: happen to much better players than Simeon. So why is
Speaker 1: he above it? He's not, So it's just a matter
Speaker 1: of the stock is rock bottom. I think the underlying
Speaker 1: metrics will tell you that people are more scared of
Speaker 1: him than they are of Hovey or Bias. I would
Speaker 1: take both of them if I could right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 3: In the preseason Simeon and Bias weren't on the same
Speaker 3: plane as far as value. I think they might be
Speaker 3: on a similar like trade value plane right now, where
Speaker 3: I don't think you can get one cheaper, but I
Speaker 3: think they're just about the same. Well, what's interesting about
Speaker 3: what you're saying though? Just throwing this out, and I
Speaker 3: see some guys randomly brought up. Yellich in here doing
Speaker 3: a game on the We actually haven't released it yet,
Speaker 3: the end of this league pod where it's going through
Speaker 3: and looking at, you know, some of the Baseball Savant stuff,
Speaker 3: and I had actually picked out Christian Yelich's before we
Speaker 3: were supposed to do the recording before the game yesterday,
Speaker 3: before the cycle, and Yelich is just one of those
Speaker 3: guys where he's got a couple big warning signs and
Speaker 3: then he's got just an incredibly positive Baseball Savant page
Speaker 3: of hard hit stuff and exuloba everything being there, and
Speaker 3: the numbers just weren't there because he's hitting like two
Speaker 3: forty five. It's just simmy doesn't have that. Like what
Speaker 3: we have to rely on with Marcus Simeon is previous
Speaker 3: track record and the idea that it literally can't get worse,
Speaker 3: and with how baseball is now and how baseball analysis
Speaker 3: is now, that is uncomfortable because we're all like, okay, listen,
Speaker 3: this guy is this, but let me tell you he's
Speaker 3: got the fifteenth best whoa ba He's got, you know,
Speaker 3: barreling the ball at this straight out. You know, you
Speaker 3: can go to line a few things that can back
Speaker 3: up your story.
Speaker 2: You don't have that with Simeon.
Speaker 3: You literally just got to be like, guys, he just
Speaker 3: can't be this bad and that that's.
Speaker 2: A hard that's a hard cell.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's it's not a hard sell when a guy's
Speaker 1: had multiple good seasons. For me, it's it's an easy
Speaker 1: cell to it's an easy sell to buy low in
Speaker 1: a trade. That exactly mean because right now the person
Speaker 1: I think goes and says, oh my god, there's no
Speaker 1: redeeming underlying stats on this guy, I better get out.
Speaker 1: But I think it's mental and just the way I
Speaker 1: think Jared Kelnick's meantal. I watched a breakdown of his
Speaker 1: at bats last night. I'm major MLB network, and it
Speaker 1: was stunning to me to watch the lack of confidence
Speaker 1: he's got, and it was stunning to me. I mean,
Speaker 1: this was the guy I remember we were joking last
Speaker 1: season about Remember Jared Kellnick had a whole website with
Speaker 1: his own merch and stuff like that. It was like
Speaker 1: the Jared Kellen. I don't know if you you remember
Speaker 1: this or you saw this. It was a joke. Here
Speaker 1: google it right now because I don't know how that
Speaker 1: merch is moving. But I think we should give away
Speaker 1: some of that merch here on leading off. That's what
Speaker 1: I think I want to I want to give I
Speaker 1: want to buy somebody Jared Kellennick t shirt. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It comes in size of dot zero
Speaker 1: zero one, which is like his batting average, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. But I mean, he came up with all
Speaker 1: this confidence, but to watch him now, the lack of
Speaker 1: confidence is just absolutely stunning, I think, Simon right.
Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, I have to say, like I'm actually a
Speaker 3: pretty big not that it like completely holds, you know,
Speaker 3: because I said this exact same thing about Cody Bellinger
Speaker 3: and then Cody kind of went on a little bit
Speaker 3: of a tear and then it went away again. But
Speaker 3: I do, but I do truly believe in confidence for
Speaker 3: baseball on specific players plays a role. But again it's
Speaker 3: not I think you can get a lot of snarky,
Speaker 3: kind of dismissive attitudes about that in this age of
Speaker 3: baseball analysis, because all anybody cites anymore, the only conversation
Speaker 3: is what is on baseball Savanna.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're not they're humans. They're not just numbers
Speaker 1: and all that stuff is important, but.
Speaker 2: They are projected.
Speaker 3: You and I are having this conversation, but nine out
Speaker 3: of ten shows are not going to have this conversation
Speaker 3: or people in the chat.
Speaker 1: Why nine out of ten shows suck? And this is
Speaker 1: the best show right here. It's leading off and that's
Speaker 1: why you subscribe to Fantasy pros mL Beach.
Speaker 3: I drove one red factor for Simeon. I do have
Speaker 3: one redeeming factor. He does technically have the second lowest
Speaker 3: strikeout percentage of his career. And I will say always
Speaker 3: something I think we talked about this. You'd love to
Speaker 3: see an inverse increase in walk percentage. It's not necessarily
Speaker 3: the case with him, it's it's a little bit under uh.
Speaker 1: I think it's also helping the strike seekers start to
Speaker 1: hit the baseball too, when Corey Seger's starting to hit.
Speaker 1: The problem is both of them were Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: also think that you need a little bit more lineup protection.
Speaker 1: To me, he was a guy that you hit him
Speaker 1: in front of Matt Olsen, good things happen. You hit
Speaker 1: him in front of Vlad Guerrero, good things happen to me,
Speaker 1: Corey Seger, somebody else on that team. Carcia, I don't
Speaker 1: know who's got to get hot and I think that
Speaker 1: helps Sime and see better pitches to drive. And that's it.
Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes baseball is is not that deep. Also
Speaker 1: a couple other notes here, Jordan Hicks scratch from today's start.
Speaker 1: He's gonna start on Friday. Steven Matts is gonna start today.
Speaker 1: For these people in the daily lineup movement things c
Speaker 1: J Abrams at two one runs in triple A contest.
Speaker 1: Joe Adell also ripping up the Triple A. Your thoughts
Speaker 1: on those two prospect guys who have been doing pretty
Speaker 1: well since being sent down.
Speaker 2: Abrams was the first one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Joe Deell is obviously built for Triple
Speaker 3: A DA I say quad Hey, no, no, no, I
Speaker 3: mean I still like him. I mean, this is the
Speaker 3: most classic thing that ever happens. As a guy spends
Speaker 3: time in the majors comes back down to the minors,
Speaker 3: and Abrams just absolutely dominated.
Speaker 2: I'm not worried about Abrams. I'm really not. Rookies in general.
Speaker 3: Every person on the planet has put out the standards
Speaker 3: of like, look at all the rookies. They're all struggling,
Speaker 3: they're all trying to adjust, uh maybe something. And I
Speaker 3: also tell you, guess what ball is a lot different
Speaker 3: In Triple A. It's gonna probably be the there's no
Speaker 3: debt ball there and the balls are starting to get crushed.
Speaker 3: Would sure love to have that, but not worried about c. J.
Speaker 3: Abrams like literally one bit from a fantasy value perspective, Adele,
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, I don't know how much longer
Speaker 3: we can keep going down the circle. Like I believe
Speaker 3: in the talent, and I've said I believe there will
Speaker 3: be a season similar to Jared Kelnick.
Speaker 2: I believe there will be a season.
Speaker 3: Where these guys click, they fixed it, and they tap
Speaker 3: into that potential. I just don't know when that's gonna happen,
Speaker 3: and it does not feel like it's going to be
Speaker 3: this year. So that's why redraft wash my hands. There
Speaker 3: will be a season where those two click in tap
Speaker 3: into that talent.
Speaker 1: Look at look at Mike Maher getting all worried. I
Speaker 1: can't believe we're still in the A block of the conversation. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I'm the greatest host in the history of the universe.
Speaker 1: Don't worry.
Speaker 3: I know what Mayor has literally been is he producing
Speaker 3: the show now? He's been saying he was like, hey,
Speaker 3: you want a seven minute podcast on Alec Thomas.
Speaker 2: Hey, guess what.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we talk about things. Sometimes we talk about things
Speaker 3: when we break them down for more than three seconds.
Speaker 2: Mayor, it's a good thing.
Speaker 1: And Mark, I'm happy to take your trivia question. So
Speaker 1: if you got it, you could drop it in there
Speaker 1: and I'll bring it up to the group. Let's move on,
Speaker 1: because we don't want Mike Mayor to get mad at us.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe let's stretch Thomas. Look at Alec Thomas's dad a
Speaker 1: little bit more.
Speaker 2: Alec Thomas versus Marcus Simeon. Let's talk about that.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'll call Alex Well, let's see what we can
Speaker 3: get him on. All right, now, it's a Thursday.
Speaker 1: Thursday's a light day in terms of slate. There's hardly
Speaker 1: any games at night. What do you want from me? Huh?
Speaker 1: What do you want? Ronald Oconia out Wednesday with a
Speaker 1: sore growing aw Byron Buxton Hip was back in the
Speaker 1: lineup yesterday. Xander Bogart's looks like a lot of people
Speaker 1: are starting to kick the tires here. I still think
Speaker 1: this will be a massive mistake for them to move
Speaker 1: on for Bogarts and favorite Trevor's story story.
Speaker 3: Is this like about that Jim Bowden story where he's
Speaker 3: like the Cardinals got a trade gorman for about?
Speaker 2: Is this what this has to do?
Speaker 1: This is something I said yesterday. So if he said that,
Speaker 1: he probably ripped it off of the show. Like everybody
Speaker 1: else rips off this show all the time. It is
Speaker 1: getting really frustrating. ESPN ripped us off. M'llb network just
Speaker 1: ripped us off for some mayor pointed out yesterday. Now
Speaker 1: Jim Bowden steeling her stip whatever. Whatever. Dude, you know
Speaker 1: we know you're watching. Don't pretend like you're not. By
Speaker 1: the way, I don't know if you've been watching this.
Speaker 1: Massa hero Tanaka in Japan has a one point one
Speaker 1: seven era with a point seven eight whip in forty
Speaker 1: six innings and threw a shutout his last start. How
Speaker 1: about that? Mapples, what do you think of that? Welsh?
Speaker 2: That'd be great, it'd be great if that was here,
Speaker 2: that was actually coming down here. But it's not. It's
Speaker 2: in Japan. Nobody cares.
Speaker 1: All Right, here we go. I saw this story. Mike
Speaker 1: Mayer doesn't believe me that I saw it. I didn't
Speaker 1: put in the show sheet. He put in the show
Speaker 1: sheet because he thought it was interesting. Let's see. You
Speaker 1: tell me if it's interesting or not.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Jenni r Cano made his major league debut yesterday. Didn't
Speaker 1: throw a pitch. He was announced entered the game, lightning
Speaker 1: caused the game to be suspended. He's only the second
Speaker 1: player in Major League Baseball history to make an official
Speaker 1: debut without throwing a pitch. The other is Larry Youwnt,
Speaker 1: brother of Hall of Famer Robin Yount. Is this an
Speaker 1: interesting story to you? I didn't think it was.
Speaker 2: Uh no, not really?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right?
Speaker 2: Did you d wait?
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, did you think it was? And he opposite
Speaker 3: You didn't know?
Speaker 1: I didn't, He said, I threw in the show sheet.
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, I saw it. He's like, liar. You
Speaker 1: actually said liar to me, our slack child about the
Speaker 1: liar I saw it.
Speaker 3: I was like, you know what, it's interesting in the
Speaker 3: moment you told me, But the minute you move the
Speaker 3: question to do you find this interesting? I was like, nope,
Speaker 3: I don't find him interesting anymore. Like after after it
Speaker 3: was done, it was done, like it was cool in
Speaker 3: the second but I'm.
Speaker 1: Over all right. Also, here's a real trivia question, who
Speaker 1: are the other two active players active players with multiple
Speaker 1: career cycles? Anybody know if you know when the Peanuts
Speaker 1: and Cracker Jacks and you subscribe to Fancy Ros MLB,
Speaker 1: you can answer correctly in the chat and you win
Speaker 1: my undying respect.
Speaker 2: You don't have it in here to you because I do.
Speaker 1: I do, But you don't look at the show sheet,
Speaker 1: which is nice. So I know that. Oh don't know,
Speaker 1: why are you ruin a good thing?
Speaker 2: Can I can I give a hand?
Speaker 1: Cycles? Go ahead? Fine?
Speaker 3: They play on the same team, but they did not
Speaker 3: get those cycles on the same team. They actually were
Speaker 3: on opposite team, not even on the current team that
Speaker 3: they're on.
Speaker 2: So that's like a.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I don't know why I'm doing this, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bring this up. Mayors is number one. Joe's a liar.
Speaker 1: I will screenshot this and I will tweet him calling
Speaker 1: me a lie. He's probably deleting it right now and slash.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, Hey Mike Mayer bought delete evidence.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: If Mike Mayor thinks if no, forget my if Go
Speaker 1: Cards thinks it's relevant, then I'm happy we mentioned it today.
Speaker 1: Trey Turner is one of them. Trent Fleming, good job,
Speaker 1: you have.
Speaker 2: Myhalf of my Now the hint, the hint, I.
Speaker 1: Guess now you know, now you know, Well, we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens this day in baseball history. In nineteen fifty,
Speaker 1: Welsh Red Sox star Ted Williams has to apologize to
Speaker 1: the hometown fans for insulting gestures he made in response
Speaker 1: to cat calls prompted by two errors. He made it
Speaker 1: a doubleheader in losses to Detroit. What do you think
Speaker 1: the uh gestures were? They used?
Speaker 2: Cat calls? That that was the description.
Speaker 3: Cat calls are not what I would describe being hazed from.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, Teddy Williams, w yeah, cat goes like, hey,
Speaker 3: look at that ship, Teddy.
Speaker 2: Boggy it did those pants looking mighty tight? Like that's
Speaker 2: what that's what sounds like?
Speaker 1: You are you have the splendid splinter.
Speaker 3: Indeed, yeah, maybe the gesture maybe he's doing like vulcan signs, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: what was the gesture I did?
Speaker 2: I don't know what was the gesture?
Speaker 1: And look at redbe Joey is a salesman, a storyteller,
Speaker 1: a man's man. Mike Mayer takeoes, that's right, where's your
Speaker 1: twenty dollars? I don't know it's in the mail. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go on to some other things here. The stat
Speaker 1: heroes will fly through these. Shane McClanahan eleven strikeouts. That
Speaker 1: was the guy last night for us on DFS. Hope
Speaker 1: you played it. Zach Loeg don't know where this game
Speaker 1: from seven innings on nowhere to run six innings six
Speaker 1: k's excuse me. Sandy al Contra had seven innings, one
Speaker 1: earned six k's. Miles Miko Las another strong outing for him,
Speaker 1: only three k's but still seven innings, one earned in
Speaker 1: Schoho Tani five k's one earned run in that matchup
Speaker 1: against my Cladahan. The hitters, of course, Yellows four for
Speaker 1: five with the cycle, Luke Voight with the two dingers.
Speaker 1: Wit Maryfield three for four with a home run and
Speaker 1: a stone base, four runs scored, and he was the
Speaker 1: value play of the day on the show at DFS.
Speaker 1: How you doing Wit Maryfield? On FanDuel yesterday was great.
Speaker 1: Hunter Renfro two for five, two home runs, Yay Hunter Renfro,
Speaker 1: Calm Moran hit a dinger, Arcia hit a home run,
Speaker 1: Josh Van Mita hit a home run. Also we had
Speaker 1: Stevenson getting four RBIs for the Reds, and Glaver Torres
Speaker 1: and Brendan Donovan had a few days also stat Zero's.
Speaker 1: It was not a good start for Tyler. He was
Speaker 1: tie reliable type terrible. I don't know, it's a bad
Speaker 1: pun eight earned runs. So what happened here, Well, it's
Speaker 1: a time. What happened to our boy blown up?
Speaker 2: Man? He got really really blown up.
Speaker 3: I mean I haven't like, go eat it Son, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I haven't gone and like dug into what
Speaker 3: happened in that start. I mean, his successes come from
Speaker 3: a big vlo uptick across the board. And I mean
Speaker 3: I kind of think this is one of those things
Speaker 3: with these mid aligned there's there's a few handful of
Speaker 3: these guys, these middle lined pitchers that went from like
Speaker 3: they're all right to like, holy crap, what are these performances?
Speaker 3: I feel like this is kind of the comeback down
Speaker 3: to Earth. Teams are starting to adjust. You know, if
Speaker 3: these guys they uptick their velocity and their stuff comes
Speaker 3: a little bit harder, it's gonna take a little bit
Speaker 3: more for teams to find their adjustment. I think teams might.
Speaker 3: It's also could just be a blip. But I think
Speaker 3: this is the adjustment of like everyone's like tylrd ty
Speaker 3: Lord McGill.
Speaker 2: As he rises the ranks every single week. This is
Speaker 2: the thing that brings him back down to earth a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is the great time to buy because
Speaker 1: someone is freaking out right now. It is not Mookie Bets,
Speaker 1: by the way, Trey Turner's teammate, but you're close.
Speaker 2: Someone already posted it.
Speaker 1: Actually, oh they did. Oh where's.
Speaker 2: Right under the turner?
Speaker 1: A right under the turner. There you go, there you go,
Speaker 1: all right, Trent, well Doe, Trent nailed it, did both
Speaker 1: of them? Well done. Let's go to Mark's trivia question here,
Speaker 1: because this is fun from our Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks.
Speaker 1: Judge had a walk off home run the other day.
Speaker 1: He's he had one hundred and sixty seven career home
Speaker 1: runs without a walk off and that was the fifth
Speaker 1: amongst active players, who are the other top four. So
Speaker 1: guys who don't have walkoff homers. That's an interesting stat there.
Speaker 3: And then that means they've got to have probably closer
Speaker 3: to the two hundred plus homer marker If he says
Speaker 3: he had one hundred and sixty seven without a walk off.
Speaker 3: I'm assuming this has gotta be guys with more homers
Speaker 3: without a walkoff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would assume. I assume that's what it is.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't even be able to I.
Speaker 1: Got none, you know. I mean, look, I mean we
Speaker 1: could sit here and try to do them. I wonder
Speaker 1: if it's somebody like a Freddie Freeman or somebody like that.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm thinking, like some of the guys
Speaker 1: who have had longer careers, it can't be guys like
Speaker 1: Pools and Cabrara and guys.
Speaker 2: You know, it's funny.
Speaker 3: I went to poolholes too, That's my brain went to
Speaker 3: poolholes here, and I'm like, nah, pool Holes is definitely walking.
Speaker 1: I have had a walk off home run. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no way he didn't have a walk off. So
Speaker 1: that's interesting. I want to know those names, Mark, so
Speaker 1: drop him in there. Here are the other crappy pitchers yesterday,
Speaker 1: Spencer with an s's in the middle, Spencer walk in
Speaker 1: seven earned runs, eight hits. Cool Chad, of course, Bogman's
Speaker 1: favorite guy, five runs from him, Nick Martinez five earned,
Speaker 1: Jose Burrios five earned lost to the Yankees for Burrios
Speaker 1: and Milans and stunk for earned runs. Barrios has not
Speaker 1: been good. This is a problem for the Blue Jays.
Speaker 1: They need a third starter to be good. So are
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays going to be in the market for
Speaker 1: a Montas or a Luis Castillo sooner than later here?
Speaker 1: Because I think they should.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely, And they've got They've still got some
Speaker 3: of the assets. They've also had a couple guys that
Speaker 3: have kind of popped up in the minors. Ricky Titaman
Speaker 3: is one of those nineteen year old pitcher who's got
Speaker 3: one of the best K rates in Minor league Baseball
Speaker 3: right now. Pretty decent K minus walk percentage. He walks
Speaker 3: a little bit, but huge, it's like over four It's like,
Speaker 3: I think it's forty two K percentage. He has, his
Speaker 3: stuff has been working. He's a lower level pitcher. That's
Speaker 3: the exact type of guy you go in trade to
Speaker 3: go get a Montass. So yeah, I think they are
Speaker 3: one hundred percent going to be in the market because
Speaker 3: they've got some assets to move and this team is
Speaker 3: built to win. And good point, we got Rio coming back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, but he's fine. Not Reu is not
Speaker 1: the answer either they need somebody else in a short
Speaker 1: series where he is not the answer. Welcome back. Evan
Speaker 1: Longoria over five three k's wander Franco, Brian Hayes, Will Myers, Key,
Speaker 1: Hernandez all over five oh for four with three k's Yesterday,
Speaker 1: Brian Reynolds, C. J. Crohn, Ryan McMahon, Kyle Schwarber again
Speaker 1: that I was a Jonathan VR and Bryce and Scott
Speaker 1: your boy, so my goodness.
Speaker 2: Kind of well, I mean, all right, Mark, that's former.
Speaker 1: Mark gave us the answer. JD Martinez two sixty nine,
Speaker 1: Johannio Surez one ninety nine, Yadlina one seventy two, and
Speaker 1: Brandon belt For one seventy one. Look at the contributions.
Speaker 2: That's a it's a fantastic one.
Speaker 3: What a unique list. The problem is is it's almost
Speaker 3: feels almost impossible to make those guesses. JD is great,
Speaker 3: like you know, would have been a better trivia question
Speaker 3: and not trying to put it out well, I guess
Speaker 3: Kohanna would have been in there as well, but it
Speaker 3: would have been like the guy with the most homers
Speaker 3: active homers without it after he did that, after Judge
Speaker 3: did that. Because I would have never guessed you, Hanno.
Speaker 3: I'd have never guess Yati or Malina, but that is
Speaker 3: a fantastic question.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the home run board for today.
Speaker 1: The Night King in the North still at the top,
Speaker 1: uh and Florence Socks is up to eleven after getting
Speaker 1: Christian Yellow trite. Max Junior is up to ten with
Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo. So I called Pete Alonzo. He doesn't ate
Speaker 1: ar run, he calls him. He does, So there you go.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: So, obviously Pete Alonso hates me. Now, I guess that's
Speaker 1: just the way things go. And also I want to
Speaker 1: remind you, if you're listening and you're out there, we're
Speaker 1: trying to give away this Vladimir Guerrero Junior baseball to you,
Speaker 1: Theon from Ontario, Theon. Please, if anybody knows Theon, if
Speaker 1: anybody can find Reek, if anybody can find any of
Speaker 1: the Great Joy Family, reach out to Theon.
Speaker 2: Are the Great Joys.
Speaker 1: We're trying to unite Theon with this ball that I
Speaker 1: want to give him. I feel like he needs. I
Speaker 1: feel like Theon needs this ball is Vlader, Vladimir Guerrero Junior.
Speaker 1: I can't even get through it is lad Garrero Junior
Speaker 1: autograph baseball. We want to give it to you, but look,
Speaker 1: if you don't claim it in the next I'm twenty
Speaker 1: four hours but trying all week. We're gonna give it
Speaker 1: to somebody else. I don't I know who. We're not
Speaker 1: giving it to Mike Mayer because Mike Mayor would turn
Speaker 1: around and give it to some kid, right, he would dangle.
Speaker 3: He would go to a game and be like, hey,
Speaker 3: look at kid, I got this baseball.
Speaker 2: You can't have it.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should give it to you know what, Mark
Speaker 1: brings up a good point, you should take it. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe Mark should be the guy to get that baseball.
Speaker 1: Mark bringing content to the show and not just in
Speaker 1: the A segment.
Speaker 2: May you know, I actually got an idea. You know
Speaker 2: what we could do.
Speaker 3: We could have a show where that day every excuse me,
Speaker 3: lose my voice there, every person that gets a homer
Speaker 3: on the home run call is put into a random pool,
Speaker 3: and one person gets a homer on that day is
Speaker 3: the one that wins.
Speaker 1: I like that. That sounds like a good one. All right,
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Speaker 1: dollars for two hundred. That's a pretty good deal. Last
Speaker 1: time I checked. All right, I don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of things out there. I was all in this Bryce
Speaker 1: Harper trifecta, and then I dug a little deeper against
Speaker 1: his numbers. This year against left headed pitching, it hasn't
Speaker 1: been great, but there is a lot of plus money
Speaker 1: if you want to do a huge parlay of the
Speaker 1: total bases, the over on runs and the over on
Speaker 1: I think it was it was runs, total bases, and
Speaker 1: I think RBI. If you put them all together and
Speaker 1: you bet like ten bucks, you're gonna win a couple
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. It's gonna beautiful. But it's a tough one.
Speaker 1: But I think if you hit it, if he goes
Speaker 1: yard today, boom, you get it. It's over. Mookie Bets
Speaker 1: I do like plus one thirty five on DK. The
Speaker 1: total paces at one and a half at wit Meryfield
Speaker 1: at point five, just point five with hot wit Maryfield
Speaker 1: on DK for runs at plus one fifty against Texas.
Speaker 1: Texas is terrible. Do you have anything you like today? Here?
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you I don't like a lot about today.
Speaker 2: It's not a great day for it.
Speaker 3: A couple that I looked at, I kind of like
Speaker 3: the Pee Alonzo plus total bases.
Speaker 2: It's at one and a half.
Speaker 3: You get plus money plus one oh five, and I
Speaker 3: believe that is on a bet MGM. You could do
Speaker 3: that one a strikeout one. I've had some good luck
Speaker 3: recently doing the strikeout ones. Yesterday I actually parlayed McClanahan
Speaker 3: and Gilbert and that worked out quite swimmingly nice and
Speaker 3: that paid off.
Speaker 2: One.
Speaker 3: I kind of like, and this is a wacko one.
Speaker 3: It's Taeywan Walker and his strikeout numbers are at three
Speaker 3: and a half. Now here's a unique thing. He has
Speaker 3: three star this year. He's only hit that once this
Speaker 3: year and those three starts. But here's a weird stat.
Speaker 3: Tay one Walker has only pitched this season versus Philly.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: All of his starts have come against the Phillies this year.
Speaker 3: He doesn't want to start against anybody else. Guy had
Speaker 3: been pumping it up. I think this is a relatively
Speaker 3: good opportunity for him. It's only at three and a half,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna jump on. I'm gonna jump on Tay
Speaker 3: one Walker strikeout numbers. I like those low totals when
Speaker 3: you can, and the dude's literally only pitched against one
Speaker 3: team in all three starts. So I'll go Tay one Walker.
Speaker 3: I'll go Pete Alonzo might also, you know, I personally
Speaker 3: kind of like uh Luis Robert Byron Buxton. Maybe I
Speaker 3: do a little hit parade, put those guys together. I
Speaker 3: think there's a couple hit ones you could do. But
Speaker 3: it's a it's kind of a rough slate today.
Speaker 1: All right, give you your home run call for the night.
Speaker 1: Welsh was going yard.
Speaker 2: You know, I am at five right now. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to get up there.
Speaker 3: I look across the board and I just kind of
Speaker 3: want to go nuts, and I'm gonna go nuts. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go Bobby Waite Junior. Bobby's been stressing the ball
Speaker 3: a little bit, little confidence on the team as his
Speaker 3: other hit hit a Homer. I think we will have
Speaker 3: back to back quits, but this time it'll be Robert Jr.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna go Jordan Alvarez this afternoon. Mike
Speaker 1: Mayer is going with Marcus Simeon. He says today is
Speaker 1: the day. So there you go, the slump breaker. Mike
Speaker 1: Mayer is going to do it. In the meantime, I
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Speaker 1: channel over on Discord. And that's about it.
Speaker 2: And all the other stuff.
Speaker 3: I didn't get do it last week, but I'm gonna
Speaker 3: do AMA later today, So if you're in there, you
Speaker 3: notified when yeah jump in and.
Speaker 1: What time is the AMA for everybody?
Speaker 3: You know what, I don't have the exact time. I
Speaker 3: think it's gonna probably be three or four Eastern, but
Speaker 3: here would be a big thing. Sign up, get in
Speaker 3: there and you have notify when I'm in there, and
Speaker 3: you could come hang out and you can talk to me.
Speaker 3: It's not just like a chat. It's a like you
Speaker 3: can talk, we can talk together. Can you imagine to
Speaker 3: the Welsh they get to talk to me.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine.
Speaker 2: What's that like. I know it's pretty cool. It's pretty
Speaker 2: cool for it. I mean it's cool for you every
Speaker 2: you know, three times a week.
Speaker 1: That's very cool. I can't wait till tomorrow when we'll
Speaker 1: do it all again. I'll do it for us for today.
Speaker 1: The story of the game goes on for the Welsh.
Speaker 1: I'm Joey P. We'll see you next time.
Speaker 3: Kids send me out with Ted Williams did