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Speaker 1: of that of course, is the Welsh and it's you,
Speaker 1: the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks in the chat for another
Speaker 1: day of glorious baseball talk. We've got some minor league
Speaker 1: notes to get through. We got some guy getting sent
Speaker 1: down that was kind of a surprising move just about
Speaker 1: a half hour ago. We've got more injury news, of course,
Speaker 1: but I think we have to start here. Welsh, what
Speaker 1: the fot? What the fot is going on with Brandon Fought?
Speaker 2: I got another I got a different word I was
Speaker 2: gonna use, but I guess, well, yeah, maybe focus on
Speaker 2: the p and not the f of what I was thinking.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you gotta Okay, you got a choice. You
Speaker 2: can have like reasonable like I'll like break down what
Speaker 2: you know was behind some of the start, or you
Speaker 2: can just have me let loose. So what would you like?
Speaker 2: Where do you want? I doesn't I'm not setting you
Speaker 2: up to, like have.
Speaker 1: Let loose about your frustrations fire Like how I.
Speaker 2: Can overreact, I can be I can overreact about the situation,
Speaker 2: or I can reasonably talk to you about what was behind.
Speaker 2: Essentially non haesus sanche or non orges.
Speaker 1: So layer at bats, I will say this. I like
Speaker 1: logic and reasons, so give me that part of it. Okay, Like,
Speaker 1: because I'm because it's a baseball is a six months
Speaker 1: log marathon, so I am not the hot take sorcerer
Speaker 1: when it comes to that stuff. So let's be reasonable
Speaker 1: at the top of the show for a change. Okay.
Speaker 2: So outside of him looking like the worst pitcher in
Speaker 2: baseball consistently, Brandon fought a couple of things. Started the
Speaker 2: game off way too heavy fastball, like seventy percent through
Speaker 2: the first two innings. My theory is that there's a
Speaker 2: major issue with him going deeper into games, and he
Speaker 2: was setting up the fastball to go heavy secondaries later,
Speaker 2: which is exactly what happened. The fastball did hit highs.
Speaker 2: That was part of the problem. When it's like only
Speaker 2: a ninety three mill and a half fastball, he hit
Speaker 2: ninety five and a half on a high and a fastball,
Speaker 2: which was really great. That's a good thing to end
Speaker 2: up seeing. He had four whiffs across his three major
Speaker 2: used pitches, each twenty percent withifth percentage, not the best
Speaker 2: in the world, but the fastball induced withs this time,
Speaker 2: the sweeper had a thirty one percent with rate, and
Speaker 2: the change up, which he used fifteen percent of the time,
Speaker 2: had a sixty seven percent wiff rate. These are all
Speaker 2: really good, and he started using them in the second half,
Speaker 2: and if you just take away Hoorg Solaire, it actually
Speaker 2: wasn't a horrific start outside of some of the balls
Speaker 2: getting hit deep. So the guy's pitching to. He hasn't
Speaker 2: found his command because he's pitching to too much contact
Speaker 2: right now. So there actually is hope. Because he made
Speaker 2: two massive mistakes with Jorge Soilaire. Outside of that, he
Speaker 2: actually he managed pretty well. He hit the zone and
Speaker 2: the back half of the start pretty well. Sweeper, changeup
Speaker 2: was good, and he started utilizing the curveball. It's not
Speaker 2: as bad as it looked on paper because after he
Speaker 2: hit the give up that first homer, he sat down
Speaker 2: like the next six or seven, and I think he
Speaker 2: struck out three of those seven, So there is hope,
Speaker 2: but it's a little fouded right now.
Speaker 1: It's a little fun. Well, that was good. I enjoyed
Speaker 1: that very much. If you watch the show yesterday, we
Speaker 1: warned you, with all the Peterson stuff going on getting
Speaker 1: called up from TRIPA, that Max Scherzer was dicey for
Speaker 1: the start. Guess what, Mex Scherzer didn't make his start.
Speaker 1: He expects to me back later in the week against
Speaker 1: the Nationals. Great, okay, whatever, he's gonna miss a couple
Speaker 1: of days now it's a neck issue. Yesterday with a
Speaker 1: scapula was bothering. I don't know, man, This met's pitching
Speaker 1: stap started look like a whole lot of millions of
Speaker 1: dollars for a whole lot of nothing so far. So
Speaker 1: we'll see if Orlander can buck that trend today. Yesterday
Speaker 1: we talked about Casey Schmidt making his debut. If you're
Speaker 1: getting called up by the Giants, we say, he's not
Speaker 1: a big power. So what did he do? Well, he
Speaker 1: went out there and hit a home run in his
Speaker 1: first game, So that was a you gotta love when
Speaker 1: that happens. So now everyone go, oh, this guy's gonna
Speaker 1: be a slugger. No, he's not well, the more great
Speaker 1: moment there with his parents there and his family at
Speaker 1: the game yesterday.
Speaker 2: He also was playing shortstop. I mean that was a
Speaker 2: big thing, like this is a versatile guy who can
Speaker 2: play first but can play in the spot, and he
Speaker 2: started right out at shortstop. He was a good contact guy.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean he had twenty one homers is
Speaker 2: you know the previous year, but like all in hi A,
Speaker 2: seventeen of his twenty one were in Higa from twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two. So it's just not a doesn't look like
Speaker 2: a big, massive power guy. But guess what contact guys,
Speaker 2: they just walk into power sometimes. It looked it looked
Speaker 2: pretty good. And you know, if he's gonna be able
Speaker 2: to play the middle infield, he's got a legit shot
Speaker 2: to stick around for quite some time.
Speaker 1: You know, we're starting to hit the ball. Francisco Alvarez
Speaker 1: two solo home runs yesterday, two for four against the Reds,
Speaker 1: three oh eight three point fifty seven five ninety slash
Speaker 1: in his last fifteen games. So don't look now, but
Speaker 1: is Francisco Alvarez starting to get it at the major
Speaker 1: league level, Because it's looking like he's starting to get it.
Speaker 2: I did see him. I was, I gotta be honest
Speaker 2: with you. I was getting to the point of kind
Speaker 2: of writing off because you know, I worry about like
Speaker 2: his home defensively and what's gonna be able to happen.
Speaker 1: Sure, and it was so much. It was so bad
Speaker 1: to start the season, and the negativity around it just
Speaker 1: kind of I don't think any of us have realized
Speaker 1: the last two weeks at Alfarez has been pretty solid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I still think like we got to temper some
Speaker 2: of it. He's got an expected WOLBA of like two
Speaker 2: sixty eight. He's expected batting average is twenty points lower.
Speaker 2: He's still striking unexpected I say unexpected, No.
Speaker 1: I said unexpected wolba. Oh, just at the expected wolba.
Speaker 1: I want, you know, just once in a while, it'll
Speaker 1: be nice if we showed up here and you brought
Speaker 1: some unexpected wholb before me, you know, like flowers or candy,
Speaker 1: like this is a mooba. I didn't.
Speaker 2: I didn't so unconditional whoe but too, Like, how how
Speaker 2: does it take to get marditional wOBA?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm I'm still looking for it. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I've never had unconditioned by the way.
Speaker 2: This is a great one. Dan g has our our
Speaker 2: jar idea. We'll just call it fun hot in a jar,
Speaker 2: and we'll spell it pfa art and we'll call it
Speaker 2: fart in a jar.
Speaker 1: There you go, well done. Continuing on joey Otani's first
Speaker 1: loss of the season, three runs and seven innings. He
Speaker 1: still got a two seven and four e RA. More
Speaker 1: on the other side of that start in a second,
Speaker 1: but he's still pretty darn good. He's got sixty six
Speaker 1: strikeouts and forty six innings over eight starts, so he
Speaker 1: was bound to get a loss sooner or later. Tough assignment.
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber was tough yesterday. He was tough to hit.
Speaker 1: He's got a two six one ERA now one point
Speaker 1: one zero whip thirty nine k's thirteen walks. Again, the
Speaker 1: K rate is lower, but this was a big one
Speaker 1: for him in terms of k's. I'm a Bieber guy,
Speaker 1: I know you and a lot of other people were
Speaker 1: not so much the Baber guys. Oh yeah, so far
Speaker 1: as return right now.
Speaker 2: All the people in the woodworks about this, I mean,
Speaker 2: you guys are all the beers unbelievable. Yeah, Razor Ramon
Speaker 2: chats doing the whole thing. Like I've worn two things.
Speaker 2: This is two things. I said, I'm out on Bieber
Speaker 2: because everything on the outside, of the inside, how you
Speaker 2: want to look at it, is coming down. But I
Speaker 2: also say, the one thing he consistently does is he
Speaker 2: defies the odds. And I give that. I give him
Speaker 2: credit to that he defies the odds. Of he is
Speaker 2: an eighteen percent k rate right now. That's not good,
Speaker 2: highest walk rate of his career, not good. Almost two
Speaker 2: runs higher expected batting average, not good. But guess what,
Speaker 2: he defies the odds. I give him that credit that
Speaker 2: It's like, you got to make those decisions. I would
Speaker 2: like to capitalize, and yes, I see this as a
Speaker 2: capitalizing situation where if I had not gotten rid of,
Speaker 2: I would try to right now. But he defies the odds.
Speaker 2: This is what he is, and he can still have games.
Speaker 2: And when you talk about selling players, it does not
Speaker 2: mean that they are garbage. They're garbage, They're not garbage.
Speaker 2: He's still a good player. But there's some stuff that
Speaker 2: doesn't make you feel good, like you know, giving up
Speaker 2: one sixteen maxivs and stuff. But he was pretty awesome yesterday.
Speaker 2: That's an egg on the face type of moment for.
Speaker 1: Oh, look, you know Biber. I think Bimber's a good picture.
Speaker 1: I don't think Bieber is as dominant as he was
Speaker 1: a few years ago, and I think that is something
Speaker 1: that everybody has come out and said, like, don't expec that,
Speaker 1: and I think that's good. And every now and then
Speaker 1: when he has a start like this, it's a reminder
Speaker 1: he has that upside and he's still a one A
Speaker 1: starting pitcher. I still don't put him in that class,
Speaker 1: like he's not in the Gallon class or a strider class.
Speaker 1: He's on that class, but he's a step down from there.
Speaker 1: And if you went early hitting, there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber and another guy like a Gossman type being
Speaker 1: at the top of your rotation. By the way, I
Speaker 1: have the the the was in Halloween costume for you
Speaker 1: that you should be in the fall. You should be
Speaker 1: Boba fat a wOBA fot oloba fot wOBA fot wOBA
Speaker 1: fot Yes, you are good, Joe. You wear a Brandon
Speaker 1: fat hat with a Boba fet mask and you go
Speaker 1: around giving it and when the children come to your house,
Speaker 1: instead of giving out candy, you give out you know,
Speaker 1: expected wOBA or other things, or other statistics like little
Speaker 1: bits of papers. Yeah, like somebody had an article the
Speaker 1: CoV RC plus of one to eighty seven. You just
Speaker 1: drop it in there, little.
Speaker 2: Abooba con like that's like your nerd voice. Excuse me.
Speaker 1: To make sure that the I said Wilva was high
Speaker 1: enough before I decided to put the videt.
Speaker 2: Just talk about unbeased, talking about the unbeased percentage.
Speaker 1: Like I can bene to twenty five, about weighted on
Speaker 1: base percentage. Uh, Boba Shett two for five of the Homer.
Speaker 1: Good day for him. Uh. We also had some interesting news,
Speaker 1: which is you know, I'll take the l on this one.
Speaker 1: I was very concerned Mason Miller's elbow yesterday. The MRI
Speaker 1: came back clean structurally so that is a huge hurdle.
Speaker 1: Structurally clean is huge. However, still pain there, obviously because
Speaker 1: the guy is hurt and he's complaining about it. So
Speaker 1: structurally clean, that's good. That gives us a good feeling.
Speaker 1: He's still gonna miss some time. They're not gonna push him.
Speaker 1: The a's are dreadful. I still say he could miss
Speaker 1: a month, Like I'm still saying. This is one of
Speaker 1: the things that we can shut him down for a month.
Speaker 1: So I'm still holding on to possibly being right on this,
Speaker 1: but at least it looks like it's not a season
Speaker 1: ending kind of thing, at least not yet.
Speaker 2: So the right would be like an NFBC league where
Speaker 2: you can't d L a guy or I L a
Speaker 2: guy and you have to just carry him on your
Speaker 2: major roster, Like that would be a little bit more
Speaker 2: of the problem. If he's out for a month, you
Speaker 2: can just I L him. He'll get back, and he'll
Speaker 2: get back to striking out batters and he'll be exponentially
Speaker 2: better than Brandon Fought.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. This show is such a cult already,
Speaker 1: Like could you imagine somebody just jumping into this chat
Speaker 1: and be people talking about slutters and and Fought this
Speaker 1: and all these like it's just hilarious. I look at
Speaker 1: the chat, it's like one giant inside joke.
Speaker 2: I found the show, and a good, really good one.
Speaker 2: I'm I can't find who did it, But oh no,
Speaker 2: mister Buster, how about whoa Bashett? It can be a
Speaker 2: new k it could be a mascot, but I'm putting
Speaker 2: woaba shed whoat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's also a good one. Not good for Jose Miranda.
Speaker 1: He got sent down, So Kyle Farmer is going to
Speaker 1: come up and play. I think my hope is this
Speaker 1: is that Miranda had a bad six weeks. He goes
Speaker 1: down to Triple A, he gets his head right, comes back.
Speaker 1: This is the perfect time. I'm sure people want to
Speaker 1: drop him. I'd be get him up. People were ready
Speaker 1: to just jettison him. I would say, here, give me
Speaker 1: because the guy was pretty solid last year. So for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, you know, slump's happened. Bad situations happened to me.
Speaker 1: This is an opportunity to buy for pennies on the
Speaker 1: dollar on a player because I still like the player.
Speaker 1: I'm not giving up completely.
Speaker 2: I'm a little bit indifferent about it. I mean this
Speaker 2: is more of an l for me because Jose Miranda
Speaker 2: was my guy. It's a pretty gross looking savant page.
Speaker 2: In general, he definitely was a better hitter. I mean,
Speaker 2: expect a batting average tells a different story. If we
Speaker 2: want to go back to that is almost a two fifty.
Speaker 2: There hard hit numbers were in line. He just wasn't
Speaker 2: barely in the ball as much. Here's my only problem
Speaker 2: with this, and I would throw this out to.
Speaker 1: You, guys.
Speaker 2: Royce Lewis has started to rehab assignment and they send
Speaker 2: him down, they send Miranda down. Royce Lewis is a
Speaker 2: guy that you know. He was in the majors. He's
Speaker 2: versatile in a lot of different spots. He's missed so
Speaker 2: much time though, that this might be extended, just saying that.
Speaker 2: The possibility is that Miranda might not be able to
Speaker 2: come back too soon and it might be more of
Speaker 2: an extended state unless he just dumb and.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, man. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna go there and jump back in. I I do.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll be wrong. We shall see how it plays out.
Speaker 1: But again, you look at this chat between the snooky
Speaker 1: references and would you imagine like something going? What is
Speaker 1: this program? You know what? Come join us, join the cult.
Speaker 1: Things are amazing. We make you smile. We talked.
Speaker 2: Look at the chat for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's looking out.
Speaker 2: I'm looking away.
Speaker 1: I love what we've created here. I just gotta say,
Speaker 1: I love you guys. It's awesome. It's a beautiful half
Speaker 1: hour every day. Christopher Morell Homeward single, It's sole a
Speaker 1: basso a lot of things going on. But but here's
Speaker 1: a problem, Eco Horner. His injury might not be as
Speaker 1: bad as we had thought it would, so it could
Speaker 1: be something where Nico might be back in days and
Speaker 1: not weeks. So if that's the case, how aggressive are
Speaker 1: we on Sunday on Morel here in order to add him?
Speaker 2: I think be decently and Morell still complain in the outfield.
Speaker 2: I think that's more of where his home is gonna
Speaker 2: end up being.
Speaker 1: Do you think he would still get enough at bats
Speaker 1: to warrant adding him this week?
Speaker 2: I would speculate, because he's one of those guys who
Speaker 2: was really difficult to keep down. I was actually just
Speaker 2: going through this just updated over on my Patriot I
Speaker 2: people want to check it out in this league dot com,
Speaker 2: the top five hundred list in the Dynasty list, and
Speaker 2: I was going through some minor league numbers, and he
Speaker 2: was the only minor leaguer of all of them to
Speaker 2: have nine homers. Of all those guys to have nine
Speaker 2: homers with thirty run and thirty yrs, well, actually he
Speaker 2: was one of two to have nine homers, thirty runs,
Speaker 2: thirty rbi in all of MiLB. The only other guy
Speaker 2: someone I've talked about briefly, but Dominic canzone people should
Speaker 2: pay attention to him with the Diamondbacks nine homers, thirty
Speaker 2: plus runs, thirty plus RBI, hitting two to eighty morel
Speaker 2: hitting over three hundred. So it's like you can't keep
Speaker 2: him down there much longer. It doesn't serve anybody. He'd
Speaker 2: be better set on the team now. He could be
Speaker 2: a super util type of guy. But I think they're
Speaker 2: going to find spots for him. But they are a
Speaker 2: little crowded, a little crowded. You got the man seening
Speaker 2: using the nervouses and you can't get Suzuki and Belling Gerff,
Speaker 2: so they're getting a little bit crowded they are.
Speaker 1: And I know everyone's in the chat talking about morel
Speaker 1: to difference of opinions here, and look, it does seem
Speaker 1: crowded right now, there's no doubt about that. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you speculate on talent. I'm
Speaker 1: good with that, just don't almost pay for it right now,
Speaker 1: Like I wouldn't be throwing a huge fab bit out there,
Speaker 1: like you throw, you know, a couple of bucks out
Speaker 1: there and see if you can get him. I think
Speaker 1: that's probably a better situation. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: the injuries. That's never a good situation. Kyle Schwarber day
Speaker 1: to day with left foot confusion. Noah Cinderguard removed Tuesday
Speaker 1: with a cut on his index finger. He tried to
Speaker 1: pitch through it, but that doesn't matter. Sinderguard's trash anyway.
Speaker 1: Ricky tinam In, Your boy is week to week with
Speaker 1: left bicep inflammation. Great for the team.
Speaker 2: It's better than like he when he walked off, He's
Speaker 2: like immediately pointing to his form and stuff. It could
Speaker 2: have been a lot worse. But this is his second
Speaker 2: injury already, so don't love that.
Speaker 1: Don't love that. Nicko Lodolo dealing with calf soreness, so
Speaker 1: his start's gonna be pushed back to Saturday. Bruce Bochi
Speaker 1: told reporters that Jacob de Gram could return in another
Speaker 1: two to three weeks. Great, awesome. I'm sure everything's gonna
Speaker 1: go great with that. I'm sure there's gonna be no
Speaker 1: problems the rest of the year with Jacob deGrom. The
Speaker 1: power of positivity Welsh Lance mccullors, who want to talk
Speaker 1: about positivity through twenty five Bitch Bullpen session. They need
Speaker 1: him desperately looking at some time, Lol, sometime next month.
Speaker 1: You're hoping in the meantime, France is there. I did
Speaker 1: a breakdown on France in the Waiver Wire video that
Speaker 1: I just recorded that should come out tomorrow, So make
Speaker 1: sure you subscribe to the channel and click the bell
Speaker 1: so you know when that drops. But you know, mccullors,
Speaker 1: if he's out there, ad him. I mean, at this
Speaker 1: point there's there's two spots open that rotation Welsh and
Speaker 1: I just look at it. This is just math and
Speaker 1: mccullors is a is always frustrating. But I think you
Speaker 1: gotta add him anyway, don't you think? And you gotta
Speaker 1: add him.
Speaker 2: But like it's not going to be up for like
Speaker 2: three weeks, let's say, but what does that look like?
Speaker 2: I just don't know what that looks like?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Sure is anything? If you have the room and you what.
Speaker 1: Does it looks like? It looks like five innings, four
Speaker 1: earned runs and six strikeouts.
Speaker 2: And then you want to make fun of Jacobs ground
Speaker 2: getting hurt.
Speaker 1: And then mc coolers is, yes, but one of them
Speaker 1: was a top five pitcher in ADP.
Speaker 2: No, it was fair, totally fair.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not making I'm like, yes, you're not
Speaker 1: You're not wrong. But this is about adding a player
Speaker 1: off the waiver wire. This is not about drafting a
Speaker 1: player with the second route pick.
Speaker 2: But also, like, the stuff just isn't there. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's hitting like ninety one. It's fine, give it all,
Speaker 2: take him up when he's healthy. I'm way more interested
Speaker 2: than I am right now. That's all right.
Speaker 1: Andre's munios is not close to healthy. He was shut down. Oh,
Speaker 1: this is so frustrating. I hate everything MRI shoulder inflammation
Speaker 1: for him, that's not good. Carlos Carrasco though, one run
Speaker 1: over three innings on Tuesday, so he's working his way back.
Speaker 1: They desperately need more pitching help. I'm off Carrasco is
Speaker 1: a guy. James Paxton, he's coming back on Friday, but
Speaker 1: he's got a six era so far in the rehab,
Speaker 1: so don't how I feel about that. And Carlos Rodon
Speaker 1: got another cortizone injection. It's like, you know, like, can
Speaker 1: you get up in the morning, you know, you just
Speaker 1: have your coffee, you know, and just read the paper
Speaker 1: or something. Carls ron gets up shot shot yeah, coon shots. Yeah,
Speaker 1: here here's a here's a question over under ten and
Speaker 1: a half starts for Carlos Roddan this year U shout,
Speaker 1: I want to know and a half Penis and cracker Jacks.
Speaker 1: Let me know what you think over under carls Don
Speaker 1: ten and a half starts. Okay, Welsh, what do you got?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with the under the under I.
Speaker 1: Think so too. I'm gonna go the under also, uh
Speaker 1: and yes, Wonky Munos makes me sad too, all those things.
Speaker 1: So another under from Renegade envy under from evil Zilla.
Speaker 1: Everybody's under here. Maybe I set the bar to h
Speaker 1: I thought ten and a half was actually pretty good number.
Speaker 2: No, it's a great number. Actually, think it's a real
Speaker 2: good number. But yeah, still under.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to push that. The book closed and
Speaker 1: we're going to reopen it. Eight and a half, they would.
Speaker 1: Here's a fun one. We were just talking about this
Speaker 1: guy the other day. Elie de la Cruz went three
Speaker 1: for four yesterday with three extra base hits with exit
Speaker 1: velocities over one hundred and sixty.
Speaker 2: Miles, three homers, three hiders, all one six one.
Speaker 1: Sixteen over Sarah Langst. Sarah Langs, who does an incredible
Speaker 1: job at MLB dot com ship with the best baseball
Speaker 1: riders out there and research people. No major league player
Speaker 1: has recorded three batted balls with an exit philoscity of
Speaker 1: one to sixteen in a single game in the stack
Speaker 1: cast era since twenty fifth.
Speaker 2: He's a freakman. He's a total frield. Yeah, I dude,
Speaker 2: I battle him so much of Like, you know, is
Speaker 2: he the top prospect. He's got some of the only
Speaker 2: he's got the Onell Cruse in him. It's it's not
Speaker 2: good to like do one for one comps. But you know,
Speaker 2: he can get over swinging, and he can lack in
Speaker 2: batting average, but he absolutely murders baseballs and he can run.
Speaker 2: And you know, I saw him in spring training standing
Speaker 2: next to him. He's also so physically different than Oneo
Speaker 2: Cruz too, the shoulders up, added muscle. He is so
Speaker 2: impressive and he will be here at some point within
Speaker 2: the next two months. I could not even guess to
Speaker 2: you what the Reds outlook is going to look like.
Speaker 2: Christian and Karnashian Strand is coming. I still believe it.
Speaker 2: It's going to be within the next week. You've got
Speaker 2: Matt McClain who's been going nuts. They've got so many guys.
Speaker 2: They they can implode this major league roster whenever they want.
Speaker 2: It's just when will they And the people that will
Speaker 2: be there are McClain, Ellie and Karnashian Strand and Andrew Abbott.
Speaker 1: Those are the guys Pitchers get right. If Ashcraft and
Speaker 1: Lodolo and Green all get right, the Reds could be good.
Speaker 1: Like this is gonna be not this year, but not
Speaker 1: this year. But look, there's there's hope. This made my
Speaker 1: day the Vapors. Of course, the Vapors made the comment
Speaker 1: of the day from uh from a great Dave Chappelle classic,
Speaker 1: Half Baked, change the team name to Baciatomy for Carlos
Speaker 1: Rodonda got the movies. That movie's underrated. That is a
Speaker 1: very There's a couple comedies from that like late nineties
Speaker 1: almost early two thousands period. Half Baked is one of them,
Speaker 1: not you know, doesn't get enough credit. And the other
Speaker 1: one is Dirty Work with Norm MacDonald, which is so
Speaker 1: dumb and hilarious at the same time. It's two very
Speaker 1: underrated late nineties comedies. All right, let's do three up,
Speaker 1: three down here. Horace Hilaire, he was up, much of
Speaker 1: the chagrin of Brandon fought two homers five Ribby's not
Speaker 1: too shabby six two win over the d Backs. George Kirby.
Speaker 1: A lot of people coming at you for the George
Speaker 1: Kirby here. I thought you liked George Kirby.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you like George Kirby. But here's
Speaker 2: the problem.
Speaker 1: This is why people like it.
Speaker 2: No, I said, he is an anomaly because he's very
Speaker 2: bieber esque. He's putting up like these crazy numbers with
Speaker 2: horrific cap He had an eight percent swinging strike percentage
Speaker 2: coming into this start, so apparently I can just jump
Speaker 2: start these guys. That's fine. But again, y'all get it
Speaker 2: messed up. It's not that I think these guys are bad.
Speaker 2: They have a value.
Speaker 1: You took Kirby over Gilbert every draft we did together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and I like, I mean, I like where
Speaker 2: Gilbert's head as far as the strikeout numbers.
Speaker 1: Co.
Speaker 2: I like George Kirby, but he's not getting any swinging missus.
Speaker 1: He is a Do you like Kirby the Little Picture
Speaker 1: video game guy? You like Kirby?
Speaker 2: Like that guy?
Speaker 1: Like? Uh?
Speaker 2: I didn't like? Didn't he just like?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Stuff?
Speaker 1: Yep? Uh huh? Yeah, you play they ball cocaine. Forget it, Kurry,
Speaker 1: It's gone. That's how he flew. He flew all the time.
Speaker 1: George Kirby nine strikeouts, seven shown innings for him, Framber
Speaker 1: Valdez twelve K's Framber continues to be the color of
Speaker 1: my energy, forever and ever. Unbelievable against shoey Otani. So
Speaker 1: that matchup did not disappoint. David Peterson did, though, four
Speaker 1: and runs, seven hits. I mean he did the best
Speaker 1: he could. He got called up there the late pigs.
Speaker 1: Uh Nick Pavetta four innings, eight hit, seven earned and
Speaker 1: Brandon fought five innings, six earned runs for him.
Speaker 2: Welsh.
Speaker 1: You know what time it is. You know what time
Speaker 1: it is. It's time for some prize picks. Let's go
Speaker 1: use that promo code leading off sign up for prize Picks,
Speaker 1: Download the app and you'll get one hundred percent deposit
Speaker 1: match two one hundred dollars. Welsh, what do you have
Speaker 1: for the people picking the prizes?
Speaker 2: Ooh, how about a winner? Because let's just not forget
Speaker 2: this smacked yesterday, all four legs smacked on the prize pick.
Speaker 2: If you follow, not just the three. I gave you
Speaker 2: a little caveat to the fourth, all four legs smacking.
Speaker 2: He smacked, So you're welcome everyone, dude, Kuby Chane Bieber
Speaker 2: not like, oh well, thank you so much for your price, pig.
Speaker 2: You wont me money. Zip it. So today, here's what
Speaker 2: we're gonna do today. We're going mookie bets fantasy. I
Speaker 2: will tell you I don't feel as confident today as
Speaker 2: I did yesterday. But fantasy score for mookie Bets eight,
Speaker 2: Bryce Harper, I love this one. Fantasy score seven and
Speaker 2: a half. And Pablo Lopez strikeout six over he has
Speaker 2: hit this in four pretty much every started pick but
Speaker 2: won this year, but forbus last five starts he's had
Speaker 2: over six strikeouts. So those are my three legs. Looked
Speaker 2: at the no run first inning stuff. Didn't love it,
Speaker 2: Just don't. I'm not in love with a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of the plays today.
Speaker 1: Those are no run first inning. Welsh and I are
Speaker 1: going to be doing a VP pod together. If so,
Speaker 1: if you haven't, go subscribe to Betting Pros because we're
Speaker 1: gonna record that today. It'll probably be out tomorrow. Listenly
Speaker 1: like a little baseball betting how to kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So if you're still kind of figuring that out or
Speaker 1: want to, you know, get involved with that, about no
Speaker 1: run first innings, about ladder betting, about futures betting. So
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a fun little piece there. Here's an
Speaker 1: interesting question before I get to my prize picks, says
Speaker 1: pick two to keep Alvarez, Riley or Franco, Well, wander,
Speaker 1: Franco I'm keeping, and Austin Riley I'm keeping. If Francisco
Speaker 1: Alvarez is the third guy, it's not close. You're talking
Speaker 1: about two of the premier guys. And like, Alvarez is
Speaker 1: a nice player, but I don't think we can get
Speaker 1: there yet. Just because he's just because he's starting to
Speaker 1: get right, doesn't mean he's in that level. Yeah, Like
Speaker 1: I don't care if he's a catcher, Like, I don't care.
Speaker 1: That's that doesn't do it. That doesn't make me more
Speaker 1: excited about Alvarez. It makes me less because catchers get hurt.
Speaker 1: To me, I'm going on the over Justin Steele. It's
Speaker 1: a small number. Five and a half, k's over Mookie
Speaker 1: Betts Fantasy points today in Milwaukee and over six and
Speaker 1: a half. It's a small number for Bregman. So whenever.
Speaker 1: I always look for those tiny numbers. Six and a half.
Speaker 1: That's a tiny number. You can do it. Alex pregnant
Speaker 1: is Alex Bregman just mid?
Speaker 2: He's yeah?
Speaker 1: Is he the definitietion?
Speaker 2: MI? I was a ready for you bet yeah, bet Joe,
Speaker 2: I wasn't ready for you to drop those Yes, he's mid,
Speaker 2: he's very mid.
Speaker 1: No cap mid right, no cap sus it totally suss.
Speaker 1: Let's get to some betting here again. Betting pros dot
Speaker 1: Com slash Leading Off is our little group. You can
Speaker 1: follow myself and the Welsh over on VP two and
Speaker 1: track our bets along with it.
Speaker 2: Did you know that we are at ninety eight people?
Speaker 1: If two of you jump out, we're almost at one hundred.
Speaker 2: We're almost at one hundred only two of you. And
Speaker 2: guess what when you go to that group, you can
Speaker 2: go and prove around and you can see because uh,
Speaker 2: you know, we're not getting update from Joe today. If
Speaker 2: Joe was at the top, we'd see it. But it
Speaker 2: just so happens that the leader in ro OI and
Speaker 2: winning percentage one.
Speaker 1: I didn't listen reporting, to be honest, so that's my bad.
Speaker 2: Typically I do just joking, but ninety eight going, and.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's go. Two more people get in there.
Speaker 1: You don't even have to bet, you just have to
Speaker 1: make picks. It's fun and the app is free. I've
Speaker 1: been doing pretty well here, so here's the parlay of
Speaker 1: the day. I'm just continue to just just drive these home.
Speaker 1: Yesterday was bad, but two out of three eight bad,
Speaker 1: just like that meat load song. So here you go.
Speaker 1: Four legs today, four legs at Darna. Rodriguez against the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Guardians. How many times have we made money this year?
Speaker 1: Andona Roriguez, The answer is a lot plus one ten.
Speaker 1: You're getting plus money. Now you could bet this one.
Speaker 1: I would bet this one on its own separately and
Speaker 1: then throw it in with these other things. Because you
Speaker 1: got Kershaw against the Brewers minus one sixty four, You've
Speaker 1: got Luis Castillo at home against the Rangers minus one ninety,
Speaker 1: and then Verlander against the dreadful Cincinnati team. They should
Speaker 1: finally get a win here. The offense woke up a little.
Speaker 1: I think that's encouraging minus one seventy six. So you
Speaker 1: put those four things, Tigers, Dodgers, Mariners, Mets on the
Speaker 1: money line, you get plus seven h nine. So seven
Speaker 1: to one. Put ten bucks on that win seventy go
Speaker 1: pay your I don't know yourself phone bill with that
Speaker 1: other bets today Again, I'm not loving a lot of
Speaker 1: the props today, so I'm out on the prop market.
Speaker 1: I just keep it real. Well, what do you have
Speaker 1: in the betty market today?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't disagree with you. It's just a weird day.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of great numbers on the board.
Speaker 2: I try.
Speaker 1: I would either do some live betting too, if you're
Speaker 1: interested in that.
Speaker 2: Sure. I try to be picky like so I don't
Speaker 2: have I could throw out like a million things. I
Speaker 2: gave you two bets yesterday, hit them both. That's I
Speaker 2: want to be as picky as possible, so I will
Speaker 2: say you're Detroit one. I kind of like Detroit money
Speaker 2: line through the first five with EDWARDO. It's minus one thirty.
Speaker 2: That might be something I actually play, but you gotta
Speaker 2: do it quick. It's going to start in like ten minutes.
Speaker 2: My three bets Mookie bets total bases. That is even money.
Speaker 2: I actually like that one on total bases. I know
Speaker 2: I've got a hits parlay. I haven't done this in
Speaker 2: a while. Jordan Alvarez and Bryce Harper both to just
Speaker 2: receive one hit that will pay you plus one oh
Speaker 2: seven when you parlay those two. I like that. And
Speaker 2: total bases. I'm sorry, Tampa Bay first five team total
Speaker 2: runs two and a half. So the Rays to score
Speaker 2: two and a half runs through the first five innings,
Speaker 2: that is gonna be my Those are my three plays
Speaker 2: right now. There's other stuff kind of floating around, Like
Speaker 2: I said, maybe that Detroit one, but that's a good one.
Speaker 1: Richie's on here, Richie Silva, Bryce Miller, Zach effln or
Speaker 1: what Rodriguez and Drew Smiley rest of season. I know
Speaker 1: you're gonna say Bryce Miller, aren't you.
Speaker 2: I am gonna say.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Rodriguez because he ain't gonna be a
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Speaker 1: time today. Again, just looking at the main slate because
Speaker 1: by the time the show comes out on pod version,
Speaker 1: I don't want people to be frustrated with us. But
Speaker 1: Justin Verlander ten point five, Jordan Montgomery nine point nine,
Speaker 1: and Pablo Lopez ten point six. I think Lopez gonna
Speaker 1: be low rostered at the last shaky outings that he's had,
Speaker 1: so there's opportunity there. So you can have a Verlander
Speaker 1: lineup and a Lopez lineup that're basically the same cost
Speaker 1: Atlanta Boston Metz. That's where I'm looking for offense today,
Speaker 1: I know. But Travis Darnaut two point seven, Cure Loft
Speaker 1: two point two, and Justin Turner two point eight, those
Speaker 1: are the value plays now. Welsh, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you have a whole run call yet, but while you're
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Speaker 1: By the way, I'm going with Raphael Devers for my
Speaker 1: home run today. Starting to get a little hot, the
Speaker 1: home run market starting to feel it a little bit,
Speaker 1: so I'm hoping we continue on this hot pace. Welsh,
Speaker 1: where are you going for your dinger call today?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I just didn't. I hadn't put it in there,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna go with Mookie Bets. Mookie Betts today, little.
Speaker 1: Very day good and the price picks. You're picking Mookie
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