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Speaker 2: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is Leading
Speaker 2: Off Live. It's me Joey P. Joe P's a pea
Speaker 2: still alive after the four and a half hour onslaught
Speaker 2: that was the NFL Draft last night, and with me
Speaker 2: called up from the minor leagues yet again. You know,
Speaker 2: sometimes we send him back down for seasoning, but I
Speaker 2: think he's ready to stick this time. It's Joe Rico.
Speaker 2: Everybody the Welsh is off today, Arico. It's good to
Speaker 2: see you too. Joe's one show. What could go wrong?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: The manager came into my office last night. He said,
Speaker 3: we're gonna need you for a spot. Started tomorrow. They
Speaker 3: got the hitting camera and everything, and there was a big,
Speaker 3: big scene on social media. No, I'm very happy to
Speaker 3: be here, Joe. We were both kind of cheating on
Speaker 3: baseball last night. You with football met with hockey with
Speaker 3: my Toronto Maple Leafs. But let's get into the action.
Speaker 2: My friend, I was more than cheating. I was in
Speaker 2: a whole other relationship. I mean it was Mormon style
Speaker 2: last night with me in the NFL draft. But I
Speaker 2: rested all morning and I'm back at it again and
Speaker 2: we're here to talk baseball today. And if you missed it,
Speaker 2: go back and watch our coverage on Fantasy Pros because
Speaker 2: it was awesome. Debro, Fitzie Bogman, Russell Brown, everybody just
Speaker 2: so good on that show. Andrew Erickson. It was a
Speaker 2: great fun evening of football, of posturing, of the take
Speaker 2: on the picks. All the other stuff is up there too,
Speaker 2: in terms of the breakdowns and the short clips from
Speaker 2: the video, so go check all of it out. It
Speaker 2: was fantastic, and of course we're back at it again
Speaker 2: tonight six point thirty. Join us. I'll be there, Believe me,
Speaker 2: somehow I will make it. Let's get to the baseball talk. Though,
Speaker 2: because we've got a lot to go on, and specifically
Speaker 2: we got to talk about some pitchers. The good the bad.
Speaker 2: That was last night Thursday the Royals. Cole Reagan's was
Speaker 2: struggling a little bit yesterday, kind of around the corners
Speaker 2: of the strike zone. Short start. Everybody had high expectations
Speaker 2: because it was against the Rockies and everybody wants a
Speaker 2: big strikeout total against the Rockies. But unfortunately it was
Speaker 2: not to be for Cole Reagan's. Not only did he struggle,
Speaker 2: but he came out of the game early with groin tightness.
Speaker 2: Now we don't have any updates as of yet on this,
Speaker 2: but the good news is always well it's not an
Speaker 2: arm thing, so that's good. Maybe he just didn't have
Speaker 2: it yesterday. Maybe that groin issue was bothering him from
Speaker 2: the bullpen on. It's hard to tell, but Joe Rico,
Speaker 2: whenever you have an ace have an issue, especially coming
Speaker 2: out in a game that looked like a slam dunk
Speaker 2: for productivity, that's always a huge bummer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's two in a row for Reagans as well,
Speaker 3: because the previous start lasted only four innings five and
Speaker 3: runs in three walks at Detroit so it's two starts
Speaker 3: where you figure he would have done well that he disappointed. Now.
Speaker 3: I don't know how much to read into the groin injury.
Speaker 3: It's a good thing that it's not arm four armed
Speaker 3: shoulder related, but I think we just kind of have
Speaker 3: to wait and see here. But I will say that
Speaker 3: everything below the surface for Reagans looks really good as
Speaker 3: long as he gets a clean bill of health here.
Speaker 3: If that four to forty era is scaring the guy
Speaker 3: who has Reagan's in your league, I would throw in
Speaker 3: an offer because I think that he's gonna be fine
Speaker 3: at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: Speaking of offers, m Rich is joining us today, first
Speaker 2: time Prime subscriber. Shout out to em Rich joining us
Speaker 2: here live on Twitch, twitch dot Tv Slash Fantasy Pros.
Speaker 2: First time liver. We love all when you guys gin
Speaker 2: us live for the first time. About three weeks ago,
Speaker 2: I propose a trade, giving away Langford and Max Meyer
Speaker 2: for Schwellenbach. The guy never responded to it and I
Speaker 2: completely forgot about it. I woke up this morning to
Speaker 2: a notification that the traded process. Should I let this
Speaker 2: ruin my Friday? Or is there room to be hopeful? Richie,
Speaker 2: this is on you, baby. You gotta know the trade
Speaker 2: offers you have and you got to be aware of
Speaker 2: them and if you want to pull them away. Look,
Speaker 2: schwan Bach is terrific, so you know, I don't want to.
Speaker 2: And Max Meyer has I think pitched over his head
Speaker 2: just to Tad Why at Langford since he's come back
Speaker 2: from the injury, has raked though. Do I love this
Speaker 2: trade for you?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I don't think you should ruin your Friday, Joe Rico.
Speaker 2: But a lesson learned a hard lesson to here from
Speaker 2: rich which is if you send out trade proposals, you
Speaker 2: better be aware and honestly you make sure that within
Speaker 2: twenty four hours forty eight hours you pull that thing,
Speaker 2: because you never know when somebody gets hurt and the
Speaker 2: last thing you want is to get stuck with players
Speaker 2: that are injured. So, Joe, any other advice you want
Speaker 2: to give to RICHI here.
Speaker 3: On this one, Well, yeah, I wouldn't let it ruin
Speaker 3: your week or your weekend or anything. It's not amazing,
Speaker 3: but it's really not the end of the world. Schwellenbach
Speaker 3: could still be an sp one this year. He has
Speaker 3: ace like ceiling to him. Max Meyer is very good.
Speaker 3: Langford is fantastic, but it's not like you traded you know,
Speaker 3: two first rounders and got back a sixth rounder or something.
Speaker 3: It's not amazing, but it's not the end of the
Speaker 3: world either.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to another question here. I believe
Speaker 2: I'm saying this right, el Ciba Cruz. I have four
Speaker 2: short stops, Willia, Thomas, Turner, Pishett and Pania. Thoughts on
Speaker 2: who I should start benjer Uses utility or drop maybe
Speaker 2: for rest of season, and now that Snell won't play
Speaker 2: for a bit, I replace him with somebody like, uh Myers,
Speaker 2: Casey mys or even Rope. Uh so, uh, what do
Speaker 2: you want to do here with all these shortstops here? Rupe?
Speaker 2: Excuse me?
Speaker 3: So Willie Domis, you probably have to hold because it doesn't.
Speaker 2: Mean Max Meyer. Is Max Meyer the one floating out there?
Speaker 2: Because he says Myers out here.
Speaker 3: I would imagine it could be Jake Myers maybe, but.
Speaker 2: It says m Myers. Why I assume you mean Max Meyer.
Speaker 2: If Max Meyer is out there, I want to pick
Speaker 2: him up. So I'm fine dropping somebody here. Casey Myes,
Speaker 2: I'm fine dropping too. You can never have enough pitching,
Speaker 2: especially if you have snell, I think you want to
Speaker 2: cover your basis. So who would you drop out of this?
Speaker 2: I would assume Penya is the first guy off the island, right, I.
Speaker 3: Guess it would have to be. But Penya is really good,
Speaker 3: really underrated, having a solid start of the year. I
Speaker 3: would probably see if I can pull off some kind
Speaker 3: of trade, try and trade Turner Basheki. If you're trading
Speaker 3: the damis you're selling low right now. I would kind
Speaker 3: of explore the trade market see if you're getting back
Speaker 3: a decent offer for either of those two, because dropping
Speaker 3: any of them is going to be kind of tricky.
Speaker 3: I think if you had to drop one, gun to
Speaker 3: the head is probably painia, but I would try and
Speaker 3: explore a trade there first if you can.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like shallow league problems right here. This
Speaker 2: reeks of that to me, So I'm gonna say, uh,
Speaker 2: it's Max Meyer here, Uh pick him up? Drop Hania.
Speaker 2: It sucks, but I don't know. I mean, Doma's value
Speaker 2: is pretty low right now, so that's pretty tricky. Let's
Speaker 2: get to another pitching performance from yesterday. Jacob de Gram
Speaker 2: no decision, allow two runs, five and a third, six strikeouts,
Speaker 2: against the Athletics on Thursday. So you've been the biggest
Speaker 2: Jacob de Gram guy. So this is the first time
Speaker 2: you and I have gotten to talk in season about him.
Speaker 2: I know you talked about a little bit the Welsh
Speaker 2: when I was not around last week. So what do
Speaker 2: you give Jacob de Gram? So far as April's coming
Speaker 2: to a close, in terms of a grade on.
Speaker 3: His return, it's been a little bit lesser than I
Speaker 3: expected just in terms of the strikeouts, but a three
Speaker 3: thirty three ERA, a one zero seven whip. He's got
Speaker 3: the strike up minus walk right up to seventeen percent.
Speaker 3: And he's had a couple of tricky matchups recently, going
Speaker 3: into Oakland or going into that I did it again.
Speaker 3: Going into the Athletics ballpark has been pretty tricky. Their
Speaker 3: offense has been very good. He just faced the Dodgers
Speaker 3: and did well. So I've been overall pretty encouraged. That
Speaker 3: started against Seattle wasn't great. That was the one where
Speaker 3: you were kind of hoping for a massive, massive start
Speaker 3: out of him. But by and large, it's been pretty
Speaker 3: pretty solid. He's kind of learning how to pitch at
Speaker 3: a lower velocity, trying to keep himself healthy, this year.
Speaker 3: I'm not really concerned. I was a little bit after
Speaker 3: the first couple starts, but he's kind of set my
Speaker 3: worries at ease.
Speaker 2: This is really funny too. I'm looking at this in
Speaker 2: the chat, and by the way, it was I believe
Speaker 2: Max Meyer, So we got clarity on that, young Madge
Speaker 2: or Meige. I don't like you say it. I drafted
Speaker 2: my girlfriend's team because I needed one more team for
Speaker 2: my twelve team league, and her team is way better
Speaker 2: than mine. I knew this would happen. That is hilarious.
Speaker 2: That is brilliant. I love that. So you better give
Speaker 2: her the championship. I mean, it's our team. If she's
Speaker 2: managing it. If it's just like a ghost team, that's
Speaker 2: not great. But whatever. Corman Burns three runs, one earned,
Speaker 2: struck out eight five and a thirds, but no decision
Speaker 2: for him. That was kind of a bummer. I thought
Speaker 2: we'd get a w there with Burns on the mound.
Speaker 2: So Burns has been a guy that's concerned me. This
Speaker 2: is a good outing for him in terms of strikeouts,
Speaker 2: for sure. So any takeaways from Burns performance last night, Joe, he.
Speaker 3: Still kind of worries me overall. Last night was probably
Speaker 3: his best start of the season. He did walk three batters,
Speaker 3: which I don't love to see. But overall he has
Speaker 3: been trending in the right direction. I just still when
Speaker 3: you look at the year over year strikeout rate trends,
Speaker 3: if you look at those era estimators, his whip is
Speaker 3: still at one thirty five. Everything has kind of been
Speaker 3: trending in the wrong direction. So I think I'm kind
Speaker 3: of in the cell camp for Corbyn Burns. I'm not
Speaker 3: really that confident. If you can get another sp one
Speaker 3: back for him, I'd probably be doing that. Not to
Speaker 3: say that you have to sell him. Things are going
Speaker 3: to be awful, but I'm a little bit worried about
Speaker 3: what to expect going forward.
Speaker 2: Another question here from m sylv maximyer Andrew Painter pro
Speaker 2: Crochet and a twelve team Auction Points League. Look, I mean,
Speaker 2: what do you yeah, like you want Crochet, like right,
Speaker 2: that's what you're saying.
Speaker 3: Yes, if you can get Crochet for those to do it,
Speaker 3: cause the show and go do it right now and
Speaker 3: come back and keep listening.
Speaker 2: I don't even pause the show just he could do that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, definitely Crochet over those guys, all right,
Speaker 2: let's continue on here with another pitching performance. Tobias Myers
Speaker 2: back for the Brewers, no decision against the Giants yesterday
Speaker 2: in his twenty twenty five debut, two runs, four hits
Speaker 2: over four innings of work. Myers another piece of this rotation.
Speaker 2: You're gonna get Woodrof hopefully back. I would think in
Speaker 2: the days ahead, maybe even as soon as next week.
Speaker 2: That's encouraging. I think the Brewers make a run here.
Speaker 2: I do not believe in the Cubs. You know that, Joe.
Speaker 2: I've said it before. I think the Cubs have a
Speaker 2: lot of issues that are underlying that are going to
Speaker 2: rear their ugly heads sooner or later. I think Justin
Speaker 2: Steele is a loss you cannot fathom to have right
Speaker 2: now and stay in this thing over one hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty two games. So Myers last night back, what's his
Speaker 2: value rest of season? Is he a spot starter for
Speaker 2: you and matchups and he's somebody you're just leaving in
Speaker 2: the back end of your rotation.
Speaker 3: I played in a lot of deeper leagues, and then
Speaker 3: anything that's deeper than twelve teams, I think that he
Speaker 3: should be rostered. I think in twelve teamers he's kind
Speaker 3: of a borderline guy where he could be rostered in
Speaker 3: some leagues. Last year he was really solid, like a
Speaker 3: one to seventeen whip a three era solid, sixteen percent
Speaker 3: strike up minus walk. He's a He's a very good pitcher.
Speaker 3: I don't think the stealing is terribly high. So if
Speaker 3: you're in a shallower league and you're seeing like a
Speaker 3: Max Meyer or somebody like that on the waiver wire,
Speaker 3: I would make that swap and kind of use him
Speaker 3: as more of a streamer. But I'd also be perfectly
Speaker 3: fine to keep him at the end of your bench
Speaker 3: as your you know, six seventh eighth starting pitcher because
Speaker 3: he is serviceable.
Speaker 2: A lot of questions today, boobitch or all Kantara rest
Speaker 2: of season, I'm going with Sandy here. Sorry, I know
Speaker 2: Bloowhich has been great, but I'm gonna rely on the
Speaker 2: guy come back from Tommy John who is still getting
Speaker 2: a feelback from pitching, and I think once he gets
Speaker 2: that feelback, we're in good shape. That's my opinion.
Speaker 3: Plus, we're probably going to see him get dealt at
Speaker 3: some point. You'd think think it's a very team friendly contract,
Speaker 3: So maybe they don't, or maybe they're asking for too much.
Speaker 3: But I think it is Sandy by a hair for
Speaker 3: me as well, game.
Speaker 2: Ova, Shota, Olson, Paris, Ben Rice for Kwan Cese Lozardo,
Speaker 2: Wilmer Flores who won this trade A ten team head
Speaker 2: to hen roto.
Speaker 3: Shota, Olson, Paris and Ben Rice. That's a lot of
Speaker 3: moving pieces.
Speaker 2: Like the Kwan Ceas Lozardo side.
Speaker 3: Personally, yeah, I think it's relatively even. I'm not. I
Speaker 3: don't think there's like a huge winner or loser here.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man. I get kwans Olsen's a nice
Speaker 2: power hitter, but Shota's underlying metrics have not been good
Speaker 2: this year. Cease is a stud, Kuan's productive. Lozaro looks
Speaker 2: like a frontline starter right now. Again, I like that
Speaker 2: into this trade now. Flora is not going to keep
Speaker 2: up this pace. So just so you know, you need
Speaker 2: another first base option here, because I don't think that's
Speaker 2: gonna take you very far. D's twelve team points Francisco Alvarez,
Speaker 2: Kybert Ruiz or Augustine Ramirez. I'm going Alvarez here, Joe,
Speaker 2: where are you going?
Speaker 3: My My lenis kind of key bear in a in
Speaker 3: a points lead, get doesn't strike out a lot. I
Speaker 3: think that really is going to It depends on how
Speaker 3: your points scoring system works, but I think it's key
Speaker 3: bear for me. They're all relatively close. But Augustine Ramirez
Speaker 3: is pretty exciting.
Speaker 2: Joe, he is exciting, But I think that Mets lineup
Speaker 2: is pretty exciting too when it's going to get going completely.
Speaker 2: And Alvarez looked better this spring. I like the adjustments
Speaker 2: he made to the batting stance. I think we could
Speaker 2: I mean again, we forgets Galalvarez was there for the bat.
Speaker 3: You know how much as a hand worry you, how
Speaker 3: much is the hands stuff were you well?
Speaker 2: So it should worry a little bit. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, the fact that he's back so soon tells
Speaker 2: me that it was a minor sort of issue. It
Speaker 2: was a minor fracture. It wasn't to the extent of
Speaker 2: like back in the day. Remember Pablo Sandoval had the
Speaker 2: same thing and he was never the same player, and
Speaker 2: he was out for a long period of time. He
Speaker 2: was out for months with that handmate, So I think
Speaker 2: might have been a much lower end version of that.
Speaker 2: Should wonder if we stash in a ten team league
Speaker 2: on al absolutely go do that, right now again, right now,
Speaker 2: that's why we want you to do all these things.
Speaker 2: Let's do the rookie lookie, feel good moment. Matt Gorski
Speaker 2: solo homer yesterday in his major league debut. Fun fact
Speaker 2: there too, he was saying that his first at bat
Speaker 2: in every single level of the Major League except Triple
Speaker 2: A was a home run. In terms of his first hint,
Speaker 2: that was pretty cool. Now he's twenty seven years old,
Speaker 2: he's got some power. It's a nice story. Whether it's
Speaker 2: fantasy relevant, I don't know. But he was slashing three
Speaker 2: hundred and three to twenty five five twenty nine with
Speaker 2: three homers, fourteen rubies, two steals in seventy seven played appearances. Look,
Speaker 2: the Pirates need help. I don't know if he's a
Speaker 2: streamer even in a deep league, Joe, but I mean
Speaker 2: it was at least a feel good moment. Is there
Speaker 2: anything else you want to give to Gorsky here from
Speaker 2: his fun debut for the Pirates yesterday.
Speaker 3: He's kind of a career minor league here. He's been
Speaker 3: kicking around for a long time. I have a bad lineup.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's much here really. If you're in
Speaker 3: like an NL only league. Maybe you take a chance
Speaker 3: on him, but I think the majority of players can
Speaker 3: just ignore this.
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Speaker 2: to learn more. So, Raffield Nevers not having a good
Speaker 2: time so far in twenty twenty five, Let's go to
Speaker 2: the ups and down zach netto go ahead, Homer in
Speaker 2: the eighth inning. That was great to see McKenzie Gore
Speaker 2: another quality start, eight more strikeouts for him against the
Speaker 2: Orioles and Michael Lorenzen outstanding in his game seven strike
Speaker 2: outs and six innings. But let's go to Gore, who's
Speaker 2: leading the league in strikeouts right now. I gotta say
Speaker 2: I looked at Gore as an interesting late round pick
Speaker 2: there in rotations. I wish I had more shares Joe
Speaker 2: because in a lot of mock drafts I had him.
Speaker 2: But right now currently leading the league in strikeouts. So
Speaker 2: is Gore sustainable here as one of the top guys
Speaker 2: on the board at sp or Is this eventually going
Speaker 2: to regress somewhere else?
Speaker 3: It's really dependent on his command, I think, because we've
Speaker 3: seen the walk rate get down to the six percent range.
Speaker 3: The big thing with Mackenzie Gore is that he's always
Speaker 3: been a whip killer one forty seven, one forty two
Speaker 3: in his career, and a good chunk of that is
Speaker 3: due to the twelve nine and a half and nine
Speaker 3: percent walk rates we've seen. But if he's in the
Speaker 3: six percent range, he can really he can really live
Speaker 3: there with success. As the strikeout bump, I think it's
Speaker 3: legitimate to a certain extent. Do I think he's going
Speaker 3: to be in the mid thirties the high thirties, No,
Speaker 3: because no one really does that. But he can be
Speaker 3: like a twenty eight twenty nine percent strikeout rate guy
Speaker 3: as long as the come out and is good. I
Speaker 3: think Mackenzie Gore is that worse the top twenty five,
Speaker 3: top thirty starting pitcher. What do you think where would
Speaker 3: you rank him?
Speaker 2: I would definitely say top thirty. And the strikeouts are
Speaker 2: for real Now, some of the matchups he's had this
Speaker 2: year to have been a little bit more favorable too,
Speaker 2: So I'm fascinating to see what he has more games
Speaker 2: like the you know, the Mets are coming to town
Speaker 2: this weekend, right, Like, you know, he's not going to
Speaker 2: face them, unfortunately, but he's going to eventually face some
Speaker 2: of these better lineups, right, more Braves, more Phillies, more
Speaker 2: Mets in this in this schedule that's laying ahead of him.
Speaker 2: I'm fascinating to see how he does. If he handles
Speaker 2: those lineups well, then I think we can really look
Speaker 2: at Gore saying he's finally made that jump. That's my
Speaker 2: take on Mackenzie Gore. But right now, man, you gotta
Speaker 2: love the productivity you're getting. He's got more than fifty
Speaker 2: strikeouts already and we're not even in May. The downs
Speaker 2: for me yesterday Drew Rasmusen four runs, five innings. Thursday,
Speaker 2: no decision against the Dbacks, Chase de Lander rough against
Speaker 2: the Royals, five runs, seven hits, four and two thirty.
Speaker 2: Garrett Crochet gave up four runs and five innings in
Speaker 2: a lot lost to the Mariners. Now he did have
Speaker 2: nine strikeouts, but he also walked five guys season high
Speaker 2: one hundred and ten pitches. And Welsh is not here today,
Speaker 2: but we do have a videotaped response to share with
Speaker 2: you for Mike Mayer's earlier two Mondays ago dropping some
Speaker 2: Croche love maybe a little hate from the Welsh. Let's
Speaker 2: take a look.
Speaker 8: Happy Friday, America, or should I say Happy Friday everyone?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 8: But Mike Mayer.
Speaker 9: Happy Monday to everybody except Welsh. And I say that
Speaker 9: on behalf of Garrett Crochet, who went out there on
Speaker 9: Sunday and shoved And when I say shoved, I mean
Speaker 9: shoved it in Welsh's face, because Welsh came on here
Speaker 9: last week trashing Garrett Crochet. I'm worried about Garrett Crochet.
Speaker 9: He doesn't look great, he doesn't have the fastball, the
Speaker 9: change up doesn't look good.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 8: Well, this one goes out to all the truth seekers
Speaker 8: and the inquisitors on the pot cast because I want
Speaker 8: you to learn and be better, and I want to
Speaker 8: ask the big questions. I don't want to silence you
Speaker 8: like Mike Mayer wants you to ask no questions. He
Speaker 8: wants to be the be all, end all, the commander
Speaker 8: and chief of fantasy baseball. Dare I say the dictator
Speaker 8: of fantasy baseball. It's truly disheartening that someone is not
Speaker 8: willing to just look a little bit further. I want
Speaker 8: to give you the tools to ask the big questions,
Speaker 8: not silence them. And Garrett Crochet brought more questions to
Speaker 8: the table that may try to be silenced. This last
Speaker 8: start wasn't no hit or ESQ. Was it one hundred
Speaker 8: and ten pitches over five innings or earned runs which
Speaker 8: gave up in the first two innings and five walks.
Speaker 8: Fastball command was barely over fifty percent, all the other
Speaker 8: pitches under fifty percent. Cutter wasn't cutting strikeouts, weren't striking.
Speaker 8: He just doesn't seem right now. Maybe it's just the
Speaker 8: first month and things are cold, maybe it's nothing at all,
Speaker 8: or maybe also he's changing as a picture in a
Speaker 8: hitter friendly environment, throwing more sinkers, which is creating more
Speaker 8: contact and getting less whiffs. I don't know. I love
Speaker 8: the guy, but I did think things seemed a little
Speaker 8: bit off. But Mike, I got an idea here, since
Speaker 8: we had so much fun with the name game before
Speaker 8: when Garrett Crochet almost threw a no hitter and then we're.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, oh, it's so hilarious.
Speaker 8: I got a name for you, So let's do it
Speaker 8: after this start. Let's go Mike, but let's take the
Speaker 8: last name CALLI. Let's go Meh meh little baby he
Speaker 8: or Mike meh.
Speaker 3: Er in the chat.
Speaker 8: Can I get some mets in the chat? I think
Speaker 8: we can.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 2: Uh that was a good time. Incredible production value as well.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Michael Kelly and the rest of our
Speaker 2: crew here for putting that together, especially the turnaround on
Speaker 2: draft day. That was pretty great. I see them as
Speaker 2: coming out there in the chat already. Who has more
Speaker 2: fun than us? Joe Rico? I mean, really, you know,
Speaker 2: baseball shows can be very boring, can be very stale.
Speaker 2: Nobody has fun like we have fun around here.
Speaker 3: We've kicked it up this year, man. I think having
Speaker 3: the live producer really just takes the show to a
Speaker 3: whole other level. This year, it's fantastic. I mean it's
Speaker 3: only April and we're already we're already killing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people don't realize that I used to produce the
Speaker 2: show as hosting it at the same time. It's a
Speaker 2: lot going on. It's a lot going on, so having
Speaker 2: the team behind us certainly does help. That was a
Speaker 2: fantastic I can't wait to see the next good start
Speaker 2: from Garret Crochet and then the salvo back from Mike Mehertt.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a good time eventually. Maybe get those
Speaker 2: two crazy kids together. Let's talk injuries. So Kumar Rocker,
Speaker 2: we were crushing yesterday and saying, well, he's probably gonna
Speaker 2: get sent down. Well he got sent to the injured
Speaker 2: list instead. Right shoulder impingement. So Joe Rico, I assume
Speaker 2: this is a real injury. I assume also lighters going
Speaker 2: to take a spot in the rotation like we thought yesterday.
Speaker 2: But Kumar Rocker has been a volatile stock, to say
Speaker 2: the least. So far in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: He's been brutal. Like the strikeouts aren't there. He's not
Speaker 3: walking anybody, which is something that I was a little
Speaker 3: bit concerned about. Five percent walker, but he's a one
Speaker 3: to seven to five whipon an eight ten era. A
Speaker 3: lot of the supporting metrics suggests that it should be better.
Speaker 3: But he's getting barreled up twelve percent of the time
Speaker 3: more than fifty percent of the time. It's a hard hit,
Speaker 3: lots of homers, lots of everything bad. It's I think
Speaker 3: you might have been right, Joe. I think that they
Speaker 3: should put him in the pen. Put him in the
Speaker 3: ninth inning.
Speaker 2: Clean ninth inning, young guy innings situation. Mason Miller was
Speaker 2: the blueprint, folks, and I talked about it with Mason
Speaker 2: Miller the year before they moved him to the bullpen. Hey,
Speaker 2: Rocker should be a closer, just saying it's pretty easy.
Speaker 2: Life or death has a question here before we get
Speaker 2: more injuries. Got offered Sandy job and Ti Oscar for
Speaker 2: WU and PCA, who's been red hot right now. The
Speaker 2: problem is my staff is Snell's strike. Mclaahan de gram yikes,
Speaker 2: so you could use some pitching help. WU is a
Speaker 2: good starter, though PCA playing out of his mind. Whould
Speaker 2: you take this deal in life or death situation?
Speaker 3: I think the sandy side is where I would prefer
Speaker 3: to go sandy. Like we've talked about earlier, I think
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna be fine. They Oscar batting forth
Speaker 3: to the Dodgers is in a fantastic spot, and even
Speaker 3: though job hasn't been striking guys out, the performance has
Speaker 3: been really good.
Speaker 2: With Wu.
Speaker 3: I worry about his ability to pitch a whole season
Speaker 3: in PCA. I think it's a good time to kind
Speaker 3: of explore a cell high on him. So I would
Speaker 3: take the trio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think what he's doing is sustainable. Good adjustments.
Speaker 2: He's made certainly a great second half last year, very
Speaker 2: hard nose player. I like him, but at the same time, unsustainable.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying about sodis from too Some things
Speaker 2: are just unsustainable, Tommy Edmond unsustainable. The Mets activated Jeff
Speaker 2: McNeil from the Tendail. They said, Baity to Syracuse, no
Speaker 2: surprise there. Look for Louis Angelecune, though, start playing some
Speaker 2: center field. I'm telling it's gonna happen real soon. So
Speaker 2: let's see what happens. To say with that lineup, looks
Speaker 2: like Royce Lewis begins a rehab assignment today in Triple A.
Speaker 2: Yay coming back from the hamstring. So over under games
Speaker 2: played before he goes on the ale again. I will
Speaker 2: set the number at seven and a half, Joe Rico,
Speaker 2: you want to go over.
Speaker 3: Under, Oh man, I'll go over, but not by a lot.
Speaker 3: If you'd set it like eleven and a half, I
Speaker 3: would have had to.
Speaker 2: Really, that was the first number in my head and
Speaker 2: I was like, no, that's too many. It's too many,
Speaker 2: it's too many games. Next up here, Willie Castro goes
Speaker 2: on the IL as well with the oblique strain, so
Speaker 2: can't catch a break for the Twinkies. The Rays put
Speaker 2: Jake Mangum on the ten day ill with a groinstring,
Speaker 2: and the Nationals activated CJ Abrams from the ten day IL.
Speaker 2: So that brings us Joey to our fun part of
Speaker 2: the show. It's time.
Speaker 3: You know what to do, right, Hope, you know what
Speaker 3: to oh?
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 2: It's time for the best bets of the day with
Speaker 2: Joey p and Joe Rico, and today I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: look at Code I Sengo, who's been awesome. Let's go
Speaker 2: over sixteen and a half outs recorded, minus one fourteen.
Speaker 2: Code Senga's ghost fourth ball looks for real. He looks
Speaker 2: the sharpest he ever has in the major leagues. At
Speaker 2: times in his career he was walking too many, but
Speaker 2: now it feels like he is really settling into the
Speaker 2: identity of the pitcher that we thought he might become,
Speaker 2: and that could be an ace in fantasy. So Senga
Speaker 2: looks terrific. Good matchup for him. Nats are tough, but
Speaker 2: I think he can get through them for seventeen outs today.
Speaker 2: Andrew Abbott five and a half strikeouts for him, Let's
Speaker 2: take the over. Another good matchup there on the other side,
Speaker 2: so minus one fourteen, let's take the over. Abbot's been
Speaker 2: very good again, a good matchup for him tonight. And
Speaker 2: Nick Kurtz, I'm doing it again. Let's take Nick Kurtz
Speaker 2: to hit a home run and the a's on the
Speaker 2: money line. The Athletics at minus one fourteen together. Actually
Speaker 2: that number is higher than that. That number is plus
Speaker 2: six fifty, So apologies there. I was gonna say minus
Speaker 2: one fourteen. That's not right. Plus six point fifty it's wrong.
Speaker 2: Michael Cally's tired from all the draft stuff. So Nick
Speaker 2: Kurtzomer Athletics money line. You put those two things together,
Speaker 2: you get plus six fifty. It's a huge risk and
Speaker 2: a huge reward. It's Friday. Let's have some fun. Joe Rico,
Speaker 2: walk us through your best bets for the day. I
Speaker 2: did Ron Burgundy myself there, which is weird because I
Speaker 2: know what everything is. I put my bets in and
Speaker 2: still I still self Burgundy. That's crazy. I can't believe
Speaker 2: I did that. I'm tired. Last night was a long night.
Speaker 2: We didn't get finished till midnight. So Joe Rico, what
Speaker 2: do you have here for the folks on a fun Friday?
Speaker 3: You definitely get a pass, Joe. So let's start with
Speaker 3: Shane Bozz going up against the Padres, who don't really
Speaker 3: strike out, which is where I'm going with this one
Speaker 3: under five and a half strikeouts to the padres're striking
Speaker 3: out less than any team in baseball to this point,
Speaker 3: and I think we're gonna shade to the under there.
Speaker 3: Cal Quantrell, this is funny. It's logan Gilbert, who may
Speaker 3: be the best pitcher in baseball right now, cal Quantrell,
Speaker 3: who might be the worst, will be facing up against
Speaker 3: each other tonight. But I'm taking Cayl Quantrell over two
Speaker 3: and a half walks. You're getting that at plus one ten.
Speaker 3: The Mariners walk more than any team in baseball almost
Speaker 3: twelve percent of the time. In Quantrell, as we know
Speaker 3: he's kind of prone to the walks seventeen innings, nine
Speaker 3: walks this year in a whip over too no bueno
Speaker 3: whatsoever there, So I'm taking that at plus money. And
Speaker 3: then Hayden west Neski, who I've kind of been in
Speaker 3: on as a breakout this season, goes up against the Royals,
Speaker 3: who don't really strike out a ton. But at four
Speaker 3: and a half it's a low line app plus money.
Speaker 3: I'm really liking that. So Shane Ba's under strikeouts, Kla
Speaker 3: Quantrill over walks, Hayden west Neski over strikeouts as well.
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Speaker 2: going on there, all right, So yes, the abbotcas is
Speaker 2: minus one twenty two the Nick Kurtz did I give
Speaker 2: a big enough pause in between home runs? Plus money line?
Speaker 2: See what I did there? Plus six fifty? I can't believe.
Speaker 2: I can't believe that Salvo even had to go out though,
Speaker 2: So stupid anyway, let's look at the home run board
Speaker 2: because there was no movement. Everybody took a night off nothing.
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Speaker 2: boy by calling the most home runs this year. I've
Speaker 2: decided to wake the Beast this weekend. Anthony santander A
Speaker 2: going into little tiny, little iby bitty Yankee Stadium. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's so cute. It's show a door about Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 2: I want to pinch your cheeks. You're so cute. Here's
Speaker 2: so cute Yankee Stadium. Who likes to give up offense?
Speaker 5: You do?
Speaker 2: Anthony's and Endre is not just due, he's overdue. Let's
Speaker 2: wake the beast. So that's just for you. Joe Rico
Speaker 2: in honor of hanging out with my favorite Canadian Joe,
Speaker 2: where do you want to go for your home run
Speaker 2: call this week?
Speaker 1: Or?
Speaker 2: Should I say Friday?
Speaker 3: At least I'm gonna go with mister Colonel Kurtz himself,
Speaker 3: Nick Kurtz there, Yeah, on Burke going up in in
Speaker 3: that I was gonna say Oakland again in Sacramento in
Speaker 3: that little ballpark again. We're targeting the small ballparks, the
Speaker 3: header friendly environments. That ballpark has been playing like, you know,
Speaker 3: warm course field so far this year, so warm. I'll
Speaker 3: take it. Henna, he's gonna get his first, I should say, humid.
Speaker 3: I guess it's Friday. He's gonna go yard today against
Speaker 3: Sean Burke. I'm feeling it. First career homer plus six
Speaker 3: hundred or plus six fifty, depending on your book. I
Speaker 3: like it.
Speaker 2: I like it too. And this is what I kept saying.
Speaker 2: You know, you get the a's money line on top
Speaker 2: of this. You know you can parlay it into bigger odds.
Speaker 2: But the best part is about this is that Joe
Speaker 2: Rico and Joe Piezap are both on Nick Kurtz in
Speaker 2: the home run today, and you're thinking the same, which
Speaker 2: is Sean Burke is basically triple A pitching, and he's
Speaker 2: been killing Triple A pitching. And then once we get
Speaker 2: past Sean Burke, then we get some opportunities in that ballpen.
Speaker 2: And I think we're gonna get past Sean Berke probably
Speaker 2: around four and two thirds. So I like the chances
Speaker 2: for Nick Kurtz today to finally get on the board here,
Speaker 2: which would be very exciting. I want to thank all
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Speaker 2: I want to get questions in here too before we go,
Speaker 2: because we've got a bunch of them. Let's go to
Speaker 2: the serve. Butter do I drop Tyler Holton or Tennor?
Speaker 2: How to activate bell off the IR? Joe?
Speaker 3: Probably Tyler Holton, I think, O tell you what are
Speaker 3: you thinking?
Speaker 2: I agree with I think Holton's the way I would go.
Speaker 2: Here's another one from Laser. Appreciate the advice I was
Speaker 2: offered Alvarez from my Langford A boy, oh boy.
Speaker 3: Keeping Langford personally wow, But jord On has not been
Speaker 3: amazing this year. I think it's the opposite trajectories. I mean,
Speaker 3: Langford has his own injury concerns with the oblique, but
Speaker 3: you're it on every year has to miss time. I
Speaker 3: think it's just a guy who's heading upwards or the
Speaker 3: guy who's kind of heading downward. I don't think it's
Speaker 3: a massive gap between them. But me personally, if it
Speaker 3: was my team, I'm taking Langford.
Speaker 2: I gotta say man, I'm hard pressed to turn away Alvarez.
Speaker 2: I know Langford's played very well. I think it depends
Speaker 2: on the format. I didn't see what the format was.
Speaker 2: I don't think he put it on there, but I
Speaker 2: would say most likely, like I know what you know, Alvarez,
Speaker 2: not get me steals like I get that, and I
Speaker 2: know what Langford's ceiling is. But I also seen the
Speaker 2: floor of Langford too. I've also seen a struggle for
Speaker 2: long periods of time. So until he puts it all together,
Speaker 2: I'm still an Alvarez guy. But that could be wrong,
Speaker 2: so there's definitely some volatility there in that one. It
Speaker 2: was a great week of shows everybody, and I also
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Speaker 2: the rest of your baseball. Shout out to Joe helping
Speaker 2: us today as the Welsh is at his Jazz Hands
Speaker 2: dance competition, so hopefully that goes well for him and
Speaker 2: hopefully he'll have a medal or two when we see
Speaker 2: him on Monday. That'll do it for us, but the
Speaker 2: story of the game goes on for Joe Rico. I'm
Speaker 2: Joey P. We'll see you next time. Kids.
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