Speaker 1: The streak continues. Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to
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Speaker 1: Pi's apia with me today is the Welsh, and of
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Speaker 1: out talking a little baseball. We've got a lot to
Speaker 1: get to, a lot of injury updates. We've got a
Speaker 1: prospect call up. We're gonna pick the brain of mister Prospect.
Speaker 1: Won the Welsh on in just a bit. Plus the
Speaker 1: Angels continue to lose games, no matter who's the manager
Speaker 1: and no matter what the music selections are. Welsh, It's
Speaker 1: great to see you again, my friend. How are you
Speaker 1: this fine afternoon.
Speaker 2: I'm better than all the Angels, all the angel fans,
Speaker 2: all of the company, the organization, Joe Maddens maybe doing
Speaker 2: a little bit better, little vindication, and they're like, I
Speaker 2: still still picking up those losses. Hu, when I'm out
Speaker 2: of here. By the way, I've been meaning to say
Speaker 2: this every single time. I have to hold myself back.
Speaker 2: When you open the show, I want to do the
Speaker 2: King of Beepers, how you say it. Do you know
Speaker 2: that you say it? Just like do you remember that?
Speaker 1: Like, I'm King of beepers. I remember peepers.
Speaker 2: Someone's going to get this for me. It was the name.
Speaker 2: It was like, da da da, I am the King
Speaker 2: of beepers. And I'm completely I'm gonna type it in now,
Speaker 2: and so obviously you don't, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I know, there's only like a couple of year age difference.
Speaker 1: And I do know a J and I remember this.
Speaker 2: I am JJ the King of Beepers. It was like,
Speaker 2: what is this?
Speaker 1: Nineties?
Speaker 2: It was a mid nineties Las Vegas guy who only
Speaker 2: sold bee beepers, and.
Speaker 1: I guess it was probably it was probably phenomenally, but
Speaker 1: nobody I had never heard of that. Everyone in the
Speaker 1: Midwest is like, what are you crazy? Or it is
Speaker 1: like a home depot kind of place. Well, CAGs lost
Speaker 1: his mind, and meanwhile everybody in New York, New Jersey's like,
Speaker 1: I have no idea what Tack is talking about. You're right,
Speaker 1: but turned out like everybody in the Midwest was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, you mean, what do you mean? You know,
Speaker 1: realize these things A lot of people are apparently do
Speaker 1: know what Walsh was talking about I do not I do.
Speaker 1: A couple of people that were the King of Beepers
Speaker 1: back in the day.
Speaker 2: JJ Beepers, Go JJ Beepers. You will see it and
Speaker 2: you'll get the King of Beepers commercial and it will
Speaker 2: completely change your perception. How Joe opens the.
Speaker 1: Show directly after the show, now, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: go check this out. We had the Wiz. Nobody beats
Speaker 1: the Whiz Nobody. That's what we had over the New
Speaker 1: Jersey area. So the Whiz sold a lot of the electronics.
Speaker 1: But let's see if we could sell you on some baseball. Here.
Speaker 1: Aaron Nola blanks the Brewers for eight innings. A great
Speaker 1: start from him. Aaron Nola continues to look like the
Speaker 1: picture we always wanted him to be. And you're welcome,
Speaker 1: America's because I dropped him back into the pool. In
Speaker 1: my keeper league this year, Alex Wood was terrific. Seven
Speaker 1: innings over the Rockies for him. Cronin Worth again more
Speaker 1: signs of life, drives in five runs against the Mets. Look,
Speaker 1: this was bound to happen. The Mets have been really good.
Speaker 1: They've got some injuries, they're missing some pictures. This is
Speaker 1: going to be a stretch here for the Mets, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, guess where they're gonna play this weekend?
Speaker 1: The Angels, ladies and gentlemen. The immovable object meets the Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't know the Angels. I don't know what.
Speaker 2: Two interesting worlds collide here. Someone's got a break.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting. That was actually a great opportunity for you
Speaker 1: to do one of your welshisms where you take two different.
Speaker 2: Fake a word, create a create a new word.
Speaker 1: Yeah, create a brand new phrase. So see if you
Speaker 1: can work on that. We come back here.
Speaker 2: It's natural and I can't push it. It's just it's
Speaker 2: a natural thing that happens where the words just come out.
Speaker 1: All right, Sean man I I was very good in
Speaker 1: that game as well. The Blue Jays are going to
Speaker 1: create create, are going to promote, excuse me, Gabriel and
Speaker 1: they're going to create him in a laboratory. They're going
Speaker 1: to promote Gabriel Moreno to the big club, number four
Speaker 1: prospect of the Toronto Blue Jays. So h got any
Speaker 1: breakdown on the twenty two year old kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I absolutely love him. He plays out here in
Speaker 2: the Arizona Fall League this past year and he had
Speaker 2: these shade and I lightly say this because you don't
Speaker 2: want to start taking this as the comp but he
Speaker 2: had these light early shades of when Vladimir Guerrero was
Speaker 2: out here. And what I mean by that was he
Speaker 2: did not get fooled. He didn't swing outside the zone.
Speaker 2: He only swung at his pitches and he made tons
Speaker 2: of contact. Now it got a little bit more wonky
Speaker 2: towards the back end, where he was eating on some sliders.
Speaker 2: But this is a high contact guy. He kind of
Speaker 2: built He's got a little tankishness in him, you know,
Speaker 2: a little bit like he's kind of builds out. He's
Speaker 2: not going to build up. He's not a completely ripped
Speaker 2: type of guy. But he incredible vision at the plate,
Speaker 2: awesome contact. This year in the minors, he's hitting three
Speaker 2: twenty four. The power isn't really showing up, but he's
Speaker 2: stealing a few bases three eighty OBP and he's hit
Speaker 2: three hundred and three of the last four minor league
Speaker 2: seasons dating back to twenty eighteen. The power just hasn't
Speaker 2: been like a huge, huge part of his game. I
Speaker 2: think he would be a phenomenal like Number two. It
Speaker 2: actually reminds me of like shades of Jason Kendall. Remember
Speaker 2: Jason Kendall, the prototypical number two hitter, Like, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: the body and stuff isn't the right comp but he's
Speaker 2: a type of hitter I think you can put in
Speaker 2: the two hole that would make a ton of sense,
Speaker 2: get a lot of contact, make a lot of contact.
Speaker 2: Just not gonna hit for a bunch of power. So
Speaker 2: to catcher leagues, this is an absolute, you know, no brainer.
Speaker 2: You want to speculate on these moves. I'm not really
Speaker 2: sure what all we're going to see out of him
Speaker 2: in these debuts. I don't think a bunch of power,
Speaker 2: but it's gonna hit. I would be shocked in his
Speaker 2: major league debut if he doesn't have a he doesn't
Speaker 2: get his first major league hit, that'll be my call.
Speaker 2: First major league hit in Game one.
Speaker 1: Somebody's not giving up a lot of hits this year.
Speaker 1: Sandy al Contra nine shutout innings on Wednesday, probably could
Speaker 1: go for ten. He could probably go forever.
Speaker 2: He's just all. Also, he had a five and a
Speaker 2: half k prop and he got it. I believe in
Speaker 2: the eighth inning, like people were losing their mind going
Speaker 2: through and he went a full nine and then just
Speaker 2: got the six. Here's the thing of beauty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all Contra just for you know, s Is and
Speaker 1: g Zier nine innings, six hits, six k's, one hundred
Speaker 1: and five pitches, eighty four strikes. Max Vilo was one
Speaker 1: hundred point four. He's got a point five to six
Speaker 1: e R in his last six starts Major league high
Speaker 1: eighty three innings and two thirds NL low one six
Speaker 1: one e ra. Jake Arietta was the last pitcher with
Speaker 1: six straight starts of seven plus innings and earn runs
Speaker 1: or fewer of zero there So eighty eighty.
Speaker 2: Four strikes is I'm having a hard time fathoming that.
Speaker 2: Eighty four strikes and one hundred and five pitches is
Speaker 2: a wild number. That guy is so ridiculous right now.
Speaker 2: He's one of those there's only a couple guys that
Speaker 2: like you just make your bet on you know. It's
Speaker 2: like you don't question where they start dfs, take your props.
Speaker 2: You just trust in san die al Contra, he will
Speaker 2: get you there. Put your faith and the dude, uh.
Speaker 1: Garrieta won this. I young that year. Just want to
Speaker 1: double check on that, so, you know, just just putting
Speaker 1: that out there when you when you get ahead of that,
Speaker 1: when you have that kind of a run, and at
Speaker 1: the end of the year, your stats are gonna be
Speaker 1: Unbelievablet's do a little check up. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: I guess who's the new leader for National League So
Speaker 1: I young Santi al Contra right now plus four to
Speaker 1: fifty over on betting pro So yesterday he was the
Speaker 1: number two at six fifty. After this start he jumped.
Speaker 1: Still he's still good numbers. Please everyone jump on the
Speaker 1: four to fifty. I'm telling you this is gonna be
Speaker 1: the rocket ship nessor Cortes. We jinxed it. It was.
Speaker 1: It was fun, wilt last and of course your guy
Speaker 1: Buxton was the guy that really ruined it. He's actually
Speaker 1: really good for the first couple innings and then things
Speaker 1: fell apart. It happened sometimes. Ortes allowed a season high
Speaker 1: four runs after we said, look, we've been doing this forever.
Speaker 1: Nineteen straight outings of three runs are fewer. By the way,
Speaker 1: I also found this amazing stat which I think is
Speaker 1: super important. Nesser Cortes without a mustache from twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty. The era was six seven to two
Speaker 1: with the mustache. From twenty twenty one to two two
Speaker 1: two point three to five. So if that's not a
Speaker 1: guy who should have a manscaped some sort of I
Speaker 1: don't know where, like a mustache cream endorsement, this is
Speaker 1: the dude. I mean, go get him right now.
Speaker 2: These opportunities they don't just fall in your lap that often.
Speaker 2: Did you see there's a shirt? I think it's road
Speaker 2: a Ware has a shirt of the uh, I don't remember.
Speaker 2: It's some takeoff of Super Mario, but it didn't occur
Speaker 2: to me. And it's Matt Carpenter with his mustache and
Speaker 2: Nestor Cortez of like Mario and Luigi. And I was like,
Speaker 2: my god, have there ever been two guys that they
Speaker 2: should actually do a movie? They should do a movie
Speaker 2: with those two. It's uncanny they don't cast actors as
Speaker 2: good as Matt Carpenter and Nester Cortez would look as
Speaker 2: Mario and Luigi. And they're making Rugo.
Speaker 1: Mister Buster said it all. Sandeel Contrac could have my
Speaker 1: children there you go, or future children. I just want
Speaker 1: to give up his own kids. He wants to actually
Speaker 1: have more kids. He wants to reproduce. I believe that's
Speaker 1: what he's saying.
Speaker 2: Sorry, the deal's already done, mister Buster. Your children are gone,
Speaker 2: not the future ones.
Speaker 1: The children are gone. That's it. You take your children away,
Speaker 1: all right? Let Andy doesn't injury update a lot to
Speaker 1: get to Tylor mcguil Tylo the Terrible returns to the
Speaker 1: Mets rotation tomorrow night. Speaking of which, tomorrow night, I
Speaker 1: will be seeing the double A Yankees play, So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you some some Twitter footage. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: some video of Anthony Volpi because my daughter and her
Speaker 1: class are singing the national anthem before the game.
Speaker 2: So that's wow, that's very very Anthony Volpia is a
Speaker 2: class act to you. Should you should try to see
Speaker 2: you get some FaceTime with Anton Anthony Volpi. Do it
Speaker 2: for me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, gonna definitely have to do that. Mike Mayor, why
Speaker 1: don't you come join me at the ballpark. We'll have
Speaker 1: a beer together. Come on on, you Starling Marte and
Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo are gonna avoid the il, looks like. So
Speaker 1: that's good news. But the bad news is you're probably
Speaker 1: not gonna have him through the weekend. That would be
Speaker 1: my guess. So this is gook. There's only so many
Speaker 1: things you could take away from a baseball team, and
Speaker 1: there's still gonna be a good team. You can take
Speaker 1: away a picture, you can take away too, you can
Speaker 1: take away Alonso, you take away Marte. It's too much,
Speaker 1: You're gonna start going in the other direction. That's what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. Andre Bogart's returned to the lineup last night.
Speaker 1: A Kittridge by the way from Tampa is gonna be
Speaker 1: headed for right elbow surgery, so no surprise there. Dodgers
Speaker 1: activate Max Muncy, so that's good news. And then Brandon
Speaker 1: Woodruff with the ankle issues throwing off the mound today,
Speaker 1: so we'll keep an eye on that. Any of these injuries.
Speaker 2: You want to hit on Welsh Monsey, I don't know,
Speaker 2: you know, I was a big defender of Max Munsey
Speaker 2: in the preseason. I'm not really sure how much is
Speaker 2: still there. I was paying attention he oh for three
Speaker 2: and rehabs start. I mean, nothing else came from the
Speaker 2: rehab starts, by the way, you know, like you know,
Speaker 2: the struggle in the season, they get hurt, maybe they
Speaker 2: come back raking the miners went and the rehabbing come back.
Speaker 2: None of that's happening. I'm very worried that Mancy that
Speaker 2: Munsey might be washed or Nancy, either one of them.
Speaker 2: That Macy Fancy months bad Max Munsey, the bad Max
Speaker 2: Money used.
Speaker 1: To read the Fancy Nancy books to my daughters. I
Speaker 1: remember Fancy Nancy, but Fancy Munsey, all right, thought, so, yes,
Speaker 1: this is true. I forgot Mike Mayor has already spoken
Speaker 1: for this is why I couldn't go. I was actually
Speaker 1: invited to go to the Phillies game with Mike Mayer
Speaker 1: and Blaine, but unfortunately again had the conflict. I had
Speaker 1: another baseball to go to, so I forgot about that.
Speaker 1: So and all this like Team Mayor stuff. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: this going.
Speaker 2: This uprising of team all you people that hate children
Speaker 2: and want bad things to happen, and you love Mike Mahyor.
Speaker 2: I know this uprising is wild, Joe. Maybe we don't
Speaker 2: know the audience like we really thought we did. That
Speaker 2: there is maybe a small group. There's a small group gathering,
Speaker 2: and that's never good.
Speaker 1: All right, Other things that are not good right now?
Speaker 1: The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The Angels last night
Speaker 1: turned to Nickelback walk up songs to end their losing
Speaker 1: skid because whenever you're trying to break a streak, certainly
Speaker 1: Nickelback is the way to do it, I would imagine,
Speaker 1: But it didn't matter. The streak is now at fourteen.
Speaker 1: They lost one nothing. Mike Trout is still out with
Speaker 1: the groin injury. I do have the lineup of Nickelback
Speaker 1: songs along with the line of the Otani came out
Speaker 1: to photograph Joe Adel to Rockstar, Jared Walsh to do how
Speaker 1: you remind me? Matt Duffy do somedays? The day was
Speaker 1: your last day, Brandon marsh when we stand together, Jack Mayfield,
Speaker 1: what are you waiting for? Kurtzuzuki this afternoon? And Tyler
Speaker 1: Wade came out to animals, so well, what would you
Speaker 1: suggest tonight or the weekend for the angels to break
Speaker 1: this tree?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I've got I think I got this. But
Speaker 2: by the way, I can only mentally recite two of
Speaker 2: those songs, rock Star and how how you remind me?
Speaker 2: Immediately I did the look, it's so stupid.
Speaker 1: Nineties guy, nineties guy, any of those songs.
Speaker 2: So I love this one. I think they should try this.
Speaker 2: I think it's a teammate that's doing this, but there
Speaker 2: is a young outfielder, Oscar Gonzales for the Guardians, who,
Speaker 2: by the way, big like deep leagues. You should if
Speaker 2: you haven't picked him up, you should consider all the
Speaker 2: dude hits. He rakes hit three hundred and the miners
Speaker 2: hitting three hundred in the majors. Not a lot of
Speaker 2: crazy counting stats by His walk up song currently is
Speaker 2: the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song. So when he comes up,
Speaker 2: it's oh, lives in a pineapple under the seat and
Speaker 2: he comes up to bat. Maybe he picked it, maybe
Speaker 2: a teammate picked it for him. Well, I think they
Speaker 2: should maybe go with children's cartoons for that, because they're
Speaker 2: playing like kids. They're playing about the level of you know,
Speaker 2: little pee weee baseball. So I think children's cartoons, little
Speaker 2: rug Rats, little SpongeBob in there do it. I like it.
Speaker 1: I would go the route of you know, it's time
Speaker 1: to pull yourself together and get back together with your
Speaker 1: life and start to move on, which means is only
Speaker 1: one person for that. It's Taylor Swift. Everybody has a
Speaker 1: Tailor Swift song. It's all about you. You know things
Speaker 1: are not going well, It's time to you know, pick
Speaker 1: yourself up and say no, I'm gonna live my best life.
Speaker 1: I don't care how many games I lose in a row.
Speaker 1: It's definitely Taylor Swift. We need a vote.
Speaker 2: I wish we had a polling feature that we could say,
Speaker 2: what should the Angels do next?
Speaker 1: Get a polling feature?
Speaker 2: Here you yah. TV theme songs are Taylor Swiftah, Taylor
Speaker 2: Swift songs.
Speaker 1: Here's another fun tweet. A lot of people are saying
Speaker 1: that if the Red Sox were a West Coast team
Speaker 1: that they'd have the best record in baseball, possibly even undefeated.
Speaker 2: Ha ha.
Speaker 1: But is it true to certain extent? Like if if
Speaker 1: you picked up the Red Sox and dropped them in
Speaker 1: on the West that maybe they would be a little
Speaker 1: bit better considered how they've owned some of those West teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh yeah, I mean it's an interesting statement. Crime
Speaker 2: is that. I mean that that's kind of pretty open,
Speaker 2: Like if they're on the West Coast, they would be better.
Speaker 1: Mark, Look at Mark, they did break up with Joe Madden.
Speaker 1: They just went through a breakup. It's time for the
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift song. One hundred percent, right Mark?
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, Yeah, yours makes a lot Okay, you're masil.
Speaker 2: I'm associating you're trying to break while they're playing like kids.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking emotionally, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you'res And it also like she could be there,
Speaker 2: like doesn't she live there? Like she could probably go
Speaker 2: and sing the songs New York Actually would that be?
Speaker 2: Could you do that? Could somebody some time, like a
Speaker 2: tailor shift, could they hire and they live play every
Speaker 2: walk up music for the home team with that'd be incredible.
Speaker 1: How much of that would be pretty awesten? Yeah, go
Speaker 1: a lot, there you go, Walkye Penguins in here Love
Speaker 1: Stories one of the best songs of all time. The
Speaker 1: Folklore album is tremendous, and nobody could tell me anything different.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I don't know, but yeah, just the red Slide. Sure,
Speaker 2: I guess I could buy that. There's always a narrative, though,
Speaker 2: there's always one of those you know this team we're
Speaker 2: in the NL or on the wet Okay, Yeah, maybe
Speaker 2: those teams don't see the Red Sox. You know, they're
Speaker 2: getting beat up by the same division a whole lot,
Speaker 2: and then they come out and then they I just
Speaker 2: think it's relative if you're playing the Diamondbacks and Rockies
Speaker 2: you know, every other week. That's a good thing. So
Speaker 2: by that respect, okay, sure, that's why the Dodgers should
Speaker 2: obviously always be better because you're playing just a couple
Speaker 2: of crappy teams.
Speaker 1: But you know, all right, let's talk about this too.
Speaker 1: The highest win probability added for the twenty twenty two seasons.
Speaker 1: So this is a fun little MLB stat thing here.
Speaker 1: So the top four guys number one as many much
Speaker 1: Hot with plus two point three eight, Aaron Judges third
Speaker 1: with plus two three one. Fourth is Mooie Bets with
Speaker 1: plus two two nine. Somebody is second with two point
Speaker 1: three to two, and that somebody is ty France, of
Speaker 1: all people. So I just wanted to take a pause
Speaker 1: here and talk about Ty France. Who Look, there's a
Speaker 1: dude here's twenty seven years old. We know he's in
Speaker 1: the Padres system for a while. He finally got out
Speaker 1: of that system and now look at him. I bet
Speaker 1: the Padres would love to have him back right now. God,
Speaker 1: the way they're needing some offense.
Speaker 2: It's where I first saw him too, Yeah, I remember
Speaker 2: watching him on the backfields of the Padres when Manny
Speaker 2: Machado hadn't reported to camp and playing third, and was like, this, dude,
Speaker 2: is he's legit. He's absolutely he's.
Speaker 1: Legit, and he was just never given the opportunity. And
Speaker 1: if you look at what he's doing right now this year,
Speaker 1: hitting three twenty seven with a four to two OBP
Speaker 1: of four ninety one, slugging eight ninety three ops, nine homers,
Speaker 1: thirty eight ribis, I mean that is elite. Why are
Speaker 1: we not talking more about ty France having this elite
Speaker 1: season because it seems like, well, we're doing a service
Speaker 1: to everybody else by not talking about it more.
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily disagree with that. I mean that one
Speaker 2: of my mantras in the preseason. Ironically, this is one
Speaker 2: of those few things that like, you know, you get
Speaker 2: attached to was he was the glue. I called him
Speaker 2: the glue. Ty France is the type of player you
Speaker 2: want on all your teams because he just doesn't really
Speaker 2: hurt you. Now, he's exponentially played better than that. I
Speaker 2: think maybe one of the reasons is as good as
Speaker 2: he is, and you get like, I'm not really sure
Speaker 2: what this stat and this stat kind of reminds me
Speaker 2: of like an offshoot of like War, Like you know,
Speaker 2: you're talking.
Speaker 1: About kind of status. But added like War, like that
Speaker 1: guy like is in the lineup, the win probability goes
Speaker 1: up by two. Yeah, and that's substantial. It's like these
Speaker 1: are the MVPs Mahado, Betts, Judge and then ty France.
Speaker 1: But nobody talking about ty France is an MVP. But
Speaker 1: he's having an MVP caliber reason. It's fascinating.
Speaker 2: But the stats. But that's why I was trying to
Speaker 2: go with it is I think the underlying stuff is
Speaker 2: really there for him. Like I said, whether it's you
Speaker 2: look at War, you're like, oh, the value. But the
Speaker 2: stats are fine. As good of a season as he
Speaker 2: having right now. If you were to go take the
Speaker 2: bat X, his d season projection will be twenty one homers,
Speaker 2: fifty eight I'm sorry, eighty eight RBI. And if I'm
Speaker 2: doing quick Matt, that looks like seventy six runs, no
Speaker 2: stole one or no stolen bases. That's good, but that's
Speaker 2: not phenomenal. That's not in the same camp as those
Speaker 2: other players, not Mookie Betts, that's not those same guys.
Speaker 1: So fo is elite three four five slashes. You know,
Speaker 1: there's like four or five guys a year that hit
Speaker 1: the play over a whole season.
Speaker 2: It plays, but it is not a fantasy elite thing,
Speaker 2: and we just run into this sometimes these guys are
Speaker 2: so much better from a baseball perspective than from a
Speaker 2: fantasy perspective. But we should respect put some respect on
Speaker 2: ty France for sure.
Speaker 1: I also think that when you're looking at some of
Speaker 1: these players that get blocked in certain organizations that you like,
Speaker 1: don't give up on them. You know, you hope that
Speaker 1: they get a second breath in another organization, because we've
Speaker 1: seen that work for some players, and ty France is
Speaker 1: certainly one of them. My goodness, I mean, match Haniger
Speaker 1: got to give Seattle a lot of credit because now
Speaker 1: that you're you're kind of looking at it, right, You've
Speaker 1: got Hanneger Diamondbacks, right, You've got Ty Franz from San Diego.
Speaker 1: Wasn't JP Crawford in the Philly system.
Speaker 2: Japi Crapper's, Well, yeah, he was a big, big Phillies guy.
Speaker 1: The Seattle Mariners scouting on the major league level, where
Speaker 1: at the professional level, is really good. I mean, they
Speaker 1: have looked at some of these teams and they have
Speaker 1: taken these pieces away. Oh you don't want this guy
Speaker 1: I'll take that guy. Think about that, think about how
Speaker 1: good they've been. And you kind of need to be
Speaker 1: that because it's hard to get free agents to Seattle.
Speaker 1: So you almost have to be the kind of team
Speaker 1: that's going to go out there and be able to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, this prospects underrated, this prospects undervalue, this
Speaker 1: prospect is blocked here. Let's go grab these guys and
Speaker 1: give them one hundred and sixty two game seasons to
Speaker 1: go play baseball. And most of them have responded. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a pretty good model for c.
Speaker 2: And they do it. I mean also, you know they
Speaker 2: traded for Johnio Suarez and you look at a bunch
Speaker 2: of other guys in their free agency too. In spring training.
Speaker 2: I spent a lot of time at Purea this year.
Speaker 2: During spring training, they also the free agents they come
Speaker 2: in and work out. They had Billy Hamilton that was
Speaker 2: working out. They had brought back Mike Ford if you
Speaker 2: remember him. They this is their model is they look
Speaker 2: at these guys that have underperformed and they say, can
Speaker 2: we fix them. They don't deal it with pitching. They
Speaker 2: developed the pitching internally, but they say, can we fix
Speaker 2: these guys? And they do a pretty good jobs and
Speaker 2: they have.
Speaker 1: It all worked. I mean, look, Taylor Tremmel, you know,
Speaker 1: was in the Cincinnati system. He hasn't worked.
Speaker 2: That's fine, all right. I mean Kelnick hasn't been a
Speaker 2: great trade either, so.
Speaker 1: Well, right, But that that was like the big That
Speaker 1: was like the earth shattering move, like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have two superstars and then these other guys
Speaker 1: are gonna fill in. Ty Frantis might like the superstar
Speaker 1: and Kellennicks and Triple A. Let's get to some other
Speaker 1: things here. Let's get to the trivia question of the day.
Speaker 1: Who was the last Dodger player to be named All
Speaker 1: Star Game MVP? And yes, it's happened in the last
Speaker 1: thirty years. So the last Dodgers player to be named
Speaker 1: All Star MVP?
Speaker 2: Who was it?
Speaker 1: Drop the names in the chat again, you have to
Speaker 1: be subscriber. He pros MLB to be a peanut a
Speaker 1: cracker jack officially and be in the chat here, So
Speaker 1: if you've got one, make sure you drop the answer
Speaker 1: there also, maybe tomorrow will save this for tomorrow. Feels
Speaker 1: like I want to do a deep dive about some
Speaker 1: of the pitching prospects in the pipeline here each team.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can give me a breakdown, give you some
Speaker 1: extra time to prepare for that one. We'll do that
Speaker 1: tomorrow on the show, since is rolling a little late today.
Speaker 1: Stat heroes a contra at the top obviously, no earned run,
Speaker 1: six k's nine innings. Best pitcher in baseball right now.
Speaker 1: I mean it's hard not to argue. Aaron Nola eight innings,
Speaker 1: no earned six k's, Merle Merril Kelly six innings, no
Speaker 1: earned five k's for him, Alex Woods seven sorry not scoreless,
Speaker 1: one earned run for him, no walks, five k's. Tony
Speaker 1: Gonsolin continues to be very sharp. Man. Where would the
Speaker 1: Dodgers be Welsh without Tony Gonsolin?
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, well you know him and the guy that's
Speaker 2: going today, Tyler Anderson. Those two have absolutely carried this team.
Speaker 2: Tony Gonson seven and it's un He's freaking believable.
Speaker 1: Is this the hot take? Tony Gonsolin's the best picture
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: I mean it's a hot take, but statistically you're backed
Speaker 2: up on it. You have your bag. I mean, walked
Speaker 2: up Yueler are pretty brutal right now, Like they're they're
Speaker 2: they're their arrow is trending down where You've got these guys.
Speaker 2: But this is this is what winning teams do, though,
Speaker 2: is you can't just have your superstars prop you up
Speaker 2: at all times. Someone has to step up. Dodgers put
Speaker 2: themselves in a good situation. They have players that can
Speaker 2: step up. Tyler Anderson, Gonsolin, Edwin Rios was doing that.
Speaker 2: This is what winners do.
Speaker 1: Man, some fun answers here in the chat, Bob says Kershaw,
Speaker 1: No busiers of Jesus said, Pedro Guerrero, No, no, Adrian Gonzalez,
Speaker 1: no Seawan Grie, no Eric Gangna. It was like Piazza
Speaker 1: the Pizza Man. Like Piazza the pizza Man, That's who
Speaker 1: the answer was. So it was the last guy. Also,
Speaker 1: here's a fun one. Steven Strasbourg coming back today. Look
Speaker 1: at that very exciting. Doctor Glenn brings that up. Any
Speaker 1: any thoughts, feelings, emotions about the return of Steven Strasbourg.
Speaker 2: I mean, and I actually on the Ittail Show we
Speaker 2: had a whole thing because he's so anti Strasbourg and
Speaker 2: the injuries, and he just there's something in him, it's
Speaker 2: a craw in him about it. I'm always kind of
Speaker 2: rooting for Strasbourg never lived up to the potential. Just
Speaker 2: one of those guys we're going to go back on that.
Speaker 2: Just the wasted years of injuries lived up to.
Speaker 1: The potential putting bursts. That's the problem.
Speaker 2: That's not like having a season of it, but having
Speaker 2: a season of it isn't living to all of that potential.
Speaker 2: I actually still think he can put together a half
Speaker 2: decent season. He's sitting out there for free. But you know,
Speaker 2: at the same time, like Corbyn's completely falling apart, I
Speaker 2: would have preemptively picked up Strasburg had he still been
Speaker 2: sitting out there. Tell you all to do that, not
Speaker 2: try to start him. Let's see what you're truly in for.
Speaker 2: He could be washed. But I don't think it's ridiculous
Speaker 2: to think that there's still a couple of years in there.
Speaker 2: And I think we set the over under. Let me
Speaker 2: ask you at twelve and a half starts this year,
Speaker 2: and I think, yeah, I said the number, and I
Speaker 2: think there's like applicable starts. Let's say there's twenty potential
Speaker 2: starts you could have because you're already eleven or twelve
Speaker 2: in And I said it, twelve and a half over.
Speaker 1: Understarts, I'll go under. I just you went.
Speaker 2: Under too, and I took over.
Speaker 1: I mean you're probably right, but man, yeah it's Strasbourgh. Look,
Speaker 1: you know you're right. All the talent, I mean for
Speaker 1: his bank account, he certainly has, you know, lived up
Speaker 1: to his expectations. I mean, the dude's gotten paid and
Speaker 1: he had a great run a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: He's got a world series ring, he had the big contract.
Speaker 1: It's just unfortunate that it didn't work out for him.
Speaker 1: Wonkey Penguin agrees.
Speaker 2: Now I saw that much. I feel like I'm gonna
Speaker 2: who's coming with me? Anybody gonna take that out? Anybody
Speaker 2: gonna come to one person will coming.
Speaker 1: And to be clear, we don't want Strasbourg to fail.
Speaker 1: We just we're just used to it. We're used to
Speaker 1: him not being on the mound. It's just frustrating and
Speaker 1: talking about investments and it's it's unfortunate and the nationals
Speaker 1: are forced.
Speaker 2: They just really the one thing I would point out, sorry,
Speaker 2: the I would point out when we're joking and you're like,
Speaker 2: oh the under and buzz as it said, the lat
Speaker 2: strain is coming. The one thing that happened with him.
Speaker 2: Just to remind you, is they babied him. He even
Speaker 2: said he was not He said this preseason he would
Speaker 2: not come back until he was one hundred percent. They
Speaker 2: weren't going to try to get him in the rotation
Speaker 2: when he's eighty five percent. They've babied him through June.
Speaker 2: He's done rehab starts for all intentsive purposes, this is
Speaker 2: starting fresh.
Speaker 1: This is this is another thorastic outlets syndrome which has
Speaker 1: ended so many careers. I mean hardly anyone. In fact,
Speaker 1: almost no one has come back successfully and been the
Speaker 1: same picture after. It's just a fact. Go look it up.
Speaker 1: It's it's terrible. And I wonder why it happens to pictures.
Speaker 1: I want to know more, like where's the study on
Speaker 1: thorastic outlets syndrome in pictures, because that is the thing.
Speaker 1: In the last ten years we've seen destroy good major
Speaker 1: League baseball pitching careers and we can't see him. To
Speaker 1: figure out why these guys keep having it. Is it
Speaker 1: something away that they're throwing, Is it something mechanical, is
Speaker 1: it something that the you.
Speaker 2: Know the also they can't recovering methods. It's Tommy John
Speaker 2: They've coming through with a recovery with that injury, and
Speaker 2: we haven't seen like a really proper way to recover
Speaker 2: from thorastic outlet. And it's kind of a pitch er
Speaker 2: death sentence at this point, way more than Tommy Tommy
Speaker 2: John's nothing. It's just like, all right, let's just get it. No,
Speaker 2: let's get back to.
Speaker 1: I would rather hear Tommy John and thoracic outlets intro
Speaker 1: in a dynasty league. It's not even close. Bryce is
Speaker 1: Scott your boy? Four for four with a homer, Jake
Speaker 1: Cornworth three for four with a dinger, Josh Rojas went yard,
Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber, look at him, four for five, getting all
Speaker 1: the hits. Austin Riley, I think he's up the nineteen
Speaker 1: home runs or something like that. Austin Riley's on fire.
Speaker 1: Adam Duvall hit a home run, Manny Marco four for five,
Speaker 1: Tarler Neil two for four with the dinger, Randy Rose
Speaker 1: Arena four RBI three for five. Hope you listened to
Speaker 1: me a couple weeks ago. I told you that the
Speaker 1: cheap it's saying, all right. The stad zero's Chris Bassett
Speaker 1: six earned runs. Not good last night, Nester Cortes not good?
Speaker 1: Was that your CUIDI for earned? Not good? Packy Naughton Nowton,
Speaker 1: Packing Nowton. I yeah, I heard that Packy Nowton was
Speaker 1: going to, uh potentially run for office. Everybody loves that
Speaker 1: Packing Norton.
Speaker 2: I think pack is a new character in Picky Blinders
Speaker 2: and season six.
Speaker 1: I think olock Packy Norton is what I want you
Speaker 1: to do. I want to take David Strasburg and Packing Norton,
Speaker 1: and I want you to go up to and while
Speaker 1: you have a talk with him, all right, I want
Speaker 1: you ever have a run talk with that Tassa. All right.
Speaker 1: Hitters here, Jack Peterson over four, four k's Mitch Garver
Speaker 1: over four, four k's Freddy Freeman over four. Just three
Speaker 1: k's Jazz Chisholm had a great night the other night.
Speaker 1: Three k's over four. He's just two for twenty three
Speaker 1: over his last six games, but those two were home runs.
Speaker 1: What are you doing with Jazz Chisholm right now? Just
Speaker 1: like you're riding the waves of the up and downs?
Speaker 2: I mean, if you are, if you were sitting here
Speaker 2: being like, oh my god, what do I do about
Speaker 2: jazz buddies, This is what you were in for. This
Speaker 2: is the exact conversation Jazz was the new era, Javier Baiaz.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have high highs, You're gonna have low loves.
Speaker 2: This is what you get in for. Also that all
Speaker 2: Mariner's nonsense. There was more stuff that was going on
Speaker 2: about it. Some players were saying it was nonsense. Some
Speaker 2: players that need to be done. Boy, it really feels
Speaker 2: like I don't know if you heard any of the comments.
Speaker 2: They were kind of talking about somebody getting really like
Speaker 2: guys focused on stats. I don't want to put it
Speaker 2: on jazz because I personally love jazz. It feels very
Speaker 2: jazz ish right now, like you know a player that's
Speaker 2: focused on their stats a whole lot. And it was positioned.
Speaker 2: Players that were talking about it need to be said.
Speaker 2: Just throwing that out there that I don't know if
Speaker 2: there's any team against him, it's pure speculation, but you
Speaker 2: have to this is what you have to be prepared
Speaker 2: for to weather the storm. You want to wear the storm.
Speaker 2: Go get Luis Rise or something like that. You're not
Speaker 2: gonna get your power and your speed, but you can
Speaker 2: get the batting average. But you should have prepared with
Speaker 2: a guy like Jazz, So you wait this out this
Speaker 2: is not the time to make any trade or move
Speaker 2: or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Will the Adamas returns and goes over four or three k's. Also,
Speaker 1: in a cruel twist of fate, yesterday was National Contrarast
Speaker 1: Day here on the program. So if you picked a
Speaker 1: contreras and that controllers went yard, you got two points
Speaker 1: for the home run. You picked the wrong contrarasts. The
Speaker 1: younger brother did go yard. What a cruel twist of face.
Speaker 2: I tried to push. I created National Controller's Day, and
Speaker 2: I didn't and my guy got the postponed. I did
Speaker 2: put a new guy in, but it didn't work out.
Speaker 2: So I'm still not on this dangboard.
Speaker 1: Four people called on the contraras day. By the way,
Speaker 1: no movement in the top of the board as you
Speaker 1: can see. And now it says Mike Mahyer and three others, ha,
Speaker 1: look at him. It's pretty soon he'll be off the board.
Speaker 1: I get two home runs tonight. Next thing you know,
Speaker 1: you don't see Mike Mayer's face again on this board.
Speaker 1: You never know. All those Tamayor people. Oh there's precious
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Speaker 1: bases on DK one and a half minus one o five.
Speaker 1: Cedric Mullens same number, one and a half is plus
Speaker 1: one oh five. Love that against KC today. Garrett Cole
Speaker 1: strikeout numbers are seven and a half. It's a high
Speaker 1: number at Minnesota, but it's minus one twelve. I'm willing
Speaker 1: to take the over there. And Dylan Bundy on DK
Speaker 1: just three and a half on the K's I think
Speaker 1: he can get the four. That's minus one fifty five,
Speaker 1: so the juice is a lot. But I kind of
Speaker 1: like that one. Welsh what peeped to you in the
Speaker 1: prop market today?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I hate those big ones. I mean I did
Speaker 2: it yesterday with Aaron Nola Aerono was freaking phenomenal, but
Speaker 2: he just didn't get to that strikeout number. And I
Speaker 2: did hit the under and Gonsolin strikeouts, but I hate
Speaker 2: those really, really big ones, and that is almost like
Speaker 2: reiteration why I don't want to do it. The two
Speaker 2: that I like Tyler Anderson strikeouts at four and a half.
Speaker 2: He's hit that in six straight weeks. And what I
Speaker 2: found interesting about him as well, where he's being like
Speaker 2: Tony Gonson light. He does not qualify from a you know,
Speaker 2: innings pit qualification standpoint on fangrass. But if he did,
Speaker 2: his fourteen and a half swinging strike percentage would be
Speaker 2: seventh in baseball and his thirty percent CSW would get
Speaker 2: him inside the top eleven. So if you want to
Speaker 2: talk about the type of strikeout pitcher he is, he's
Speaker 2: going up. Matchup isn't the greatest for him, but it's
Speaker 2: still something I'm gonna I'm gonna take. It's a pretty
Speaker 2: easy number. Like I said, he hit it six straight
Speaker 2: weeks the other one and this is clockwork for me.
Speaker 2: I always bet Shane McClanahan even if it doesn't hit.
Speaker 2: I think at the end of the year, if you
Speaker 2: just bet every k prop you will come out on top.
Speaker 2: It is at six and a half and he's hit
Speaker 2: it five straight games. He's against a White Sox though,
Speaker 2: but or no, he had eight against the White Sox
Speaker 2: and he's going up against the Cardinals. And the reason
Speaker 2: I marked that is those are two very similar teams
Speaker 2: in the level that they do not strike out. So
Speaker 2: Shaane McClanahan, Tyler Anderson both ks over all, right.
Speaker 1: Real quick, it's a short DFS slate tonight, so we
Speaker 1: won't spend too much time. Max Free against the Pirates
Speaker 1: is my lock, especially on DK nine point five. Nick
Speaker 1: Pavett has been really good these last few starts. I
Speaker 1: know it's like trolling the Angels, but you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how many games they can
Speaker 1: lose in a row they got to With Tani on
Speaker 1: the Mount tonight, I guess I would say this, play
Speaker 1: Max Freed and Paveta together in cash and play Max
Speaker 1: Freied and Joehaltani who's eight point one and Pavetta's eight
Speaker 1: point four in tournaments, and just fade Garret Cole because
Speaker 1: he'll be very chalky and everybody will be on Garrett
Speaker 1: Cole tonight. But I would go with Freed and go
Speaker 1: with Pavetta. That's kind of my preference tonight. Welsh, who
Speaker 1: is your home run call for this evening?
Speaker 2: My friend, I will take it to the courts and
Speaker 2: I will let the judge decide. Aaron Judge, give me bombs.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Ronald O Kunia tonight. Mike Mayor
Speaker 1: of course going with Ryan Mountcastle. God my god, I
Speaker 1: mean I'm pretty sure, Like if there is a fan
Speaker 1: club for Ryan Mountcastle, not only is Mike Mayor the president,
Speaker 1: he is the only member. It's pretty unbelievable, Like did
Speaker 1: he grow up with him? This is like a friend
Speaker 1: of his from high school or something.
Speaker 2: He did, Like did he like tweet it? Mayor like
Speaker 2: tweeted in one time. Mountcastle was like, hey, good job, buddy,
Speaker 2: and he's like, this is my.
Speaker 1: Thing, and then it's forever since Yeah, you know what
Speaker 1: he did do? Friend, He didn't throw a ball into
Speaker 1: the crowd at Mike mahyor that that's for sure. That
Speaker 1: definitely did not happen. Now, I wonder if a ball
Speaker 1: from Ryan Mountcastle got tossed into the crowd where Mike
Speaker 1: Mayor is. Does Mike Mayor throw that ball back? Does
Speaker 1: he give it to a kid it's.
Speaker 2: The ball goes to Mike Mayor, Does it exist anymore?
Speaker 2: And did ever be a ball?
Speaker 1: This feels like the next season of Stranger Things. Before
Speaker 1: we get too creeped out here, we're gonna end the show.
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