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Speaker 1: Welsh is on vacation. He is somewhere drinking butter beer
Speaker 1: in Harry Potter World. We've got fresh back from Seattle.
Speaker 1: He may or may not have joined a grunge band
Speaker 1: at some point for over the weekend. But he was
Speaker 1: at all the all star facilities, all the all star facilities,
Speaker 1: all star festivities. I think that's what I meant to say.
Speaker 1: My words don't work right by Friday. Everybody who watches
Speaker 1: the show knows this. Scott Bogman is here with us,
Speaker 1: the host of the Dynasty Football podcast. But Bogman, you
Speaker 1: were there live in Seattle, all the amazing stuff. You
Speaker 1: saw the futures game.
Speaker 2: Yes, mm hmm yeah, n our buddy, Brandon yep home
Speaker 2: run derby Brandon Funston.
Speaker 1: Was Funston upright or Hammer drunk for it?
Speaker 3: No? No, he was, he was upright. Yeah, there was
Speaker 3: no for him.
Speaker 1: But Fundston when he gets to Flex League in New
Speaker 1: York weird things happen for Funston. Wow, Oh, very loose,
Speaker 1: very loose. I think I was more of the loose
Speaker 1: guy at the Futures game. So yeah, I'll just leave
Speaker 1: it at that. So well, it looks like I was
Speaker 1: gone and not you, So there you go. It's that's
Speaker 1: what happens when you take a couple of days off. Crazy,
Speaker 1: So let it go. I know, just just move on.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about it. Let's talk about the draft
Speaker 1: first of all, which is a fun event that MLB
Speaker 1: is really trying to push and make a thing. I
Speaker 1: always say it's hard because you know, most general public
Speaker 1: and casual fans or even hardcore fans of baseball, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't get to see these guys play that much.
Speaker 1: You see a little in the College World Series, but
Speaker 1: it's not like college football every Saturday. It's not like,
Speaker 1: you know, you go through the NCAA basketball tournament, you
Speaker 1: see a lot of the guys go to the NBA.
Speaker 1: So I know, you know, we're familiar with some of
Speaker 1: the Skeens and some of the other guys that you
Speaker 1: know we're in the top ten. But how was that? Overall?
Speaker 1: Is a few for an event for you are just curious.
Speaker 3: As an event. It was very cool.
Speaker 2: Now, I had to talk to the Welsh about a
Speaker 2: lot of these players because I don't know a lot
Speaker 2: of the guys that are going. Obviously, I'm more of
Speaker 2: the Dynasty football guys, so I know the college football
Speaker 2: guys more than the college baseball guys and high school guys.
Speaker 2: But I talked to Welsh and he had basically said that, look,
Speaker 2: the Pirates seem to be passing on both the LSU
Speaker 2: guys and then the LSU guy, you know, Paul Skins
Speaker 2: went first and I got a big pop and there
Speaker 2: there was a good chunk of people. I mean, it
Speaker 2: was at the Seahawks Stadium and the booze were loud.
Speaker 2: But I did ask my buddy, who's a big Seahawks fan.
Speaker 2: I was like, is this just like the weakest roar
Speaker 2: you've ever heard in this stadium? And he's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, because usually it's filled to the brim in
Speaker 2: the Twelfth Man and all that stuff in Seattle. But
Speaker 2: it was a lot of fun booing Rob Manfred. But
Speaker 2: I feel like there might be more hatred for the
Speaker 2: Houston Astros, you know, I mean, especially in Seattle, you know,
Speaker 2: Division opponent. All that right, right, But I mean the
Speaker 2: vitriol for the Astros. They booed Orbit, the mascot when
Speaker 2: they were doing the mascot lineup before the home run
Speaker 2: derby and all that stuff. I mean, people are still mad,
Speaker 2: mad at the Astros, and that was They booed Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: They booed everybody, so that was fun to see as well.
Speaker 1: How was the derby for you as an event? You know,
Speaker 1: some people think it goes on too long. I always
Speaker 1: think I love the new time element. To me, it
Speaker 1: makes things move a little quicker. But certainly Julio put
Speaker 1: on a show. I was so mad though, box because
Speaker 1: I had money in a rose arena. And then after
Speaker 1: he advanced, guess what, Joey p put more money And
Speaker 1: then he got to the finals and JOEYP said, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: everything's coming up. Randy. I was one home run shy.
Speaker 1: I was screaming at my television, screaming, stop rushing. Why
Speaker 1: are you rushing? You need five more home runs? Stop it,
Speaker 1: stop rushing. He was swinging so fast. They would throw
Speaker 1: the ball so fast. I was losing my mind. It
Speaker 1: was terrible. But outside of my pain, how was the event?
Speaker 1: For you.
Speaker 2: It was great And I did a draft with the
Speaker 2: Welsh and a couple itl Army members and my two
Speaker 2: picks show were Randy Rose, Lorena and Vlad. So I
Speaker 2: was doing okay, I won no matter what in our
Speaker 2: pick them. But I also bet my buddy a bunch
Speaker 2: of money that Randy Rose Raine was going to be
Speaker 2: flat because I thought Lad was gassed at the end,
Speaker 2: and he was absolutely not gassed. He was playing choy
Speaker 2: or whatever he was doing. But yeah, I mean the
Speaker 2: timed element. So I had been to a couple home
Speaker 2: un derbyes before, but I've never been to one with
Speaker 2: the time element, and that just makes it so much better.
Speaker 2: You probably need to get the kids out of the outfield,
Speaker 2: to be honest, because another kid got drilled. So it's
Speaker 2: happened like two or three times the last couple, Like,
Speaker 2: just get him out of there, you know, what are
Speaker 2: we doing?
Speaker 1: Doesn't that build character?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 3: I feel like that's you know, I think you can
Speaker 3: build character.
Speaker 2: Maybe there's a hot take, but I think he can
Speaker 2: build character without taking one hundred and ten mile an
Speaker 2: hour to the face from a baseball.
Speaker 1: I don't know, well, maybe not to the face. What
Speaker 1: about to like, you know, the side of the back
Speaker 1: or something like that kid got into the face, so
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, get a maut of that's what gloves are.
Speaker 1: Four bogs. Put that glove up, son, Yep, that's right son.
Speaker 1: If you're not, you know, listen, you know you gotta
Speaker 1: get the glove up. All right, let's talk a little
Speaker 1: baseball because baseball is back and I want, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's very rare you get to talk about who was
Speaker 1: at all the All Star festivities in the game was
Speaker 1: actually pretty good too. Of course it moved very well too,
Speaker 1: uh the pace of game, but looking up at the
Speaker 1: stats bogs at the All Star Game of everybody and
Speaker 1: looking at some of the stolen based totals, it was
Speaker 1: really one of these things you sit back and just go, man,
Speaker 1: this is all really working and watching the All Star Game,
Speaker 1: which is typically something like paint drying. It was a
Speaker 1: good game. There's some good defensive moments, but the game moved,
Speaker 1: and all I kept thinking about was, man, the pace
Speaker 1: of play is really just changed the feel of the game.
Speaker 1: And even if they took it away, I felt like
Speaker 1: these guys would still be playing at that pace because
Speaker 1: now they're trained now and I think that's yeah. Maybe
Speaker 1: we'll see that at some point, but not anytime soon.
Speaker 1: I don't think so at the very least. But let's
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Speaker 1: dot com. Let's talk about Aaron Judge, no timetable for
Speaker 1: his return. This is not a good, warm and fuzzy
Speaker 1: feeling for Yankees fans or for fantasy fans, because if
Speaker 1: you have Aaron Judge in your rosters, you're kind of
Speaker 1: sweating right now. So, Boggs, what do you do here
Speaker 1: at this juncture in the season, Because if you have
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge, you haven't had them for a few weeks.
Speaker 1: The value of Aaron Judge in the marketplace is probably
Speaker 1: lower than it should be because of this uncertainty around
Speaker 1: the timetable. So are you just somebody you're just saying, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm stuck. You got a hold? Do you move other
Speaker 1: pieces you have to try to fill that Aaron Judge gap?
Speaker 1: Or do you sell them for fifty cents on the
Speaker 1: dollar and take somebody back that's playing, that has upside,
Speaker 1: that maybe had a bad first half.
Speaker 2: The only way I'm doing the last suggestion where you
Speaker 2: sell them for fifty cents on the dollar is if
Speaker 2: the rest of my team is outstanding and I'm still
Speaker 2: getting I don't know, fifty cents on the dollar is
Speaker 2: still pretty low. I mean, maybe seventy five cents, sixty cents,
Speaker 2: like somewhere in that range on the dollar. I just
Speaker 2: have a hard time selling him off for someone that's
Speaker 2: a tenth round or lower pick, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So I think because of investment, you're probably pot committed
Speaker 2: to Aaron Judge and just waiting because you're not going
Speaker 2: to get anywhere close. But I mean you're also like,
Speaker 2: this is not a player that's replaceable, that's not a
Speaker 2: replace level players, So you know, you do your best
Speaker 2: feeling in on the wire, maybe make a trade, maybe
Speaker 2: trade from a strength to get some more power, because
Speaker 2: that's what Judge was providing you obviously. So but yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's never good when one of the first
Speaker 2: round pick goes out, and that's what's happening now, and
Speaker 2: you just kind of have to live with it.
Speaker 1: It's a tough spot for those people who have Fantasy
Speaker 1: playoffs coming because if you know, if you want to
Speaker 1: wait till September for Judge, that's fine in those leagues
Speaker 1: where it's you know, got to make it first, you
Speaker 1: got to make the playoffs. But in those you know,
Speaker 1: season long rodal leagues, you want to wait, maybe have
Speaker 1: a monstrous last six weeks of the season, that's fine.
Speaker 1: From Aaron Judge. But if you're fighting for your life
Speaker 1: right now to get in the fantasy playoffs, I think
Speaker 1: you got to figure out what that Judge value is.
Speaker 1: Lucky for all of you, we have a trade chart
Speaker 1: at Fantasy Pros. You can go there and see what
Speaker 1: the trade value is of Aaron Judge right now and
Speaker 1: go check that out. Maybe we'll throw out some fictitious
Speaker 1: trades on Monday show. Also, it's open season on Oo
Speaker 1: Sho Halo Tani or Joe hay Oh. That's oh my god,
Speaker 1: how did I miss this all this time? Or I
Speaker 1: could have been calling myself Joe Heyotani. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but that's a shirt that needs to be made. But anyway,
Speaker 1: Joe Haotani's available. Joe Hayotani also available for kids parties
Speaker 1: and other things. Apparently the Dodgers, which we all thought
Speaker 1: would be in on this mix. The Yankees apparently kicking
Speaker 1: the tires too, especially with this Judge injury. Yeah, Yankees
Speaker 1: are kind of in a bad spot and a starter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can use every who couldn't use both, let alone
Speaker 1: one guy and Cashman has gotten a lot of heat
Speaker 1: lately because, let's be honest, the Yankees haven't gotten to
Speaker 1: that top level in quite some time, So let's talk
Speaker 1: about it. Jason di Mingez, I imagine will be the
Speaker 1: framework starter of that deal.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Do you think that Otani to the Yankees is a
Speaker 1: deal that could get done? Yeah? I do.
Speaker 2: I think the Yankees have enough in their system to
Speaker 2: make it happen.
Speaker 3: And that's I mean the Angels. You know, it's kind
Speaker 3: of funny.
Speaker 2: You heard Jeter and Big Poppy and a Rod talking
Speaker 2: about this before the All Star Game, and they had
Speaker 2: different opinions. I mean, Jeter, who's worked in the front
Speaker 2: office before, said I just don't know how you get
Speaker 2: it done.
Speaker 3: How do you trade a guy like this?
Speaker 2: You know, because what does that say to your fan
Speaker 2: base when you trade show Hey Otani?
Speaker 3: Why would they come back?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: That's a big part of it. And then it's like, well,
Speaker 2: what does a deal look like too? We've never seen
Speaker 2: the framework around a guy like Otani because there is
Speaker 2: no guy like Otani. So I think it's going to
Speaker 2: be if he does get moved, it's going to be
Speaker 2: an absolute blockbuster. And I would expect the Yankees or
Speaker 2: Dodgers to be the team in it. And I would
Speaker 2: expect it to be so many more pieces than we think,
Speaker 2: even for rental, because most likely whoever trades for him
Speaker 2: will get him to sign an extension, especially if he
Speaker 2: likes it there, so you're more likely to if you
Speaker 2: trade for him. But also if you're the Angels, you
Speaker 2: know there's no way he's coming back. He's not going
Speaker 2: to go with for six months and then come back
Speaker 2: to the Angels, so you are disappointing in your fan base,
Speaker 2: and that return has to be very impressive, even for
Speaker 2: rental players, So it's kind of a double edged sword.
Speaker 2: I still like, I don't see how the math maths
Speaker 2: for him to get trade like, because if I'm if
Speaker 2: I'm the Angels, I'm just like, I'm not trading him.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you how the math I'm gonna risk the
Speaker 1: same thing I told you to. Well, I'm gonna risk it
Speaker 1: you you unload a portion of the Anthony Rendome contract
Speaker 1: on somebody. That's how you make the math math because
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, that one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars over the next three years, you got
Speaker 1: to pay that JABBRONI that's the problem. That's how that
Speaker 1: it's not even I mean.
Speaker 2: Artie Moraine is really struggling to pay him right, he
Speaker 2: can't make his payments, and.
Speaker 1: You know it's here's the thing, It's like, how many
Speaker 1: bad contracts can you eat over the years, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean they've eaten a lot of bad contracts going
Speaker 1: back to Vernon Wells and Josh Hamilton, and you know,
Speaker 1: the end of the Pools deal was not good for them,
Speaker 1: and they always get in the same situation. Now, I
Speaker 1: think the Yankees are actually more of a long shot,
Speaker 1: tell you the truth. I think it's a harder sell.
Speaker 1: I think the Dodgers are the easy sell because it
Speaker 1: doesn't uproot him at all. He's in a spot where
Speaker 1: he could just stay in Southern California, just hop over,
Speaker 1: go play for the Dodgers, and then he's gonna hit
Speaker 1: free agency because I don't think there's any way that
Speaker 1: you can't imagine him going out to free agency. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm looking for when it comes to show hail Tony. Also,
Speaker 1: John P. Morosi has saying that the Dodgers are interested
Speaker 1: in White Sox right hander Lucas Gioledo. Now, because Morosi
Speaker 1: said it, I guarantee you it's untrue. Typically he just
Speaker 1: goes ahead and makes up things. I know this for
Speaker 1: a fact from a few friends of mine in the
Speaker 1: inside of business, that they literally need him to create
Speaker 1: a certain amount of content every day. So he literally
Speaker 1: will just go up and say this makes sense for
Speaker 1: this team, and I'm gonna put this. So there's no
Speaker 1: way that's happening. But that being said, do you have
Speaker 1: a landing spot in mind for Lucas Giolito or any
Speaker 1: other White Sox pictures because the White Sox got to
Speaker 1: start jetising some of these guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, we don't have good rumors. I'll say that.
Speaker 2: I don't know that I'll call anyone's job out right here. Uh,
Speaker 2: but but yeah, look, uh you like like that one,
Speaker 2: uh Joe's math they I mean, you know that's the math.
Speaker 3: Mathin right right.
Speaker 2: Look, we don't have good There's so many teams that
Speaker 2: need starting pitching right now. So I don't think you
Speaker 2: could just say the Dodgers or the Yankees or whatever.
Speaker 2: The d Backs need starting pitching right the Reds. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, so many teams that are Playoff eligible needs
Speaker 2: starting pitching. So you know it's gonna be a bidding
Speaker 2: war for these starters and they're gonna get traded for
Speaker 2: too much, which is why for the last month I've
Speaker 2: been trying to get it in Welsh's head that the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks are probably gonna trade Jordan Lawler for someone that
Speaker 2: is not of Jordan Lawler's ceiling. And he doesn't want
Speaker 2: to hear it. But Perdomo just made the All Star team. Uh,
Speaker 2: they just drafted a shortstop out of Stanford in the
Speaker 2: first round of the draft.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: So like nor is the piece to move for a
Speaker 2: big pitch. Sure, So in fantasy when it.
Speaker 1: Comes to some of these names, let's say you have
Speaker 1: them on your roster, like c sir Gilido or you know,
Speaker 1: Marcus Stroman or some of these guys that have pitched
Speaker 1: relatively well on bad teams this year who might get traded.
Speaker 1: They tend to have a lot, maybe an inflated value
Speaker 1: on the trade market. Are you somebody that wants to
Speaker 1: kind of cash in on that slightly inflated market value
Speaker 1: of those kind of pictures at this juncture the season
Speaker 1: before they get traded, because you know, you when a
Speaker 1: guy goes to a different spot, you never know how
Speaker 1: it's gonna work out. Sometimes those situations are really good.
Speaker 1: You know, you get the c C. Sabathias of the
Speaker 1: world when he goes and he puts the Brewers on
Speaker 1: his back and it becomes an MVP candidate. And then
Speaker 1: you've got some other situations where you trade for a
Speaker 1: guy and he's a complete bust and ends up really
Speaker 1: not helping a team. So are you somebody that just
Speaker 1: holds the line on these guys or do you kick
Speaker 1: the tires on some trade potentially where maybe their values
Speaker 1: is a little higher than should be.
Speaker 2: I like to test the waters, of course, to see
Speaker 2: if someone will give you an overpay. But in general,
Speaker 2: if a pitcher is pitching well and he's going to
Speaker 2: a better team, I want to hold onto that picture.
Speaker 2: So if he is getting moved, if he is getting
Speaker 2: flipped to a different team, like you said, yes, you
Speaker 2: can pick up struggles, new catcher, new staff, new defense
Speaker 2: behind you, different ballpark, different batters, like it's all different.
Speaker 2: But if if that guy is having a good year,
Speaker 2: I'm more gonna trust in whatever he's doing it is correct,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to lean on him keeping that momentum
Speaker 2: when he moves and still playing well. So I think
Speaker 2: for the most part, I want to keep those guys,
Speaker 2: but I'll always listen, always listen for and overpay, and
Speaker 2: don't burn any bridges. Don't be the guy that like,
Speaker 2: when someone offers you a bad trade, you go over
Speaker 2: the top and offer them a worse trade. Don't do that.
Speaker 2: Just be like, hey man, we're not even close. Hey lady,
Speaker 2: this is not working. So you whatever, This.
Speaker 1: Is not work. That's why I said right before my
Speaker 1: diver divorce, I said the same. Oh that right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I said. Yeah, that's exactly the verbiage.
Speaker 1: Oh good time. Let's continue on here with a rookie lookie.
Speaker 1: Because the A's are trying to pretend like they care.
Speaker 1: This is fun, so they're calling up some prospects. Tyler
Speaker 1: Suderstrom is getting the call today. He did appear in
Speaker 1: the Futures Game, so Bodwin may or may not remember that.
Speaker 1: I know it was all a blur. Twenty one year
Speaker 1: old catchers.
Speaker 3: Seven innings the Futures Game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, I think it's always that they don't
Speaker 1: play nine, right, It's always the used.
Speaker 3: To, but they switched to seven. It might have something
Speaker 3: to do with beers.
Speaker 1: When the first started, it was definitely nine, but I
Speaker 1: think it's been seven for a little while. Now. I
Speaker 1: can't Welsh would know that's a Welsh thing. No, I asked, Well,
Speaker 1: he didn't remember either, so really it's been a while.
Speaker 3: I mean it happens once a year. Nobody remembers. We'll
Speaker 3: forget by next year. Oh so, so he's.
Speaker 1: A catcher with twenty home runs, not any speed there
Speaker 1: so the powers for real, it's hitting two fifty four.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's ready necessarily coming from Triple
Speaker 1: A Las Vegas. The power numbers could be inflated because
Speaker 1: it's you know, Las Vegas, and you never know what
Speaker 1: PCL numbers. And then they are also calling up Zach
Speaker 1: Geloff as well, who is hitting three zero four with
Speaker 1: a four oh one OBP much higher. OBP was one
Speaker 1: hundred points higher than Soderstrum. He's at in five twenty
Speaker 1: nine slugging, got twelve homers twenty steals, so he could
Speaker 1: potentially help you out as well. Now to me, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at these guys and Gelloff is the one
Speaker 1: that I would much rather be throwing fab on this week.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on these two a's prospects.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Gelloff.
Speaker 2: Probably maybe in a two catcher league you're looking Solderstrum.
Speaker 3: But I think for the most part, it's it's Gelloff.
Speaker 2: And look, I mean, the the a's are so bad,
Speaker 2: you know, to do these moves really matter?
Speaker 1: This is uh, you know, it's very patronizing. I think
Speaker 1: to the fan base and be like, oh, now we're
Speaker 1: gonna call these kids up or whatever. But I guess
Speaker 1: here's my point is like, what do you serve at
Speaker 1: this point from doing that. It's not like all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you're gonna put your ends in the ballpark.
Speaker 1: Are these kids really ready? Maybe it feels like Gelloff
Speaker 1: is more ready than Soderstrum. But the only thing that
Speaker 1: I can think of from Soderstrum is you want to
Speaker 1: get his feet wet at the major league level catching
Speaker 1: some games. But I'm also concerned then you know, how
Speaker 1: often is he playing? Are you? You know, is he
Speaker 1: gets up to speed? You got to get those.
Speaker 3: Guys experience before they moved in the new ballpark in Vegas.
Speaker 1: I moved to Vegas. Yeah, it's gonna like these guys
Speaker 1: go just stayed in Vegas. Now they got to go
Speaker 1: all the way to Oakland instead, they could have just
Speaker 1: stayed right where they are in six months.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just television.
Speaker 2: It's not that big a drive from Oakland to Vegas, right,
Speaker 2: what is the drive from Oakland to Vegas?
Speaker 3: It's not a salary. Yeah, so I don't know it
Speaker 3: is I mean the West coast.
Speaker 1: It's northern California. Yeah, I imagine I'll look, I'll google
Speaker 1: it while you continue to work.
Speaker 2: But but I mean look with the with the A's,
Speaker 2: I mean it's all condescending. It's like every move they
Speaker 2: do is insulting to the fan base. I had an
Speaker 2: A's fan send me a cell shirt, so I wore
Speaker 2: it to the home run derby. I got a lot
Speaker 2: of compliments on it and everything as well. But yeah,
Speaker 2: in terms of fantasy, it's Geloff, probably ahead of Soda
Speaker 2: STRM unless you're in a two catcher league and you
Speaker 2: have just avoid at that second catcher spot. Maybe try
Speaker 2: Soders some just to see. But yeah, I also am
Speaker 2: with you, Joe. I do not understand what the A
Speaker 2: strategy is by bringing these guys up at this point.
Speaker 2: It maybe you're just rewarding these players because they've been
Speaker 2: playing well.
Speaker 3: Uh you know.
Speaker 2: But you're also throwing a single a team out there
Speaker 2: every day, so maybe you know these are these are
Speaker 2: good moves. Anytime they bring up anybody, it's a good
Speaker 2: move for them.
Speaker 3: But it's also like, what.
Speaker 1: Is the point get off from the stall and base
Speaker 1: standpoints also intriguing. By the way, I nailed it eight hours,
Speaker 1: thirty seven minute, eight hours.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: You know where Vegas is pretty far down there. You know,
Speaker 1: the same amount of.
Speaker 2: Time it takes to get out of Chevez Ravine after
Speaker 2: a Dodgers game, so you know, might as well drive
Speaker 2: to Vegas.
Speaker 1: So A nailed it. By the way, in case you
Speaker 1: missed it. Early in the week, Podcasts Only the Welsh
Speaker 1: and I did a little recap of the MLB drafts,
Speaker 1: So if you're playing in dynasty leagues or even if
Speaker 1: you're not, some really good information on of those players
Speaker 1: against audio onlymans here and you want the prospect takes it.
Speaker 1: I just want to remind everybody because everybody knew we were
Speaker 1: off for a couple of days, and some people I
Speaker 1: know just watch us on YouTube or listen on YouTube.
Speaker 1: You have to go to the podcast fees, so go
Speaker 1: subscribe there and go get that show. It's sure it's
Speaker 1: like fifteen minutes long. We went through that injuries to
Speaker 1: talk about Yondi Diaz on the paternity list, so hits
Speaker 1: a home run on the All Star Game and then
Speaker 1: he says I'll be back in a few days. Max
Speaker 1: Freed will make a second rehab starts Saturday. All eyes
Speaker 1: will be on that, and then it's possibly good news
Speaker 1: for the Astros. Aforementioned to getting booed by everyone in Seattle.
Speaker 1: Altuve with the oblique begins a rehab assignment that's good
Speaker 1: on the weekend, and Jordan Alvarez will begin a minor
Speaker 1: league rehab assignment also at Triple A sugar Land, both
Speaker 1: of them, so that is good news, things moving in
Speaker 1: the right direction for both of them. Cason brings up
Speaker 1: a really good point. I'm going to get to that
Speaker 1: when we talk about betting. Before we get all that, first,
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Speaker 1: right around the corner also. But for me today, Tyler Glass, now,
Speaker 1: I know eight is a big number, but Kansas City
Speaker 1: is the team that keeps on giving strikeouts, so I
Speaker 1: think you can get over. I'm thinking double digits for
Speaker 1: mister Glass now today, Carlos Rodin making his triumphant return,
Speaker 1: six is the number for him against Colorado. I know
Speaker 1: Colorado's bad, but I just don't know how long Rodnna's
Speaker 1: in for this game. So I'm gonna go under on
Speaker 1: that one. And wander Franco in that same game with
Speaker 1: Casey eight hitter fantasy points, I'm gonna go over that. Bogs.
Speaker 1: You have any prize picks for the people today?
Speaker 2: First of you see how disorganized they were at the
Speaker 2: All Star Game. They didn't even introduce the raised players
Speaker 2: on the red carpet thing. They just left McClanahan and
Speaker 2: Franco out.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't even notice that. Just want to be
Speaker 1: crappier than that. Was the uniforms. And I know I
Speaker 1: sound like an old man. I hate it, I hate it,
Speaker 1: but they were terrible.
Speaker 2: They had the fields because the umpires in the National
Speaker 2: League had the same uniform.
Speaker 1: It looked terrible. It's they looked cheap on television. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you. On TV, they look cheap. They look like
Speaker 1: what you would get when you play I don't know,
Speaker 1: all stars at you know, the Little League or something,
Speaker 1: or travel ball. I mean I had uniforms that look
Speaker 1: better than that at times when I was playing travel ball. Unbelievable,
Speaker 1: I could. I like when they wear the uniforms of
Speaker 1: their team and that you're representing your team.
Speaker 2: I think that's part of the thing, don't you. I
Speaker 2: could not agree anymore.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. Usually you yell at me for
Speaker 1: being the old man yelling at the sky. And finally
Speaker 1: I've gotten you there, so no, I'm already.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm over forty I'm there with you now,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're you're you're like Peter Pan, like I
Speaker 1: said before the show, Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 2: You? And Wells said when when you were talking about me,
Speaker 2: tell me you're single without kids.
Speaker 3: Without telling me you're single without kids, you could just.
Speaker 1: Bogman is in Seattle all weekend for every event, not
Speaker 1: just for one thing.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna die alone, but I'm gonna sleep in every
Speaker 2: day up until I go into the dirt.
Speaker 3: So uh look at that.
Speaker 2: Sleep Well, Well here's my next sitting us back on track, Joe,
Speaker 2: I've got Edward Driguez.
Speaker 1: Over Farmers Market at eight am. You have to wake up.
Speaker 3: No, I've never been What is eight am? Does that really?
Speaker 1: I would wake you up at eight am to the
Speaker 1: farmer's market. I love a good farmers But anyway, thank
Speaker 1: you pass. I'm gonna go over six k's for Edwardrigez
Speaker 1: versus Seattle. He has the second highest k percentage in
Speaker 1: the league, twenty five point seven percent right now, and
Speaker 1: EDWARDO looked good. I think he had six k's and
Speaker 1: like four and a third in his return off of
Speaker 1: the i L last week.
Speaker 2: Kyle Schwarber over one and a half hits runs rb
Speaker 2: I c's four for twelve with two bombs against dar
Speaker 2: So if he just gets a hold of one, I
Speaker 2: can I think he can hit that in Trey Turner
Speaker 2: over one and a half total bases. Also against Tarvish, he's
Speaker 2: seven for twenty with two bombs, so hitting well of
Speaker 2: the three hundred there.
Speaker 3: So those are the three that I like for today.
Speaker 1: So let's talk a little betting here because Cason brought
Speaker 1: up a really good point, which is something that I've
Speaker 1: been talking about for I don't know two weeks now,
Speaker 1: which is with Otani potentially getting traded, there's value getting
Speaker 1: reinserted now into this American League MVP conversation. Corey Seeger
Speaker 1: is at the top of the board after Otani a
Speaker 1: plus seventeen hundred. I don't think Corey Zieger is winning MVP.
Speaker 3: I just don't.
Speaker 1: Marcus Simeon, Wander Franco or plus thirty five hundred, so
Speaker 1: is Bobashett and Randy rose Arena. You know what that
Speaker 1: tells you, nobody has an idea. If it's the book
Speaker 1: is completely lost. So that being said, I want to
Speaker 1: talk about this a little bit because I think there
Speaker 1: are some interesting names that might potentially start to get
Speaker 1: into this conversation in the second half. Now, if Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge comes back sooner than later and there's this triumphant
Speaker 1: return with a bad toe and he's a warrior. Believe me,
Speaker 1: that narrative is gonna kick it into high gear. He
Speaker 1: is at plus twenty thousand right now further award, So
Speaker 1: just putting that out there. If you love Aaron Jodge
Speaker 1: that narrative, there's a narrative. Adley Rutchman at eighty five
Speaker 1: hundred is interesting because the Orioles just haven't gone away.
Speaker 1: He's a very likable figure. Boy.
Speaker 2: He had one top switch hitting in the home run
Speaker 2: Derby two by the way they were.
Speaker 3: I like it about that.
Speaker 1: He's an interesting one to watch. Vladdie hasn't played up
Speaker 1: to his ability in the first half. If he has
Speaker 1: a monstrous second half, that narrative could build. Jose Ramirez
Speaker 1: another guy if Cleveland wins, I would pay close attention to.
Speaker 1: He's also plus eight thousand. Lattis plus seven thousand and
Speaker 1: then see the problem with the guys on the Rays
Speaker 1: is like a Rosarin in Wander Franco cancel each other
Speaker 1: out a little bit. Same thing with the Texas guys
Speaker 1: to a certain except Boba Schett and vlad Jose Ramiers
Speaker 1: and Anatlie Rushman are two guys on their own. Basically bogs,
Speaker 1: but I think are really interesting. Do you have any
Speaker 1: ones that you would want to point out to watch
Speaker 1: where's adults? Did you? Says is a plus two at
Speaker 1: twenty thousand and two with Judge, he's way down in
Speaker 1: the l trop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think that's the Rangers won't get switcher.
Speaker 1: Him and Seer though, are.
Speaker 2: A little bit a ros Arena and Fronco, you know,
Speaker 2: like the teammates eating into each other. I mean, I
Speaker 2: just don't think Luise Robert is going to stay healthy.
Speaker 2: So that's difficult. One, you gave a number.
Speaker 1: And playing for a nothing team, a team that's not
Speaker 1: going anywhere.
Speaker 2: What about what about Tucker? Tucker's hitting two eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Tucker's at plus eighty five hundred thirteen fifteen swipes. Alvarez
Speaker 2: is going to come back and might sarge that team.
Speaker 1: So that's the thing. Alvarez is plus twenty thousand and two,
Speaker 1: so alare would be up.
Speaker 2: There if Astro surge, like they trade for a pitcher
Speaker 2: or something. When you look at those numbers at the
Speaker 2: end of the year, between all three of those guys,
Speaker 2: Tuckers are going to be the best because he's healthy
Speaker 2: the whole year.
Speaker 1: Probably probably. I think Hose Ramirez is a guy that
Speaker 1: has been underappreciated for the last couple of years, and
Speaker 1: Cleveland has overtaken them for that division, and he has
Speaker 1: got you want to talk about narrative of no help.
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez is nothing. He has nothing around them. He
Speaker 1: needs to get out of nothing, he.
Speaker 3: Needs and he's not as good as he was.
Speaker 1: But he went back for the hometown. Jose went home
Speaker 1: for the hometown discount. You know, this is what happens sometimes.
Speaker 1: But yeah, even on this market, everybody because it's one
Speaker 1: that's moving.
Speaker 2: He's a good one, but it's all null and void.
Speaker 2: If a show he gets traded to the Yankees, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So it does, right, But if he gets traded to
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, those numbers get cut by potentially.
Speaker 2: I mean, I might take Otani's numbers to this point
Speaker 2: versus anybody else's for the whole season.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe now, maybe, but I don't think the
Speaker 1: voting public, the voting body will that's true. Now they might,
Speaker 1: But here's the other thing too. You could see that
Speaker 1: Otani number still stay for al MVP and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden become plus money. Yeah, that's just if he
Speaker 1: gets traded to the National League and nobody emerges in
Speaker 1: the American League, he could still you could still get
Speaker 1: getting plus money, and I bet it start at two fifty,
Speaker 1: So we'll see how that goes. Him and Julio are
Speaker 1: the only two MVP investments I made previously, but we'll
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Speaker 1: know everyone's excited we're back to baseball. I would be
Speaker 1: looking at uh Dean Kramer, John Gray eight point six,
Speaker 1: eight point nine. Those are some nice cheap options potentially
Speaker 1: in tournaments in cash. Tyler Glass now against Kansas City,
Speaker 1: Lock it up, baby, he's had some time to rest
Speaker 1: a little bit. Line up that strikes out a ton,
Speaker 1: So give me that. Give me the stacks of the Yankees,
Speaker 1: the Rays, and the Texas Rangers, and if you want
Speaker 1: another big arm pitcher, Luis Castillo. Potentially also some value
Speaker 1: plays Austin Hayes a two point nine, Henry Davis at
Speaker 1: two point seven, and Owen Miller in the middle of
Speaker 1: that Brewers line up at two point five. I'm going
Speaker 1: with Randy Rosa Rain because I love that Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: line up today for my home run call, Bogman, where
Speaker 1: are you going for your home run call?
Speaker 2: Give me Kyle Schwarber against Starvish. I just I feel
Speaker 2: like he gets into one today.
Speaker 1: There you go. And looking at the home run board,
Speaker 1: JJ Tator still at the top right now. Actually, we
Speaker 1: have to update this after the Derby. I know that
Speaker 1: Wonkee was doing some Derby stuff, so this was pre Derby.
Speaker 1: On Monday, we'll have the updated version for everybody. And
Speaker 1: again I picked Tulio. I don't get forty or forty one.
Speaker 1: I don't know you should. You should get forty one.
Speaker 1: That would be super fun. If everyone picked somebody and
Speaker 1: that was just your numbers that went up, that'd be
Speaker 1: a good time for sure. So I want to thank
Speaker 1: Scott Boglin for hanging out with us today, dealing into
Speaker 1: the Welsh. We'll be back again on Monday with the Welsh,
Speaker 1: and we'll be back going five days a week, so
Speaker 1: we're right back at it. Everybody, Baseball's not leaving you,
Speaker 1: don't worry, not like some of those other places that
Speaker 1: just disappear on you. So Bog's great stuff today. Hope
Speaker 1: you enjoy the rest of your weekend, and everybody who
Speaker 1: listened and watch enjoy the rest of your weekend too.
Speaker 1: That'll do it for us, but the story of the
Speaker 1: game goes on for Bogman. I'm Joey P. We'll see
Speaker 1: you next time, kids, Joe Hay