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Speaker 1: But before we get to any of that, Welsh, I
Speaker 1: hope you're doing well. This this lovely afternoon, My time, morning,
Speaker 1: your time, and always always my friend. Did you watch
Speaker 1: any baseball last night? I guess that's what I watch.
Speaker 2: Some of the baseball. I watch some of the baseball,
Speaker 2: some of the things. In the midday, I actually went
Speaker 2: on a nice little rant about you know what Surelove,
Speaker 2: Surelove does YouTube games. Really excited for the next Apple
Speaker 2: Plus game. Maybe something over on Discovery Plus will be next.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll have some who knows, maybe E Entertainment.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I really I'm loving that. I'm really loving when I'm
Speaker 2: on my MLB dot TV package and I can not
Speaker 2: watch a game, but I gotta go subscribe to Paramount
Speaker 2: Paramount Plus to watch you know, Royals and Tigers or whatever.
Speaker 1: If you have a Paramount Plus membership, I'd like to
Speaker 1: borrow it because I want to watch that series about
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Speaker 1: Bogman does.
Speaker 2: The key is everybody should know this in the whole
Speaker 2: world is all of Bogman's close circle. No one actually
Speaker 2: owns anything as far as streaming services. He does, and
Speaker 2: we just use his. So I'll give you his I
Speaker 2: probably won't do it on air, but I'll give it
Speaker 2: to you after.
Speaker 1: I give it on air. It's fine, I'm sure. All right,
Speaker 1: let's give some headlines on I. Let's start with Cole Calhoun.
Speaker 1: I mean, the dude's been red hot two run, home run,
Speaker 1: scored three runs yesterday. Lucas Giolito, seven strikeouts and a
Speaker 1: victory over the red Sox. That was our boy last
Speaker 1: night in DFS. Our other boy was Christian Xavier fanning
Speaker 1: nine in a win over the Guardians. I want to
Speaker 1: talk and pause for a second about Christian Javier. You know,
Speaker 1: this is one of my biggest names that I wanted
Speaker 1: in pre draft stuff that we talked about in draft season,
Speaker 1: we talked about and even so there was time to
Speaker 1: be discouraged at a certain point, but I knew eventually
Speaker 1: a spot would open up and eventually Christian Xavier would
Speaker 1: shine and Welsh it feels so good to watch this
Speaker 1: guy pitch so.
Speaker 2: Well, almost twelve k per nine. He's got a very
Speaker 2: lo lo sub to era with also is encouraging like
Speaker 2: an x fIF that's just a little over three, so
Speaker 2: you're not like crazy overbearing on it, and a lot
Speaker 2: of the other metrics are just in line. He's not
Speaker 2: given up homers, which he's seen even more success on.
Speaker 2: It's one of the better arms in the rotation right now.
Speaker 2: You're that rotation that's been all long, all across the board.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of a Christian Javier guy, and Christian Javier
Speaker 2: might continuously be someone we have to put more of
Speaker 2: a dot on when we're looking obviously at dfs like
Speaker 2: you called yesterday, but you know, even in like a
Speaker 2: player prop type of stuff, because that's a guy. That's
Speaker 2: a guy right now. Nine strikeouts on the Guardians. The
Speaker 2: Guardians don't strike out, at least in theory. They have
Speaker 2: not been striking out, though that number seems to be
Speaker 2: increasing a little bit. And maybe even we'll attack it
Speaker 2: later today.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see if we want to attack on
Speaker 1: these other things here. Eva Longoria hit his first two
Speaker 1: home runs of twenty twenty two as the San Francisco
Speaker 1: Giants continue to just pound away at New York Mets
Speaker 1: pitching over the last few days. Also, Thario Estrada something
Speaker 1: also to talk about. You know, a lot of people
Speaker 1: thought when Las Della came back that he would lose
Speaker 1: playing time. He's hitting four hundred over his last eight games.
Speaker 1: I just did a way Wire video. He was part
Speaker 1: of the guys that I broke down, and it just
Speaker 1: feels like this is a guy that can help you.
Speaker 1: He's got six dolen bases already. I don't know why
Speaker 1: he is only rostered still in sixty percent of formats.
Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 2: Well, I think I think a lot of it was
Speaker 2: maybe about like him not being able, like you said,
Speaker 2: to be able to keep that spot on the endfield,
Speaker 2: like with Longoria coming back, with Lostella coming back, it
Speaker 2: seemed logical that he would go away. But that's former
Speaker 2: Yankees prospect Airostrata saw him in the Arizona Fall League
Speaker 2: back in the day. Always made good contact, could run
Speaker 2: a little bit, and he's doing it like a really
Speaker 2: high level. I've been a little dismissive of him early on,
Speaker 2: but if the Giants are going to play him and
Speaker 2: he's going to continue getting run even as a super
Speaker 2: utility player, that'll play, and that's going to work. And
Speaker 2: he's a very good way for wire pickup right now especially,
Speaker 2: I would say it's like a bench bat that you
Speaker 2: can kind of throw at multiple different spots in your lineup.
Speaker 2: He's one of those really good bench bats to get
Speaker 2: in and probably better than guys that you're sitting on
Speaker 2: right now, or you know, some cold starters that you're
Speaker 2: waiting to get hot.
Speaker 1: Harold Castro his first multi homer game for the Detroit
Speaker 1: Tigers yesterday. Also some good news. We love the Shane
Speaker 1: Boz updates two and a third scoreless innings in his
Speaker 1: latest rehab. So here you go, bos floating around on
Speaker 1: your waiver wire. Go go grab them. Now, let's talk
Speaker 1: a lot a little of the injuries Yankees. But young
Speaker 1: Carlos Stanton on the il Stanton apparently doesn't have a
Speaker 1: calf strain. It's an ankle inflammation. I assume that's better.
Speaker 1: But again, this is just par for the Stanton. I
Speaker 1: think it is because the calf strain is one of
Speaker 1: those things that we've seen take a long time, and
Speaker 1: when the guys rush back all of a sudden, they
Speaker 1: have a bigger issue at the ankle. If it's an
Speaker 1: ankle sprain or high ankle sprain, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. I mean, he's not a running back,
Speaker 1: for God's sake. It's a little bit different in terms
Speaker 1: of recovery. Ronald of Kunya with a quad scratch from
Speaker 1: the Braves lineup. So Couna seems to be having a
Speaker 1: lot of secondary leg issues. Do you think this is
Speaker 1: just maybe pushing things too soon? This is repercussions for
Speaker 1: coming back earlier than anticipated, or is just a fluke.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's necessarily the case. I think
Speaker 2: you probably have a lot of just early missed time.
Speaker 2: You know, remember as much as these guys have spent time,
Speaker 2: how many times you hear these dudes, they's just like
Speaker 2: a springing, these guys complain. But look at like even
Speaker 2: this year, the guys that just weren't, you know, in
Speaker 2: early throwing programs and early training programs in like January
Speaker 2: and February, that were rusty and missed time, and how
Speaker 2: much it actually is needed because it's it's part of
Speaker 2: like that body rhythm, you know how it's like your
Speaker 2: body just gets used to your body's used to if
Speaker 2: you run every day or whatever type of exercise you do.
Speaker 2: As much as they complain, that's the process, and Acuna
Speaker 2: was taken away from that process for a bit of time.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm that surprised that he's dealing
Speaker 2: with just some little aches. You're also having like a
Speaker 2: transitional weather period, you know, where you're getting into a
Speaker 2: lot hotter months and the overall weather can screw with you.
Speaker 2: It's weird stuff I'm talking about. In the day, I
Speaker 2: could just be like, yeah, it's just fluky, but I
Speaker 2: think that's kind of what it is. It's a lot
Speaker 2: of weird miss time that he hasn't had the rigors
Speaker 2: of the everyday baseball for months and months. Like a
Speaker 2: lot of these guys. You also got weather stuff. I'm
Speaker 2: not worried about it. I'm not worried about acuna whatsoever
Speaker 2: with these But you know, I'm also the injury guy
Speaker 2: where I'm like, man, these guys really do get hurt. Huh,
Speaker 2: this is crazy.
Speaker 1: We could standing, well, look, you're willing to deal with
Speaker 1: it for a premium player like Akunya. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, it's a little concerning. That seems to be
Speaker 1: different issues with the legs, and I think that's that's
Speaker 1: always the thing you're concerned when a guy comes back
Speaker 1: and he pushes a knee surgery too soon, that they
Speaker 1: tend to have the ripple effect of other things not
Speaker 1: working in conjunction properly or favoring or whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: But again, more just fluky.
Speaker 2: The interesting thing to monitor with him would be then
Speaker 2: if that running cools down, because that was the thing
Speaker 2: we're all shocked about, like, oh my god, look at him,
Speaker 2: he's just running. The guy's just running. As he came back.
Speaker 2: We thought that could cool down. Maybe this is going
Speaker 2: to be something where the team pulls off that green
Speaker 2: light a little bit. He's already still in eight bases
Speaker 2: in seventeen games so far this year, so something to consider.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of you, you happy trigger finger
Speaker 2: trade guys, might want to be on the lookout. I
Speaker 2: don't want to trade Ronald Lacoutney or anything like that,
Speaker 2: but I think it's a possibility that the stolen base
Speaker 2: numbers come down, So just something to consider.
Speaker 1: Jeff McNeil ran right into a wall yesterday. He left
Speaker 1: the game and Ramon Loriano for a cat scan on Thursday,
Speaker 1: so hopefully everything works out with him. Now, I'm heading
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Speaker 2: Can I also add Joe that it is an insane
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Speaker 2: They could buy for us too if they wanted. They
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Speaker 1: I will make more room in the freezer. I will
Speaker 1: figure it out. I don't know how the Jim Biden
Speaker 1: I forget is my freezer. I will figure that. I'll
Speaker 1: buy a new one. Can we talk about this? Can
Speaker 1: we talk about this article on mlb dot com? The
Speaker 1: book is out on how to Bitch vladd Junior Guerrero
Speaker 1: slugging down one hundred and fifty four points from last year.
Speaker 1: So this is a fascinating piece on MLB dot com
Speaker 1: right now that I saw by Mike Petriello, and basically
Speaker 1: he is dug deep. He's done a very good job
Speaker 1: of the research here and in terms of what's going
Speaker 1: on location wise. So now that somebody is basically a
Speaker 1: writer can go and find this. Clearly, if a writer's
Speaker 1: figured this out, other teams have figured this out. So
Speaker 1: if Laddie has to make an adjustment, I think Laddie's
Speaker 1: up to the task. Do you.
Speaker 2: Of all players, Absolutely, he's one of the He's got
Speaker 2: one of the best batter's eyes that I've ever seen
Speaker 2: in person, you know, in the twenty on what games
Speaker 2: I saw in the Arizona Fall League. I mean, this
Speaker 2: guy isn't up there swinging. This isn't Kalnick, this isn't Adele.
Speaker 2: I mean, you guys, I don't even need to sell this.
Speaker 2: You guys know that you can see this guy has
Speaker 2: a very specific part of the zone he's looking at.
Speaker 2: But I think he's gotten a little bit more aggressive.
Speaker 2: I saw and I've just clicked open this piece, so
Speaker 2: I can't let go and read everything that it is
Speaker 2: about it. But as a team, these guys are getting
Speaker 2: destroyed by sliders right now, These these pitches. These breaking
Speaker 2: pitches off with some velocity are killing them. It was
Speaker 2: primed when I watched the Hunter Green start just the
Speaker 2: other day, because you know, he's been primary sliders. He
Speaker 2: got the he struck out Boba Schett in the first start.
Speaker 2: They're chasing at such a crazy degree. I don't know
Speaker 2: what that's about. But Vladimir Guerrero is probably one of
Speaker 2: the top five players in baseball that can make these adjustments.
Speaker 2: And I that's that's why I don't have a big
Speaker 2: worry about vlad I mean, you know, he just makes
Speaker 2: it happen. Even when he wasn't lofting the ball in
Speaker 2: his rookie year, he was still hitting the ball. So
Speaker 2: this is why I'm gonna check this out. I'm interested
Speaker 2: to read this all right.
Speaker 1: On top of that, I know everybody loves a good
Speaker 1: extrapolation nation that we love to drop here on the program,
Speaker 1: But I will say we were I think both of us.
Speaker 1: I know IWA was very very high on Francisco Lindor's
Speaker 1: value this year. I thought he was being grossly undervalued,
Speaker 1: grossly underappreciated. And if you're looking right now in terms
Speaker 1: of what he's giving you, he's on pace for twenty
Speaker 1: five homers, one hundred and fifteen rebees, twenty five doubles,
Speaker 1: and one hundred and eight runs scored. Now that's pretty
Speaker 1: good return investment. And this is what I was trying
Speaker 1: to say to people. I know last year was a disappointment,
Speaker 1: but remember this for next year when the guys were
Speaker 1: struggling the first year of the big contract and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden they drop around or two in drafts,
Speaker 1: to be aggressive on them. If they have an extensive
Speaker 1: track record of being a certain player, there's usually a
Speaker 1: good chance they returned to being that certain player. Again,
Speaker 1: this is more for the premium kind of guys than
Speaker 1: those bid level free agents. But what do you think
Speaker 1: of Lindor's pace and what he's doing so far compared
Speaker 1: to last year obviously, which was such a disappointing first half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I translate this type of stuff also to it's
Speaker 2: the same kind of thing with prospects. Like the more
Speaker 2: track record you have of players, and that's probably why
Speaker 2: not everybody, but a lot of people you come back
Speaker 2: down this path When guys have a track record of
Speaker 2: success and then they fall off, it doesn't We shouldn't
Speaker 2: just throw them away and discount them. Francisco Lindor was
Speaker 2: I think a prime example of that transitional trading stuff
Speaker 2: going on learning who he was as a player. This
Speaker 2: is someone that I bought back into because this is
Speaker 2: a first round talent. That's also a unique thing when
Speaker 2: you see guys that have in the past represented first
Speaker 2: round talent. It's something that can be easier to buy
Speaker 2: in on later rounds when you know you can start
Speaker 2: finding first round talent in the fifth or sixth round.
Speaker 2: This the guy that was just struggling on making quality contact.
Speaker 2: That is a changeable thing. I think everything, at the
Speaker 2: end of the day is something that can be changed.
Speaker 2: It could be fixed. In baseball, I mean, we're seeing
Speaker 2: guys like Brandon Drury succeed at a level that isn't
Speaker 2: He literally didn't do any of this all of his
Speaker 2: major league gears combined. So it's all possible. But I
Speaker 2: think that talent level and that previous track record are
Speaker 2: things that make the probability even higher. So I buy
Speaker 2: into Lindor. I buy into him being a twenty twenty guy.
Speaker 2: This is what I was trying to pay for in
Speaker 2: those later fifth rounds and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Now I know the peanuts and the Cracker Jacks are
Speaker 1: going crazy right now because one of our unofficial mascots
Speaker 1: of the show, Ray Liota, apparently has passed away and
Speaker 1: this news has broken. Now. I was waiting to get
Speaker 1: some verification on this because I don't trust Twitter whenever
Speaker 1: they say anybody I do. While you were talking about
Speaker 1: I was waiting for some more news outlets because I'm
Speaker 1: a responsible journalist. I'm a responsible member of the media,
Speaker 1: and I just don't go on air with anything like
Speaker 1: Ron Burgundy would. So Yeah, apparently at the age of
Speaker 1: sixty seven, this is confirmed by TMZ and a few
Speaker 1: other outlets that actually, you know, tend to verify these things,
Speaker 1: and I see like Deadline, Hollywood and a few other
Speaker 1: verified places have it. Uh so very sad news. This
Speaker 1: is if you're a baseball fan, this is your Field
Speaker 1: of Dreams guy. This is your Joe Jackson. This is
Speaker 1: if you're a Good Fellas fan, this is your Henry Hill,
Speaker 1: a guy that's you.
Speaker 2: Were just talking about. Now, you really need that paramount. Plus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as far back as I can remember, I always
Speaker 1: wanted to be a gangster. But Tommy, I mean, look
Speaker 1: you look at some of the films He's done too.
Speaker 1: I mean Copland another great one. Uh, certainly he was
Speaker 1: good in Blow and of course everybody loves Operation Dumbo Drop.
Speaker 1: I think one of the great classics of our time.
Speaker 2: He was in I don't remember him being in b movie.
Speaker 1: I'm a bee. What's the problem. I don't understand. I
Speaker 1: got all these bees. They're buzzing everywhere. It's crazy, Karen,
Speaker 1: what is your problem?
Speaker 2: Play this the rest of the show.
Speaker 1: I think, Actually, but I mean it's that I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. That steaming pile that was the Many Saints
Speaker 1: of Newark movie. He was definitely the highlight of that film,
Speaker 1: without doubt. I mean that movie was absolutely track.
Speaker 2: It was a movie. This is this is like totally
Speaker 2: off the beaten path of all of these movies. Was
Speaker 2: Identity wasn't because it wasn't the John Cusack movie that.
Speaker 1: Gat Yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 2: I completely forgot he was as I'm looking at discography.
Speaker 1: If you build it, he will come. But yeah, that's
Speaker 1: to do a baseball show and having Raleiota or Kevin
Speaker 1: Costner die in the middle of it is definitely kind
Speaker 1: of a shocking thing.
Speaker 2: Again, the chat was the chat was exploding.
Speaker 1: It chat was exploding and but look, you know again,
Speaker 1: we have to kind of be careful with these things sometimes,
Speaker 1: so very sad news. We'll try to pivot off of
Speaker 1: that and we'll continue to celebrate the life of Raleiota,
Speaker 1: who just last week we were doing chantings commercials here.
Speaker 2: Three days ago. No, we're doing it this week.
Speaker 1: We were doing it like the gun and the chantics. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what you do. Let's let's go to fun facts
Speaker 1: because that'll pull us out of the adult drums. Welsh
Speaker 1: loves things that never happen, right. Spencer Stryder's five strikeouts
Speaker 1: in two and two thirds hitless, scoreless innings tonight give
Speaker 1: him thirty seven k's in twenty four and a third
Speaker 1: innings this season, second most strikeouts among the Major League
Speaker 1: Baseball relievers. So Spencer Streider certainly dominating right now. Any
Speaker 1: thoughts on, you know, if you're looking for just some
Speaker 1: extra strikeouts, is this a guy that people should be
Speaker 1: adding to their roster if they have.
Speaker 2: One thousand percent. I'm not the biggest, like you know,
Speaker 2: stack up on all the relievers and play ratios and
Speaker 2: stuff like that. There's a few Spencer Strider's number one.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you this right now. Spencer Striter next year
Speaker 2: will be the cheat code. If you remember, I think
Speaker 2: I said it on here with you in the preseason
Speaker 2: when you're in points. If you want to cheat code this,
Speaker 2: get Michael Kopek who qualified at reliever because he was
Speaker 2: a reliever all last year and you could put him
Speaker 2: in that spot. Look at you now, Spencer Strider will
Speaker 2: be the ultimate cheat code next year. He might be
Speaker 2: in a rotation sometime soon. He is bonkers at his
Speaker 2: strikeout rate right now. This is I think you're gonna
Speaker 2: find a hard time getting him off of this roll.
Speaker 2: But this is what he does. I don't think in
Speaker 2: any format you need to justify picking up Spencer Strider.
Speaker 2: Put him out there. You're gonna get five strikeouts in
Speaker 2: two innings. You're gonna get it once or twice a week.
Speaker 2: Get Spencer Strider. He is phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Another thing that will put a smile on your face.
Speaker 1: This day in baseball history, in nineteen ninety three, this
Speaker 1: is the day that the ball went off Jose Canseeco's
Speaker 1: head and over the fence. So that is all time
Speaker 1: great I'll give you. Do you remember who hit the ball?
Speaker 1: That is the question. For the peanuts of the Cracker Jacks.
Speaker 1: Here's your trivia for the day. Who hit the ball
Speaker 1: then went off Jose Canseeco's head and then offer a
Speaker 1: home run?
Speaker 2: I don't. The only thing I wanted to add is
Speaker 2: I have something built in me now every time I
Speaker 2: see a guy right at the wall jumping for it,
Speaker 2: but I think there's like a fifty to fifty chance
Speaker 2: it's gonna bounce off of his head or his glove
Speaker 2: and it's gonna go over. I always think it every
Speaker 2: time I look him, like, well, there comes a ball,
Speaker 2: it's gonna bounce. I just think these guys are sometimes
Speaker 2: like out in Spaceland, and it never happens. It never,
Speaker 2: It just rarely really happens. Cansea go? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? All right, let's move on to some of the
Speaker 1: stat heroes from yesterday. We talked about Christian Hovey earn
Speaker 1: his nine strikeouts. How about Eric Fetti six k's or
Speaker 1: six innings, six and two thirds for you, Darvish seven
Speaker 1: k's two earned, JP Sears who shops at Macy's ironically
Speaker 1: five k's, no earned, five innings, pitch Paul Blackburn no
Speaker 1: earns over five innings once again, just I love that
Speaker 1: Mike Mayer puts these in and every week whenever Blackburn starts,
Speaker 1: he has to put him in the stat heroes, and
Speaker 1: I know it irks him. It's just great. He did
Speaker 1: walk five guys. It wasn't his best outing, but yeah,
Speaker 1: still getting that helping, that whipping that era baby, Let's
Speaker 1: let's watch that whip and lots of that. Paul Blackburn,
Speaker 1: Lucas Gielito seven k's over six innings, Robbie Ray three
Speaker 1: earned ten strikeouts for Robbie Ray. Another bounce back there,
Speaker 1: and that was guy to trade for last week. So
Speaker 1: hopefully you did. Harold Castro two dingers, Eva Longoria two dingers,
Speaker 1: Cole Calhoun red hot, Dansby Swanson four for five with
Speaker 1: a homer, Joey Vado one home run, two for three,
Speaker 1: Seth Brown, same thing. Also we had Bryce Harper four
Speaker 1: for five and Trevor Larnick with a home run. Also,
Speaker 1: any stat eros that pop out to you welshit. You
Speaker 1: want to mention.
Speaker 2: I love seeing Bryce Harper continue this. You know, I
Speaker 2: will tell you somebody that I keep watching and I'm
Speaker 2: kind of impressed with It's Jack Swinsky who had one
Speaker 2: for three. He had the homer. The three RBIs in
Speaker 2: the stolen base little combo meal, if you will, homers
Speaker 2: and stolen bases. He's one of those weird dudes that
Speaker 2: you know. He came up way before they even considered
Speaker 2: bringing up Oneal Cruz, and Twinsky looks like he's here
Speaker 2: to stay. He hits the ball pretty well. This is
Speaker 2: like a solid third fourth outfielder. But for a Pirates team,
Speaker 2: is gonna, you know, get major run. He's shown a
Speaker 2: little bit of power, he can show a little bit
Speaker 2: of speed, he hits a little bit, and I don't
Speaker 2: think he's going anywhere even when this team decides to
Speaker 2: bring up Oneal Cruz at whatever point that'll be, if
Speaker 2: it's going to be a replacement of Kyle Mitchell or
Speaker 2: it's going to be a short stop, it just doesn't
Speaker 2: affect him. So Swinsky is I think definitely a deep
Speaker 2: league option, just someone to keep your eye on if
Speaker 2: you're dealing with injuries. I don't think he's a ten
Speaker 2: or twelve team over any starter, but I am impressed
Speaker 2: with him.
Speaker 1: Our own doctor Glenn got the trivia question right. It
Speaker 1: was Carlos Martinez who hit the ball that went off
Speaker 1: Jose Canseco's head. Carlos Martinez is the answer. Here's your
Speaker 1: zero's Thomas the puck who's been in the Mets system
Speaker 1: for many years now. He came up and made a
Speaker 1: spot start and immediately we'll go get Zent back down.
Speaker 1: Nine earned runs, four homers allowed. He can talk about
Speaker 1: not being ready. Read Debt Meurs five earned. We told
Speaker 1: you to trade him after the hitter. It's the only
Speaker 1: thing you could do. Ranger Suarez five earned over four innings.
Speaker 1: He's not been great to Kyle Hendricks five earned four k's.
Speaker 1: And Charlie Morton here we go again. Welch, just when
Speaker 1: you thought it was safe to go out, Charlie Morton
Speaker 1: again four and a third, four earned nine hits. I
Speaker 1: think it's over and makes me sad, but I can him.
Speaker 1: All this hurts the braves. The braves better go out
Speaker 1: and acquire another starting picture, because if Charlie Morton is
Speaker 1: done and it's starting to look like age is finally
Speaker 1: caught up and father time is caught up with Charlie Morton,
Speaker 1: they need more help in the starting rotation. Do you agree?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Are you surprised that? Well? The one thing I
Speaker 2: throw out is you got Spencer Strider just sitting out there.
Speaker 2: You're putting him in long relief roles. Maybe swap those two,
Speaker 2: Maybe swap Strider and Morton. Maybe create a monster at
Speaker 2: a Strider in Morton by the way, Maybe lock those
Speaker 2: two together. Maybe a Strider or start the game and
Speaker 2: Morton come in in more of like a relief role.
Speaker 2: Just things to consider. But are you shocked that there
Speaker 2: has been no real trades? Like look at this now,
Speaker 2: I see the Mets and the Braves should be punching
Speaker 2: it out to try to get the next big starter,
Speaker 2: but we're almost in June. I always feel like there's
Speaker 2: like a trade or two, and it seems like with
Speaker 2: the expanded playoffs and everybody in June.
Speaker 1: Yet I think everybody waits till Memorial Day, and then
Speaker 1: I think that's when the market starts heating up, because
Speaker 1: I think organizations want to be patient, like I'm sure
Speaker 1: the Braves want to be patient with Charlie Morton, but
Speaker 1: now I think the pay and they started to see
Speaker 1: turn around, but now it's starting to run thin. And
Speaker 1: I think if you're the Mets, you're looking okay Peterson Pitschwell,
Speaker 1: so Pucky was terrible. You have some of the other
Speaker 1: guys who been inconsistent. I mean, you just had a
Speaker 1: bad star from Chris Bassett. That can't make you feel good.
Speaker 1: Bassett's been that guy you know that you were going
Speaker 1: to depend on, and all of a sudden he's let
Speaker 1: you down. So I think it's imminent, but we shall
Speaker 1: see what happens for those guys.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Some of the hitters last night, Hazus Aguilar over five
Speaker 1: with two k's, Mike Trout, oh for four with the
Speaker 1: golden sombrero. Oh my goodness, gracious, Mike Mayor should probably
Speaker 1: lose a home run because he called, you know, Mike
Speaker 1: Trout and had four strikeouts. I think you should make
Speaker 1: them from his tally.
Speaker 2: We'll make that an official thing that started yesterday. So
Speaker 2: take one off of the board.
Speaker 1: All right, take away, remove it. Byron Buckston over five
Speaker 1: with a K. He's hitting a buck fifty two in
Speaker 1: may does have five dingers this month. But what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the Byron bucks then? Going south a
Speaker 1: little bit. I know you're mister Welston. I know the
Speaker 1: weekend's coming, so just just want to check your temperature.
Speaker 2: You know what the weekend is coming. Little spoiler alert.
Speaker 2: It's not going to be a Buckston weekend. It's not.
Speaker 2: I'm a little I'm a little bit worried about it
Speaker 2: as well. I've watched two games in the last like
Speaker 2: ten days with him. He looks hyper, hyper aggressive. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you can blame it on not being healthy.
Speaker 2: There's a big streakiness to it that I don't like
Speaker 2: to see. And it's crazy because there's some good contact
Speaker 2: on the team and Luisa Rise is one of the
Speaker 2: better guys. But I mean no, if fans or butts
Speaker 2: about it, Buxton is struggling hard. And I think from
Speaker 2: a correlation standpoint, you can look at like the kind
Speaker 2: of banged upness he's dealing with and it's just not working.
Speaker 2: Probably should sit him for a little bit. I think
Speaker 2: he could use a little mental rest and maybe even
Speaker 2: an il stint. It's not good. He's not a good
Speaker 2: guy to make a bet on right now. And you know,
Speaker 2: it's also tough for like trade periods because if you
Speaker 2: think this is the downturn of Buckston with the injuries,
Speaker 2: it's a harrid time to do it. So you really
Speaker 2: have to kind of sit You've got to sit on it. Me.
Speaker 2: I personally look at it as a buying period. If
Speaker 2: I'm being honest, here he's bad, they're struggling injury stuff.
Speaker 2: I would be out there poking round see if I
Speaker 2: can get a cheapron, a cheaper Byron Buxton. Then the call.
Speaker 1: Then when you look into Fantasy Pro stats and you
Speaker 1: see rostered and started one hundred percent, they would all
Speaker 1: be Welsh.
Speaker 2: It would be like the Infinity Stones. I would be like,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm here from the last one.
Speaker 1: Let's see the home run board. Niking of the North
Speaker 1: still up at the top at sixteen. However, JP was
Speaker 1: the only one to call Eva Longori's two homers. We
Speaker 1: are sitting at eight hundred and ninety nine total for
Speaker 1: the year of home runs called already, and we ain't
Speaker 1: even at Memorial Day. I think we had twelve hundred
Speaker 1: last year total. Unbelievable. You guys are fantastic. We're so proud,
Speaker 1: just so damn proud Welsh. Let's talk a little bit
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Speaker 1: Hunter Green has a strikeout prop on FanDuel six and
Speaker 1: a half. The juice is a one to twelve on
Speaker 1: the minus side. I don't know where you want to
Speaker 1: go the over or under with this one, but I
Speaker 1: thought it was provocative. So Fantasy Bros. Is predicting five
Speaker 1: k's fanduels got him set at six and a half.
Speaker 1: The juice is minus one twelve. Would you go over
Speaker 1: or under on the six and a half with Hunter Green?
Speaker 2: Boy, I mean, I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna avoid
Speaker 2: this one, Okay, that's if I were to bet it.
Speaker 2: I actually, oh man, I think the safe bet is
Speaker 2: to go under right now with him. I want to
Speaker 2: go over because I think the Cubs can get pretty
Speaker 2: swing happy, and I really really do love that slight
Speaker 2: that new slider makes. Hunter Green looks like a new picture.
Speaker 2: I've watched two of those things. He looks like a
Speaker 2: new picture. But this is just a number I don't like.
Speaker 2: My play is to not play this one, but I
Speaker 2: guess I would. I would go with Fantasy Pros and
Speaker 2: I would go with the under if if I were
Speaker 2: forcing myself to take one.
Speaker 1: Aj Pollock total bases on bet MGM one and a
Speaker 1: half even money on that plus one twenty three on
Speaker 1: the one and a half total base prop on Joseier Ramirez.
Speaker 1: Love that one today, even though its school. Josier Ramirez
Speaker 1: is great. Mike Trout, Yes, okay, fine, whatever was bad,
Speaker 1: He's got Reyu tonight. I think things get better for him.
Speaker 1: One and a half again, is the number for total
Speaker 1: bases plus one fifteen you're getting on Trout. When we're
Speaker 1: getting plus money on a great player. I will take
Speaker 1: that same with Devers plus one oh five at one
Speaker 1: and a half, and he's going against Kiko, who's been
Speaker 1: absolutely dreadful. Also, this is fun here, it is. Here's
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Speaker 1: do all the different props and then you have the
Speaker 1: props for people to hit a home run. So if
Speaker 1: you think your guy's hitting a home run today, you
Speaker 1: can look for it, find it, see what the number
Speaker 1: is and where you could get it. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is this is just fantastic, Like right now today to
Speaker 1: hit a home run, or yesterday Aaron Judge was plus
Speaker 1: three thirty, so there you go. I mean, and they've
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Speaker 1: What props do you have on your radar tonight?
Speaker 2: One actually, I like is in that Cincy Chicago game,
Speaker 2: but it's on the other side. Justin Steele. Justin Steele
Speaker 2: a little bit underrated on the strikeout props. It's at
Speaker 2: four and a half and he hit that on both
Speaker 2: of his last starts. Now they're both against Arizona. There's
Speaker 2: a pretty strikeout heavy team. But he had ten strikeouts
Speaker 2: and then nine strikeouts. But if you're looking for an
Speaker 2: equivalent team to strikeouts, how about the Reds. The red
Speaker 2: strikeout so you only got to get five strikeouts for him,
Speaker 2: and Steel has gone on an average of eighty nine
Speaker 2: and a half pitches in those last two starts, going
Speaker 2: at least five and you know, a third of an inning.
Speaker 2: I think it's a really really good opportunity. That's probably
Speaker 2: my favorite the other two. This one's a little bit risky,
Speaker 2: but Tarik Schooble Treek Schooble strikeouts five and a half
Speaker 2: on the over is something that I kind of like.
Speaker 2: And it's risky because it's against the Guardians, and the
Speaker 2: Guardians don't necessary strike out a bunch, but they are
Speaker 2: striking out a little bit more. I like this marker.
Speaker 2: I would probably be a little tenuous with it and
Speaker 2: probably not go crazy. This is one. I mean, Schooble's
Speaker 2: had almost eleven K per nine on the entire year,
Speaker 2: not walking guys. He's looked elite. And then the other one,
Speaker 2: I think it's just always a safe bet. It's judged
Speaker 2: total bases one and a half over. This is one
Speaker 2: I would play today. I kind of dig the matchup.
Speaker 2: If you're playing the Homers, I think it's almost it's
Speaker 2: almost even money. I think it's one oh five on
Speaker 2: DK kind of judging that he can't do it, so
Speaker 2: steal Scooble judge total bases. Those are my three.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go look at the DFS slate today
Speaker 1: to Rescooble at nine point seven over on DK certainly
Speaker 1: in the mix there, especially in tournaments. Once again, he's
Speaker 1: just grossly underappreciated, undervalued, under rostered. In tournaments. I'd be
Speaker 1: all over him less so in cash, but I would
Speaker 1: put him in cash you, I'm confident. And then you've
Speaker 1: got a bunch of guys going against each other, Aaron
Speaker 1: Nola against Kyle Wright. I hate when that happens, so
Speaker 1: I tend to stay away. If you want to pick
Speaker 1: a side, you can pick a side. But again, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to do multi entry lineups in order
Speaker 1: to make this work. And hopefully you can eat one
Speaker 1: of these or two of these lineups that don't work,
Speaker 1: and then one or two does. So you have to
Speaker 1: be that kind of player to make it work. Eric
Speaker 1: Lauer going against Wainwright once again, I actually think that
Speaker 1: Waynwright being eight point eight is more of a fascinating
Speaker 1: investment because he's so cheap. Tonight that Brewers lineup we
Speaker 1: talk about not being at one hundred percent. I think
Speaker 1: there is a little bit of appo love with Wainwright
Speaker 1: tonight Otani at eight point seven certainly is in play.
Speaker 1: He always brings strikeout ability. And then another guy too,
Speaker 1: Martin Perez, who's been on an absolute tear lately. And
Speaker 1: I can't believe those words just came out of my mouth,
Speaker 1: but it's twenty twenty two eight point three k over
Speaker 1: on DK against Montass he'll be low rostered. Put him
Speaker 1: in Schooble together, you can pretty much get whatever you want.
Speaker 1: And I think those guys, I mean they've been terrific
Speaker 1: on FanDuel. You get the Yankee game thrown in this
Speaker 1: mix on their nights late, so he's ten point three.
Speaker 1: Of course in cash you do that to reak. Schooble's
Speaker 1: ten point one, so he's more expensive. You could also
Speaker 1: do that in tournaments again, a little bit less roster
Speaker 1: percentage to work against. I'm sure Nester Cortez will be
Speaker 1: very popular. Uh. And again single format fitcher, you got
Speaker 1: Otani at nine to nine, Martin Perez at ninety seven,
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna be on Otani. Have a Martin Perez lineup
Speaker 1: just in case Otani busts, because that would be something
Speaker 1: in tournaments to be good. Game stacks tonight, red socks,
Speaker 1: white socks, all the socks, the angels as well. Lineup
Speaker 1: builders on DK Jonathan Scope two point nine, Marcus Simeon
Speaker 1: three point seven. Still cheap. I'm still gonna bang that drum.
Speaker 1: Cole Calhoun two point six, Come on, Cole Calhoun, Martin
Speaker 1: Perez Stack, let's go uh. And then Cole Calhoun on
Speaker 1: FanDuel just two point three. He's just on. He's on
Speaker 1: fire right now. Labor tore Is two seven, Jonathan Scope
Speaker 1: two five, and aj Pollock two seven. Tonight for my
Speaker 1: home run call, I'm going with the one one Juan
Speaker 1: Soto to leave the yard. Welsh, who are you going
Speaker 1: with for your home run?
Speaker 2: I'm trying to make it easy. I'm going Aaron Judge,
Speaker 2: how about the easiest call you can do. I've been
Speaker 2: getting a little bit tricky with it has not been working.
Speaker 2: I need to get I need to get into the
Speaker 2: double digi's and I'm trying to get on the board.
Speaker 2: So give me.
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