Speaker 1: Welcome in. Everybody throws MLB. This is leading off live.
Speaker 1: It is me, Joey p Joe Pi's appeal with me,
Speaker 1: of course is the Welsh, and it's all of you,
Speaker 1: the Peanuts and the Cracker tracks here on a Monday morning.
Speaker 1: Lots of baseball going on, some Joe Stradamas moments over
Speaker 1: the weekend to discuss. We've got prospecting with the Welsh.
Speaker 1: Today we are jam packed Welsh. Did you have a
Speaker 1: nice Mother's Day? We have very good to your mother.
Speaker 1: And did you also take care of your wife and
Speaker 1: everybody on the weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, lots of moms, lots of I'm exhausted, so it
Speaker 2: was great for everybody else. Servant Welsh is going to
Speaker 2: the side here and we are looking forward. We're spending
Speaker 2: I told my wife and everybody the Monday hits it's
Speaker 2: Father's month.
Speaker 3: It's now Father's month all.
Speaker 2: The way to Father's Day. We're celebrating all about the dash.
Speaker 1: I like that I could use a Father's Day. I'll
Speaker 1: settle for a week a month sounds great. Don't think
Speaker 1: I'm getting that. Let's talk about where we left off
Speaker 1: last weekend too, because when last we saw you, dun doundone.
Speaker 1: Rafaeld Devers was in his feelings quite a bit now.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend he met with management and the ownership
Speaker 1: and I think everybody had a little heart to heart
Speaker 1: which is kind of like, maybe you want to role
Speaker 1: play this. You want to play Raffield Devers and I'll
Speaker 1: play ownership. You want to have some fun, sure little
Speaker 1: improv remember yes and yes end. So here we go. Hey, Raffie,
Speaker 1: we're paying you three hundred million dollars. We know you're
Speaker 1: a professional. It takes a lot of pride in what
Speaker 1: you do. But we're paying you three hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: in this contract guaranteed you don't have an opt out.
Speaker 1: I know you see lots of guys getting paid now,
Speaker 1: maybe twice as much, just a couple of years after
Speaker 1: you assigned that deal, and that's frustrating. But RAFFI mmmm,
Speaker 1: we kind of need you to go grab your glove
Speaker 1: and play first base. Otherwise we're kind of in a
Speaker 1: pickle and it's gonna hurt our ability to win. And
Speaker 1: if you heard our ability to win, we might have
Speaker 1: to look for another place for you to play. What
Speaker 1: do you think, raf No, Okay, then that sounds good
Speaker 1: talk good talk fail. It seems like he's more open,
Speaker 1: though I don't know if he saw some of the
Speaker 1: comments after it's like, oh, we'll see maybe some stroking,
Speaker 1: you know, had to go on to the ego. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but was telling to me was the Trevor
Speaker 1: Story stuff too, and says did you see stories? Quote?
Speaker 1: Just out of curiosity after all.
Speaker 3: This, I didn't see stories. Quote.
Speaker 1: Now he said, quote, we'll talk about it. Obviously things
Speaker 1: are fresh and a little emotional right now, but yeah,
Speaker 1: we will do it, Trevor Story said. And like I said,
Speaker 1: we're all adults and we'll figure things out eventually, one
Speaker 1: way or another. It's about winning games and I think
Speaker 1: everyone can agree with that. Now. If you read between
Speaker 1: the lines there, that's tension. That means, hey, buddy, we're
Speaker 1: all trying to do our best year. What are you doing?
Speaker 1: But we'll monitor that as we go. Kyle Schwarber was good.
Speaker 1: It was my home run call of the weekend. He
Speaker 1: hit home runs thirteen and fourteen. The on base streak
Speaker 1: which was what forty four or forty five I think
Speaker 1: was snapped on Friday, But a great performance by Schwarber yesterday.
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler also great. Performance by him eight strikeouts, seven innings.
Speaker 1: He was plus nine hundred yesterday more for the cy
Speaker 1: Young Welsh. I don't know if you want to take
Speaker 1: a guess on what that number might be after yesterday's performance.
Speaker 3: Let's what'd you say? Six?
Speaker 1: Let's fine, four to one? Nine hundred?
Speaker 2: Oh well, okay, give me the number, because then I
Speaker 2: will tell you something here about that. I'm gonna guess. Uh, okay,
Speaker 2: it was nine. I'm gonna go uh five to one.
Speaker 1: Nope. Seven. So it only went down a little bit,
Speaker 1: which means there's some incredible value on wheel or for
Speaker 1: cy Young right now.
Speaker 2: How about this though even better value on the Betting
Speaker 2: Pro show that we did last week where I came
Speaker 2: on and said that Zach Wheeler is eleven to one
Speaker 2: and still a really nice bet. So those odds have
Speaker 2: almost they're getting close to starting to cutting in half.
Speaker 2: But eleven to one when we did it last week,
Speaker 2: then nine, then seven, we're continuously going down. It's an
Speaker 2: open market because skeens who were gonna see today he
Speaker 2: hasn't been as skeenzy as we're used to. The strikeouts
Speaker 2: are not quite there's getting hit up a little bit.
Speaker 2: Fun fact I don't remember, and I don't know if
Speaker 2: this has ever happened, that Paul Skeens is plus money
Speaker 2: through the first five innings of a matchup. I don't
Speaker 2: think I've ever seen him be, you know, because obviously
Speaker 2: it's the Pirates, it's not him, but that is banking
Speaker 2: and backing the starting pitcher. David Peterson is on the
Speaker 2: mound for the Mets, and Paul Skeins is plus and
Speaker 2: the Pirates are plus plus one oh five for the
Speaker 2: first five I don't recall ever seeing that two Skens
Speaker 2: isn't as skeensy.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned for for bets today because I got some
Speaker 1: feelings on that game. Uh, here's a question. Is Rokie
Speaker 1: Sazaki droppable Welsh? I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Ten team?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you think twelve team.
Speaker 2: I mean upside if you want to, if you're playing
Speaker 2: the upside game. But in a ten team, dude, you
Speaker 2: are much better served streaming those cool pitchers that are
Speaker 2: sitting around there, assuming you can stream decently. Then you
Speaker 2: are holding on to Suzaki. His fastball is still blah.
Speaker 2: His split finger is starting not to do what it
Speaker 2: needs to be doing. He's not getting the whiffs he's
Speaker 2: got walks. He's not a great serviceable option in ten, team,
Speaker 2: twelve and fifteen. You're probably trying to bench. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure I'm dropping him because of what's like available out there.
Speaker 2: But you know, the tough question. If he has, like,
Speaker 2: let's say one more bad one and Bubba eventually in
Speaker 2: some universe comes up, breaks through the multiverse portal in
Speaker 2: a ship and comes out's.
Speaker 1: Going to take it. At this point, well, who would
Speaker 1: you rather have?
Speaker 3: Would it be Bubba or Suzaki? And it might be
Speaker 3: bub It might be Bubbas.
Speaker 1: But it might I don't know. I gain it's early
Speaker 1: in the year. I'm hoping Suzaki, you know, can figure
Speaker 1: things out and the Dodgers need him to more on
Speaker 1: the Dodgers starting pictures Later in the show too, he
Speaker 1: got updates on Snail and Glass. Now, Michael wants to
Speaker 1: know why I don't wear the sacket of the sacket,
Speaker 1: the jacket like I do on Sundays. I said, suit jacket.
Speaker 1: I made it a sackbob socket. Yeah, well, we did
Speaker 1: have the full house opening, so it's not that far off.
Speaker 1: So the suit jacket is for TV on Sundays, yes,
Speaker 1: because it's mandatory, so I have to wear the jacket.
Speaker 1: I don't have to wear a jacket here. I can
Speaker 1: be nice and comfortable, and that's what I want to be,
Speaker 1: damn it. Sandy al Contra became Sunday al Contra again
Speaker 1: yesterday five and two thirds. Now. It wasn't great in
Speaker 1: terms of like the win loss because he did take
Speaker 1: an l again the White Sox, but better he had
Speaker 1: eight strikeouts, walk three guys, gave up seven hits. The
Speaker 1: problem was the three run homer to Tim Elko, which
Speaker 1: was his first major league hit, his first major league
Speaker 1: home run. Shout out to him. Now we know the
Speaker 1: era is still very high, but the eight strikeouts I
Speaker 1: think at least gave you a little bit of cozy feelings. Well,
Speaker 1: if you've hung on and say, okay, maybe there's something
Speaker 1: here where we can get back on track. I was encouraged.
Speaker 1: Wasn't perfect, but the by window is still very much
Speaker 1: open for Sandy.
Speaker 2: Yeah potential, yeah, potential, by opportunity. Really interesting thing is
Speaker 2: everybody knows Sandy was going to like rely heavy on
Speaker 2: his change up. He dropped that down to the fourth
Speaker 2: most used pitch in this start. He was fifteen percent
Speaker 2: on the change up, which I mean, I have to
Speaker 2: go through the logs, which I'm not going to do,
Speaker 2: but like that's got to be one of the lowest
Speaker 2: and god knows how long of usage there he was fastball.
Speaker 2: He went secondary on the curve, which really it's interesting
Speaker 2: with the strikeouts too, as far as like whiffs goes
Speaker 2: like every single whiff, because he had the eight strikeouts,
Speaker 2: every whiff induced a strikeout.
Speaker 3: So you know, he was setting up zone.
Speaker 2: Percentages were kind of weird a little bit, but he
Speaker 2: was getting to two strike counts, which is why he
Speaker 2: had a heavy one oh seven pitch count. But then
Speaker 2: he was able to drop that strikeout. It was done
Speaker 2: on the fastball, curveball. Zero whiffs on the change up,
Speaker 2: which is really interesting and only a fifteen percent usage.
Speaker 2: Something to watch that maybe he's pushing that back a
Speaker 2: tiny bit and that might catapult him moving forward because
Speaker 2: when he gets back to throwing that a lot, that's
Speaker 2: a huge strikeout inducing pitch and it's you know, it's
Speaker 2: really his best pitch outside of being able to throw
Speaker 2: like high nineties. So this maybe is like a semi
Speaker 2: positive sign that things are going to start turning around.
Speaker 2: He'll scrap this for a couple of weeks and then bam,
Speaker 2: it's going to come back with a fury but good
Speaker 2: results with a pretty obvious change he had in this
Speaker 2: last start.
Speaker 1: One of the most drop players last week was Bowden Francis,
Speaker 1: and he had arguably his best start of the year
Speaker 1: on Sunday, So let's talk about that for a second.
Speaker 1: Six and two thirds through run baseball did not factor
Speaker 1: into the decision, but if you look at the percentage
Speaker 1: of drops again, he was way at the top. He
Speaker 1: is now rostered in just sixty percent of leagues. Do
Speaker 1: you think if you need pitching that Baltin Francis might
Speaker 1: be a guy? Maybe you scoop up off the waiver
Speaker 1: wire and hope that he is riding the ship. Maybe
Speaker 1: this start is the turning of the corner or is
Speaker 1: this fool's gold?
Speaker 3: I think I think it's fools gold.
Speaker 2: His his overarching page of information is like crazy, worrisome
Speaker 2: five four ERA with a worse expected era. A twelve
Speaker 2: percent barrel rate given up is crazy, fifty percent hard
Speaker 2: hit rate given up against is also crazy, and almost
Speaker 2: ever at least his top two pitches used have expected
Speaker 2: batter and averages of forty points are higher against, so
Speaker 2: like that's what's probably leading to some of the expected
Speaker 2: stuff out there.
Speaker 3: I think he's a streamer.
Speaker 2: I think unless he rattles off like four at this point,
Speaker 2: which still I'm not sure you trust.
Speaker 3: I think you got to pick your matchups right with him.
Speaker 2: There might be some you know, pseudo signs of brilliance
Speaker 2: that hop themselves out. But seventeen percent k percentage, six
Speaker 2: percent walk, he gives up a lot of barreling bad
Speaker 2: expected ra I'm probably a pass.
Speaker 1: Okay, probably a pass there for the welsh On Francis. Now.
Speaker 1: I saw in the chat where was it ah, Mitch
Speaker 1: was asking what can we expect from Brandon Woodriff when
Speaker 1: he comes back? Well, let's talk about that, Mitch, because
Speaker 1: Brandon Woodruff should be back this week. He had one
Speaker 1: more rehab start over the weekend coming back from that
Speaker 1: shoulder issue. Struck out three, one run, just two and
Speaker 1: a third inning. So it was kind of weird. I
Speaker 1: guess it was like the tune up start or whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I thought this was odd, but they said, no,
Speaker 1: this is what he was gonna do. Have an abbreviated start.
Speaker 1: This is the first I feel like we get this,
Speaker 1: usually the guy goes longer, not shorter, but thirty nine
Speaker 1: pitches in this start. They say this was the last
Speaker 1: tune up. They say he's going to make his debut
Speaker 1: later in this week. So I would assume after this
Speaker 1: tune up, maybe the first start is Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
Speaker 1: and we're looking at maybe seventy five pitches, probably short there.
Speaker 1: Tobias Myers sent back down too, because they're not too
Speaker 1: happy with him. So I do think, and we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about a prospect in that system too might
Speaker 1: get a look. But the Brewers are trying to shake
Speaker 1: the trees a little bit. Woodroof is that first domino
Speaker 1: to fall in this rotation, so Peralta Woodroff, after that,
Speaker 1: I think everything is kind of open for business.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, well, also Kintana kind of has it.
Speaker 2: But to your point, though, like it's crazy, the whole rotator.
Speaker 2: They have an entire rotation that's injured out here. Aaron
Speaker 2: Ashby and DL Hall have been pitching. Those guys are
Speaker 2: starting their rehab process. You've got two minor league pitchers
Speaker 2: that could uy for that spot. So if you do
Speaker 2: consider Peralta Woodroff and even Quintana there, you've got two
Speaker 2: open spots between like seven guys, so it could go
Speaker 2: really any direction. But on Woodroff what to expect. I'm
Speaker 2: probably gonna be a tiny bit hesitant in the first start,
Speaker 2: like if you're hugging Ratios, maybe you know, maybe don't
Speaker 2: start him out like they might only let him and
Speaker 2: want him to go into the seventy range and pull
Speaker 2: into the bullpen. So I'm going to be a little
Speaker 2: bit hesitant, but i want to pick him up. I
Speaker 2: don't know who the matchup is. I'm not looking at
Speaker 2: the schedule, but you know, if it's somebody it's like
Speaker 2: the Pirates, then I'm probably starting that matchup. But if
Speaker 2: it's something like, you know, anybody in the NL West
Speaker 2: except the Rockies, I.
Speaker 1: Have a Guardians to open the week, and then later
Speaker 1: in the week they have come on.
Speaker 2: I want to see more because Thursday or Friday is
Speaker 2: the likely start time.
Speaker 3: If he started on Sunday, all.
Speaker 1: Right, so they've got where are we here? Guardians open
Speaker 1: away Twinkies at home. I know you hate the Twinkies,
Speaker 1: but so Thursday they're off, Friday, Saturday Sunday they're at
Speaker 1: home against the Twins.
Speaker 2: So Friday is probably the likely scenario. I guess, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know what, I think the Twins.
Speaker 3: I might. I might.
Speaker 2: That's that's a half decent matchup. I probably might start
Speaker 2: them there.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Everybody's favorite or really nobody's
Speaker 1: favorite segment, Jost Damas. When last we left you, also,
Speaker 1: I was talking about how the Rockies needed to overhaul everything,
Speaker 1: that it was unacceptable. And guess what it was by
Speaker 1: the time we got back here on Monday. I guess
Speaker 1: they're of the show. Ownership was watching Bud Black, who
Speaker 1: was also the winningest manager in Rockies history, hasn't gotten
Speaker 1: to that team to five hundred records since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: That's a long time ago, Welsh. I wasn't even working
Speaker 1: at Fantasy Pros in twenty eighteen. Okay, that's how long
Speaker 1: ago twenty eighteen was. So unfortunately, Bud Black has gone,
Speaker 1: Mike Redman is going to take over, and then you're
Speaker 1: gonna have Clint Hurtle be the bench coach who's got
Speaker 1: managerial experience. Look, you are seven and thirty three. We
Speaker 1: talked about last week how they got destroyed twenty one
Speaker 1: to three in a doubleheader, and then on Saturday, I
Speaker 1: think that was the death knell because was it twenty
Speaker 1: to nothing in that game.
Speaker 3: I think it's the effort level one.
Speaker 1: Twenty one nothing against the Padres again and which Michael
Speaker 1: Kelly extremely happy, I'm sure, but it's just embarrassing. I
Speaker 1: know the Division is so far at leaps and bounds
Speaker 1: ahead of them. I get all that, But where the
Speaker 1: Rockies I think have gone wrong is thinking that they
Speaker 1: can somehow defend and pitch their way out of things.
Speaker 1: When the Rockies organization is good. They got Matt Holliday
Speaker 1: and Todd Hilton hitting home runs. They got Vinie Caristia
Speaker 1: Andres Gallaag and Larry Walker hitting home runs. Go get
Speaker 1: some guys hitting home runs. Just beat everybody to death,
Speaker 1: because nowadays, with the specialization in pitching, you might be
Speaker 1: able to find some weird and I know they tried
Speaker 1: it a couple of years ago with the openers and
Speaker 1: the three inning guys and all this stuff. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I think it's a bigger issue.
Speaker 1: But at least in the meantime, structurally, they need to
Speaker 1: overhaul this whole organization for the top down.
Speaker 2: Welsh and I don't know if they're going to I
Speaker 2: mean they should have at this point, like go get
Speaker 2: Charlie Blackman to be your manager. He was just playing
Speaker 2: with the team last year. He's some advisor with the organization.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: I mean it was It's a weird conversation, Like you
Speaker 2: know we had talked about on the last episode. It
Speaker 2: was just like, well, you know, they could fire, they
Speaker 2: could not. They're a huge losing team. What do you
Speaker 2: get if you do either way, maybe you'll get a
Speaker 2: fire burnt under. But the organization development kind of stinks.
Speaker 2: The players that they're piecing together, I suppose it's getting better,
Speaker 2: you know, guys like Brenton Doyle. They haven't traded away
Speaker 2: Ryan McMahon. But I guess at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: it's never really seen like there's a clear path of
Speaker 2: what they're doing. It doesn't I don't look at that
Speaker 2: roster or the minor leagues, and I don't really understand.
Speaker 3: What they're doing.
Speaker 2: But Rockies clean house another in season manager at this
Speaker 2: point already can.
Speaker 3: Which is pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: A little bit surprised by it, but I suppose this
Speaker 2: is not the team to be surprised by.
Speaker 3: They don't even have double digit wins. When do you
Speaker 3: think they'll get the tenth win.
Speaker 2: Of the year, which if I say June first, I'll
Speaker 2: say June first, over under, that means three more wins,
Speaker 2: right if they seven and something.
Speaker 1: There's seven, they have seven wins. They'll get ten wins
Speaker 1: by June first, and that I think will happen.
Speaker 3: Michael September first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I I don't think it's out of
Speaker 2: pocket to believe that it's a over the June first.
Speaker 2: But baseball isn't quite like football where it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: the coach.
Speaker 3: Bounce, the dead cat bounce.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, we're gonna play up for it. Like,
Speaker 2: I don't really think that's going to happen. You still
Speaker 2: have to put those same players out there, and.
Speaker 1: That's the Pirates exactly. Yeah. But that was the whole
Speaker 1: point is that, like I know, Bud Black is very
Speaker 1: expecting guy in the organization. I know he's been there
Speaker 1: for a long time, he's had some success, he's a
Speaker 1: good manager, and he's gone. He's gone, and it's not
Speaker 1: his fault necessarily, But when you see the effort level
Speaker 1: where you're getting when you're losing games twenty to nothing,
Speaker 1: that is that's what's unacceptable. It's just the bigger game plan,
Speaker 1: the bigger approach to the every day How are we
Speaker 1: preparing as a team every day to go out there
Speaker 1: and be competitive? You know, there's teams that have little
Speaker 1: talent that go out there and still compete, and the
Speaker 1: Rockies just aren't competing right now. So shake the trees
Speaker 1: and the off season we'll see if they get a
Speaker 1: better plan, but it's going to be far away. Also
Speaker 1: Joster damas news. According to Bob Nightingale of USA Today,
Speaker 1: the Mets are among the teams that have checked in
Speaker 1: with the White Sox availability of Louise Robert, who mysteriously
Speaker 1: also wasn't playing over the weekend because oh that needs
Speaker 1: a little sore coach. Hmmm. Kind of interesting, right, everyone's
Speaker 1: checking in all of a sudden. He's coming out of
Speaker 1: games just to be a little precautionary. So keep an
Speaker 1: eye on that one, because that would not shock me
Speaker 1: at all. I know. There's some questions, a lot of
Speaker 1: questions in the chat about Nick Kurtz. Let's talk about him.
Speaker 1: Over three came out for a pitch hitter in the nine.
Speaker 1: It's been tough. Is he droppable in shallow leagues. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's very frustrating. I'm gonna take the l on this.
Speaker 1: I was super exciting, maybe more than anybody. I thought
Speaker 1: he'd come up here and at least show something. But
Speaker 1: while she's shown nothing so far.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, but he's still again, like I kee,
Speaker 2: we keep doing this bit where people are treating it
Speaker 2: like he hasn't got a hit yet, Like he's still
Speaker 2: hitting two seventy. He's a two sixty nine right now,
Speaker 2: hard hits over forty. He's just striking out like he's
Speaker 2: super inconsistent. Hey, surprise, this time last year he was
Speaker 2: playing college baseball.
Speaker 1: He was.
Speaker 2: But he's got hits in two of the last three games.
Speaker 2: He's had multi hits in two of the last six games. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not great, but he is getting something. He's just
Speaker 2: not doing anything great with him. They're taking the pressure off,
Speaker 2: you know, you kind of chastise the idea of, like
Speaker 2: that first day, letting him sit and kind of chill
Speaker 2: and understand it.
Speaker 3: It's probably pretty overwhelming.
Speaker 2: But even in that overwhelming space forty percent hard hit rate,
Speaker 2: he's got a one thirteen max TV average ev is
Speaker 2: ninety three miles prour and the dude's hitting two sixty nine.
Speaker 2: So I don't think it's done. I don't think it's
Speaker 2: all over it. But thirty nine percent k percentage is
Speaker 2: just not going to work. So you just shouldn't start him.
Speaker 2: And if you're the ten team league, guess what you
Speaker 2: can drop like bye bye, Like it.
Speaker 3: Doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: But twelve and fifteen, a month from now, I think
Speaker 2: we legitimately could be talking about, oh, he got some
Speaker 2: stuff figured out, Like I'm not guaranteeing that by any means,
Speaker 2: but he's a pretty talented hitter. He's hitting, by the way,
Speaker 2: two fifty or higher against all pitch types he's faced
Speaker 2: so far. He's just whiffing against breaking an off speed,
Speaker 2: but he's making contact, and it's in a little baby ballpark,
Speaker 2: and he's got to make some more contact in the zone,
Speaker 2: which he's not doing.
Speaker 3: It is possible. It's going to get there. These rookies
Speaker 3: take some time.
Speaker 2: I don't think it is nothing but doom and gloom
Speaker 2: on Nick Kurtz. But you know, we'll check back in
Speaker 2: a month and we'll see where it is. But if
Speaker 2: he's still hitting two seventy, I don't want to hear.
Speaker 3: Like what what's wrong with Nick Kerts. He's in two
Speaker 3: seventy you know, like, if he's still hitting the average
Speaker 3: in the Major League, let's give him some credit.
Speaker 1: Well, they're gonna be on the road against the dog
Speaker 1: the Giants, then their home against the Angels, and then
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Phillies the rest of the month.
Speaker 3: So they're gonna be a rough stretch.
Speaker 1: It's a really rough stretcher. There's a good chance that
Speaker 1: he is not going to make it through that stretch
Speaker 1: and he'll be down by the moor all day. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm just putting that out there too. I'm the doom
Speaker 1: and gloom. Oh well, Tim Elko I mentioned before in
Speaker 1: the Rookie Lookie too. I want to mention him again.
Speaker 1: So he was our guy. I got beat out by
Speaker 1: a dollar for him in my home league. So mad,
Speaker 1: so mad because I need some first base help because uh,
Speaker 1: Nick Kurtz isn't hitting. So I thought maybe Elko I
Speaker 1: could start him this week. Nope, nope, no good. Rett
Speaker 1: Lauder also made another minor league start at single A,
Speaker 1: so keep an eye on that. Also, it's that time
Speaker 1: again everybody everyone's favorite segment. It's time for prospecting with
Speaker 1: the Welsh. That's right. It's when the Welsh talks about
Speaker 1: some of the guys playing in Triple A, maybe even
Speaker 1: Double A, some names that you need to know for
Speaker 1: your fantasy baseball rosters. And Welsh, one guy that we've
Speaker 1: been talking about a lot finally got the college, Jordan
Speaker 1: Lawler of your Arizona Diamondbacks. So I want to talk
Speaker 1: about him because they finally called him up. He's been
Speaker 1: undeniable so far in the minor leagues, hitting the snot
Speaker 1: out of the ball everywhere, hitting for power, playing different positions,
Speaker 1: and it seems like playing the different positions is what's
Speaker 1: going to get him in this d Backs lineup at
Speaker 1: some point, because there really isn't a whole lot of
Speaker 1: room in the infield for him the way that group
Speaker 1: has performed. So Welsh, I've heard about you know you're
Speaker 1: going to try to get him in the lineup a
Speaker 1: couple times a week, you know, give some guys some
Speaker 1: days off, move him around. That flexibility is great for
Speaker 1: fantasy in theory, but is it great in practice if
Speaker 1: he's not playing every single day happier at the big
Speaker 1: league level.
Speaker 3: I still think it can.
Speaker 2: It's not a couple times a week, they're talking at
Speaker 2: like at least four times. So if they're six games
Speaker 2: in a week, they're talking about four. This is kind
Speaker 2: of what I broke down, like whatever. It was a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago we talked about the only thing
Speaker 2: that's missing is that he's not playing any outfield, which
Speaker 2: is super annoying. But in the miners he's played third,
Speaker 2: short and second. Tory Lavellos said that when he comes up,
Speaker 2: he will play third, short and second and he'll give spells.
Speaker 2: They don't want to go like three like I think
Speaker 2: it's like if you have three back to backs, or
Speaker 2: if you have back to back to back, they want
Speaker 2: Ktel to start sitting. So you've got a second base
Speaker 2: spot he could DH as well, you're gonna give a
Speaker 2: day Entreprenomo a day or two off for Johannio.
Speaker 3: They'll use that DH spot.
Speaker 2: So to your point, if he only plays four of seven,
Speaker 2: maybe it's like a not as super great, but they
Speaker 2: feel that they're going to play him enough to not
Speaker 2: stunt his development, because I know people are kind of
Speaker 2: hung up on that, and I think that is important. Ironically,
Speaker 2: I saw someone go out about this that it's like
Speaker 2: he was crazy, crazy, crazy, and then in May he's
Speaker 2: only hit like two hundred. Then the Diamondbacks are like,
Speaker 2: bring him on up. Now he's only hitting two hundred.
Speaker 2: Now when he starts to struggle, but he's still coming
Speaker 2: off of a three thirty six minor league campaign six homers,
Speaker 2: thirteen stolen bases. Underlying profile is pretty good in Triple
Speaker 2: A average EV one ten, which is better than he's
Speaker 2: had at any Triple A or Major league. Start hitting
Speaker 2: the ball a little bit harder, getting the ball in
Speaker 2: the air more than ever, and he's going to get
Speaker 2: some time.
Speaker 3: I think it's worth speculation.
Speaker 2: But I'll always reiterate this to you if you can't
Speaker 2: stomach what Nick Kurtz is doing, Like, just be careful.
Speaker 2: Lawler at least has some major league experience, and he
Speaker 2: knows this team, and he has changed his profile already
Speaker 2: to kind of mirror more what he needs to do
Speaker 2: in the major league. So I think there's some better
Speaker 2: upside there. But he's not a big, mashing hitter and
Speaker 2: he's not going to hit at the top of the lineup,
Speaker 2: So this probably isn't like a ten team.
Speaker 3: People are like, is this a must have? No?
Speaker 2: Probably not, because he doesn't have an everyday job. There
Speaker 2: might be questions to the playing time, and he's not
Speaker 2: like some overabundant, big power hitter. I think he's going
Speaker 2: to hit for more contact, He's going to steal some
Speaker 2: bases aggressively, but it'll be lower in the lineup.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get an update on the guys from Boston,
Speaker 1: Roman Anthony Marcelo Mayer. We have the Romei Gonzalez injury
Speaker 1: after the Trystan Cassas injury. Still debate on when or
Speaker 1: if Rayfield Devers will switch over to first base, but
Speaker 1: if he does, that certainly opens up some DH role,
Speaker 1: maybe move some guys around, maybe call somebody up. So
Speaker 1: what have you heard the latest on these two prospects
Speaker 1: here for Boston, which we're still waiting for some sort
Speaker 1: of impact on the major league level for them.
Speaker 2: Well, one of the things that might have that It's
Speaker 2: funny because it's like Devers won't go play first, but
Speaker 2: there have been rumors that Trevor Story could go over
Speaker 2: to first, which would I think would be really interesting
Speaker 2: for his injury history, so you can keep him in
Speaker 2: the lineup, Or Christian Campbell could go over to first.
Speaker 2: Either one of those moves though, speak to Marcella Mayor,
Speaker 2: and Marcella Mayor's bat's been fine. He's hit some nice power.
Speaker 2: He's not hitting for average like Roman Anthony is. Roman
Speaker 2: Anthony is still the guy. He's still hitting over three
Speaker 2: hundred and tripa a five homers, three stolen bases as
Speaker 2: a four to twenty three OBP. And that's where the
Speaker 2: frustration comes, I think for most people, because you're like, listen,
Speaker 2: if Devers can go to first and you can get
Speaker 2: Anthony in as an outfield at DH, it seems like
Speaker 2: it might be the best thing for the team, But
Speaker 2: there still is no path for that because Craig Breslo
Speaker 2: and them do not seem at all interested in moving
Speaker 2: him to first base. They want to keep him in
Speaker 2: the outfield. So I'm starting to think maybe Mayor is
Speaker 2: going to be the one that's going to get and
Speaker 2: not our Mic Mayor, but Marcello would be the guy
Speaker 2: that might be in the lineup soon at the expense
Speaker 2: of a story or a Campbell moving to first.
Speaker 3: But we still got it.
Speaker 2: I see it should be Anthony looks like he's ready,
Speaker 2: shouldn't be down for much longer. But Marcella might be
Speaker 2: the guy up sooner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, lots of things to sort out there in Boston. Still, obviously,
Speaker 1: let's talk about another guy. We keep waiting on Bubba Chandler.
Speaker 1: We thought was imminent, and then he wasn't, and then
Speaker 1: he didn't have the greatest start last time we saw him.
Speaker 1: So what's the latest on Bubba Chandler, the star starting
Speaker 1: pitching prospect for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Start eight one, Lug one nine. It is day
Speaker 3: seventy five of I don't know. I don't know when
Speaker 3: Bubba Chandler is going to come up.
Speaker 2: The last start wasn't great, but also wasn't like the
Speaker 2: worst thing in the world.
Speaker 3: Strikeouts are there walks.
Speaker 2: I think his start would line up to today, and
Speaker 2: the Pirates have made no indications, so I think clearly
Speaker 2: it would have to be the next one. I think
Speaker 2: if he has a really nice one, then the timeline
Speaker 2: is this next start. But like, we're just kicking the
Speaker 2: can down the road. So the only thing to talk
Speaker 2: about here is we continuously talk about when will he
Speaker 2: come up.
Speaker 3: It's all just best guesses. At this point. We don't
Speaker 3: know what they're doing developmentally.
Speaker 2: That last start probably did maybe halt things a tiny
Speaker 2: bit because he couldn't go deep in the game and
Speaker 2: he was walking again. But I think if he has
Speaker 2: a really good one here, it should open up, because
Speaker 2: now you're into that mid May, which the pirates really
Speaker 2: really like, and he has had way more good starts
Speaker 2: than bad ones.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's go a little further down on the
Speaker 1: farm for a second for a Mets farm hand who
Speaker 1: struck out thirteen guys, a career high at double A
Speaker 1: Jonah Tong, who also Jonah Tong, kind of turned some
Speaker 1: eyes in some heads over in spring training this year too,
Speaker 1: six and two thirds innings in his last start. He's
Speaker 1: got a forty four point seven percent strikeout rate. That's
Speaker 1: very high. I know that Mets don't need any immediate
Speaker 1: starting pitching help, but I think it's also one of
Speaker 1: those scenarios where if you're in dynasty leagues and you're
Speaker 1: looking at your team and you're trying to acquire more
Speaker 1: assets Tongue and a couple of these other guys, Spirot
Speaker 1: it seems like the Mets have a pretty good prospect
Speaker 1: grouping here of pitchers that are going to come to
Speaker 1: City Field sooner than later. So what's your take? On Tong.
Speaker 1: I know you're a big prospect guy. This is why
Speaker 1: we come to you, Welsh. What's his development possibly look
Speaker 1: like over the next year or.
Speaker 2: So, Shaker, we're talking about Mets prospects from Joey.
Speaker 1: Right, well, we're talking about a Mets prospect. You have
Speaker 1: thirteen strikeout performance. I think that's got a forty four
Speaker 1: p K raid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and he is interesting.
Speaker 2: They've got tid Well, They've got Sprot, they got Tong.
Speaker 2: Tongue is not an option for this year. I would
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, never say never, because he can
Speaker 2: get to Triple A and move up. But they've got
Speaker 2: to work through Sprot in tid Well, and maybe Tidwell
Speaker 2: is going to go in a trade or something. The
Speaker 2: thing that is really going for Tong is massive strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Fifty one strikeouts in twenty eight innings. Pitch so far,
Speaker 2: pretty absurd numbers. Walks are looking, you know, a little
Speaker 2: bit high, fourteen walks in twenty eight innings. But he's
Speaker 2: held batters to like an under one seventy batting average
Speaker 2: so far this year.
Speaker 3: He seems to be on his stuff.
Speaker 2: I don't know if there is like injury or relief
Speaker 2: risk maybe six to one, one eighty, a little bit
Speaker 2: skinnier of a guy. But I think there's a handful
Speaker 2: of really really interesting, like double A ish pitchers that
Speaker 2: are out there in Dynasty, and I think Tong is
Speaker 2: one of those that you want to speculate on because
Speaker 2: that's out stuff with the fastball is huge with him.
Speaker 3: But there's a little.
Speaker 1: Let's speculate on Justin Crawford of the Phillies. Just we
Speaker 1: were getting closer and closer to thinking maybe Otto Kemp
Speaker 1: would get an opportunity. Unfortunately Alec Bohm started hitting again.
Speaker 1: So could Justin Crawford actually be the guy that gets
Speaker 1: there first?
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is one I really wanted to hit.
Speaker 2: Here on my list is Crawford's son of Carl Crawford
Speaker 2: in Triple A has just been an absolute monster. He's
Speaker 2: near the top of hit leaders in all of Triple A.
Speaker 2: He's only twenty one years old, but the six to
Speaker 2: two outfielder. His offensive game is stepping up twenty percent
Speaker 2: K percentage, but he's upped his walk percentage to ten percent.
Speaker 3: Three to nineteen batting average at.
Speaker 2: Four his last four stops a high. I guess it
Speaker 2: was three high A double A and triple A.
Speaker 3: He's all hit over three hundred. Power.
Speaker 2: Projections are really really low on him. He doesn't have
Speaker 2: a homer this year, but he's got twelve stolen bases
Speaker 2: in thirty four games. He's hitting like crazy, which.
Speaker 3: Is really really important.
Speaker 2: And looking at that offense, Brandon marsh is hitting under
Speaker 2: two hundred. Kepler is okay. I guess he's hitting around
Speaker 2: two forty left he's in the lineup. That's Crawford. I
Speaker 2: think you could see Crawford in the very very near
Speaker 2: future because game changing speed you could have at the
Speaker 2: bottom of a lineup, maybe one of Marshall Kepler goes
Speaker 2: by the wayside. I just think there's room there Crawford
Speaker 2: to be a huge, huge, stolen based option, kind of
Speaker 2: in the likes of like a Chandler Simpson type of
Speaker 2: a player that I would look at because he's hitting
Speaker 2: for massive average and I think, I think the clock
Speaker 2: is ticking really really quick here, so stolen base chasing,
Speaker 2: look at Justin Crawford.
Speaker 1: Speaking of huge about sixty seven, Jacob Mizarowski last got
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the Brewers rotation might need
Speaker 1: a little bit of shake up at some point. Brandon
Speaker 1: Woodriff is coming back, but Myers got sent down. Misroowski
Speaker 1: at Triple A this year forty two innings got a
Speaker 1: one four to nine ERA. That's as good as against
Speaker 1: the era is Solow. We can't even see it. Plus
Speaker 1: the whip is point nine to two. Right now, he's
Speaker 1: got eleven point five k per nine. The walk rate's
Speaker 1: still a little high three point eight, but better than
Speaker 1: it was to open the season. So could we be
Speaker 1: seeing this guy who is basically unhittable, I mean giving
Speaker 1: up just twenty one hits in forty two innings Miserowski,
Speaker 1: what do you think this timetable might be this year
Speaker 1: for him?
Speaker 2: Jeahn Kelly, I would say, get off of projections and
Speaker 2: go to stats so people can see the massive, massive
Speaker 2: numbers for Jacob Mizerowski, because that's the craziness of him.
Speaker 2: This year he's got a sub one and a half
Speaker 2: ERA one point four to nine and eleven and a
Speaker 2: half k per nine. But here's the most important walks.
Speaker 2: Last year across all levels five point five walks per nine.
Speaker 2: This year three point eight. We're getting close to cutting
Speaker 2: two walks off per nine. And when you go and
Speaker 2: look at his stuff he's lowered because that's always been
Speaker 2: his problem. Jacob Mizerowski has got big, powerful, exciting stuff,
Speaker 2: but guess what, he's a walk machine. And that spells
Speaker 2: and smells of relief for us that he would be
Speaker 2: a big time closer. Well, this year in TRIPAA, we're
Speaker 2: seeing is the fastball has ticked down a tiny bit
Speaker 2: ninety eight average last year ninety seven point two, So
Speaker 2: he's ticked it down a little bit for a little
Speaker 2: bit more command, scrapped the sinker. He's going heavy slider.
Speaker 2: He threw a three percent of the time last year,
Speaker 2: sixteen percent of the time this year ninety point nine.
Speaker 2: Last year averages ninety two point seven. So he's throwing
Speaker 2: a ninety almost ninety three mile an hour slider. The
Speaker 2: fastball at ninety seven, and then he's got this curve
Speaker 2: that he's throwing at eighty six and he's lowered that percentages.
Speaker 2: So it's heavy fastball slider having huge results. He's not
Speaker 2: walking guys as much. It's a beautiful thing. Miserowski has
Speaker 2: gone from looks like he's a closing option to you
Speaker 2: know what, he actually might be a starting pitcher. They're
Speaker 2: gonna give him that shot. And that shot might come
Speaker 2: soon because as we talked about, there's not a like
Speaker 2: they got a weird hole at the bottom of their
Speaker 2: rotation with two open spots. There's only so long you're
Speaker 2: gonna keep Miserowski in triple A. With those type of results,
Speaker 2: he should get a shot pretty soon. And I will
Speaker 2: tell you it is like a fantasy haven of skills
Speaker 2: that he has in strikeout potential, Like you gotta speculate,
Speaker 2: speculate on him if he comes up.
Speaker 3: You just got to watch the walk issues.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Logan Henderson also came up earlier this year, so
Speaker 1: we got to leapfrog him too, and he looked really
Speaker 1: good at the major league levels. So those are the
Speaker 1: prospects to watch. Prospecting with the Welsh is always here
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Speaker 1: from yesterday's games. Welsh up pretty Freeman four for four
Speaker 1: with a dinger, Ben Rice his first Granny Grand Slam
Speaker 1: for him against the Athletics Navy Valdi probably last couple
Speaker 1: of years the most underrated pitcher in Fantasy just undervalued,
Speaker 1: underppreciated seven shoutout innings for him. He was great against
Speaker 1: the Tigers on Sunday the Downs. Even though he was
Speaker 1: spotted a ten run lead, Brady Singer could not keep it.
Speaker 1: He got just seven outs to give up seven runs
Speaker 1: against the Ashos. Is crazy. The other side of that
Speaker 1: game was Lance mccullor's, which was not good. Luis Severino
Speaker 1: eight runs of his own and given up against the
Speaker 1: Yankees and they pavet a rare bad performance for him
Speaker 1: six runs. It was against the Rockies, though, so he's gonna,
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Speaker 1: download the Fantasy Baseball My Playbook app. Injury Front Clinton
Speaker 1: Kershaw four innings for him, the rehab starts. Still no
Speaker 1: word when he is going to be back, but Blake
Speaker 1: Snell remains shut down. Tyler Glass now being re evaluated today.
Speaker 1: It's the Snell one that's got me worried because now
Speaker 1: that we're saying we were supposed to have him throw again,
Speaker 1: now we're not. It's starting to feel like maybe a
Speaker 1: bigger issue could be on the horizon here where Snell
Speaker 1: might not be back, maybe just not for a long time,
Speaker 1: but might not be back period. I'm starting to get
Speaker 1: real itchy here.
Speaker 2: And he said, I think he tried to start throwing
Speaker 2: and he still or maybe it was right before he
Speaker 2: just felt discomfort.
Speaker 3: Still, it's not good.
Speaker 2: That's it's really really bad. It's slow paced. He's got
Speaker 2: some injury history, getting older. It's doesn't seem like it's healing. Obviously,
Speaker 2: they can slow roll the hell out of this because
Speaker 2: the team is just you know, they're a behemoth, and
Speaker 2: you know they're not quite like. This isn't like the
Speaker 2: NBA and like the Lakers, where you know you would
Speaker 2: sit every player. You know, it was a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago, just sit them all in the regular season
Speaker 2: and they come back at the end. But if there's
Speaker 2: a team that can do that, it's kind of the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: So I think it's it smells really bad for fantasy
Speaker 2: owners of Blake's.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I'm legitimately concerned that we might have little to none
Speaker 2: of Blake Snell.
Speaker 3: This year with us injury.
Speaker 1: Me too. He was my cy young bet this year,
Speaker 1: so one of them. So not loving that. Do you
Speaker 1: think we get Kershaw back this week? After this final
Speaker 1: rehab start?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: It should be the final one.
Speaker 2: My dear friend Clayton Kershaw. It actually brought him to
Speaker 2: Arizona because they wanted to avoid weather to not halt
Speaker 2: are stopping you of the rehab. This last one was
Speaker 2: in triple A. This was it, So he should be
Speaker 2: back this week. That would be the expectation that they're
Speaker 2: going to throw him back into rotation, which is solid.
Speaker 2: I will say this in that start out here, not
Speaker 2: the Triple A one, but like he gave up no
Speaker 2: hits in six innings, but he gave up some hard
Speaker 2: contact that these young guys, they got it to the
Speaker 2: warning track. Bigger Major leaguers and higher minor leaguers are
Speaker 2: going to do some damage with it.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure he's a must start or anything like that,
Speaker 2: or even a must pick up.
Speaker 1: But you can be watching as hockey potential. You gotta
Speaker 1: be an improven over when he's been giving you. Thank
Speaker 1: goodness for Tony Gonsolin. Those are words I never thought
Speaker 1: I would say.
Speaker 3: A monster. He's been a freaking monster.
Speaker 1: So he's been so good. Who would have thought. Spencer
Speaker 1: Strider good news could potentially be activated on Friday, so
Speaker 1: no rehab stuff or anything going on with him. That's
Speaker 1: that's finally good news. Jordan Alvarez expected to resume hitting
Speaker 1: off a tee today, so that's good. And Uri Perez
Speaker 1: five strikeouts, three scoreless innings on Sunday and the minor
Speaker 1: league rehabs start low a so let's see. It's the
Speaker 1: twelfth of May. I'm hoping early June we get Uri
Speaker 1: Perez back. That would be great for my fancy teams.
Speaker 1: While I'm keeping him and Welsh, I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: clock and it's time for the best bets of Monday
Speaker 1: right here with Joey p and the Welsh bets bets
Speaker 1: for me let's go Boston on the money line minus
Speaker 1: one Oa Jackson. Joe is on the mound for the
Speaker 1: Tigers and he has not been good this year. I
Speaker 1: think this Red Sox lineup can handle it. And look,
Speaker 1: Raffaeld Devers starting to get hot too again, yay tannor
Speaker 1: howck on the mount. I thin he can give him
Speaker 1: at least a quality start here and outlast job. So
Speaker 1: give me Boston on the money line on the road.
Speaker 1: Also in that game, because he's going against Joe, give
Speaker 1: me Raffield Devers to score a run plus one forty five.
Speaker 1: I like that number. And lastly, we kind of touched
Speaker 1: on the opening of the show. I just think the
Speaker 1: line is wrong right near just flat out wrong. So
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Pirates are going against the New York Mets today.
Speaker 1: It is on the road in New York. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, it's Paul Skins on the mound. And
Speaker 1: I know Skeens a struggle against the Cardinals, but it's
Speaker 1: still Paul Skeens. And I know the Mets lineup is
Speaker 1: really good, but it's still Paul Skeens. And you give
Speaker 1: me plus money plus one twenty on the money line,
Speaker 1: just for them to come away with a victory and
Speaker 1: a Skien start. I know the Pirates have their struggles.
Speaker 1: I get it. The Mets offense has been red hot,
Speaker 1: but I think we have to at least be smart
Speaker 1: enough to recognize when Paul Skeans is on the mound
Speaker 1: and an underdog at plus money, you take that opportunity
Speaker 1: every single time. So I'm not going crazy with any
Speaker 1: Skiens props. I'm just saying he can out duel Peterson,
Speaker 1: and the Mets offense has been hot, maybe they run
Speaker 1: into a little bit of a buzz saw today with
Speaker 1: arguably the best picture of the National League. So those
Speaker 1: are my bets for today. Welsh, what do you have?
Speaker 3: You might even like those strikeouts.
Speaker 2: I think it was six and a half plus money,
Speaker 2: you know, and yeah, they don't strike out a bunch,
Speaker 2: so it's a little dicey. He just hasn't, been, like
Speaker 2: I said earlier, quite as skeenish. I'm going to join
Speaker 2: you on the Boston side. I'm going to take that
Speaker 2: first five though. I agree Jackson. I mean tena Hack
Speaker 2: has definitely had his moments too, but Jackson job has
Speaker 2: not been super consistent. Offense for Boston has been picking
Speaker 2: it up, Devers, Bregman, I'm gonna play them.
Speaker 3: It's it's even.
Speaker 2: It's minus one fifteen on either side of this. So
Speaker 2: Carrie Carpenter, you know, going up against how there's some
Speaker 2: of the prop bets really love Cary Carpenter and Riley Green. Today,
Speaker 2: I see it, but I'm gonna go Boston first five
Speaker 2: money line. They're tied, we push, but if Boston is
Speaker 2: up and they get to job early, we're gonna cash.
Speaker 2: At minus one fifteen, I'm gonna go with the Padres
Speaker 2: first five run line. So that is just to be
Speaker 2: up by a run. Today it's a little bit more juice,
Speaker 2: but minus one thirty five. Padres offense has just been
Speaker 2: rude nucleus so far, and I believe it is the
Speaker 2: Angels in Kakuchi who Kuji's has some moments of getting lit.
Speaker 3: And then I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2: Justin Verlander under four and a half strikeouts going up
Speaker 2: against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Kotel will be back in the
Speaker 2: lineup today. He wasn't there. I don't believe Verlander has
Speaker 2: hit five strikeouts over his last two starts. Diamondbacks do
Speaker 2: not strike out a Ton Corbin Carroll sometimes sets the
Speaker 2: table for this if he has one of those bad
Speaker 2: Corbyn Carroll games. Over three three strikeouts by the top
Speaker 2: of the line is really tough. I think they're going to
Speaker 2: get to Verlander, so we're going to say Verlander under
Speaker 2: four and a half, so under five strikeouts at minus
Speaker 2: one fifteen.
Speaker 3: Those are my best bets of the day.
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Speaker 1: leading off. Let's see what the home run board looks
Speaker 1: like after the weekend. Ooh, Wonky and Welsh tied at
Speaker 1: fourteen malty up to eighteen, George at eighteen. Now I
Speaker 1: got two from Schwarber. I'm not sure how many I
Speaker 1: have right now. Maybe I feel like you're at eight.
Speaker 3: I think if you were at six before.
Speaker 1: So I'm getting very close to double digits here, very close.
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Speaker 1: home run contest, there's plenty of time. There's still plenty
Speaker 1: of baseball left to play. Go to our discord fantasyfirs
Speaker 1: dot com slash chat. Welsh, you mentioned Kokuchi. I was
Speaker 1: doing a little digging, and it turns out there's a
Speaker 1: guy in that Padres lineup was prett good against Kokuchi
Speaker 1: in eight at bats. He's got two homers, four Ribby's
Speaker 1: and hitting three seventy five with a fifteen hundred OPS.
Speaker 1: And his name is Xander Bogarts. So give me Xander Bogarts.
Speaker 1: Be careful everybody the next couple of days too, calling
Speaker 1: your home runs. A lot of rain in the Northeast
Speaker 1: in some of these games, So just be very attentive to, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, your home run calls. So Welsh, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go stick with Xander an odd one. How about you?
Speaker 1: Where are you going for your home run call today?
Speaker 2: On Monday, I was attempted to kind of stay with
Speaker 2: that Padres team. I think I had tat teams over
Speaker 2: the weekend. Machado was really interesting to me. I did
Speaker 2: move away from it, though, and I'm going to go
Speaker 2: with Corey Seeger.
Speaker 3: Corey Seger actually is.
Speaker 2: Coming off of a two homer game and they're going
Speaker 2: against Colorado and Chase Dolander. You guys know, I do
Speaker 2: like Chase Dolander. That fantasy relevance for this year is
Speaker 2: fading quickly away. And what is Dolander's main problem?
Speaker 3: Homers? Corey Seeger mashing.
Speaker 2: Mashing writies right now with an over three hundred batting average.
Speaker 2: So Corey Seger, We're gonna get him back on the
Speaker 2: board and get me further up that board. Four way
Speaker 2: from the top of me and Waukee. We're trying to
Speaker 2: get there. But I hate to say it, everybody, Joe's
Speaker 2: got a decent shot by June to get on that board.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm getting on board by Jane.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, by the way, don't I don't know if
Speaker 3: you saw this.
Speaker 2: Can you guys put up the last artwork that we
Speaker 2: had with the new picture? We saw a new picture
Speaker 2: from our photo shoot in whatever read you were just
Speaker 2: doing where we were doing the step Brothers.
Speaker 3: Are you guys there you go look at that?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, the step Brothers? One? Yes, I
Speaker 1: do a.
Speaker 2: Better Did I do a better version where I'm looking
Speaker 2: a little bit off? We need to check into that.
Speaker 3: But look at look at that artwork.
Speaker 1: Look at it.
Speaker 3: It's prestigious.
Speaker 1: You look show, Yes, we both look prestigious. There, this
Speaker 1: is pretty good. I was wondering, you know, I was
Speaker 1: doing the read. I was like, why are people calling
Speaker 1: us step brothers? But now it makes sense.
Speaker 3: And I literally wasn't looking.
Speaker 2: And then I looked at the screen and I went
Speaker 2: and I just like outwardly had to do it because
Speaker 2: we've got new new artwork on the screen from our
Speaker 2: photo shoot. Gotta love it, though?
Speaker 1: All right, are you worried about the Corey seeger hamstring
Speaker 1: and all? Though? Tonight you got a backup plan just
Speaker 1: in case?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll probably go Manhatto.
Speaker 2: If I if he doesn't play, if the lineup goes
Speaker 2: and he's not in, I'm gonna drop a little machado
Speaker 2: and join you in the Padres.
Speaker 1: Go Padres. Let's go, all right, everybody that'll do it
Speaker 1: for us, But the story of the game goes on
Speaker 1: for the Welsh. I'm Joey P. We'll see you next time. Kids.
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