Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is leading
Speaker 1: off live. It is me Joey p joe Pisipia. That
Speaker 1: of course is the Welsh, and I've been waiting a
Speaker 1: long time to say that, Oh we let's go. We've
Speaker 1: actually got real baseball to talk about today. Because the
Speaker 1: Dodgers and the Cubs were playing early this morning, I
Speaker 1: was up at six am, as I always am, so
Speaker 1: it was pretty easy for me to watch it. A
Speaker 1: little harder for the Welsh, I know he's been catching
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Speaker 1: I love Brooklyn nine nine. Great show, right, great show
Speaker 1: started off on Fox. Right, everybody loved it. They wanted
Speaker 1: to get rid of it, they wanted to move it around,
Speaker 1: but instead NBC picked it up and then you can
Speaker 1: watch it on NBC. So if you love Brooklyn nine nine,
Speaker 1: you don't stop watching it live. You don't start making
Speaker 1: stop making it a part of your daily routine because
Speaker 1: you love the show, right, you make sure that you say, well,
Speaker 1: if it's on NBC, now I'm gonna watch on NBC.
Speaker 1: Same thing. We're on Twitch live, so watch us on
Speaker 1: Twitch live, and if not, you can still watch us
Speaker 1: on the YouTube channel every single day. Welsh. I think,
Speaker 1: in full Jake Parolta mode, we have to support our
Speaker 1: Jake Parolta's. We are the Jake Parolta's around this joint.
Speaker 1: I think that's the best way I could put it
Speaker 1: to people of how we're moving things along in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five.
Speaker 2: I think that's a good sell That was a very
Speaker 2: good selling point. The only thing that changes on YouTube
Speaker 2: is the live portion of it. The video is still there,
Speaker 2: maybe it'll be out earlier than ever. The live portion
Speaker 2: is just moving here. So I know it's very very stressful.
Speaker 2: But all you do is get the other app come
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Speaker 2: and your golden if live is your goal, because we'll
Speaker 2: be answering questions. We've got the whole set of Monday
Speaker 2: through Friday baseball action for you if you want live.
Speaker 2: If you are not a live guy, yeah, nothing to
Speaker 2: worry about. Nothing changes for you. Easy change is not
Speaker 2: too scary. We're still here for you to hold your
Speaker 2: hand the whole way.
Speaker 1: This is the question, who's the Charles Boyle. We both
Speaker 1: want to be Jake Peralta, that's the problem, but I
Speaker 1: probably me. I'm more of the Charles Boyle. I do
Speaker 1: love to cook. I have a food snob, so that's
Speaker 1: probably the way it goes. You're definitely I would like
Speaker 1: to be the Andre Brower. I think that would probably
Speaker 1: be you know, the ultimate level, but you know, we've
Speaker 1: got a long way to go before.
Speaker 2: I never watched the final season. It's good, yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: And the character names are kind of escaping me a
Speaker 2: little bit. But like phenomenal show. I don't watch a
Speaker 2: lot of like sitcommy, like you know, cable TV type
Speaker 2: of shows. Brooklyn ninety nine is like near the top.
Speaker 2: It had an amazing run of.
Speaker 1: It was so funny. So if I missed when Gina
Speaker 1: Lynetti left because she had brought a certain madness to
Speaker 1: that show, really enjoyed, that would be the character who
Speaker 1: is the she's like the secretary.
Speaker 2: For Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I know you're done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, wonderful, wonderful. Why I'm blocking on the the
Speaker 1: name of Gina Lennette All her name? What's the name
Speaker 1: of the actress who played her? Oh my god, Chelsea Parretti.
Speaker 1: Chelsea Parretti. By the way, a few people don't know
Speaker 1: that there we go. That wust be a funny house.
Speaker 1: But we're a funny house. Dude. Let's get to baseball.
Speaker 1: Let's talk, because we had a game go on today,
Speaker 1: actually count it was a game. It was more of
Speaker 1: an exhibition game, but there were real stats that are
Speaker 1: going to really count in your fantasy leagues, most of
Speaker 1: them anyway, and we want to recap all of that,
Speaker 1: and I think it's a fun thing to take a
Speaker 1: look at what was there, what wasn't there. First, the
Speaker 1: pomp and circumstance, the fact that you had two Japanese pitchers,
Speaker 1: first time ever going against each other on opening day,
Speaker 1: having that happen in Japan, with showed to Imanaga and
Speaker 1: with the Yamamodo, that was terrific. The Pokemon opening. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw this, but the monsters of
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball coming to Japan. I'm not a Pokemon guy.
Speaker 1: I'm too old for that, but I thought it was
Speaker 1: cool anyway, So I enjoyed this. The crowd was live.
Speaker 1: The crowd was very exciting. They were so excited when
Speaker 1: al Tani would come up. And then we'll get really
Speaker 1: quiet too because they were watching so intent and it
Speaker 1: was a game that had a few moments. It was
Speaker 1: interesting because show to Amanaga, guy that really is good
Speaker 1: with control walk four guys. I think that's a career
Speaker 1: high for him for show to Imanaga in this one,
Speaker 1: so he was control was a little off in the
Speaker 1: second inning, he worked around those walks. He had walked
Speaker 1: a few and was able to get around it. Second
Speaker 1: inning a bit of a tough one for Yamamoto as well.
Speaker 1: Miguel Amaya had the big hit there. That was great
Speaker 1: to see. So I want to talk about the pitching
Speaker 1: performances first, because they were limited. They felt like exhibition
Speaker 1: e sort of feel to everything. But neither guy, to me,
Speaker 1: looked super comfortable. Neither guy looked like they were in
Speaker 1: a groove. It felt like spring training to me, and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't take too much out of this. What's your
Speaker 1: take on what you saw from Yamamoto and Ima Naga
Speaker 1: this morning?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I would say, first off, both the performances,
Speaker 2: even though they're like a little squirrely if you're looking
Speaker 2: at like command, they're both great, you know. I mean,
Speaker 2: Ima and Aga ended up, you know, getting that splitter going.
Speaker 2: I think it was let's see, I think it was
Speaker 2: four shutout innings. Yeah, four shutout innings. He didn't give
Speaker 2: up a earned run. The sweeper was a little bit wonky,
Speaker 2: not penguin ish, but just wonky. He ended up throwing
Speaker 2: thirty one percent fastball, thirty nine percent splitter. We were
Speaker 2: seeing some sweeper in there, so he's not just two
Speaker 2: pitch pitchy, which is very good, but it was only
Speaker 2: a thirty three percent zone rate. He just didn't do
Speaker 2: a whole lot. I got a couple called strikes. Everything
Speaker 2: was coming off of the splitter, fastball was all right.
Speaker 2: Imaaga was solid, and the same thing could be said
Speaker 2: about Yamamoto.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Interesting on the betting side, it was almost plus money
Speaker 2: for Emanaga at a walk a guy. Can you imagine
Speaker 2: if you had put in, if you could have got
Speaker 2: two three walks on the plus side, it was like
Speaker 2: minus one.
Speaker 1: Well, because he's not a guy who walked. You could
Speaker 1: see the frustration on his face too. He just didn't
Speaker 1: have that feel that command that he usually does, and
Speaker 1: you would see him and the I want to say,
Speaker 1: at least the first one was a three to two
Speaker 1: count too, where he just like so defeated, you know,
Speaker 1: the catcher was throwing the ball back to him. They
Speaker 1: had a close up and he was like, oh, like,
Speaker 1: I can't believe I did that, and put the first
Speaker 1: guy on and luckily he was able to manage it.
Speaker 1: But you're right, like it was just not your vintagey Minaga.
Speaker 2: No, and both of these guys the line, I mean,
Speaker 2: the lines were telling us so much. By the way,
Speaker 2: you want to get some peak out of what you know,
Speaker 2: the books knew. It was fourteen and a half outs
Speaker 2: for both of these guys, So for you at home,
Speaker 2: that's under five innings. They had like a dual parlay
Speaker 2: of like ten strikeouts for both of these guys. Not
Speaker 2: only did they not hit that, both went under their
Speaker 2: individual strikeout props. Both went over their walks. Because it's
Speaker 2: the exhibition. Just real quick on Yamamoto fastball splitter combination
Speaker 2: was pretty phenomenal. The splitter had a forty seven percent
Speaker 2: whiff rate. It had a higher zone percentage than Iman
Speaker 2: August sweeper. But the fastball looked great. It was getting
Speaker 2: it was getting called strikes while the splitter was getting whiffs.
Speaker 2: That's what you want, and this is a battle of
Speaker 2: fastballs versus splitters. So I actually take away when you say, like, hey,
Speaker 2: don't take away. I think there were both great performances.
Speaker 2: They just exhibitioned this to hell. Sixty nine pitches for
Speaker 2: Eeman August, seventy two for Yamamoto. That's well under what
Speaker 2: you would even expect on an opening day, you'd be
Speaker 2: looking closer to like a eighty Yeah, eighty five is
Speaker 2: kind of the number that had stuck in my head.
Speaker 2: So they went under it. And that's like a twofold
Speaker 2: thing for me. At the end of the day, Joe,
Speaker 2: it's like a incredible atmosphere, incredible everything, except they bury
Speaker 2: the game at three am on Pacific standard time, six
Speaker 2: am on the East. Nothing you could do, Yes, you can.
Speaker 2: You can make it later, and you can make everybody
Speaker 2: there go to the game later. One hundred percent you
Speaker 2: can do something about it. That's I think a first
Speaker 2: mistake with all this stuff. You just can't bury these games.
Speaker 2: And I don't care where it.
Speaker 1: Because like what's the player's body clock like to you
Speaker 1: want to start games at nine pm when they're there?
Speaker 1: I mean that it's tricky.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean they're already on some weird clock situations.
Speaker 2: So that that's A. And then B is just you know,
Speaker 2: the pitching side, you having like long relievers like Ben
Speaker 2: Brown came in, got a ton of whiffs, but he
Speaker 2: gave up multiple runs. He was walking a bunch like
Speaker 2: the hitters didn't quite look like they were locked in.
Speaker 2: I mean, Pete Krimstrong was. I mean, we'll talk about
Speaker 2: the hitters. I don't want to jump into it, but
Speaker 2: the pitchers on these counts is like the secondary thing
Speaker 2: that I think is kind of a problem with these
Speaker 2: I don't like to see the beginning of the season
Speaker 2: guys under seventy pitches to start. But Yamamoto and ima
Speaker 2: Aga both stepped up, Both look solid, and I think
Speaker 2: people can feel pretty confident as far as a fantasy goes.
Speaker 1: And what I'm confident is that our intelligent, good looking audience,
Speaker 1: our peanuts, and our Crackerjacks are going to continue to
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Speaker 1: to the Welsh discord announcement right before the show boom.
Speaker 1: Now we're here. So this is it. We were over
Speaker 1: there and now we're over here. Now that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1: It's going to be very easy. Now, there were some
Speaker 1: people that weren't over there. They went over there, but
Speaker 1: they didn't play Freddie Freeman did not play rib Discomfort.
Speaker 2: I don't like that came. That came like I was
Speaker 2: up late. I had tell you I was up like
Speaker 2: late late. Unfortunately, for some reason, and it was a
Speaker 2: couple hours before the game started. On the West coast.
Speaker 2: There was no announcement at least that I saw about
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman being scratched, so that one was late. The
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets one we we've known, and it's kind of
Speaker 2: a little scary.
Speaker 1: The Moviie Bets one lost fifteen pounds too in this illness.
Speaker 1: I don't think Mookie Bets had fifteen pounds to lose.
Speaker 1: He's not exactly, He's not a big fatty walking around
Speaker 1: necessarily the clubhouse.
Speaker 2: You know, this is not is not me, Like I
Speaker 2: lost like twenty pounds in like two weeks or whatever
Speaker 2: from being super sick, Like I can lose that.
Speaker 1: Bartolle loses fifteen pounds. That's good. His heart will thank him.
Speaker 1: I think that's now. And I love Bartolo, I absolutely
Speaker 1: adore him. But obviously, you know, guys are gonna push it,
Speaker 1: nor should they at this stage. Like that's where we're
Speaker 1: at with this stuff. So again, very exhibition feel. It
Speaker 1: also felt to me a very I guess set up
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. Right, So Dodger starters
Speaker 1: are going to keep you in games, right, They're going
Speaker 1: to get to your bullpen. They're going to hit the
Speaker 1: snot out of your bullpen. Then they're going to drop
Speaker 1: that incredible bullpen on you and its lights out games
Speaker 1: over to me, it was a very Dodger victory today
Speaker 1: and I think a harbinger of things to come in
Speaker 1: the future, which great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that Dodger bullpen's nasty. I mean also, like, you know,
Speaker 2: they just threw band out there, but Casparius came in
Speaker 2: and he threw three of the top velo pitches overall,
Speaker 2: and he ended up being like the set I guess
Speaker 2: you call it the seventh inning guy. And he ends up,
Speaker 2: you know, just rocking fastballs left and right. They then
Speaker 2: go to try and and and Tanner Scott is a beast,
Speaker 2: and I've been pretty adamant about this, Like Tanner Scott
Speaker 2: is one of the best values. We just did a
Speaker 2: show on our breakouts and my breakout relief pitcher is
Speaker 2: Andres Munios. I think Andres Munos is going to like
Speaker 2: take a big step up. But like Tanner Scott was
Speaker 2: going after and the only reason he is going after
Speaker 2: a lot of these guys is because there's like a
Speaker 2: little bit of questionable like will they commit to going
Speaker 2: to Tanner Scott. Could it go to you know, Kirby Yates.
Speaker 2: Are they gonna move it around first opportunity? Tanner Scott
Speaker 2: absolutely lock that down. He just pumped fastballs into them
Speaker 2: and he end up might be in just an absolute
Speaker 2: smash steal top you know, eight, top seven closer when
Speaker 2: it's all done.
Speaker 1: Mctunda out here too, answering the question, what's the over
Speaker 1: under for the Dodgers' win total one oh nine and
Speaker 1: a half? Is that true? Is that the number? Welsh?
Speaker 1: I gotta look at that. I gotta double check on
Speaker 1: that one. But it's good to see r P nuts
Speaker 1: and cracker Jacks filtering into the chat. Also good to
Speaker 1: see the youth. That's right, the children of our future.
Speaker 1: Let them lead the way. And Matt Shaw purchased contract.
Speaker 1: He played in this game. It was good to see
Speaker 1: him out there again. I'm not gonna take too much
Speaker 1: out of the one outing here for Shaw, the one
Speaker 1: appearance here for him so far. He started off spring
Speaker 1: training slow because of an injury. He's picking things up,
Speaker 1: but this is good. It's good to see Miguel Almaya,
Speaker 1: who made some adjustments last year in the second half.
Speaker 1: I mean that's an offensive potential catcher there in fantasy
Speaker 1: leagues like don't sleep on a Mayle like that could
Speaker 1: be a guy that could you know, pop at unexpectedly
Speaker 1: so and be a guy we're talking about a waiver
Speaker 1: wire in single catcher leagues in two weeks from now
Speaker 1: that you got to go running at him. So you
Speaker 1: might want to be ahead of that game too. But
Speaker 1: Matt Shaw. Great to see him playing with the Cubs.
Speaker 1: This is what the cub should be doing. There's nothing
Speaker 1: left for him to prove. We just did our all
Speaker 1: sleeper team, our all breakout team. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: tell you who had Matt Shaw, but I will say
Speaker 1: Matt Shaw was on one of those lists. Those shows
Speaker 1: will be out on YouTube this week. But well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything left for him to do
Speaker 1: with the minor leagues. You got to get to the
Speaker 1: major leagues. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 2: What's the by the way, I don't know those my
Speaker 2: computer are yours. But it was the puppet. We almost
Speaker 2: had a puppet Joe.
Speaker 1: I haven't missed one. Yeah, okay, I think I'm good.
Speaker 1: They're saying puppet Joe, So I don't know if I
Speaker 1: missed something there, but Dodgers actually has a one.
Speaker 2: No, you just you stalled out and then that went back.
Speaker 2: We almost had the first Puppet Joe moment on Twitch.
Speaker 1: I mean that would be appropriate, the first one. But
Speaker 1: the point I'm making is, look, you're in this situation. Now,
Speaker 1: you are all in. You push your chips into the middle. Here,
Speaker 1: you're the Cubs. You've got two guys at the top
Speaker 1: of this rotation you can believe in. You've got enough
Speaker 1: prospects too that if you have to make a move
Speaker 1: for another pitcher at the All Star break, you could
Speaker 1: probably pull it off. You've moved you know, Cam Smith
Speaker 1: for Kyle Tucker, and now it's all in play mat Shaw.
Speaker 1: See what you get out of him, and I think
Speaker 1: you're going to be rewarded. So again, how did this
Speaker 1: make you feel to see Shaw as the opening day
Speaker 1: guy here for the Cubs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the performance didn't do much. Obviously he
Speaker 2: ended up having strikeout, you know, didn't zero for four.
Speaker 2: But Callie, I don't know if you're able to go
Speaker 2: back to the lineup thing for just one second, the
Speaker 2: lineup screen, if we could look at it, and the
Speaker 2: thing that gets me.
Speaker 1: In case for the people were asking. He didn't have
Speaker 1: two strikeouts in the game, but he did play third base.
Speaker 1: There was some questions where would he play potentially, but
Speaker 1: third base is the.
Speaker 2: Spot right there. That's what I wanted everyone to look at.
Speaker 2: He hit fifth. He hit fifth in that lineup already
Speaker 2: prime spot. You're hitting in front, you got Tucker. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't mind this lineup. If it's Hap, Suzuki and Tucker.
Speaker 2: There's an opportunity just to throw it out there that
Speaker 2: Matt Show could move up to four if he's already
Speaker 2: hitting five, So you can go back to Matshaw if
Speaker 2: you want. I just want everyone to see he's hitting
Speaker 2: in front of danceby Swanson. He's hitting in front of
Speaker 2: I mean, Peter Armstrong was just all world spring training.
Speaker 2: Didn't do much in this game either. But and I
Speaker 2: don't know how many lefties they want to put up
Speaker 2: at the top. Having that speed at the bottom is great,
Speaker 2: but having Matt Shaw in, you know, optioned up. He's
Speaker 2: starting at third base on opening day in Japan and
Speaker 2: he's hitting five tells you a lot. I feel very
Speaker 2: comfortable with an investment in him. There's kind of a
Speaker 2: betting side to me too, because n L is still
Speaker 2: a little bit open. You know, Rokie's the favorite. You've
Speaker 2: got Dylan Cruz match show is still around four to
Speaker 2: four and a half to one, and like, I just
Speaker 2: I love the I love the confidence and where they're
Speaker 2: putting him in the lineup. So this performance, it's whatever
Speaker 2: they traveled and there's a lot going on with it.
Speaker 2: But for him to be hitting that high early on,
Speaker 2: I think it's very telling of like what situations he's
Speaker 2: going to be put into. And he had a great spring.
Speaker 2: I mean, he was kind of you know, tanking the ball,
Speaker 2: and I'm I'm definitely even I'm like a next level
Speaker 2: confident that they didn't go and bury him down at
Speaker 2: eight or something like that.
Speaker 1: A little lot of protection with a veteran like Dansby Swanson.
Speaker 1: And of course the jerk wagon has pulled into the
Speaker 1: station officially, So Baseball's back. Here's Mike Mayor Joe celebrating
Speaker 1: over four to two. K's baseball is back. I'm celebrating
Speaker 1: the youth of this nation in baseball of America playing
Speaker 1: in the games in the big leagues. Not a double
Speaker 1: A and triple A. That's what I'm celebrating Mike Mayor.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's what I'm no home run calls today.
Speaker 1: Oh he's me mctunda's home run call those. That's good.
Speaker 1: We're not doing home runs.
Speaker 2: I don't even think about the home run call. The
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Speaker 1: Next week we're gonna get you caught up to you
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Speaker 1: especially those drafts. All right, let's get after some of
Speaker 1: the news. We talked about Mookie Betts, we talked about
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman. Those things are concerning for us. Nonetheless, I
Speaker 1: want to talk about something good. Justin Verlander six strikeouts,
Speaker 1: five shoutout innings now was against the White Sox, so
Speaker 1: I think that is the one caveat there. But good
Speaker 1: to see that the old man still got something left
Speaker 1: to the tank. Anything you want to take out of this.
Speaker 1: I know in one of our previous conversations we've been
Speaker 1: talking about Scherzer, Verlander, some of these older pitchers that
Speaker 1: are just buried in eightp and I want to say,
Speaker 1: you said that Verlander was the guy that you were
Speaker 1: bore willing to take a shot on. So that must
Speaker 1: be making you feel warm and fuzzy in your tummy
Speaker 1: that you saw Justin Verlander do this yesterday. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm not the way I might phrase it, but yes,
Speaker 2: I feel pretty good. Exactly the way to phrase it,
Speaker 2: where I mean a VIZI in my tummy Justin Verlander. Nope,
Speaker 2: But what I will say he said six having the
Speaker 2: strong spring training, sixteen innings pitch so far, fifteen strikeouts
Speaker 2: to four walks, low whip, the stuff looks like it's
Speaker 2: kind of back and the ballpark factor. It is such
Speaker 2: a battle of like what these guys do in spring
Speaker 2: versus like putting any extra oomph into a guy. But
Speaker 2: Verlander has been free and the back end when you're
Speaker 2: a god when you're in post two fifty, like, we
Speaker 2: can talk ourselves into some good starting pitchers, but it's
Speaker 2: it becomes few and far between. Then you look at
Speaker 2: this guy and you're just like, all right, well, you know,
Speaker 2: it's been a really good spring for a forty plus
Speaker 2: year old. He's an a great ballpark. You know, there's
Speaker 2: an improved offense when leadamis, isn't it. I think there's
Speaker 2: just like some check marks you can say, like, well,
Speaker 2: we're checking off multiple elements that say he's worth the risk.
Speaker 2: Because also at the end of the draft, like you
Speaker 2: can cut, you can go and take you know, I
Speaker 2: don't know, I loosely just say, like a Ben Brown,
Speaker 2: you could take those type of guys with hey, maybe
Speaker 2: they'll start blah blah blah. But Verlander's a guy that's
Speaker 2: gonna be in the rotation all year and if it works.
Speaker 2: I think I'm relatively comfortable with it. So I feel
Speaker 2: pretty good about that, and I also say it is
Speaker 2: the White Sox. The White Sox lineup is a tiny
Speaker 2: bit more interesting than it was like from last year.
Speaker 2: Miguel Vargas has third base lockdown. There's another sleeper to
Speaker 2: look at in the back end of like deeper drafts.
Speaker 2: Brandon Drury has had an insane spring and he might
Speaker 2: have nothing in the roster at second base. Yeah, Chase
Speaker 2: me droth Is. It looks like he's gonna play short,
Speaker 2: he doesn't strike out. It's actually kind of a uniquely
Speaker 2: interesting roster. I don't know if it's enough where I'm
Speaker 2: gonna listen to Cardi If you check out our MLB
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Speaker 2: One of his favorite bets was the Chicago White Sox
Speaker 2: season total over. I don't know if I can go there,
Speaker 2: but this team is a little bit more well constructed
Speaker 2: and interesting, I think than what last year's abomination was.
Speaker 1: Now some prospect news Christian Campbell might be the starting
Speaker 1: second baseman here. Alex Korra was talking to reporters and
Speaker 1: he's competing for that job. According to Korra, So there's
Speaker 1: still about a week left. I know it hasn't been
Speaker 1: the perfect spring here for Campbell, but a good strong
Speaker 1: finish will go a long way, and a good defensive
Speaker 1: moment would be good too. Also, some rumors about Cam Smith,
Speaker 1: who we've been talking about here. I've done videos here
Speaker 1: about Cam Smith on our YouTube channel. I tell you
Speaker 1: that dude's a beast. I think is worth a shot.
Speaker 1: Let's see what he's got here. And here's a question
Speaker 1: from who dat friend of the show, mister prospect Welsh.
Speaker 1: Do we think Cam Smith makes it to the open
Speaker 1: day roster Welsh? Because he's playing the outfield too a
Speaker 1: little bit? I say, yeah, that flexibility is what you
Speaker 1: want with a young player. So you could play him
Speaker 1: at third, you could play him in the outfield, and
Speaker 1: that way you can mix a match because early on
Speaker 1: you tend to give a lot of guys days off. Still,
Speaker 1: you know, he's still kind of plodding through April. I
Speaker 1: think he's going to make the roster Welsh. What do
Speaker 1: you think I do too?
Speaker 2: I think at this point, I mean they've you're starting
Speaker 2: to see guys. Jack Cagleon is a prime example. He
Speaker 2: was just sent down out of camp. I think it
Speaker 2: was yesterday, so you're starting to and he had their
Speaker 2: joke at like three hundred WRC plus in spring, like
Speaker 2: he's in five hundred. He's a monster, awesome spring. See ya,
Speaker 2: you're going down. It's not any guarantee for any prospect.
Speaker 2: There's still a lot of these rosters are like forty,
Speaker 2: you know, and you got to get down to like
Speaker 2: twenty five, so there are cuts to be made. So
Speaker 2: there's no guarantees. But when you get to past mid
Speaker 2: March and you're still on the roster, the opportunity goes up.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of comments that are out there about
Speaker 2: it as well. I think he would come in and
Speaker 2: be an outfielder immediately. I think he'd be a starting
Speaker 2: outfielder and then and they would probably compliment him by
Speaker 2: playing some corner and another reason behind it. I wanted
Speaker 2: to bring this up. We didn't talk about this before,
Speaker 2: but like one of the most shocking Spring things to
Speaker 2: me has still been that Alex Vradugo has no job.
Speaker 2: Like we've seen so many guys even late like okay,
Speaker 2: this guy's signed, Jose Kintana signed with the Brewers, But.
Speaker 1: If you look, Verdugo's not the most liked guy from
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: Okay, but he is su I think it's twenty nine.
Speaker 2: He sub thirty years old, great defender. Multiple teams have
Speaker 2: talked to him, and one of those teams was the
Speaker 2: Houston Astros that they were looking for a corner outfielder.
Speaker 2: Nothing necessarily materialized, and I don't know, I think that
Speaker 2: they didn't pull that trigger. It kind of tells me
Speaker 2: that this team is willing, you know, a to take
Speaker 2: a stab at that PPI and try to get the
Speaker 2: extra pick, and b that they think he is at
Speaker 2: a level that is going to be able to work.
Speaker 2: He can defensively play. At some point he could you know,
Speaker 2: they can move pradis to second praties too. I mean,
Speaker 2: they could just move this around that. I really do
Speaker 2: think cam Smith is going to do it and hat
Speaker 2: tip it into that PPI program that I'm hoping that
Speaker 2: the Astros are looking at this and saying, like, we
Speaker 2: do want to take a stab at getting this first
Speaker 2: round pick get rewarded. And I really do think like
Speaker 2: he is one of those prospect prospects that's going to
Speaker 2: be out there. And I moved him up in my
Speaker 2: draft ranks because I feel a lot more confident about him.
Speaker 2: And Christian Moore are the two guys that no one
Speaker 2: talks about that I really do think have good opportunities
Speaker 2: to h.
Speaker 1: Here you go, Debbie Downers back again. There was a
Speaker 1: poor yesterday that David Hamilton could get that job over
Speaker 1: Christian Campbell. But Mike Mayer wah whah, yeah, I know
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Speaker 2: a song and they're like man and they pose it.
Speaker 2: The cycle is just going to become Mike Mayor listening
Speaker 2: to videos of you pausing it and just refuting everything
Speaker 2: you say that it'd be great videos.
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Speaker 1: news and notes to get through. We have Zach Wheeler
Speaker 1: starting opening day. That's important, kind of before gone conclusion.
Speaker 1: But yesterday Spencer Strider, this is what I want to
Speaker 1: get to. He retired all eight red Sox that he
Speaker 1: faced six strikeouts for Spencer Strider. He looked very sharp.
Speaker 1: Now it's the only the first outing. But if you
Speaker 1: listen closely, well you can hear the ADP already rising.
Speaker 1: Do you hear it? I hear it right now.
Speaker 2: I heard it. It was screaming at me. After that,
Speaker 2: the seven strikeouts off of two and two, I mean,
Speaker 2: be still my heart. Like I had mentioned this in
Speaker 2: conversation with Eno on The Ultimate Pitching Guide, Part one,
Speaker 2: of saying like when you have the sorry Joey, when
Speaker 2: you have this like push for Jacob to Grom that hey,
Speaker 2: Jacob de Grim can be you know, a top five
Speaker 2: sp and a ten man league, or he's a top
Speaker 2: ten in a twelve man league. In fifteen. He's risky,
Speaker 2: and everyone's having these conversations and it's a lot of
Speaker 2: de Gram. We gotta have the conversation about Spencer Strider
Speaker 2: because Spencer Strider. I mean, don't be shocked when Spencer
Speaker 2: Strider has more innings pitched than Jacob de Grom and
Speaker 2: he misses his little time at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 2: But that beginning of the season might be the thing,
Speaker 2: the only thing that kind of tails us off from that.
Speaker 2: Now he's obviously, you know, coming off of the brace,
Speaker 2: and we have to see how that's going to hold
Speaker 2: up on the season. But like to see that performance,
Speaker 2: to see him pitch and be able to get this
Speaker 2: game in makes me feel confident that the time missed whatever,
Speaker 2: that's going to be a short and that he's a
Speaker 2: smashing steal. I had him pitcher thirty seven in a
Speaker 2: row going into with no update going into that start.
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest with you, Joey, like this thirty
Speaker 2: range is killing me because I look at Shae McClanahan,
Speaker 2: Sandi al Contra, and Spencer Strider, all of these guys
Speaker 2: that were like third to forty or whatever in ranks,
Speaker 2: they're all out there they're all pitching, they all look good,
Speaker 2: and they all have top fifteen upside. It's just about
Speaker 2: a matter of, like, what are those innings going to
Speaker 2: look like. I'm not going to be shocked if Strider
Speaker 2: goes inside the top twenty five of some drafts this week.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm gonna move him that high.
Speaker 2: But like take Joe Ryan, Joe Ryan, we had some
Speaker 2: v low downs or some concerns there. Could I justify
Speaker 2: taking Spencer Strider over Ryan? I might be able to
Speaker 2: Spencer Strider is an SP three. I think it's in
Speaker 2: play man. I don't want to get too over zealous.
Speaker 2: It is risky taking a picture that is like really
Speaker 2: coming off of an injury. Like Alcontra and McClanahan are
Speaker 2: further away, but Strider is at the level that he
Speaker 2: is one of the best pitchers in baseball, and I
Speaker 2: truly think he is. In conversation of de Grom light
Speaker 2: when you justify taking him, you might be better avoiding
Speaker 2: de Grom in a draft around SP eleven or twelve
Speaker 2: and take Strider around like SP twenty eight or twenty nine,
Speaker 2: and you might get a very similar time.
Speaker 1: Look, it's going to rise it's going to be very
Speaker 1: evident this weekend because this is the only sample size
Speaker 1: you're going to have before drafts. This weekend. He's not
Speaker 1: going to pitch again this well, he might pitch on
Speaker 1: what on Saturday potentially, right if we're on like a
Speaker 1: five day schedule we're trying to I think he.
Speaker 2: Could go Saturday Sunday or Saturday or Sunday.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and it's one you watch with bated breath,
Speaker 1: right because you don't want to have any setbacks, you
Speaker 1: want to have any issues. But that's a huge one
Speaker 1: because right now the ADP is, you know, above the
Speaker 1: Shane mcclanahan's and above the Sandy al contras, who are
Speaker 1: going to be there day one. Strider, no matter what's
Speaker 1: not going to be there opening day. We know this already.
Speaker 1: How long is it going to take him to ramp
Speaker 1: up it? Does he have any setbacks? Those are the
Speaker 1: big questions. We teased it where we joked I should
Speaker 1: say on the show yesterday we were doing about well
Speaker 1: baseball's back ause Royce Lewis is hurt and he has
Speaker 1: a moderate left hamstring strain. So if Spencer Strider is
Speaker 1: moving up now after that, clearly Royce Lewis ADP is
Speaker 1: going to take a massive hit. So anybody this offse
Speaker 1: he was going, okay to go back in there, give
Speaker 1: him one more shot. Welsh, how do you do this?
Speaker 1: How do you continue to take flyers on this guy
Speaker 1: when he just continues to show you he can't say
Speaker 1: on the field. This was a crazy stat I mentioned
Speaker 1: on the other show. I'm gonna mention on this show
Speaker 1: today too. I think it was twenty three or twenty
Speaker 1: four games combined where Correa, Buxton and Lewis were all
Speaker 1: in the field at the same time. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: Wonkee Penguin, cover your ears. I know in Minnesota they're
Speaker 1: not happy about that, But geez, man, like Royce Lewis,
Speaker 1: where do you feel comfortable drafting Royce was? Because when
Speaker 1: he's on the field, he is a tremendous talent, but.
Speaker 2: I can get or even ecr. Yeah, I'm curious because
Speaker 2: like I'm think I'm a bit lower, but man I'm not.
Speaker 2: I mean, like, yeah, now I'm looking, I don't think
Speaker 2: I was. I'm making some readjustments here.
Speaker 1: He is one thirteen overall, that's where he is. He's
Speaker 1: going behind Jake Berger now, which was not the case
Speaker 1: last week that was Royce Lewis was going over Jake
Speaker 1: Berger in most drafts that I saw. For sure, he
Speaker 1: is going ahead of Matt Chapman. He is third baseman
Speaker 1: thirteen on the board. You Anyo swar is at fourteen.
Speaker 1: So there you go that.
Speaker 2: That might be it. That might be the play because
Speaker 2: like he's just I don't draft him. I don't think
Speaker 2: I drafted him once and every fricking mock draft I
Speaker 2: did here in this league, everywhere, I never drafted him.
Speaker 2: He's not a target for me. I'm not sure that
Speaker 2: even the proverbial juice is worth the squeeze. Like batting
Speaker 2: average really stunk last year. We know he can go
Speaker 2: in these big spurts, but you know, at this point
Speaker 2: it's a really good I would rather have Jake Berger,
Speaker 2: and frankly, I think I'd rather also have Matt Chapman.
Speaker 2: I mean, I love drafting Matt Chapman right now. Some
Speaker 2: of the underlying skills kind of dipped a little bit,
Speaker 2: and you've got a hit her friendly environment, but at
Speaker 2: least he's out there Like this was Royce Lewis just
Speaker 2: running out of the box and trying to get to
Speaker 2: first base. And pulling up like I have no reason
Speaker 2: to believe this isn't going to keep going on.
Speaker 1: He is.
Speaker 2: This is the that adage of injury prone versus injury plagued.
Speaker 1: I think he's all of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all of it.
Speaker 1: He is boss, he is the alpha, he is the omega,
Speaker 1: he is the sunshine, he is the darkness. He's all
Speaker 1: of it. And it's just I mean, it's very frustrating.
Speaker 1: It's very frustrating at this point in.
Speaker 2: Scientistic Would you rather that parade for him.
Speaker 1: Paradis because I think he's gonna play.
Speaker 2: More, might have similar batting average. I mean, Paradis two
Speaker 2: thirty two forty. Royce Lewis dipped down last year, a
Speaker 2: great ballpark for preadus. I'm not sure that Paradis is
Speaker 2: a worse pick than Royce Lewis.
Speaker 1: Here's Wonkey Pegman does royce Lewis stretch? That was a
Speaker 1: very funny one.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know, but it's it's certainly
Speaker 1: because nobody knows it's a it's a problem. It's certainly
Speaker 1: a problem there, all right, Welsh Before we close things
Speaker 1: out here today, uh, Grace Rodriguez elbow is gonna play
Speaker 1: catch today. We'll see how that goes. We have a
Speaker 1: Jung Holy Mri also happening yesterday, so we'll get you
Speaker 1: updates on that. That's not great. Lu Rodriguez was out
Speaker 1: due to illness. But the good news is Jerks and
Speaker 1: Profar is making progress. The wrist injury always scary, but
Speaker 1: it seems like it's just a deep bruise. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be okay. His ADP is taking a hit, and I
Speaker 1: he was already a value for me, So I think
Speaker 1: this is the time to buy back in on Profar.
Speaker 1: Any other news and notes from yesterday and spring training,
Speaker 1: the calt your eye that you think are really important
Speaker 1: that everyone should know about.
Speaker 2: No, I mean Jack, As I mentioned, Jack Kaglione was
Speaker 2: sent down. So we're getting a lot of the you know,
Speaker 2: we're getting kind of a lot of the crazy sindowns
Speaker 2: are the big major hopefuls.
Speaker 1: But I sure in charge of all of those, I
Speaker 1: think because he would be great. Hey, is this your
Speaker 1: dream to play Majorague baseball? Starry, You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: go back to Chattanooga for the next three months. There
Speaker 1: you go, Mike Man.
Speaker 2: I will say that the White Sox rotation is fascinating.
Speaker 2: Sean Burke named the opening day starter Joey Gallo released.
Speaker 2: Joey Gallo going to continue his career as a starting pitcher.
Speaker 2: He asked for his relief release. There's just a lot
Speaker 2: of quirky guys. I'm I'm kind of enamored with that,
Speaker 2: how bad that team is. But some of the potential
Speaker 2: fantasy streaming options I'm not sure, to be honest with
Speaker 2: the outside of Robert, I'm just not sure that there's
Speaker 2: a singular player that's worth like holding on to the
Speaker 2: entire season. But there's a lot of guys that might
Speaker 2: be worth streaming on that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's end on this telenovella here from Jay
Speaker 1: almost so we almost we almost screens.
Speaker 2: I don't even know, all right, what's the question?
Speaker 1: Keep her question? Shall it? But I like information it
Speaker 1: does help us get better. Answers shall ten team five
Speaker 1: by five head head categories, three late round keepers, five
Speaker 1: year max. My options are James wood Is the sixteenth,
Speaker 1: yes for five more years, Kevinars eighteen for five more years, Yes,
Speaker 1: Brice Harper for six and four years, Ali Rushman, Santandero
Speaker 1: Jackson Holiday. My initial thoughts to keep wood Kevin Aaron Harper.
Speaker 1: I agree with that assessment. I think those are the
Speaker 1: three year keeping Harper still is a value at the six.
Speaker 1: This is easy, Welsh. I don't think he's overthinking. I
Speaker 1: think this is just doing your due diligence. I'm not
Speaker 1: keeping a catcher.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kiss, keep it simple.
Speaker 1: There you go, keep it simple, and that's stupid. The stupids,
Speaker 1: and I mean the stupids. Me and Walshi'll be back
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Speaker 1: to get to twenty five thousand before opening day and
Speaker 1: we are getting real close. And I think it's Mario
Speaker 1: and Luigi time when we hit twenty five thousand. So
Speaker 1: if the year, we.
Speaker 2: Want to get there Mario and Luigia And tomorrow, by
Speaker 2: the way, Roki Sazaki versus Friend of the Show Justin Steele. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's going to be a great matchup to break down.
Speaker 2: Very very excited to look at some of that and
Speaker 2: hopefully the Cubs can get more than you know.
Speaker 1: One hits. That would be nice. Sorry, 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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