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Speaker 1: Great and Powerful Leading Off, Joe Rico, what's up, buddy.
Speaker 2: Great to be on with you, my friend.
Speaker 1: How you doing I'm doing I'm doing fantastic. So everybody
Speaker 1: knows I dialed into my baseball stuff early. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you guys, all the stuff and the things, the bets,
Speaker 1: I've locked them in and then about it a couple
Speaker 1: hours after this show is airing. Maybe you're listening on
Speaker 1: the podcast checked Out, because I'm going to see Deadpool
Speaker 1: Versus Wolverine today. I know it opens Friday, but they've
Speaker 1: got the Thursday showings. It's an afternoon one. It is
Speaker 1: literally what I have been building up to. I'm very excited,
Speaker 1: expected to be disappointed. I'm a huge nerd, so that
Speaker 1: is what is in store for me. So once it's
Speaker 1: like eight pm Eastern, you will have known I have
Speaker 1: consumed all of the wonderfulness that will be Deadpool and Wolverine.
Speaker 1: Are you a comic book guy at all, mister Joe Rico, No,
Speaker 1: they don't look like it looks like you're gonna say.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not really, I'm like not really into the Marvel stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm not really a big comic book guy.
Speaker 3: As a kid, I love the Chris Nolan Batman movies,
Speaker 3: but I don't think that really gives me gives me
Speaker 3: any credit there for that. So I'm I'm really, honestly
Speaker 3: just so focused on sports these days. I don't really
Speaker 3: watch many movies anymore TV shows. I used to be
Speaker 3: such a buff for movies and series and stuff, and
Speaker 3: now it's just all baseball all the time.
Speaker 2: I need to mix things up a little bit.
Speaker 4: Well that's all I have.
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 1: I'm literally baseball, people, No, I just forget everything and
Speaker 1: I can only think of baseball.
Speaker 4: It's baseball. And then it's like this. It's this consumption.
Speaker 4: And I love Secret Wars.
Speaker 1: People know they watch up here. So I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: But I'm excited to hang with you guys. Excited to
Speaker 1: hang with mister Joe Rico too. Also excited to turn around.
Speaker 1: I am in a slump right now on the betting side,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna be playing it easy.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get back.
Speaker 1: To basics later in the show if you're looking for
Speaker 1: some bets. But mister Joe Alrico, you want.
Speaker 4: To get into it? Are you ready?
Speaker 1: Because I got something a little different at the top
Speaker 1: report came out today outside.
Speaker 4: If you know one thing I was going to.
Speaker 1: Say, did you see John Hayman's tweet the other day
Speaker 1: where he was being such a turd online?
Speaker 4: Did you see the tweet.
Speaker 3: The Jordan I'm talking to Jordan Lyles tweet. I Yes,
Speaker 3: I quote tweeted it and I said, like, this guy's
Speaker 3: a joke, Like I just don't even understand what the
Speaker 3: point of it is.
Speaker 2: And then he signs with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Uh, he's such a turd dude, Like I can't believe.
Speaker 1: Like it was the most passive aggressive, like it was
Speaker 1: really in your face.
Speaker 4: It was like, hey, by the way, what he.
Speaker 1: Was just since just calling him like what a scam artist?
Speaker 1: May he's fifty two million dollars, has a negative war.
Speaker 4: What a dirtbag? But hey, great job.
Speaker 1: I'm only saying it because we're putting out something he said,
Speaker 1: but just what an absolute dirt bag. Report comes out
Speaker 1: today about Garrett Crochet. Garrett Crochet kind of the tippy
Speaker 1: top of the trade market. We many reports have come
Speaker 1: out he's going to be traded. We know it's going
Speaker 1: to happen, but there's always been a question about like
Speaker 1: what is he going to look like? What is he
Speaker 1: going to look like from a trade to bullpen usage standpoint? Well,
Speaker 1: this report comes out, I guess, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: from John Hayman, that Garrett Crochet is not going to
Speaker 1: in any capacity, whether he's a White Sox or someone
Speaker 1: else moved to the bullpen. That's great for everybody to hear,
Speaker 1: but also will need an extension to pitch into October.
Speaker 1: That's a very interesting element that got put out there.
Speaker 1: But I think at the end of the day, the
Speaker 1: biggest positive is that Garrett Crochet will only be a
Speaker 1: starter if he's traded, plans to play through the rest
Speaker 1: of the season, and the extension talk will only make
Speaker 1: it better, So, you know, I think fantasy owners can.
Speaker 4: Maybe have a little sigh relief.
Speaker 1: I'd also throw in Joe, like I thought Paul Schemes
Speaker 1: going essentially nine innings was the Pirates telling us he's
Speaker 1: good to go, Like they had an out to let
Speaker 1: him out after seven innings, even though it was seventy
Speaker 1: eight pitches and they could have saved him, they didn't.
Speaker 4: Thought that was a good sign.
Speaker 1: And like Louis Heal, the other of the trifecta of
Speaker 1: those guys the triad, you know, he kind of held
Speaker 1: back a little bit, like I don't think we feel
Speaker 1: any better or worse about Louis Heal, but we feel
Speaker 1: better about Schemes. And then this Garrett Crochet news is
Speaker 1: pretty good.
Speaker 4: If he gets traded.
Speaker 3: Yes, So the caveat is he has to get traded
Speaker 3: for this to matter. If he's with the White Sox,
Speaker 3: then they're gonna still do the abbreviated outings.
Speaker 2: Is that what the report was saying.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think I saw abbreviated outings full on
Speaker 1: for the White Sox.
Speaker 4: It was that he will not go to the bullpen.
Speaker 4: So I mean, maybe that's what it was.
Speaker 1: I don't remember that part if he's staying, But the
Speaker 1: point of the report was he will not be in
Speaker 1: the bullpen, no matter what, no matter where he is,
Speaker 1: he's not going to the bullpen.
Speaker 4: But if he's going to pitch.
Speaker 1: Into October, so let's say the Dodgers trade him, he
Speaker 1: will need an extension, so that actually could make this
Speaker 1: trade trickier if a team is not willing to drop
Speaker 1: that extension right away. But if he is traded, I
Speaker 1: think there's some really great news right there.
Speaker 3: I'm just a little bit confused, Like, Okay, let's say
Speaker 3: he gets traded the Dodgers. First of all, I think
Speaker 3: it's a little bit risky to just throw him out
Speaker 3: there seven innings, hundred pitches every single time. He's already
Speaker 3: like one hundred innings over what he threw last year.
Speaker 3: We're playing with fire a little bit. But like, let's
Speaker 3: say he gets traded to the Dodgers and they don't
Speaker 3: give him an extension, He's gonna sit on his hands
Speaker 3: in October and not pitch for them. I mean, that
Speaker 3: would be kind of a ballsy thing to do, But
Speaker 3: I don't know if I would actually, like, would he
Speaker 3: actually do that or is it's just a little bit
Speaker 3: of lip service to try and get a deal done.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think there's a lot of lips. This is
Speaker 1: a lot of agent lip service.
Speaker 4: You put it.
Speaker 1: You put this guy who's been with the white losing
Speaker 1: White Sox for years, you put them on a Dodgers,
Speaker 1: you get them in October for playing, and they're like,
Speaker 1: Harry Garrett, we need you, and he's.
Speaker 4: Like, no, I can't. My arm Like they're not gonna
Speaker 4: do that.
Speaker 1: So now I don't I think this is this is
Speaker 1: all bolsterring, and that's fine, But I don't really care
Speaker 1: necessarily about all those details. What I care about is
Speaker 1: that the camp has committed that he will not go
Speaker 1: to the bullpen, and he's committed to pitching through the
Speaker 1: end of the year. So That is a really good sign.
Speaker 1: And that's a good sign for fantasy owners because Garrett Crochet,
Speaker 1: he's been one of the best pictures in baseball, I think,
Speaker 1: leads and strikeouts. You know, k per nine has been
Speaker 1: up there, walk the K minus walk person. I mean,
Speaker 1: he has been at the tippy top, if not over
Speaker 1: the last two months, he's been at the tippy.
Speaker 4: Top all the way through. And I think it's a really.
Speaker 1: Good sign because I've gotten tons of questions from fantasy owners, Oh,
Speaker 1: Paul Skin's gonna.
Speaker 4: Get held done? Is Garrett Crochet? What do I do?
Speaker 4: What do I do at the.
Speaker 1: End of the day. I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: and iFIT to not even considering trading off these guys
Speaker 1: that have just been absolutely dominated across the board for
Speaker 1: fantasy because you're worried about some other stuff, another thing
Speaker 1: to be worried about. I actually spend some time talking
Speaker 1: about this in a trade fashion on the In This
Speaker 1: League Fantasy Baseball podcast yesterday. Christian Yelich may may undergo
Speaker 1: or may need season ending back surgery after being placed
Speaker 1: on the IL earlier today, and there's an obviousness of
Speaker 1: what that does for fantasy in general. Bye bye, You're
Speaker 1: gonna put him on the eel and he's probably done
Speaker 1: for the year. But I think this is going to
Speaker 1: push the Brewers into needing to make a trade. And
Speaker 1: let me tell this to you, this was the odd
Speaker 1: trade I had them making because we haven't seen this
Speaker 1: guy get pushed to them. But Chisholm, I think Chisholm,
Speaker 1: even though it's like a weird combo, might be a
Speaker 1: player that makes a ton of sense. If they're going
Speaker 1: to lose an outfielder in Christian Yelich, they've got that division,
Speaker 1: they've got a hold. I don't know if they would
Speaker 1: feel calm. I mean, they do have depth by the way,
Speaker 1: they do have like Garrett Mitchell, and they've got self
Speaker 1: reel like but Jazz is controllable for years.
Speaker 4: You can get him in.
Speaker 1: Maybe they can consider him even going back into the
Speaker 1: middle enfield. I think Jazz is like a really good
Speaker 1: option that Yelich is going to go down at least
Speaker 1: for them fixing things up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't mind that at all. I've seen him
Speaker 3: talked about in a lot of rumors.
Speaker 2: I know the Yankees.
Speaker 3: They're something with the Yankees yesterday, how they don't want
Speaker 3: him because they don't like his personality or something. Philadelphia
Speaker 3: has been linked to him quite a bit, but Milwaukee
Speaker 3: would actually make some sense. I guess it is pretty
Speaker 3: tied to the Yellowsman. They would have to do something
Speaker 3: if Yelig goes down. I wonder if there could be
Speaker 3: some kind of Now I'm not the biggest prospect. I'm
Speaker 3: not sure if Milwaukee could actually do this, but pull
Speaker 3: off some kind of like Luis Robert plus a starting
Speaker 3: pitcher from the White Sox, because Milwaukee is in some
Speaker 3: desperate need of pitching as well. I mean, the guys
Speaker 3: that they're rolling out there behind Freddy Perlt are a
Speaker 3: little bit iffy, so they get like a fetti lou
Speaker 3: Bob or a crochet lou Bob type of deal.
Speaker 2: That could be something that really makes sense.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they can get crochey.
Speaker 1: I will say this, I saw a report yesterday that
Speaker 1: had linked Vladimir.
Speaker 4: Guerrero to the Brewers, and I.
Speaker 1: Was immediately dismissed it as I guess I've been doing
Speaker 1: a lot lately.
Speaker 4: And then when I.
Speaker 1: Started to look, because we did this exercise on the
Speaker 1: podcast where we took all the big named players and
Speaker 1: we theorize where they're gonna go, and then what the
Speaker 1: trade looks like. And by the way, as somebody had
Speaker 1: put jazz to Seattle, that's been a popular one, but
Speaker 1: we had done the Randy or rosarinat Estak parades. Going
Speaker 1: to Seattle, they need multiple helps. We didn't want to.
Speaker 4: Put jazz there.
Speaker 1: And then as I was revamping myself through the Brewers system.
Speaker 4: It's not elite elite, but they've got depth across the board.
Speaker 4: They've got guys.
Speaker 1: They've got Jacob Mizarowski that could frontline some type of
Speaker 1: a trade. Brock Wilkin, who they traded for or they
Speaker 1: had drafted. Cooper Pratt is a guy that's way up there,
Speaker 1: and the list kind of keeps going on, Luis Lara, They've.
Speaker 4: Got a ton of depth.
Speaker 1: What they don't have is a ton of guys that
Speaker 1: are super close to the majors unless they go and trade,
Speaker 1: you know, like South Frielick or something in a trade,
Speaker 1: which they could. So I think a Fetti robert One
Speaker 1: might make sense because maybe you can get away with
Speaker 1: maybe it is the might cringe at this, but maybe
Speaker 1: it's a Miserowski and like a Cooper Pratt and something else,
Speaker 1: and that might get.
Speaker 4: Both of those guys.
Speaker 1: But I think the point here is Yelich is gonna
Speaker 1: be done with. If they're talking surgery, he's gonna be done,
Speaker 1: and the Brewers are gonna have to go and make
Speaker 1: a move, as the Mariners need to go and make
Speaker 1: a move. Losing Luis Robert with a high ankle sprain,
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose. Unless you're comfortable losing all the momentum,
Speaker 1: You've got to make something happen. That's why I think
Speaker 1: there might surprisingly be more two star trades than we've
Speaker 1: seen in any year. I remember seeing like once every
Speaker 1: trade deadline. But we might see parades and Rose rain
Speaker 1: and go to Seattle. We might see lou Bob and Fetti,
Speaker 1: or lou Bob and Crochet package together. We might see
Speaker 1: a handful of those. But I think the Brewers are
Speaker 1: gonna be in a semi desperate situation in a market
Speaker 1: that is easier to trade for him hitting than it
Speaker 1: is pitching right now. But you're right they also could
Speaker 1: use some pitching. A Fetti Luise Robert one as weird
Speaker 1: of a like mix as it would be, would make
Speaker 1: all the sense in the world.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and I think Detroit's another team there that could
Speaker 3: maybe pair a couple, whether it's you know, Flaherty Schooble,
Speaker 3: all that talk, but maybe they pair at Jason Foley
Speaker 3: or maybe there's some other player that gets paired. There's
Speaker 3: potentially a lot of high profile guy's going to be
Speaker 3: moving around in the next couple of days.
Speaker 4: There really is. I'm very excited to get into it.
Speaker 1: I'm actually i gotta be honest with you, I'm surprised
Speaker 1: it's Thursday and we don't have any.
Speaker 2: Eron so like we got rumors, hearents have always the
Speaker 2: big movers so far.
Speaker 1: I thought we would have had one like kind of
Speaker 1: popping up, and there's been like one little one here
Speaker 1: and then one over the weekend. There's also the there's
Speaker 1: a real possibility that Tuesday could be bunkers. It might
Speaker 1: be a bunkers. Everybody might be just holding on real
Speaker 1: tight right up until that very last day and then
Speaker 1: floodgates are just going to open for all the trade market,
Speaker 1: but brutal for fantasy owners. Christian Yelich losing him that
Speaker 1: is a bad, bad blow. But there are you know,
Speaker 1: some assets out there that you could probably move to
Speaker 1: to kind of make up for it. Lawrence Butler, I
Speaker 1: would just point out to everybody, if even available, would
Speaker 1: be the greatest turn if you lost Yelich to go
Speaker 1: and get a guy like him. His ownership is probably
Speaker 1: rocketed even a little bit more. But I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's even over seventy percent in really highly competitive
Speaker 1: leagues yet Mets. They swept the Yankees Francisco Lindor three
Speaker 1: for six with two homers, two runs, score five RBIs
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Garrett Cole allowed eight hits, six earned runs
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, struck out four walk to I will present
Speaker 1: it to you because it's always Joe to me here.
Speaker 1: What were your thoughts on Garrett Cole? He's been nothing
Speaker 1: if not inconsistent where he shows off the old shades
Speaker 1: of Garrett Cole and then rattles off one of these.
Speaker 1: Is this solely a Mets thing with Garrett Cole? Because
Speaker 1: I know there's been a lot of people that have
Speaker 1: put out the if you take away the Mets starts
Speaker 1: for Garrett Cole, look at his numbers, is this a
Speaker 1: Mets thing or do you think Garrett Garrett Cole is it?
Speaker 1: You know, twelve starting pitcher rest of the way through.
Speaker 3: No, I'm gonna fill in for Joe in more ways
Speaker 3: than one here with the Garrett Cole hate. You know,
Speaker 3: another Joe who's going bald well, not quite there yet,
Speaker 3: but I'm trying to be, you know, another version of
Speaker 3: Joe here today. I might get in some trouble for this,
Speaker 3: but Garrett Cole, in my opinion, was already kind of
Speaker 3: somebody to not be that interested in before the injury.
Speaker 3: If you look at last season, he won the Cy
Speaker 3: Young Award. Everybody's probably thinking, what the hell is guy
Speaker 3: talking about? It was his worst strikeout might aus walk rate,
Speaker 3: his worst Sierra's his worst ex fips going back to
Speaker 3: his Pittsburgh days at age thirty three.
Speaker 2: Now we've got the elbow. I forget if.
Speaker 3: It was inflammation or if there was some kind of strain,
Speaker 3: and now we've seen him come back and you know,
Speaker 3: really struggle through his seven starts.
Speaker 2: It's a five to four era. Yes, the Mets do
Speaker 2: have some role.
Speaker 3: In that, but it's still a team that you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to fail that.
Speaker 2: You can't.
Speaker 3: You can't just remove starts to fit what you want
Speaker 3: to happen. The strikeout raid is down, the walk rate
Speaker 3: is up. I do worry about his elbow holding up
Speaker 3: after so many innings in his career, He's been a
Speaker 3: guy who's pretty consistently been two hundred plus innings and
Speaker 3: we're about two innings now under his arm. I do
Speaker 3: worry about what he's going to look like. And I
Speaker 3: think if you can trade him off of that name
Speaker 3: value and not have to worry about what could potentially
Speaker 3: happen down the stretch, I'd be more inclined to do that,
Speaker 3: assuming that you're still able to get quote unquote Garrett
Speaker 3: Cole prices. If somebody's paying for the five forty eer,
Speaker 3: then I wouldn't want to do that. But if somebody's
Speaker 3: paying for the reigning cy young winner, I think that
Speaker 3: could be a deal I'd be pretty interested in doing,
Speaker 3: depending on what the return is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would. I actually would have liked.
Speaker 1: I wish I would have pulled up the numbers of
Speaker 1: the not Mets versus where else. He's been like, you're
Speaker 1: not wrong in a lot of elements. He kind of
Speaker 1: had me thinking of Zach Allen when you were talking
Speaker 1: about that too, Like the amount of bullets that are
Speaker 1: put on these guys arms a long term and just
Speaker 1: like like Zach Allen's stuff is just like regressed this year,
Speaker 1: but also it was like the amount of innings he
Speaker 1: put on last year. And then you think of like
Speaker 1: an entire career with Garrett Cole. He hasn't looked like
Speaker 1: the elite level of Garrett Cole we've seen in the past,
Speaker 1: but he also has shown some pretty distinct signs of
Speaker 1: those in these starts back with you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of time mysterily on in the year. I'm just not
Speaker 1: as negative. Maybe it's like a more of a middle ground.
Speaker 1: Everyone should play like I've been a little more Pollyanna
Speaker 1: than I should on the Garrett Cole side. I think
Speaker 1: both Joe's are huge Garrett Cole haters for some justified reasons.
Speaker 1: So maybe played in the middle where it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: if you could get him on the Chief, I would
Speaker 1: still buy note Joe probably wouldn't. Some other performances Brenton Doyle,
Speaker 1: maybe those underrated Fantasy Guy this whole year, I just
Speaker 1: haven't spent enough time talking about him and a shame
Speaker 1: on me had a Grand Slam five RBIs on Wednesday
Speaker 1: in a massive blowout that was embarrassing to my bet.
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, Boston monusu a run.
Speaker 1: In the first five innings, it was over in like
Speaker 1: the first thing, it was like eight to two in
Speaker 1: the second inning. It was disgusting. Tovar went off. We
Speaker 1: did have some Jared Duran which was nice. Also Dodgers
Speaker 1: and Giants. Robbie Ray allowed one run eight strikeouts while
Speaker 1: putting the Dodgers hitless over five innings.
Speaker 4: We also had glasnow in there. Any thoughts on the
Speaker 4: Robbie Ray return the first inning.
Speaker 3: If you just looked at the first inning and turn
Speaker 3: the game off, you probably thought Robbie Ray was just disgusting.
Speaker 3: Yesterday was awful. Start the first pitch, O Taani hit
Speaker 3: it to the warning track and he hit a couple
Speaker 3: of batters walking. I was like, what the hell. It
Speaker 3: looked like he was not ready at all. And then
Speaker 3: he I think led the day in swinging strike rate
Speaker 3: and whiffs.
Speaker 2: By the end of it. I think, if he's out there,
Speaker 2: you got to pick him up.
Speaker 3: I think yesterday I was talking about him on my
Speaker 3: own show and he was like, fifty one, fifty two
Speaker 3: percent rostered.
Speaker 2: He's still out there.
Speaker 3: And while there is some you know, potential for erratic
Speaker 3: performances from Robbi Ray, You're getting big strike out upside,
Speaker 3: You're getting a team that has looking not terrible, a
Speaker 3: decent offense behind him. So if he's out there, I
Speaker 3: think there's a lot more upside in picking up Robbie
Speaker 3: Ray for one of your spots than using it for
Speaker 3: a random streamer here and there. That could be a
Speaker 3: guy who has a lot of value over the last
Speaker 3: two months.
Speaker 1: I had a funny thing in the Dynasty League, like
Speaker 1: two weeks ago or a week ago. We were trying
Speaker 1: to pull off this trade and I was trying to
Speaker 1: add in Jeffrey Springs to a trade, and I was
Speaker 1: going to be giving them back, leveling out the trade.
Speaker 1: That's not what the whole trade was, but it was
Speaker 1: like I was asking for Jeffrey Springs in a trade
Speaker 1: and I was going to give him Robbie Ray. And
Speaker 1: the person was like, yeah, I just don't think Robbi
Speaker 1: Ray's going to do anything for me this season. I'm like,
Speaker 1: he's already rehabbing, and he beat Jeffrey Springs back and
Speaker 1: then he absolutely dominated the Dodgers in fun fact, every
Speaker 1: rehab start. I don't know why, but I'm obviously the friends,
Speaker 1: but every rehab start he did out here in Arizona.
Speaker 1: Zach Greenki was at every single time Arizona, San Francisco.
Speaker 4: And all the backfields.
Speaker 1: But Zach Greenki, who had been working out with the
Speaker 1: dime at the Dimonbacks facility, he just followed Robbie Ray
Speaker 1: around every one of his rehabs starts, so maybe that
Speaker 1: gave him some juice. A couple other starters. Jack Flaherty
Speaker 1: three hits, one earned run, score, one unearned run across
Speaker 1: six dollars innings on Wednesday, struck out six, maybe his
Speaker 1: last start with the Tigers. He's going to be a
Speaker 1: guy that's potentially on the trade market. Hunter Brown also
Speaker 1: recorded eight strikeouts over one run over six innings. Jesus,
Speaker 1: I cannot read or do any of that today. In
Speaker 1: the just for fun category, I got two and then
Speaker 1: I got one that I'm not going to mention, but
Speaker 1: Ellida La Cruz three for five with a homer, his
Speaker 1: fiftieth and fifty first stolen base of the year. I'm
Speaker 1: going to ask you, as I asked Bubba, will he
Speaker 1: break eighty stolen bases?
Speaker 4: Bubba said?
Speaker 1: Or is that what I asked everybody? I think I
Speaker 1: said eighty or eighty five stolen bases? What do you
Speaker 1: think the end season marker is going to be for
Speaker 1: Ellie day La Cruz.
Speaker 3: Eighty might be pushing it a little bit that he
Speaker 3: does go through some stretches where he doesn't steal as
Speaker 3: many bases. It's probably seventy seventy five. But if I
Speaker 3: had to bet the over under on eighty, I think
Speaker 3: I'd take the under.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna bet seven.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bet like I think seventy five over is
Speaker 1: the bet I'm gonna take over. I think he's going
Speaker 1: to be hyper aggressive. Reese Hines, everybody's favorite. Oh for
Speaker 1: four two strikeouts against the Braves in the first of
Speaker 1: the double header? Are you must have Reese Hines guy
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 3: Pick him up in a couple of places. I picked
Speaker 3: him up in tout Wars and a couple other leagues.
Speaker 3: But honestly, it was just kind of hoping for the best.
Speaker 3: I knew that strikeover rate was always going to be
Speaker 3: a problem, and it's at thirty percent, which is actually
Speaker 3: word than I thought it would be considering where he
Speaker 3: was in the minors. But he's not a must roster
Speaker 3: type of player. I don't think if you have the
Speaker 3: luxury to hold on and maybe see if he can
Speaker 3: figure things out, because he's a very fatous, friendly type
Speaker 3: of guy in terms of the power, speed, in terms
Speaker 3: of the ballpark, but he's lost playing time, he struggled.
Speaker 3: I don't think you need to hold him in shallow.
Speaker 4: Leagues, boy.
Speaker 1: And in the just for fun segment, just want you
Speaker 1: to guys to know, I want to talk about cal
Speaker 1: Kwan Trill and Reese McGuire's interaction. I don't know how
Speaker 1: to do it. If Joe was here, I'd let him
Speaker 1: put his job on the line here, But just know
Speaker 1: that cal Kwan Trill versus Reese McGuire in that little thing.
Speaker 1: If you don't know what I'm talking about, go and
Speaker 1: check it out, was literally the funniest thing that I
Speaker 1: have seen the entire season. Calkwan Trill held nothing back
Speaker 1: and he now owns property in Reese McGuire's head, and
Speaker 1: that is a scary place to be in Reese McGuire's head.
Speaker 1: My friends, that was That was the best. But I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna do what he did.
Speaker 4: Rookie lookies.
Speaker 1: Jackson Merrill went four for five, a double, a tri,
Speaker 1: three runs, scored and RBI as the Padres beat down
Speaker 1: the Nationals. Jackson Merrill is still vying for that Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year spot. He's not gonna get it because
Speaker 1: of Paul Skeans. I think we're I think we're at
Speaker 1: the point we know knowing Paul Skeens is gonna go
Speaker 1: where he is. I had that bet seventeen to one
Speaker 1: in the preseason. I freaking bet Jackson Merrill. I bet
Speaker 1: Jackson Turia, I bet every well. Those are the only
Speaker 1: two n L guys. I bet both like two and
Speaker 1: three in that award. But just unless Skens goes down
Speaker 1: or stops pitching, it's gonna be impossible for him to
Speaker 1: not take that away.
Speaker 2: I don't know, though.
Speaker 3: I don't know ever Strider Mike Harris a couple of
Speaker 3: years ago. I thought it was Strider for sure. Everybody
Speaker 3: kind of thought it was gonna be Strider, but Michael
Speaker 3: Harris came on late.
Speaker 2: Took it from him.
Speaker 3: I think they tend to lean towards the position player more.
Speaker 3: If Skeens has a couple starts down the stretch, that
Speaker 3: pushes Era up into the low threes. I don't think
Speaker 3: it's a done deal yet. I really don't.
Speaker 1: It's early enough that it can change. But to your point,
Speaker 1: like I just, I think there's so much juice that
Speaker 1: came in with Paul Skeins. There was so much stigma,
Speaker 1: like it wasn't there with Strider. Paul Skins already came in.
Speaker 1: He is the prospect of prospect. Everybody loves him. You know,
Speaker 1: he started the All Star Game.
Speaker 4: I think that changes the dynamic.
Speaker 1: What it will take is for Paul Skens to either
Speaker 1: completely fall apart or get held back, you know, hurt
Speaker 1: or something like that at this point. But Jackson Merrill
Speaker 1: has been like a boom. He's been an absolute win
Speaker 1: and I'm glad that we talked about him, and I'm
Speaker 1: glad he was on my list of guys to draft
Speaker 1: early in this year. I think I nailed some of
Speaker 1: those outfielders outside of Corbyn Carrol, I will say Jared
Speaker 1: durand Jackson Merrill were on my must draft list early on,
Speaker 1: and those have definitely paid off.
Speaker 4: Some other rookies.
Speaker 1: David Festa seven strikeouts, one earned run, over four and
Speaker 1: one thirds of an inning on Wednesday. It was like
Speaker 1: a back end starter performance. So David Festa looking good.
Speaker 1: Connor Norby promoted to from Triple A in front of
Speaker 1: that Thursday series finale against the Marlins. I wonder if
Speaker 1: this is even a little bit of a show us
Speaker 1: what you got type of thing, a precursor to an
Speaker 1: Oriole's huge trade getting Norby back in the majors. In
Speaker 1: you're kind of trading a major league talent that might
Speaker 1: give you an extra boost. I kind of think this
Speaker 1: might be showcasing a little bit for a future trade,
Speaker 1: because I think he's got to have to be involved
Speaker 1: in it. Unless they don't go and trade for a
Speaker 1: big player.
Speaker 3: They got to do something. I mean, it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 3: They call up all these amazing prospects. Look at stat
Speaker 3: Krestad when he's been up recently, has been excellent, and
Speaker 3: he's sitting all the time. They don't have room for
Speaker 3: these guys. They got to turn it into pitching. They
Speaker 3: have to turn it into pitching. They did a good
Speaker 3: job getting Corbyn Burns without really having to move off
Speaker 3: of their top top tier guys or Teas and DL Hall.
Speaker 3: I think that was really really smart. Now they're going
Speaker 3: to have to pay up, and I think, honestly, like
Speaker 3: go get Trek Scuoble, Go trade Norby Mayo. Whatever the
Speaker 3: combination is, go get Terrek Scooble, and hell see if
Speaker 3: you can get Jack Flarerty in the mix as well.
Speaker 3: I know he was in Baltimore last year. Things didn't
Speaker 3: work out for him, but he's a different pitcher this season.
Speaker 3: If Baltimore had Burns, Schooble, Grayson Rodriguez Flarerty for a
Speaker 3: playoff series with their offense, it's not game over. It's
Speaker 3: never game over. But that's putting yourself in an amazing position.
Speaker 3: I think they need to move these pross before they
Speaker 3: come up and they because they're not all going to
Speaker 3: pan out right. Some of these guys are gonna come
Speaker 3: up and they're gonna be busts, and before you have
Speaker 3: the opportunity for that to happen, get off of them
Speaker 3: and get some pitchon back.
Speaker 1: I really think I outlined a NTL. I put Terrek
Speaker 1: Scubel to Baltimore. I personally do not think it's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: but I also put what I think the trade could
Speaker 1: look like. But in my heart of hearts, why I
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna happen is because I think.
Speaker 4: What Detroit says. They say, okay, great.
Speaker 1: You want Terry Scoubel. It will take Mayo and Holiday.
Speaker 4: And I think that's the break because everybody is like.
Speaker 1: All right, one of maybe those guys Or try to
Speaker 1: do it without Mayo and Holiday and that's cute. But
Speaker 1: the Tigers have everything, and that's what I would do.
Speaker 1: I would stand firm. We can talk when you say
Speaker 1: it can be Holiday and Mayo, and we don't talk otherwise.
Speaker 1: So that's where I think things get stuck. And you know,
Speaker 1: they could still do it without changing their big side
Speaker 1: of their roster. Maybe Mayo, Kurstad and the Norby get
Speaker 1: it done. We'll see what happens. I just don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna get traded. But I do agree that the
Speaker 1: or should do.
Speaker 2: The catcher the Bsio.
Speaker 3: I think they probably send me up with him because
Speaker 3: there's no unless they want to put him at first.
Speaker 3: Like Rutchman's the guy there. He makes obvious sense to move,
Speaker 3: don't you think.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think like if it was I think Mayo Basio
Speaker 1: and then maybe Norby and then another piece that is
Speaker 1: a hall. There's no doubt about it. But like I
Speaker 1: would be a pain in the ass if I'm if
Speaker 1: I'm the Tigers, unless like, hey, my phone is here,
Speaker 1: but do not call until it's Mayo and Holiday and
Speaker 1: then just that that's also like a leverage situation because
Speaker 1: if you can get them into that where they're talking,
Speaker 1: maybe it does transfer, because it could be something where
Speaker 1: the Oriols go, Okay, we'll give you Mayo and Holiday
Speaker 1: and that's it. Or you can have Mayo Basaio Norby
Speaker 1: and we'll give you you know, maybe it's kde Povich
Speaker 1: or there's another picture out there, like it could be
Speaker 1: a Hall otherwise, and then that gives them leverage. So
Speaker 1: just be on the lookout for that. But I think
Speaker 1: this could be showcasing a showcasing situation for Norby. Also
Speaker 1: Brett Batty four for five, we were talking about him yesterday.
Speaker 1: A couple homers, three RBI triple A on Tuesday now
Speaker 1: has an almost thousand ops with a two eighty nine
Speaker 1: batting average, and then the Dodgers option Land and Knack
Speaker 1: to triple A because it is Clayton Kershaw time. Are
Speaker 1: you optimistic about this start?
Speaker 4: Today?
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw is back going up against Logan Webb and
Speaker 1: the Giants. Would you put him out there.
Speaker 3: I put him out there. You've you've been stashing him
Speaker 3: for four months. You haven't been doing that, so you
Speaker 3: could sit him in his first start back. I think
Speaker 3: I think you're putting him out there unless we're talking
Speaker 3: like honestly, even if you're playing in an eight team league,
Speaker 3: I can't see myself benching Kershaw. It's not like he's
Speaker 3: playing a high powered offense. If he was like in
Speaker 3: Philadelphia or playing the Orioles, maybe it'd be a little
Speaker 3: bit different. San Francisco is not bad. But I'm putting
Speaker 3: Kershaw out there, even ten, twelve, fifteen, whatever the format is,
Speaker 3: I'm starting him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I am going into I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna go super deep, but I think five is
Speaker 1: definitely possible.
Speaker 4: Three up and three down, three up.
Speaker 1: Corey Seeger four for five with a homer, three runs score.
Speaker 1: You guys wouldn't believe it. I should have said it,
Speaker 1: so you guys.
Speaker 4: Do believe me.
Speaker 1: But I don't lie about this stuff. I was gonna
Speaker 1: pick Corey Seger yesterday and then I went to my
Speaker 1: guy Gunner, so stupid mes Garcia three for five with
Speaker 1: a double, two RBI and a stolen base let's get
Speaker 1: him back going. Nate Evaldi allowed two runs while striking
Speaker 1: out ten over seven. That may have been his last start.
Speaker 1: They've been rumors about the Rangers moving him, so be
Speaker 1: on the lookout on the Evaldi. I just noticed all
Speaker 1: Evaldi or arranger guys on the up. We should have
Speaker 1: put some Rockies on there. Rocky scored a bunch of runs.
Speaker 1: Chris Bryant came back on the down. Nick Paveta, the worst,
Speaker 1: slacked eight runs two and two thirds of an inning
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Frankie Montas allowed four runs on ten hits.
Speaker 1: JP Sears eight runs seven were earned over six on
Speaker 1: Wednesday as they lost to the Astro. Some injury news,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of it. Tanner Biby was removed Wednesday
Speaker 1: from Wednesday start against the Tigers after five innings due
Speaker 1: to cramping in the leg. I feel that forty years old,
Speaker 1: I get it. Josh Young going to begin a minor
Speaker 1: league rehab assignment at Double A Frisco on Wednesday, so
Speaker 1: we might be next week ish for a return on
Speaker 1: Josh Young. Edward Rodriguez is set to throw a simulated
Speaker 1: game on Friday. Who knows when he'll come back. You
Speaker 1: shouldn't count on him easy drop if you still were.
Speaker 1: Walker Bueler is going to make a minor league rehab
Speaker 1: assignment or start in Triple A on Friday. So the
Speaker 1: Dodgers are getting their reinforcements back. No matter what they
Speaker 1: do in the trade market, if they do or don't
Speaker 1: trade for Garrett Crochet, they're getting guys back. Clayton, Kershaw,
Speaker 1: Walker Bueler. That's why they gave up on Packson. Clark
Speaker 1: Schmidt scheduled to throw a bullpen session on Saturday. Jacob
Speaker 1: de Gram through a forty pitch bullpen session on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: We'll see if that ever happens. Evan Carter is going
Speaker 1: to begin a minor league rehab assignment by the end
Speaker 1: of the week. Josiah Gray had Tommy John Ugh, and
Speaker 1: the biggest. Mike Trout will return to Los Angeles to
Speaker 1: undergo further evaluation after being pulled after two innings in
Speaker 1: a minor league rehab assignment in Salt Lake.
Speaker 4: It's not good.
Speaker 1: Do you have any hope for Mike Trout moving forward, Joe,
Speaker 1: I have hope.
Speaker 3: Realistically speaking, I don't think we're ever going to see
Speaker 3: Mike Trout be Mike trout again. I put up a
Speaker 3: poll recently, you think Mike Truck will get the five
Speaker 3: hundred home runs in his career and it was pretty
Speaker 3: much dead split in the middle.
Speaker 2: I don't know if.
Speaker 3: We're going to see him getting He's like three hundred
Speaker 3: and eighty right now. I don't know if we're going
Speaker 3: to see him healthy enough in his later thirties to
Speaker 3: hit another hundred and twenty homers.
Speaker 2: It's pretty sad at this point.
Speaker 3: But it's like the Ken Griffy junior trajectory pretty much exactly.
Speaker 1: I think he's in and get right there. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: like you know, he can rattle off like what could
Speaker 1: take three, three or four seasons, might take him five more,
Speaker 1: five or six or something like that.
Speaker 4: It's a pretty good question.
Speaker 1: But your hopes of being able to depend on him
Speaker 1: getting smaller and getting smaller. All right, friends, those are
Speaker 1: the big fantasy updates. Let's get to it. I need
Speaker 1: to turn things around and let's see where Joe's that.
Speaker 4: Because Bubba killed it the other day, it's time for
Speaker 4: the best bets of the day. Yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4: You did that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me and Joe always did it together. Joe jumped
Speaker 1: over me the other day too, by the way, which
Speaker 1: is so weird.
Speaker 4: I'm like, dude, I'm not the co host, but yes,
Speaker 4: best bets of the day.
Speaker 1: Joe Rico myself, I had a bad I've had a
Speaker 1: bad couple days. I've had some distractions off of here
Speaker 1: that I think has taken me off.
Speaker 4: So I'm going to get it simple. But Jill, let's
Speaker 4: start with you.
Speaker 1: What are you tackling on your best bets of the
Speaker 1: day today?
Speaker 3: The first one is going to be my guy, Taj Bradley.
Speaker 3: If anybody out there follows me, then know how much
Speaker 3: I love Taj. He's like the Rodney Dangerfield of the sportsbooks.
Speaker 3: He does not get any respect. His line was set
Speaker 3: at five and a half strikeouts or four and a
Speaker 3: half strikeouts five and a half strikeouts. I took the
Speaker 3: alt line at six plus, getting it at plus one thirty.
Speaker 3: We're talking about one of the better strikeout pitchers in
Speaker 3: all of baseball facing a horrible, horrible Blue Jays lineup,
Speaker 3: so I think he can pretty easily get the six.
Speaker 3: He's hitting that pretty consistently, so I think taking that
Speaker 3: at plus money is the way to go. And Stang
Speaker 3: in Toronto short s late today, not a hell of
Speaker 3: a lot of options, but I went with Chris Bassett
Speaker 3: over one and a half walks. It's a little juice
Speaker 3: at minus one fifty, but it's pretty much free money
Speaker 3: at this point. Every start, this guy's walking two three
Speaker 3: four batters. The command has been awful for Chris Bassett.
Speaker 3: It's the worst this command has ever looked. Even though
Speaker 3: his performance has picked up a little bit throughout the season,
Speaker 3: that command has been just pretty atrocious. And then the
Speaker 3: last one, going back to the Dodgers in Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 3: As much as I would start him tonight and I
Speaker 3: do think that he'll be fine, there is a chance
Speaker 3: that he's on a bit of a pitchulaman.
Speaker 2: I think it was sixty seven pitches in his.
Speaker 3: Last rehab start, So I'm taking the under four and
Speaker 3: a half strikeouts' getting that at plus one hundred. There's
Speaker 3: a chance he gets there. But I don't see the
Speaker 3: Dodgers really pushing him so much. I think they're gonna
Speaker 3: be very careful with They're maybe not their prize to
Speaker 3: ask at anymore, but somebody that they want to have
Speaker 3: healthy down the stretch. I don't think we're gonna see
Speaker 3: Kershaw go more than five innings, and I think under
Speaker 3: four and a half is.
Speaker 2: A pretty solid way to go.
Speaker 3: So Todge Bradley's six plus strikeouts, Chris Bassett over one
Speaker 3: and a half walks, and Clayton Kershaw under four and
Speaker 3: a half strikeouts all at BET three sixty five.
Speaker 1: I really like the alt strikeout line one with Todge
Speaker 1: Bradley because the issue you have, especially with the guy
Speaker 1: like him, in matchups like this, you have these low
Speaker 1: strikeout ish teams, these teams that don't strike out a
Speaker 1: whole bunch that they're like battling against. But like Toadze,
Speaker 1: Bradley has been a guy that has done a decent job.
Speaker 1: You know, whether it would be like teams like the Guardians,
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays, you know those are teams even the Mets,
Speaker 1: those have been teams that you kind of want to
Speaker 1: like push back a little bit against on those big
Speaker 1: strikeout ones. But I actually like this alt because the
Speaker 1: line was so low on Bradley, So I'm really with that.
Speaker 1: I legit just went hard on money lines, full game
Speaker 1: money lines today because I need to get back to simplicity.
Speaker 1: It's funny here like this, there's this guy in this
Speaker 1: chat in our chat Joseph, who's trolling me about, like, hey,
Speaker 1: I take Wesh's bets, but I go the other way.
Speaker 4: I've been ridiculously good.
Speaker 1: For months, and but you go through these spurts. That's
Speaker 1: what's so tough about fantasy baseball or baseball betting, is
Speaker 1: like you just go boom boom. You're great for a week,
Speaker 1: then you push off of it. But however you want
Speaker 1: to do it. But one of them, I was going
Speaker 1: to go Baltimore minus one and a half runs to
Speaker 1: the first five today a plus money against the Marlins,
Speaker 1: and it kills me because they're six to nothing right now.
Speaker 4: And I didn't do.
Speaker 1: It because I have talked myself off of little bit.
Speaker 1: So going back to basics, there's actually some really good
Speaker 1: full game money lines. I'm going Atlanta if they don't
Speaker 1: get rained out again. I saw somebody mentioning that minus
Speaker 1: one twelve full game money line with Chris Sale Cleveland.
Speaker 1: That one is juiced up a little bit. But again
Speaker 1: we're going back to basics. With Gavin Williams, I'm going
Speaker 1: Cleveland full game money line, and I'm going Dodgers with
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw going up against the Giants and Logan Web.
Speaker 1: That's minus one twenty five. I took all three of those,
Speaker 1: not parlaying, just single played full game money lines. That's
Speaker 1: where I'm going at it. There's a couple other interesting
Speaker 1: parlays that are floating out there. Actually might join you
Speaker 1: on the TAJ Bradley one and Frindos. Those are the
Speaker 1: best bets of the day. If I could bring up
Speaker 1: the thing which I can't hear it is, Hey, look
Speaker 1: look at Joe. You already shaved your head. Best bets
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Speaker 1: five again use that promo code leading off home run board.
Speaker 1: Did I get the home run board up here?
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's take a look here. Let's see home run
Speaker 4: board right here.
Speaker 1: We've still got Joe amazingly is still held on. He's
Speaker 1: at the very bottom of twenty six. Walkie's up here
Speaker 1: on the board at twenty seven. Good on them. I
Speaker 1: am still sitting down at twenty two. Elscal's got the
Speaker 1: lead at thirty five, Silent Dragon at thirty four. I
Speaker 1: don't think we had a whole lot of changes here.
Speaker 1: Maybe we added another thirty home run person. We have
Speaker 1: eight people with thirty plus.
Speaker 4: Home runs on the board.
Speaker 1: So, mister Joe Rico joining the fun here, who are
Speaker 1: you going for on the home run board today?
Speaker 3: I'm going with the new pop up power and going
Speaker 3: to Austin Riley for the Braves.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Sometimes when guys come back after having a kid, they're
Speaker 3: a little bit recharged. He's facing Luis Severino. He has
Speaker 3: been pretty solid himself. I know that he started off
Speaker 3: pretty poorly this season, but he's picked it up.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm a Toronto guy, and Fred van Vliet with that
Speaker 3: Raptors championship in twenty nineteen, he has a kid, he
Speaker 3: comes back and he all of a sudden is just
Speaker 3: a superstar. That one always stuck with me. That's not
Speaker 3: the reason why I'm going with this, But I think
Speaker 3: the new dads always have a little bit extra there
Speaker 3: in the tank. So I'm going with Austin Riley against
Speaker 3: Louis Severino tonight.
Speaker 2: Maybe not the right way to put it. I don't
Speaker 2: know if they have extra energy in the tank. I
Speaker 2: think he's gonna do well tonight against Severino.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is an extra oomph that's going on here.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Jose Ramirez. I think it's literally
Speaker 1: about to kick off here. Give me that open up
Speaker 1: over on that right field, Give me a Jose Ramirez
Speaker 1: homer and give me life.
Speaker 4: Get me on the board. That's gonna do it for
Speaker 4: the show. Joe Rico, Joe.
Speaker 1: Rico ninety nine on the twitters, make sure you follow
Speaker 1: him there. You can follow me at is It the
Speaker 1: Welsh Joe. You are the best and we will.
Speaker 4: See you next week.
Speaker 1: We'll see Joe Pisapia tomorrow and the rest of you, guys,
Speaker 1: we'll see you right here on leading off tomorrow. Until then, friends,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go watch a Deadpool and Wolverine.
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