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Speaker 2: It is me, Joey p That's Joe Arico, and it's you,
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Speaker 2: of the shows. Joe Rico, we got to start here
Speaker 2: with a guy. It looked pretty pretty good yesterday. I
Speaker 2: had just a couple strikeouts in the game. Oh what's
Speaker 2: his name? Oh yeah, Paul Skeen's somebody we don't talk
Speaker 2: about very often on the show. Paul Sken's got a
Speaker 2: w a one nothing win for the Pirates. The twenty
Speaker 2: two year old has a one nine zero era. He
Speaker 2: struck out eleven brewers yesterday, So the over game in
Speaker 2: a big time on that strikeout total eighty nine cutcaves,
Speaker 2: twelve walks in eleven starts, and it looks like he
Speaker 2: could be the starter of the All Star Game, which
Speaker 2: we just talked about on the show. The only way
Speaker 2: to do it is to make him the starter with
Speaker 2: his funky routine. He's throwing footballs, he's backhanding balls against walls.
Speaker 2: Start him clean inning, get him out of there. I'm
Speaker 2: excited now for first inning of the All Star Game
Speaker 2: of Skeens is indeed.
Speaker 3: The dude, absolutely and I love that they're not going
Speaker 3: to mess with the routine.
Speaker 4: Like you said.
Speaker 3: If he's coming out in the fourth of the fifth
Speaker 3: inning and he's got to work in the pen and
Speaker 3: just keep everything nice and clean, it looks like it's
Speaker 3: going to be Gunner, Henderson, Judge, and Soto in that
Speaker 3: first inning. Probably, we don't know for sure, but I'm
Speaker 3: very excited. I'm not usually somebody who cares that much
Speaker 3: about the All Star Game. I like the Derby, but
Speaker 3: the game is kind of whatever. But I will be
Speaker 3: planted on the coach watching that for sure.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: It's like Walsh isn't here, but we got Joe in lockstep.
Speaker 2: He's not excited about the All Star Game either. I
Speaker 2: used to be excited about the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: It's tough. It's last year.
Speaker 2: The uniforms were so bad it actually made my head hurt.
Speaker 2: I had a hard time physically watching it. That was
Speaker 2: that was weird. I did not like the the uniforms.
Speaker 1: I was old man, Joe.
Speaker 3: I wish they'd wear their own team jerseys like it
Speaker 3: used to be.
Speaker 5: I can't you wear the old one chefs like we
Speaker 5: used to hear. You wear your own damn jersey. You
Speaker 5: wear the home white if you're the home.
Speaker 1: Team, and then you go out there. You wear the
Speaker 1: graze if you're out there.
Speaker 5: And I remember when I remember when Carl Hebbw was
Speaker 5: in the Star Game. He struck out those three fellas there,
Speaker 5: he struck out. He shuck out Timmy Fox, and he
Speaker 5: struck out to.
Speaker 1: Babe Ruth, and he struck out lou Gary get a row.
Speaker 1: I was there, Carl Hebbw. Alright, people have to look
Speaker 1: up who Carl Hubble is?
Speaker 2: The jake not even joining us live here on the show.
Speaker 2: Instead drops a Colm. I can't make the show Live today,
Speaker 2: but just want to drop it and say that Paul
Speaker 2: Skans is the f and man and I may or
Speaker 2: may not be developing a slight man crush on him.
Speaker 2: Have a great show, go Braves says the jake is
Speaker 2: that okay? Can you have man crushes on Paul Skins.
Speaker 1: I think it's okay, right.
Speaker 4: I think it's perfectly okay for me.
Speaker 3: I love dude like I love pitching. I used to
Speaker 3: be a pitcher when I played baseball, and I always
Speaker 3: tend to favorite pitchers more. But when you're seeing this
Speaker 3: kind of thing, it's hard to not just be smitten.
Speaker 4: It really is.
Speaker 1: Well, you do have that picture hair I do, old
Speaker 1: de gram hair I do.
Speaker 4: I got the old lensicum flowed.
Speaker 2: Tonsum to grom. You know, there was that window there
Speaker 2: where all the guys had that same hair. And Joel
Speaker 2: Rico's like, no, this is not a phase for me.
Speaker 2: This is going the whole way, all right. Speaking of
Speaker 2: the Derby, by the way, I just put out my
Speaker 2: picks for the Derby on the social media. You can
Speaker 2: go check that out. Should be out later today. But
Speaker 2: it's Alonzo Ozuna, Garcia Henderson, Bobby Wood Junior Hernandez ta
Speaker 2: Oscar that is, Josier and mirrors and Alec Boem Joe.
Speaker 1: I know where I'm going for this one.
Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite that you like so far?
Speaker 2: I know there's some you know. Alonzo plus three hundred
Speaker 2: is the favorite. Ozuna right behind him plus three fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at Bobby Witta plus six hundred and Garcia
Speaker 2: plus four. Those are my two favorite bets.
Speaker 1: Where do you go?
Speaker 4: Probably?
Speaker 3: Probably Alonzo would be hard to bet against him. I
Speaker 3: think that'd be where I I mean, how can you
Speaker 3: bet against the champ?
Speaker 4: Right? How many times does he want it? Two?
Speaker 3: Three?
Speaker 4: Is it three? I can't remember? At least two?
Speaker 1: Right, Lonzo's won a twice two.
Speaker 4: I think it would be hard to got to.
Speaker 2: The finals, but he came up short another time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it would be hard to bet against him.
Speaker 3: I mean, plus three hundred, it's not the greatest, but
Speaker 3: it's still a triple your money for Peter al On,
Speaker 3: So I think it's I think it's probably where I
Speaker 3: would go. I'm not going to bet on the Derby, probably,
Speaker 3: although we'll see what happens. Once a couple of beers
Speaker 3: are flowing on Monday night.
Speaker 1: I like this ladist.
Speaker 2: Eddie Buzz says, Joe, you were mentioned on another podcast,
Speaker 2: like Eddie, what podcast is talking about me?
Speaker 1: Oh? So humbled?
Speaker 2: Some dude was railing about you and you're singing, and
Speaker 2: I stood up for you because I'm a cracker.
Speaker 1: Jack good, thank you, Eddie what show? Let me know?
Speaker 2: So you see all these tough guys are I'm just
Speaker 2: kind of curious all these fake tough guys like to
Speaker 2: hang around and make comments.
Speaker 4: Is it me or you? Is it me or you?
Speaker 4: I guess it's probably you.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's definitely me. I don't know how you're singing, Joe.
Speaker 4: It's not the greatest. Probably not.
Speaker 2: Hey, at least they're talking about you, you know, That's
Speaker 2: what I say.
Speaker 1: They're talking about you? All right? Some more headlines.
Speaker 2: Juli Rodriguez feast or famine continues. He've reached the base
Speaker 2: all four times yesterday after not doing anything the day
Speaker 2: before and then going four to four the day before that.
Speaker 2: He was three for three with a double and a walk. Crazy,
Speaker 2: So there you go. Juli Rodriguez continues to be in enigma.
Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty was back and good two hits, one run,
Speaker 2: six innings against the Guardians there just an ass kicking. Really,
Speaker 2: so Joe Jack Flaherty probably is going to be out there.
Speaker 2: Give me a guess of where you think Jack Flaherty
Speaker 2: will land. Is he a Dodger? Is he a Yankee?
Speaker 2: Is he I'm trying to think of some man of
Speaker 2: the other teams out there.
Speaker 1: Is he a Brave? Like? Where does he possibly go?
Speaker 4: Yankee?
Speaker 3: Yankee Stadium would scare me a little bit. I think
Speaker 3: Braves would be interesting. Braves and Dodgers both really need pitching.
Speaker 3: I think one of them would make a lot of sense.
Speaker 3: But I also got to say, how is Jack Flarity
Speaker 3: not an All Star? I know he's probably wouldn't pitch
Speaker 3: in the game anyway, but he has been one of
Speaker 3: the best pitchers in all of baseball this season and
Speaker 3: he is headed to the All Star Game, So I
Speaker 3: think that's crazy. He's likely to get traded, and I
Speaker 3: think it's probably gonna be one of those elite National
Speaker 3: League teams, But why is.
Speaker 1: He not Houston wouldn't surprise me either.
Speaker 2: Houston's kind of been up up a creek without a paddle,
Speaker 2: and Eddi's saying it was my friends at the CBS show,
Speaker 2: Frank and Chris, Well, that's okay that those are my friends.
Speaker 2: That's not some other show. It's a great show. I
Speaker 2: love the boys over there and Scott and everybody. They
Speaker 2: do great job over there, so that's okay. Frank has
Speaker 2: heard me sing in person at bars, so that's okay.
Speaker 2: Frank and I go way back. So you know, Frank
Speaker 2: Stample fun fact, was actually a producer of a show
Speaker 2: of mine when he was an intern years ago over
Speaker 2: at Fantasy Network. So that's how long I know Frankie boy.
Speaker 2: So it's been a long time there. So I'm now
Speaker 2: I'm going to ask them to come on the show
Speaker 2: just so I can sing to them. So now that
Speaker 2: I know they're talking trash. Kevin Gossman allowed two runs
Speaker 2: a seven innings yesterday, so Joe Rico happy today.
Speaker 1: Lewis Castile also good.
Speaker 2: Some good pitching performances yesterday, including Hunter Green striking out
Speaker 2: ten and Justin Steele, who we were betting on yesterday,
Speaker 2: came through seven shutout innings, got a w against the O's.
Speaker 2: Justin Steele was winless forever and it was a good
Speaker 2: bet yesterday. Maybe this is that little bit of a
Speaker 2: you know, the Orioles look a little human here. It's
Speaker 2: funny Joe coming up against the break, the Phillies, the Yankees,
Speaker 2: the Orioles, all the big juggernaut teams looking a little
Speaker 2: human here in the middle of the year.
Speaker 1: Have you noticed that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it kind of tends to happen.
Speaker 3: Nobody runs so so pure that they're gonna well, I mean,
Speaker 3: it does happen every now and again, but usually you're
Speaker 3: gonna see teams go through a bit of a downturn,
Speaker 3: even those one hundred plus win teams. So I'm not
Speaker 3: really overly worried, but yeah, it's definitely something that we
Speaker 3: have noticed specifically. I got know, we've talked with the
Speaker 3: Dodgers a lot, but that rotation is just like it's crazy.
Speaker 3: Like we mentioned yesterday, James Paxson at the top right now,
Speaker 3: they're gonna have to do some stuff because yeah, it's
Speaker 3: it's not what you'd be expecting for sure at this point,
Speaker 3: but it does. Like it's baseball, it does happen. Teams
Speaker 3: are gonna run cold and hot for a while, but
Speaker 3: the bet the better teams are gonna figure it out eventually.
Speaker 2: Now on the other side of the Paul Skeens headline
Speaker 2: was Aaron Savaldi, who pitched very well.
Speaker 1: By the way, so Brewers.
Speaker 2: Acquire Savali about a week ago, six and a third innings,
Speaker 2: one run, took the l but again pitched very well.
Speaker 2: This is important for the Milwaukee Brewers. It's also important
Speaker 2: for fantasy perspective because, look, Savally, they need more help
Speaker 2: in this rotation. They need some depth. Savali's that guy.
Speaker 2: Here's a question for you. I know his underlying metrics
Speaker 2: are better than the actual era and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about that for a long time.
Speaker 2: I know Mike Maher seems to write about it every
Speaker 2: single week on Fantasy bros dot Com, waiting for Savali
Speaker 2: to come around.
Speaker 1: Do you think, y'all should.
Speaker 2: I say, are you confident that Savally is somebody that's
Speaker 2: going to be an asset in the second half for
Speaker 2: fantasy managers?
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say him confident.
Speaker 3: I think there's a chance, but unless he really does
Speaker 3: start to get closer to those era estimators, and even
Speaker 3: the estimators are somewhere in like the low four type
Speaker 3: of range. If you're talking really shallow leagues, you got
Speaker 3: a guy who's maybe going to be like best case
Speaker 3: scenario high threes, low fours without a lot of strikeout upside.
Speaker 4: I think he's okay, but.
Speaker 3: I think he does skew to slightly deeper formats if
Speaker 3: you're in like a ten team or twelve teamer.
Speaker 4: I think he's more streamable.
Speaker 3: He does have upside, but I don't think we see
Speaker 3: it constant enough to have him on those shallow rosters.
Speaker 1: Do if that make sense, Oh, definitely makes sense.
Speaker 2: Let's do a little for fun. Brandon Fodd got his
Speaker 2: first win of the month. Yay, Brandon Fodd six innings
Speaker 2: for the Diamondbacks. Good w over the Braves. In also
Speaker 2: other news, three for four with a double was Wiler
Speaker 2: or brayew He had a home run to RBI. He
Speaker 2: was just eight for forty two over his last fourteen games,
Speaker 2: so he needed a good game in the worst way.
Speaker 2: That's a positive rookie lokie time. Shane Boz gave up
Speaker 2: three runs in four and a third, got no decision
Speaker 2: against the Yankees.
Speaker 1: He gave up six hits, walked one, struck out five.
Speaker 2: But as everyone likes to say, the stuff look good,
Speaker 2: so are you encouraged by the stuff look good? Even
Speaker 2: though the results weren't necessarily there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the thing that really is kind of odd is
Speaker 3: the pitch count he got up in the nineties in
Speaker 3: his previous start, they pulled him at sixty eight. Now,
Speaker 3: Aaron Judge was coming up to the dish. But I
Speaker 3: think this is his kind of raiser, gonna ray type
Speaker 3: of thing, Like I think Shane Boss is very good,
Speaker 3: but Kevin Cash is gonna be kind of infuriating the
Speaker 3: way he uses him. So I was pretty encouraged, Like
Speaker 3: it wasn't a bad outing. I think BoSz is an
Speaker 3: excellent pitcher, but Tampa is just so so annoying four
Speaker 3: and a third when he's at sixty eight pitches, like,
Speaker 3: come on, what are we doing?
Speaker 1: Come on?
Speaker 2: So I guess Eddie Buzz works for I mean, with
Speaker 2: a name like Eddie Buzz, you gotta work for TMZ, right,
Speaker 2: I gotta think. So it's more to come here. So
Speaker 2: Eddie's still going on into the chat here. Look at
Speaker 2: him just unloading stuff. Just to be clear, it was
Speaker 2: a fellow subscriber, not Frank or Chris, commenting on my vocals.
Speaker 2: So it was one of our Peanuts and Cracker Jacks
Speaker 2: making a comment, how dare you see other shows behind
Speaker 2: my back? How dare you?
Speaker 1: No, those guys are great. Like That's the thing I
Speaker 1: never understood.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, it's if you like baseball and
Speaker 2: you like this show, and that you can like this show,
Speaker 2: you can like that show.
Speaker 1: You could like all those shows.
Speaker 2: You could be everywhere. Dude, Like the tribalism and fantasy
Speaker 2: sports makes me laugh. I'm like, I mean, look, I
Speaker 2: know in nerd circles and I'm a nerd myself. Like,
Speaker 2: tribalism is kind of a thing. Come on, man, we're
Speaker 2: having different takes, different baseball stuff.
Speaker 1: It's a good time. So yeah, I mean nice singing's
Speaker 1: actually not so bad.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I do it bad as a joke here on
Speaker 2: the show. But who knows, Maybe we'll have to do
Speaker 2: an entire musical version of the show.
Speaker 1: Joe Rico, yep.
Speaker 3: For the musical version of absolutely, I will get off
Speaker 3: the music, I will get the vocals ready, I will
Speaker 3: absolutely take heart for the next intro. For the next
Speaker 3: time you guys do an intro, we should get one
Speaker 3: of you guys to sing it instead of this AI.
Speaker 1: So there you go. I love that Jackson job.
Speaker 2: Check out eight and five scoreless innings in double A
Speaker 2: and Finally, Slade Chacconi was sent down.
Speaker 1: To triple A Reno. So a lot of guys.
Speaker 2: Will get sent down. Some guys will come back up
Speaker 2: this time of year because it's the All Star break.
Speaker 2: They want guys to keep working through rotation spots especially,
Speaker 2: but some guys will not. I don't know if Slay
Speaker 2: Chaccone is gonna be back. Three up and three down.
Speaker 2: Cal Raley, how hot has he been? Three for five
Speaker 2: homer from both sides of the plate. Unbelievable? What should
Speaker 2: have been picking cal Rawley for my home run calls?
Speaker 2: Let's think it would have been way better onan Soto
Speaker 2: two for four, excuse me two for three with two walks,
Speaker 2: a double and a dinger and ten or how six
Speaker 2: shoutout innings?
Speaker 1: I fell just shy though of.
Speaker 2: My strikeout total in the extras, so got regular one,
Speaker 2: got the w all that stuff, but I got the
Speaker 2: parlay version, but didn't get the all strikeouts. Whatever life
Speaker 2: goes on. Brandon Drury, another zero for three for him,
Speaker 2: he said in a Bucks seventy two forty four forty
Speaker 2: two games. Brandon Drury had a couple good seasons in
Speaker 2: a row, and then he has completely fallen off the
Speaker 2: map this year. What happened to Brandon Drury? I understand Joe.
Speaker 2: It was like a weird thing where it was a
Speaker 2: player people didn't expect, and then he became productive, and
Speaker 2: then people didn't buy in, and then this year if
Speaker 2: you bought in, is like, hey, this is a cost
Speaker 2: effective guy in the infield spots where you can get
Speaker 2: some power and he might be a pretty good return.
Speaker 2: And he has done less than nothing this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he did deal with an injury, but
Speaker 3: the power is just gone. Like the last couple of
Speaker 3: seasons twenty six, twenty eight homers barrel rate above ten
Speaker 3: percent each of the last two seasons, one home run
Speaker 3: in forty two games and a three point eight percent
Speaker 3: barrel rate. The power being gone for Brandon jury means
Speaker 3: there's just no fantasy value. He's not a batting average asset,
Speaker 3: no stolen bases. We know the lineup around him. I
Speaker 3: needed to double check this. He has six RBI in
Speaker 3: forty two game, Like that is just that's a lot.
Speaker 3: Like that's a horrendous, horrendous.
Speaker 1: Don't even know how that happens, Like how does that
Speaker 1: even happen? Like you figure, you know the Angels have
Speaker 1: their problems.
Speaker 3: Figure you and I could be in the middle of
Speaker 3: that order, probably drive in more than six runs in
Speaker 3: forty two games.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'm kind of joking, kind of, but I'm not.
Speaker 2: I can still swing to bad Brandon curveball, not so
Speaker 2: much straight ball. Fine curveball bats are afraid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Brandon jury, I think if you're still holding on,
Speaker 3: there's just there's just not a lot of hope here
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 1: All right, let's continue with the downs.
Speaker 2: McKenzie gore four runs in four and two thirds against
Speaker 2: the Mets, and Jordan Hicks got lit up five runs
Speaker 2: and four and a third. Not a good day against
Speaker 2: your Blue Jays, but again that made Joe Rigo happy
Speaker 2: injury notes to get to read Garrett mri on his
Speaker 2: elbow was clean, no structural damage, So we'll see what
Speaker 2: happens there. Jg Rerol mute is not going to return
Speaker 2: before they all star break.
Speaker 1: No surprise there.
Speaker 2: We've been thinking that DJ Lemayhew underwent a precautionary cat scan.
Speaker 2: It was apparently clean, though after he found a ball
Speaker 2: off his neck. Now I didn't see this, Joe, but
Speaker 2: how do you foule a ball off your neck? That
Speaker 2: seems like almost what's more impossible fouling a ball off
Speaker 2: your neck or Brandon Jury having six RBI in forty
Speaker 2: two games.
Speaker 1: I want to hear you.
Speaker 2: In the comments, you tell me what is more unlikely.
Speaker 2: But what do you think, Joe? What do you think
Speaker 2: about this one? Did you see this? I miss this.
Speaker 3: I didn't see it either, But it feels like you
Speaker 3: would be more likely to hit yourself on the neck
Speaker 3: than only drive into six runs, even for the Angels,
Speaker 3: over the course of what a quarter of a season.
Speaker 4: That's wild. Have you see the odd foul ball go
Speaker 4: off the you know, near the hands or at the
Speaker 4: end of the other games?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm only guessing it hit the ground and came
Speaker 2: back up on him.
Speaker 4: Could that have been maybe I didn't see it. Maybe
Speaker 4: like it hit the.
Speaker 1: Plate and came back.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know it's some weird foul ball stuff,
Speaker 2: but that seems like a weird, weird one to me.
Speaker 2: I don't know, very weird.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker is playing catch today, So there you go,
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker and your ten year old nephew both playing
Speaker 2: catch this afternoon. Zach Wheeler will not start on Sunday
Speaker 2: against the A's no shock there with that back issue,
Speaker 2: so we're gonna keep him. We'll see if he makes
Speaker 2: appearance in the All Star Game. Joe, I give it
Speaker 2: a fifty to fifty. What do you give it for
Speaker 2: Wheeler in the All Star Game?
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I think they're probably not gonna let him pitch, but maybe.
Speaker 1: I mean, then NL's until Tuesday, the NL.
Speaker 3: Suffered a few losses for pitchers, so that the NL
Speaker 3: All Star pitching staff might need to desperately call upon
Speaker 3: Zach Wheeler. But I don't know if Rob Thompson and
Speaker 3: the Phillies are gonna love that. I think they probably
Speaker 3: would prefer.
Speaker 4: To have a break.
Speaker 3: But did they have a say in the matter, Like
Speaker 3: can Levolo just say, like, you know what, he's going out?
Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, I think they probably.
Speaker 2: Oh, the player can just say no, which is again,
Speaker 2: what's like? You know, the All Star Game used to
Speaker 2: be a big thing of pride because the American League
Speaker 2: and nationallygue didn't like each other back in baseball. I
Speaker 2: know this is hard to imagine. Before there was all
Speaker 2: the guaranteed money and all the giant contracts, people didn't
Speaker 2: like each other like there was a lot like the
Speaker 2: Yankees and Red Sox hated each other, the Cardinals and
Speaker 2: Mets in the eighties, brutal rivalry there, you know, it's
Speaker 2: it's just funny. I feel like those rivalries that really
Speaker 2: made baseball that I mean, the Dodgers and Giants are
Speaker 2: still alive and well, I think that one's still pretty good,
Speaker 2: but it's just not as venomous, I feel like as
Speaker 2: it was, especially when I was a kid. And I
Speaker 2: don't think this is me, you know, being old or whatever.
Speaker 2: I just think those rivalries are just not there anymore
Speaker 2: in the same way that they were. You are younger
Speaker 2: than I by a couple months. So do you see
Speaker 2: any of the rivalries still existing in Major League Baseball
Speaker 2: like that?
Speaker 1: Like to that thing where you see.
Speaker 2: Like if you said, if I said, Joe, who are
Speaker 2: the two teams that absolutely hate each other right now?
Speaker 2: It's like a real rivalryor you want to see those
Speaker 2: two teams play?
Speaker 1: Does that exist?
Speaker 3: In my brain, I would default to Yankees Red Sox,
Speaker 3: but I think it's more the lore than anything that's
Speaker 3: currently going on. Right Like I my brain, I just
Speaker 3: think of like Pedro throwing what's his name to the ground.
Speaker 4: Zimmern was it don Zimmer?
Speaker 1: No? Don Zimmer? What's his name? How dare you a
Speaker 1: Don Zimmer bobblehead? Here? It's one of the all time
Speaker 1: great bobbleheads. I'm gonna find it here while you talk.
Speaker 3: But I don't I agree with you that you just
Speaker 3: don't see it on a regular basis anymore of the animosity.
Speaker 3: Like when the whole Tim Anderson Jose Ramirez thing happened,
Speaker 3: that was like a massive, massive deal. You used to
Speaker 3: see guys kind of throw punches more often. Nolan Ryan
Speaker 3: and guys from back in the day wouldn't really hesitate
Speaker 3: to either like throw a bat or throw a punch
Speaker 3: or something. Now you don't really see that, And that's
Speaker 3: not necessarily just rivalries. But the game is a little
Speaker 3: more tamer. I think there's not as u the emotions
Speaker 3: don't run quite as high unless you see a couple
Speaker 3: guys can hit by a pitch or something.
Speaker 2: It used to be a little more of author like
Speaker 2: you get those one offs, like I think the Yankees
Speaker 2: Astros for a little while, there was a little hot
Speaker 2: that was kind of hot there. I think for a
Speaker 2: couple of years, you know, for numerous reasons.
Speaker 1: So here you go.
Speaker 2: Don Zimmer, one of my favorite humans in uh, you know,
Speaker 2: in in Major League Baseball, Like it's the then and
Speaker 2: now when he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers and then
Speaker 2: they're the end there with the with the Tampa Bay
Speaker 2: then Devil Rays, I.
Speaker 1: Believe, but all time great. Uh. My home league is
Speaker 1: actually called the.
Speaker 2: Don Zimmer Memorial Fantasy Baseball League, and we used to
Speaker 2: call it that before he was dead. And the main
Speaker 2: logo picture was a picture of Don Zimmer with a
Speaker 2: word bubble says, I'm not dead yet yet, bastards, And
Speaker 2: that was like forever. We've had that for like twenty
Speaker 2: years now. But Don Zimmer, there for Jackie Robinson, there
Speaker 2: for the Yankee glory days, there for the seventy five
Speaker 2: Red Sox.
Speaker 1: You know, Carlton fisscom run.
Speaker 2: You can basically chart baseball from nineteen fifty to what
Speaker 2: about two thousand and you know, five or so two
Speaker 2: thousand and six Don Zimmer, which is pretty an amazing thing.
Speaker 1: What a career.
Speaker 2: He should be in the Hall of Fame. He's not
Speaker 2: a life given to baseball. No, Don Zimmer as a coach,
Speaker 2: as a manager. He was also there for that run.
Speaker 2: I want to say with the Cubs in the eighties two,
Speaker 2: you know, the eighty four Cubs, I want to say
Speaker 2: he was around for that too. He's just he is
Speaker 2: like that, like the Kevin Bacon. He's just like, this
Speaker 2: is like one degree of Don Zimmer here.
Speaker 3: They needed room for Harold's Baines, so they had to
Speaker 3: leave him out Carols.
Speaker 2: Jordan Alvarez absent from the lineup again yesterday. We'll see
Speaker 2: if he plays in the All Star Game. We'll see
Speaker 2: if he plays this weekend. Devin Williams beginning his rehab today,
Speaker 2: so that's great. Jordan Montgomery is still two weeks away
Speaker 2: from returning, and Cody Bellinger goes on the IL with
Speaker 2: a broken left middle finger. Now that's a two to
Speaker 2: four week injury. That's putting things real close to the
Speaker 2: deadline here for the Cubs. Also makes it really hard
Speaker 2: to trade Cody Bellinger with a broken finger. Now, theoretically,
Speaker 2: if I'm a team, I'm still okay trading for Cody
Speaker 2: Bellinger with a broken finger, Like, that's okay. It's not
Speaker 2: like a hamstrengthen, it's a finger, it's a bone.
Speaker 1: It'll heal you get back there.
Speaker 2: But Where does this put the Cubs here, because it
Speaker 2: seems like a precarious situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he has the opt out after this season too,
Speaker 3: doesn't he like those two additional years, But he does
Speaker 3: have an opt out, So I'm not sure if a
Speaker 3: team is really gonna like pay up for him because
Speaker 3: of A the injury. B he hasn't been quite what
Speaker 3: we expected la you know, this season he's been fine,
Speaker 3: but after what we saw last year, he's been a
Speaker 3: bit of a step down. And then you're acquiring him
Speaker 3: without the certainty that he's going to be there for
Speaker 3: sure next season. So I'm really not sure where this
Speaker 3: leaves the Cubs. But it's not a great spot for.
Speaker 4: Them at all.
Speaker 3: I think that they'll probably you have to just hold
Speaker 3: on to Bellinger and hope they can kind of retool
Speaker 3: and hope that twenty twenty five looks a little bit
Speaker 3: better and hopefully say it can be healthy and Nico
Speaker 3: Harner can turn it around. But yeah, I don't think
Speaker 3: they're in a great spot right now at all.
Speaker 2: It's tough, I mean, because now you've got to find
Speaker 2: a way to replace Bellinger. Michael Bush has been hot
Speaker 2: lately too. The last week all of a sudden which
Speaker 2: is kind of like talk about forgotten men like in
Speaker 2: fantasy Baseball. Such a good April and then just hit
Speaker 2: a wall and just now it's the middle of July
Speaker 2: and he's hitting again. So very weird situation there. But
Speaker 2: we'll keep you up to date here with everything going
Speaker 2: on here with the Cubs and everybody else. Also, you
Speaker 2: got to keep you up to date. It's been a
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Speaker 2: all right, Joe, we gotta stay hot here.
Speaker 1: It's a good day yesterday.
Speaker 2: Gonna go to Minnesota on the money line minus one
Speaker 2: thirty five against San Francisco. Joe Ryan on the mound
Speaker 2: I want a good statement. Start from Joe Ryan here
Speaker 2: heading into the break, and then I'm gonna attack the
Speaker 2: schwellenbach Ah, the Schwelly balls. He is on the mound
Speaker 2: today for the Braves. San Diego's at home. Give me
Speaker 2: the money line. I know it's against the Braves. It
Speaker 2: sounds wacky, but I don't like the swelling Boch. I
Speaker 2: don't think he's any good and I'm gonna go attack
Speaker 2: him and plus money plus one twelve and then Aaron
Speaker 2: Judge against the Orioles.
Speaker 1: Need I say more?
Speaker 2: If you're not betting this week against the Orioles with
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge, I don't know what you're doing with your life.
Speaker 2: He murders the Orioles in his career, just just flat
Speaker 2: out and murders them. I'm going over on the rbio
Speaker 2: point five at minus one twelve and to hit a
Speaker 2: home run plus two hundred. You're getting two to one
Speaker 2: on that bad boy. That tells you what Vegas thinks
Speaker 2: about his career against the Orioles.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna make money.
Speaker 2: Usually those numbers are like three p fifty and up
Speaker 2: two to one to hit a home run. It's kind
Speaker 2: of absurd, but I think Aaron Jodge can do it.
Speaker 2: Joe Rico, what do you have for the people for
Speaker 2: Friday's Best Bets of the Day.
Speaker 4: We had a pretty good day on Thursday.
Speaker 3: Even though the Dodgers pulled some Tom foolery with Landon
Speaker 3: Knack and they used an opener in front of him.
Speaker 3: He still hit the over and we hit the Paul
Speaker 3: Skeins over, but the Dodgers' money line did not come through.
Speaker 3: But two for three on the leading off debut will
Speaker 3: take it. Today, we're looking at strikeouts, looking at overs
Speaker 3: for Todz Bradley, Freddy Pralta, and Kyle Harrison. So Todz
Speaker 3: Bradley over five and a half strikeouts, We're talking about
Speaker 3: a guy with a thirty percent strikeout rate who has
Speaker 3: a five and a half strikeout line at plus money.
Speaker 3: I know Cleveland doesn't strike out a lot, but Bradley
Speaker 3: is really one of the better strikeout pitchers in all
Speaker 3: of baseball. It's hard to pass that up at plus money.
Speaker 3: Freddy Pralta at six and a half, he's getting the Nationals.
Speaker 3: This one also feels very doable. And also the fact
Speaker 3: that it is plus money, you know he's a volume guy.
Speaker 3: If he's able to get to six innings. I think
Speaker 3: this one is essentially a lock. Six and a half
Speaker 3: of Peralta is also I don't want to say it's
Speaker 3: disrespectful because it's probably a fair line, but I think
Speaker 3: he pretty easily goes over that if we do see
Speaker 3: him go six, and I think that should happen in
Speaker 3: a spot here against the Nationals and then go into
Speaker 3: the West Coast. Kyle Harrison this one was looking at
Speaker 3: the prop bet cheat sheet over at Betting Pros. Kyle
Speaker 3: Harrison projected for five and a half strikeouts and he's
Speaker 3: only said at three and a half here on the line.
Speaker 3: It's a little bit juiced, it's minus one forty five,
Speaker 3: but three and a half really does feel doable there
Speaker 3: and all these of course at bet three six y
Speaker 3: five use that code leading off a Joe.
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Speaker 2: got a good question the chat here I want to
Speaker 2: bring this up. If you got questions, drop him in here.
Speaker 2: We'll give you some answers to rest of season. Cold
Speaker 2: Keith or Michael Bush. I'm going Cold Keith and this
Speaker 2: one ain't closet. One hundred games for him have been spectacular.
Speaker 2: What do you make of Cold Keith versus Michael Bush.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not a huge Michael Bush guy. I think
Speaker 3: the strikeouts are still a problem. Runs a little bit
Speaker 3: too hot and cold. I think it is Cold Keith.
Speaker 3: He's top prospect. He's really coming into his own. I
Speaker 3: doubted him a little bit. I was worried about the ballpark,
Speaker 3: kind of suppressing some me tour. I was worried about
Speaker 3: the lineup around him. But he has really surprised me.
Speaker 3: He's been excellent. I'd easily take him over Bush as well.
Speaker 2: All right, before we get to the home run board
Speaker 2: for the day, I want to address one of the
Speaker 2: questions here in the chow or I say statements here
Speaker 2: in the chat so far because I'm looking at Schwellenbach's
Speaker 2: stats here because somebody was talking about his secondary stuff.
Speaker 2: Well that's fine, you can have all the great secondary
Speaker 2: stuff you want. But in thirty seven innings. I know
Speaker 2: he's only walking nine guys, but he's got a five VRA. Okay,
Speaker 2: when you have a five VR and you give it
Speaker 2: up more hits than any thing's pitched, I don't, Carol good.
Speaker 2: Your secondary stuff is you're not missing enough bats.
Speaker 1: That's a problem.
Speaker 2: Now, it's good that he's not walking guys, so maybe
Speaker 2: he's a developmental project. But right now I'm attacking the
Speaker 2: Schwellen back every time he's on the mat. I'm going
Speaker 2: with Aaron Judge, no shock there against the Orioles. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's easy, Yeah, I want it. I'm gonna go with
Speaker 2: here anyway. But for you, Joe Rico, as we look
Speaker 2: at this leaderboard again, I'm hanging on by a thread.
Speaker 2: Joe Rico, where are you going for your home run
Speaker 2: call this weekend?
Speaker 3: I went with Nolan Gorman, who has been fairly hot.
Speaker 3: I guess this coounts for the whole weekend, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: This isn't just for Friday.
Speaker 2: It can unless you want to go to the Discord
Speaker 2: Fantasypros dot Com slash chat and you can go ahead
Speaker 2: and log your daily ones if you want to make
Speaker 2: home run calls.
Speaker 1: But you can go perpetuity as I like to do
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: I think the Gorman is a good play. He's usually
Speaker 3: one of these guys who runs really hot and really cold.
Speaker 3: He's got multiple hits in like six of the last
Speaker 3: nine games. I know he had a little bit of
Speaker 3: a you know, one for seven in that doubleheader, a
Speaker 3: little bit cooling off. But he's facing Kyle Hendricks, who's
Speaker 3: allowing nearly two homers for nine innings this season. He's
Speaker 3: not been good, and Kyle Hendricks is a seven to
Speaker 3: fifty three era. He's just been brutal, brutal, and I
Speaker 3: think Nolan Gorman, with that monstrous power, truly one of
Speaker 3: the better power he in baseball, should be able to
Speaker 3: get me at least one. We'll keep that for the weekend.
Speaker 3: We'll see if he can take advantage of some of
Speaker 3: the Cubs' pitching.
Speaker 2: Well, if it was a strikeout contest, I think you'd
Speaker 2: win with Nolan Gorman. I'd pick him every single day.
Speaker 2: Another question from the Peanuts and Cracker Tacks from Joe Nelson.
Speaker 2: Joseph wants to know, Hey, Joey P, do you give
Speaker 2: Reese Hines any chance of sticking onto the Red's roster?
Speaker 2: I say little what do you make of this one here?
Speaker 2: Joe as we get I mean, Walls kind of pointed
Speaker 2: out the other day the profile is not a good one.
Speaker 2: A lot of swing at miss that. He's definitely got power,
Speaker 2: We've seen that, but those kind of guys get figured
Speaker 2: out real quick.
Speaker 1: What do you make of heines?
Speaker 3: I think he's like Jose Siri, like almost exactly like
Speaker 3: Jose Sirie. Massive strikeout rate, but good power, good stolen
Speaker 3: base potential. The ballpark is really interesting. If he does stick,
Speaker 3: he could be a good fantasy asset. But I'm talking
Speaker 3: about thirty eight percent strikeout rate at Triple A, like
Speaker 3: we're talking Joey Gallo type of strikeout numbers here. I
Speaker 3: think it's a pretty tough road for him to maintain
Speaker 3: fantasy value with that. There's a chance, but he's not
Speaker 3: somebody that I'm spending a lot of fab on or
Speaker 3: using time waiver priorities on. I just I don't feel
Speaker 3: that confident in him sticking. I think for future years
Speaker 3: we get the strikeout right down, especially in Cincinnati, he
Speaker 3: could be a serious dude, But for right now, I
Speaker 3: don't really see it.
Speaker 2: I would agree, all right, everybody, enjoy the weekend of baseball.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the All Star festivities. We're gonna have coverage next
Speaker 2: week of the MLB Draft of the Futures Game. Our
Speaker 2: takeaways from that end are fun special for our Fantasy
Speaker 2: All Stars of twenty twenty four. Want to thank Joe
Speaker 2: Rico for filling in for the Welsh on behalf of
Speaker 2: the Welsh too, because he's out having fun, although he
Speaker 2: is with his family, so it's less of a vacation
Speaker 2: and more of a trip. That's the thing, you know,
Speaker 2: when you have little kids too, it's more of a trip,
Speaker 2: and then you need a vacation after the trip. So
Speaker 2: either way, I'm sure Welsh is happy he's out there
Speaker 2: spending the time. Joe Rico, great job last couple days,
Speaker 2: and of course Joe's gonna be filling in a lot
Speaker 2: more here as the summer draws on. That'll do it
Speaker 2: for us, though, as the story continues on. For Joe Rico,
Speaker 2: I'm Joey P.
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