Speaker 1: The Brewers, get rowdy, let's play ball. What's up? Everybody?
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Speaker 1: The Welsh is back. Mike Mayor's negativity is gone. After yesterday,
Speaker 1: boyle boy, thank god?
Speaker 3: What was negative?
Speaker 1: And let me tell you, in the words of the
Speaker 1: Red Bee, who hurt Mike Mayor? That's what I want
Speaker 1: to know. All I know is he was a negative
Speaker 1: Nancy yesterday. But today we've got mister positivity. The Welsh
Speaker 1: is back. Welsh. Are you feeling better because you look
Speaker 1: more like yourself?
Speaker 3: Do I? Yeah? Sure, yeah, let's go with that. I'm
Speaker 3: feeling better. Sure, I'm here though, I actually it actually
Speaker 3: always boosts my spirits a little bit when I'm doing
Speaker 3: the show with you and hanging with the peanuts and
Speaker 3: cracker Jacks.
Speaker 1: Well, it's always nice to have you here. And of
Speaker 1: course we're gonna get through all of the news and
Speaker 1: notes and latest things going on in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: The start with the headlines here, Rowdy to Les Holmers
Speaker 1: twice drives in eight runs. He is on fire. He's
Speaker 1: rostered in less than fifty percent of leagues right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pick up the big boy, don't you Welsh and just
Speaker 1: ride a wave. I think I do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Roddy Rowdy absolutely my friend, big, big fight. I mean,
Speaker 3: if there was a player, by the way that was
Speaker 3: built to play with the Brewers, I don't know if
Speaker 3: there's a better connection, I mean, like Vogelbach in him,
Speaker 3: but Rowdy is definitely set to be there in big,
Speaker 3: big power. Absolutely run with it, always run and also
Speaker 3: you know, tip to the wise, always run with the
Speaker 3: hot hands, especially early on in the season, and create
Speaker 3: yourself a little bit of movement to be able to
Speaker 3: swing players left and right, like one or two players
Speaker 3: to be able to pick up hot bats. But Rowdy
Speaker 3: I might not be one of those guys. Probably someone
Speaker 3: that you're gonna be able to be a mainstay with.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Rowdy Telez stat wise, I'm thinking that
Speaker 1: even with this hot start, thirties, definitely in his realm anyway,
Speaker 1: in this three home Yeah, there is definitely within his
Speaker 1: realm with the hot start, and also on top of that,
Speaker 1: if you look at the bottom feeder pitching in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, in that division, you know, outside of the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers were great the Cubs. I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunity here for him to continue to be
Speaker 1: really solid. And I feel like maybe one of these
Speaker 1: guys at the end of the year we look back
Speaker 1: and go, Wow, what are the great draft values of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Jared Walsh went deep, yster, I drove
Speaker 1: in four runs. Martine Perez another good start for him.
Speaker 1: He's got two starts next week, by the way, to
Speaker 1: go seven scoreless and Philly Zach Wheeler was pulled after
Speaker 1: seven to two third scoreless innings. So Wheeler seems to
Speaker 1: be back on track. Welsh, this is two good starts
Speaker 1: in a row for Wheeler. So's your confidence back up
Speaker 1: in him?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Vello is coming back up. I mean something we
Speaker 3: talked about short sample sizes April, freaking out about really
Speaker 3: really well performing players that just haven't you know, haven't
Speaker 3: you met their mark yet? And Vlo came back up.
Speaker 3: That was the big thing. You wanted the spin numbers
Speaker 3: to be there. Vello is a little bit back up.
Speaker 3: You're getting closer into the spring months. It was a
Speaker 3: by There are by opportunities that are still out there.
Speaker 3: Wheeler was one of them. I think guys like jose
Speaker 3: Ah Bray you were out there, just these high end
Speaker 3: performing players that people you know, the negativity if you will,
Speaker 3: Joe the Mike Mayer, if you will out there, this
Speaker 3: guy sucks and I'm done with it. And no, Wheeler
Speaker 3: was definitely he was one of those prime players too.
Speaker 3: With the early struggles with the v LO down that
Speaker 3: it was like, this is an easy by opportunity because
Speaker 3: people were losing their mind. Because he also came in
Speaker 3: with some injury struggles as well, so very optimistic.
Speaker 1: The shoulder injury in the spring was a bit of
Speaker 1: my issue with Wheeler, so I dropped him significantly because
Speaker 1: they just didn't want to take the risk. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if we're out of the woods, but certainly
Speaker 1: so far, last two starts seemed to at least turn
Speaker 1: to corner. So we'll see if it's sustainable. You say,
Speaker 1: a key Kochi goes six innings, allows just one earned run,
Speaker 1: So my stack against him with the Yankees did not
Speaker 1: work out for very will Cory Klueber fire six score
Speaker 1: listenings in a no decision. Louis Castillo expected to be
Speaker 1: back to make his season debut on Monday. Luis Castillo,
Speaker 1: I do not think is long for the Reds. This
Speaker 1: is their last ship. I think remaining they could really
Speaker 1: bring something back for I would be all over this.
Speaker 1: I want to be on there now before the start,
Speaker 1: whether it's good or bad. I think this is the
Speaker 1: time to go buy Luis Castillo, because I do believe
Speaker 1: Castillo will be pitching for somebody else in the latter
Speaker 1: part of the year. What are your thoughts on Castillo
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm a little torn on that because the Reds
Speaker 3: are just atrocious and they're not even making the pitchers
Speaker 3: who have good stuff like serviceable at this point with
Speaker 3: their three wins. Yeah, I'm with what you're saying. I
Speaker 3: think the buy could be. Here's the only problem though,
Speaker 3: is he hasn't been here to struggle, so I don't
Speaker 3: feel like there's any I don't know, discount that's going on.
Speaker 3: There's a little bit of injury, but he's about to
Speaker 3: come back, so I think the person that's out there
Speaker 3: holding on to Luis Castillo is like, all right, cool,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm going to get this guy back, and
Speaker 3: and there's no built in how horrible the Reds are
Speaker 3: or any struggles, So I just don't know what that
Speaker 3: discount looks like right now. I might be actually a
Speaker 3: little bit more interested when he comes back and he
Speaker 3: doesn't get a win, which he's not going to get
Speaker 3: a win, and the Red struggle a little bit offensively,
Speaker 3: that that might be a great time because I'm with you,
Speaker 3: he's not long for this team. I cannot imagine he's
Speaker 3: going to be traded, and that's when he's going to
Speaker 3: be a really valuable asset. So if you can buy
Speaker 3: on it now and just kind of sit and hold tight, sure,
Speaker 3: I'm with it. I'm just a little bit worried. This
Speaker 3: is like it's like a prospect, you know, prospect is
Speaker 3: coming up and the world is their oyster for the
Speaker 3: fantasy owner. And that's how Luis Castillo is right now.
Speaker 3: He can be the savior to everybody because you kind
Speaker 3: of forget like, oh yeah, he's on the worst team
Speaker 3: in baseball and they have absolutely no run support. Right now,
Speaker 3: they put out a roster that could rival what the
Speaker 3: Pirates did on Opening Day, But in a vacuum, I'm
Speaker 3: with you, I'm a buy on Luis Castill if you can.
Speaker 1: The only difference is with him and a rookie is
Speaker 1: I've seen the ceiling at the major league level, and
Speaker 1: I know what he can be.
Speaker 3: The excitement, looky hype.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this is the only difference is if you're buying,
Speaker 1: you're buying more of a proven entity. And I know
Speaker 1: there's been some bad moments for Casto, there's also been
Speaker 1: some really high points too. I think he's a very
Speaker 1: polarizing picture, and I think right now there's every reason
Speaker 1: to believe that if he lands in the right environment,
Speaker 1: you could at least roll the dice and get a
Speaker 1: good one. So if you if you're already struggling for pitching,
Speaker 1: to me, this is a this is a roll of
Speaker 1: the dice I would take.
Speaker 3: Also, I don't say, but what is the roll of
Speaker 3: the dice? But just in the LAist Castillo front, like
Speaker 3: the but like what does that mean.
Speaker 1: Like Los Angeles? No, no, no, no, no, like Atlanta?
Speaker 3: Okay, no, no, I'm not saying that. I'm saying, like
Speaker 3: the roll of the dice of like what like you're
Speaker 3: trading for him, like he's not available on a wire
Speaker 3: or anything like that. So this is this actually kind
Speaker 3: of your trading. Okay, so you are wanting to go
Speaker 3: and acquire Luis Castillo for what do you think? What
Speaker 3: does that look like?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, right now, I bet you can get
Speaker 1: him for hazeleus Lozardo, Right.
Speaker 3: I would think that's that's that's a good one you pulled,
Speaker 3: because I was like, all.
Speaker 1: Right, because he's got issues, potentially, he's gotten off to
Speaker 1: a good start. There's part of you that wants to
Speaker 1: believe that everything is going to be roses, but he
Speaker 1: is on I don't care what anybody tells me. I
Speaker 1: don't care what the Marlins record. It's not a great
Speaker 1: baseball team. So that's exactly the kind of guy that's
Speaker 1: gotten off to a really good start that I think
Speaker 1: has value, that I think has cachet, that I think
Speaker 1: is a name that people recognize and are excited about,
Speaker 1: whereas people with Castillo are a little afraid. And I
Speaker 1: would take advantage of that. And if he and if
Speaker 1: Louis Castillo lands on the Atlanta Braves because Charlie Morton
Speaker 1: continues to stink and they're aggressive to add another starting pitcher,
Speaker 1: woo wee, Like that is a good landing spot for Castillo,
Speaker 1: and I just think that kind of spot or the
Speaker 1: you know, maybe even the Yankees or somewhere like that
Speaker 1: could be good as well.
Speaker 3: I don't like it's a good name you pull. It's
Speaker 3: a good name you pulled. The funny thing is is
Speaker 3: I think you would be excited if Castillo is doing
Speaker 3: what Lozardo was doing right now, and that's theronic.
Speaker 1: But can Lozardo do this in August and September? We
Speaker 1: have to look, we've already gotten April into May out
Speaker 1: of him less.
Speaker 3: That's why that calculated trade, the trade you presented, which
Speaker 3: great job on the spot like that's probably a really
Speaker 3: good one if someone wanted to do that. I think
Speaker 3: it's hard to find like pitcher for pitcher type of
Speaker 3: trades like that, but that is a solid name that
Speaker 3: I think would get both parties thinking a little bit.
Speaker 1: So all right, taosk Gernandez expected to return on Thursday,
Speaker 1: So that's good for the Tiascar owners and boil Boy
Speaker 1: that Blue Jay's lineup continues to get better and better.
Speaker 1: Nelson Cruz back was held out of the NATS lineup.
Speaker 1: Nico Lodolo is going to be back though in the rotation.
Speaker 1: On Saturday for the Reds, Blake Snell made another rehab start,
Speaker 1: so Nick Clevenger Black Snell is on his way. Nick
Speaker 1: Martinez probably not long for this rotation. And Andrew Vaughn
Speaker 1: looks like he could be moving onto the IL as well.
Speaker 1: Any of these injury things.
Speaker 3: I want to peek.
Speaker 1: Did you text Blake Snell see how he's doing. What's
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 3: Man, I'm excited to get back to the Major's baby.
Speaker 3: I gotta get that money, getting the ridey buses out
Speaker 3: here in the minor leagues. You're crazy. I ain't doing that.
Speaker 3: Get me out of here, give me to the Mages
Speaker 3: I live.
Speaker 1: That's like Snowboys. It's my favorite thing. So let's talk
Speaker 1: about this because, much to the chagrin of Mike Maher,
Speaker 1: I got a text for Mayor about, like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: six thirty seven o'clock yesterday evening, and he was yelling
Speaker 1: at the sky that we're still talking about this Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge home run ball that the guy gave the kid
Speaker 1: and then the kid and the guy get to meet
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. I know, right, this feel good moment. Mike
Speaker 1: Mayor could not be more of an angry old man
Speaker 1: on the porch.
Speaker 3: What will you tell me about how could you be
Speaker 3: mad about the kid giving the ball in the happy story?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he was. You'll have to take
Speaker 1: it up with him, but I just wanted to bring
Speaker 1: it up again. Let me know what annoys him. So
Speaker 1: nice job there for everybody, obviously getting to meet Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1: I think it's great. I think it's I think we
Speaker 1: all needed a feel good story. Madison Bumgarner need to
Speaker 1: feel good story too, because he got injected. What's going
Speaker 1: on with the umpiring right now in Major League Baseball? Welsh,
Speaker 1: I know we've kind of touched on Angel Hernandez, but
Speaker 1: i'mpiring as a hole right now. Seems a little contentious,
Speaker 1: seems a little all over the place. Seems like robo
Speaker 1: umps are possibly, you know, on the horizon. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of went off on it on in
Speaker 3: this league this week because I don't see how this
Speaker 3: is good for baseball. I don't see how throwing players
Speaker 3: out is good for baseball. It's another there's so many
Speaker 3: things that baseball is doing that's bad for itself, and
Speaker 3: the refereeing, the police of baseball are one of the
Speaker 3: worst entities of it. They're bad at their job, hands down,
Speaker 3: not arguable. There's one or two that are okay, but
Speaker 3: as a whole and if you're judged by your winks link,
Speaker 3: they're bad at their job. And now they're intimidate, trying
Speaker 3: to intimidate players and throw them out of games. No
Speaker 3: other sport willy nilly throws players out of games like
Speaker 3: baseball does. For nonsense. They're being babies because bully tactics.
Speaker 3: It's insane. Let the players freak out, let them yell,
Speaker 3: Let let them be mad. It's their job to take it.
Speaker 3: If they push you or spin on you or throw
Speaker 3: a bat or something, then you throw them out. That
Speaker 3: stuff yesterday was a the most ridiculous thing I've ever
Speaker 3: seen with that umpire staring at Madison Bumgarner and b
Speaker 3: was the creepiest, weirdest weirdo thing on the planet. He
Speaker 3: was massaging his hands and I don't know if you
Speaker 3: heard Bumgarner's comment that said, he's like, if you want
Speaker 3: to play little uh miss, little Piggy or whatever, go
Speaker 3: down to the miners where the kids are. And that's
Speaker 3: what got him thrown out because he was staring at
Speaker 3: him and rubbing his hand like a weirdo. Like, I
Speaker 3: don't like it. I hate every ounce of it, from
Speaker 3: it's so bad for baseball to that dude is weird,
Speaker 3: like super weird.
Speaker 1: Justin Mason posted on Twitter like the slow motion of it,
Speaker 1: which made it ten times creepier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what Well, Bally's tweeted that out everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Bally's put that out. I think he put music to it,
Speaker 3: which made it funny. But Bally's put it out which
Speaker 3: made it like an eighteen second clip, and it is
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, I'm saying that. We've seen birds explode
Speaker 3: on television. We've seen animals come on to the field.
Speaker 3: We've seen uh, you know, foul balls ruin someone's life.
Speaker 3: We've seen so many things happen in baseball. But like,
Speaker 3: that was one of the weirdest, creepiest things that I've
Speaker 3: ever seen in baseball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it puts the lotion in the basket right or
Speaker 1: else it gets the hose again. All right, let's move on.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm involved. I'm gonna edit that song onto
Speaker 3: that videode.
Speaker 1: This is a fun little piece. I want to see
Speaker 1: if you agree or disagree or maybe you have another name.
Speaker 1: Let's rapid file. Let's put a little little game. You're
Speaker 1: ready for a little game. Somebody on MLB dot com
Speaker 1: wrote this, and I thought this was an interesting piece.
Speaker 1: Uh the MVP for each team so far, So you
Speaker 1: tell me I agree, or you give me the alternate
Speaker 1: name for yourself. You don't have to have a breakdown.
Speaker 1: This is just for fun so far. Let's start with
Speaker 1: the American League East, the Blue Jays. MVP of the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays so far, Alec Manoa, yes or no?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Sure, okay?
Speaker 1: For the Orioles, Bruce Zimmerman yesterday, I did whatever.
Speaker 3: Sure one for.
Speaker 1: Era over twenty four and the third innings.
Speaker 3: Just saying maybe Horay Lopez saves closing the games out? Yeah, sure, whatever,
Speaker 3: all right?
Speaker 1: For the Rays, Wander Franco MVP so far, the Rais, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: Red Sox, this one was fascinating. Garrett Whitlock, who I've
Speaker 1: got a ton of shares of. Oh yeah, yesterday?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Is he the most valuable Red Sox right now?
Speaker 3: Right now? Yeah? I think so. Absolutely. They're closing situations
Speaker 3: all wacko and yeah he from that being that fire hose,
Speaker 3: he's the guy all.
Speaker 1: Right, Aaron Judge. I think we can all agree with
Speaker 1: the Yankees. Obviously, with the Guardians, Jose Ramirez. We agree
Speaker 1: with the Royals. They had Zach greenk with his twenty
Speaker 1: eight innings two five seven ERA and what like three strikeouts?
Speaker 3: It was he up to this year I wanted to do. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know if I have an argument, because that
Speaker 3: whole team has been like the guys you would expect,
Speaker 3: have been kind of disappointed. So yeah, Sureanky, that's fine.
Speaker 1: All right? The Tigers Michael Fulmer is the one they
Speaker 1: have here, which I don't love this one. But is
Speaker 1: there another one for the Tigers that you could think of?
Speaker 1: I mean, is it Hobby bias?
Speaker 3: Is it? You know?
Speaker 1: You want to put three scuobl in there? I think
Speaker 1: Schooble is worthy of.
Speaker 3: Maybe Schooble. I don't like the Michael Fulan. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: say no on the former one. But they also don't
Speaker 3: have Yeah, maybe Schooble. I mean I like school today
Speaker 3: and Betts too, So.
Speaker 1: All right, dare I ask this? The Twins, it's obviously
Speaker 1: Byron bucks in right, Okay, move on Bucks. The White
Speaker 1: Sox Andrew Vaughn is who they came up with, which
Speaker 1: is fascinating because he's the slash has been really good.
Speaker 1: I know he's got the hand issue right now. But
Speaker 1: two eighty three, three sixty seven, five sixty six slash
Speaker 1: for Andrew Vaughn. Uh in a time where they've lost
Speaker 1: a lot of guys to injury, I would say, Dylan cease.
Speaker 1: So I kind of disagree with this one. But what
Speaker 1: are your thoughts?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think you could still throw Robert
Speaker 3: in there. I know he got injured, but when he's
Speaker 3: out there, he is the lynch pin. H. I think
Speaker 3: Cease has been phenomenal. Yeah, I would go see silber Von,
Speaker 3: though Vaughn has been so valuable in how he is
Speaker 3: able to like mainstay the roster as it is like
Speaker 3: falling apart. But no, I guest sees with you.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to some of the guys
Speaker 1: in the rest of the west. Here, my trout, I
Speaker 1: think we can all get behind that one Verlander of
Speaker 1: the Astros. The athletics is an interesting one because this
Speaker 1: guy is rostered in probably less than half of leagues
Speaker 1: of Sheldon Noose. He's in three twenty nine and it's
Speaker 1: got twenty five K's already on the ear. He's got
Speaker 1: three steals. Yeah, in the record Sheldon Noose in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues, he strike out a ton, but he got
Speaker 1: a two to ninety plus batting average over five seasons.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a guy people should be
Speaker 1: adding because playing time is not going to be an
Speaker 1: issue for this guy.
Speaker 3: I have been I've added him in multiple spots. Qualifies
Speaker 3: at a couple of different positions. He was a prospect
Speaker 3: with the Twins, and he's got huge power. I remember
Speaker 3: I was in the AFL setting behind him and he
Speaker 3: hit some of the biggest moonshots in BP that I've
Speaker 3: seen before. He's got insane power and he runs for
Speaker 3: a big dude. Yeah, I'll go with Sheldon Noisy.
Speaker 1: All right, is it noisy?
Speaker 3: I saw Sheldon Noisy? Oh it's oh yeah, he says
Speaker 3: it noisy noisy. Oh. In a minute, I saw his
Speaker 3: name in the minor leagues. I was like, well, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna need help with that.
Speaker 1: So well, well then I'm gonna have to re record
Speaker 1: a video. Then probably all right, let's go to the
Speaker 1: last ones here and then we'll do the National League tomorrow.
Speaker 1: They have JP Crawford for the Mariners, which, look, I know,
Speaker 1: he's been pretty good. Yeah, Logan Gilbert, Hello, how was
Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert not?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, good point, good point.
Speaker 1: Really, And then Corey Seeger of the Rangers, which I guess,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean Garcia has been okay, I mean
Speaker 1: Corey Seeger hasn't been great. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: if this is an MVP for the Rangers period. But
Speaker 1: I thought that was kind of provocative. So I got
Speaker 1: to learn to say Sheldon noisy noisy. It sounds very
Speaker 1: Sheldon noisy lady. All right, let's go this day in
Speaker 1: Major League baseball history in nineteen seventy five. You're gonna
Speaker 1: love this one, Welsh. This is the specialization of baseball
Speaker 1: right here. From the seventies. Oakland releases pinch runner, professional
Speaker 1: pinch runner Herb Washington. All this guy did run. Washington
Speaker 1: played one hundred and five major league games without batting, pitching,
Speaker 1: or fielding. He was a professional pinch runner, and he
Speaker 1: stole thirty one bases and scored thirty three runs. That
Speaker 1: is a pretty spectacular thing. With all the specialization in
Speaker 1: Major League baseball, do you think we're ever gonna see
Speaker 1: something like this again? Where a guy's on the rostert
Speaker 1: just to pinch run who has lightning speed. Like you
Speaker 1: know how the NFL has guys that like that guy's
Speaker 1: just there to take the top off the defense kind
Speaker 1: of stuff.
Speaker 3: Well, like they have like a long snapper too. They
Speaker 3: had like an NFL they got like a long snapper
Speaker 3: just for punts and stuff. I mean, Billy Hamilton is
Speaker 3: one thing. Ellie Hamilton could probably do that right now,
Speaker 3: was kind of that for a little bit. I actually
Speaker 3: I'm actually surprised because I thought you were being like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I thought you were like joking that I would like
Speaker 3: this and that would really be annoyed by it. I
Speaker 3: actually love it so much, so like I want to
Speaker 3: watch like a thirty for thirty on this. Like that
Speaker 3: guy never had it at bat never. He only pin
Speaker 3: shran instill bases. That's fascinating. I want to who is
Speaker 3: the closes? Here's the return.
Speaker 1: So he stole thirty one bases and he scored thirty
Speaker 1: three runs. Now, I don't know about you Welsh, but
Speaker 1: that's like if you need a run and you can
Speaker 1: get a guy out there that's got you know, forty
Speaker 1: yard dash beat of four to three, right.
Speaker 3: Because that's Billy Hamlon. You're talking about Billy Hamilton right now.
Speaker 3: I just want to point out.
Speaker 1: Why wasn't Billy Hamilton used in this way?
Speaker 3: He kind of was for a little bit, but a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 1: Nobody committed to it. I think if some team committed
Speaker 1: to it, where well, I guess it's I guess it's
Speaker 1: difficult because you want that guy to be able to
Speaker 1: go in the field and play. But nowadays too, where
Speaker 1: in the National League you don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: the pitcher spot and all these other moving parts all
Speaker 1: the time. I kind of wonder, I just wonder a
Speaker 1: little bit if this is something that, you know, with
Speaker 1: all the heavy specialization, maybe we should re examine the mate.
Speaker 3: Well, if you look at go cards, I think that's
Speaker 3: kind of the point right there, as Gokard says, not
Speaker 3: unless they expand rosters. It's there's only so many roster spots,
Speaker 3: is the big thing. Tim Lecastro has kind of done
Speaker 3: that where he has been like the primary, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of base runner, and I think he had a
Speaker 3: grip of stolen bases that were just off of being
Speaker 3: a pinch runner. But they can't have specialization like that anymore.
Speaker 3: I mean they don't even want to have closers in
Speaker 3: baseball anymore, so they're not gonna have a pinch runner.
Speaker 1: I think that's a specialization coming for Atlberto Mondes. I
Speaker 1: think that's the only way he might be able to
Speaker 1: stay on the field. You've got to be like ridiculously fast.
Speaker 1: All right, here fun trivia question. Which two brewers, and
Speaker 1: this is an honor of rowty to Les big Day,
Speaker 1: which two brewers in the history organization have a pair,
Speaker 1: not one, but two seven RBI games. I'll give you
Speaker 1: a hint, modern day Milwaukee Brewers. So I know sometimes
Speaker 1: you throw some old ones on.
Speaker 3: Say it again. I'm not even looking, by the way,
Speaker 3: I haven't looked at it yet.
Speaker 1: Well, the answer is not in the sheet today, so
Speaker 1: I okay.
Speaker 3: So say it again. It was modern day Brewers.
Speaker 1: Which two players in Brewers' history have a pair of
Speaker 1: seven RBI games? So two guys recent memory Brewers. Let's
Speaker 1: go if you got the answer? And no, if you
Speaker 1: not Prince Fielder, and no it is not Ricky whet Hi'
Speaker 1: is not Ricky Wee. All right, let's get to the
Speaker 1: stat hero as well. You guys marinate on that trivia
Speaker 1: question Adam Wayne Right yesterday, just two k's but seven
Speaker 1: strong scoreless innings. Frankie Montas bounced back six k's, no
Speaker 1: earned over seven. Zach Wheeler, everybody's throwing seven innings yesterday.
Speaker 1: What a glorious day to be alive. Seven case for Wheeler.
Speaker 1: We talked about him and Corey Klueber, Martin Perez, we
Speaker 1: talked about Garrett Whitlock. That's the one nine k's five
Speaker 1: innings against the Freakin' Angels, and then that game obviously
Speaker 1: got out of hand. Later Lucas Giolito ten strikeouts and
Speaker 1: five and two thirds and Justin Verlander another good star
Speaker 1: for him, Another w for Justin Verlander, building that cy
Speaker 1: young resume for the hitters. Rowdy Telez four for six,
Speaker 1: eight Ribbies, whoa wee? Tyler O'Neill one home run, two
Speaker 1: for four, Jared Walsh had a big day. McCutchen, who
Speaker 1: was our favorite DFS guy value yesterday. You had him everywhere.
Speaker 1: You did well, four for five, four Ribbies, John Birdie
Speaker 1: of all people, not one but two runs. Hazers Aguilar
Speaker 1: had a home run. Alex Bregman three for three with
Speaker 1: three ribies. Vogel Back another good day for him somehow
Speaker 1: one home run Dalton var Show two for four with
Speaker 1: a dinger. Mookie Bets also two er three with a
Speaker 1: home run. So well, you have an answer here for
Speaker 1: the Brewers, big time guys, and no one of them
Speaker 1: is right here, correct, Ryan bron Mayer is right here.
Speaker 1: One of them is Ryan Braun.
Speaker 3: So Ryan Bron is the other goofy one is the
Speaker 3: other one that's a catcher catcher?
Speaker 1: Nope, no it is not. No Brewers, they had one
Speaker 1: that was very fantasy relevant for a short window of time.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: His name is reminiscent of a of a Seltzer that
Speaker 1: hipsters like to have. That's got your other hint. Come on, now,
Speaker 1: you know everybody likes that Seltzer. Jonathan Jona seven he did,
Speaker 1: he had seven RBI And I'll tell you the game
Speaker 1: to five to twelve. Jonathan Lucroy in eight thirty twelve.
Speaker 1: It happened in the same season and Ryan Braun. Actually
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for him, for LUCROI and Ryan Braun we
Speaker 1: did it in twenty fourteen and twenty and sixteen, so.
Speaker 3: Right in the heart of him being a big fat cheater, gotcha.
Speaker 1: Yes, big fat cheater. But one heck of a producer,
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. Here are the stat zero's the
Speaker 1: guys that spit the bit. Dylan Bundy eleven hits against
Speaker 1: the Orioles, nine earned eleven hits against the Orioles. Vladimir
Speaker 1: Gutierrez gave up seven earned runs and four innings. Lucas
Speaker 1: Simms two thirds of an inning, five earned runs, salud
Speaker 1: to you, Alasier Hernandez, bad start for him, five earned
Speaker 1: runs and four innings. Chris Bubbick the Bubbala no case,
Speaker 1: four earned in a loss of the Cardinals, and Matt
Speaker 1: Brash got hammered as well. A lot of people lost
Speaker 1: a lot of faith in Brash yesterday. How do you
Speaker 1: feel about the youngster?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I the minute he had his big
Speaker 3: first start, I kind of put out the war each
Speaker 3: a little bit because it wasn't even so much about
Speaker 3: the lack of command and the wildness. It was that
Speaker 3: when he didn't get that you know whatever they designated
Speaker 3: slider curveball and knuckle curve, when that thing wasn't going,
Speaker 3: his fastball was getting beat, and then you get him.
Speaker 3: He came out and admitted like it is not he's
Speaker 3: just kind of trying to throw out the zone. He's
Speaker 3: not trying to target because he's got so much spin.
Speaker 3: It's gonna take some it's gonna take some time to get,
Speaker 3: you know, locked in and be able to be able
Speaker 3: to move those pitches. And I don't know if he's
Speaker 3: gonna have to take something off of it to work.
Speaker 3: But I was never the insane Brash guy. His stuff
Speaker 3: is awesome to watch, but he doesn't have much command
Speaker 3: of it. And this is I think this is gonna
Speaker 3: kind of this is gonna put a pin in the
Speaker 3: starting role of Matt Brash. I think moving forward at
Speaker 3: least for a little bit. That's my assumption.
Speaker 1: All Right, some of the hitters Alec Boem over five
Speaker 1: two k's, but we knew that was gonna come down
Speaker 1: to Earth Wander. Franco Mayor put this in just to
Speaker 1: hurt me with his over five. Sal Perez another four
Speaker 1: three more strikeouts. This is getting ridiculous. Thirty one percent
Speaker 1: strikeout rate for him over twenty three games buck fifteen.
Speaker 1: I know he's got some home runs, but what's going
Speaker 1: on with Sally p.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's nazieing the ball. Well, that's a big thing,
Speaker 3: but it's it's it's systemic to the team. The Royals
Speaker 3: have been like the roads are like this in the miners.
Speaker 3: By the way, they had this over a couple different
Speaker 3: seasons where it was like all of the big prospects
Speaker 3: were struggling. MJ. Melndez is up in the majors, Nick Prato,
Speaker 3: all of these guys just could not hit. And it
Speaker 3: seems to be happening at like a major league level.
Speaker 3: And I'm not one hundred percent sure Witt has struggled.
Speaker 3: Bobby Witt has had some struggles. Salvador Prez is behind it.
Speaker 3: This might, I mean, as dumb as this is, by
Speaker 3: the way, I wish I had like a really awesome
Speaker 3: way to be like, hey, this is why, you know,
Speaker 3: is he just a late season guy? Is he, you know,
Speaker 3: struggling early because of weather? Blah blah blah. It also
Speaker 3: could be, you know, hitting as contagious with this team,
Speaker 3: and Salve is one of the biggest boppers. There's not
Speaker 3: much at the plate. There might be different approaches because
Speaker 3: there's other guys not on base right now or not
Speaker 3: enough of offense that's going in. So I'm not crazy
Speaker 3: worried about it. I think you had to build in
Speaker 3: regression and what he was doing last year. But it's like,
Speaker 3: all right, we're in May now this is a little concerning,
Speaker 3: But what would you do? What could you do?
Speaker 1: You just got a kind of nothing you can do,
Speaker 1: and you had so much draft capital. He's probably a
Speaker 1: third round pick in most of your leagues. You have
Speaker 1: to just eat it and hope that it gets better.
Speaker 1: Is nothing is no, it's the way you're treating him
Speaker 1: and getting good value, a return for what you spent
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 3: And I think it's the investment that you put in
Speaker 3: on him.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Some guys in the double header range yesterday Jonathan
Speaker 1: Scope Oh for eight with three K's Hobby Bayez Oh
Speaker 1: for eight, Trent Grisham Oh for eight, Brian Hayes Oh
Speaker 1: for seven, spendertoricals and Oh for six. Look gross, terrible.
Speaker 1: All right, let's check the home run board for the
Speaker 1: day and see how things are shaking out. And uh,
Speaker 1: it's still the night. King of the North with twelve.
Speaker 1: All I do is win an eleven. JP at thirty
Speaker 1: four with eleven, I'm still sitting at two. Just a
Speaker 1: disgrace once again, but getting better. Four started off May,
Speaker 1: You've got four. I want one of us to get
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Speaker 3: There you go.
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Speaker 1: Jerik Schooble, I like on FanDuel four and a half
Speaker 1: is the kprop. I like the over on that at
Speaker 1: plus one oh.
Speaker 3: Six, one of my favorite. I just want to point,
Speaker 3: I mean, interrupt you with it like it is. It's
Speaker 3: one that when I wasn't looking at yours, I was
Speaker 3: going through the strikeout props and it immediately jumped out
Speaker 3: to me as one that I really like today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, plus one o six there you get a nice
Speaker 1: number on it. Jan Soto has two that I liked.
Speaker 1: Total bases on DK at one and a half, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get minus one twenty. But you're also getting plus
Speaker 1: one thirty five on point five on DK on the RBI,
Speaker 1: so all he's do is driving one run at the
Speaker 1: plus one thirty five show i Otani on FANDLE the
Speaker 1: strikeouts are at six and a half. The juice is
Speaker 1: minus one ten on that one. And Josh Bell for
Speaker 1: total bases again in Colorado this afternoon one and a
Speaker 1: half on DK, and that's at minus one twenty. Well,
Speaker 1: should you have any that stuck out to you?
Speaker 3: I got two that I like. Probably no shaker want
Speaker 3: to bring it up at Buckston Buckston total bases one
Speaker 3: and a half over and I think the projections, even
Speaker 3: on the cheat sheet are quite a bit higher, and
Speaker 3: he's had some success. One of my favorites, though, is
Speaker 3: back on the pitching market. It's Shane mcclanahan's strikeouts and
Speaker 3: it's at six and a half. The system doesn't push
Speaker 3: him up on the cheat sheet. If you guys, go
Speaker 3: over to bettingpros dot com, and you check out the
Speaker 3: MLB cheat sheet, it doesn't push him up because the
Speaker 3: projection is like just a little over six and a half.
Speaker 3: But McClanahan has struck out more than six every single
Speaker 3: game this season, and Seattle is up on the top
Speaker 3: twelve of strike per game, the average eight per game.
Speaker 3: But clanahan is a strikeout machine. I don't care that
Speaker 3: it's a bigger number. I really like that one. And
Speaker 3: I want to say the juice was around. It's actually
Speaker 3: plus money on Fando you get plus one oh six,
Speaker 3: so over six and a half strikeouts for Seay McClanahan. Gimme,
Speaker 3: gimme all right, this is a.
Speaker 1: Great question here. Before we move on from Mike, Mike
Speaker 1: want said, Okay, we dropped Justin Turner. At this point,
Speaker 1: I say, no, Welsh and I have so I have
Speaker 1: Justin Turner. I just think he'll turn it around. He's
Speaker 1: been too good of a hitter for too long. The
Speaker 1: age is always a concern. Uh, But to me, I
Speaker 1: would still hang in there with Justin Turner. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts if someone dropped him, I'd pick him up immediately. Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean I think he will be okay. It just
Speaker 3: depends what's out there. Like, let me throw this at you.
Speaker 3: If you're in a twelve man league and there's some roster,
Speaker 3: you know, there's some guys out there. I mean, would
Speaker 3: you drop him for Sheldon Noisy like pick up the
Speaker 3: hot bat and Sheldon Noisy for stolen bases and homers?
Speaker 3: I think, long term, when you look at the grand
Speaker 3: scope of noisy versus like a Turner, Turner's gonna he's
Speaker 3: gonna make out with it. But I think I might
Speaker 3: rather just like burn and churn the best players. So
Speaker 3: I don't feel beholden to hold on to him right now.
Speaker 3: If I could, if I was in a deeper league,
Speaker 3: I probably would, but i'd probably drop him for guys
Speaker 3: like Sheldon Noisier, you know, I mean, guys that aren't
Speaker 3: there anymore. I would have dropped maybe like a Taylor Warden,
Speaker 3: stuff like that. So I don't think I would be
Speaker 3: as beholden as maybe you are about him right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's move on here to DFS tonight.
Speaker 1: I gotta say Tree Schooble at six point five love
Speaker 1: him over on DK. It's super cheap for him. I
Speaker 1: know it's a tough matchup against the Ashros, but look,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna have Altuvey in that lineup. Probably fouled
Speaker 1: the ball off of his groin. Was pretty uncomfortable looking.
Speaker 1: Shane McClanahan at nine point seven going up against the Mariners.
Speaker 1: I know it's Robbie Ray on the other side. You
Speaker 1: got a lot of you know, dueling pictures tonight, which
Speaker 1: is always tricky. But I'm just gonna pick a side.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you can stay away from these games, but when
Speaker 1: you have a slate where it's just full of them,
Speaker 1: you just have to pick sides if you want to play.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with McClanahan and Scooble, or I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with Logan Web and Schooble. Those are the two
Speaker 1: options I've got on DK. Web is nine point four,
Speaker 1: mcclann's nine points. Evan's Schooble at six' five gives you
Speaker 1: a little bit of price maneuverability over on the FanDuel
Speaker 1: side with the, standalones McClanahan is expensive at ten point.
Speaker 1: ONE i think he's worth, it So's Logan. WEB i
Speaker 1: would do two lineups with those, guys just interchange them
Speaker 1: and then if you're looking for a cheaper. Pitcher potentially
Speaker 1: you go With Jose, yourqueidi you can go that. Route
Speaker 1: schooble's at nine point, four But eukidi's only six point.
Speaker 1: Eight if your kiddy's good and he strikes out a
Speaker 1: lot of, tigers you could turn that bad boy around
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden make some money on that.
Speaker 1: One potentially, too if you have big Hitting Alec boum
Speaker 1: is cheap ON dk three to, Six Trevor larnick at two,
Speaker 1: Five chez McCormick, Eight jazz at three K Fory hilaire
Speaker 1: at three point, nine same thing On, fanduels same guys
Speaker 1: bomb Ed vandal at two point, Nine Trevor larnic at two,
Speaker 1: Four chaz McCormick at two, Seven Jorge hilaire at two point.
Speaker 1: Nine in terms of home run, Call i'm going To,
Speaker 1: colorado going back With Juan. SOTO i went With stanton last.
Speaker 1: NIGHT i was not pleased with the. Choice did not work,
Speaker 1: Out So i'm going back To Wan, sota who got
Speaker 1: me a home run In so back To wan so
Speaker 1: to again, Today, welsh where are you going with your
Speaker 1: home run call for? TODAY i am.
Speaker 3: Gone i'm gonna point out a little controversy. Here when
Speaker 3: the sheet was put, UP i Took Kyle. Schwarber i'm
Speaker 3: Taking Kyle schwarbi's who has a very good. HISTORY i
Speaker 3: believe all of his hits versus this pitcher have Been.
Speaker 3: Homer's BUT i noticed somebody else has changed their bid
Speaker 3: to the exact same player as, Mine, joe THAT i
Speaker 3: didn't know we were playing this. Game that looks Like
Speaker 3: Mike mayer has changed his To Kyle schwarber as, well
Speaker 3: and it was somebody else a little bit. Earlier SO
Speaker 3: i wonder what kind of shenanigans are going on in,
Speaker 3: There BUT i do Have Kyle.
Speaker 1: Schwarber lots of, shenanigans no doubt about. That, also let's
Speaker 1: talk About Mike mahyer at The Kyle schwarber home run.
Speaker 1: Here so if you guys both go home run, today
Speaker 1: is it a LITTLE i don't, know does it bring
Speaker 1: it down a little? Bit?
Speaker 3: Like, oh, yeah it did. Own that's What i'm. SAYING
Speaker 3: i Picked Kyle. Schwarber he had another name on, there
Speaker 3: and THEN i just looked back at the sheet And
Speaker 3: Kyle schwarber's on, there so he kind OF i feel
Speaker 3: like my thunders taken a little. Bit it's a little,
Speaker 3: sad all.
Speaker 1: Right fair. Enough there you have it all. Right we'll
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