Speaker 1: The baseball gods giveth and the baseball gods taketh away.
Speaker 1: Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This
Speaker 1: is leading off. It is me, Joey b Joe Piezapia.
Speaker 1: That of course, is the Welsh who is under the
Speaker 1: weather today, Office Officer, Officer Welsh. If you're watching on
Speaker 1: the YouTube channel, We're brought to you by bet MGM Sports,
Speaker 1: the king of sports books. And I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: you're Officer Welsh today or if you are Buddy Ray Welsh,
Speaker 1: famous blue singer. We'll find out by the end of
Speaker 1: the show. But Welsh is the original Joe, tough guy
Speaker 1: trying to tough it out. He uh, he sounds like crap,
Speaker 1: He looks like crap. But you know what, He's here
Speaker 1: anyway because he's a soldier. That's what you are.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm a soldier, I don't, Joe. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you know. I'm a big guy. I could put
Speaker 2: some in the hospital if I needed to, but except myself.
Speaker 2: I can put anybody in the hospital except myself. When
Speaker 2: I feel like this. I'm the officer of the law
Speaker 2: here for Fantasy Pros, and in no way is it
Speaker 2: because my eyes are swollen. I know my voice sounds great.
Speaker 2: Let's do this.
Speaker 1: I can only say this that if there is already
Speaker 1: an emoji of my face, there must be an emoji.
Speaker 2: But this has gotta be it, This has gotta be.
Speaker 1: Please somebody whoever's in charge of that and make this happen,
Speaker 1: because I want to use that emoji for everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty much. So, bad boys, Bad boys, what you're gonna do?
Speaker 1: Maybe when they come for you to talk about baseball,
Speaker 1: Let's start with the headlines. We'll start with the Braves
Speaker 1: activating Ronald Acunya. And it's still April, so for those
Speaker 1: of you who got a discount, congratulations, the risk paid off.
Speaker 1: April twenty eighth. He is now officially back with the team,
Speaker 1: so that's very exciting news. Taylor War continues to crush
Speaker 1: baseball as a Grand Slam yesterday, scored four runs in
Speaker 1: a win that will Trivia question that Mike mayor drop
Speaker 1: for us in a little bit about ward. We'll get
Speaker 1: back to that in the second. Jose Ramirez, it's a
Speaker 1: pair of two run bombs yesterday. Paul Blackburn, much to
Speaker 1: the dismay of Mike Maher through another good start this
Speaker 1: one against the Giants, blanks the Giants over five innings.
Speaker 1: Pablo Lopez extends his scoreless streak to eighteen to two thirds.
Speaker 1: He's having a great start to the year. John Carlton
Speaker 1: Gian Carlstanton hits a home run the day after I
Speaker 1: call him jerk. You're jerk, young Garla. I mean, come on, man,
Speaker 1: where were you two days ago? I don't know. But
Speaker 1: Mackenzie Gore strikes out ten and a victor over the
Speaker 1: Red So he continues to dominate, which I can't wait
Speaker 1: to hear Welsh's thoughts if he has any about that.
Speaker 1: Joe Ryan, my dude, whiffs nine and a fantastic outing
Speaker 1: against the Tigers, and Drew Rasmisen also fans nine over
Speaker 1: six shutout frames. Let's start with Mackenzie Gore. Your guy
Speaker 1: was a little you know, I would say Mackenzie Gore
Speaker 1: for you, Welsh was a guy that I feel like
Speaker 1: you were just putting to the side a little bit.
Speaker 1: You don't want people to get too excited, but it's
Speaker 1: hard not to get excited about the start he's had
Speaker 1: so far. So talk to me about what you've seen
Speaker 1: out of Gore. So why is he kind of exceeded
Speaker 1: your early expectations.
Speaker 2: Speaking of good frames, I should just shut up about
Speaker 2: McKenzie Gore. I can't do that right. He looked finished
Speaker 2: last year, I mean done in the Complex League. The
Speaker 2: guy has it going. His fastball's commanding at ninety six,
Speaker 2: he's spinning the ball. He's getting strikeouts at an elite clip.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give myself a ticket. I'm gonna give myself
Speaker 2: a Welsh Fantasy ticket for going in the wrong direction,
Speaker 2: speeding in the wrong direction on McKenzie Gore because he's
Speaker 2: heading in the right direction.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, if you picked up Gory, you're doing very well.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. Joe Ryan continues to be masterful.
Speaker 1: I've got one rotation that's so good. He's always on
Speaker 1: my bench every week. I can't get Joe Ryan in.
Speaker 1: I might have started him over guys like Freddy Perolta.
Speaker 1: At this point, I don't know what to do. I
Speaker 1: have to get Joe Ryan in these lineups because he's
Speaker 1: been so fantastic. Yesterday there was slander on the show
Speaker 1: against Paul Blackbird. And understand why I was talking about
Speaker 1: with Mary yesterday. I get that the caper and I
Speaker 1: in the minor leagues was a lot lower than it
Speaker 1: has been recently. Probably not gonna make thirty starts and
Speaker 1: sustain this kind of pace. But right now, if you're
Speaker 1: hurting for pitching, Blackburn has been excellent, not good, he's
Speaker 1: been excellent. I understand there's certain, you know, expectations where
Speaker 1: we know that eventually it's going to Cinderella turn into
Speaker 1: a pumpkin or whatever, like the coach does. I don't
Speaker 1: think she turned into a pumpkin anyway. All I know
Speaker 1: is it's not going to last. But while it does,
Speaker 1: Blackburn is somebody I feel like, if he's got a
Speaker 1: good matchup or he's got two starts, you throw him
Speaker 1: in there. What are your thoughts on Blackburn? Welsh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's one of those guys though that
Speaker 2: like when it goes, it's gonna go quick, and it's
Speaker 2: going to go in one start and you're not gonna
Speaker 2: want to be holding the bag. So I'm a little indifferent.
Speaker 2: Where like with Joe Ryan Wonkey in the jokingly in
Speaker 2: the chat says Joe Ryan over Brenda Woodruff, I think
Speaker 2: Joe Ryan is a must start every single week. I mean,
Speaker 2: if you're really choosing between Freddy Prauft and him. Okay,
Speaker 2: I suppose that's one thing, but he is an absolute
Speaker 2: must start for me. Where you know, Blackburn is a
Speaker 2: great piece to go and you know, run your streams
Speaker 2: and everything, but you know, Joe Ryan get in every
Speaker 2: single start.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. In terms of the DFS market too, I
Speaker 1: mean he was a little cheaper in these first couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. That's not going to be the case after
Speaker 1: this last start. There's no doubt about that. Now, going
Speaker 1: back to Gore for a second, here's a trivia question.
Speaker 1: This is the simple one. Who holds the Padres record
Speaker 1: for strikeouts in a game by a rookie pitcher? And
Speaker 1: I'll say this, it happened in twenty nineteen, so it's
Speaker 1: pretty recently. If you want to take on that one.
Speaker 1: It is not Chris Paddock, It's and Ryan Wellers. Yes, no,
Speaker 1: it is not Ryan Weathers, but peanuts and cracker Jacks.
Speaker 1: If you know the answer to this question, drop it
Speaker 1: in the chat over here. Fantasy Bros MLB again, who
Speaker 1: has the rookie record for strikeouts in a single game
Speaker 1: for the Padres. Robert Chavez has it. Look at him.
Speaker 1: He was super quick with this one Danielson. Lamet there,
Speaker 1: rookie in nineteen. That's what it says. That's from MLB
Speaker 1: dot com. They know these things. This is what they do. Now.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't call the station and find this out.
Speaker 2: This doesn't sound right to me.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm just telling it was from MLB dot com.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Now, our boy, Mike Mayer says,
Speaker 1: Taylor Ward hit a double a triple home run last
Speaker 1: night against the Guardians. It was the ninth game in
Speaker 1: Angel's history where a player fell a single short of
Speaker 1: the cycle. Who was the last player to do it?
Speaker 1: And the hint is it was in twenty eleven and
Speaker 1: twenty twelve and it was a big boy. That's our hint. Now,
Speaker 1: my guess is, I'm trying to think around that time.
Speaker 1: Would it be Kendries Morales? He was kind of updated again.
Speaker 2: By the way I looked it up, Lamet made his
Speaker 2: major debut in seventeen. So just putting that out there,
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 1: Really Maybe I got the year wrong. Maybe that's me.
Speaker 1: I will look and be sure, but it was Lamette.
Speaker 1: It was from MLB dot com. Perhaps I remember the
Speaker 1: year incorrectly. I don't know, Okay, I will.
Speaker 2: What was What was the hint on the last question?
Speaker 1: The last one was I'm sorry, you know it, says
Speaker 1: Dean Nelson lam At fourteen ks versus Brewers nine, eighteen
Speaker 1: nineteen from MLB dot com, who was the Padres record
Speaker 1: for strikeouts in a game by a rookie pitcher. Perhaps
Speaker 1: he made his debut, but you have enough innings to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, plenty of guys do that like turnover thing where
Speaker 2: it's like a couple of innings here, a couple innings there,
Speaker 2: and you can still qualify.
Speaker 1: So all right, So the mayor trivia question again, This
Speaker 1: is an Angels guy in twenty eleven and twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: a big boy who fell a single short of the cycle,
Speaker 1: who was the last player to do it. So Mayor
Speaker 1: I assume has the answer and is in the chat.
Speaker 1: Eventually he will drop that, Oh my goodness, there was
Speaker 1: a player that I tried every year to make happen,
Speaker 1: Like I look at Brandon Wood and be like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna add this guy the back of my draft every year.
Speaker 1: It's never happened. There are two different trivia questions, Mayor
Speaker 1: saying the most recent player did it last year. The
Speaker 1: one before that was the big Boy in twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: twenty twelve. Mayor, you're confusing everybody. Keep it simple. Drop
Speaker 1: the names in my slack chat, Mayor, so I can
Speaker 1: know what's going on here for the for the names
Speaker 1: on that trivia. But before we do, let's get to
Speaker 1: the next segment here. Let's talk about Joe's tough guys
Speaker 1: not named the Welsh, and let's talk about what happened yesterday.
Speaker 1: So Mets and the Cardinals got into a little bit
Speaker 1: of a scuffle. Buck show Walter after the game said,
Speaker 1: I know our player got hit in the head and
Speaker 1: just went to first base. Peter A. Lonzo, as you
Speaker 1: alluded to at the top of the show, said I'm
Speaker 1: a big guy, gonna put somebody in the hospital. I
Speaker 1: could do a lot of damage if I wanted to.
Speaker 1: You know how I feel. If you want to go
Speaker 1: hit somebody, hit Someboddy. If you don't, just you'll be
Speaker 1: quiet about it. So this goes for Aeronauto. You know
Speaker 1: done posture. If you want to get in a fight,
Speaker 1: go get in a fight. Don't pretend this is a
Speaker 1: big thing I always do here on the show. But
Speaker 1: I will say this, a lot of guys aren't getting hit.
Speaker 1: So we talk about the baseball. As Chris Bassetts mentioned them,
Speaker 1: guys are having trouble control in the baseball a little bit.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of guys getting plunked right now. What
Speaker 1: do you make of it all because it seems like
Speaker 1: a regular basis. Do you think it's just people going
Speaker 1: after guys or do you think it's a little more
Speaker 1: of the baseball and guys not having the same grip
Speaker 1: because of the lack of the spider tack and other things.
Speaker 2: I think it has to do with the baseball. That's
Speaker 2: what Bassett insinuated. The baseball seem to be a mess.
Speaker 2: There's humidor situations. I actually somehow I talked about it
Speaker 2: on the ind This League Baseball Pod where Scott white
Speaker 2: Heads brought up the point that all of the Major
Speaker 2: league parks have the humidor in and that's gonna have
Speaker 2: adverse effects in some of the parks as well, like
Speaker 2: right now, and I think that's that's helping the deadening
Speaker 2: the ball. So I think it has a lot to
Speaker 2: do with that. I think there's a lot of control issues,
Speaker 2: a lot of command issues. I don't think there's as
Speaker 2: much purposeful hitting as we might allude to here, but
Speaker 2: you know, like why would Bassett bring it up in
Speaker 2: the way he did.
Speaker 1: Or everywhere? That's the thing I don't understand, like why
Speaker 1: would you have it? I mean, I understand in certain
Speaker 1: locations why you have the humid are that we all
Speaker 1: get that, we're not stupid, But this whole like we're
Speaker 1: gonna have all the baseball is the same in a
Speaker 1: humid or situation. That seems ridiculous to me because you're
Speaker 1: talking about different weather climates all over the country at
Speaker 1: any given moment.
Speaker 2: Well, one of the interesting things, and again I want
Speaker 2: to give credit to it, because I believe it was
Speaker 2: Scott White that was alluding to it, is, you know,
Speaker 2: as we're getting deadening ball right now, think of the
Speaker 2: opposite effect that's going to happen in the summer with
Speaker 2: all the parks using a humid ore. You're gonna have,
Speaker 2: you know, parks that are already in a moisture like
Speaker 2: a you know, decent human climate. In the summer, you
Speaker 2: might have balls flying. So my theory, my conspiracy theory,
Speaker 2: is baseball is completely silent right now on the deadening
Speaker 2: the ball because they're just trying to get to summer.
Speaker 2: Because in the summer. Their expectation with the new humid
Speaker 2: or setup is the ball starts flying, offense picks up
Speaker 2: by twenty five percent, and no one cares about this
Speaker 2: deadening of the ball this first, you know, quarter of
Speaker 2: the season, and then they can just sweep it under
Speaker 2: the rug. That's my conspiracy. Or they're just really inept
Speaker 2: and dumb and they don't know what they're doing, all right.
Speaker 1: The answer to the question of the guy who fell
Speaker 1: short in twenty eleven twenty twelve, Mark Trumbo. There was
Speaker 1: a black Oh Mark.
Speaker 2: I loved Mark Trumbull. That's a good one.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't love Mark Trumbo. Wonder what Mark Trumbo is
Speaker 1: doing right now.
Speaker 2: I wonder what he is doing. I bet he's like
Speaker 2: selling insurance or NFTs.
Speaker 1: I probably, I bet Mark Trumbo did. Okay, I just
Speaker 1: got a Facebook thing that you might know on your
Speaker 1: friend's list, Matt Stairs, And I was like, I know
Speaker 1: who Matt Stairs, but I don't think Matt Stairs knows me.
Speaker 1: So I wonder what those kind of DH guys are
Speaker 1: doing with their time nowadays. Probably sitting on a pile
Speaker 1: of money by the pool, That's what I would imagine.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the stat heroes of the day.
Speaker 1: We mentioned Joe Ryan nine k's and the win over
Speaker 1: the Tigers, Zach Gallon five k's, no decision against the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: He pitched very well. Welsh six innings, no earn, Pablo
Speaker 1: Lopez continues to just dominate, Julio Urius four strikeout, six
Speaker 1: innings won earned run, and Dylan Ceese continues on no
Speaker 1: decision against the Royals. But nine k's man, Wow, Dylan
Speaker 1: Ceese has been tremendous. We're talking about mackenzie or being great.
Speaker 1: Ten k's and five innings, but Dylan Cease right now?
Speaker 1: Is he the best picture in the league? Welsh Ooh,
Speaker 1: it's a provocative.
Speaker 2: Question, but I don't know. I don't think I had
Speaker 2: thought about it in that context. Is like, is Cease
Speaker 2: the best? I mean, you still have Garrett Cole there.
Speaker 2: I still obviously, you know, the better question would it
Speaker 2: be is he the best pitcher on his team? Because
Speaker 2: you know how I feel about Giulito. Still, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think he's in the discussion. I think he's in
Speaker 2: that top three to four pitcher discussion. I don't I
Speaker 2: just don't know if like after four starts, I would
Speaker 2: qualify him as the best Ale pitcher.
Speaker 1: I think you could probably. I mean, Gosmin's pitched very
Speaker 1: well this year. I mean, look, you could say that obviously,
Speaker 1: guys like yeah, no, Walks. I mean he's been tremendous.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no and I gotta say there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people that were hesitant about Gosmin too, and
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any hesitation right now when it
Speaker 1: comes to Kevin Gosman. There's no doubt about that. He's
Speaker 1: been tremendous so far. But in the National League is
Speaker 1: where you've gotten a lot of these guys, right You've
Speaker 1: gotten Kyle Wright pop up and he's been great, has
Speaker 1: been great, Shirts has been gay where have Don's been brilliant.
Speaker 1: The American League is kind of that, that's young. Race
Speaker 1: is a little bit more wide open, which is why
Speaker 1: the Otani thing I think is fascinating. He bounced back
Speaker 1: yes or two had a much better startup for imploding.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The stat hero hitters Taylor Ward three for four with
Speaker 1: the Granny. We had Josier Ramirez with his two bombs,
Speaker 1: Max Kepler two home runs. Uh, we had Kyle Farmer
Speaker 1: four for five, with two rbi. Eric Cosmer cannot be stopped,
Speaker 1: Welsh two for two with a dinger, another dinger. Eric
Speaker 1: Osmer's on fire, Andrew disappears. I know, I know, but man,
Speaker 1: what a month it is. Uh No and Ernando three
Speaker 1: for three with three ribbies, and Xander Bogart's had a
Speaker 1: four for four night two. He's been tremendous. But let's
Speaker 1: talk about Xander Bogarts, if we may. I know, you know,
Speaker 1: Devers and Bogards, those contracts are you know, kind of
Speaker 1: looming for the Red Sox here. Do you think that
Speaker 1: either of these guys are gonna move on? You think
Speaker 1: the Red Sox are going to retain this core these
Speaker 1: two guys because it feels like they absolutely need to.
Speaker 2: I mean they need to, but I don't know how
Speaker 2: they both stay. You know, in story might have been
Speaker 2: the insurance policy to make sure that you know they do,
Speaker 2: or that that they can dump one if they need to.
Speaker 2: Plus their miners are built around to middle endfield guy,
Speaker 2: at least in Marcella Mayer and Nick York, So I
Speaker 2: don't know. There's a part of me that feels like
Speaker 2: Xander does not stay. I think Devers can stay with
Speaker 2: this team and be a lifer. I just just just
Speaker 2: deep down in my gut, I feel like Xander's the
Speaker 2: guy to go, especially with how they've built their minor
Speaker 2: league system.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I look, I'm a Devers guy, but it's it's
Speaker 1: a really tough decision. I still think Devers is the
Speaker 1: it's that like a franchise player, MVP caliber guy. And
Speaker 1: I think Bogarts is like write that notch below. So
Speaker 1: that's that's where I would have them all. So let's
Speaker 1: move on to some of the stats Zeros. From the pitchers,
Speaker 1: we had Carlos Carrasco seven earned runs, like it was
Speaker 1: abound to happen. You know, he had pitched really well.
Speaker 1: He had a bad start. Okay, let's not overreact. If
Speaker 1: he's available, go get him. Somebody dropped him or something
Speaker 1: stupid like that of Vlad Guerdieros gave up six earn
Speaker 1: zac Plisk gave up six earned in a loss to
Speaker 1: the Angels. Pinedo was not great four innings excuse me,
Speaker 1: five innings, four earned runs, and Stephen Mattz gave up
Speaker 1: four earned, but he did have six strikeouts against the Mets.
Speaker 1: Of the noticition. The hitters here we go again, oh
Speaker 1: for five three k's rehe Hoskins the for animal, Oh
Speaker 1: for four three k s Salparez over four three ks
Speaker 1: Barcelos oh now over five two k's. Glabor Torus over
Speaker 1: four two k's. Glabor Torus is batting two twelve with
Speaker 1: one home run through seventeen games. Are you dropping glaber
Speaker 1: Tourus right now?
Speaker 2: I would, I would gladly drop him. If you have
Speaker 2: any other viable option out there, you do it. There's
Speaker 2: no reason to hold on to him.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Actually, we had a fun thing here. Our friend
Speaker 1: Eric Cross had a fun little hold and fold kind
Speaker 1: of thing. Glaber Torres is one of his folds. Here
Speaker 1: were the other ones. I want to see if you
Speaker 1: agree with this. Dylan Carlson, Adam Duval, Trent Grisham, along
Speaker 1: with Laber tours Those are the guys who was getting
Speaker 1: rid of. Do you agree with those guys or somebody
Speaker 1: you'd rather hold on to here in this group.
Speaker 2: I might be a little stubborn with Trent Grisham, but
Speaker 2: I think you could cut them all need be. In ten,
Speaker 2: ten and twelve man leagues, you could probably cut all
Speaker 2: of them. But Grisham might be a little.
Speaker 1: Weird about Do you think that this is the time
Speaker 1: to pick up Gorman with the way Carlson struggled.
Speaker 2: Yes, didn't I say this as I did last Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've been saying I've been saying this like someone asked,
Speaker 2: you know, hey, is Brendan Donovan gonna keep Gorman down?
Speaker 1: No, he's not.
Speaker 2: I had pulled a stat God, let me see what
Speaker 2: the glasses see if I can even read it. But
Speaker 2: I had pulled a stat on Rodo Wires batted Baldad
Speaker 2: and the miners, and I sorted it by twenty two
Speaker 2: year olds with a hard hit over thirty and they
Speaker 2: were like eight guys, nine guys that showed up. Only
Speaker 2: one player at twenty two years or younger was in
Speaker 2: Triple A with a three hundred batting average and over
Speaker 2: forty hard hit forty hard hit and had like a
Speaker 2: seven hundred slugging It was Gorman. Gorman's the only one.
Speaker 2: He's at the youngest level, at the higher the youngest age,
Speaker 2: the highest level with hard hit, hitting over three hundred.
Speaker 2: Little bit of wrikout issue. Pick up Nolan Gorman.
Speaker 1: All right, before we get to some of the other
Speaker 1: guys that Cross was holding. I saw the pants and
Speaker 1: Crackerjacks talking about this, but I wanted to verify it,
Speaker 1: not that you know, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Be writing a ticket here, Joe for speeding and tearing
Speaker 2: your ACL that's to Mondacy. And then I'm writing a
Speaker 2: ticket to you for drafting aliberto mondsee at all in
Speaker 2: your fantasy drafts. That's a ticket to me, that's a ticket,
Speaker 2: and that's.
Speaker 1: As appearance is. I will fight those court appearances. And
Speaker 1: this is Welsh's commitment to a bit because if you're
Speaker 1: watching on the YouTube channel, you know post it notes
Speaker 1: are expensive like those He just wasted three on a.
Speaker 2: Bit twenty five cents that I just killed.
Speaker 1: But Alec Lewis it looks like confirms here Royals President
Speaker 1: of Baseball Operations Dayton Morse at Alberto mound As an
Speaker 1: acl tair and his left knee. So he is now
Speaker 1: gone for the rest of the sea. And so for
Speaker 1: those of you who went back into this, well, uh,
Speaker 1: it was a dangerous one. You had to know that
Speaker 1: you knew the risk you were getting into. So now
Speaker 1: you've got to make adjustments. So when it comes to
Speaker 1: those adjustments, Welsh, when you're looking for guys out there
Speaker 1: right now let's let's look at the waiver wire for
Speaker 1: reefielders because we have to. I mean, let's just skip
Speaker 1: right to that. I'm gonna bring it up on Fantasy pros. Hey,
Speaker 1: I saw replace.
Speaker 2: Nicky Lopez would be available out there. I just want
Speaker 2: to say, Nicki Lopez, you know, not a great viable option,
Speaker 2: but they're going to need to be more aggressive on
Speaker 2: the base paths. That might be a guy if you're
Speaker 2: trying to make up those stolen bases, if you're looking.
Speaker 1: At well, look, you're not going to make up modesty
Speaker 1: stolen bases like that. That's just not going to happen.
Speaker 1: But looking around here at some names again, you know
Speaker 1: the roster percentage, I can look somewhere else for that.
Speaker 1: But you know guys like Jonathan VR floating out there
Speaker 1: on the waiver wire, that's another guy. Maybe you get
Speaker 1: some stolen bases out of him. That's kind of the
Speaker 1: route I would go. I agree that it's tough out there.
Speaker 1: You know, Joey Wendel type guys might be out there.
Speaker 1: Made Amed Rosario, somebody dropped him because he was hitting
Speaker 1: two twenty two and they weren't happy about that.
Speaker 2: Here's one look for Josh Rojas. He might be cut
Speaker 2: due to the I yell. I mean people might have
Speaker 2: stashed him. But if he's not, Roasso be coming back
Speaker 2: very very soon. I would pick up Josh to replace Montesy.
Speaker 1: That's another good one here. All right, Let's go back
Speaker 1: to Eric Cross's a hold and fold. He had holds
Speaker 1: on the following players. I want to see if you agree,
Speaker 1: Dansby Swanson, Josh Donaldson, Jared Kelnick, and Julio Rodriguez. Would
Speaker 1: you hold all four of those guys?
Speaker 2: You did not need to hold Kelnick. I love it, Eric,
Speaker 2: I know what you're doing here. You do not need
Speaker 2: to hold Jared Kelnick. Not in redraft now, No, not
Speaker 2: in redraft whatsoever. You easily cut him. You should have
Speaker 2: cut him probably two weeks ago, to be honest.
Speaker 1: All right, fair enough, let's do today in baseball history,
Speaker 1: because that's always a good time. That'll brighten up those
Speaker 1: Monthesea owner spirits here today. In the twenty eighth of
Speaker 1: April and nineteen ninety eight, Texas Rangers right fielder Juan
Speaker 1: Gonzalez smashes two home runs in the club seven to
Speaker 1: two win over Minnesota. The round tripper give Gonzales thirty
Speaker 1: five Ribbies in the month of April, which set an
Speaker 1: all time major league record. Wan Gonzalaz I remember watching
Speaker 1: in a Double A All Star Game as a kid
Speaker 1: when ESPN used to care about baseball, and I remember
Speaker 1: they used to show that out there, and I would
Speaker 1: I was such a dork. I would be watching the
Speaker 1: Double A All Star Game and go, who is this
Speaker 1: monstrous guy? And I remember hitting the home run, going
Speaker 1: that dude looks amazing, and then he was up I
Speaker 1: think the next year and uh Wan gonzalas thirty five Ribbies.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was an absolute monster. First he was.
Speaker 2: He was an absolute dude.
Speaker 1: All right. I feel I feel like we've you know,
Speaker 1: it's funny. The baseball gods giveth and taketh away. They
Speaker 1: take away Montcy, will get Acoonya back. You know this
Speaker 1: is this is maybe.
Speaker 2: Alright, so he gets a trade I'll make with the gods.
Speaker 1: I think we'll all make that trade. But you know, look,
Speaker 1: you had to you had to know the risk you're
Speaker 1: getting into. And I guess for me, there wasn't enough
Speaker 1: of a discountant drafts. I have zero shares, but he
Speaker 1: was not my kind of player anyway. Did you have
Speaker 1: any shares.
Speaker 2: It was unluck. I had one in a keeper league.
Speaker 2: That doesn't matter. But I actually thought there was enough
Speaker 2: of a discount. But I never jumped into it because
Speaker 2: I can get my stolen bases earlier on.
Speaker 1: From more reliable straw everywhere. I have a lot of them.
Speaker 2: I have way more miles straw. Yeah, actually, to be honest,
Speaker 2: but also you know, I think I had acunia higher
Speaker 2: than most other people, and I'm gonna be able to
Speaker 2: jump right back into that. So yeah, I just didn't
Speaker 2: have the shares.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't. Honestly, I'm a little surprised how quick
Speaker 1: ACTI is back, to be honest with you. Like I
Speaker 1: thought we would get maybe first week or two of May.
Speaker 1: I thought that was realistic, But it's the twenty eighth
Speaker 1: of April. That's pretty stunning.
Speaker 2: I want to give a shout out to j Full
Speaker 2: because it's so funny. I think he had just said
Speaker 2: great batting stance unless it moved forward Dallas, it was
Speaker 2: that Brian. I'm sorry, Brian had said great batting stance
Speaker 2: from Wan Gonzalez. That was something that always stood out
Speaker 2: to me about Wan Gonzalez.
Speaker 1: He had that he had that really high elbow. Yeah there.
Speaker 1: And I also remember that error card. Do you remember
Speaker 1: where they reversed the negative of the picture and his
Speaker 1: number was backwards? Do you remember that non risk card? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm almost positive there was a Wan Gonzales error and
Speaker 1: I want to say it was like a reverse negative thing,
Speaker 1: so like you notice his number was backwards and he
Speaker 1: was hitting right handed or something nonsense like I don't know,
Speaker 1: something like that. If anybody knows, yeah, gotcha, But it
Speaker 1: was it was a donres I want to say ninety two.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't remember exactly what it. All
Speaker 1: I know is that Wan Gonzalez was an absolute beast. Also,
Speaker 1: there's a beast at the top of the home run board.
Speaker 1: We got to talk about that beast. Is the Niking
Speaker 1: still there? It was like day four and the leaderboard
Speaker 1: still at eight JP but seven b mac brad Cox
Speaker 1: up and at him and high Cubby twenty sixteen at
Speaker 1: six I still can't buy a home run. So yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's.
Speaker 2: Did I get any love for my Will Smith home
Speaker 2: run call? When I was on the show Monday?
Speaker 1: Nailed that, Yes, yes you did. We actually did give you.
Speaker 1: What is mayor there? What does Mayor have Mayor's got two.
Speaker 1: I think I have one, Bogman has one, and you
Speaker 1: have two. I believe it too. So there you have
Speaker 1: it there Now. Tonight is because of the NFL Draft.
Speaker 1: There is there's no DFS to be played but this afternoon,
Speaker 1: and there's a couple of games in the evening. There
Speaker 1: are some things we're talking about when it comes to
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Speaker 1: going with the over on the strikeout Actually, yeah, the
Speaker 1: over on the strikeout total. You know people sometimes like
Speaker 1: the under and all this stuff. No, No, it's at
Speaker 1: six and a half, which sounds high on FanDuel. This
Speaker 1: guy's been tremendous striking out guys, this is when I'm
Speaker 1: going against the grain and I'm going on the over,
Speaker 1: even though the under is what the projection is. So
Speaker 1: this is a little wacky today, but this is where
Speaker 1: I'm at. I have that much confidence in Kyle Wright
Speaker 1: right now. Matt Olsen one and a half total bases,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go the over on that, and Jose Ramirez
Speaker 1: one and a half total base is gonna go over
Speaker 1: today facing the lefty debt burst. Anything pop out to
Speaker 1: you on one of these you like or dislike from
Speaker 1: vettingpros dot com from our prop bet geep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Actually, it was interesting you said that about Kyle
Speaker 2: Wright two that I like and I would parlay them
Speaker 2: together because I mean, you don't have to. Obviously that's
Speaker 2: not the smartest play, but for juice reasons. Number one,
Speaker 2: I really like the Tyler Molly over one and a
Speaker 2: half runs. He's given up more than two in three
Speaker 2: of his four starts. It's the Reds and they're going
Speaker 2: up against the Padres, so I absolutely love that one.
Speaker 2: It's minus one fifty four. And then I also like
Speaker 2: total bases on Aaron Judge over one and a half,
Speaker 2: which pays plus money, and I'll probably talk about him
Speaker 2: here shortly.
Speaker 1: J Full giving us a cheat code today. Yahoo has
Speaker 1: dfs also, and I guess Wonky mentioned earlier, so it's
Speaker 1: Wonky and j Foll. Everybody's getting involved today. It's a
Speaker 1: group effort at the Penisa Cracker Jacks Cootie is just
Speaker 1: seven dollars, so I guess that's extremely cheap there, And
Speaker 1: Brian Davina says, yes, Don Russ for sure he remembers,
Speaker 1: the North remembers Yeah. So there you have it. But
Speaker 1: it's obviously you know, everyone's gonna be fantage to the
Speaker 1: football tonight. But we're gonna have some baseball and we're
Speaker 1: gonna have some home run calls. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: plant the flag today, Welsh, I'm gonna plant it with
Speaker 1: Fran who I know when over with three k's. I'm
Speaker 1: going to unleash the f Animal. I Joe Pi Zapia,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna break out the f Animal. He's going against
Speaker 1: the lefty tonight. We all know how he hits his
Speaker 1: murder's left hand of pitching. So tonight the f Animal
Speaker 1: gets off the Shine, the Schneid or the Shine or
Speaker 1: either one of them. He gets off the Ruys shider.
Speaker 1: He gets off something and then he goes yard. I'd
Speaker 1: love more than one, but I will take just one
Speaker 1: from franmill Rays because if I go into May, which
Speaker 1: is one home run? I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just I don't even want to think about that. Welsh,
Speaker 1: who are you going with your home run call for tonight?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: I got I'm doing this. I'm doing this really quick.
Speaker 1: It is that what I'm getting.
Speaker 2: The post its out here. I'm spending money here.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a Staples run in Welsh's future later, Yeah.
Speaker 2: It will be all right. This is my right hand.
Speaker 2: This is my left hand. Pick which home run call?
Speaker 2: This is the one?
Speaker 1: Now you're doing the matrix on me?
Speaker 2: I know, take red pillar, blue pill. I had this one,
Speaker 2: but this one's been calling me? Which one? Let the first?
Speaker 2: Peanut and C.
Speaker 1: I want the one that's been calling you.
Speaker 2: I want the one you want the one that's calling me?
Speaker 1: All right, the sexy one.
Speaker 2: I was going to pick Aaron Judge And I wrote
Speaker 2: this really fast, so it looks bad. But Joe, do
Speaker 2: you know who's calling me?
Speaker 1: My voice?
Speaker 2: Who's Byron Buckston Tonight Byron Buckston.
Speaker 1: Goodness that's it, Bra and there you go. There you go.
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Speaker 1: to be a premium member of Fantasy Pros. So we
Speaker 1: encouraged you that anyway, because you're a fantasy luntic. That's
Speaker 1: why you're watching and listening to these shows anyway. So Welsh,
Speaker 1: you have now gone up to I believe the bill
Speaker 1: is a dollar twenty five and post it notes. We're
Speaker 1: now well I have well, guess what, guess what.
Speaker 2: I gotta go back because, as everyone's pointed out, Buckston
Speaker 2: is not in the lineup today, so we'll go back
Speaker 2: to Judge.
Speaker 1: Very judge, so the whole bit. So you've now wasted
Speaker 1: many a post it notes.
Speaker 2: I wasted a lot of post it notes today, and
Speaker 2: I apologize to everybody, Like I said, Welsh is barely
Speaker 2: alive right now, I'm barely alive, trying to game it.
Speaker 2: Try not to leave anybody hanging here.
Speaker 1: I feel any idea of how much cold Medicine Welsh
Speaker 1: is on currently, because it's a lot.
Speaker 2: I tried to take it before. It didn't work. So
Speaker 2: anybody's super annoyed with me today, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I'm with you well. I know when I was in
Speaker 1: are On, I'm visiting you a few weeks ago, I
Speaker 1: saw the lot of dispensaries out there. Maybe that's the
Speaker 1: Maybe the drive through might be something to hit up.
Speaker 1: Maybe that'll I if it would help, I would take it.
Speaker 2: I'm literally wearing these because my eyes are a disaster
Speaker 2: right now, and my voice again. I I have very
Speaker 2: good respect for broadcasting and stuff. This is wild, but
Speaker 2: I couldn't leave Joe hanging on a big draft day,
Speaker 2: and I could leave you guys hanging.
Speaker 1: So hike a good point. Watch Buckston pinch hit and.
Speaker 2: His I get that since I'm so sick and I
Speaker 2: made the show, I should get that as a subtext.
Speaker 2: I get Judge with a pinch hit Buxton today.
Speaker 1: I you know what I will because you're such a
Speaker 1: Welshi's hardo today. Because you're such a Joe tough guy,
Speaker 1: I will allow it. I will allow it. Damn the torpedoes.
Speaker 1: If Buxton gets up and pinch hits for some reason
Speaker 1: today and goes yard, I'm gonna let you have that
Speaker 1: one because you're such a tough guy today, showed up
Speaker 1: on the show when you were sick and helping us
Speaker 1: out here. So in the meantime, I'm post it notes.
Speaker 1: Go yeah, go get to Staples, find some more post
Speaker 1: it note replacements where your wife gets mad, You and
Speaker 1: the rest of you enjoy the rest of your baseball day,
Speaker 1: but back again tomorrow. Hopefully Welsh will be feeling better.
Speaker 1: If not, who knows what aufit he'll be wearing tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I can only wear, you can only dream, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: That'll do it for us, But the story of the
Speaker 1: game goes on for the Welsh. I'm Joey p. We'll
Speaker 1: see you next time, kids,