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Speaker 1: It's me, Joey p that's the Welsh, It's you, the Peanuts,
Speaker 1: the Cracker Jacks who make this show run. Hi, everyone,
Speaker 1: Welcome Welsh. Another day, another Yankee pitching performance to lead
Speaker 1: the show off with, Uh, here we go that guy
Speaker 1: who tweeted us yesterday about you know, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: listen tomorrow because Joe's gonna talk about Garrett Colin. I'm
Speaker 1: a Yankee fan. Well, I don't think he's listening today.
Speaker 2: Either I wish I wasn't listening or here.
Speaker 3: I'm on something Like everything I say right now is
Speaker 3: just poop down the drain.
Speaker 2: It is like it is crazy.
Speaker 3: Obviously we're gonna talk about Luise Heal. I was appointment
Speaker 3: watching yesterday. I put on the game and I'm like
Speaker 3: all right, I was pumping myself up.
Speaker 2: I'm like this, well you got this? Who got this?
Speaker 2: Like I was pitching for Louis Heel.
Speaker 3: I just needed Louis heel to have the good game,
Speaker 3: so we couldn't start the show like this, and then
Speaker 3: I had the worst betting day I probably had in forever.
Speaker 3: I'm actually thinking of after the show going to get
Speaker 3: some sage and we might do a saging session.
Speaker 1: The Demon. That's how That's what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 1: I want to talk. I want to know more about Andrew.
Speaker 1: Here in the chat, I took joe piece of Pizza's
Speaker 1: advice and I shipp call out before you return. Thanks
Speaker 1: Joey p You're the best. Oh, you're there, the best.
Speaker 1: Andrew can't wait for the reaper out and he says, Andrew,
Speaker 1: I'm just curious. Please in the chat, tell us what
Speaker 1: you got for Cole. I'm curious what those deals look
Speaker 1: like in reality, not in fantasy or in.
Speaker 2: Got Eric Fetti. Aren't you proud of me?
Speaker 1: That's the thing, Like, let's see who he got? Uh?
Speaker 1: And yes, Mike was there on I love when everybody
Speaker 1: discovers pizza pizza haha, Like I never heard that my
Speaker 1: entire likely the first person there's there's Lucas going thinks
Speaker 1: it is like the greatest thing ever, right, did you
Speaker 1: think that? Like when I was seven years old. I
Speaker 1: wasn't hearing this in elementary school.
Speaker 2: Come on, come onl And.
Speaker 1: Then Little Caesars disappeared for a long time. They kind
Speaker 1: of like fell off the map. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they won like chapter eleven. Then they made a big
Speaker 1: comeback in the last like twenty years. And now it's
Speaker 1: back around again.
Speaker 3: But yesterday on the or actually it's gonna be today
Speaker 3: on the In this leek Fantasy Baseball podcast, we had
Speaker 3: Justin Mason on and we redrafted the first four rounds
Speaker 3: if it were starting today. The question is, do you
Speaker 3: think Garrett Cole made those four rounds?
Speaker 2: Now, you're damn right he did. You are damn right
Speaker 2: he did.
Speaker 1: And guess what, you a Mason doing it? The cock
Speaker 1: eyed optimists of fantasy baseball.
Speaker 4: Not me.
Speaker 1: I'm the hard and realist. Okay, here we go. I'm
Speaker 1: not even gonna look. I'm just gonna bring it right
Speaker 1: up here. He got Volpi, I'm sorry Cole, Brian Dela
Speaker 1: Cruz and Anthony Volpi for Duran Yamamoto who ended up
Speaker 1: getting hurt, which isn't great, and C. J. Abrams so theory.
Speaker 1: When this deal went down, Yamamoto was still healthy Yamamoto,
Speaker 1: Duran and Abrams is a pretty good haul for col
Speaker 1: and Volpee. I think I think it's a pretty.
Speaker 3: Good Yeah, yeah, it's good. A lot of this the theory,
Speaker 3: the theory was great. Abrams is what the hell was that?
Speaker 1: What? What is that? What's happening? What's happening? I don't know.
Speaker 3: Weld On asking about Garrett Cole, Ai, it's coming where
Speaker 3: what Skynett?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Where did that?
Speaker 1: This has happened before on the show or weird stuff?
Speaker 1: I have no idea where that's coming from.
Speaker 2: Say what do you think about Garrett Cole? Siri?
Speaker 1: What? Siri? What do you think about Garrett Cole? I
Speaker 1: don't have an iPhone? Well I do, it's my camera.
Speaker 1: But what that was weird?
Speaker 2: Did you say you don't have this?
Speaker 1: Be it? Did I? Did I push a button? This
Speaker 1: isn't on this I don't know. I don't know where
Speaker 1: that came from. I don't know how that came from.
Speaker 1: It must be the iPhone. It must have heard me
Speaker 1: say something and started to click in And that's never
Speaker 1: happened on a show, and I do five thousand shows
Speaker 1: a day. That is weird.
Speaker 2: Well, AI initiative, it's the that's coming in.
Speaker 1: Here an initiative and it's taking over the show.
Speaker 2: As Goose listen that that trade, that trade was was fine, AI.
Speaker 2: I think agree.
Speaker 3: AI needed to be heard and that happened. But let's
Speaker 3: talk about Louis Heal though for a minute. Are you
Speaker 3: ready to do that? Because that I got goosebumps. I'm
Speaker 3: a little scared to keep doing the show.
Speaker 2: I don't know the thing.
Speaker 3: The things in my ten years by the way of
Speaker 3: like doing podcasting and stuff that have happened inside of
Speaker 3: studios like.
Speaker 2: Giant moth like the Mothman attacked.
Speaker 3: Me one time, and having like robot series takeover like
Speaker 3: that was super weird. I want to hear what it said.
Speaker 3: We'll have to listen back. Don't listen to it backwards
Speaker 3: because it might be like, no, I'm coming. It sounded crazy.
Speaker 3: Uh right, So the game Louis Heal, Louis Heal was
Speaker 3: not on his best stuff. First inning, it was no strikes.
Speaker 3: One thing I noticed right off the bat. Literally it
Speaker 3: was just nothing but balls. He had an under thirty
Speaker 3: percent under thirty zone percentage on his pitches, twenty percent
Speaker 3: on his secondaries, thirty percent on his fastball.
Speaker 2: So it was garbage.
Speaker 3: Second inning was clean. Third inning he gave up the homer,
Speaker 3: and then it just kind of kept tallying from there.
Speaker 3: His in total ended up having His fastball was down
Speaker 3: a little bit. He had six total whiffs in the game,
Speaker 3: a sixteen percent whiff rate based on thirty seven in
Speaker 3: a row swings he had. He did improve the zone percentage,
Speaker 3: But like hand up, this is just I'm was wrong
Speaker 3: right now because I was such a defender of Luis Heel.
Speaker 2: He does look gassed. He didn't have.
Speaker 3: His stuff, And the only thing I've wanted to know
Speaker 3: was what level will they go? They're going to do
Speaker 3: the stupid throw them into the bullpen, and or they
Speaker 3: just gonna like let him have a blow, like Joe
Speaker 3: would say, and just have a rest and then get
Speaker 3: back into the rotation. That's what I'm hopeful for, and
Speaker 3: that can save mine. Louis Heel takes. But listen, it
Speaker 3: wasn't good. He didn't look great. It wasn't his best stuff.
Speaker 3: And I bet my ass on the Yankees yesterday that
Speaker 3: they were not gonna have the Mets take another one.
Speaker 1: The Mets own the Yankees. What the universe is this?
Speaker 1: But I love it? Fun fact. You like fun fact,
Speaker 1: you like numbers. Welsh Louis Heel has given up eighteen
Speaker 1: earned runs his first eighty innings. Over his last five
Speaker 1: and two thirds, he's given up twelve. That's stunning. And look,
Speaker 1: we all knew regression was gonna happen anyway. He wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna have a sub to el right the whole season
Speaker 1: like that stuff wasn't gonna happen. But it is. This
Speaker 1: is not rocket science. This is Oh, how are baseball players,
Speaker 1: and specifically pitchers trained, now? Oh, it's it's an incremental
Speaker 1: innings increase over a certain amount of time. And he
Speaker 1: has hit this. The wall was staring us in the
Speaker 1: face for weeks now, and it was very hard to
Speaker 1: move off of it because he was so good and
Speaker 1: he looked so fantastic, and it felt so good to
Speaker 1: be so right for those people who drafted him. And
Speaker 1: I told you that story in my keeper league. I
Speaker 1: said a month ago to the guy, I said, look,
Speaker 1: he's gonna hit a wall in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: I'm offering you three legitimate pitchers here for the guy
Speaker 1: who's a buck, and I want to rebuild in this league.
Speaker 1: And he was like, now, I just want to see
Speaker 1: it out here with he and I was like, all
Speaker 1: right now after this second. I didn't offer him after
Speaker 1: last week, but after this one, I might go back
Speaker 1: and try one more time and say, are you sure now?
Speaker 1: Can you hear me? Now?
Speaker 3: I do think that like seeing it out still isn't
Speaker 3: like the worst play, But again, it's like anything else
Speaker 3: we're talking about, the Garrett Cole stuff. If you're like
Speaker 3: Eric Fetti, like no thanks, I'd to hold that out,
Speaker 3: no thank you if you're.
Speaker 2: Getting at that time, Yo Yamamoto and C. J.
Speaker 1: Abrams like okay against C Jabas for heel rest of season,
Speaker 1: I'm taking C. J Abrams Well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I had hit her, but I would I
Speaker 3: would probably still rather probably sit this out and see
Speaker 3: what happens with it.
Speaker 2: If they can manage.
Speaker 3: I mean, yes, his innings are up, and that is
Speaker 3: an obvious thing that's been our face, but I will
Speaker 3: just still point you out when you look, it is
Speaker 3: still an elite batting average against even on this short term.
Speaker 3: His expected era is right in line with the three
Speaker 3: era regression happens. I've been calling this for imon Aga
Speaker 3: for you know, weeks and weeks and then Bam just
Speaker 3: getting blasted and his era is starting to come back out.
Speaker 3: It doesn't mean they're going to be done done. But
Speaker 3: you know what, I'm an idiot, so don't listen to
Speaker 3: me right now.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 3: I cannot properly function with the Yankees. I've tried to
Speaker 3: prop them up, but everything I say is wrong.
Speaker 2: On the Yankees.
Speaker 1: Brett Anderson nailed it.
Speaker 3: I warned you, oh, oh my god, if we could
Speaker 3: get your phone to just randomly go Joe, I warned that.
Speaker 1: Way, that would welch what is happening.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It did not come from my phone. It had to
Speaker 1: have come from the camera phone. But what did it
Speaker 1: pick up that I said for the first.
Speaker 2: Sometimes headphone, you know, like headphones like you can do, like.
Speaker 1: The crappy old ones that are plug right in my
Speaker 1: computer that I even into the It's very weird.
Speaker 2: I don't know that's gonna happen to you.
Speaker 1: It was very weird. I'm a little I'm looking like
Speaker 1: you said, the terminator could be here anymoment, shook, I say.
Speaker 1: He gets sent down to the Triple A through the
Speaker 1: month of July, and he's a two or three inning pitcher.
Speaker 1: That's what I think he's gonna be because I don't
Speaker 1: think you want him in the bullpen. I don't think
Speaker 1: you want him up and down a million times. That's
Speaker 1: asking for injury. I think you want him every fifth day.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna do that weird Max Meyer thing.
Speaker 1: And you know the Yankees are on tenuous ground right now.
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge, luckily, he's still good to run Homer for
Speaker 1: him number thirty show Hiltan. If you just keep picking
Speaker 1: Otani and Judge every day, you had to be doing
Speaker 1: well on the wole run contest. Otani went yard again.
Speaker 1: He's at twenty five. Gavin Stone in that game, a
Speaker 1: complete game, shutout, my god, talking about saving the bacon
Speaker 1: of a rotation seven k's against I know is a
Speaker 1: White Sox. I don't care. He's been great. He's got
Speaker 1: two seven three era A one point one to two whips,
Speaker 1: seventy strikeouts, twenty five walks, and eighty nine innings. He
Speaker 1: is not a big time striking out picture, but this
Speaker 1: dude is a real picture on a very good team.
Speaker 1: And Gavin Stone deserves a lot more credit than he's
Speaker 1: getting in fantasy circles right now.
Speaker 2: Well, saving Stone, did it a Stone? What was that song?
Speaker 2: I just completely yeah your rotation alone to be Yeah, Gab.
Speaker 5: Sessions paytionally our way for my dude, Gaving Stone.
Speaker 2: Oh wait for you there alone.
Speaker 3: This is where AI needs to come in. It'll be
Speaker 3: like now, please stop, Gavin Stone.
Speaker 2: No that you actually did.
Speaker 1: A very good enough I love you people. I love you,
Speaker 1: know Peters and Cracker Jacks give me crap. I love
Speaker 1: you guys. I love every single one of you. This
Speaker 1: is the best time we have, the best time. I
Speaker 1: love this. You're the best.
Speaker 3: Gavin Stone. This is a wild one. He had his
Speaker 3: fifty six swings on pitches swings. Now, obviously the whiff
Speaker 3: rate was low. It was only eighteen percent on that
Speaker 3: bad Boy singer slider change up as he does. It
Speaker 3: was a pretty even distribution on the secondaries versus the singer.
Speaker 3: But here's my question for you. Would you rather have
Speaker 3: rest of season Gavin Stone or Luis Heel Gavin Stone under.
Speaker 2: The same inning pitched issues. If you're going to play.
Speaker 1: That way, what's Gavin Stone's high watermark and triple A?
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's go find I want to combine here.
Speaker 1: See the problem with Heel is that the problem with
Speaker 1: Hell was that it was what twenty nineteen where he
Speaker 1: got to that ninety inning mark or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: That's a long time ago. I mean, that is a
Speaker 1: very long time ago, and he's had other issues. He's
Speaker 1: had other injuries in the past. Two Stone am looking
Speaker 1: at the innings cumulative total. The high watermark was twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, one twenty one. I'll take my chances with
Speaker 1: Gavin Stone pushing to one hundred and fifty. I will
Speaker 1: take my chances with.
Speaker 2: That and victims victory.
Speaker 1: We've heard Victor's feelings because we're having fun. Bro, this guy,
Speaker 1: these guys joke or this guy's joke more than talking MLB.
Speaker 1: Victor check spell check spell check, first of all, Victor,
Speaker 1: and second of all, Yeah, we can have fun and
Speaker 1: talk baseball at the same time. Like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: You can't walk into gom like.
Speaker 2: It's been known people. What people want us to do
Speaker 2: is come on, just cater to.
Speaker 1: Their specific question, ex. Philosophy every five seconds.
Speaker 3: Perhaps I will say this, Gavin Stone is phenomenal this
Speaker 3: year two to seven, but he is already at ninety
Speaker 3: innings pitched, So you know you're you're closing it now
Speaker 3: Heel has reached kind of his marker where Stone hasn't
Speaker 3: quite you'd probably push Stone to one fifty.
Speaker 2: But I just think it's interesting because.
Speaker 1: I think you can easily push them to one fifty
Speaker 1: and you.
Speaker 3: Also know that they're gonna do a six man rotation,
Speaker 3: and that kind of gives you a better feel for
Speaker 3: like him not being pushed to a bullpen or being completely.
Speaker 1: Gavin Stone, I think is almost greater right now. That's
Speaker 1: exactly in Peril. Bobby Miller certainly in Peril. Walker Bueller
Speaker 1: is on the iol. He's terrible, and Yamamoto is hurt.
Speaker 1: I mean, Gavin Stone has you know, you're a card guy,
Speaker 1: you're a poker guy, Welsh. That's a lot of outs left, Like,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of turns in the cars left where
Speaker 1: you're like, Gavin Stone can still get you a straight
Speaker 1: flush here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just on the flop right now where Luis
Speaker 3: Heel unfortunately is turning on the river. So that's where
Speaker 3: they get like a tiny bit difficult. But the thing
Speaker 3: and I know, like everybody is easily going to just
Speaker 3: sit in here and most of them in the chat
Speaker 3: are just oh, Grevin Stone and Gavin Stone. I'm not
Speaker 3: saying it's not Gavin Stone, but you also got to
Speaker 3: look at the strikeout upside for Luis Heel, which has
Speaker 3: been absolutely elite of elite this season. Yeah, Gavin Stone's
Speaker 3: under twenty percent. He's not an elite strikeout guy. I
Speaker 3: mean he had fifty six wings on pitches last night
Speaker 3: and ten of them induced with so like that's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: They both had powerful offenses, but the Dodgers maybe created
Speaker 3: a little bit more wiggle room and there's a little
Speaker 3: bit more floor for innings for Gavin Stone.
Speaker 1: Good day for the Orioles. Grace Rodriguez two runs, seven
Speaker 1: innings and Gunnar Henderson three for four with a homer.
Speaker 1: Cleaned up on the betting side with Gunner Henderson on
Speaker 1: the total base on the RBI prop boom smashed yesterday.
Speaker 1: I think it was four and oh yesterday or three
Speaker 1: and one yesterday smashed it though. So we're gonna get
Speaker 1: back to work today. A fun game between the Mariners
Speaker 1: and the Rays to Pepio eight strikeouts, George Kirby seven strikeouts,
Speaker 1: And that's the thing. You know, when you have the
Speaker 1: pitching depth of the Mariners, you know Castillo has a
Speaker 1: bad start. Next day, who is it? George Kirby steps up.
Speaker 1: And that's why I think the Mariners are gonna be
Speaker 1: a playoff team no matter what happens. Just get some
Speaker 1: more offense. Here's some fun stuff. Bryan Reynolds extends his
Speaker 1: hitting streak to twenty three consecutive games. Matthew libtour six
Speaker 1: shutout innings, eight strikeouts for him. So while she came
Speaker 1: in here from the bullpen to make little starry start,
Speaker 1: do you think with all these old farts in that
Speaker 1: cardinal rotation, maybe they should let him make another one?
Speaker 2: Should they let him make another one? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean potentially. Do I think he's going to be
Speaker 3: like super successful this year?
Speaker 2: I used to be a big big.
Speaker 3: Back in high school. I actually watch him pitch in
Speaker 3: high school out here in Arizona. He was a local
Speaker 3: kid I forgot against. Yeah, Nolan Gorman.
Speaker 2: He just has never had the stuff. What I'm doing here.
Speaker 3: I'm also patting for time to see where some of
Speaker 3: the changes have gone. This is interesting and this is
Speaker 3: something we have see. It's a little bit different like
Speaker 3: Hunter Green, you know, was like heavy fastball, needed to
Speaker 3: get secondaries and a big success story we saw was
Speaker 3: when he turned around and started throwing his slider more
Speaker 3: than his fastball. That hasn't ever really been necessarily the
Speaker 3: case on Matthew Libertor. But what he is doing like
Speaker 3: is in that he needed to, you know, offset his fastball,
Speaker 3: but he is throwing his slider the most now.
Speaker 2: So the pitch mixed change.
Speaker 3: I want to make sure I articulated that was he's
Speaker 3: essentially dumping the curveball, which a thirty three percent with
Speaker 3: rate last year and a pretty good batting average against
Speaker 3: to go slider one forty five percent with rate on
Speaker 3: his slider this year he throws at twenty eight percent
Speaker 3: of the time. Fastball is your setup pitch, which is
Speaker 3: throwing for strikes. He's got that sinker in year of
Speaker 3: the same I did. I thought this is the year
Speaker 3: of the splitter. It might be the year of the sinker,
Speaker 3: which he is throwing that about the same. And then
Speaker 3: he's added a cutter in this season, which is just
Speaker 3: another fastball establishment pitch. At the end of the day,
Speaker 3: he's kind of a two pitch pitcher. It's a version
Speaker 3: of a fastball and a slider. The slider has been
Speaker 3: so good, you know what as I'm looking at this
Speaker 3: because I had not really broken him down. Maybe you
Speaker 3: know his expected era is sub four. That's not bad
Speaker 3: barrel rate against and hard hit. It's it's manageable. It
Speaker 3: had screams like fifth starter type of stuff. I actually
Speaker 3: might be down. I might be down for Matthew Libatur.
Speaker 3: I think he does get some other opportunities. It might
Speaker 3: be down to even stream him against the right team,
Speaker 3: you know, like the Marlins or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Brian by the way, is pushing your buttons because
Speaker 1: he wants me to sing Gavin Stone and me and
Speaker 1: like Counting Crows voice, Oh gav me, They're gonna be
Speaker 1: big stars. Yeah, I love it, he says, Yeah, broke
Speaker 1: and change up. I love it. Uh No on Gorman
Speaker 1: by the way, also fun over three two more shrikeouts
Speaker 1: for him.
Speaker 2: Just best friend with liberator by the way, the best
Speaker 2: friend's best friend?
Speaker 1: Is it time to replace Nolan Gorman? If you're the
Speaker 1: Cardinals real quick?
Speaker 2: They can. I don't think they will, but they like,
Speaker 2: where do they go?
Speaker 1: Where do they go? Oh?
Speaker 3: Well, Tommy Edmund just got rehurt. Brendan Donovan can play
Speaker 3: second base. They could move Mason Win there they've got
Speaker 3: Thomas de Gasey and the miners speaking of a prospecting
Speaker 3: with the Welsh.
Speaker 2: That would be a guy I could take that. I
Speaker 2: don't think.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's get to some prospector with the Welsh
Speaker 1: here real quick, rookie, lookye stuff, Spencer Aghtty ten strikeouts?
Speaker 1: What happened there? How that happen? Here? We go get
Speaker 1: try again. John Kenzie Noel got called up. Hit a
Speaker 1: home run. Remember he had an eleven hundred oh ps
Speaker 1: at Columbus two fifty nine seventy eight slash eighteen bombs.
Speaker 1: Brett Batty speaking of Bomb's sixth home run in fifteen
Speaker 1: games for Triple A. Shane Bos another strong start for
Speaker 1: him at Triple A, working his way back two runs
Speaker 1: and six hits over five innings. Tyler Black was on
Speaker 1: the bench again. Spencer Torkelsen three to four. Black with
Speaker 1: two home runs in Triple A. And that's not the
Speaker 1: only good news your boy. Parker Meadows two eighty five,
Speaker 1: three seventy eight five nineteen slashes his demotion. So look
Speaker 1: for those Detroit Tigers to start coming up again soon.
Speaker 1: And they're not the only guys who are going to
Speaker 1: make some impact pretty soon. Here when it comes to
Speaker 1: some of the youth of Major League Baseball, because it's
Speaker 1: time for a prospect and with the Welsh, he's got
Speaker 1: a pickaxe and he's been down on that farm mine
Speaker 1: in prospects for your pleasure, Welsh, who do you like
Speaker 1: this week that you want to talk about that people
Speaker 1: need to put on their radars from the prospect pool?
Speaker 3: All right, I got a theme for this week's prospect
Speaker 3: with the Welsh because I am going to talk about
Speaker 3: players obviously that we have, we kind of know, and
Speaker 3: we've heard about. Because the idea of this is the
Speaker 3: impact players in the near future, and not all prospects
Speaker 3: just because they come up aren't necessarily impact. But here
Speaker 3: is the theme. These are Welsh guarantees. I'm going to
Speaker 3: put a guarantee next to each one of these guys.
Speaker 3: So let's kick it off with an obvious name, hashtag
Speaker 3: free James Wood. Always we're always hashtagging free James Wood
Speaker 3: because we need to get him back up by the majors.
Speaker 3: But he's been hurt, or get him to the majors.
Speaker 3: He's been hurt, but he is now back. In five
Speaker 3: games since returning from his injury. He's hitting three thirteen,
Speaker 3: so this is the month of June essentially got a
Speaker 3: homer and has two multi hit games.
Speaker 2: Because you're asking.
Speaker 3: Yourselves, Welsh, when will we see James Wood? Will we
Speaker 3: see James Wood? They also brought up Dylan Cruz. Is
Speaker 3: there anything that's holding him back? There's so much coverage
Speaker 3: of him because this is I think to some degrees,
Speaker 3: James Wood has taken over this junior Cameron Aro spot
Speaker 3: like I think he is more anticipated for James Wood.
Speaker 2: And I would remind everybody.
Speaker 3: In my previous segments before why we're re talking about
Speaker 3: him as he's back, is that Eddie Rosario is still
Speaker 3: hitting under two hundred. Why does that matter as much?
Speaker 3: The Nationals are three and a half games out of
Speaker 3: the wild card right now, crazy, they're.
Speaker 1: Quite a bit in their pleasion, and they're getting Ysia
Speaker 1: grayback soon too, and now they're addition to that.
Speaker 2: Rotation Josiah Gray.
Speaker 3: They're starting to get that, you know, that health back,
Speaker 3: and what would help is getting Eddie Rosario putting on
Speaker 3: the bench and bringing up a guy like James Wood,
Speaker 3: which I've mentioned he has.
Speaker 2: A great strikeout rate that is lower.
Speaker 3: That's been one of his biggest issues. He runs, he
Speaker 3: hits hard, and he has no split issues. Righty lefties
Speaker 3: are no problem with some of the swing changes that
Speaker 3: he's made. So all of that to be said, here's
Speaker 3: my guarantee. I guarantee James Wood will be up post
Speaker 3: All Star break, so much so I think there's a
Speaker 3: there's a chance that we get the announcement during the
Speaker 3: All Star weekend that James Wood will start with the team.
Speaker 3: So by the break of the All Star Break when
Speaker 3: once we return, James Wood will be up in the majors.
Speaker 3: That's a Welsh guarantee. Guarantees are not necessarily guarantees, and
Speaker 3: please don't hold him to it, and he might be wrong.
Speaker 2: All right, that was your.
Speaker 3: Disclaimer Number two, Orioles Kobe Mayo Again, I know you
Speaker 3: guys know these players, but Kobe Mayo was out. He
Speaker 3: has been back eleven games in June. Are you ready
Speaker 3: for this, Joe? He is hitting four sixty two in
Speaker 3: the month of June since he has returned from injury,
Speaker 3: which is ridiculous. He has three homers in those eleven games.
Speaker 3: Four of his last six games have been multi hit
Speaker 3: with Kobe Mayo.
Speaker 2: Now, they have so many.
Speaker 3: Great players, we know, I mean Heston Kershtott. I would
Speaker 3: have talked about probably about Heston Kurstatt. I have talked
Speaker 3: about David Festive. He guess what. We've talked about them
Speaker 3: and they're up. But Dad fest a twin. But I'm
Speaker 3: just talking about overall great prospects. But the Orioles have
Speaker 3: so many great players in general and offensively, it's tough.
Speaker 3: So here's my Kobe Mayo guarantee.
Speaker 1: Are you ready?
Speaker 2: I'm ready.
Speaker 3: Kobe Mayo will not be traded. There is no circumstance
Speaker 3: where he will be traded from this team. No way, HOZI,
Speaker 3: It's not happening. Kobe Mayo will be an Oriole no
Speaker 3: matter what they do. We talked about this player, Davison
Speaker 3: de los Santos with Arizona Diamondbacks, who is.
Speaker 1: On the same roster. I'm very excited to hear this.
Speaker 2: Well, he's a monster.
Speaker 3: Just me and Tim Kannakaman calling him the destroyer of
Speaker 3: worlds at this point because he has been over two levels.
Speaker 3: He's hitting three forty eight on the season, double A
Speaker 3: and triple A, twenty three homers in June alone. It's
Speaker 3: all been in Reno PCL numbers. Get a little bit inflated.
Speaker 2: He's hitting three.
Speaker 3: Twenty nine with eight home runs this month, and by
Speaker 3: the way, he dropped two more last night. Johineo Swarez,
Speaker 3: as I've mentioned, he's hitting under two hundred on the
Speaker 3: year and in the month of June. Take a guess
Speaker 3: at what Johineo swar is. I think he might have
Speaker 3: just hit like a bomb the other day. What do
Speaker 3: you think Johinos wars is hitting so far in.
Speaker 1: June under two hundred. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Buck eighty one thirty four, one thirty four.
Speaker 3: So how much longer the Diamondbacks want to do that,
Speaker 3: I don't know. So I think Davison Dela Santos will
Speaker 3: be up by next week.
Speaker 2: But the Welsh.
Speaker 3: Guarantee Davison Dela Santos will be on the Diamondbacks roster
Speaker 3: post All Star Game. That is an absolute guarantee. If
Speaker 3: not sooner, two more, we got pitching ones. We're going
Speaker 3: back to the Orioles, Chase McDermott. They already brought Kid
Speaker 3: Povich up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: McDermott is the number one pitching prospect as far as
Speaker 3: what we think can help us in a redraft this year.
Speaker 3: Now that David Festa as we're recording. This is going today,
Speaker 3: three seven nine ERA on the year, leads Triple A
Speaker 3: in strikeouts, has the third highest swinging strike rate in
Speaker 3: Triple A at fourteen point one, and the best K
Speaker 3: percentage minus walk percentage, which is a great number to
Speaker 3: pay attention to it nineteen point four. He's had eight
Speaker 3: strikeouts in his last three starts, eight strikeouts in three
Speaker 3: of his last four starts. There's no reinforcements coming for
Speaker 3: the Orioles with all these injuries. So McDermott is like
Speaker 3: the next guy up if Suarez struggles or COVID struggles.
Speaker 2: But here's my guarantee. Are you ready for this?
Speaker 3: Joe Chase McDermott does get traded, he will be traded
Speaker 3: at the deadline because I fully believe that this team
Speaker 3: is going to make a move and this will be
Speaker 3: the guy at the forefront with probably a curse DoD
Speaker 3: And then finally I got an offbeat track one for you.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 3: We're going to Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Chad Patrick, who
Speaker 3: used to be in Arizona Diamondbacker's kind of a throwaway
Speaker 3: trade player to the Brewers.
Speaker 2: He's twenty five years old in Triple A two seven
Speaker 2: six ERA.
Speaker 3: Over his last twelve starts with the Brewers, he's got
Speaker 3: a twenty four percent k percentage, which is top ten
Speaker 3: in Triple A, the fourth highest swinging strike percentage in
Speaker 3: Triple A, and over his last four starts, he's not
Speaker 3: given up more than four hits in a start and
Speaker 3: has six or more k's in three or four starts.
Speaker 3: I guarantee Chad Patrick is going to be in the
Speaker 3: Brewer's rotation by August. Those are my guarantees. Guarantee is made,
Speaker 3: but a little I don't know if it'll work out.
Speaker 3: That's my disclaimer. I guarantees are not actual guarantees.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, No, Well apply, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: So that's prospecting with the Welsh for this week on
Speaker 3: the impact prospects that you should be paying attention to.
Speaker 1: All right, let's pay attention a little three up and
Speaker 1: three down real quick. Dylan Cease, great start for him,
Speaker 1: nine K, seven innings, Francisco Alvars three for three with
Speaker 1: a bomb. Jared County three for five with a homer,
Speaker 1: three ribies too and a steal three down, Ryan Nelson
Speaker 1: six runs and three and two third, William Contras zero
Speaker 1: for five. His ops is now under eight hundred. He
Speaker 1: has been stone cold. Remember when he was at the
Speaker 1: top of that. He was like in number four five
Speaker 1: spole for MVP. Yeah, that did not last. Dallas Kickeel
Speaker 1: Welsh right on time, gave up five runs and four innings.
Speaker 1: There you go, Brewers, you need more than Dallas Kickeel.
Speaker 1: All right, let's fly through these injuries and get to
Speaker 1: the bets here. Joey Ortiz came out next issue. Lots
Speaker 1: of neck issues this year. JP Frantz season ending surgery
Speaker 1: on his right shoulder. Heimer Candelaria was out again yesterday
Speaker 1: with a hamstring tendonitis issue. Brian Bayo his next start
Speaker 1: is gonna be pushed back a little bit, so we'll
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that. Glaber Torres was complaining about
Speaker 1: growing tightness. We talked about that the other day. He
Speaker 1: was out of the lineup yesterday. Liam Hendricks a bunch
Speaker 1: of got a bunch of red Sox stuff here. Liam Hendricks,
Speaker 1: uh sort of fastballs from the mound, So that was good.
Speaker 1: Tristan costUS, remember Tristan Cossus. I almost forgot about him.
Speaker 1: We haven't talked about Justin Gossas in so long. He's
Speaker 1: working way back from rib cartilage injury. He swung a
Speaker 1: bat in a cage, no issues. That's great.
Speaker 2: The first pitch from the call her daddy, al something Cooper.
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Do you have you ever heard that? All call her daddy? No, okay,
Speaker 2: you check it out. It seems like could be your stuff.
Speaker 2: I google that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's gonna.
Speaker 2: Alice, say Alice Cooper. But it's not Alice Cooper.
Speaker 1: What is else?
Speaker 2: Cooper's like seventy six whatever her name is?
Speaker 1: You know his website? Call your daddy? What? What the
Speaker 1: hell is happening here?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: The reason I'm saying though, by the way, is Tristan
Speaker 3: Cossas looked absolutely starstruck by her, like he looked.
Speaker 2: In love at the mess.
Speaker 3: You gotta see the video of her throwing it. He's
Speaker 3: the one that catches it, and he looks Alex Cooper.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Someone put that not Alice, but he looks starstruck, and
Speaker 3: I just I was laughing watching Tristan Cossa's doing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: By the way, Tristan coss her good friend of mine.
Speaker 1: Alex Cooper, Alex, Alex Cooper, you were close al Alice Cooper.
Speaker 2: Yeah, similar to birds on Parade.
Speaker 1: I don't I think I've seen her. I've seen like
Speaker 1: clips and stuff like that of her.
Speaker 3: But you gotta do the video search when you can
Speaker 3: get a chance, because yeah, it's like a comedy podcast.
Speaker 1: All right, so I will I will take a look
Speaker 1: at that. But he was just like, he's like Spencer Turnbull. Unfortunately, Uh,
Speaker 1: we can't have nice things. Came in, make the start,
Speaker 1: and then he left with shoulder soreness.
Speaker 2: I mean he's not he's not nice things, but I
Speaker 2: get your point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he was like, okay, guy of the Hey,
Speaker 1: maybe some spot starts for a good team the Phillies
Speaker 1: and no, not so much. Redebt Mers, redeat Mers start
Speaker 1: out ten guys. But he gave a five runs Tuesday
Speaker 1: triple a start d L Hall. Maybe the Brewers are
Speaker 1: waiting for him two and two thirds scorels innings. We'll see.
Speaker 1: Maybe you could pick him up. And Anthony Rendon says
Speaker 1: he's close to returning from the torn left hamsiing, but
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to go in a rehab assignment. He's
Speaker 1: too good for that. He doesn't want to do that. Oh,
Speaker 1: Anthony Rendon, you're so much fun. It's Thursday and we're
Speaker 1: coming off a hot Wednesday. It's time for.
Speaker 2: More best bets of Joe's Day with Joey p and the.
Speaker 1: Welsh go over to Bet three six five, bet five bucks.
Speaker 1: He had one hundred and fifty bonus bets when he
Speaker 1: used the promo code leading off. Remember gambling problem called
Speaker 1: one hundred gambler or one hundred bets off in Iowa.
Speaker 1: Terms and conditions apply. I want to stay hot here,
Speaker 1: I want to stay hot. I'm gonna go with this.
Speaker 1: Is in the afternoon, Chris Sale over seven and a
Speaker 1: half strikeouts against the White Sox again minus one fifteen
Speaker 1: on this juice. I still like it. White Sox, They're bad.
Speaker 1: Austin Riley has been really hot lately. I want to
Speaker 1: go to him too. In this same game, over one
Speaker 1: and a half total basis for him plus one oh
Speaker 1: five and over zero point five RBI at plus one thirty.
Speaker 1: That's what it opened at. H It's been fluctuating because
Speaker 1: it was still TVD. More on Austin Riley later in
Speaker 1: the show, but again the last fifteen games, the guy's
Speaker 1: been red hot. Finally healthy. Austin Riley great to see
Speaker 1: him back locked and loaded. And then let's go back
Speaker 1: to Baltimore again, because they were so nice to me yesterday.
Speaker 1: Cormyn Burns on the mound, give me Baltimore on the
Speaker 1: run line minus one and a half at plus one
Speaker 1: oh four against the Texas Rangers. That offense continues to struggle.
Speaker 1: Sime in another zero for yesterday. So those are my
Speaker 1: best bets of the day for Thursday, Welsh, what do
Speaker 1: you got?
Speaker 3: I am switching it up because I had a bad
Speaker 3: one yesterday, a real bad day. And and also I
Speaker 3: was like, let's dive in, and I dove in a
Speaker 3: little too far into the deep end. So we're going
Speaker 3: back into the kiddie pool, the shallow, just to the ankles.
Speaker 3: And what that means is props where I'm not touching
Speaker 3: a game line.
Speaker 2: Unless you look at.
Speaker 3: My betting pros dot Com slash well, you might see
Speaker 3: a game line or two, but here I will not
Speaker 3: talk about them. It is all props for me today.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna start with a couple of strikeout props.
Speaker 3: Chotto Emanaga will be back. We are gonna jump back
Speaker 3: into the Emanaga after that horrifically bad start. Is a
Speaker 3: better pitcher friendly environment.
Speaker 2: Probably.
Speaker 3: I mean, it might be better to go for a
Speaker 3: win with the Emaanaga because I think the home runs
Speaker 3: can be held. But Giants kind of a middling team
Speaker 3: as far as strikeouts go. Emanaga has had six or
Speaker 3: more and like two of the last three outside of
Speaker 3: that big blow up, so I like him to bounce
Speaker 3: back on the strikeout front. Five and a half over.
Speaker 3: Then we're going to your Orioles where you just talked
Speaker 3: about Corbyn Burns. We're gonna take the Corbyn Burns five
Speaker 3: and a half over. This is another one of those
Speaker 3: situations where six is on the books. Match up very
Speaker 3: doable here and Corbyn Burns five and a half. Now,
Speaker 3: I'm going to go into the total base market a
Speaker 3: little self deprecating actually, like quite a few players in
Speaker 3: this Arizona Diamondback Twins game.
Speaker 2: But give me royce Lewis. Now, I'm going to give
Speaker 2: you some stats here.
Speaker 3: When Royce Lewis total bases one and a half over
Speaker 3: is plus money at plus one ten. Now, he doesn't
Speaker 3: have a hit in his last three games, but Royce
Speaker 3: Lewis is hitting four hundred in day games so far
Speaker 3: this year, which I love that you know what. Yeah, no,
Speaker 3: I think it's four hundred there, and against lefties. I
Speaker 3: know that for a fact. He's hitting four hundred against
Speaker 3: lefties so far this year and is a good destroyer
Speaker 3: in day games. We get both of those against Jordan Montgomery,
Speaker 3: who stinks he's got over five era.
Speaker 2: He destroys lefties. So give me the total base.
Speaker 3: Over and then just one of the little I'm going
Speaker 3: a little hits parlay. I haven't done one of those
Speaker 3: in a while. Austin Riley was actually in my original
Speaker 3: version of the hits parlay. So for better or for
Speaker 3: worse that might be terrifying to you. I'm going Urban
Speaker 3: Carroll and one Soto to each record one hit, kind
Speaker 3: of picking on David fest a little bit plus plus
Speaker 3: one o four just one hit for Corbyn Carroll and
Speaker 3: one hit for one one so too, and that is
Speaker 3: plus one oh four.
Speaker 2: For those two. If you add Austin Riley, you can
Speaker 2: get around two to one if you would like. But
Speaker 2: I like to go with two. Those are my bets.
Speaker 3: Only props were resetting the table and we're getting back
Speaker 3: in the green.
Speaker 1: There you go, get back in the green in the black. Yeah,
Speaker 1: both of those things, well, you know black means good green.
Speaker 2: I think green makes more sense.
Speaker 1: An orange is the new black, or as he used
Speaker 1: to be. I don't know what color it is now,
Speaker 1: but those, my friends, are the best bets of the
Speaker 1: day for Thursday with Joey p and the Welsh. Make
Speaker 1: sure you go ahead and subscribe to the Betting Pros
Speaker 1: YouTube channel and download the bag Pros app s. Think
Speaker 1: your sportsbooks for free. Start betting smarter, not harder. All right, Welsh,
Speaker 1: yesterday I took your Gunner Henderson away from you? Did
Speaker 1: that kind of make you feel bad? Like you got
Speaker 1: a home run with Gunner Henderson? Like, yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do the same thing. Did that kind of rub you
Speaker 1: the wrong way?
Speaker 2: I was like, come on, kind of belittled your.
Speaker 1: Home run for the day before. I'm still hanging on
Speaker 1: by a thread though in this contest, So Welsh, I'm
Speaker 1: going with Austin Riley today. I'm just sticking with the
Speaker 1: theme where are you going for your home run? Call
Speaker 1: for today?
Speaker 3: Give me Kad Tell Marte we're gonna go with k
Speaker 3: I probably should go with Royce Lewis to pick on Jordan.
Speaker 1: Martine's had a great season. By the way, another season.
Speaker 1: I don't think we talked about enough this year.
Speaker 3: And I'll all start at second base. You know something
Speaker 3: I can throw to you guys as well. Joe and
Speaker 3: I are going to be doing a Fantasy All Star
Speaker 3: Team that we're gonna be putting out. We have exact
Speaker 3: details of all of it, but Fantasy All Star Team.
Speaker 3: Each of our teams will be doing right around the
Speaker 3: break and Ka tell Marte has got to be on there.
Speaker 3: He's the NL starting second baseman in the All Star
Speaker 3: Game and he has been.
Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome, indeed awesome sauce. Yeah, awesome sauce. All Right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna head out so you can watch your day baseball,
Speaker 1: but we'll be back again tomorrow to do it all
Speaker 1: again for the Welsh. I'm Joey P. We'll see you
Speaker 1: next time. Kids. Have a great Thursday. Peace.
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