Speaker 1: Welcome in, everybody to Fantasy Pros m LB. Welcome home
Speaker 1: everybody to leading off. It is me, Joey p Joe
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Speaker 1: a little baseball today. We're gonna go through a few things,
Speaker 1: some news and notes, some stuff to get you hyped
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Speaker 1: So Welsh, let's get to some baseball here before we
Speaker 1: get too far ahead of ourselves. Let's start with the headlines.
Speaker 1: Tristan McKenzie probably the biggest headline out for two months
Speaker 1: with shoulder surgery. Hunter Gaddis going to be moving into
Speaker 1: the rotation. The Guardians also extending Andrisamenez, one of our
Speaker 1: favorite guys, to a long term contract. So good on
Speaker 1: Andres he got paid, But bad with the rotation here
Speaker 1: for the Cleveland Guardians because Christa McKenzie. You know, it's
Speaker 1: somebody that a few of our guests this offseason warned
Speaker 1: about that Tristan McKenzie, you know, with the frame and
Speaker 1: some of the issues there might be the guy to
Speaker 1: kind of fade in drafts. Well, here we are. Season
Speaker 1: hasn't started and he's already gonna be gone for the
Speaker 1: first two months. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I have not that like I you know, prophetic like
Speaker 2: oh he's gonna get hur or anything like that. Tristan
Speaker 2: McKenzie just wasn't a guy for me, and really no shares.
Speaker 2: I don't think I have a single share in anything
Speaker 2: I've done all season. In the eight weeks is going
Speaker 2: to take it down. Hunter Gaddis is really interesting. I
Speaker 2: actually saw him pitch like two a week ago or
Speaker 2: so with spring training was inning and everyone's just going
Speaker 2: to love him. He's this big mountain man with this
Speaker 2: huge hair in the beard. Last season in the minor leagues,
Speaker 2: he had a four ERA, one hundred and fifty eight strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Gets a little flat. He got a little flat in
Speaker 2: the game I watch he gave up a I think
Speaker 2: it was a second at bat home run to MJ.
Speaker 2: Melndez and then a two run shot to Edward Olivirus.
Speaker 2: Also watch out for Tanner Biby Bebe however we say it,
Speaker 2: he might be a guy if Hunter Goddt struggles that
Speaker 2: gets a little bit of run because McKenzie's going to
Speaker 2: miss like eight weeks and not going to be in
Speaker 2: my rotation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a big loss there for Cleveland. And obviously,
Speaker 1: if you know you think Cleveland's going to win that division,
Speaker 1: you know that have to start push some of these
Speaker 1: younger kids too, So keep an eye. I know he's
Speaker 1: working his way back. Is Spanio is a guy that
Speaker 1: I think, you know, has a lot of upside, a
Speaker 1: lot of talent depending on when he comes back there.
Speaker 1: And yeah, you know, for the for those of you
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Speaker 2: I'm also dying here too, uh nesic coo. I love
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Speaker 1: some more news and notes here. Freddie Parolta fans five
Speaker 1: and the victory of the Rockies. So for those of us,
Speaker 1: including me that keeper shares of Freddy Peralta, I was
Speaker 1: ignoring some of the noise and listening to Freddy Parolta
Speaker 1: saying he feels great, everything's good, everything's fine. So far
Speaker 1: looks really good. That is going to be an important
Speaker 1: piece for that Brewer's rotation. Are Bubbola Chris Bobick lands
Speaker 1: a spot in the Royals rotation. Let's like to see
Speaker 1: Bubbola getting some love here. Also some interesting news from
Speaker 1: Boston here Welsh Ramel Tapia earns the opening day roster spot,
Speaker 1: Jared Durand getting sent down. So what does this mean
Speaker 1: for him here prospect wise, because this was a player,
Speaker 1: a lot of hype, a lot of people spent a
Speaker 1: lot of money on last year in the fab budget world,
Speaker 1: and it really didn't didn't happen for him.
Speaker 2: It's definitely not the end or anything like that. But
Speaker 2: he's borderlining in that territory of we might just need
Speaker 2: a new destination, like how Raimel Tapia beating him on
Speaker 2: that roster, especially that roster with the Red Sox you're
Speaker 2: putting out right now. This one, in my mind would
Speaker 2: have been you just let him go, You let him
Speaker 2: do this season, Let's not play the pretend game. I
Speaker 2: wonder if this is going to be a prelude to
Speaker 2: them maybe finding a new destination somewhere in the n
Speaker 2: L or something like that. I think he might need
Speaker 2: to refine his swing, just might need to have an
Speaker 2: entire overhaul. It's not good. Jared Kelnick is kind of
Speaker 2: like back on the uptick and Jared Durant is just
Speaker 2: falling further and.
Speaker 1: For Kellennick a much higher rated prospect. Though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Duran had a push, Man Duran, Jared Duran.
Speaker 1: Durand definitely had a push. But I'll agree Durana had
Speaker 1: a push. Kelnic had a pedigree. Can we agree on that?
Speaker 1: Of course?
Speaker 2: Of course, it's as Jared Duran did did make that big,
Speaker 2: big push, but he also pointing out, I wanted to
Speaker 2: look this up, did hit three thirty three in spring,
Speaker 2: four hundred over four hundred ops, but he only got
Speaker 2: eighteen at bats the whole spring, So I also think
Speaker 2: that's kind of not fair, like if they're not going
Speaker 2: to make the commitment. And I will say this, it
Speaker 2: also makes me think that their mind is set with
Speaker 2: what Jared durana. If they give him eighteen spring at
Speaker 2: bats and then they let Raml Tapia take the job,
Speaker 2: I think they might have their mindset regardless of what
Speaker 2: duran does. So you can only hope for a new destination,
Speaker 2: new home.
Speaker 1: Some fun things here. This is Brooks. I don't remember
Speaker 1: Brooks from last year. Brooks as Bad Buddy perm for
Speaker 1: the Welsh I'm here for that. Also get fiveeen.
Speaker 2: I always hear that bad Bunny.
Speaker 1: He's only the biggest selling artist in the history of
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Speaker 1: I've heard.
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Speaker 2: Wait wait, the highest selling musician in the world did
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so him and Logan Paul both very good. Also
Speaker 1: mister Buster who's back here, says if we get fifteen
Speaker 1: k after the first month, Joe gets hair plugs. I'm
Speaker 1: in for that. That's fine. I mean he with hair
Speaker 1: last year. Those was some pretty fun good I appreciate.
Speaker 2: It, everybody. If we got let's get something realistic. If
Speaker 2: we got to well, okay, maybe it is fifteen. Say
Speaker 2: if we got to a number that you agreed upon,
Speaker 2: could we get like a wig for a month like
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Speaker 2: the budget.
Speaker 1: I'll do it. I'll in my own pocket, I'll do
Speaker 1: it the people.
Speaker 2: Or can we get like thirteen?
Speaker 1: I think fifteen. I want to set our goals a
Speaker 1: little hot.
Speaker 2: That's all right, all right, so fifteen by the end
Speaker 2: of April, and Joe is going to get a full
Speaker 2: on Can I pick the wig?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that's fine. Please. That's Reee Hoskins underwent his
Speaker 1: surgery on Thursday. You know, Welsh, We've touched on this
Speaker 1: here a little bit, but this is another huge blow.
Speaker 1: A lot of people who you know drafted Reee Hoskins
Speaker 1: and even people had late drafts. I mean, this was
Speaker 1: really a kick in the groin here at the end
Speaker 1: of the day where you felt good, especially because first
Speaker 1: base was so bad. You got Hoskins at decent value.
Speaker 1: He was having a terrific spring. Now he's going to
Speaker 1: be gone for the entire season. We have Price Harper
Speaker 1: missing at least the first few months of the season here.
Speaker 1: So what do you make of this Phillies lineup going in?
Speaker 1: I know they still have Trey Turner and Cassie Anison Scharber.
Speaker 1: But how much of a blow is this and how
Speaker 1: much of a blow is it also to the first
Speaker 1: base position overall in fantasy, because as we sit here,
Speaker 1: it is tough. I mean, where are you going here
Speaker 1: for corner help? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I'm going for you know, a guy
Speaker 2: like Rowdy Teles Hosely Miranda. Those are places where I'm
Speaker 2: going for help. This team is interesting. I actually think
Speaker 2: like my process for the Phillies is like there might
Speaker 2: be some bumps and bruises in that first half, but
Speaker 2: I think they're also going to have a crazy second half.
Speaker 2: I said, think they're going to make a move. I
Speaker 2: do some shows sometime. I just did one over at
Speaker 2: CBS the Frank Stample and Frank is a big Derek
Speaker 2: Hall believer. I'm not so much the lefty split thing.
Speaker 2: It might work in his benefit I just don't know
Speaker 2: how much to score. I still think this team might
Speaker 2: go out and try to get somebody they didn't. I
Speaker 2: don't think they actively went after Luke Void, who signed
Speaker 2: a contract. Juli Gariel didn't come back out. But I
Speaker 2: wonder if they're going to go and make a move
Speaker 2: because they're aggressive. Look at how aggressive this team is
Speaker 2: right now, and it's like Schwarber, Castianos is great, Trey
Speaker 2: Turner I think is an MVP candidate. These are all
Speaker 2: solid things. But you don't want to let your foot
Speaker 2: off the gas. And will it be enough for Derek
Speaker 2: Hall or I've kind of thought maybe Alec Bohm moves
Speaker 2: over to first a little bit?
Speaker 1: John, what about j Cave too four eight one eight,
Speaker 1: one fifty eight That the spring has been pretty good,
Speaker 1: Cave was getting a lot of buzz, and last year
Speaker 1: you didn't really perform all that well as Cave another
Speaker 1: guy people in those only leagues or deeper league should
Speaker 1: be looking at and lonely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and probably not anything else, but in no onely
Speaker 2: in my mind.
Speaker 1: All right, fair enough, continuing on over the headlines here,
Speaker 1: Tony Goslin targeting a late April return, So we'll see
Speaker 1: that Joan Aviedo h Fans seven and got a rotation
Speaker 1: spot with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He qualifies an RP and
Speaker 1: SP Welsh. I know it's the Pirates. I know they're
Speaker 1: gonna be terrible, But if you need some pitching help
Speaker 1: or some depth, or you have somebody who's you know,
Speaker 1: starting a week or two late, Like let's say you
Speaker 1: have Tony Gonsol and I'm putting these two things together,
Speaker 1: can it get a couple of starts out of him
Speaker 1: that are decent and to see somebody that will be
Speaker 1: one of these first guys off the waiver wire, So
Speaker 1: go grab him now before the start.
Speaker 2: You could, But my retort would be he's a pirate,
Speaker 2: So that would be where I keep retorts to yourself.
Speaker 1: By the way, I don't want to year much strikeouts.
Speaker 2: But he had like a one to four whip not
Speaker 2: a good era in spring, a treat that he made
Speaker 2: the rotation, but like how many great options? I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess they picked him over JD. Brubaker JT. Brubaker,
Speaker 2: which is really solid. But I'm not a huge, huge believer.
Speaker 2: But I'm also a little bit weird with this team,
Speaker 2: like everyone loved Luis Ortiz the Prospect not too long ago,
Speaker 2: and he got sent down for this. Like, I'm just
Speaker 2: not interested in any Pirates rotation player ever. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe Mitchell it's cool, cool, Mitch Keller changed some stuff,
Speaker 2: but it's like how much run supports there. Wins are
Speaker 2: not going to come at a premium. He could get
Speaker 2: you a couple, but like, I'm not going to be
Speaker 2: running to the wire even if he's really good, because
Speaker 2: I just think there are guys that are going to
Speaker 2: be popping up. This is going to be a turnstyle,
Speaker 2: like the Pirates are just like trying to find live
Speaker 2: bodies to put into the rotation and Oviado is no,
Speaker 2: but he's a smart So you know, for you guys
Speaker 2: that are utilizing starting pitchers in your relief spot, why not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean rpspligibility too, looking for two star
Speaker 1: weeks those least being a mandatory RP spoff. Just saying
Speaker 1: relief pitchers. A lot of committees this year, a lot
Speaker 1: of I mean a lot of people try to figure
Speaker 1: out what it is. I would be proactive. I would
Speaker 1: add it speaking of guys getting paid and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: because I see here in Heller's in there Otani talking
Speaker 1: about the six hundred and fifty million dollar contract, things
Speaker 1: like that. I just saw a thing recently just came around.
Speaker 1: The highest paid players in MLB in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: when you add their salary and you add in their
Speaker 1: endorsement deals, Choe Atani is the highest at seventy million dollars.
Speaker 1: Max Suers are a second, Verlanders third, then Judge Trout,
Speaker 1: Anthony Rendon at six, if you want to chuckle, Garrett
Speaker 1: Cole seven, Corey Seeger eight. Carlos Korea is at nine
Speaker 1: with thirty seven million total between the two. At number ten,
Speaker 1: Steven Strasburg still, so did.
Speaker 2: You see the advertising deal money too? That? It was
Speaker 2: like Judge and Trout were getting like five four and
Speaker 2: five million dollars in advertising deals this year and Atani's
Speaker 2: got thirty five million dollars in advertising deals. He is
Speaker 2: just far. He is like him. I mean, why wouldn't
Speaker 2: he combine the top five other guys and he's making
Speaker 2: more than that.
Speaker 1: And if he goes to a New York team or
Speaker 1: a Los Angeles team, I mean, I mean it was
Speaker 1: a Los Angeles team, I should say, a real Los
Speaker 1: Angeles team ha ha. That's right. I said it. Angels fans,
Speaker 1: they won the Spring. Did you see that? MLB put
Speaker 1: a little thing. Congratulations Angels, champions of the Spring with
Speaker 1: the best record. Talk about cring.
Speaker 2: I mean that's fine. By the way, do you love
Speaker 2: the hill? You love the doctor? Glenn jumped in. He's like,
Speaker 2: here goes the talk.
Speaker 1: And by the way, just you know, speaking of Autani talk,
Speaker 1: I've got money on him for MVP, but I would
Speaker 1: also recommend money for him on cy Young because if
Speaker 1: he doesn't get traded to the National League, you're getting
Speaker 1: eleven to one on betting pros dot com. You can
Speaker 1: find it on timers. I think that's wide open in
Speaker 1: the al this year.
Speaker 2: Way to bury someone's bold prediction coming up here soon, Joe.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm maybe that's just a tease, because well and
Speaker 1: I are doing. Hey man, I made the sheet yesterday.
Speaker 1: How many show sheets I've done for all the shows
Speaker 1: in the last twenty four hours? Anyway, Uh, some other
Speaker 1: news and notes, we'll get you real quick. Sergio Romo
Speaker 1: retired Monday after his last outing in San Francisco. The
Speaker 1: crowd was cheering for him, and the stupid umpire called
Speaker 1: a ball because he didn't get to that point. And
Speaker 1: I am all four of the rules changes. I am
Speaker 1: so pro rules changes. I love the pitch clock. I
Speaker 1: love the big basis. I want the bases to be
Speaker 1: as big as I don't know, it's Daniel Vogel back,
Speaker 1: that's how big I want the basis.
Speaker 2: Want Joe wants to inject players with steroids as they
Speaker 2: walk out. He wants there to be swimming pool sized bases.
Speaker 1: He wants, oh yeah, people jump into the pool. I
Speaker 1: think it's great, but but they've got to make an
Speaker 1: exception when a guy is in his last moments there
Speaker 1: and he's tipping his hat to the crowd. It was
Speaker 1: two moments this week of stupid umpiring, and the other
Speaker 1: one was the real Muto thing, which was Man, did
Speaker 1: you watch Did you see the tweet I sent you
Speaker 1: about that? Yeah? I was incredible. Broak. Okay.
Speaker 2: What's worse though, is it the the the I'm acting
Speaker 2: like a baby because the ball fill story, is it?
Speaker 2: Do you think that's really worse though, than them calling
Speaker 2: the clock on Romo in what is clearly a retirement
Speaker 2: situation with Hunter Pence.
Speaker 1: I would give the umpire pass because maybe he didn't
Speaker 1: quite realize what was going on. He's an umpire.
Speaker 2: I mean they're usually not very aware of what's happening
Speaker 2: in games.
Speaker 1: No, but nothing. Not aware that this is Romo's last moment,
Speaker 1: Like he could just been caught up in the game
Speaker 1: and forgot about that. Maybe he just throws a big
Speaker 1: ovation because it was Romo, Like he's not listening to
Speaker 1: the broadcast talking about it. You know, he's focused on
Speaker 1: the game. He gets a pass. The guy with real
Speaker 1: Muto does not get a pass. Okay, that was such
Speaker 1: a little de energy move. I'm just gonna say it.
Speaker 1: That's what that was, bro, Like, you don't even it
Speaker 1: was ridiculous and real. I give JT. Real Muto so
Speaker 1: much credit because as an Italian I would have lost
Speaker 1: my mind. As Italian, he was so calm about it.
Speaker 1: He was basically like, dude, I thought you threw it back.
Speaker 1: What's the problem. I don't understand. If you missed this,
Speaker 1: go look on the Twitter machine. It's everywhere. It's hilarious.
Speaker 2: I don't think I would have handled that very well either.
Speaker 1: Job. Wait, I was like, you threw me out because
Speaker 1: I went for the ball and I thought you threw
Speaker 1: it back. To him because you just threw the last
Speaker 1: one back to the picture. I mean, I don't mean
Speaker 1: it was kind.
Speaker 2: Of a look. He put his glove out, the ball
Speaker 2: didn't get there, so he moved his glove obviously assuming
Speaker 2: all right, I'm not getting the ball, and then the
Speaker 2: drops it. It was. It's a pretty amazing moment. I'm
Speaker 2: been on fire these last this last month or.
Speaker 1: So, nobody comes to see you, umpires. Literally, robots can
Speaker 1: do your job at this point, so to saying, I.
Speaker 2: Think in the minor leagues, robots will be doing the
Speaker 2: job Bundy through Thursday and then they turn it off
Speaker 2: on the weekends.
Speaker 1: Start off.
Speaker 2: Like I'm start doing all the calls after all.
Speaker 1: Right, let let's let's talk a little bold predictions here
Speaker 1: now again in leading off every day, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: the headlines. We're gona talk about the stat leaders. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: is gonna be more of a preview show to very
Speaker 1: heavy preview because it's Opening Day, so we're gonna be
Speaker 1: like the perfect thing to watch right before Opening Day
Speaker 1: and the games kick off between twelve and one in
Speaker 1: different places there. But let's get to some of our
Speaker 1: bold predictions here. So I didn't spoil yours. I just
Speaker 1: think I I was just on one of my classic show,
Speaker 1: Heyo Tani rants. So let' let's start with you. We
Speaker 1: wash give me a bold prediction for twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 1: So let's talk about it. Well, let's get to your
Speaker 1: first bold prediction. What do you got?
Speaker 2: And I followed your trend. I think we have like
Speaker 2: a team one. We've got essentially an Otani one, and
Speaker 2: then we've got a player one, so I'll go with
Speaker 2: the team one first. And this is like bold prediction
Speaker 2: season here, and how bold this really truly is. But
Speaker 2: I tie these all these things together here is that
Speaker 2: the Rangers are going to win ninety plus games. They're
Speaker 2: going to make the playoff this year. Jacob de Grom,
Speaker 2: I can't say one of the things I think he
Speaker 2: could do, but I think he could be at the
Speaker 2: top of leading the league in strikeouts. And Corey Seeger
Speaker 2: will be a perennial MVP candidate, maybe even be near
Speaker 2: the top, though it's kind of hard because there's another
Speaker 2: player out there. But Rangers ninety games, they make the playoffs,
Speaker 2: de Grom and Corey Seeger near the top of voting,
Speaker 2: and we all laugh hysterically because Jacob de Grom proved
Speaker 2: us wrong. But this is really about the right ninety games.
Speaker 1: Let me be clear about this. I am rooting for
Speaker 1: Jacob de Grom to prove me wrong. I'm just not
Speaker 1: investing in him at the cost that he was going for.
Speaker 1: It was a ludicrous to me.
Speaker 2: I just like, but you can invest in him in
Speaker 2: betting if you would like.
Speaker 1: By the way, young, so I don't want to invest
Speaker 1: in he's five to one. That's not enough, but it's.
Speaker 2: Five and a half to one you can get. But
Speaker 2: I will say, if you like to play team totals,
Speaker 2: the Rangers are eighty one. I just saw, and I
Speaker 2: think it's a really good number to bet on the over,
Speaker 2: even though it's a tough division. And if you want
Speaker 2: to have them make the playoffs. It's not a great one,
Speaker 2: but it's like two to one on the money just
Speaker 2: to make the playoffs. But yeah, you can make Da
Speaker 2: gram bets. Even Wonkey said just wrote a bold prediction
Speaker 2: article with da Gram at twenty five games. Guess what.
Speaker 2: De Gram at twenty five games is a cy young
Speaker 2: candidate through and through, like there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Could also lead the league in strikeouts if he pitches
Speaker 2: twenty five games. And that's why that crazy team in
Speaker 2: a division by the way, because I know it doesn't
Speaker 2: feel like, ooh, cruise your prediction, but got the Astros
Speaker 2: and you got the Mariners that are in front there,
Speaker 2: and I think.
Speaker 1: There I just wrote an article Fantasy Pros that Wonky
Speaker 1: Penguin was sniff and glue when she wrote that article.
Speaker 2: So the walk, well, Wonky's killing me during the draft
Speaker 2: season every time we were kind of sabbataco and I
Speaker 2: felt like Wonky's been all over me about de Grom,
Speaker 2: but then goes and writes this article, So there we go.
Speaker 1: I will say this to quote my good friend Derrek Brown,
Speaker 1: the range of outcomes for the Rangers is enormous, and
Speaker 1: I do think there is a one you can write
Speaker 1: where de Gram makes twenty five starts, that Perez maintains
Speaker 1: what he did last year, that John Gray picks up
Speaker 1: where he left off before his last whacky injury look
Speaker 1: good in his last outing too. Just it was it
Speaker 1: seven strikeouts in the four innings of the gap.
Speaker 2: And actually are the game changers.
Speaker 1: But I was gonna say, you've got Evaldi, you got Heini,
Speaker 1: and you've got Dane Dunning floating around there too, so
Speaker 1: you've got a little bit of depth. And it is
Speaker 1: more of a six man rotation in that sense where
Speaker 1: you know that these guys are all not making thirty
Speaker 1: starts like that ain't happening. So if you look at
Speaker 1: the rest of this this offense seeger Sime and Lowe.
Speaker 1: You know Garcia, Mitch Garvet, this is an offense that
Speaker 1: can compete him. Is a very good catcher, very good
Speaker 1: defensive catcher, like you can really make a lot of
Speaker 1: potentially here a lot of good ones here in the chat.
Speaker 1: I want to bring up a couple of these, Jose,
Speaker 1: says George Kirby al Cy Young, because there is a
Speaker 1: just a trout hitting fifty home runs. I mean, look
Speaker 1: back to the trout one real quick. You know he
Speaker 1: had forty in an abbreviated season for himself last.
Speaker 2: Year projected, I believe on the bat X projected at
Speaker 2: the most homers of any player regardless right now. So
Speaker 2: that's that's a good one.
Speaker 1: Here's another one, Robbie Ray to win this Cy Young
Speaker 1: and then.
Speaker 2: Most recent one. Oh, I got that.
Speaker 1: Rolled down there. There's so much, there's so much chatting.
Speaker 1: Here's one, of course, Welsh likes this one, Jeffrey Springs
Speaker 1: for American League, so young. Let's get to one of
Speaker 1: my Bowl predictions here. Number one. You're gonna love this.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers missed the playoffs.
Speaker 2: You have you have been out in this all off season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, I'm all you know, because sure there's
Speaker 1: a range of outcomes where everything works out fine for them.
Speaker 1: I just think they're very top heavy roster, and I'm
Speaker 1: just not buying the pitching. Welsh Gonsolin I think is
Speaker 1: due for a huge regression. Kershaw's twenty two starts a year, right,
Speaker 1: and we kind of know what we're getting out of him.
Speaker 1: Urius is a very good pitcher. I don't think he's dominant,
Speaker 1: striking fear into the hearts and minds of opposing batters
Speaker 1: kind of dominant. Yet maybe he makes that jump this year.
Speaker 1: It's not impossible, but I just keep looking at the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and I keep looking at all this stuff last year
Speaker 1: that you know, kind of broke their way, and I'm
Speaker 1: looking at this team and I love the JD. Martinez signing,
Speaker 1: but you know they're asking a lot of Muncie. Taylor's
Speaker 1: been terrible. Peralta I think is washed to say the truth.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're basically banking on ginger guard and
Speaker 1: cinder guard to make twenty five starts apiece. And you
Speaker 1: can you could sign me up for the under for
Speaker 1: the ninety six and a half on the Dodgers and
Speaker 1: too away from.
Speaker 2: Them with their injuries, they might need the color guard.
Speaker 2: Because I'm a little bit worried about where they're heading. Uh,
Speaker 2: you have been spouting this one a ton, and I
Speaker 2: don't actually hate it because I actually have the Padres
Speaker 2: taking this division.
Speaker 1: I think is taking a division. But I think you
Speaker 1: get Okay, how many playoff teams again in the National League?
Speaker 1: Hold the fingers up, go ahead, wash? How many plays?
Speaker 1: Well you got?
Speaker 2: You got the three divisional predivision, the three wild.
Speaker 1: Card Okay, so here we go, so ready? Okay, So
Speaker 1: Nets make the playoffs, Braves make the playoffs, Phillies make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I'm gonna go ahead, and San Diego Padres
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. Cardinals make the playoffs. Brewers make the playoffs. Boom,
Speaker 1: there you go, There you go. That was easy, wasn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not You and Bogman are big on the
Speaker 2: Brewers right now. I'm not as big as the Brewers
Speaker 2: as you are.
Speaker 1: Brewers. That pitching, If that Brewers pitching is right, it
Speaker 1: smokes the Dodgers pitching. Corbin Burns, woodroffrom Peralta. That's ginger
Speaker 1: guard and cinderguard. Please please heed a rash guard. That's
Speaker 1: what you need. All right, Let's get to our own
Speaker 1: what's gonna become our ow TONI prediction. So let's get
Speaker 1: to our second predictions here live on the show. What
Speaker 1: do you got? All Right?
Speaker 2: Well, mine is gonna make people a lot happier. Joe's
Speaker 2: is gonna upset everybody. I believe that show. Hey, Atani
Speaker 2: will not only win the MVP, he will also win
Speaker 2: the Cy Young. I was working through this, We're actually
Speaker 2: talking about this over on the CBS, and I just
Speaker 2: love the idea of this as well. I kind of
Speaker 2: have a feeling that Otani is a little bit more
Speaker 2: of a dominant pitcher than he is anything else this season.
Speaker 2: So even if I didn't go with the MVP, I
Speaker 2: really think he is up there for cy Young. I
Speaker 2: kind of don't hate the odds. I think it's like
Speaker 2: twelve to one right now, you can get on cy Young.
Speaker 2: But you know we're gonna get it right this year.
Speaker 2: Obviously Judge had a big year. We're going to come
Speaker 2: back down. Atani is going to do more of what
Speaker 2: he does if he's more dominant. I think we mentioned
Speaker 2: a couple of times, but Atani is now on a
Speaker 2: six day not a sixth start, so it could line
Speaker 2: up where he's actually getting like two in a week,
Speaker 2: which could get just maybe a little bit more innings
Speaker 2: and it does happen. I was I couldn't even remember
Speaker 2: last time. But it's twenty fourteen, an MVP and cy
Speaker 2: Young was given. How about to a player that can
Speaker 2: do both? So Tani is not only the MVP who
Speaker 2: is the favorite. I believe he's like two to one
Speaker 2: on most books. He will also win the Cy Young
Speaker 2: in the AL I.
Speaker 1: Love it plus eleven hundred. It's a better bet. I
Speaker 1: mean it just is. Look any Atani. BET's very dangerous
Speaker 1: this year because if he gets traded to the NL,
Speaker 1: which brings me to my prediction that Jojo Tani does
Speaker 1: get traded to the NL, and he gets traded to
Speaker 1: a team that has all the pieces to make that move,
Speaker 1: one of the best prospect pipelines in baseball and the
Speaker 1: biggest need for another pitcher and the biggest need for
Speaker 1: a left handed bet. It's my horrible tear will no
Speaker 1: good New York Mets that break my heart every year,
Speaker 1: that make me a miserable human being to begin with.
Speaker 1: But I think Otani is going to be coming to
Speaker 1: Queen's and I can't wait for it. Like if that happens, Welsh,
Speaker 1: I don't even know, I don't even know what the feelings,
Speaker 1: all the feelings that would be going on at one
Speaker 1: time for me, it would be a lot. It would
Speaker 1: be a lot to take. Can like everybody should be
Speaker 1: rooting for that to happen, even if they hate the Mets,
Speaker 1: just to watch what happens for me on the show.
Speaker 1: The day that happens, we will go a lot. If
Speaker 1: I will, I will get on this channel live with
Speaker 1: you if that happens, and it will be probably the
Speaker 1: greatest YouTube television of all time.
Speaker 2: It's right around It's right around too. It's right around
Speaker 2: Dicey Joe time that trade deadline. If it happens right
Speaker 2: at the deadlines, right around where Joe's starting to mosey
Speaker 2: on over to the other channel, maybe we're going to
Speaker 2: get Joe to be able to stick around a little
Speaker 2: bit longer too. If Otani is a you know what,
Speaker 2: this one's gross.
Speaker 1: That might get every day talking about Otani just to
Speaker 1: piss off doctor Glenn would be worth it. Let's get
Speaker 1: to the last ones here, uh, last one for me.
Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez forty fourseason. That's right, I said it, forty forty.
Speaker 1: I think it's well with his grasp this other one's
Speaker 1: here too. There is another one of our new friends here,
Speaker 1: lamer Boy extra Bowl prediction. Wes Neski beats out Carolyn
Speaker 1: Walker for NL Rookie of the Year. I'm here for that.
Speaker 1: That's fun. But Julio to me, Julio's MVP. I already
Speaker 1: said it. Julio was my one one this year. Going
Speaker 1: into things Welsh, who what is your last Bowl prediction
Speaker 1: that you have?
Speaker 2: Well, I just want everyone to know I've been in
Speaker 2: some other places. My main bold prediction this season is
Speaker 2: that Corbyn Carroll leads the league in stolen bases and
Speaker 2: that you can get fifteen to one on any books
Speaker 2: right now. And I made the bet. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: even putting why not even just put my years? What
Speaker 2: am I doing but to give you a different one?
Speaker 2: And I think I gave this last year and I
Speaker 2: couldn't have been more wrong. I'm gonna pick a much
Speaker 2: better player for it, So not just to give the
Speaker 2: Carrol one. Let's not even mention the player that I
Speaker 2: said this year, I'm gonna go with Jordan Alvarez with
Speaker 2: the Astros will lead the league in home runs. And
Speaker 2: that is a bet you can also make and I
Speaker 2: think there's some pretty good odds on that as well,
Speaker 2: maybe like eight to one or something. So give me
Speaker 2: Jordan Alvarez to lead the league in homers.
Speaker 1: Got some I've got a lot of new people here,
Speaker 1: a lot of new faces, like ladies. And here's a
Speaker 1: Tim Sawyer. Here's a great prediction, Brendan Fraser will come
Speaker 1: out of retirement and pitch for the Yankees. And well,
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