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Speaker 1: it's the Welsh, it's Joey p and of course it's you,
Speaker 1: the Peanuts and the cracker Jacks and everything's back to
Speaker 1: normal here on the yard today. So no technical difficulties,
Speaker 1: thank goodness. Welsh. At the top of the show, I
Speaker 1: have something for you. Would you like to have it?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to have it not. Actually,
Speaker 2: he got.
Speaker 1: A load of question. I'm gonna show you my oh face,
Speaker 1: oh oh oh Tahani home run yesterday, Baby, let's go.
Speaker 1: Uh so I'm up on the board again. Let's get
Speaker 1: after it. I know a lot of you on social
Speaker 1: media yesterday saw it and like, up, Joe's gonna be annoying,
Speaker 1: And I said, well, how is that different than any
Speaker 1: other day? Welsh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see those homers go four hundred and forty
Speaker 2: ozh no feet, I'm like, there we go I can't.
Speaker 1: It all fairness, anybody on the Dodgers yesterday was probably
Speaker 1: a good investment.
Speaker 2: Well, also it was one of those classic days if
Speaker 2: you guys remember at the end of the show where
Speaker 2: I talked myself, I was like, by the way, kind
Speaker 2: of really like Bryce Harper, but let's go with Bobby Witt.
Speaker 2: I just I do this all the time. I will
Speaker 2: literally say the guy that I should kick, but I'm like,
Speaker 2: but I'm stupid, so I'm gonna take that one.
Speaker 1: I got the solution for you. You need a dummy
Speaker 1: discord account where you have like the anti Welsh and
Speaker 1: then eventually Anti Welsh gets enough home runs when it
Speaker 1: is like the second guest Welsh, like Welsh Junior or whatever.
Speaker 2: The melchh it'll just be a w But oh it's
Speaker 2: very good.
Speaker 1: That's very like bad? Is it? Is it the Melchi's
Speaker 1: comic book? Is it the Melch? I love this is
Speaker 1: here Jerry Nelson enjoying a chicken cutlet sandwich and hanging
Speaker 1: out with us. There's nothing better than I just had
Speaker 1: a chicken cut live before I came home.
Speaker 2: What's a Cutlet no, I know, listen, but like, how
Speaker 2: would you describe a cutlet more than like a fried
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: I make out standing chicken Cutlets my children know this.
Speaker 1: First of all, you gotta get good chicken. You can't
Speaker 1: just go by a like. You gotta get I got
Speaker 1: the chicken part. You pound out the chicken. You do
Speaker 1: the egg, the flour, the bread crumbs, you fry them up.
Speaker 1: Look the baking you want to you want to live forever.
Speaker 1: Good for you. A proper chicken Cutlet you pound the
Speaker 1: hell out of it, get it a little thinner, and
Speaker 1: then you go ahead and you fry that bad boy.
Speaker 1: A little bit of salt at the end. Boom. You
Speaker 1: make sure your salt and pepper, a little garlic powder two.
Speaker 1: I like to do before I dredge them. But that's
Speaker 1: that's how you.
Speaker 2: Know what makes it Cutlet what exactly makes the cut
Speaker 2: and the lid.
Speaker 1: Let's move on. I don't know. I don't know. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about more good things. Cole Reagan's six innings hit
Speaker 1: the strikeout number. It was a good day, Welsh, it's
Speaker 1: a good day. We're up finally back rock and roll.
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler eleven strikeouts for clearly the young leader right
Speaker 1: now in the National League. Like he is the guy
Speaker 1: to beat. So the question is welsh Ken Zach Wheeler
Speaker 1: maintained this pace. Somebody on extra hit me up. My
Speaker 1: pitching stinks, my hitting is great. Can I trade Freddy
Speaker 1: Freeman for Zach Wheeler? I said he could.
Speaker 2: Could you trade Freddy Freeman for Wheeler?
Speaker 1: I think that's all right.
Speaker 2: I don't think, well, no, you could do it. I
Speaker 2: don't think you're going to do it. I think with
Speaker 2: the landscape of pitching, I think Zach Wheeler might be
Speaker 2: one of the toughest dudes to go acquire right now.
Speaker 2: Any really really good starting pitcher is gonna cost way
Speaker 2: more on the hitting front that you want. I think
Speaker 2: I'd be willing to. I think it's an even even
Speaker 2: Stevens type of deal. But you know, like the lack
Speaker 2: of walks in the positive way for Wheeler, the big strikeouts.
Speaker 2: I kind of wanted to play a ladder yesterday with
Speaker 2: Wheeler and didn't work out. But yeah, I mean you
Speaker 2: got the offensive support. He looks as locked in as
Speaker 2: all can be. But yeah, I think it's gonna cost
Speaker 2: like first round type of talent. Freeman's interesting because I
Speaker 2: think if I were to present, we were to do
Speaker 2: a poll and we were like, would you trade Alley
Speaker 2: Day La Cruz for Zach Wheeler. I feel like people
Speaker 2: would like freak out, like, oh my god, but Ellie's
Speaker 2: got the upside. But even though like Freddy Freeman is
Speaker 2: so safe, there's a little bit of a boringness to him.
Speaker 2: Not elite you know, stolen bases, not elite homers. He's
Speaker 2: just good everywhere. People would be more willing to move
Speaker 2: a Freddy Freeman for Zach Wheeler than they would an
Speaker 2: Ellie Da La Cruz. But those are the names that
Speaker 2: I think would probably take to get a Zack Wheeler
Speaker 2: right now. And is that gonna be worth it?
Speaker 1: Don't?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: A cutlet, by the way, the official definition a thin
Speaker 1: slice of meat from the leg, ribs, or other parts
Speaker 1: of veal, pork, or chicken. So typically like you take
Speaker 1: a one single piece of chicken breast and then you
Speaker 1: pound it out. You gotta pound it. You gotta tenderize
Speaker 1: your meat.
Speaker 2: You pound your meat.
Speaker 1: That's how you get your stress out.
Speaker 2: But how do you do it?
Speaker 1: You do it like this, gee, geek, that's how you
Speaker 1: do it. You do it like that. Yeah. Walker Buehler
Speaker 1: returned to the mound three runs for innings Monday's game
Speaker 1: against the the Marlins there, so again good to have
Speaker 1: him back healthy. Justin Steele also returned yesterday four and
Speaker 1: two thirds shutout inning, So Steele was better. Uh. San
Speaker 1: Diego offense continues to struggle, by the way, just saying
Speaker 1: I love the Cubby today with him Monaga on the
Speaker 1: mound against against was it Randy Vasquez.
Speaker 2: And the padrest up?
Speaker 1: Nobody in that lineup said Louisa Rise has seen in
Speaker 1: Monaga yet and he was over against him. So just saying,
Speaker 1: today's Imanaga. But what do you think about Wheeler and
Speaker 1: Tom Wheeler? What did you think about Steel and Walker Buehler.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to talk about Wheeler. So so you
Speaker 2: got that when you said Zach Wheeler earlier Walker Buehler.
Speaker 1: If you put it together, it's Wheeler.
Speaker 2: The fake players that we've created. We have got this
Speaker 2: roster of like MLB the show, fake players and my
Speaker 2: John Wick characters all stars. But yeah, yeah, yeah, well whatever,
Speaker 2: it's a seventh year into MLB the Show or something
Speaker 2: like that. But getting back to Walker Bueler. Walker Bueler
Speaker 2: twenty two percent, with rate overall twenty seven percent CSW.
Speaker 2: He was only he was averaging like ninety one on
Speaker 2: the cutter. But the fastball that was kind of like
Speaker 2: the big thing. That thing was back. It was actually
Speaker 2: up over that last time we had seen him. It
Speaker 2: was averaging just at ninety six. That was key to me.
Speaker 2: So all the different variations of fastballs that he throws,
Speaker 2: solid knuckle curve in there, getting some whifts thirty three
Speaker 2: percent with rate, I actually thought it was really encouraging.
Speaker 2: And you guys heard me. I was like, not super
Speaker 2: into Walker Buehler for this first start. He did give
Speaker 2: up some early on, but that was good on the
Speaker 2: Justin Steel side. MO man, my man, Justin Steel looked
Speaker 2: pretty locked in. I did say this was probably not
Speaker 2: the start to go a big I wanted to do
Speaker 2: the strikeouts early on, but you know, going up against
Speaker 2: the Padres, that wasn't the first play to it. But
Speaker 2: you know, like you can be comfortable with Justin Steel
Speaker 2: clearly moving forward, and I really think it's more about
Speaker 2: Walker Buhler here. Walker Buehler looks like he is in
Speaker 2: that oldish form, So I feel very positive about that.
Speaker 1: Though, very good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder if you consider moving him after a
Speaker 2: couple starts knowing the trade in history.
Speaker 1: It's interesting. Okay, here we go, Walker Buehler for Jared Duran,
Speaker 1: who would rather have rest of season? Hmm, I know,
Speaker 1: I I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah you do today, I don't.
Speaker 1: I haven't had.
Speaker 2: I guess today I will go.
Speaker 1: Before the show and that look at it all that
Speaker 1: protein's just surging through my veins.
Speaker 2: Right, You guys don't understand, by the way, how difficult
Speaker 2: it is on our time zones. It's lunchtime, crazy time
Speaker 2: for Joe. I'm tired. It's like nine in the morning.
Speaker 2: I get up at seven in the morning to get
Speaker 2: ready for the show. And Joe's like, I've had my day,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah, like our energies.
Speaker 1: I've already been to the gym, I've already eaten my
Speaker 1: my protein. I'm already you know, had three meetings recorded
Speaker 1: to videos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, it's it's crazy, but I might only
Speaker 2: Walker Buehler because of the the Dodgers and just like
Speaker 2: the pitching market in general. But I'm talking about like
Speaker 2: selling high stop laughing.
Speaker 1: Everybody enjoyed Walsh's last day on the program today. It's
Speaker 1: been a good run.
Speaker 2: Okay, I wasn't the one that was like this for show.
Speaker 1: I was just showing people how a cutlet is prepared.
Speaker 2: I know, and that's all I'm talking about. I don't
Speaker 2: know what you're talking about. You pounded on Jack Flaherty. Still,
Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty, what I mean? This is not something I
Speaker 2: saw coming. I thought, again, I think I said this
Speaker 2: on this show. If not, I said it on the
Speaker 2: TV show. I said, there was a part of me
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: It was like, huh, Jack Flaherty, what if this is
Speaker 1: the year where Jack Flaherty kind of like puts it
Speaker 1: back together.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be something that question I did.
Speaker 1: I asked that question aloud and I went nah, and
Speaker 1: I just like, I can't do this, and I wish
Speaker 1: I did six more strikeouts and six innings. They did
Speaker 1: loose to the Guardians, but he only gave up two runs.
Speaker 1: It was still a really good start for Jack Flaherty.
Speaker 1: Now here's the thing. It's been really solid for the
Speaker 1: first like six starts for this guy. Is this the
Speaker 1: perfect example of the prototypical I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: in your video this week of the Cell High Guy,
Speaker 1: because Flaherty so far has been unbelievable. He's been free.
Speaker 1: There is a script you could write, the injuries come
Speaker 1: back around. There is a script you could write where obviously,
Speaker 1: you know the Detroit Tigers are still very much a negative,
Speaker 1: a work in progress where they're still, you know, not
Speaker 1: very good. When you look at the deeper stats of
Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty too, just to kind of throw this out there,
Speaker 1: three eight six ERA on the year he's expected ERA
Speaker 1: two nine nine is x FIP two two four. So
Speaker 1: this is not like smoke and mirrors. So do you
Speaker 1: hold or do you sell Flarity?
Speaker 2: I'm a sell. I mean, this might be one of
Speaker 2: those like jo just Welsh is going to be dead
Speaker 2: on wrong the whole year. That's fine. I don't buy it.
Speaker 2: I don't buy the Flarity stuff long term. I understand,
Speaker 2: like what he's doing is amazing, but he hasn't been consistent.
Speaker 2: Like that's the thing. That's the only thing about him
Speaker 2: is he's been wildly inconsistent. I was trying to look
Speaker 2: at this right now and I'm not finding it. All Right,
Speaker 2: here we go. I wanted to look at pitch values
Speaker 2: on Flarity because one thing feels very Eric Lauer from
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago esque is just how like
Speaker 2: dominant his fastball is right now because in this last
Speaker 2: start nine hour I know, well, no Eric, like two
Speaker 2: years ago, he had like one of the highest rated
Speaker 2: pitch values of a fastball, the most whist. His fastball
Speaker 2: was destroying everybody. But that is a very like reliever
Speaker 2: type thing, like starting pitchers getting all of your whifts
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. They just don't usually like long
Speaker 2: term holt when it's all about the fastball. Clairy had
Speaker 2: nine whiffs of forty one percent whiff rate on his
Speaker 2: fastball in this last start nine swing and whiffs five
Speaker 2: on the slider. It's been good. So I'm saying all
Speaker 2: this to say, all right, I wanted to see what
Speaker 2: do his pitch values look like. His slider is currently
Speaker 2: the one hundred and eleventh, but it's a positive. His
Speaker 2: fastball is a positive, but it's only at a one
Speaker 2: or no. That is his curveball. His fastball right now,
Speaker 2: even though he got all those whiffs, this is what
Speaker 2: I'm leading to negative six run value. A negative six.
Speaker 2: That fastball is doing a lot of stuff that is
Speaker 2: still not massively valuable, and I don't think the secondaries
Speaker 2: are as good. He's probably way out performing because he
Speaker 2: wasn't even on my radar. I'm like, Jack Flairity, get
Speaker 2: out of my face, get out of my right.
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about the opponents too. He's faced the
Speaker 1: White Sox, the A's, the Twins twice, Tampa's offense, the
Speaker 1: Cardinals offense, the strikes out a ton and Cleveland.
Speaker 2: Every single one of those but Cleveland massive strikeout.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 2: Here's where I'm wrong. Flaerity has value where I'm like, nope, never,
Speaker 2: not going to do it. But what I do love
Speaker 2: at this point, like you alluded to, there are some
Speaker 2: underlying stats that speak pretty well to him. I would
Speaker 2: sell him. Maybe you could sell him for Walker Buehler
Speaker 2: right now. Probably not because I don't think anyone believes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no one's gonna buy a you know, this wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna buy a guy on the Tigers over a guy
Speaker 1: on the Dodgers. But I think it is more of
Speaker 1: a what was that face?
Speaker 2: Just fixing? Sorry because I don't know if you're looking.
Speaker 1: I was just like me, You're still on camera, so everyone, no, no,
Speaker 1: but like literally made this ca you went.
Speaker 2: Well, no, Greece, listen, I have a relationship with the
Speaker 2: audience sometimes when you're reading sheets and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: and I was just letting them know I acknowledge it,
Speaker 2: but you made.
Speaker 1: You made like the the duck face kind of thing
Speaker 1: that you were like. It was very Oh my god,
Speaker 1: get pretty for leading off.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I.
Speaker 1: Do single double walk twice. So hopefully he starting to
Speaker 1: pull out of things. I told you you're missing your
Speaker 1: window to buy on Nick Castiano's by now rookie, lookie,
Speaker 1: little sad here thing. Parker Meadows expected to be optioned
Speaker 1: today to Triple A. I know that was one of
Speaker 1: your guys, but it's okay. Things will get better. Mason
Speaker 1: Black not very good yesterday, five runs, eight hits, four
Speaker 1: and a third against the Phillies. Paul Skeens scheduled to
Speaker 1: pitch for Triple A again this week. Welsh, this was
Speaker 1: not in the plant.
Speaker 2: No, this was this was a counterplan because I had
Speaker 2: said I thought this start coming up was the Paul
Speaker 2: Skins start. Here's the one thing though, the last start
Speaker 2: he wasn't very good. The previous one we nailed it
Speaker 2: seventy five pitches, so this was the start we needed eighty.
Speaker 2: He went sixty six. He went less because he walked
Speaker 2: a few, he gave up his first homer. I don't
Speaker 2: really understand why they babied him down. Part of me
Speaker 2: was like, Oh, maybe they're babying him down a tiny
Speaker 2: bit to get him going. I'm baffled by this stuff.
Speaker 2: Might be the next start. If it's not the next start,
Speaker 2: then I clearly don't know what the hell I'm talking
Speaker 2: about and I can't figure it out. But I thought
Speaker 2: it was this one. So it's either the seventeenth or
Speaker 2: the eighteenth. And here are the two starts, though both
Speaker 2: are against the Cubs. Why did I think they would
Speaker 2: do it on this one? Because it's at home? They
Speaker 2: could he could face the Cubs at home in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: Otherwise it's going on the road to Chicago.
Speaker 1: If you want the big gate, I get that. You know,
Speaker 1: you want to have that big first start at home.
Speaker 1: I'm all for that. Give you know, Pirates fans have
Speaker 1: not had a lot to cheer about in the last
Speaker 1: ten years. Give him something. Here's a question from Andy
Speaker 1: t Our, Pier's going to shut down Jared Jones at
Speaker 1: some point in backfield with Skens. No, they're gonna shut
Speaker 1: them both down at some point. I hate to break
Speaker 1: it that everybody.
Speaker 2: I don't think they will, don't.
Speaker 1: I think no.
Speaker 2: I think they're managing. I think they're managing. If they're
Speaker 2: in it, they're not shutting these guys down. If they
Speaker 2: are completely completely out of it, then they're just gonna
Speaker 2: like baby. I don't know if there'll be any like
Speaker 2: massive actual shutdown. They're babying Paul Skins right now in
Speaker 2: theory to not have to do crazy babying at the
Speaker 2: back end of the year. Jared Jones that, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, if certain starts they didn't let him go
Speaker 2: sixty pitches. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't here.
Speaker 2: We also just don't know what's going on with the pirates.
Speaker 2: Why would you not have Paul skin Why is Mason
Speaker 2: Black making it to the majors and Paul Skins isn't
Speaker 2: when he's the most dominant minor league pitcher we've seen
Speaker 2: since like Steven Strasburger or I think Strasburg Major.
Speaker 1: It's funny you said that. I was thinking the other day,
Speaker 1: which I don't do too often because I know that's
Speaker 1: probably dangerous thing for me, But I was thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: about pitching prospects with this level of hype and anticipation,
Speaker 1: and of course Strasburg comes to mind, sure, and we
Speaker 1: all know what became of that, which was bouts of
Speaker 1: disappointment and injury with every now and then sporadic greatness.
Speaker 1: I think is that fair? Is that a fair assessment
Speaker 1: of the Strasburg career. Mark Pryor was another guy I
Speaker 1: thin of Mark Pryor to you, and that's why we're friends.
Speaker 1: So Mark Pryor is another one where you had the
Speaker 1: oh my god, this guy is gonna be camp missed.
Speaker 1: We all drooled over ourselves, invested over invested, and it
Speaker 1: was short lived and never had at least Strasburg had
Speaker 1: the other glimpses.
Speaker 2: You're going down a path. People are not going to
Speaker 2: like where you're chating.
Speaker 1: I know. And then fred Dinger got the other one here,
Speaker 1: which is Kerry Wood again the same kind of thing. Now,
Speaker 1: Carrie Wood did last a little while, and carry Wood
Speaker 1: did have like a little second life there towards the
Speaker 1: end of relief and stuff like that. But still it
Speaker 1: is difficult, you know, even going back to the ages
Speaker 1: of Dwight Gooden back in the eighties, right where you
Speaker 1: have this pitching prospect that is just so thunderous and
Speaker 1: everybody he must see television. It doesn't always work out well.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying Skeens is gonna be that guy
Speaker 1: like Skens could turn out to be Roger Clemmins, you know,
Speaker 1: where he's just great and he has a Hall of
Speaker 1: fam career and he delivers on that. But it is
Speaker 1: worth noting that it feels like, more often than not,
Speaker 1: every time I tried to find one of these guys
Speaker 1: that had this level of hype around him and this
Speaker 1: level of anticipation coming to fruition and actually being what
Speaker 1: we wanted it to be, it hasn't worked out more
Speaker 1: often than not. And I don't want that to be
Speaker 1: the case, be cause Skens is good for baseball. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, Welsh, do you have that same
Speaker 1: reservation that I do where you're kind of like watching
Speaker 1: and hiding your eyes at the same time.
Speaker 2: I don't. I just don't approach like players like that, like, oh, hey,
Speaker 2: there are other guys that were super good, so this
Speaker 2: guy that's super good might not be that. Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: there is a big track record when you go through
Speaker 2: the players, but the game continuously changes, the management of players,
Speaker 2: change of the injuries are changing players and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I just think it's good to be critical, even though,
Speaker 2: like I was thinking about this the other day, like
Speaker 2: the com Manzarto stuff. Commennzarto comes up to the majors
Speaker 2: and for you know, three strikeouts in the first one
Speaker 2: and we kind of talk so glowingly and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: and I can but no, but you can understand, like
Speaker 2: people get frustrated and stuff like that. It's just because
Speaker 2: baseball is unlike any other sport and how long it
Speaker 2: takes or the game to fully catch up. And sometimes
Speaker 2: guys has.
Speaker 1: More failure always because you fail seventy percent of the time.
Speaker 1: You're great with pitchers, you fail seventy percent at the time.
Speaker 1: You're out of the bleep Mackenzie Gore before.
Speaker 2: I mean, if we're getting blasted by Mackenzie go no,
Speaker 2: no no, But I'm saying, like Mackenzie Gore was tippy
Speaker 2: top and then kind of came back and then it's
Speaker 2: like slowly been finding himself. There's a lot of Jack flirty.
Speaker 2: There are guys that end up finding themselves and there's
Speaker 2: ups and downs. I guess the way that it can
Speaker 2: fail is when we let our preconceived hype take over
Speaker 2: a certain player and don't allow for growth, or also
Speaker 2: an understanding that Paul Skeen's right now is the tippy
Speaker 2: top of the prospect world. And then if we look
Speaker 2: back and we're like, he was good, he was really solid,
Speaker 2: then it's like a failure. The only reason that equates
Speaker 2: to what you're saying to me is shortened careers that
Speaker 2: are destroyed. Matt Harvey someone brought up in the chat.
Speaker 1: But even Matt Hartley. I remember when Matt Harvey came
Speaker 1: up and it was like, oh wow, they've got this
Speaker 1: pitching prospect that's really come along quickly. Things like that.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the number one overall pick in the draft.
Speaker 1: He wasn't a guy that went from college to Triple
Speaker 1: A to major leagues, you know. It wasn't a guy
Speaker 1: that was like what Skens is doing right now is
Speaker 1: just unbelievable. It is Strasbourg guests the only guy in
Speaker 1: recent memory and prior that I can remember that was
Speaker 1: like this where it was like a fever pitch and
Speaker 1: no pun intended. But like that, to me is where
Speaker 1: we're at with Skeens. And it does beg that question
Speaker 1: about how much of a hall could you get for
Speaker 1: skeens in a dynasty league right now? Like it is
Speaker 1: so just everyone's so wrapped up in it. It is
Speaker 1: an interesting conversation. I'm glad we're having it too.
Speaker 2: And the last thing I would end is, I do
Speaker 2: think one of the reasons that maybe you could be
Speaker 2: positive that of the babying of Paul's skens is I
Speaker 2: think they know when he gets to the majors, they
Speaker 2: the control is kind of gone. The proverbial control is
Speaker 2: kind of gone, because once he's there, like he's just
Speaker 2: gonna go. Like you can't have him fail, you can't
Speaker 2: bring him down, you can't do major shutdowns. I think
Speaker 2: they know they just have to go. So they are
Speaker 2: babying this process across the board and then everything else.
Speaker 2: You know, for us from a fantasy perspective, is it
Speaker 2: going to be worth it? It probably is? It Really
Speaker 2: it reminds me of maybe even how Max Scherzer came
Speaker 2: out early on. Maybe there'll be a few blow up games,
Speaker 2: but just big strikeout games that are coming and that's
Speaker 2: why we're holding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why he even went to Detroit. Did he
Speaker 1: figure things out?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, Diamondbacks mismanaged. They had weird period of time
Speaker 2: where you guys couldn't throw certain pitches and stuff. But
Speaker 2: if it's not this start, I do believe it's going
Speaker 2: to be the next start. We just wanted to get
Speaker 2: to that eighty pitch mark. We didn't get it in
Speaker 2: the last start, and I think that might be key
Speaker 2: to him starting this next one, which might put him
Speaker 2: on the road, or maybe they just keep playing with us.
Speaker 2: And as I tweeted, we're gonna need Kendrick Lamar to
Speaker 2: help us get Paul Skins there.
Speaker 1: I feel like everyone's tweeting to Kendrick Lamar and Drake
Speaker 1: right now, like.
Speaker 2: Trying to meet the Charringtons was my tweet.
Speaker 1: So look, I know Strasbourg won a world serious guys
Speaker 1: like I get it. I know he had some good seasons,
Speaker 1: But you can't look back at the career of Strasburg
Speaker 1: and say that it reached the potential of what it
Speaker 1: could be. There's just no, that's just being false. It's
Speaker 1: just not true. Three up and three down. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's a definition. By the way, we learned the definition
Speaker 1: of true and false and the definition of cutlets. Today
Speaker 1: on the program Corey Seeger three run Homer that's an
Speaker 1: op Sibion Wolds Richardson. Eight strikeouts, well eight, no decision,
Speaker 1: but still eight. Boy, that Mariner's offense. Sure could you
Speaker 1: some help Mariners get on that. Mitch Keller second career
Speaker 1: complete game, third win of the season against the Angels.
Speaker 1: So Mitch Keller's got to be the most in fury
Speaker 1: in guy. Like, you know, he has these starts, he
Speaker 1: looks dreadful, and then all of a sudden there's a
Speaker 1: complete game and you're just like, what how three down?
Speaker 1: Tyler Anderson. We just talked about selling Tyler Anderson, right,
Speaker 1: We talked about the difference of his era and his
Speaker 1: X era and those other numbers. Well, four earned runs
Speaker 1: again against the Pirates, not good. Matt Chapman over four
Speaker 1: three k's and rodri Munos six runs, seven hits, four
Speaker 1: and two thirds, so not good for him. A ton
Speaker 1: of injuries, so let's just fly through them here because
Speaker 1: we got bets and other things to get through. Blake Snell,
Speaker 1: today's going to face live hitters. That's good. Brox and
Speaker 1: Garrett thirteen strikeouts over five and two thirds. Now it
Speaker 1: was just Florida Complex League, but still put on you Braxton,
Speaker 1: Garrett by.
Speaker 2: The way, real quick, Yeah, Florida Complex League. I was
Speaker 2: at the airson A Complex League yesterday last night. There
Speaker 2: is another I just want to point this out. There's
Speaker 2: nothing to do with this would have been better for rookie.
Speaker 2: LOOKI but you got me thinking about it. There's another
Speaker 2: Guerrero coming. You can see on my timeline Pablo Guerrero
Speaker 2: Vlad's other sun playing out here for the Rangers. So
Speaker 2: make sure to follow me on Twitter. Thinking of that,
Speaker 2: if we only had a major league pitching, they all
Speaker 2: strike out everybody. Remember, these are seventeen eighteen year old
Speaker 2: kids that are out there, So Brax and Garrett's thirteen
Speaker 2: is more equivalent to like four in real life.
Speaker 1: Turns. There you go, there's the equivalent. See a j
Speaker 1: Puck struck out two in his rehab assignment in one inning.
Speaker 1: Nadiavaldi's got good news apparently on the groin, so he's
Speaker 1: making progress. Jake Berger coming off the il, so the
Speaker 1: yay guys actually playing baseball. Francisco Alvarez that the stitches
Speaker 1: removed from his left thumb, so that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: We'll hopefully get more news on that. Maybe he'll make
Speaker 1: a sooner recovery. Who knows, Probably not. Christian Yelich was
Speaker 1: taking part in batting practice and fielding a little so
Speaker 1: maybe working his way back to return just in case.
Speaker 1: Keep an eye on that. Austin Hayes begins his rehab assignment,
Speaker 1: which I can only mean means heston Kers Dad's gonna
Speaker 1: be get sent down great? And then why Langford finally
Speaker 1: did hit the il with the hamstring? And uh it's
Speaker 1: also Brian WU time could be activated this weekend against
Speaker 1: the A's. I know people were asking about WU. There
Speaker 1: you go, we gave you the WU. And you know
Speaker 1: what else we give the people Welsh? Besides the WU?
Speaker 1: Do you know what else I'm asking?
Speaker 2: Oh, that was like more rhetorical. Well, Joe, what else
Speaker 2: do we give the people?
Speaker 1: We give them the best Bets of the Day with
Speaker 1: Joey p and the Welsh. This is the NPR version
Speaker 1: of Bets of the Day with JOEYP in the well. Hello, everybody,
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Speaker 1: back from the NPR version of the program. There. Hopefully
Speaker 1: everybody enjoyed that. I'm sure you did. Let's start with
Speaker 1: Luis gil under five and a half strikeouts today plus
Speaker 1: one ten again the Ashozo strike out a lot. I've
Speaker 1: been beaten to death the two times I tried to
Speaker 1: go against that, and I'm just gonna give in. Now
Speaker 1: you're getting plus money on this bad boy in the under,
Speaker 1: so let's go with the under on that one. The
Speaker 1: Cubs on the run line, Choto Imanaga. I mentioned this
Speaker 1: at the top of the show on leading off, the
Speaker 1: guy's done era under one. He's undefeated. Is the first
Speaker 1: time around the league for him, first time the Padres
Speaker 1: are seeing him. The only guy that seen us as
Speaker 1: far as a rise who went over against him. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a long day at the office
Speaker 1: for the Padres. Plus one thirty eight on the minus
Speaker 1: one and a half run line for the Cubbies today.
Speaker 1: I love this one, So give me the Cubs on
Speaker 1: that plus one thirty eight number. And Jose Bhutto, you
Speaker 1: know I didn't believe any last time. You proved me wrong.
Speaker 1: It's going against the Cars today. They strike out a
Speaker 1: ton over just four and a half strikeouts at minus
Speaker 1: one oh four is a great one. And as far
Speaker 1: as the parlay of the day goes, let's go back
Speaker 1: to those Cubbies here Randy Vasquez on the other side
Speaker 1: of this game, I want the Cubs. I want Chotto Emanaga.
Speaker 1: Give me the over four and a half strikeouts on Imanaga,
Speaker 1: it's a small number. He can get to five and
Speaker 1: give me that run line. You give me both of those,
Speaker 1: you get two and a half to one. So that
Speaker 1: is the parlay of the day. Welsh, what do you
Speaker 1: have for the people?
Speaker 2: I like some of your players. I actually think your
Speaker 2: Luis Kiel one is very sneaky. I might tail that
Speaker 2: one that's he's tough because he's a big strikeout guy.
Speaker 2: But this is not the team we've also seen walk
Speaker 2: issues with it. Want to think about it. I think
Speaker 2: I am going to tell that one. I've got a
Speaker 2: strikeout for one for you as well. And it's a
Speaker 2: little bit of a parlay. So Choteo Emanaga, who we like.
Speaker 2: It's a tough matchup. I want to take the just
Speaker 2: normal overcase. But Padres, as we mentioned, yesterday with Justin Stield.
Speaker 2: They can be a little bit tough. I'm dumbing it
Speaker 2: down a little bit and we're going shouto Emanaga four
Speaker 2: strikeouts plus pairing that with Kyle Harrison at five strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Who's got Colorado who was awful? They always strike out?
Speaker 2: So five strikeouts or Harrison four from Imonaga, pair them
Speaker 2: together minus one twelve. I know it's not big plus money,
Speaker 2: but I really like that one. I personally put two
Speaker 2: units on it. That's one of my favorite players of
Speaker 2: the day, Arizona Diamondback. So the first five you can
Speaker 2: get the money line over at bet three six five,
Speaker 2: one of the best lines out there. At minus one
Speaker 2: twenty five, they've got Zack Gallon on the mound going
Speaker 2: up against Frankie Montes. Gallon has been a little bit
Speaker 2: wishy washy, but the offense for the Arizona Diamondbacks keeps going.
Speaker 2: Frankie Montes with a return from injury. I like Arizona.
Speaker 2: You can also and this is when I'm personally playing.
Speaker 2: If you don't want to just play the money line,
Speaker 2: money line safer because if it's tied, you just push
Speaker 2: your bet. But if you want to play the Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: aer up by a run after the first five, you
Speaker 2: can get even money just plus one hundred. So that
Speaker 2: is one that I'm playing. And then I'm going Texas
Speaker 2: and Oakland first five over four and a half runs.
Speaker 2: Jose Urena on the mound, rest rippling is okay, is fine,
Speaker 2: Oakland's offense has been pretty hot. Dumbest thing I said
Speaker 2: all off season was like he's longder but Jose rain
Speaker 2: is awful. So I really like this to go over
Speaker 2: four and a half runs through the first five innings.
Speaker 2: So I am taking that bad boy getting in at
Speaker 2: minus one fifteen because books don't I don't know one
Speaker 2: hundred percent know where the direction they want to go.
Speaker 2: They're just like, screw it, one fifteen across the board,
Speaker 2: So give me those over runs. So again, emon Aga,
Speaker 2: Harrison k Prop Combo strikeouts, Arizona first five money line
Speaker 2: and Texas Oakland first five over total runs at four
Speaker 2: and a half and.
Speaker 1: Boom and there you have it. Everyone, Thank you for
Speaker 1: coming to the best bets of the day. Don't forget
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Speaker 1: smarter and not harder. Oh yeah, oh yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a nice touch at the end. Very nice. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to the home run board because well we
Speaker 1: can right now. It's a little bit of a mixed
Speaker 1: bag here on the home run board today because I'm
Speaker 1: excited that I've moved up to eleven, but I'm move
Speaker 1: from the tent spot to the eleven spot because everybody
Speaker 1: else got home runs two yesterday. So there you have it.
Speaker 1: That's life, that's how you live it. So today I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let it ride. I'm gonna show you my old
Speaker 1: face for two days in a row and give you
Speaker 1: a show. Hey, Otani, not once, but twice. We're gonna
Speaker 1: do it again. To keep rolling the dice here for Otani,
Speaker 1: he's red hot. He's locked in with this guy's locked in.
Speaker 1: You just ride the wave right now, everybody, what are
Speaker 1: you doing Welsh of your home run call.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad you're doing it. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you saw the snarky ass comment from earlier. The guy's
Speaker 2: like I didn't need to come to this show to
Speaker 2: know that Otani could hit homers. It's like, okay, I
Speaker 2: don't know not what we're saying.
Speaker 1: It's a contest where we pick was gonna hut a
Speaker 1: home run every day. I know that's it works.
Speaker 2: It made me laugh, So I'm glad that you went
Speaker 2: back in on it. We should just like literally just
Speaker 2: only go like Otani and Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1: Every six people, by the way, called Otani yesterday according
Speaker 1: to Freddy, So.
Speaker 2: I didn't call a home run because I didn't call
Speaker 2: O'tani yesterday. Today, I'm gonna go with my boy. Could
Speaker 2: tell Marte. Could tell Marte has got four straight games
Speaker 2: with a hit, had a homer on Sunday, had the
Speaker 2: day off yesterday. They've got Frankie Montas, they're in Cincinnati. Yes,
Speaker 2: give me coateell Marte from a hometown team to get
Speaker 2: a home run today. And I know, buddy, it's not Otani.
Speaker 2: So now maybe now maybe he needs the show. Now
Speaker 2: he needs the show whatever your name was, because I called.
Speaker 1: I tuned in to the show for you tell me
Speaker 1: Showani is good at baseball?
Speaker 2: No, but you telling me the shows about Otani, homers
Speaker 2: and cutlets.
Speaker 1: What are we talking about? Well, we did have a
Speaker 1: very intellectual conversation about Jack Flaherty today. We had a
Speaker 1: very good meta conversation, as the kids like to say
Speaker 1: about Paul Skenes it was a very productive program. That's
Speaker 1: what I think I.
Speaker 2: Learned about Cutlets I feel great and yeah, and.
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