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Speaker 2: Let's start with putting the crown on the King because
Speaker 2: twelve strikeouts for Michael King against the A's ooh we
Speaker 2: pretty good. Unfortunately gets the Phillies next time out, so
Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna be quite as easy. But
Speaker 2: a great performance for Michael King and certainly one that's
Speaker 2: going to look better across the board. The era goes
Speaker 2: to three five eight, the whip to one point two two,
Speaker 2: the strikeouts up to ninety five over eighty three innings.
Speaker 2: It was a really big start for Michael King night.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you something, here's a cheat code. Anybody
Speaker 3: versus the A's is going to stack strikeouts. He had
Speaker 3: ten through four, So you better's out there whoever the
Speaker 3: A's are going against, if they are a above average
Speaker 3: strikeout player, even just like little tiny babies, lightly bet
Speaker 3: it because it's like a twenty eight percent k percentage
Speaker 3: right now. But also, you know, the A's have their moments.
Speaker 3: You know, Brent Rooker has been really good this year.
Speaker 3: Lengliers is like the stats, yeah, but they're like a
Speaker 3: streamer's paradise of counting stats that you want to play again.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you're just not going to be able to avoid
Speaker 3: like that weird Brent Rooker day where he's gonna have
Speaker 3: two homers. But A's are a cheat code for everybody
Speaker 3: and make things right. And it's actually really funny because
Speaker 3: you and I were talking about a Michael King fantasy
Speaker 3: trade that you were ready to make last night, and
Speaker 3: if you hadn't made it, that would have upped, you know,
Speaker 3: the amount a little bit. Because I still think like
Speaker 3: I'm I'm i'm ellish on my Michael King takes because
Speaker 3: he's just inconsistent though You're seeing the flashes of the
Speaker 3: player that I wouldn't shut the hell up about in
Speaker 3: the preseason. He just does me to do it on
Speaker 3: a regular basis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the problem.
Speaker 2: And I already made the trade anyway because I'm playing
Speaker 2: for next year.
Speaker 3: So everybody maybe got a little more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got Euri Perez and I got it's a
Speaker 2: you know, long term keeper situation there with escalators and
Speaker 2: King was in the thirties and Euri Perez is a
Speaker 2: buck and Nick and Zalas is like two Like those
Speaker 2: are players that I can really, you know, build around.
Speaker 2: But yeah, like look yesterday, Michael King was one of
Speaker 2: the bets of the day, you know over on the strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Nailed that. I mean, you could have ladder bet this
Speaker 2: one night. I didn't think about that because we're only
Speaker 2: seven and a half and I thought, okay, maybe eight
Speaker 2: or nine is the max there, I mean twelve if
Speaker 2: you ladder bet it, you did a good job. Speak
Speaker 2: of going up the ladder. He's at the top of
Speaker 2: the roof right now. Royce Lewis, wait three for five
Speaker 2: another homer. Pablo Lopez looked good too, So anything's possible
Speaker 2: yesterday Major League Baseball. But I mean, Royce Lewis cannot
Speaker 2: be he stopped right now. It's funny Eric Cross, I
Speaker 2: don't know if he saw his tweet about this. He goes,
Speaker 2: Royce Lewis is the two true outcomes home run or
Speaker 2: injury list.
Speaker 1: I thought that was very funny.
Speaker 3: But Royce Lewis is the well, he might kind of
Speaker 3: be the Jacob de Gram of hitters at this point
Speaker 3: where it's like, when he's out there, he's the greatest,
Speaker 3: but he's gonna get hurt. It's becoming comical, like what
Speaker 3: he's doing, the level of home runs, the level of contact. Overall,
Speaker 3: it's weird to even look at any underlying stats because
Speaker 3: it's like such a small sample size. But just for perspective,
Speaker 3: here for a second fifty percent hard hit rate, he
Speaker 3: has a fifteen percent k percentage, a twenty three percent
Speaker 3: barrel rate, which I didn't look but qualified that'd be
Speaker 3: probably one of the best in the league. Expected batting
Speaker 3: average is good. He's on fire rest of season because
Speaker 3: you know me blinders to injuries. He's a borderline first
Speaker 3: round player right now. That's how you should consider him.
Speaker 3: Like Lewis over Austin Riley right now this year and
Speaker 3: in Dynasty, I've made a pretty really big aggressive move.
Speaker 3: The key to Royce Lewis being like a top ten
Speaker 3: Dynasty guy is going to be about him staying on
Speaker 3: the field for like eleven games, twelve games, maybe twenty
Speaker 3: if we want to get kind of crazy and wild here.
Speaker 3: He's got to stay on the field. But he is
Speaker 3: as hot as can freaking be the best player on
Speaker 3: that team. I'm here all for Royce Lewis. I have
Speaker 3: a history with Royce Lewis. He is the player I get.
Speaker 3: Do you know about this?
Speaker 1: No? Remember that history? Like, what did you guys do?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Well, he's in the AFL and I interviewed him a
Speaker 3: couple of times. I asked him. The worst question I've
Speaker 3: ever asked a probably now my worst interview of all
Speaker 3: time is Curtis Mead, where I was just a bumbling
Speaker 3: moron and I didn't even post it.
Speaker 1: So you like like playing baseball, dude, me too.
Speaker 3: I was Chris Farley interviewing Paul McCartney. When I interviewed
Speaker 3: Curtis Mead, you remember when you were in the Beatles.
Speaker 3: I literally asked him a question like that, I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna even say it, but Royce. I interviewed him before
Speaker 3: the AFL and I kind of like was like, you know,
Speaker 3: how about that really bad season you had? And he
Speaker 3: was like, what do you mean? Like he didn't see bad? Yeah,
Speaker 3: So like I asked this and he kind of like
Speaker 3: pulled back and I got out of it. And then
Speaker 3: later in the AFL I actually apologized to him and
Speaker 3: we had this funny conversation about him like I'm like,
Speaker 3: that was my bad. I really didn't set you up
Speaker 3: well in the interview because I was like, how about
Speaker 3: that garbage, piece of crap season you had? You ever
Speaker 3: gonna get that? Like I kind of did it like that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you can hear it on Prospect one. It's still out there.
Speaker 3: Royce is the nicest guy, easiest guy to root for.
Speaker 3: He is that body has turned into this pro He
Speaker 3: was a skinny dude who got drafted, who no one
Speaker 3: thought was going to be first overall, he is looking
Speaker 3: like an elite fantasy player, plays like an elite fantasy player.
Speaker 3: Just stay on the damn field.
Speaker 1: Please, just stay on the damn field.
Speaker 3: Don't have the interview.
Speaker 2: Hey, Steve Gardner, that was his MVP pick in the
Speaker 2: beginning of the year.
Speaker 1: Remember, I mean, it's not gonna happen, but it's not.
Speaker 2: But again next year. It's really interesting because he is
Speaker 2: the guy there. You know, he is one of those
Speaker 2: it's on my back kind of guys. And if he
Speaker 2: goes thirty five, one ten, he's gonna be in that conversation.
Speaker 2: Nick Lidolo should be in every conversation. Right now, the
Speaker 2: era is now under three. Well, she is seven to
Speaker 2: two right now, one oh six whip six to two
Speaker 2: strikeouts in fifty eight innings with fifteen walks. Yesterday against
Speaker 2: the Guardians, gave up just two runs and seven hits
Speaker 2: and six innings. Is Nick Lodolo kind of finally emerging
Speaker 2: into the guy we've been waiting for. Like, I feel
Speaker 2: like this is the most quiet ascension we've had all
Speaker 2: year of anybody, because all of a sudden I looked
Speaker 2: up and I was like, wow, Nick Lodolo's numbers are
Speaker 2: pretty damn good right now.
Speaker 3: Well, I think the ascension is because like he's also
Speaker 3: always hurt like this. I went shut up about Lodola
Speaker 3: last year. Again, this is l on me year too soon,
Speaker 3: because Lodola was wildly, wildly underperforming what expected numbers were
Speaker 3: telling us, like this dude had the biggest ratio between
Speaker 3: what his batting average given up and what it should
Speaker 3: be blah blah blah, and then he just hurt, hurt,
Speaker 3: and then gone for the season. He's kind of done
Speaker 3: that again this year, so I think that's why he's
Speaker 3: quietly sat under the radar. But like to your point,
Speaker 3: good k numbers e Ray has been phenomenal. Expected side
Speaker 3: is really playing that and he's just missing a lot
Speaker 3: of bats, not even in the strikeout sense, but no
Speaker 3: one is playing really good contact. Of all pitches that
Speaker 3: he throws double digits, so essentially ninety four percent of
Speaker 3: the pitches he throws have a two twelve or under
Speaker 3: batting average against. So it's not like they're destroying fastballs
Speaker 3: and they can't hit the other stuff. They can't hit
Speaker 3: anything against Nickolodolo right now, ninety four percent of pitches
Speaker 3: he throws two twelve or under batting average. Lodolo's got
Speaker 3: one of the nastiest sweepy per.
Speaker 2: Two years ago, he was like the guy two years
Speaker 2: ago we were fawning over ourselves to try to get
Speaker 2: Nick little.
Speaker 3: For Hunter Green gave me Nicolodolo over Hunter Green.
Speaker 1: Oh we were both in that camp.
Speaker 3: I'm saying this is this is.
Speaker 2: A fun one from Angelo. There's a lot of rage
Speaker 2: in the chat this morning. I live close to Truest Ballpark.
Speaker 2: I might just buy a bravesticket to yell at Austin Riley.
Speaker 2: Hey you f and bam, you're killing my fantasy team.
Speaker 1: Angelo.
Speaker 2: I want you to do this and I want you
Speaker 2: to get it on video and submit it to the show.
Speaker 1: But you gotta say fing. You can't say the other word, otherwise.
Speaker 3: You can't do that. I thought you were about to
Speaker 3: say that. I was like, no, come on, did you
Speaker 3: say A lot of braves are a lot of rage? Rage?
Speaker 1: Like rage?
Speaker 3: Like to Thursday, like birds on Parade. Somebody had a
Speaker 3: great line they sent me to everybody, not.
Speaker 1: Well, I sent you one the people.
Speaker 2: People were d ming me the ones all day after
Speaker 2: that episode, and I just I just thought it was
Speaker 2: like the funniest idea.
Speaker 1: I just we I love it.
Speaker 3: We did some AI art and it just a I
Speaker 3: cannot quite capture the essence of a rage against the
Speaker 3: machine X birds on Parade type of feel. I have
Speaker 3: some interesting art that we had show, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if I'm ready for that. It
Speaker 1: might be like the Lasagna.
Speaker 2: Fran Bervaldez got rocked five runs four innings yesterday and
Speaker 2: lost to the Giants, but it was good to start before,
Speaker 2: so I guess we'd just shake it off. Corey Seeger
Speaker 2: was back one for three with a dinger and a walk,
Speaker 2: so that's a good sign there in that game against
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. And speaking of the Dodgers, well, choey Otani
Speaker 2: hit a home run, that's nothing new, and Walker Bueler
Speaker 2: gave up three runs to earn two k's and five innings.
Speaker 1: So Walker Bueller's era said at.
Speaker 2: Four six four, one four eight whip is strikeouts per
Speaker 2: nine or down. You know, this is a tough one
Speaker 2: because I think a couple of years ago Walker Buehler
Speaker 2: was one of those guys I think in the Dynasty
Speaker 2: League you are very happy to have. Now, if you're
Speaker 2: looking ahead, even just in Redraft, how confident are you
Speaker 2: that Walker Buehler in the second half of the season
Speaker 2: can look anything like the Walker Buehler of old.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't discount the possibility that he's going to look
Speaker 3: like the pitcher of old, but I did not bet
Speaker 3: on it. I was a month ago or whatever. I've
Speaker 3: been pretty anti, like I'm not interested in Walker Buehler
Speaker 3: like freeze free and that's great and everything like that,
Speaker 3: but they're just not super super interested in it. I
Speaker 3: think he's still trying to readjust his stuff kind of
Speaker 3: looks like it always has. Fastball hasn't lost any ticks.
Speaker 3: Cutter is still going off. He's going more sinker. It
Speaker 3: looks like then knuckle curve. Knuckle curve's gone down a
Speaker 3: little bit and he's added this sinker. Sinkers traditionally can
Speaker 3: kind of kill strikeouts if you don't have a big
Speaker 3: punch pitch, which he doesn't have a big punch out pitch.
Speaker 3: Cutter fastball or under twenty percent with rate. The knuckle
Speaker 3: curve he's using less and that was the big pitch,
Speaker 3: so he doesn't have a big strikeout, offering inducing some
Speaker 3: more ground balls, which is just kind of more contact.
Speaker 3: He's fine, Like, I'm not buying on him rest of year.
Speaker 3: I'm probably a cell if he rattles off a couple
Speaker 3: starts because of this rotation and it just really just
Speaker 3: him readjusting to this year. I think we could use
Speaker 3: an off season for him. But I'm a little hands
Speaker 3: off of Walker Bueller.
Speaker 2: You know, every day in the chat Pistols in here,
Speaker 2: and every day he always writes thank you Joe and
Speaker 2: Chris and says a lot of every.
Speaker 3: I have actually seen that too. He's the only one
Speaker 3: he literal. First thing is just he comes in and thinks, thanks.
Speaker 1: Joe and Chris. You know this is our job, Pistols.
Speaker 2: Thanks, We're we're contractually obligated to be here. Now, We're
Speaker 2: very happy to be here. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: you're welcome. It's nice to be appreciated and just a
Speaker 2: simple thank you sometimes.
Speaker 1: Is it really nice?
Speaker 2: Look at us changing the culture of society here in
Speaker 2: our little tiny baseball show.
Speaker 3: The word that can come sometimes and flow out of
Speaker 3: this ship.
Speaker 2: We're just coming right now. Well that being said, there
Speaker 2: you go. He's got Catholic school guilt.
Speaker 1: There you go. Pistol says, all.
Speaker 2: Right, yep, I hear you. But you get ready because
Speaker 2: the rage is coming. So yesterday I predicted this was
Speaker 2: gonna happen, and it did.
Speaker 1: So. I was looking at the.
Speaker 2: Orioles Braves game well, and I was looking at the
Speaker 2: total and I like the over you know and Maury
Speaker 2: Povich and Schwillenball's going And unfortunately, of course my greatest
Speaker 2: fear came true. And I said it on the show
Speaker 2: and I said, look, it's gonna be like when he's
Speaker 2: two to one kind of games whatever. Covid shut him
Speaker 2: out for six innings. Boy Schwelly balls six innings all
Speaker 2: as well, gave up two runs. I mean, what a
Speaker 2: disaster this was for me. For everybody else, that was
Speaker 2: great for me.
Speaker 3: I actually they had there was a nice little extra
Speaker 3: thing where some books where you could cash if you
Speaker 3: got to to run lead and I bet that on Baltimore.
Speaker 3: So I cash that. But also I don't want to
Speaker 3: I've told you so or anything like that. But kid
Speaker 3: Povich looked mighty mighty good. Everyone's a kid pilvitget the
Speaker 3: first start? Are we talking about week contact? He made?
Speaker 3: How about results? Well, how about results on this start
Speaker 3: where Kaid Povich shut that team down? He did that
Speaker 3: sweeper looked great. This is that was a kid Povich.
Speaker 3: I had been trying to sell you guys on for
Speaker 3: two months leading into this, and he looked great. And
Speaker 3: I know Atlanta's really struggled offensively that wasn't the gays
Speaker 3: Like that is something he's going to be able to
Speaker 3: continuously build off of. And for anyone that doesn't want
Speaker 3: to hear the underlying story of what could be and
Speaker 3: you only care about your results, which I totally understand.
Speaker 3: There you go, presented on a platter kde Povich, platter
Speaker 3: of shutout innings.
Speaker 1: Yes, shutout innings from Schwelly balls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ball has got a couple like I.
Speaker 2: I just love that NPR sketch for mess and now
Speaker 2: so much like it's just I've seen it a million times.
Speaker 2: However many times it's like it was it from the
Speaker 2: late nineties. I think that's it was Alec Baldwin and
Speaker 2: Anna Guest Tire and was its Wig.
Speaker 1: No, no, it's before Christen Wig.
Speaker 2: It was Molly Shannon And it's just hilarious and it
Speaker 2: and every Christmas it's on, and every Christmas I watch
Speaker 2: it and I know the jokes still makes me laugh
Speaker 2: every time. Reim the Red says Joe's domes looking especially
Speaker 2: crisp today. Yes, you could tell see once. Once the
Speaker 2: sun comes out in New Jersey, I get very tanned
Speaker 2: very quickly.
Speaker 3: As there's a lot less reflection. That's going on. It is.
Speaker 3: Actually your lighting is really on cam. I'm trying to
Speaker 3: get my lighting a little bit more like yours. You're
Speaker 3: lighting to dome reflection ratio. It's very good.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean that's the thing. It's like, you know,
Speaker 2: everybody looks better tanned.
Speaker 3: You want to know something else?
Speaker 1: Everybody? Do you tan? Are you a tanner? Welsh? Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Can I live in Arizona though I am so I
Speaker 3: live in Jersey?
Speaker 1: Go to this? Yeah, you don't look like a guy
Speaker 1: that tan.
Speaker 3: I don't go tan, but I I will physically get
Speaker 3: you know, like like body.
Speaker 2: This is why wherever I travel, I'm always wherever I go.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter where I go.
Speaker 2: If I go to Italy, if I go to Mexico,
Speaker 2: if I go anywhere I travel, people automatically will speak
Speaker 2: whatever the language is to my face.
Speaker 1: France doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: They just assume, because I am conveniently ethnic looking, that
Speaker 2: I am from whatever area it is.
Speaker 1: Now you can laugh about.
Speaker 2: That, but it is true, and it's been happening to
Speaker 2: me my entire life, and it's my favorite thing. And
Speaker 2: then I feel like such a disappointment because'm letting the
Speaker 2: locals down.
Speaker 3: I had that one time, and it's very sad. When
Speaker 3: I was in my twenties, I worked in a recording
Speaker 3: studio in La and I was like in the kitchen
Speaker 3: doing something and there was this it's like.
Speaker 2: This British flea and Anthony Ketas.
Speaker 3: I did hang out with Slash.
Speaker 1: I've told you.
Speaker 3: Slash came up and talked to me for like five minutes,
Speaker 3: but there was this, hey, what.
Speaker 1: Was wrong with that crappy album? You just didn't well?
Speaker 3: They were doing, uh, the money song for the Italian
Speaker 3: job they were doing at the studio. But this this
Speaker 3: this British producer comes up because he asked me a
Speaker 3: question and sometimes how I speak, I must have said
Speaker 3: something like I was not American and he got so excited.
Speaker 3: He was like, oh, what's that accident? Where are you from?
Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh no, sorry, I'm just a stupid,
Speaker 3: bumbling idiot who doesn't sound correct. And then he got
Speaker 3: super disappointed in me and didn't ever again.
Speaker 1: Slash. I know, to just pretend I'm Michael Caine in
Speaker 1: front of him minute I.
Speaker 3: Wanted to point out on your bald head. We'll move on.
Speaker 3: But when you're friends with Joe on Facebook it was great.
Speaker 3: For some reason, something popped up where you had old
Speaker 3: pictures and I forget, oh yeah, oh my pictures, shoe,
Speaker 3: you know what. I know what it was. It was
Speaker 3: the school closing down there.
Speaker 1: It was my school clothing. And we posted all these
Speaker 1: old pictures.
Speaker 3: And shoe with a full head of Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Kid and play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is like kidd and play. That's exactly. It's flattop. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like a flat's.
Speaker 2: Eve can get a picture of me on the sculus.
Speaker 3: It really is immaculate.
Speaker 1: Speaking of rookie lookies, Jackson Merrill two solo home runs,
Speaker 1: your boy, Well, here you go, five four walk off
Speaker 1: yesterday against the A's Jason Devengis was activating from the IL.
Speaker 2: But he's not coming up so okay, sure, uh, but
Speaker 2: he's not the only prospect to talk about.
Speaker 1: Because it's Thursday. You know what that means. It's time
Speaker 1: for another amazing edition of prospecting with the Welsh. That's right.
Speaker 2: This one's a little creepy welshell into a cave full
Speaker 2: of baseballs, and he came out with some prospects and
Speaker 2: Welsh is gonna take us through right now.
Speaker 1: Some of the prospects.
Speaker 2: You need to know in redraft, in dynasty, what's going
Speaker 2: on down on the farm.
Speaker 3: Well, here's an update. Here's your prospect update. Like all
Speaker 3: of those babys that we were mining, I've got a
Speaker 3: little bit of some prospect mining news here. Just the
Speaker 3: guys that are top of mind that you guys are
Speaker 3: going to know about. James Wood still on the IL.
Speaker 3: We cannot quite free him when he is locked down
Speaker 3: on the injured list, but he should be coming back
Speaker 3: like any day, as well as Kobe Mayo. I said
Speaker 3: this last week. Both of those guys are very very close.
Speaker 3: But if you're wondering, those are the two guys we
Speaker 3: care most about. They are still I led Jackson Holiday,
Speaker 3: who we've been talking about. I've said I don't think
Speaker 3: you're gonna see him in June. It would at least
Speaker 3: be July. Want to point out he started hitting again.
Speaker 3: Let's strikeouts are a big issue, and I think that's
Speaker 3: the thing that is ultimately going to hold him down.
Speaker 3: Kerstott is destroying the baseball. If Mayo gets a couple
Speaker 3: of games under his belt, he's gonna move the line
Speaker 3: and then Connor Norby sent back down. But he is hitting.
Speaker 3: That's very good.
Speaker 2: How do you rank Holiday, kurs Edad and Mayo for
Speaker 2: fantasy purposes?
Speaker 3: For forever? Give it to me again?
Speaker 1: Who are the three?
Speaker 2: Jackson Hollow to Day, Uh Curse Dad and Kobe Mayo?
Speaker 3: It is Holiday, Mayo, Kurstad but okay, Holiday has moved
Speaker 3: very close to Mayo.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I have I'm number one, and well she's hard.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited.
Speaker 3: Well, he was number one.
Speaker 1: I actually wanted to know. It was not an.
Speaker 2: Excuse to use that board. I actually wanted to know.
Speaker 3: I'm very high on Kobe Mayo. I'm much well, I
Speaker 3: don't know if I'm mu higher than like the consensus,
Speaker 3: but I'm just Kobe Mayo or Junior Caminero Jim Camo. Again,
Speaker 3: those are close. It's like a tier top ten. Those
Speaker 3: are all top ten guys. Go ahead, keep talking in
Speaker 3: kind of we usually don't talk about guys that we
Speaker 3: just did Holiday, guys that have come up and sent
Speaker 3: back down. Jordan Lawler, who I got to see last
Speaker 3: week in his last rehab start out here in the
Speaker 3: Complex League, moved up to Triple A. He's off of
Speaker 3: his rehab start. The reason it's important is in triple a.
Speaker 3: He's playing third base. Why is this more important? Tory
Speaker 3: Lavello with the Diamondbacks yesterday said that Blaze Alexander is
Speaker 3: moving over to third and is going to get a
Speaker 3: They didn't quite say all of the reps at third,
Speaker 3: but primary over Johaneo Swarez. More importantly, your Heineo Swarz
Speaker 3: is on the way out. Lawler hit a homer at
Speaker 3: a huge bomb in I think a second game back.
Speaker 3: Pay attention to this because Johanneo being out. They love Blaze,
Speaker 3: but he's bad defensively. This could be a situation where
Speaker 3: Lawler is able to take this over moving forward, So
Speaker 3: Jordan Lawler definitely on the clock in the near future.
Speaker 3: I think post All Star break this might be Lawler's spot.
Speaker 3: So pay attention. And then, finally, in the news portion
Speaker 3: of this, some weird oddities for two Triple A pitchers
Speaker 3: that everybody is paying attention to. We've been talking about
Speaker 3: Max Mayer, but also Shane boz And. As much as
Speaker 3: we both want them back, just pay attention to these audities.
Speaker 3: Shane boz And Triple A six walks per nine he's
Speaker 3: averaging right now, and an under nine k per nine
Speaker 3: into how excited you're really going to get. I also
Speaker 3: say the Rays have a couple other Triple A pitchers
Speaker 3: that I think are really solid, Ian Seymour and Joe Rock.
Speaker 3: I don't know about Boz and Max six earned runs
Speaker 3: and he's got this bloated home run rate of over
Speaker 3: two homers per nine right now. So book now a
Speaker 3: couple of prospects that you can pay attention to in
Speaker 3: the Stash world in the near future. We actually talked
Speaker 3: about him the other day, Joe Jace Young with the
Speaker 3: Detroit Tigers. He's said in two eighty four eleven homers,
Speaker 3: he's got the twentieth best ops in Triple A at
Speaker 3: sixteen to twenty three walk to strikeout ratio, which is
Speaker 3: really solid. He's a natural second baseman. They got Colt
Speaker 3: Keith there, but he's been playing a lot of third base.
Speaker 3: So I think if this team really does want to
Speaker 3: make that move, because he's starting not to really understand it,
Speaker 3: it doesn't make sense why he's gonna be a Triple
Speaker 3: A much longer. Maybe Colt Keith goes over to first base,
Speaker 3: he can go to second, or at least that third
Speaker 3: base eligibility could get Jace Young up soon, So that
Speaker 3: might be one of those guys. I know you were
Speaker 3: interested in him the other day. If he comes up,
Speaker 3: he would be a guy that I'm interested in most formats,
Speaker 3: and I think you would be too.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, it seems like the power has been there,
Speaker 2: so I think that's what's intriguing to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at this point, pitcher David Festa, I know I've
Speaker 3: talked about him here on haw.
Speaker 1: Was on one of these two weeks ago.
Speaker 3: I want to say, yeah, well, I just want to
Speaker 3: bring him back up. Currently has the fourth best swinging
Speaker 3: strike rate at triple A of all pitchers, not just
Speaker 3: like Twins pitchers, and among starting pitchers are at sixteen
Speaker 3: point four. By the way, that's a swinging strike rate.
Speaker 3: He's also got a thirty five percent K percentage and
Speaker 3: a wild thirteen k per nine. Thirteen plus k per
Speaker 3: nine walks up in a little bit of a thing.
Speaker 3: But the fastball slider change up guy who throws that
Speaker 3: fastball in the mid nineties, I really do think of
Speaker 3: all these pictures we could talk about, he's a guy
Speaker 3: you got to pick up if he is called up,
Speaker 3: and then I'm going to just give you one that's
Speaker 3: kind of a long shot here. Marcello Mayer with the
Speaker 3: Boston Red Sox was in Double A if you remember
Speaker 3: that name. Currently, they've got David Hamilton at shortstop, eh
Speaker 3: Rafaela in the outfield. They've got no other options. Mayor's
Speaker 3: in Double A, but he's been in Double A all
Speaker 3: season long. He's hitting over three hundred with six homers
Speaker 3: twelve stolen bases, which is solid seventy seven percent contact rate. Yep,
Speaker 3: and rode Wire's got an interesting hard hit strength data.
Speaker 3: Over thirty is like getting into the elite territory. He's
Speaker 3: got a thirty two point nine. That's like hard hit
Speaker 3: numbers you're essentially looking at. I really do think this team,
Speaker 3: especially if they want to win any games, could make
Speaker 3: the jump. Mayor going over Triple A or go to
Speaker 3: Triple A soon small stop stop and then go to
Speaker 3: the majors. We've got no other options. That would be
Speaker 3: someone I would be on the lookout for in the
Speaker 3: near future. As we are getting some of these guys
Speaker 3: at del Amador, Drew Thorpe, Mayor may be that one.
Speaker 3: That is how we are prospecting with the Welsh.
Speaker 2: Here you go, everybody, check out more fansibros dot com
Speaker 2: for more prospect talk with our boy the Welsh. He
Speaker 2: is the master, he is the host of Prospect. What
Speaker 2: the hell is the show Prospect one.
Speaker 1: The p What was wrong with that? What was wrong
Speaker 1: with that? The season he had last year? Welsh?
Speaker 2: That's my big question prospecting with the Welsh ladies and gentlemen. Sorry,
Speaker 2: I just completely brain farted there for a second.
Speaker 3: It's been a lot of what's the dumb ass show
Speaker 3: you do?
Speaker 1: It's a dum show you do?
Speaker 2: By the way, Mike Goo says minus two hundred Joe Ghostan,
Speaker 2: I've never come close to a tanning bed in my
Speaker 2: entire life.
Speaker 1: True story number one.
Speaker 2: I never had to because clearly, but also I'm a
Speaker 2: little afraid, Like I'm always like it feels like this
Speaker 2: thing that's I don't know, it's a little scary to me.
Speaker 2: And I want to apologize to the Red because it's
Speaker 2: Renee the Red, but it's only one e at the end.
Speaker 2: I've never seen Renee spelled with one e, so apologies,
Speaker 2: so I want to.
Speaker 1: Get everything right.
Speaker 2: Read the Red because it was our e n e
Speaker 2: do you think that was Renee? Renee typically has that
Speaker 2: little thing at the end of it, does it with
Speaker 2: two e's, I.
Speaker 3: Thought, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Typically, Well, I'm just saying, well, typically.
Speaker 3: Chris is spelled to the case. Sometimes I don't have
Speaker 3: to tell you.
Speaker 2: Mike has an interesting question. Does Central Jersey exist? Yes,
Speaker 2: it does. It's very much. New Jersey is a weird place. Okay,
Speaker 2: So North Jersey, like very north New Jersey near Manhattan
Speaker 2: is basically like a little tiny weird you know, cut
Speaker 2: out of Manhattan, right, you have the Jersey Cities and that.
Speaker 2: Then you got like upstate New Jersey, right, like Sussex County,
Speaker 2: which is mountains and you know, some rich people in
Speaker 2: paramus and skiing and things of that nature, like this
Speaker 2: kind of different culture up there. Then you move down
Speaker 2: to like where I grew up pretty much, which is
Speaker 2: central New Jersey, the Middlesex counties, the Somerset counties.
Speaker 1: That's your classic suburban New Jersey.
Speaker 2: You get good pizza, you get a lot of good
Speaker 2: family stuff, you get it's a very it's kind of
Speaker 2: like where you want to be. It's a good place
Speaker 2: to be. Then you got the shore, and the shore
Speaker 2: is its own thing, that's its own animal. And then
Speaker 2: you got a scary place way down South New Jersey,
Speaker 2: which is basically deliverance Welsh, which is people playing the without.
Speaker 1: A damn name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty much with it. So New Jersey is
Speaker 2: a little micro cosmo of the world, or at least
Speaker 2: the United States. So get everything and everything is forty
Speaker 2: five minutes away. Three up and three down, Bryce Miller
Speaker 2: seven shoutout innings, Sunny Grace seven innings as well, nine case.
Speaker 1: Carlos Correa, what a day for him? Five hits? How
Speaker 1: about that? Three down?
Speaker 2: Slade CHACONEI want wants seven runs, four k's and three innings.
Speaker 2: Yese Olsen, you could drop him. It's it's fine. I
Speaker 2: saw some people asking in the chat. Four run ten
Speaker 2: hits yesterday, Braxton Garrett, he was bad to six runs,
Speaker 2: four earned over four and two thirds real quick through
Speaker 2: the injuries, and then we'll get to the bets of
Speaker 2: the day. Jerks and profar under what the MRI things
Speaker 2: seem to be good. No structural damage, that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: Yemmamoto is gonna have a start pushback from Thursday to Saturday.
Speaker 1: So there you go.
Speaker 2: That's an annoying depending on where you're at in terms
Speaker 2: of your lineups. Uh, Joey or Teaz, we'll be able
Speaker 2: to return to action on Friday. He's been doing with
Speaker 2: that hamstring issue, so I did him put him on
Speaker 2: the il. They've been waiting day to day is the worst.
Speaker 2: But or Tees kind of an unsung hero. I feel
Speaker 2: like for that. Bruce Brewers roster, excuse me, ty Frantz
Speaker 2: with a heel issue. He is making progress. He should
Speaker 2: be back at the end of that. I Elston in
Speaker 2: the ten Days. Also, Brian Wu the MRI came back clean,
Speaker 2: so that's good. So hopefully this is just like a
Speaker 2: Tennan night Is situation or some sort of inflammation situation.
Speaker 2: So good news there. Josh Young is going to begin
Speaker 2: his rehab assignment on Thursday. Edwin Diaz is gonna be
Speaker 2: right back in the closer role or so we've been told.
Speaker 2: And Trey Turner, look at this early next week, could
Speaker 2: return Welsh.
Speaker 1: How excited are you for that?
Speaker 3: He loves it's an undertaker just boom coming back up.
Speaker 3: By the way, did you see that there's some vice
Speaker 3: documentary of What Killed the wcw it lively watching. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna watch it. I haven't WC episode.
Speaker 1: Two I watched last night it's good. It's good.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed the uh, the long many documentary episode that
Speaker 2: they did on the WW that worked years ago. That's
Speaker 2: on Peacock. It's like the It's a Monday Night Wars.
Speaker 2: I think it's called That's really good because that's like
Speaker 2: eight parts or something.
Speaker 1: This is four. But this is good.
Speaker 2: It's like the old people would though, like they don't
Speaker 2: have any filter anymore. It's like us old people know filter,
Speaker 2: really saying what they really think about everybody. And whenever
Speaker 2: you get Brett Hart talking about Bill Goldberg, it's my
Speaker 2: favorite thing. He never calls him Goldberg. He only calls
Speaker 2: him Bill Goldberg because he hates Bill Goldberg so much,
Speaker 2: because he ended his career with a shot in the head.
Speaker 2: He said, whatever you do, don't kick me in the head,
Speaker 2: and then ten seconds later he kicked him in the head.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm gonna watch it.
Speaker 1: I'm excited. No, it's good, it's fun. You'll like it.
Speaker 1: It's good. You know what else you'll like. It's time
Speaker 1: for the best Bets of the day, brother with Joey
Speaker 1: p in the Welsh. Okay, this is what you're gonna do.
Speaker 2: You're gonna go place your bets over bet three six five,
Speaker 2: you're gonna bet five bucks. You get one hundred and
Speaker 2: fiftyen bonus bets when you do, brother, you go use
Speaker 2: the promo code leading off. That's how you do it,
Speaker 2: my friends. But make sure you only do it if
Speaker 2: you're eighteen or over in Kentucky, that's right. And of
Speaker 2: course if you've got a gambling problem, you're gonna call
Speaker 2: it one hundred gambler or one one hundred bets off.
Speaker 2: In Iowa, the terms and conditions apply this Sunday at Backlash. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're gonna go ahead and go through some of the
Speaker 2: bets of the day after some fun wrestling voice stuff.
Speaker 2: Joe Ryan over Saturda and a half strikeouts today against
Speaker 2: two who welsh the ass it's minus one twenty.
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 2: The Twins on the run line minus one and a
Speaker 2: half against Oakland two is also minus one twenty. Philly
Speaker 2: at Boston under eight and a half. That is the
Speaker 2: total runs. I'm gonna go with that one too. You
Speaker 2: got Nola on the mound here today minus one oh five.
Speaker 2: I know he's on the road, but still I like that.
Speaker 2: And also for the parlay of the day, put Joe
Speaker 2: Ryan's strikeout prop on there.
Speaker 1: You could do twins on the money line.
Speaker 2: You could do twins, you know, on the run line.
Speaker 2: Whatever you feel is sexy or for you today, whatever
Speaker 2: you prefer. But I'm gonna continue to just beat the
Speaker 2: crap out of the e's because it's easy. And we
Speaker 2: did it yesterday and we made money, and we did
Speaker 2: the day before and we made money. We just keep
Speaker 2: doing it every day. So until it's not making money,
Speaker 2: We're just gonna keep on doing it. Welsh, it's Thursday,
Speaker 2: which means there's less things on the board today. But
Speaker 2: what do you have for the people out there? Is
Speaker 2: you comb the desert for some bets.
Speaker 3: It's fine combing that we ain't found anything down. Someone
Speaker 3: I think confused today for me with Friday saying this
Speaker 3: is my favorite day sarcastically. Now, Friday is where I
Speaker 3: fail not to say.
Speaker 1: That I will be positive or say one of you succeeded. Baha.
Speaker 3: I'm on a three day streak. I think right now
Speaker 3: I'm on a little bit of me.
Speaker 1: I was one and two yesterday.
Speaker 3: Sunny Gray strikeouts. So listen all right here in my bets,
Speaker 3: you actually mentioned this game my favorite bet of the
Speaker 3: day is that Philly Boston under eight and a half
Speaker 3: runs right around a little bit over like minus one
Speaker 3: of five between minus one ten eight and a half
Speaker 3: is pretty big number. Love the pitching matchup on both sides,
Speaker 3: and that's what you're kind of betting on. You're betting
Speaker 3: on how and Nola just maintaining the runs. I wanted
Speaker 3: to go minus on the four and a half, the
Speaker 3: juice just didn't make sense. So the full game, that's
Speaker 3: the play. Justin Steele, my dear good friend, Justin Steele,
Speaker 3: I'm taking strikeouts today over five and a half against
Speaker 3: the Tampa Bay Rays, who struggle as far as the
Speaker 3: chase rate goes and strikeout rate versus left, especially over
Speaker 3: the last thirty days. So I think this is a
Speaker 3: great one. And Steel has hit this marker three of
Speaker 3: his last five starts. I believe it is so Justin
Speaker 3: Steele strikeouts regardless of love. And this is a quick
Speaker 3: one only for the live people. I'm playing a nurfy today.
Speaker 3: Atlanta Baltimore might be a little bit risky, but Raynaldo
Speaker 3: and cole irv Irvin has been great. Raynaldo is a
Speaker 3: beast Offensively, the Braves have been eh, but they're really
Speaker 3: bad on the road. Baltimore is the scary one, so
Speaker 3: I'm hoping Ronaldo holds that down. And it was minus
Speaker 3: one fifteen, so no run first inning. Baltimore Atlanta game
Speaker 3: starts in like three minutes. I really like that one.
Speaker 3: Not sure if there'll be much more, but bettingpros dot
Speaker 3: Com slash Welsh or Bettingpros dot Com slash Joe for
Speaker 3: any other bets that didn't make the show, if you
Speaker 3: guys want to check it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I've decided, go in on the
Speaker 2: parlay of the day. Forget the money line, go to
Speaker 2: the run line minus one and a half. I'm confident
Speaker 2: in the twinkies today the way Royce Lewis is swinging
Speaker 2: the bat in the way Joe Ryan's pitch this year,
Speaker 2: so you.
Speaker 1: Get two to one odds on that.
Speaker 2: So those ladies and gentlemen are the best bets of
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Speaker 1: There you have it, everybody.
Speaker 2: This is what happens when you're doing multiple shows and
Speaker 2: multiple sports in a day. My brain just becomes absolutely.
Speaker 3: What's a stupid show that you've hosted?
Speaker 1: You know what?
Speaker 2: I almost said Prospect three sixty. That's what happened to me.
Speaker 2: That almost came out, which is a different show, which
Speaker 2: is a friend of ours. We love Tim McCloud. He's
Speaker 2: a wonderful human Canadian the better Americans. Jerry has an
Speaker 2: important question, Joe. Do you call it Taylor Ham or
Speaker 2: pork roll? I call it pork roll because I grew
Speaker 2: up closer to the shore. You know what either of
Speaker 2: these things are? Nope, all right, I just want you
Speaker 2: to google it app Well, it doesn't matter. You're gonna
Speaker 2: eat him anyway. So I mean, I tell you, I
Speaker 2: know you and I know you're not gonna eat them.
Speaker 2: Renee also likes you are a Savannah bananas hen By.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hat tip to Brian. I think who did the
Speaker 3: guests in the chat people are? Now that's the new
Speaker 3: game is guessing Do I have a hat? And what
Speaker 3: the hat?
Speaker 1: I know?
Speaker 3: To get a couple of more into the rotation.
Speaker 2: Under a lot fifteen and a half hats.
Speaker 3: Well, probably under. I mean I have a rotation of
Speaker 3: like seven to nine that I like to wear. I
Speaker 3: want to get a couple more. I want to add
Speaker 3: a few more to the rotation on the shows.
Speaker 2: All right, let's add the home run board to the
Speaker 2: show today and see what's going on there. I'm stuck
Speaker 2: at eighteen still, man, I'm eighteen at number eighteen. That's
Speaker 2: not where I want to be. So I am holding
Speaker 2: on for dear life. I'm like John McClean and die Hard,
Speaker 2: barely on the ledge. I need a homer in the
Speaker 2: worst way. Marcelo Zuna did not give it to me yesterday.
Speaker 1: That's bad.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna instead go with Royce Lewis. That's right,
Speaker 2: the hottest guy in baseball.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's ride the wave. Welsh, where are you
Speaker 1: going for your home run call today?
Speaker 3: No joke, I was gonna go with Royce Lewis.
Speaker 1: Oh, come with me, Come on.
Speaker 3: You know what happens. People get mad at me everybody
Speaker 3: because I'm a cooler on homers. If I pick someone,
Speaker 3: they're like, oh, the stupid comments. All right, so I
Speaker 3: didn't go with Royster that. This is how they sounded.
Speaker 1: Oh well, spicked, let be a guerrel.
Speaker 3: That's how they sound to it. That's how I hear it.
Speaker 3: At least, no one's gonna be mad if Peede Alonso
Speaker 3: doesn't hit a homer. But it's a pretty good matchup
Speaker 3: from a home run perspective. So give me Pete Alonzo,
Speaker 3: get me on that board.
Speaker 2: Give me has more hats than you, for sure. And
Speaker 2: Wonky's hat collection is stunning. I've seen the in our meetings.
Speaker 2: We see the big pictures up on the you know,
Speaker 2: like you can see in the back behind her all
Speaker 2: the hats like lined up there. It's, uh, it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: It's something to shoot for. It's like those people who
Speaker 2: collect sneakers.
Speaker 3: She collects my baseball, I mean my baseball collection is
Speaker 3: like it's wow, you can't see them all.
Speaker 2: And baseball all your swelly balls. You show everybody your
Speaker 2: swelly balls.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of them.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of everybody.
Speaker 2: Take a good look at Welsh's schwelly balls, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: and we'll be back tomorrow to.
Speaker 1: Get another good look at them.
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Speaker 2: That'll do it for us, but the story of the
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Speaker 3: Bye.
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