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Speaker 1: of course is the Welsh and it's you, the Peanuts,
Speaker 1: the Cracker Jacks, the folks in the chat. What a
Speaker 1: fun weekend we had. The weather was much better here
Speaker 1: in New Jersey. That was good. Got to get all
Speaker 1: of our football games in this weekend. Had a glorious
Speaker 1: flag football game on Sunday. So I'm still on a
Speaker 1: high from that one. And Welsh certainly a lot of
Speaker 1: baseball to get to as well. So how was your weekend, buddy?
Speaker 1: That was everything good?
Speaker 2: Sure, let's do that, but let me let me ask
Speaker 2: you what you would do in this situation.
Speaker 1: I don't have That is a no. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: take that will just.
Speaker 2: All the days, let's just put it in there. So
Speaker 2: I went to my kid they had a birthday party
Speaker 2: and I was there. Make this quick, and I'm sitting
Speaker 2: in one of those like low beach chair type of things,
Speaker 2: just sitting back and the host of the house is
Speaker 2: talking to my wife and goes, oh, wow, that's a
Speaker 2: massive spider, and and she looks down at me. Something
Speaker 2: you need to know about me. I'm massively arachnophobic. The
Speaker 2: one thing I am terrified of is spiders. And I
Speaker 2: had a moment where I had to think to myself,
Speaker 2: do I go into my you know, but that's what
Speaker 2: I do. I go into the how I feel where
Speaker 2: I want to jump up scream going like that like
Speaker 2: that would be the scream. Or do I slowly get up,
Speaker 2: you know, very manly like, oh either spider there. And
Speaker 2: I decided to do the more manly thing. And it
Speaker 2: was the biggest, nastiest It's like a wolf spider and uh,
Speaker 2: it ruined my weekend. I still I'm dreaming about it.
Speaker 2: I'm dreaming about it right now.
Speaker 1: Wow. That's a good story there. Yeah, Arizona, you got
Speaker 1: some weird got the scorpions out there, You got a
Speaker 1: lot of things.
Speaker 2: You know what. Scorpions don't affect me. I've stepped on
Speaker 2: a scorpion. We've I've seen hundreds. We had a house.
Speaker 2: I remember we bought a house. First night we stayed there.
Speaker 2: We found twenty scorpions around. Scorpions don't affect me, but man,
Speaker 2: despite it was a go look up a wolf spider.
Speaker 2: It was at my feet and she's casually like, hey,
Speaker 2: look there's a little spider, and I'm like, well look
Speaker 2: at me. Gonna go drown myself in the pool. Sorry, guys,
Speaker 2: bye bye.
Speaker 1: There you go. All right, Well, let's talk some baseball.
Speaker 1: On that note, Justin Verlander, you know, he went eight innings,
Speaker 1: not eight legs, so he was very good. Finally for
Speaker 1: the New York Mets, they got good outings on the
Speaker 1: same day from Surezer and from Justin Verlander, who knows
Speaker 1: what to say. So it looks like, you know that
Speaker 1: that that one big night, that comeback win really kind
Speaker 1: of spurned the steam on. We'll see if it continues
Speaker 1: to go. Obviously the Guardians having some issues of their own.
Speaker 1: Good sels air mirrors back. He at a home run
Speaker 1: yesterd so that's positive. He's had a quiet beginning to
Speaker 1: the season. Still good, which is not quite Jose Ramirez,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he's so great. He's MVP kind of season.
Speaker 1: It's it'll be interesting to see if he's available on
Speaker 1: some trade potential talks here. Ashoy Otani was delivered another
Speaker 1: great performance. No decision though for him against the Twins
Speaker 1: on Sunday. One run, two hits, six innings for him.
Speaker 1: We got a return for a Yankee, so Damingo hermon
Speaker 1: out with the suspension. Louis Severino scattered four hits, struck
Speaker 1: out five guys, one earned run his season debut on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So Severino rest of season, Welsh, This is a picture
Speaker 1: who's pitching for a contract. This is a picture of
Speaker 1: the Yankees desperately need to perform. Well, what's your rest
Speaker 1: of season outlook for Severino? Now that he's back. He
Speaker 1: looks sharp in this first outing. Are you somebody that's
Speaker 1: back in let's go Louis Severino or do you have
Speaker 1: any concerns because we have seen some inconsistencies from him
Speaker 1: over the last few years, although last season a strong finish,
Speaker 1: no doubt. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of the inconsistency is just about also,
Speaker 2: like health and being out there. And now that he's back,
Speaker 2: I do think they're going to baby him. I think
Speaker 2: he's going to be babied over the next couple starts.
Speaker 2: I don't expect to see any seven inning outings or
Speaker 2: anything like that. But you know, as far as in
Speaker 2: line with who he is, K percentage was there in
Speaker 2: that first start, he looked good. They really babied the
Speaker 2: entire rehab process. So actually, I think this is a
Speaker 2: really solid time. I don't think the price has caught
Speaker 2: up to Louis Severino, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 2: I don't think Louis Severino can be over this season
Speaker 2: is collectively there on who he is coming off of
Speaker 2: this injury. So to your point, this might be one
Speaker 2: of those guys you said before we were talking about trades.
Speaker 2: This might be a guy that you can go acquire
Speaker 2: and it's like ninety cents on the dollar type of
Speaker 2: thing where you know you're paying for Louis Severino. But
Speaker 2: that's not really the guy he's going to be. Because
Speaker 2: he can be one of the front line aces for
Speaker 2: this team, well.
Speaker 1: He absolutely can be, and I think with a contract
Speaker 1: on the line for him this year, I would expect that.
Speaker 1: I'm expecting Louis Severino to be.
Speaker 2: A guy that are you a big contract your guy?
Speaker 1: Well? Yeah, because because I used to have his argument
Speaker 1: with Sealy where you know, we both approach this argument
Speaker 1: in a different way, whereas I took the data and
Speaker 1: over I think it was like over a ten year
Speaker 1: period of basically you know, all star level, like well
Speaker 1: above replacement level players, and when you look at most
Speaker 1: of the time they perform at their level or above
Speaker 1: almost thirty percent of the time, more a higher rather
Speaker 1: than their normal level of productivity. The problem is a
Speaker 1: lot of these the data when you get to the
Speaker 1: contract year guys. So many players are on one year
Speaker 1: deals who aren't very good, who are under replacement players.
Speaker 1: They taint the data. So you look, I said, oh,
Speaker 1: players don't play better in contract years. No, bad players
Speaker 1: don't play good in contract years, and that's why they're
Speaker 1: on a contract year every year. There's a difference. You
Speaker 1: can't take it from that data. You have to take
Speaker 1: it from the top third of the league and look
Speaker 1: at when they are free agents, and typically more often
Speaker 1: than not, they play. I think it's about I think
Speaker 1: when I did the research for Black Book.
Speaker 2: I remember you going through this. I remember you had
Speaker 2: like a study you had done with this.
Speaker 1: I did. I did because I was I knew I
Speaker 1: was right. I needed to find the data that backed
Speaker 1: me up. And the then the X plug in the data,
Speaker 1: so to speak, was the fact that if you look
Speaker 1: too much about every free agent, well, yeah, every free
Speaker 1: agent is not good because most of the league is
Speaker 1: a free agent over a year and it's baseball, and
Speaker 1: that you can look at the NFL the same kind
Speaker 1: of concept. But baseball, especially the players that are above
Speaker 1: replacement value typically play at their level or above again
Speaker 1: above it was more almost twenty eight or I think
Speaker 1: twenty nine percent of the time above of twenty eight
Speaker 1: percent above their normal.
Speaker 2: So you're saying millions of dollars is going to incent
Speaker 2: players to play better.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, I know, even great crazy time. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: And you know what's even grazier. There might be a
Speaker 2: correlation to the more dollars that they get that they
Speaker 2: play even better. Like the higher dollar guys even play better.
Speaker 2: Isn't that great? And then the Wan Soto didn't get
Speaker 2: the memo, but everybody else.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean he's still got time to get it.
Speaker 1: I just think that might be a batters I think
Speaker 1: with him in that ballpark, something about I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know what it is, maybe just not
Speaker 1: a West Coast guy, I don't know. I mean, it's Heaven.
Speaker 1: It's a big place. I'd love to go to San
Speaker 1: Diego and just stay there forever. Christopher Morrell, can he
Speaker 1: stay forever? Another home run for him? He has eight
Speaker 1: runs in eleven games. It's getting called up. He's a
Speaker 1: fersatile player. But the slash right now three seventy three,
Speaker 1: ninety six, nine to fifty seven with fifteen runs, fourteen
Speaker 1: ribis and a steal for good measure, what do you
Speaker 1: make of this guy? I mean, this has just been
Speaker 1: an incredible talk about getting called up and being a
Speaker 1: waiver wire return. Christopher Morell has been unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, they love Morel was one of the
Speaker 2: best minor league players after they had sent him down,
Speaker 2: so that wasn't even a question. Morell has got big
Speaker 2: bat speed that puts up big, big home run numbers,
Speaker 2: and he put up I think he was, like God,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember it, but he had like eight
Speaker 2: homers in his first eleven games, and he's one of
Speaker 2: the very few players who have ever done that. A
Speaker 2: sixty percent hard hit percentage. Right now, he's already put
Speaker 2: up almost a fourteen EV max EV. His average is
Speaker 2: around ninety three and a half. His problem is, and
Speaker 2: we've got I think we've talked about this. It's a
Speaker 2: big swing and miss is thirty seven percent strikeout rate
Speaker 2: right thirty seven and a half percent strikeout rate right now,
Speaker 2: So how is he going to live off of it?
Speaker 2: He doesn't have any hits off of off speed pitches.
Speaker 2: He's dominating fastballs right now, so he's gonna start to
Speaker 2: get pitched differently. But that huge bat speed is keeping
Speaker 2: him in the game. It's kind of a hot old
Speaker 2: school hobbier bias esque, if you will, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like there's a lot I did not like
Speaker 2: that equivalent, No, no, but like the it's the good
Speaker 2: hobbyer buys because thirty seven percent striker, Like we're lotting
Speaker 2: a player. We're like, oh my god, he's got thirty
Speaker 2: seven percent strikeout rate. That's really bad. But you know,
Speaker 2: he's been such an offensive force. You're just gonna have
Speaker 2: to watch and see how he adjusts to win the league.
Speaker 2: Adjust But like, it doesn't matter. He's he's awesome. He's
Speaker 2: a huge pickup. You hold on and you hope that
Speaker 2: it holds the entire season.
Speaker 1: Here's a question from Dan g one of the Peanuts
Speaker 1: and Cracker Jacks of the chat. A league mate offered
Speaker 1: Jordan Walker for morell in a keeper league. Who would
Speaker 1: rather have a keeper situation?
Speaker 2: Jordan Walker, I would very much rather have it. So
Speaker 2: he gets Jordan Wahite. That's a great ascept. That's like,
Speaker 2: that's like the I want I want to play in
Speaker 2: that league, and it's a sexy I of Dynasty as
Speaker 2: so fun. Someone's like, ooh, look at this young guy
Speaker 2: who's hitting a well. I'll give you the top prospect
Speaker 2: in baseball for him because he's started for eleven games
Speaker 2: in the miners and you're like, yes, give me, give me.
Speaker 1: Those are the best. Those are absolutely the best. Chris Sale,
Speaker 1: he's starting to pitch pretty well. Uh this is another
Speaker 1: good performance for Chris Sale. He's starting to look like himself.
Speaker 1: Eight strikeout, six oh. Third. James Paxson was good again
Speaker 1: over the weekend. Uh. I said this on Sunday on
Speaker 1: the television show. I said, if Sale can be Sale
Speaker 1: and Paxton continues to pitch the way he is looked
Speaker 1: so far in these first two outings, the Red Sox
Speaker 1: can start to get back into this race because it's
Speaker 1: the balance schedule again, so they don't have to beat
Speaker 1: up on each other as much in that division where
Speaker 1: I think most of the good teams in the America
Speaker 1: League are in the East. I think we can all
Speaker 1: agree on it.
Speaker 2: About to say, you don't want to that's it.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be playing. Advantage could get back
Speaker 1: in this thing.
Speaker 2: For that team, It might be the biggest advantage in
Speaker 2: baseball that they don't have to every other day go
Speaker 2: up against Toronto and then go over to Tampa Bay
Speaker 2: and then have to battle it out with the Yankees
Speaker 2: every year. I completely agree.
Speaker 1: Man, Yeah, as long as they will make Chrisale wear
Speaker 1: a jersey he doesn't like v NEX for christ.
Speaker 2: Don't bring any kids into the I guess that was
Speaker 2: Chris Sale, right.
Speaker 1: Adam has had a lot of funny, weird.
Speaker 2: Story He's like cut up the jersey and told the
Speaker 2: kids again I don't remember. He does a lot of
Speaker 2: weird stuff.
Speaker 1: Got Mitch Keller. He's been doing a lot of weird stuff.
Speaker 1: We just I can't stop talking about mich Keller. Another
Speaker 1: eight strikeouts, two runs on Saturday and then no decision
Speaker 1: against the d Backs. But oh my god, man, Mitch
Speaker 1: Keller is just unstoppable.
Speaker 2: Well, you know. And he's a sneaky bet right now. So,
Speaker 2: like I was a little detached yesterday from a lot
Speaker 2: of stuff. I didn't go. I didn't like wake up
Speaker 2: and do my uh you know, my kind of gambling preps.
Speaker 2: For whatever reason, Sundays is such a great day to bet.
Speaker 2: I've kind of taken my Sundays off. I did like
Speaker 2: a quick glance in the morning and I was like,
Speaker 2: and the only thing that stood out to me quickly,
Speaker 2: I look and it was Mitch Keller strikeouts at five
Speaker 2: and a half and it was it was essentially even money.
Speaker 2: It was minus one oh five. And I was like,
Speaker 2: you know what, I don't even need to back up anything.
Speaker 2: And I slapped two units on it. It's the only
Speaker 2: bet I made. And he crushed it. And he would
Speaker 2: have been the latter bet of the week because he
Speaker 2: hit up to eight. You see anything five and a
Speaker 2: half in under and it's a bottom fifteen or even
Speaker 2: bottom you know, I guess, like the top twenty teams
Speaker 2: that strike out in the league, it's just something you're
Speaker 2: gonna smash with Mitch Keller because he's becoming chalk, as
Speaker 2: we'd say in fantasy football. He's becoming like a chalk
Speaker 2: play right now, and it.
Speaker 1: Is well because the market hasn't caught up to him. Well,
Speaker 1: here's a good one from Matthew Hickey. Paxton er Biby
Speaker 1: rest of season Ooh, you're gonna hate my answer. I
Speaker 1: think it's packed.
Speaker 2: No, I know, I'm gonna say byby because I still
Speaker 2: am like a little bit of a hater on backpacks.
Speaker 2: And even though it's a couple of good starts, I
Speaker 2: still like don't want to fully believe old school passions back.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go with Biby. But it's a lot
Speaker 2: closer because Paxton's looking good.
Speaker 1: Paxson's like the new hill, which is the old Rich Hill,
Speaker 1: which is also the old Paxton. Redebtmer struck out twelve guys,
Speaker 1: gave up three runs and five and two thirds against
Speaker 1: the Twins. So unbelievable performance from Redebtmers. Also, since I
Speaker 1: dropped lance Lynn, he has had two good starts in
Speaker 1: a row. So who do you believe is back more
Speaker 1: Redebt Meurs or lance Lynn.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm a little bit more of a Redebtmers
Speaker 2: guy overall. But you know I've been saying like the
Speaker 2: thing for me with Lance Lynn. He just had crazy
Speaker 2: good strikeout numbers that are going to follow in some
Speaker 2: of the inconsistencies if he can get it back together.
Speaker 2: But I'll go with Redebt Meers.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's get to the rookie lookie Jared Schuster recording
Speaker 1: seven strikeouts over six eight things in one run ball
Speaker 1: against the Mariners. So good on shooter. The Braves continue
Speaker 1: to just pull rabbits out of their hat with these guys,
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. It seems like forever the Braves do this.
Speaker 1: Dodgers calling up Bobby Miller for a start on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: is that somebody you consider streaming? You like the Bobby Miller?
Speaker 2: I do like the Bobby Miller. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I love the matchup I don't know if I love
Speaker 2: the matchup today for Gavin Stone going up against the Braves.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I super love it for Bobby
Speaker 2: Miller either. But Bobby Miller, he's got an arsenal I
Speaker 2: talked about, you know, his stuff plus numbers. We're pretty
Speaker 2: high for the five pitches in his first start. I
Speaker 2: don't I haven't looked recently what they are, but I'm
Speaker 2: gonna imagine at least three of the five have stayed
Speaker 2: one hundred plus on the stuff. Plus he's a big
Speaker 2: strikeout option. I worry about like command around the zone,
Speaker 2: but you know what, braves can get kind of free
Speaker 2: swing in. So if you were desperate, I would attempt
Speaker 2: to not be putting these guys in against the braves.
Speaker 2: But like Bobby Miller is someone that you could if
Speaker 2: you know, you know, you can take a shot.
Speaker 1: I mean looking, AT's got to break right for him
Speaker 1: to get.
Speaker 2: You know what the best thing is you want to know,
Speaker 2: you want to positive.
Speaker 1: Let's be.
Speaker 2: 's think about positive. So we're gonna be a positive show,
Speaker 2: not negative. Me is, if you get a picture that
Speaker 2: blows you up in the beginning of the week, guess
Speaker 2: what you get to do. You get to have fun
Speaker 2: the rest of the week. You get to stream, You
Speaker 2: get to not worry about you get to not worry
Speaker 2: about anything. You just got to throw guys out there
Speaker 2: to do something for you, so you're not worry about
Speaker 2: screwing up your ratios. You have less anxiety when someone
Speaker 2: screws it up in the beginning. That's the positive.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Positive also for me at least because I like
Speaker 1: Edward Julian. He got called up because Horiy Polanco went
Speaker 1: on the IL, so he's gonna get another crack at this.
Speaker 1: Also keep an eye on this one. Barn Buckston left
Speaker 1: the game because of a knee issue yesterday. They say,
Speaker 1: you could have stayed in the game. He's gonna have evaluation.
Speaker 1: But someone's asking me about Royce Lewis, and you know,
Speaker 1: I said, well, I don't think there's a path for
Speaker 1: him right now right away, and an injury to Byron
Speaker 1: Buckston would change my opinion of that substantially. Yes.
Speaker 2: The only caveat is Royce Lewis has to complete the
Speaker 2: sixty days because he was placed on the sixty day IL,
Speaker 2: and I believe that takes him to the end of
Speaker 2: the month, So you have at least a week before
Speaker 2: Royce Lewis is even available to be called up. But
Speaker 2: he has been crushing in the minors. Yeah, and he's
Speaker 2: one of those guys that that's why I've liked him
Speaker 2: because he can play so many different positions. I haven't
Speaker 2: paid attention to where positionally he's been playing in the minors.
Speaker 2: But again, you know when he was starting in the
Speaker 2: outfield the other day, Yeah, when he was out here
Speaker 2: in the AFL because he was one of those guys
Speaker 2: I talked to. You know, they said, you're not playing
Speaker 2: shortstop here.
Speaker 1: He literally played like a well and they sent down Miranda.
Speaker 1: So maybe third bases and opening things. Oh, he's a
Speaker 1: great athlete. So the opportunity is there for him if
Speaker 1: you know you have I know Gallo was the question
Speaker 1: mark two, but you know they went to Julian here
Speaker 1: with the second base situation with Polanco, but I mean
Speaker 1: just one of those situations. Keep an eye on. Do
Speaker 1: you want to be ahead of the game. Pick up
Speaker 1: Lewis for a buck now, and don't wait in case
Speaker 1: bucks and go ons on the il. You never know. Box,
Speaker 1: Oh it's nothing. The next thing you know, he's out
Speaker 1: for two months injuries. Speaking of Byron Box positive by
Speaker 1: the way, let's go positive. Tyler Glass now look good
Speaker 1: on Sunday. That's a good thing. He is going to
Speaker 1: like six k's and six innings. That's what we want
Speaker 1: to see from Tyler Glass. Now. So I imagine the
Speaker 1: pitching on the weekend. You're probably going to see him
Speaker 1: on Friday, maybe this week, maybe.
Speaker 2: Thursday Friday, Yeah, yeah, Thursday Friday. One of them Friday
Speaker 2: one starts all that matters.
Speaker 1: Julio uri has went on the fifteen d il with
Speaker 1: a hamstring train, so the Dodgers again continue to be
Speaker 1: pressed in this rotation. So now Cinderguard, ginger Guard, and
Speaker 1: Julio Urias, all of which are useless at this point.
Speaker 1: The Angels activated Jared Walsh from the ten day IL.
Speaker 1: Lance mccolors is scheduled to throw a bullpen session on Sunday,
Speaker 1: but don't get your hopes up anytime soon. They say
Speaker 1: he's going to be out until at least the All
Speaker 1: Star break probably, so there you go. So JP France
Speaker 1: smooth sailing for the next month and a half at least.
Speaker 2: So I tried to pick him up in NFPC last
Speaker 2: night on Waivers. I ended up getting Gavin Stone, and
Speaker 2: I think I overbid a tiny bit to get him,
Speaker 2: and I was also trying to get France, but it
Speaker 2: ended up being only Stone. I do think France is
Speaker 2: still kind of sneaky.
Speaker 1: Eloya Meenez a head of schedule in his recovery from
Speaker 1: the appendectomy, so that's good, so we'll keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that. Jacob de Gram is going to miss another
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Oh, what a surprise. It's a good
Speaker 1: thing Dane Dunning was in my video.
Speaker 2: I thought we were being positive, Joe, I am, I'm.
Speaker 1: Being positive about Dane Dunning. I liked it. Who pitches today?
Speaker 1: More on Dane Dunning. In a moment, Padres putting many
Speaker 1: Machado on the IL with the fracture in the left hand.
Speaker 1: We told you that was gonna happen a Nico Horner's back.
Speaker 1: But Cody Bellinger goes to the IL after that little
Speaker 1: knee issue there with that contusion, so it's retroactive to
Speaker 1: the sixteenth, so he should be back sooner than later.
Speaker 1: Three up and three down from the weekend. Framber Valdez
Speaker 1: a shutout on Sunday to nothing as they beat the A's.
Speaker 1: I know it's only the A's, but still, Framber's been awesome.
Speaker 1: Two four five ERA, seventy two k's and sixty six innings.
Speaker 1: What a horse man. Framber is just so good. Josh
Speaker 1: low three for four with a three run home or
Speaker 1: four rebies and a steel on Sunday against the Brewers.
Speaker 1: Josh Lowe's another guy that I get tons of questions
Speaker 1: about because people are unsure if what they're seeing is
Speaker 1: real in your opinion when it comes to Josh Lowe,
Speaker 1: is he the real deal or do you think this
Speaker 1: is a bit of a mirage and a hot streak
Speaker 1: we should be leery of.
Speaker 2: Now I don't know if I think we might have
Speaker 2: moved out of like mirage ish range. You know, there
Speaker 2: was a time where he was going to just be
Speaker 2: a platoony type of guy because he destroys right He's
Speaker 2: one of the best in the league hitting three twenty two,
Speaker 2: but he's also hitting two eighty six against lefties. But
Speaker 2: look at this right here, one hundred and eighteen at
Speaker 2: bats against righty's only fourteen against lefties. So I mean
Speaker 2: he has been straight up platoon. But guess what in
Speaker 2: the platoon he's got an over forty percent hard hit percentage.
Speaker 2: He is in what is this the top Let's just
Speaker 2: round it up to say, like the top ten percentile
Speaker 2: in XBA X like wOBA expected wOBA, and in fact
Speaker 2: he has a top one percent wOBA in the entire league.
Speaker 2: All that tells you is like, the guy hits hard
Speaker 2: and everything is working in his favor because guess what,
Speaker 2: the Rays are utilizing him to succeed they're putting him
Speaker 2: in the best position rightly succeed by platooning him. So
Speaker 2: you know he's putting up video game stats in this platoon.
Speaker 2: This is a great sign. Yeah, here we go.
Speaker 1: I believe, if you look correctly, that the Josh low
Speaker 1: Is will only succeed in day games between the hours
Speaker 1: of one and four. So it's a two o'clock start,
Speaker 1: he's going to be unavailable to us. But I believe,
Speaker 1: you know, against the right handed pictures in that period
Speaker 1: of time. Then on Tuesdays specifically, that is the time
Speaker 1: to use Josh low and that's when we will use him. There.
Speaker 2: You know he's going to come back down to earth
Speaker 2: a little bit. But guess what, the dude's also going
Speaker 2: to have a twenty twenty season, So it's like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, you know what. Example, he's a big kid.
Speaker 1: Sometimes with those big kids, the problem is sometimes like
Speaker 1: those swings get out of whack right mechanically when you
Speaker 1: got these guys who are like when you know, the
Speaker 1: taller guys, sometimes you see it. Sometimes when they're in
Speaker 1: a groove, they're great, but sometimes mechanically it's kind of
Speaker 1: like the the bigger pictures we've seen over the years.
Speaker 1: Those guys were six eight six nine. Like those bigger guys,
Speaker 1: sometimes they get a little out of it.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I'm going to do the thing that
Speaker 2: some people love, some people hate. But I interviewed Josh Lo.
Speaker 2: He's another one of those guys that I spend some time.
Speaker 1: They pick up these names are dropping everyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah I'm Dropping'm sorry, I'm gonna drop the name. And
Speaker 2: we chatted for bit and he's like, he's not even
Speaker 2: as tall as me. I don't think. I think he's
Speaker 2: like a little bit shorter than me, but like he's
Speaker 2: a really smart hitter, super competitive, and you know, he
Speaker 2: was known for his speed at the time. And when
Speaker 2: I was talking with him, his brother was I think,
Speaker 2: like Taxi squaded with the Rais as they were going
Speaker 2: into the World Series and are somewhere in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: and you know, he was like, hey, listen, you know
Speaker 2: me and him are competitive about power numbers, Like it's
Speaker 2: not just about speed. He's like, I'm faster, but I
Speaker 2: also think I hit the ball harder. And you know,
Speaker 2: this is a really really smart player that you know
Speaker 2: he's going to get He's created himself more opportunity right now.
Speaker 2: But what I was going to say before quickly is
Speaker 2: he is one of those guys. I think he's a
Speaker 2: prime example of a guy that doesn't make sense in trades.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm saying? Like, how does he
Speaker 2: make sense in trades? If you wanted to trade for
Speaker 2: anybody eleven Homer's nine stolen bases? What is anybody going
Speaker 2: to give you for a guy who platoons, who puts
Speaker 2: up those numbers? Nothing? So he's better on your team
Speaker 2: than trying to go out and get what you're not
Speaker 2: going to get for him. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: There's one hilarious comment in the chat that I can't
Speaker 1: bring up here, but it is hilarious.
Speaker 2: I actually appreciate it right here. We should have no relationship,
Speaker 2: but you know.
Speaker 1: You see the you see you see oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right logan Gilbert, it was that's good.
Speaker 2: That's good podcasting by the way, where we're like you
Speaker 2: see that, you see that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's great. People love that when they're just
Speaker 1: listening to the show. Uh, Braves stuck got nine times
Speaker 1: against the logan Gilbert is so another good outing from him.
Speaker 1: Three down Nick Son zel over four with three k's
Speaker 1: Anthony Rizzo over four three k's and Hazel's wizardo five inning,
Speaker 1: six earned runs, struck out eight but still yeah, not
Speaker 1: the best outing for him. But it's Monday, so it's
Speaker 1: time to get back to the Brian. But not the brind.
Speaker 1: Well that unless you're making you know, some chicken, right,
Speaker 1: you're Brian the chicken Brian.
Speaker 2: What I was gonna say the rhine. I would say
Speaker 2: it's that watermelon, but.
Speaker 1: That's the that's waters with the Brian. But it's the
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Speaker 1: do you have of the prize Picks today?
Speaker 2: All right, well, I did say we're gonna be positive,
Speaker 2: but I do. I have a hater sandwich. But I
Speaker 2: have a hater sandwich today, so it's not completely negative.
Speaker 2: I didn't go hater's ball, I went hater sandwich. What
Speaker 2: that means is that is two pieces of hate sandwich
Speaker 2: between something we're positive about and guess what last time
Speaker 2: the hater sandwich did cash. So we have to see
Speaker 2: if this is the second hater sandwich that can cash.
Speaker 2: So first up, the top bun is going to be
Speaker 2: Harold Ramirez hits run RBI one and a half under.
Speaker 2: We're going under today against Chris Bassett. I'm gonna just
Speaker 2: give you both the hating pieces. The bottom hating piece
Speaker 2: is Michael Garcia hits run RBI one and a half under,
Speaker 2: and that is sandwich between a nice old juicy slab
Speaker 2: of Bailey Ober strikeouts over at five and a half.
Speaker 2: So that is my hater sandwich again. It is Harold
Speaker 2: Ramirez hits runs RBI under Oberk's over and mckl Garcia
Speaker 2: hit run RBI under.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm the over as well on Bailey Ober the
Speaker 1: five and a half, K's Radfield Dever's hitter fantasy score
Speaker 1: seven and a half over and wonder Franco seven hitter
Speaker 1: fantasy score over two. On the betting front today, continuing
Speaker 1: all with Bailely Ober again, that number five and a
Speaker 1: half over on betting pros. It's a good number. The
Speaker 1: juice is nice minus one O eight going over on
Speaker 1: that Edward Cabrera, I know, is a little volatile, but
Speaker 1: four and a half is a small number, so I
Speaker 1: would put that in. You can put that into parlay
Speaker 1: because the juice is a little heavier at one fifty
Speaker 1: four minus side Christian hoavier at six and a half
Speaker 1: K's you're getting one oh five on that one on
Speaker 1: the minus side too, So that's pretty decent here against
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee offense that really just has struggled this year.
Speaker 1: And then the other one's Dane Donning. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about Dane Dounny because the strike at number for
Speaker 1: him is small too. The over you're getting plus money
Speaker 1: four and a half at plus one twenty four. He
Speaker 1: could do this today. This is very well within his range. Welsh,
Speaker 1: what do you have on the betting world is on
Speaker 1: this Monday afternoon evening.
Speaker 2: And that's funny afternoon evening.
Speaker 1: Well, by the way, we've got games in the daytime. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: so if you career one fine.
Speaker 2: I saw at five and a half it was plus
Speaker 2: one twenty five and I was tempted to take that
Speaker 2: one because of the plus money, and I took Dane
Speaker 2: Dunning last week when it was three and a half.
Speaker 2: So it's already bumped up a little bit. He's actually
Speaker 2: a pretty good bet. He's really been hitting his zones.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna speaking of Dane Dunning in Texas. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take Texas up by one run through the first five.
Speaker 2: That's almost even money. I also like the full game
Speaker 2: money line. I just liked them. Their Luis Artis has
Speaker 2: been so inconsistent, so that's why I like attack in
Speaker 2: the first five where Dane Dunning has been pretty good.
Speaker 2: Billy over strikeouts we talked about anywhere from like minus
Speaker 2: one away to minus one twenty five and a little
Speaker 2: hits parlay for you. Freddy Freeman and Otani both received
Speaker 2: just one hit. It is minus one sixteen, so not
Speaker 2: quite even money. But you just need one hit from
Speaker 2: Freeman and one from Otani. Pair those two together, boom.
Speaker 2: Those are my plays.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Freddie Freeman back in Atlanta today, so that should
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Speaker 1: things going on in that front. Today in DFS again,
Speaker 1: looks kind of like the betting today. It's not my
Speaker 1: favorite slate, Like I don't like the way things have
Speaker 1: kind of flushed themselves out. A lot of four outcome
Speaker 1: games where the good pictures are kind of going against
Speaker 1: each other, and I tend to stay away from those
Speaker 1: unless I really feel strongly about one side. Bailly Ober again,
Speaker 1: it's just Bailly Ober day today, So if he busts out,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a terrible day. We're all gonna be
Speaker 1: miserable tomorrow. It's gonna be worse than the wolf spider
Speaker 1: underneath our chair. If that happens, there you go ten
Speaker 1: point three k Luis CaCO Zo point five. I do
Speaker 1: the same hitting lineup and just switch those two guys
Speaker 1: in and out do two lineups Minnesota, Seattle. I want
Speaker 1: to approach those lineups. Just go all in on the
Speaker 1: things I feel good about. Ty France two point eight,
Speaker 1: Edward Julian two point five, Michael Harris just two point seven.
Speaker 1: There getting some interesting discount on him. Let's look at
Speaker 1: the home run board. So what happened this weekend, Well,
Speaker 1: somebody's scratching twenty. Prime Time is at eighteen Dingers PHB
Speaker 1: is up to seventeen. Collsands at sixteen. Welsh, I don't
Speaker 1: see you on the board.
Speaker 2: I for sure thought I was gonna be I thought
Speaker 2: you were gonna actually set me up to be middle
Speaker 2: of the board. But I did get one this weekend.
Speaker 2: I'm up at thirteen. But all you sexy home run
Speaker 2: hitters are moving on up.
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Speaker 1: your home run call for today? My friend.
Speaker 2: By the way, I want to point out Casey just
Speaker 2: said Cabrera over ten and a half k's if that's
Speaker 2: on price Picks. I'm also smashed you. That is a
Speaker 2: good love that if that's a combo one.
Speaker 1: I Casey shout out to you, Casey. Casey's a good
Speaker 1: peanut and cracker Jack. Casey comes with good jokes, good
Speaker 1: good information. I like that. I like that mix. You know,
Speaker 1: people don't realize like we'll show a couple of the
Speaker 1: comments here in the chat. For every comment a show,
Speaker 1: there's like fifty. I feel like in this chat it's
Speaker 1: crazy every single day. It's so great.
Speaker 2: We love you guys, great pack. Okay, I've got Maddelson.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pick on Gavin Stone today Atlanta, going up
Speaker 2: against Gavid Stone. I'm gonna go with Metdelson.
Speaker 1: All right, I am going to try to help a
Speaker 1: dear friend of mine today. This guy I'm calling Julio Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: Let's go. I want to see this man holding a
Speaker 1: tried in today, not once, but twice. That's right, let's go.
Speaker 1: I want Julio breakout. It's just time. We're overdue.
Speaker 2: Go for three like the Trident, Just go for three.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well I think that's getting greedy. I
Speaker 1: was just gonna try for two, but maybe just one.
Speaker 1: I'll settle for one. But today's Bailey over Day. So
Speaker 1: if that doesn't work out, tomorrow will be miserable. And
Speaker 1: that'll be even better show because but more miserable, it's
Speaker 1: equally fun. So hope everyone's having a good Monday, and
Speaker 1: no Mondays can be rough, but hopefully we gave you
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Speaker 1: story of the game goes on for the Well, I'm
Speaker 1: Joey P. We'll see you next time. Kids. Enjoy your Monday,
Speaker 1: enjoy your baseball.
Speaker 2: God Spider m m
Speaker 1: H m hmm