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Speaker 1: They did it. That's my mouth trumpet. I'm very good
Speaker 1: at a Joe Rico. The White Sox have won a game,
Speaker 1: almost beating a record. I'm always going for the records.
Speaker 1: I'm always going for the biggest losers to lose all
Speaker 1: the games. I wanted the Lions years to go to
Speaker 1: lose every single game. I wanted the White Sox to
Speaker 1: lose every single game through the end of the year.
Speaker 1: Because Joe, I have an appreciation for history and greatness,
Speaker 1: and you have to appreciate the greatness, that is the
Speaker 1: awfulness that the White Sox have been.
Speaker 2: Might be the worst team in history.
Speaker 3: I know that's been talked about, like at least in
Speaker 3: the modern era for sure, as long as you and
Speaker 3: I have been watching baseball. And the funny thing is,
Speaker 3: like everybody was last year going on and on about
Speaker 3: how bad the Athletics are, the White Sox are way
Speaker 3: worse this year than the Athletics were last season.
Speaker 2: I think it's not even close.
Speaker 1: It's not remotely well. I mean, did the Athletics lose
Speaker 1: twenty one straight games at any point last year? So
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty good for it. Good for the
Speaker 1: White Sox. By the way, Jonathan Cannon, the pitcher, he'll
Speaker 1: live in infamy of course, six innings, one run ball
Speaker 1: as they beat the A's five to one. I will
Speaker 1: say it's kind of apropos that they beat the a
Speaker 1: of all the teams, that it was the A's that
Speaker 1: they did it. Only other thing would have been maybe
Speaker 1: like the Braves with just how ridiculously bad the Braves
Speaker 1: offense has been in general. But the White Sox have
Speaker 1: been a huge, big embarrassment. But congratulations to them. They
Speaker 1: can throw like a little mini parade with like you know,
Speaker 1: those eight vault little cars and people can just wave
Speaker 1: Luis Robert can, you know, drop balls and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But the White Sox just absolutely horrendous. Fantasy options have
Speaker 1: just been kind of blah from that team. Everything around
Speaker 1: the White Sox has been bleffed. But they did avoid
Speaker 1: the what was it? Was it twenty three? Was it
Speaker 1: gonna be? Twenty three? Was going to be the historical
Speaker 1: awfold tide mark of most lost games?
Speaker 3: I think it was either twenty two or twenty three.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, one or the other. I had something
Speaker 3: crazy too.
Speaker 2: Sheets. What's his name not Ben Sheets? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I loved I loved the Sheets for the White Sox.
Speaker 3: His dad played for the Age Oh Gavin Sheets, Gavin.
Speaker 2: Sheets, Thank you, Ben Sheets? What year am I in? Sheets?
Speaker 3: His father played for the Angels team in the eighties
Speaker 3: that also had the previous record of like twenty one losses,
Speaker 3: So they got some stuff to bond about on Father's
Speaker 3: Day and Thanksgiving. Now talk about their respect of twenty
Speaker 3: one game losing streaks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's actually fun. Like Princefielder and Cecil, they obviously
Speaker 1: don't probably meet ever, but when they do they can
Speaker 1: talk about ending with the same career homers, and then
Speaker 1: the Sheets family can be like no you're the biggest loser. No,
Speaker 1: you're the biggest loser. So that's like a super fun one.
Speaker 1: By the way, what's up to the peanuts and cracker
Speaker 1: Jacks that are all hanging with us in here? I
Speaker 1: think I saw our boy Jack Boyce is on a
Speaker 1: plane to Disney World. There's no way you're watching from
Speaker 1: the plane. Wi Fi can't be that good. But if
Speaker 1: you are a shout out to it, probably answer some questions.
Speaker 1: Pistol right there, what's up, Pistol. If you guys got
Speaker 1: any questions, feel free to drop them in the chat.
Speaker 1: We may get to them today on our new schedule.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you guys are all accustomed to. I know, Monday, Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Friday little bit altered and a little bit disjointed. I
Speaker 1: gotta be honest with you. Me on my own Tuesday
Speaker 1: was like where is everybody? We're all my people. So
Speaker 1: the little adjusted schedule here, but we'll have fun with it.
Speaker 1: So if you guys have got questions, we'll kind of
Speaker 1: answer them throughout. Another piece of actually laughable historical stuff
Speaker 1: is awesome here. Framber Valdez was one out away from
Speaker 1: a no hitter. Let's say, home run. A home run
Speaker 1: did end it. What was so magical about it was
Speaker 1: God dang it. Now I'm forgetting who it was. But
Speaker 1: there was like an article that got put out right
Speaker 1: before it ended, talking about how and maybe it came
Speaker 1: out right as it happened. It was like Framber No
Speaker 1: hits the Rangers and comes back blah blah blah, and
Speaker 1: then as that happens, Corey Seeger launches a two run
Speaker 1: homer two snap that no hitter after a double play
Speaker 1: eight and two thirds of an inning for Framber Corey Seger.
Speaker 1: They didn't win the game. It would have actually been
Speaker 1: way more magical had the Rangers taken that game away
Speaker 1: from Framber. But Corey Seger breaks it. Joe, let's talk
Speaker 1: about Framber Valdez, who is definitely been towing on the
Speaker 1: line of more consistency than he was earlier in the year. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think we might have pupooed him on last week's
Speaker 3: show when I was on Well, I think we were
Speaker 3: comparing him to Logan Web or something. He's getting there,
Speaker 3: He's still not somebody that I really trust so so much.
Speaker 3: Like it has definitely gotten better and it's like the
Speaker 3: exact same era as last season. I think it's just
Speaker 3: really the strikeout drop, which hasn't been so so drastic,
Speaker 3: but he's not. From like twenty five percent to twenty
Speaker 3: two percent, just takes away some of that per inning
Speaker 3: viability a little bit, Like there's no real concern. You're
Speaker 3: still starting him against pretty much everybody. But I don't
Speaker 3: view him in the same tier as I did coming
Speaker 3: into the season. I think he's a bit of a
Speaker 3: notch down, kind of in the same way as like
Speaker 3: Zach Gallon to some extent, but I think that's more
Speaker 3: like an innings concern. But I viewed them a little
Speaker 3: bit in the higher tier coming into the year than
Speaker 3: I did at this point, and they're both kind of
Speaker 3: in the same tier.
Speaker 2: But that's kind of where I'm at.
Speaker 1: Frambur in that game, by the way, one hundred and
Speaker 1: seven pitches was primary curveball, change up. Stuff was down,
Speaker 1: sinker was up a little bit. It's over a mile prowur,
Speaker 1: so I mean, again, assume that's the fastball. So his
Speaker 1: fastball was up. The secondaries were going a little bit slower,
Speaker 1: a ton of whiffs on the curveball. Rangers were just
Speaker 1: eating up his curveball eight of eight of eighteen swings
Speaker 1: were whiffed through change up as well, so twelve of
Speaker 1: his sixteen whiffs came from his secondary off speed stuff.
Speaker 1: But also this game was a lot about limiting soft contact.
Speaker 1: The curveball had an average EVY of eighty five against
Speaker 1: and the change up seventy six, So that's the amount
Speaker 1: of hard contact that was against both of those pitches.
Speaker 1: And the two high average evs were the slider and
Speaker 1: the sinker, and he was limiting those. He threw those
Speaker 1: a combined looks like thirty five of his one hundred
Speaker 1: and seven pitches where they're a slider or a sinker.
Speaker 1: So it was a ton of secondary stuff in this
Speaker 1: which ended up working out for him all the way
Speaker 1: until it didn't. Still worked out still, you know, picked up,
Speaker 1: picked up the win and everything like that, but Corey
Speaker 1: Seger absolutely demolished that and got him out of that one. Also,
Speaker 1: by the way, very weird day with all the weather
Speaker 1: because we've got just a whole bunch of just rained
Speaker 1: out game. We've got double headers today, we've got Yankees
Speaker 1: and Angels, we've got the Diamondbacks that are going to
Speaker 1: be kicking off right as this game is going to end.
Speaker 1: So I know that's thrown in. Someone was complaining in
Speaker 1: the chat about the Louise Heel to start getting kind
Speaker 1: of screwed this week, which it's this time of year
Speaker 1: if it's not whether it's pushbacks of usage and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, Joe and we don't get a lot of
Speaker 1: these guys. I'm actually very excited about the Louis Heel
Speaker 1: start here. It's one of my most highly focused ones
Speaker 1: of all these guys, you know, the Paul Skins, the
Speaker 1: Louis Heels, and how they're going to perform. This one's
Speaker 1: kind of got me, got me a little bit excited
Speaker 1: today if I had a primary.
Speaker 2: Focus Luis Heel against the Angels.
Speaker 3: Right, Yankees Angels, he's the first game of the second game.
Speaker 1: He is the first. I want to say, he's the
Speaker 1: first game, and the Will Warren start is the second game.
Speaker 1: I mean, if these even play, by the way, they
Speaker 1: still keep getting rained out.
Speaker 2: They're still a concern today.
Speaker 3: I haven't checked the forecast today, but there's a chance
Speaker 3: those get those get washed out again.
Speaker 1: I thought there was a concern like literally all week
Speaker 1: for any of these Angels games if they weren't going
Speaker 1: to even play at all. So I don't know. There's
Speaker 1: some concerns I wanted. I love me some Lucile.
Speaker 3: I wonder when there's gonna be like universal retractable roofs
Speaker 3: across sports football. We saw the Hall of Fame game baseball.
Speaker 3: I wonder if it's like ten years out, fifteen twenty,
Speaker 3: because I feel like eventually every stadium is going to
Speaker 3: have to have a dome or retractable roof.
Speaker 1: No, you know it, Yeah maybe, but I feel like
Speaker 1: that's the same conversation of like, when are we going
Speaker 1: to have artificial turf of some version in every single
Speaker 1: stadium and they still don't like there's still something special
Speaker 1: that you know, each of these stadiums or a lot
Speaker 1: of them are gonna want that just have that big,
Speaker 1: open feel even though it's you know, it's great, Like
Speaker 1: we have one here in Arizona. When they open it up,
Speaker 1: it's nice, but it's not the same feeling probably as
Speaker 1: going to like, you know, Chicago, But I don't think
Speaker 1: Chicago's ever going to change it. But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, we should probably hone in on that. The
Speaker 1: amount of games that get lost due to it is
Speaker 1: pretty obnoxious, and the double headers and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: but you know what it is. What it is the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw allowed one run over four and two thirds
Speaker 1: had five strikeouts against the against the Phillies. What's your
Speaker 1: level of comfort with Kershawn moving forward? He's not going
Speaker 1: deep into games, but we're I feel like we're seeing
Speaker 1: some shades of old.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think he's all right.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's necessary, like he's never gonna be
Speaker 3: prime Kershaw again, but he's never ever been bad. Like
Speaker 3: I think the worst era he's ever put up over
Speaker 3: a season is like three five, three six, even if
Speaker 3: he's at a reduced capacity, which at this point following
Speaker 3: shoulder surgery at his age he probably is. But I
Speaker 3: think we're still gonna see consistent, really good performances, even
Speaker 3: if it's just over five innings. Good chance he's gonna
Speaker 3: be able to get a win, even just over five innings.
Speaker 3: In Los Angeles, they got Freeman back. I think Mooki's
Speaker 3: gonna be back fairly soon. So I think that he's
Speaker 3: somebody that should be rostered everywhere. I don't even think
Speaker 3: in shallow leagues I'd want to leave Kershaw out there.
Speaker 2: I love him.
Speaker 3: I've always been biased towards Kershaw, but he's just always
Speaker 3: been so good. I think he deserves the benefit of
Speaker 3: the doubt, even after we're the last start wasn't so great.
Speaker 2: He hasn't gone so deep into games, but I'm still
Speaker 2: very confident in him going forward.
Speaker 1: All the stuff was up in this last start, which
Speaker 1: is a you know, that's a big positive, not that
Speaker 1: there were anything crazy that was up. Slider was massively effective.
Speaker 1: That was his big with pitch in this one. Did
Speaker 1: not get a single swing through on a fastball, but
Speaker 1: he was throwing it, he was commanding it. Had an
Speaker 1: over fifty percent zone rate, which is really really nice.
Speaker 1: Just no one was swinging outside of the zone. But
Speaker 1: that's where the curveball and the slider were both getting people.
Speaker 1: So again that is like vintage Kershaw. He just doesn't
Speaker 1: really throw anything hard. He was averaging ninety on the fastball.
Speaker 1: The secondaries get really low. But you know, him being
Speaker 1: healthy is really just the key at this point. Like
Speaker 1: he saw it. By the way, I am laughing at
Speaker 1: like we have like weather reports in the chat right now,
Speaker 1: Angelo said, Angels Yankees Game one, scattered showers around most
Speaker 1: of the activity looks pretty light and This is from
Speaker 1: Kevin Roth. But they're not going to rule out a
Speaker 1: delay already in Game one. The weather stuff, man, it's
Speaker 1: so weird. We were supposed to have last night. Actually
Speaker 1: went out to the complex over to the Mariners and
Speaker 1: got to see Jerangelo and talk to him for a second.
Speaker 1: The Mariner's first round pick. He's the ambidextrous pitcher who
Speaker 1: throws with both hands. Also Ryan Sloan and a couple
Speaker 1: of the Guardians guys. But we were like worried because
Speaker 1: it was supposed to be the storm of the century
Speaker 1: here eighty mile an hour, sixty eighty mile an hour
Speaker 1: wins out here, tornado, thunderstorm warnings, and Arizona nothing. There
Speaker 1: was nothing, Not a single thing happened. But that's also
Speaker 1: a very Arizona centric thing. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: guys deal with Jerry says there's no power there. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you guys deal with all of the
Speaker 1: insanity like this, And you're in Canada. It's got to
Speaker 1: be bad for you too.
Speaker 3: The weather's kind of crazy here, Like there was actually
Speaker 3: a few weeks ago, like you know, behind the scenes,
Speaker 3: I was going like to produce a couple of shows
Speaker 3: here and I couldn't do them because we just lost
Speaker 3: power for like the entire day. Weather it can be
Speaker 3: a little bit tricky, but we don't have to worry
Speaker 3: about like tornadoes and hurricanes and stuff like that, so
Speaker 3: it's a trade off, but it's not too too bad.
Speaker 2: They're a little extreme.
Speaker 3: The seasons here, like it'll be boiling hot one day
Speaker 3: and then freezing the next with no warning.
Speaker 2: But I've kind of got used to it over the years.
Speaker 1: It's one hundred and thirteen yesterday too, by the way,
Speaker 1: and all those storms here one hundred and thirteen. The
Speaker 1: weather outside is whether On the Cubs, we got a
Speaker 1: couple pieces. Shota Emanaga allowed two runs over seven innings,
Speaker 1: striking out ten, picking up the win. Some strong outings
Speaker 1: from e Managa. I definitely was kind of calling for
Speaker 1: a big retraction of production in the second half, or
Speaker 1: theoretical production. There's actually a really good thread out yesterday.
Speaker 1: One of my biggest worries with I Monaga has been
Speaker 1: him being a two pitch pitcher. I focused so much
Speaker 1: of the first half on it. By the way, me
Speaker 1: and I did a podcast with Enoserris where we were
Speaker 1: kind of breaking down and like two pitch pitchers are
Speaker 1: kind of scary. I think two pitch pitchers with a
Speaker 1: splitter are kind of scary because you're really just kind
Speaker 1: of you. You're an up and down pitcher outside of
Speaker 1: whatever type you know, theoretical movement you might get on
Speaker 1: the corners of a splitter. Iman Aga as of recent
Speaker 1: and there's a really good thread about it, is talking
Speaker 1: about him starting to implement a change up, and maybe
Speaker 1: a different couple versions of a change up. I think
Speaker 1: they were calling like one was like a vulcan grip
Speaker 1: change up, and I don't know if the other I'm
Speaker 1: forgetting now if the other one was like the circle
Speaker 1: change or something like that. But I want to actually
Speaker 1: look at his pitch mix here before I speak too
Speaker 1: soon about it. At least he is starting to do it,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean they're showing like he's got the
Speaker 1: sinker in there, which is getting a little bit more
Speaker 1: movement on the corners, starting to throw a sweeper a
Speaker 1: little bit, and they're really not registering the change up,
Speaker 1: but I think it might be misregistered. Splitter sometimes can
Speaker 1: do that. But still at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's like of his ninety two pitches eighty four of
Speaker 1: them or either fastball or splitter. So unless you're getting
Speaker 1: a little bit of a misclarification from Savant, which is
Speaker 1: very normal, you know, it's still showing the same thing.
Speaker 1: But the idea is that Emanaga is starting to tinker
Speaker 1: with a few other things to get some different looks.
Speaker 1: And he's got seventeen strikeouts over his last thirteen and
Speaker 1: two thirds of an inning, and he has been pretty decent.
Speaker 1: Emanaga Top fifteen sp rest of season. Yeah or nay.
Speaker 3: I actually just updated my rankings not too long ago.
Speaker 3: I think he was outside of the top fifty. No,
Speaker 3: I want to say I had him like twenty something.
Speaker 3: I think it's just like the relative lack of strikeouts
Speaker 3: compared to the other top tier starting pitchers might keep
Speaker 3: them outside. I had him at twenty six actually over
Speaker 3: the All Star break, which maybe was selling him a
Speaker 3: little bit short. I think it might just be the
Speaker 3: strikeouts to worry about some of that regression, and we've
Speaker 3: seen a little bit like he hasn't been as pure
Speaker 3: as he was earlier on in the season. I might
Speaker 3: have sold him a little short there, though. I think
Speaker 3: he's probably around around twentieth for me.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then I feel like, I mean, the era
Speaker 1: is kind of inflated back up. You know, when I
Speaker 1: was talking about it, it was like the sub two er,
Speaker 1: and I think he's just leveling out. This is exactly
Speaker 1: what that was going to happen. He was just going
Speaker 1: to kind of be like a level out guy, and
Speaker 1: that's what's happening. Three Eira strikeouts are good, doesn't walk
Speaker 1: a lot, barrels are getting up a little bit more,
Speaker 1: and he's starting to add some horizontal movement to his arsenal,
Speaker 1: which I think is like, really really important. Also on
Speaker 1: the Cubs, est sac parades two for three with a homer,
Speaker 1: four RBI. His first homer is a Cub. But mister
Speaker 1: Joe Rico parades three for twenty seven he had entered
Speaker 1: in as a Cub, and we had one hundred percent
Speaker 1: one hundred percent kind of put the clamps on that
Speaker 1: trade as being probably the worst, probably the one we
Speaker 1: didn't like the most, at least I didn't like the
Speaker 1: most because from a ballpark perspective, that was the biggest
Speaker 1: difference as far as that pole side left field. And
Speaker 1: we have seen the Parades struggles early on. Are you in?
Speaker 1: Are you out? I mean, like I said yesterday, great, awesome,
Speaker 1: you got your homer, but he had really been struggle
Speaker 1: playing thoughts on paradeus moving forward the rest of the year.
Speaker 3: He's not somebody I would want to drop or anything like.
Speaker 3: He's still somebody that you should be rostering. But it's
Speaker 3: a definite down grade. It's like a I think it
Speaker 3: was forty feet farther out in left field, and that's
Speaker 3: really all that he does is hit balls in the
Speaker 3: air to left field if it's a little bit harder there.
Speaker 3: He's not giving you a lot of batting average. That
Speaker 3: lineup isn't great enough that you can really count on
Speaker 3: a lot of runs in RBIs there's no speed, Like
Speaker 3: it's a serious downgrade for him. If you're in like
Speaker 3: a ten team league where it's really shallow like ESPN rosters.
Speaker 3: I think he's pretty borderline like most leagues where you
Speaker 3: got like those corner middle infield spots. If you're playing
Speaker 3: like NFBC leagues, like you're still holding him, but really
Speaker 3: shallow leagues like this is a serious downgrade, and it
Speaker 3: really hurts the only thing that he really excels in,
Speaker 3: which is hitting for power. Unless he start hitting the
Speaker 3: ball the other way, which is not gonna happen. I
Speaker 3: don't really expect much out of parates. I think it
Speaker 3: was a bad trade. I really just think it was
Speaker 3: a bad trade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sabo was saying the win must have been blowing
Speaker 1: down that left field line. I actually think in that game,
Speaker 1: I think the wins were blowing in. I think they're
Speaker 1: actually blowing in to the first base side. I just
Speaker 1: happened to look because of course I was like, oh good,
Speaker 1: Actually this was Monday, Monday it was blowing in. So
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't remember. I remember Monday because
Speaker 1: I had taken the over and someone was like, watch
Speaker 1: out for the weather. It's like ten miles an hour in.
Speaker 1: I had taken a look at so I don't know.
Speaker 1: I do have one for you a versus east Soock Parades,
Speaker 1: and let's use your smaller league as like a good
Speaker 1: barometer here, Eastock Parades or Tyler Fitzgerald. Who would you
Speaker 1: rather have rest the season?
Speaker 2: I think paradies. Still, I don't buy these runs from
Speaker 2: players like this.
Speaker 3: Now, there are things that I'd like about Fitzgerald, like
Speaker 3: he has a lot of speed, the power seems to
Speaker 3: be fairly legit, but still striking out a lot, and
Speaker 3: like when you see these excuse me, when you see
Speaker 3: these guys like Kevin Pollar went on a crazy heater
Speaker 3: earlier in the year, Lawrence Butler, it doesn't really sustain
Speaker 3: all that often. Like Fitzgerald's hitting like five home runs
Speaker 3: a week. I just I find it pretty hard to
Speaker 3: think in that ballpark, around that lineup that he's really
Speaker 3: gonna be a shallow league guy. I think that would
Speaker 3: be parades for me there.
Speaker 1: Think I'm gonna go Tyler Fitzgerald, Like, I don't know
Speaker 1: if there's enough time for a big alteration, like Parides.
Speaker 1: Game has been very simple. It has been pull the
Speaker 1: ball in the air. That's what he does. Everything he
Speaker 1: does is pull the ball in the air. It's not
Speaker 1: that that's gone, but it's tapered. It's tapered down. And
Speaker 1: Tyler fitzgild I do worry about the strikeouts, but he's
Speaker 1: making like really solid contact, Like his barrel rate has
Speaker 1: been really good, you know, putting good hard hits. He's
Speaker 1: leading off for the team as well. I know my
Speaker 1: son crazy in smaller leagues. I would go because I
Speaker 1: do think there's a potential that a guy like Tyler
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald could be out there over pradues by the way,
Speaker 1: you know, the most ridiculous thing, but shout out to
Speaker 1: my mom. My mom came in here and came in
Speaker 1: to say hi. So everybody in the chat is saying
Speaker 1: hi to Mama Welsh, Hi Mom, Hello, Hello, Hello, thank
Speaker 1: you in the hosting here, let's talk about this last
Speaker 1: one in the big headlines here. Jeffrey Springs allowed four
Speaker 1: earned runs over six innings. I'm sorry, I'll have four
Speaker 1: earned runs on six hits over five innings Tuesday in
Speaker 1: a loss to the Cardinals. Springs now has allowed six
Speaker 1: earned runs over eight and two thirds while striking out six.
Speaker 1: And this game he started off good and then he
Speaker 1: tapered back. We saw it in the previous start where
Speaker 1: he got off to a bad start and hunkered down.
Speaker 1: Do you think like Jeffrey Springs is someone you're going
Speaker 1: to trust the rest of the season if he's been available.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's kind of being very fringy right now.
Speaker 3: I bid on him like everywhere over the last couple
Speaker 3: of weeks. I know, like I'm talking of the Jeffrey
Speaker 3: Springs fan club over here. If you're out on him,
Speaker 3: then that should probably make me reevaluate things. But I
Speaker 3: want to give him a little bit more time after
Speaker 3: such a long layoff. To give up on him after
Speaker 3: eight innings, I think would be a little extreme. I
Speaker 3: want to give him a couple starts. At being said,
Speaker 3: we don't have a lot of time for him to
Speaker 3: really write the ship here. But I think if you're
Speaker 3: dropping him already, it's a little bit premature for me.
Speaker 3: I want to give him another couple starts. If it's
Speaker 3: still looking horrendous after two or three more, then I'll
Speaker 3: cut bait on him.
Speaker 2: But I think it's too soon to throw in the towel.
Speaker 1: I think it's too soon to throw in the towel.
Speaker 1: But I believe he's got Baltimore in his next start,
Speaker 1: so I'm not starting him there at all. He's been
Speaker 1: getting hit, and he's been getting hit hard, hard like,
Speaker 1: so that change up that he loves to throw. It's
Speaker 1: got a five hundred batting average against right now the
Speaker 1: four seamer you're looking at like a two seventy batting average,
Speaker 1: So how I would approach it. Everything has stunk and
Speaker 1: he's been giving up a lot of like bad contact.
Speaker 1: You got to see if that's going to alter out
Speaker 1: if right now is a fifty one percent hard hit
Speaker 1: rate against because it's not overpowering stuff and it's not missing,
Speaker 1: do not start him against Baltimore. See how that goes
Speaker 1: play out the next start. He might just not be
Speaker 1: a guy that we can fully trust, especially in the
Speaker 1: back end of this year, until he gets healthy for
Speaker 1: next season. That might be how we have to approach it.
Speaker 1: Joe Rico Jackson Holiday in the rookie lookie has been
Speaker 1: pretty pretty good, pretty pretty good since he's returned, Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Yes, one for two with a solo
Speaker 1: homer against your Blue Jays. Also super cool. He just
Speaker 1: got pulled in a super important situation which was I
Speaker 1: really had orioles from Ryan Wormley was losing his mind
Speaker 1: about it. But since returning Jackson Holiday eight for twenty
Speaker 1: three homers eight RBI, he has been great and you've
Speaker 1: seen the complete change and you're actually seeing Kobe Mayo
Speaker 1: b Jackson Holiday from earlier in the year. Is Jackson
Speaker 1: Holiday an absolute must start every way through? And you know,
Speaker 1: same thing like, let's go back to Estock Pardes Jackson
Speaker 1: Holiday or est SOOC parades rest this season.
Speaker 3: I'd easily go holiday there, easily Holiday for me, what
Speaker 3: about you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent Jackson Holiday.
Speaker 2: Holiday is yeah, I'm Holiday is just like he's going
Speaker 2: to be so so good.
Speaker 3: It's like that ten game sample size earlier in the
Speaker 3: year really sullied the way that everybody viewed him. But
Speaker 3: I think I said it last week or two weeks
Speaker 3: ago when I was on guys need to go through
Speaker 3: some struggles when they first come up, or within the
Speaker 3: first month or so of coming up, to really just
Speaker 3: realize what they're up against. He went back down, he
Speaker 3: worked on some things, and now he looks like that
Speaker 3: number one prospect again. So I think wheels are up.
Speaker 3: Holiday is going to be fantastic. If he's still out
Speaker 3: there in shallow leagues, I'd pick him up and start
Speaker 3: him every single day, every single week, assuming that Brandon
Speaker 3: Hyde puts him in the lineup, because you never know
Speaker 3: what that guy what's gonna happen. And we'll talk Kobe Mayo,
Speaker 3: I'm sure as well, But it's some kind of strange
Speaker 3: decision making in Baltimore, to say the least.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean I think like he's pretty solidified.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a lot of worries of
Speaker 1: that Miteo got heard Westberg is out. Mayo has really
Speaker 1: really struggled, you know. DVS here was asking about leash
Speaker 1: on prospects, like Mayo says, how long before thinking of
Speaker 1: binging or dropping him? I had Noelvie Marte dropped him
Speaker 1: and now he is hitting a little bit with the
Speaker 1: guy like in Redraft, you move on like unfortunately, And
Speaker 1: this has been the trend all year. The guys that
Speaker 1: we really care about have had struggles outside of James Wood.
Speaker 1: I think James Wood has been like relatively even, but
Speaker 1: Holliday had massive, massive struggles, and Mayo is he's got
Speaker 1: a real swing and miss problem right now, with what's
Speaker 1: left into the season, I'm really not sure that you
Speaker 1: need to hold on to Kobe Mayo because he's gonna
Speaker 1: hit lower in the lineup and Jackson Holiday's moving up,
Speaker 1: So I'd prioritize Holiday over Mayo. I'd have a quick
Speaker 1: trigger finger on a guy like Kobe Mayo in perfect
Speaker 1: example exactly right Sabo just mentioned, or he'll just sign J. D. Davis,
Speaker 1: So I mean, I think that proves their level of it,
Speaker 1: So on any of these rookies, I'd have a quick
Speaker 1: trigger finger at this time of the year to not
Speaker 1: sit around. But I also think Jackson Holiday is solidified.
Speaker 1: I really, I really do.
Speaker 2: I think he is.
Speaker 3: I just Brandon Hyde plays so many games it wouldn't
Speaker 3: shock me if they start to, like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't really expect him. But if you started sitting
Speaker 3: against left handed pitching here and there, would that Would
Speaker 3: that really surprise you that much?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Nothing, I mean nothing would surprise me. Whether they've been
Speaker 1: playing ramon Orrius the entire year and Jorge Mateo was
Speaker 1: locked in so no, not a one big, single bit
Speaker 1: would surprise me. Angelo, this is a constant, Angela said.
Speaker 1: Was Welsh doing the Reds game last night? The announcer
Speaker 1: said something about Chris Welsh speaking in other languages. It's
Speaker 1: pretty well known the real Chris Welsh, former picture for
Speaker 1: the Reds is the announcer on there. I believe he's famous,
Speaker 1: not great, by the way. I believe he's famous for
Speaker 1: criticizing the chains of Ronald d'acunya well and then and
Speaker 1: then kind of slamming Ozzie Albi's for taking the money
Speaker 1: whatever that. Yeah, there was some really bad situation, not
Speaker 1: the best, but I have legit been on television shows,
Speaker 1: and they have thought I was him. Dude's like sixty five,
Speaker 1: don't I actually have a pretty young face. I don't
Speaker 1: buy that whatsoever. And I've also had an article written
Speaker 1: and they said, oh the end. This League podcast hosted
Speaker 1: by Scott Bagman and former Major league pitcher Chris Welsh,
Speaker 1: also incorrect. Absolutely also incorrect. So yes, you will hear that.
Speaker 1: Going to the audience, Michael Impo said, do we think
Speaker 1: Johann Duran has lost his closer role to Griffin Jacks?
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 2: Show?
Speaker 3: I think Jack got the most recent save opportunity, but
Speaker 3: Duran's been outside of the kind of lack of strikeos
Speaker 3: this year, he's still been fairly good. I don't think that,
Speaker 3: I like, unless we actually hear the team say that,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't drop Duran and assume that Jacks is the
Speaker 3: guy as good as Jacks has been like Duran coming
Speaker 3: into the season. There are a lot of people who
Speaker 3: thought Duran was like the best relief pitcher in all
Speaker 3: of baseball. I don't, and he hasn't done enough to really.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's not he doesn't have that title, but
Speaker 3: Duran still like just pulling up his number he's got
Speaker 3: a three forty seven Era one zero two whip.
Speaker 2: He's still been very, very good.
Speaker 3: I don't know, what do you think, Well, do you
Speaker 3: think there's a chance that Jackson takes over the job here?
Speaker 2: I doubt it.
Speaker 1: So I think this is similar to here here there's
Speaker 1: the very first question out of the day. Let me
Speaker 1: see if I can scroll to it before, like this is
Speaker 1: one of those we weren't even here yet. And Shane
Speaker 1: came in, by the way, shout out Shane. That's my
Speaker 1: middle name, Shane. What do what do we think Justin
Speaker 1: Martinez getting a shot in the closer role in Arizona?
Speaker 1: It's a great question. I think there's nobody that can
Speaker 1: have the lockdown. And I will say this Tory level
Speaker 1: and I know I'm this is a Twins thing, but
Speaker 1: with the dim of extra a second Tory Levello did
Speaker 1: attempt to give it to Ryan Thompson three opportunities. Believe
Speaker 1: he kind of screwed up two of them. AJ Puck
Speaker 1: came in to save one. Justin Martinez came in and
Speaker 1: looks phenomenal and got the other one. I think the
Speaker 1: diamondback situation has the potential to be Hey, We've got
Speaker 1: multiple guys that can do this. It can be leverage situations.
Speaker 1: I've already said I think aj Puck is going to
Speaker 1: be the fireman the biggest critical situations. Justin Martinez might
Speaker 1: get more opportunities because his when his stuff is on,
Speaker 1: he is unhittable. That fastball splitter combination is unhittable. It
Speaker 1: doesn't have the movement like Emmanuel class A, but it
Speaker 1: reminds me like that. So I say those things to
Speaker 1: say that I don't think one of those guys is
Speaker 1: locked in to all the save opportunities. I do believe
Speaker 1: you will see Paulsey while get a save opportunity. I
Speaker 1: do think Justin Martinez might have moved ahead of Ryan Thompson,
Speaker 1: and they've already not gone to Ginkles, so I think
Speaker 1: Ginkle's out. So I think that's Puck Martinez in Seawald
Speaker 1: you're gonna see. Bring it all the way back to
Speaker 1: the actual question. I don't think Jacks takes all of them,
Speaker 1: but I do think this is now open up to
Speaker 1: a spot where they're gonna kind of battle it out,
Speaker 1: and both of these guys might be getting saved. So
Speaker 1: I'm not looking to get rid of Duran because I
Speaker 1: don't think he's lost it completely, but I think Jacks
Speaker 1: has the comfort from the team that they will give
Speaker 1: him opportunities that makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's totally fair. Jackson has been amazing. Like,
Speaker 3: Jackson has been fantastic this season. I think even in
Speaker 3: standard five by five leagues, he's like a top one
Speaker 3: hundred player without having a ton of saves, He's been fantastic.
Speaker 3: I just think Duran is still probably gonna get Like,
Speaker 3: if it was gonna be a split, I think Duran would.
Speaker 2: Still take the majority of them.
Speaker 3: But Jacks is an interesting guy to speculate on because
Speaker 3: every year we have these guys that are non closing relievers,
Speaker 3: they still have a lot of value and even if
Speaker 3: they're not bringing inconsistent say you get the odd win
Speaker 3: the odds save tons of strikeouts. With Jacks, even though
Speaker 3: I don't think he'll like take over that role, he
Speaker 3: could still actually have some value if you're in a
Speaker 3: slightly deeper like twelve teamer and beyond like that could
Speaker 3: still be a nice pickup for you.
Speaker 1: Closers are the running backs of fantasy football. Every team
Speaker 1: wants to have two or three of them. There's very few.
Speaker 1: It feels like very few workhorses out there anymore, that
Speaker 1: teams aren't willing to bounce around. That's just how I've
Speaker 1: kind of approached it. At least one more Lee said,
Speaker 1: what do we think about diw Rasmussen being activated? Is
Speaker 1: Ji Rassmussen going to be on the level of Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Springs trust more or less.
Speaker 2: As of right now?
Speaker 3: I'd say he's a little bit less, even with the
Speaker 3: struggles that Springs has had. I think Springs is just
Speaker 3: a better pitcher. That doesn't take anything away from Rasmusen,
Speaker 3: who's actually really good in his own right. But I
Speaker 3: would have to lean Springs all things being equal right now.
Speaker 3: And I mean, if Rasmussen comes out and looks fantastic
Speaker 3: in his first couple starts, that'll probably change things.
Speaker 2: But I'd have to take Springs.
Speaker 1: I think I agree with you on that. Like in
Speaker 1: deeper leagues, Rasmus is interesting to speculate on. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I'm like looking to crazy speculate in the world of
Speaker 1: the Rays, Like I imagine he's going to be slowly
Speaker 1: kind of integrated into the entire rotation coming off of
Speaker 1: these injuries. These are gonna be great, guys. Next year,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be back into Rasmussen. I will be
Speaker 1: back into Jeffrey Springs, even however bad it is this year,
Speaker 1: the adjustment period is just a little bit bigger. Hey,
Speaker 1: three up and three down. Willia damis Willia Dams, as
Speaker 1: Joe would say yesterday, Joe Piece of Pa four for five,
Speaker 1: two homers, four RBIs Colin Ray also when seven innings,
Speaker 1: struck out nine didn't give up an earned run and
Speaker 1: James Wood two for three a homer, two RBI and
Speaker 1: two stolen bases. Dare we say combo meal or socks
Speaker 1: and shoes? However you want to talk about that, everybody,
Speaker 1: It's a homer and a stolen base. He was awesome yesterday?
Speaker 1: Who was not awesome? Hayden Bird's song. Two innings, seven
Speaker 1: earned runs, Bryce Elder three and two thirds, give up
Speaker 1: seven in runs, walk to give up eight hits and
Speaker 1: was gone. I think I saw the biggest cheer yesterday
Speaker 1: for the Braves was Bryce Elder being pulled because he stinks.
Speaker 1: And lind Or Gunnar Henderson, Brian Reynolds all yesterday over
Speaker 1: with three strikeouts, bad bad, bad injuries. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you saw this one yesterday. Joe Grayson Rodriguez in
Speaker 1: pre stretch warm up stuff was throwing, looked over at
Speaker 1: his bullpen coach and said, I don't feel right. I
Speaker 1: don't feel good. He was scratched from that start against
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays with what are they calling it lat
Speaker 1: terrace discomfort. It's like some lat discomfort. Very likely could
Speaker 1: be an il situation for Grayson Rodriguez and why they
Speaker 1: went out and made all those very subpar trades. But
Speaker 1: they were trying to get pitching depth because of this
Speaker 1: right here.
Speaker 3: I believe he had the same injury when he was
Speaker 3: a minor leaguer twenty one or twenty two. I saw
Speaker 3: somebody mention that this was the same thing that bothered
Speaker 3: him a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: So don't love to see that.
Speaker 3: Not gonna overreact here, but probably gonna end up on
Speaker 3: the shelf.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Maybe one of the saddest ones was Bruce dar
Speaker 1: Grattarol had been out all season. I don't remember him
Speaker 1: pitching a lot last year either. I saw him at
Speaker 1: the Complex during Arizona Complex Ball. He was working out
Speaker 1: him Tony Gonsolin, River Ryan. Those were kind of dustin may.
Speaker 1: Those are the guys that were always there. Bruce Dar
Speaker 1: was just kind of sitting around and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, boom, he's back. He gets out there eight
Speaker 1: pitches and he's gone with a significant ham string strain.
Speaker 1: They said, by the way, it wasn't a leg injury.
Speaker 1: I think it was an arm issue. He had been
Speaker 1: dealing with while he was out all year. Goes in
Speaker 1: and suffers a significant ham string strain. Had to be
Speaker 1: like carried out. Dude, just crying all of that work
Speaker 1: to get back. You know, you don't blame him or
Speaker 1: anything like that, but Bruce Dar, there's a real potential
Speaker 1: Bruis Dar could have been thrust right back into a
Speaker 1: closer role and that is gone. There's no application to
Speaker 1: talk about except maybe, you know, Evan Phillips will get
Speaker 1: another more opportunities again, and Dustin Daniel Hudson might get
Speaker 1: some of those. It won't be from Bruce Dar.
Speaker 2: Joe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just like the human side of it. You
Speaker 3: feel so so bad for these guys. Coodeai Sang is
Speaker 3: another one. You know, you spend the whole year rehabbing,
Speaker 3: you come back one game and then and then your
Speaker 3: toast from.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers' perspective.
Speaker 3: I wonder do you think there's any chance Michael Kopek
Speaker 3: gets the ninth inning with any regularity.
Speaker 1: Regularity? I don't know. Does he get a ninth inning? Yes,
Speaker 1: I absolutely do. They are clearly just throwing bullets out there.
Speaker 1: Who the hell was it the other day? It wasn't Brazier,
Speaker 1: It wasn't fair. I mean, they're just God, who is
Speaker 1: the guy I'm for completely figuring one of those like
Speaker 1: black middle in the one that gave up that blew
Speaker 1: the save in like the tenth with the padres. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. They're all Anthony Bandas to Kopex, to Evan
Speaker 1: Phillips to Daniel Hudson's it's all the same. They're all
Speaker 1: the same guys. None of them are good. It'll probably
Speaker 1: go to Kopekkode Senga just pointing that out. Justin Turner
Speaker 1: day to day after leaving Thursday's game after getting hit
Speaker 1: on the hand by a pitch, Mariners don't want that.
Speaker 1: Ranger Swarez is scheduled to throw a bullpen session tomorrow,
Speaker 1: hopefully getting into whatever type of rehab assignment they would need,
Speaker 1: and Christian Scott has yet to be cleared in throwing
Speaker 1: if anybody was holding out hopes for them. Frindos, Yes,
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Speaker 1: and mister Joe Rico has got some props for you today.
Speaker 1: I believe you got one of the guys you hit
Speaker 1: and nailed last week. You are getting right back on it.
Speaker 1: So what are some of your favorite bets for today?
Speaker 3: Going back to the Taj Bradley, Well, again, if anybody
Speaker 3: follows me or listens to my stava, you know how
Speaker 3: much I love Taj Bradley. He's one of my favorite
Speaker 3: pitchers in baseball, and he is constantly disrespected on.
Speaker 2: These strikeout totals.
Speaker 3: It was four and a half with like minus one
Speaker 3: eighty five or something when I checked this morning. He's
Speaker 3: got like a thirty percent strikeout rate. It's like one
Speaker 3: of the five or seven best strikeout rates in all
Speaker 3: of baseball should not be set anywhere under five. So
Speaker 3: I took the alt line at six plus strikeouts plus
Speaker 3: one point fifteen for Bradley. Very very attainable there. I
Speaker 3: even thought about going a little crazy with a little
Speaker 3: bit of a ladder or something, but we'll we'll keep
Speaker 3: it at six. We'll keep it at six. You're getting
Speaker 3: plus money there. But if he ends up with seven
Speaker 3: or eight, I would not at all be surprised. Ryan
Speaker 3: O'Hearn facing against Bowden Francis today on Toronto, he just
Speaker 3: destroys right handed pitching. It's like a one thirty two
Speaker 3: WRC plus all of his home runs i've come against
Speaker 3: right handers.
Speaker 2: He mostly plays against right handers.
Speaker 3: But ohearn has really been an excellent, excellent platoon bat
Speaker 3: for the Oriols this season, over one and a half
Speaker 3: total bases at plus one twenty. Really liked that one
Speaker 3: as well. And maybe you can even get cheeky with
Speaker 3: a home run there. Not my home run call, but
Speaker 3: you could get a little cheeky. And then the last
Speaker 3: one is a little more chalky. It's Freddy Peralta over
Speaker 3: five and a half strikeouts. He's facing the Braves, who
Speaker 3: it might surprise some people. Maybe it won't the way
Speaker 3: the year's gone, but they have the fifth worst strikeout
Speaker 3: rate amongst all teams in baseball, nearly twenty five percent.
Speaker 3: Paralta is pretty routinely going over this. Now it is
Speaker 3: juiced to minus one sixty, but you got the other
Speaker 3: plus money bets in there, so this one's a little
Speaker 3: bit safer. So Todz Bradley's six plus strikeouts, Ryan O'Hearn
Speaker 3: over one and a half total basis and Freddy Peralta
Speaker 3: over five and a half strikeouts, all of them at
Speaker 3: bat three, six five.
Speaker 1: You know what I might do. I might even play around.
Speaker 1: I think I might do this when we're done. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I like to. It is dangerous, you know, pairing anything.
Speaker 1: You're lessening your odds, of course, but you're boosting your
Speaker 1: potential return. Is take toaj Bradley five k's and Freddy
Speaker 1: Peralta five k's. Pair those, they're paired down a little bit,
Speaker 1: but combo them together and I bet you'll get somewhere
Speaker 1: between plus to plus one thirty, somewhere in that range.
Speaker 1: And I think I might just play that myself. Someone
Speaker 1: also asked, this is a good one. Justin said anyone
Speaker 1: think that Fought's strikeout line is a little low today,
Speaker 1: and I think he's going right now, so it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter at this point, Guardians, You're right, it is. It's
Speaker 1: like three and a half. There's a couple of those
Speaker 1: three and a half today that really stand out you.
Speaker 1: Another one, I will tell you it's one of the
Speaker 1: Betting Pros prop cheat sheet favorite plays is Cutter Crawford strikeouts,
Speaker 1: which I believe is at three and a half, and
Speaker 1: he has hit that fourteen of fifteen games. But it's
Speaker 1: juiced and the matchup is tough, but fourteen to fifteen games.
Speaker 1: You guys can check out all the others, whether it
Speaker 1: is total bases, strikeouts, and it has all the props
Speaker 1: put together. You can check that over at Betting Pros
Speaker 1: on the app, you can check the cheat sheet or
Speaker 1: you can just go to Bettingpros dot com and check
Speaker 1: out all their favorite plays. You can check out by
Speaker 1: percentages on returns, you can sort them by ratings. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of cool ways you can do it, but
Speaker 1: that was one that was on there for Brandon Fought.
Speaker 1: I'm tinted, but Foughts also had some zero strikeout days.
Speaker 1: I am not into the prop market today. I did
Speaker 1: not solo pickout, though there is one or two that
Speaker 1: I kind of dig. I'm on some line and we're
Speaker 1: starting with Minnesota. I'm gonna play the first five money line.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of these that have a little bit
Speaker 1: of juice attached to them, but I really want to
Speaker 1: lock these in. Also, Minnesota run line one and a
Speaker 1: half might not be a bad play, but this is
Speaker 1: Joe Ryan versus Jave or Asad. I'm just playing straight
Speaker 1: money line through the first five Minnesota. I'm also gonna
Speaker 1: play a nurfy. There's a couple interesting ones today. The
Speaker 1: most interesting is not playable in George Kirby and Tarik Skouble.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculously juiced, but a sneaky one is going to
Speaker 1: Joe's favorite guy, Tampa and Saint Louis. Give me Taj
Speaker 1: Bradley and Eric Vetti. Eric Vetti is actually on the
Speaker 1: lower end of first run. It's given up so far
Speaker 1: this year, and so give me Taj Bradley and Eric
Speaker 1: Veetti to kind of lock that down. And then finally
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the San Diego full game run
Speaker 1: line minus one and a half against Pittsburgh against Marco Gonzalez.
Speaker 1: I think it is, but San Diego full game run
Speaker 1: line minus one and a half San Diego. Those my three.
Speaker 1: That's Minnesota first five, Tampa Bay Nurfey San Diego. We've
Speaker 1: also got Taz Bradley, Altke's Ryan O'Hearn over one and
Speaker 1: a half and Freddie Peralta at five five and a
Speaker 1: half over strikeouts. Those are our best bets of the day.
Speaker 1: Just pretend that's Joe Alrico. They're not Joe Pieza. PM.
Speaker 1: All right, mister jo Riico, I did not get a
Speaker 1: home run board today. I will have to shout out
Speaker 1: and get to our boy Ethan because I did get
Speaker 1: a homer yesterday, because I had Royce Lewis from Monday
Speaker 1: and Tuesday. It's an im perpetuity until the next show.
Speaker 1: So I did get back on I believe. I don't
Speaker 1: know if fred Dinger is in here. Believe I'm at
Speaker 1: twenty four and so I'm not quite at being able
Speaker 1: to get on the board here soon. But if I
Speaker 1: can pick this up, maybe, Baby Joe Rico, where are
Speaker 1: you going with your home run call today?
Speaker 2: I'm going Bobby Wit.
Speaker 3: I've been going with the more niche names when I've
Speaker 3: been on the show recently, Nolan Gorman's and the Jorge hilarious.
Speaker 3: But we're going shock today with Bobby Witt. He's facing
Speaker 3: Cutter Crawford and Cutter Crawford over his last three games,
Speaker 3: twelve home runs allowed, twenty three point six barrel percentage
Speaker 3: and a thirty five percent homer to fly ball. He's
Speaker 3: getting crushed recently. Bobby Witt has been just brilliant this season,
Speaker 3: and I think there's a good chance he takes one
Speaker 3: out of the yr tonight.
Speaker 1: I almost picked Bobby with That's very good. Fred Dinger
Speaker 1: always just always in here. Rock and twenty five. I'm
Speaker 1: at as of the as of Yester actually got a
Speaker 1: board yesterday. Port Ethan sent me one yesterday and we
Speaker 1: didn't have a show, and then we didn't get one today.
Speaker 1: Thirty was the marker to get on the board, so
Speaker 1: I'm still five away. That could have changed from yesterday today.
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna go with an Oriole. And you guys
Speaker 1: think you know which Oriole I'm gonna go with. No,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna alter away, give me Anthony Santandeer. I picked
Speaker 1: him last week. I think it was and he hit
Speaker 1: for me. He is wild against righty's right now, twenty
Speaker 1: four homers against righty's and I believe it's eight against lefties.
Speaker 1: I think that's his number if I have that correctly.
Speaker 1: When I was looking at his blit's going against Boden Francis.
Speaker 1: Give me Anthony Santander to get back on that home
Speaker 1: run board, not Gunner Henderson, and hopefully get me rolling
Speaker 1: a little bit more. Joe Rico on Twitter at Joe
Speaker 1: Rico ninety nine. We're gonna get you twice next week, buddy,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get We're gonna be a whole lot more
Speaker 1: of Joe Rico. Maybe we'll be talking about some streamers
Speaker 1: into next week and do some more formal pickups. What
Speaker 1: do you got going in your world this week?
Speaker 2: Nothing crazy, just the usual daily podcast.
Speaker 3: You guys can check out on my Twitter feed writing
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: Everything goes out on Twitter.
Speaker 3: I post way too much stuff, but you can keep
Speaker 3: track of all of it over there.
Speaker 2: Right on.
Speaker 1: You guys can find me at is It the Welsh.
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Speaker 1: do it. That's gonna be the episode. We'll be back
Speaker 1: again on Friday. Casey Bubba back in the house. We'll
Speaker 1: also talk about some weekend streamers and some two starters
Speaker 1: for next week, so make sure you're here for that
Speaker 1: and bring your questions. Thank you guys as always for
Speaker 1: hanging out. Shout out to my mom again. People are
Speaker 1: trying to get home run calls from my mom. I
Speaker 1: think someone said to pick Aaron Judge, so let's put
Speaker 1: it on the board. Aaron Judge from my mom today.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Mama Welsh and shout out to all
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