Speaker 1: What's up. Friends, are welcome into leading off all right
Speaker 1: here in Fantasy Pros. I am Chris Wels. That is
Speaker 1: Joe Rico. We got you for the last show of August. Joe,
Speaker 1: I'm my head is all over the place. I just
Speaker 1: did a tweet and I was like, all right, hey,
Speaker 1: let's get it. Last show of September. No no, no, no
Speaker 1: edit tweet, last show of October. No, no, no, it's August.
Speaker 1: The last show of August is what we're doing here.
Speaker 1: Twelve hundred revised tweets. I can't get my head straight
Speaker 1: because there's so much going on. There's a lot going
Speaker 1: on in baseball. We're gonna be talking about all the
Speaker 1: latest as we usually do. We're gonna do some prep
Speaker 1: for next week. We're going to talk about some two
Speaker 1: star pitchers. We got our best bets of the day,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be looking to answer some of your questions. So,
Speaker 1: as always I would tell the chat you guys got
Speaker 1: some final questions in here, do it. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: marking them. We're gonna hit it here shortly. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be answering those for your playoff runs or your run
Speaker 1: into the playoff mister Joe Rico, what's up, buddy.
Speaker 2: It's pretty crazy that August has already done. Man, we
Speaker 2: kind of do this every year. It's like, I can't
Speaker 2: believe's already June. I can't believe's already July. But the
Speaker 2: season is really winding down, like there might be some
Speaker 2: people this is their championship week. It's just always crazy
Speaker 2: how quickly the season goes by in any sport.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know, as we say a lot of
Speaker 1: the time too, I think there's another step at another
Speaker 1: level that is really interesting for this time of a year,
Speaker 1: even if you're not like heavily involved in playoffs. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, probably not consuming fantasy baseball if you're
Speaker 1: eliminated from playoffs. But there is this opportunity that's going
Speaker 1: on right now where you get to kind of lock
Speaker 1: into players that a lot of people are just not
Speaker 1: going to know. Like we kind of jokingly do it
Speaker 1: with piece of Pa because he's off into football land
Speaker 1: and no baseball. But in reality, there are players over
Speaker 1: this last month or six weeks that are going to
Speaker 1: start to pop and their value is not going to
Speaker 1: be realized. Sometimes it does happen, but it'll happen like
Speaker 1: in March or February when everyone really locks in. So
Speaker 1: there's this opportunity in dynasties to get in or if
Speaker 1: you're gonna do you know some really early season n FBC,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, you have a chance to lock into
Speaker 1: some players that people aren't going to quite get into.
Speaker 1: Perfect example, Lawrence Butler. Let's talk about Lawrence Butler. Now,
Speaker 1: Lawrence Butler did have a nice run middle ish through
Speaker 1: the year, kind of tapered back down. But yesterday Lawrence
Speaker 1: Butler went off. He went three for four with three
Speaker 1: homers and four RBI, which has now put him up
Speaker 1: to in three hundred and ten at bats, almost is
Speaker 1: at a twenty fifteen season. He has a legit shot
Speaker 1: to be a twenty fifteen guy. He's got nineteen homers,
Speaker 1: twelve stolen bases, with a two point fifty three batting
Speaker 1: average and absolutely gorgeous. We had more time, I probably
Speaker 1: would have pulled this up for the art just so
Speaker 1: you can see this beautiful savant page of theoretical like
Speaker 1: top twentieth percentile for the most part, expected batting average,
Speaker 1: expected slug barrel rate, hard hit rate, and if you
Speaker 1: guys have listened to me. You know a combination that
Speaker 1: I love to chase and monitor is double digit barrel
Speaker 1: percentage with really good hard hit numbers forty eight point
Speaker 1: three percent hard hit rate, eleven percent barrel rate. You
Speaker 1: love that paired with a double digit launch angle. Yes,
Speaker 1: and he's gotten expected batting average that's higher than his
Speaker 1: So this is one of those players that the value
Speaker 1: will be realized of, like, oh, look what he did
Speaker 1: on the paper and stuff like that. But there's something
Speaker 1: for us getting to watch us right now, Joe, that
Speaker 1: Lawrence Butler is an absolute no brainer rest of season.
Speaker 1: By the way, his consensus rank between like Yahoo and
Speaker 1: ESPN was low. I talked about it on ITL yesterday.
Speaker 1: Still pick up a bowl the not word. He is
Speaker 1: still pick up a bowl. But talk to me about
Speaker 1: obviously rest of season. I think you agree he is
Speaker 1: a absolute must own in a pickup, but that he
Speaker 1: might be one of those undervalued players next year, that
Speaker 1: it might not be realized until March that like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is going to be a dude as like a
Speaker 1: fourth or fifth out fielder and fantasy drafts that is
Speaker 1: going to have huge return.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is like you like you've alluded to several
Speaker 2: times one of those guys where if you're really paying
Speaker 2: attention right now, I don't think it's really gonna fall
Speaker 2: through the crack so much for the sharper players. You
Speaker 2: might be playing like a casual guy. Maybe you're not
Speaker 2: even listening to the show right now. You're picking it
Speaker 2: up later on and in February March and you're starting
Speaker 2: to draft. Maybe he's not going to be somebody that
Speaker 2: gets that much interest, But Lawrence Butler, like I've really
Speaker 2: changed my tune on him. I wasn't that interested earlier
Speaker 2: on in the season. Guy gets off to this like
Speaker 2: incredible kind of run. They're not usually sustainable for guys
Speaker 2: that kind of just pop out of the blue like this.
Speaker 2: But like you've mentioned, the hard hit data is legit.
Speaker 2: Oakland's offense has been a lot better than we could
Speaker 2: have expected. I think that's also been a part of it.
Speaker 2: One hundred games and he has one hundred runs and
Speaker 2: RBIs combined, which is really really good. Another thing to
Speaker 2: factor in for next year is that they're not gonna
Speaker 2: be playing in this awful ballpark anymore. They're gonna be
Speaker 2: playing in Sacramento, which is a very hit or friendly ballpark.
Speaker 2: So that's going to change a lot of the way
Speaker 2: I view Oakland's lineup. I think because they've been in
Speaker 2: one of the bottom three hitters parks in baseball and
Speaker 2: now they're going to go, you're much better with the
Speaker 2: minor league park stuff than I would be one of
Speaker 2: the better parks to head into the minors from what
Speaker 2: I understand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not actually I know ballpark factors and especially
Speaker 1: in minor league isn't like outside of like the PCL,
Speaker 1: and I think that's where this is. The PCL is
Speaker 1: just a better hitter friendly environment. But to your point,
Speaker 1: Lawrence Butler at home this year hitting two forty five
Speaker 1: with six homers in one hundred and sixty three at
Speaker 1: bats in one hundred and forty seven at bats on
Speaker 1: the road, so essentially the same thing. Two sixty five
Speaker 1: a twenty a twenty point average boost and thirteen of
Speaker 1: his homers, so double the homers, twenty point boost on
Speaker 1: the batting average. Away that's getting out of this stupid ballpark.
Speaker 1: Just something to sit on there. So you know, if
Speaker 1: I imagine after last night, he's not sitting out there,
Speaker 1: but if there's any type of wavery thing or he
Speaker 1: was I understand getting out from Lawrence Butler when he
Speaker 1: was cold, But to me, he's represented. When you see
Speaker 1: those type of like hard hit and barrel numbers, those
Speaker 1: are guys that I'm gonna hold on to a little
Speaker 1: bit longer. I'm probably gonna be a little bit more
Speaker 1: finnicky about letting go of those guys, because once they
Speaker 1: start getting going, especially a young guy like this, once
Speaker 1: we really start getting going, they've got the elements of like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a guy that can do exactly what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Twenty fifteen, twenty five to fifteen, next year, twenty five
Speaker 1: to fifteen, twenty twenty, definite realm of possibility for Lawrence Butler.
Speaker 1: Reminder again, you guys got fantasy questions for your playoffs,
Speaker 1: drop him in the chat. We'll start however many and
Speaker 1: we'll answer as many as we can, or just a couple,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. But any fantasy questions, your fantasy question
Speaker 1: might be one that another has as well, so we'll
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Speaker 1: let's get rolling. With how about Your toronto Blue? Jay
Speaker 1: Bowden francis has been on a heater seven shutout. Innings
Speaker 1: he got the win Blue jay's one two to. Nothing
Speaker 1: he walked, on struck out five last five, starts four
Speaker 1: to zero with a one point zero SIX, era thirty
Speaker 1: six strikeouts and thirty four innings plus we had the
Speaker 1: almost no. HITTER i saw staff that said over the
Speaker 1: last twenty this was, oh this is codify Cad IF
Speaker 1: i put this, OUT i. FORGOT i pasted it right.
Speaker 1: THERE i was about to try to cite it for my.
Speaker 1: Brain Cadify, baseball Said. Bowden francis has pitched twenty nine
Speaker 1: innings in his last four starts and allowed only ten base.
Speaker 1: Runners NO mlb pitcher has ever ever done that, Before
Speaker 1: and they said are they? Ended it's completely ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Joke there is a couple of things That codify was
Speaker 2: posting yesterday WHERE i was, like what there was one
Speaker 2: Stat so there's a thing that's called game. SCORE i
Speaker 2: Think Tom tango Or Bill james or one of those
Speaker 2: older baseball pioneers came up with this thing called game
Speaker 2: score essentially to quantify how good a start. Was in
Speaker 2: the last thirty five, years has been four or five excuse,
Speaker 2: me five pitchers who had four consecutive starts of a
Speaker 2: game score of seventy eight or. Higher those pictures Are Randy,
Speaker 2: Johnson Pedro, Martinez Johann, Santana Clayton, kershaw And pout And
Speaker 2: francis an unbelievable list to be. On if you look
Speaker 2: at what he's done as a starter this, SEASON i Love.
Speaker 2: Sierra sierra is my favorite era. Estimator if you look
Speaker 2: at his work as a, starter he is eleventh among
Speaker 2: starting pitchers In. Sierra as a starting, pitcher there is
Speaker 2: some time in relief there that wouldn't be the number
Speaker 2: if you just look At, fangrafts but he has been
Speaker 2: in that department better THAN. C, Slogan Gilbert, Ranger, Suarez blake's, now,
Speaker 2: WELL i am going to be very interested to Draft
Speaker 2: francis next. Year and to your, point he might be
Speaker 2: one of those guys where people who just kind of
Speaker 2: tuned out baseball for the year just don't have any.
Speaker 2: Interest but, Man i'm going to be hammering him every
Speaker 2: time in. Drafts and one last, thing The jay's are
Speaker 2: going to have two of the six pitchers of The
Speaker 2: month this season In Major League baseball despite being an awful.
Speaker 2: Team brios won it In, April francis is gonna win
Speaker 2: it In, august but the team just hasn't been able
Speaker 2: to live up to.
Speaker 1: That, Yeah AND i, mean this is just one of
Speaker 1: those GUYS i really want to, see like how much
Speaker 1: he continues to roll with, it AND i probably need
Speaker 1: to pay a little bit more attention to some of
Speaker 1: the stuff plus numbers and everything like. That But i'll
Speaker 1: tell you five point eight two eras Pre All Star,
Speaker 1: game one point five to eight Post all, start and
Speaker 1: that includes six or six games, started seven, Pitched so
Speaker 1: it's not just this like little. Run he still had
Speaker 1: a one point FIVE vrra and he's pitched better on the.
Speaker 1: Road that's another thing to take a look. At three
Speaker 1: point two four road Era Fountain francis has been a.
Speaker 1: Dude he's getting some, strikeouts he's deep into. Innings his
Speaker 1: surface level, STATS i don't think necessarily like jump jump,
Speaker 1: out like THE k percentage twenty four, percent the expected
Speaker 1: estimators at three point five seven EXPECTED, era so that's
Speaker 1: about where he's. At but he's been just like really.
Speaker 1: Efficient he hasn't been dominant in any one standpoint of his,
Speaker 1: stuff but he has been dominant on the field for
Speaker 1: the last Couple so, yeah this is one of those.
Speaker 1: THINGS i think we're being. Honest a perfect, scenario you
Speaker 1: want him to taper just like a tad, bit so
Speaker 1: his cost isn't ridiculous next, year but he he. Is
Speaker 1: he was borderlining, like, oh back into the rotation. Stuff
Speaker 1: if he continues, this he's going to be a dude
Speaker 1: that goes around one fifty two hundred and maybe even
Speaker 1: a little bit. Higher LIKE i know we're making this
Speaker 1: case like, oh, hey these you know people aren't going
Speaker 1: to pay, attention but the hardcore baseball people are going
Speaker 1: to pay, attention and they're going to look at that
Speaker 1: second half and, go, okay well, yeah maybe it's a
Speaker 1: short sample, size but you, know he was one of
Speaker 1: those dominant pitchers in the second half and that will
Speaker 1: carry over to next year's. Value so you, know, SELFISHLY
Speaker 1: i don't want that to go. Nuts but at the same,
Speaker 1: time you, know if you're running in a playoff run right,
Speaker 1: now you want you Want Bowden francis to not. Stop
Speaker 1: you want him to continue. This ten base runners in
Speaker 1: like thirty. Innings that's, absurd that's. Crazy.
Speaker 2: John, yeah when you said that nobody had done that,
Speaker 2: Before i've, like that's just it seems like maybe like
Speaker 2: something primed To graham would have, done Or Pedro, martinez
Speaker 2: BUT i. Didn't nobody's done that to that. Extent who
Speaker 2: would have thought it For Bowden. FRANCIS i, personally as
Speaker 2: A Blue jay, fan would never have expected it if
Speaker 2: you asked me even a month. Ago but here we.
Speaker 1: Are, yeah, yeah, WELL i MEAN i was very dismissive of.
Speaker 1: HIM i was, like, NOPE i don't think so let's
Speaker 1: move on. Here big. Injury he usually we do injuries
Speaker 1: in that. Section But vinnie Pass quantino gonna miss the
Speaker 1: rest of the. Season diagnosed with a broken right. Thumb
Speaker 1: the expectation is he is going to miss six to eight,
Speaker 1: weeks which that is going to take him out of
Speaker 1: the rest of the. Year that is. CRITICAL i actually
Speaker 1: did hit ON Cbs SPORTS. HQ i think it was
Speaker 1: earlier this, week and we talked about The Cleveland royals
Speaker 1: situation and one of the biggest. Differences but because these
Speaker 1: teams have a lot of similarities The royals in The
Speaker 1: guardians like rotation has looked, similar bullpen has actually looked
Speaker 1: kind of. Similar road, Record cleveland was a little bit
Speaker 1: better against like plus five hundred, teams but And Kansas
Speaker 1: city was one of the hottest teams as of Recent
Speaker 1: but what was the big differential between these Guys run?
Speaker 1: Differential The Kansas City royals in the division had the
Speaker 1: highest run differential but also one of the highest run
Speaker 1: differentials in. Baseball they're also. SCORING i think they were top.
Speaker 1: THREE i think they were third in baseball and run
Speaker 1: scored per, Game AND i did this stat run scored
Speaker 1: per game year over. Year the top ten in runs
Speaker 1: scored this. Year the two teams with the biggest rise
Speaker 1: in run, well actually three teams who scored you, know
Speaker 1: more runs than last. Year, Yankees, diamondbacks And. Royals those
Speaker 1: are the ones that have had almost a full run
Speaker 1: differential from twenty twenty three to twenty twenty. Four so
Speaker 1: what AM i getting at the offense has been absolutely
Speaker 1: critical for The. Royals and, Yes Bobby Wait junior looks
Speaker 1: like AN, mvp but Having vinnie Pas quentino kind of
Speaker 1: push it. Back this bad news for The royals from
Speaker 1: like a real baseball, Perspective horrible news for fantasy owners
Speaker 1: that have been kind of running out Pas quentino BECAUSE
Speaker 1: i don't know if there's any great first base alternatives
Speaker 1: that are sitting out.
Speaker 2: There, Joe, yeah just like looking at the waiver, Wire
Speaker 2: ramoniaius has been really really hot for a little. While
Speaker 2: workleson is out there in a lot of. Leagues Josh
Speaker 2: bell is still doing. Things he's still got and clean
Speaker 2: up every day In. Arizona there are some, options but Losing,
Speaker 2: vinnie he'd been so so good. Man my best team
Speaker 2: this year of all my teams IS. Tgfbi i'm like
Speaker 2: top fifteen, overall AND i just Lost. VINIE i Lost
Speaker 2: vinnie And Austin, Riley so it's gonna be not. Nice
Speaker 2: it's gonna be kind of tough to keep that going
Speaker 2: down the. Stretch but HOPING i can finish in the
Speaker 2: time if things break right for. Me but things are
Speaker 2: not breaking right.
Speaker 1: So, far, no and if anything is a pretty brutal.
Speaker 1: Blow we've had a little waiver. Mania it's a shade
Speaker 1: back to old, school you, know a couple of years,
Speaker 1: ago Where august would happen and every team would just
Speaker 1: place players on. Waivers the reason behind that a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago was you have a guy go through,
Speaker 1: waivers if they, cleared you could then actually trade, them
Speaker 1: or if they were picked, up you could work out a.
Speaker 1: Trade doesn't apply. Anymore waivers now are exactly what they're
Speaker 1: really meant and should. Be they put a guy on
Speaker 1: waivers and they hope another team goes and picks them
Speaker 1: up so they can kind of dump the. Contract so
Speaker 1: The giants placed multiple, players highlighted By, thyrostrada and then
Speaker 1: The cardinals just Placed tommy fam after reacquiring, him they
Speaker 1: put him on. Waivers so again these teams thrown him,
Speaker 1: out maybe trying to get out from under some of the.
Speaker 1: Money but we haven't seen any. Claims we haven't seen any.
Speaker 1: Movement but The tommy fam one was kind of a
Speaker 1: kind of a bigger. Deal another big. Deal The reds
Speaker 1: are bringing Up Ret louder today to start the second.
Speaker 1: GAME i think that maybe even be the, first but
Speaker 1: it's one of the games of the double header that
Speaker 1: they've gone on against The, brewers and that was a
Speaker 1: big shock we talked about earlier In i'm excited about
Speaker 1: it BECAUSE i love we're At. Louder he's a high
Speaker 1: end command pitcher with a really devastating. SLIDER i think
Speaker 1: he's going to be a successful pitcher in the. Majors
Speaker 1: i'm not sure this is the start THAT i, like
Speaker 1: or any of these starts this, year SO i would
Speaker 1: be very timid about. It but what are your? Thoughts
Speaker 1: are you Avoiding? Louder are you picking them up to stream.
Speaker 2: First career start At Great American? Ballpark it's not SOMETHING
Speaker 2: i really want to get, into especially this time of.
Speaker 2: Year the strikeouts are kind of What i'm aiming for
Speaker 2: with a lot of my, pickups AND i don't think
Speaker 2: the strikeout, upside at least as of, today is that.
Speaker 2: HIGH i THINK i would have to be on your
Speaker 2: page here And i'd be. Passing unless we see like
Speaker 2: three or four dominance starts in a, row then you'd
Speaker 2: maybe think about it for the last week of the.
Speaker 2: Year BUT i don't want to take chances this time
Speaker 2: of year with rookies who might do well and they
Speaker 2: might give up seven or eighter and runs and just
Speaker 2: end your season for. YOU i try and play a
Speaker 2: little more conservative this time of year with the.
Speaker 1: Pickups, yeah AND i would be conservative in this in this,
Speaker 1: regard but you, know maybe he'll be solid with. It
Speaker 1: but again as a high end command, pitcher but rookie
Speaker 1: in his first, start So i'm not really. Sure we've
Speaker 1: had a little rookie. Madness just want to point out
Speaker 1: the two current favorites For rookie of The year both
Speaker 1: eclipse the twenty home run. Marker Yesterday Colton cal's aer
Speaker 1: twentieth home run against The, dodgers and he has kind
Speaker 1: of taken. Its al's just like a really weird. Spot
Speaker 1: and in THE Nl Jackson merrill solo homer and stolen.
Speaker 1: Base so that's a little combo meal. There so he
Speaker 1: is at twenty homers and sixteen stolen. Bases he is
Speaker 1: almost at that twenty twenty. Marker and, Finally jacob De
Speaker 1: gram is going to make another rehab assignment start On
Speaker 1: sunday At TRIPLE A Round, rock and that potentially might
Speaker 1: be the final. One he had pitched two perfect innings
Speaker 1: earlier in the, week and what was interesting is they
Speaker 1: then had him throw a side session after to kind
Speaker 1: of pick up some of those, innings like another twenty.
Speaker 1: Four SO i would expect this next outing to be around.
Speaker 1: Four and THEN i think he is gonna come back
Speaker 1: for next week and they'll probably put him at like
Speaker 1: an eighty five ish pitch. Cap so if that, Happens
Speaker 1: Jacob dagram will be, back AND i think you can
Speaker 1: you could just kind of free flow him back into.
Speaker 1: Lineups oh, yeah oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah De gram is one of those guys where all
Speaker 2: it's gonna take is like two or three great. STARTS
Speaker 2: i heard. IT i think it was some PODCAST i
Speaker 2: was listening to. IT i want to, say it was
Speaker 2: Like Roda wire or, something and somebody, suggested like The
Speaker 2: gram has three or four great, starts he's a first
Speaker 2: rounder next. Year he very well could be fucking fifteen.
Speaker 2: TEAMERS i don't THINK i would do it, personally but
Speaker 2: all it takes is one person in a, room and
Speaker 2: if he has like if he looks like vintage of The,
Speaker 2: groam it's gonna be interesting to see if he maybe
Speaker 2: gets pushed Abup skimes Or schooble in a given.
Speaker 1: ROOM i agree with the. SENTIMENT i wholeheartedly disagree with the.
Speaker 1: Take there is zero point zero percent Chance Jacob deGrom
Speaker 1: is a first. Rounder you're hearing her from me. First
Speaker 1: there's no. Chance, no there's no. Chance in fifteen, TEAM
Speaker 1: i guess we open it. Up but guess, what there's
Speaker 1: still no chance he's going to be a first rounder
Speaker 1: because is everyone in that conversation cannot help but say
Speaker 1: what you just, did, WELL i wouldn't do, it but
Speaker 1: there is. Somebody no one's gonna do. It you Have
Speaker 1: Paul skeins And Terry skubele who are slam dunk one and.
Speaker 1: Twos no one's Taking jacob to gram in the First
Speaker 1: SO i think that take is. Wrong BUT i think
Speaker 1: the sentiment of where he's gonna go and how high
Speaker 1: he's going to push, UP i. AGREE i do think
Speaker 1: he can. Go he went in the third round of
Speaker 1: THAT nfbc thing That bubba was. DOING i think that's the.
Speaker 1: Range but you're gonna have dude two years ago doing
Speaker 1: shows With Ariol cohen And ario's Super Smart guy talking
Speaker 1: about how good he can be And oriol's, like oh,
Speaker 1: yeah by the, way he's on my no draft. List
Speaker 1: like all the analytics, guys there's no. Chance all the
Speaker 1: old school, guys there's no. Chance so they're gonna just
Speaker 1: avoid him no matter what he. Does but there will
Speaker 1: be people that will fall back. In but he will
Speaker 1: not be A he's not going to be a first
Speaker 1: rounder because this is like talking yourself Into Mike trout
Speaker 1: being a first. Rounder, again there is actual literal correlation
Speaker 1: between those dominant, awesome, crazy cool. Player but he's always.
Speaker 1: Hurt you cannot get more than one hundred, innings so
Speaker 1: no one's gonna take that. Risk so that's why it's
Speaker 1: LIKE i think third round is the max, range but
Speaker 1: he could be like a top end of the first,
Speaker 1: round you, know something like. That but again sentiment, yes take,
Speaker 1: no that's WHERE i.
Speaker 2: Don't think YOU'RE i don't think you're. Crazy, then LIKE i, said,
Speaker 2: Like i'm probably not gonna do, it BUT i would
Speaker 2: be willing to put a couple bucks on. It they're,
Speaker 2: like if we're looking at minimum, picks he sneaks in
Speaker 2: there in some, drafts PUT i put some money in
Speaker 2: the first.
Speaker 1: ROUND i put some money on. That, well, No i'm
Speaker 1: not gonna. Lie, okay we're not Gonna i'm not gonna do, like,
Speaker 1: hey there's one hundred drafts and one person might take
Speaker 1: him in the first like. That of course that can. Happen, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah you. Gotta i'm talking like ten drafts he's going
Speaker 1: in the first and like forty percent of. Them no,
Speaker 1: way there's always one. Outline yeah that's. Fair, yeah we
Speaker 1: did the prospect ONE p AND adp drafts WHERE i
Speaker 1: create my PROSPECT adp and someone took Like Leo devrees
Speaker 1: in the fifth. Overall and this is like two months,
Speaker 1: Ago like outliers. Happened did A Fantasy football bestball last,
Speaker 1: Night Deebo samuel went in the first. Round these things,
Speaker 1: Happen BUT i, say from an industry agreement, standpoint it's
Speaker 1: not gonna, happen and there's no chance he's gonna get
Speaker 1: into that. Spot But i'm like rooting for. Him i'll
Speaker 1: be one of those that is gonna want to draft,
Speaker 1: him but not at a top three round. Cost that's
Speaker 1: gonna be too too. MUCH i wanted to point out
Speaker 1: this is a good take By. ANGELO i completely agree with.
Speaker 1: This Big Christmas johansky, know, well if he qualifies at
Speaker 1: first would be a nice. Rip that is one of
Speaker 1: those nice. REPLACEMENTS i love his underlying stats and that
Speaker 1: would be one of those guys THAT i do take
Speaker 1: a look. At we had a couple questions for your playoff.
Speaker 1: Prep let's do those before we get to anything. Else
Speaker 1: O'Neal cruz or netto rest of season From Ryan ryan,
Speaker 1: McKenna the.
Speaker 2: OUTFIELDER i Think i'd go O'neel. Cruz it's pretty, close
Speaker 2: BUT i THINK i would Take cruise. Overall what about?
Speaker 1: YOU i asked a certain pitcher that's a friend of
Speaker 1: mine about Oneal cruz, recently AND i was, like what
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on Oneal? Cruz and he looked at
Speaker 1: me and he went, nasty. NASTY i am An Oneo cruz,
Speaker 1: homer So i'm gonna say O'Neal, cruz BUT i mean Zach.
Speaker 1: Nedo Zach neddo has put. HIMSELF i don't even think
Speaker 1: arguably in the conversation of that third round glob of
Speaker 1: the churios and the merrills and stuff like, that this
Speaker 1: is a twenty twenty. Shortstop On'eal cruz is in that same,
Speaker 1: range and to be, frank could be lower than, Them
Speaker 1: but like everything in the profile is, good AND i
Speaker 1: think way too many people are focused on, like oh,
Speaker 1: yeah that the stats are. Okay dudes hitting almost two
Speaker 1: Seventy O'Neil, cruz the guy that had the thirty percent
Speaker 1: k rate at one point this, year he's hitting close
Speaker 1: to two seventy and his launching. Sucks and if he
Speaker 1: can fix, that that's the type of change where a
Speaker 1: guy goes from twenty one to twenty two homers to forty.
Speaker 1: Homers with the way he, barrels the way his hard
Speaker 1: hit and the way you, know he gets the. Ball
Speaker 1: he could get the ball in the air with those
Speaker 1: hard hit, numbers that's a guy that would be forty.
Speaker 1: Homers So i'm gonna Say Oneo, CRUZ i guess long,
Speaker 1: Term i'll still go with him rest of this. Season
Speaker 1: but you, KNOW i wouldn't kill anybody that cared About
Speaker 1: neto this. Year barry, says are we picking up either
Speaker 1: of The angels starting pitchers that were called? Up Caden
Speaker 1: dana the most interesting twenty year old, guy the very aggressive.
Speaker 1: Assignment the other, Guy, ALDEGERIA i think is going. Today, no,
Speaker 1: Thanks Cayden dana, maybe BUT i think it's the same
Speaker 1: line of like Ret louder and, desperation you'd have to
Speaker 1: really worry about what's. Around, YEAH i would worry about my.
Speaker 1: Ratios so, Like i'm not trying to stream, him but
Speaker 1: in Like Dynasty keeper things, like, yeah you should probably
Speaker 1: swoop him. Up it might be a good little end
Speaker 1: of the. Season but there's not a lot of great
Speaker 1: support with The, angels what about.
Speaker 2: You, No, No angel's pitching in general is pretty tricky
Speaker 2: to get. Around i'm pretty surprised That redemer still hasn't
Speaker 2: made his way back, up although the numbers In TRIPLE
Speaker 2: a have been been kind of not too. Good But,
Speaker 2: ALDEGARY i think he's the First italian born player who's
Speaker 2: going to play In Major League. Baseball from WHAT i,
Speaker 2: understand there was some SOMETHING i. Saw but if that's the,
Speaker 2: case then Forts azuli for all The italians who might
Speaker 2: be in the chat, Today.
Speaker 1: Like you mean like he was born in something like?
Speaker 2: That you' something like? That is it the First italian
Speaker 2: born player to play In Major League? BASEBALL i. BELIEVE
Speaker 2: i BELIEVE i could be wrong on, that but. Yeah,
Speaker 2: NO cbs has an article First italian born and raised
Speaker 2: player to appear in A Major League baseball.
Speaker 1: Game pretty, cool all, Right Well joe should have been.
Speaker 1: Here this is Not that's not the show for. ME
Speaker 1: i need they'll Muddy Welsh celtic type of. People where's
Speaker 1: where are those guys for? ME md, Says what are
Speaker 1: we going to do With Marcus? Simian is he? Washed
Speaker 1: he was so hot earlier this? Season he's not.
Speaker 2: WASHED i don't, think like he's still been relatively productive
Speaker 2: for the season as a. Whole he's not SOMEBODY i could.
Speaker 2: Cut like if you Cut Marcus, simeon what are you
Speaker 2: looking at on the short on the second base, Waveverwire
Speaker 2: like it's a pretty pretty thin, Position like unless you're
Speaker 2: really that confident That Connor noorby's gonna keep up what
Speaker 2: he's been. Doing, LIKE i just don't think you can
Speaker 2: move on from. Him like it's been a bit. Disappointing
Speaker 2: he's not gonna get drafted where he probably has been
Speaker 2: the last couple of seasons going into next. Year but
Speaker 2: what are you gonna do about? It you can't really drop,
Speaker 2: him you can't bench. Him, REALLY i think you just
Speaker 2: got to roll with.
Speaker 1: IT i don't think you can do much about. IT
Speaker 1: i think you can not draft him next year and
Speaker 1: maybe he is starting to taper down ten team, Leagues,
Speaker 1: like maybe there's something out, there But i'm probably not
Speaker 1: moving off of. Anything, lisays next, week start, One, Nemo,
Speaker 1: Julio Lane, thomas or SHOULD i pick Up Wollner?
Speaker 2: Wallner? LIKE i like the improvements with the strikeouts that
Speaker 2: we've seen from him, recently but we're still talking about
Speaker 2: like a thirty percent strikeout rate at. BEST i, think,
Speaker 2: HONESTLY i still just have to go With. Julio and
Speaker 2: maybe that's wrong of, me, like BUT i just feel
Speaker 2: like that. UPSIDE i can't leave him on the. BENCH
Speaker 2: i know it's been a bad year by and, large
Speaker 2: but IF i Bench, JULIO i just know that he's
Speaker 2: going to hit three home runs and steal four bases that.
Speaker 2: WEEK i got to just go with my first rounder
Speaker 2: and put him in my.
Speaker 1: Line i'm STILL i THINK i agree with you on
Speaker 1: That nimo is. Interesting But nimo's also kind of tapered.
Speaker 1: BACK i, mean he's got an eighteen twenty season going
Speaker 1: on so, far but, yeah he just hit one eighty
Speaker 1: eight In july two twenty six In august really falling.
Speaker 1: Off this is after this Monster. JUNE i would go
Speaker 1: With based on those, OPTIONS i would go With. July
Speaker 1: and then the final question on the listener, side who's
Speaker 1: the number one overall pick next? Year jerry, Said, judge
Speaker 1: what say you on? That just real? Quick we're gonna
Speaker 1: have tons of off season. Content we'll tell you about
Speaker 1: The september, plan but there's, also luckily for everybody we're
Speaker 1: in Have, October, november And december plans even in early,
Speaker 1: prep but we're going to be doing a lot Of
Speaker 1: dynasty and early look. Stuff but what say you real
Speaker 1: quick on who the number one overall player is next?
Speaker 1: Year because you probably Have? Otani judge un gets thrown
Speaker 1: back into that, Mix Bobby wit AND i don't. Know
Speaker 1: i'm not saying this is for, sure but you could
Speaker 1: arguably Put ellie in that discussion. Too SO i think
Speaker 1: there's five guys you could maybe make cases.
Speaker 2: For, personally for, me the top three is gonna come
Speaker 2: down To, Wit, otani And. Judge number one picked The, Grom,
Speaker 2: yeah De.
Speaker 1: Gram according To Joe, rico it's gonna be Da gram
Speaker 1: number one.
Speaker 2: Overall hey, hey hey come on, Now i'm just Using
Speaker 2: ellie is, interesting especially because the batting average hasn't sunk
Speaker 2: you the way that you might have thought when you
Speaker 2: factor in The cincinnati's probably gonna be better next. Season
Speaker 2: they just dealt with so many injuries and underperformers this.
Speaker 2: Year ellie's probably in the. CONVERSATION i think it's gotta Be, otani,
Speaker 2: Though like we're talking about a guy who has this
Speaker 2: incredibly secure lineup around. Him he's about to go fifty
Speaker 2: to fifty in a year coming off OF i don't
Speaker 2: know if it Was Tommy john Or brace or if
Speaker 2: they ever even told us what it, was but a
Speaker 2: year coming off of elbow, surgery he's gonna go fifty
Speaker 2: to fifty and hit three. Hundred it's just. Ridiculous and
Speaker 2: then next, year depending on your, format you might also
Speaker 2: have the ability to put there's a pitcher on a given.
Speaker 2: Week so let's, say like if it's AN nfbc, league
Speaker 2: you have to choose at the beginning of the week
Speaker 2: where you're, going so he's usually a hitter unless it's
Speaker 2: a two star. Week but LIKE, Espn i'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: the standard ON espn is daily, leagues and you can
Speaker 2: Put otani in the lineup every single day if he's
Speaker 2: pitching or. Hitting so, THERE i think it's Easily. OTANI
Speaker 2: i think you could defer and maybe go With Bobby Witt.
Speaker 2: Junior he's gonna hit three fifty and go thirty. THIRTY
Speaker 2: i think the injury worries will scare people off a
Speaker 2: judge In akunya a little, bit SO i think a
Speaker 2: lot of the time it's going to come down To
Speaker 2: otani And, witt and for me it would Be. OTANI
Speaker 2: i think.
Speaker 1: It's funny listening to that because you were almost like
Speaker 1: making the case for like all five of the. GUYS
Speaker 1: i Think akunya is going to be the. LEAST i
Speaker 1: actually think you will see More. ELLIE i think you
Speaker 1: will See ellie with a HIGHER adp Than akunya next
Speaker 1: year because of everyone's burn on. IT i think It's,
Speaker 1: otani even if it's just a hitter version Of. Otani
Speaker 1: the two way players and no, brainer AND i just
Speaker 1: think that's really. EASY i think there's a case that
Speaker 1: el Like ellie's like absolute dominance as far as and
Speaker 1: also his like progression, Too like he has his strikeout
Speaker 1: rate under thirty, percent which is. Huge he's made major
Speaker 1: strides as a. Hitter he's hitting two, sixty and he's
Speaker 1: got video game. Numbers he's gonna end at like sixty
Speaker 1: five or twenty, five seventy or something like. That But
Speaker 1: i'll Say otani is going to be the top, guy
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be a pretty great like top four
Speaker 1: or five next. Season that's what you love in. Fantasy
Speaker 1: and the back, end, too is gonna be so slick
Speaker 1: you're Got i'm gonna tell you this right, now kats,
Speaker 1: wise you're gonna want like a top five pick because
Speaker 1: the wrap around players in the, second third round are
Speaker 1: gonna be. Phenomenal that's where you're gonna Get meryl's And
Speaker 1: carrol's and in, surios oh.
Speaker 2: Mine that was very well. Done that was very well.
Speaker 2: DONE i think the back end of the first this,
Speaker 2: year like the top end is going to be really really,
Speaker 2: nice of, course but the back, end like you might
Speaker 2: be able to double tap Like akunya tattoos or something
Speaker 2: like that at the back end of the first it
Speaker 2: might be a pretty because there were some people this
Speaker 2: year who picked at the back end might have got
Speaker 2: like An, Otawani Judge combo good hypothetically get that If
Speaker 2: acuna slips to you, know nine or ten, tattoos is
Speaker 2: gonna be kind of, icy maybe he gets back to
Speaker 2: the first Maybe tucker slips a little, bit like there
Speaker 2: might be some really nice combos at the one two
Speaker 2: turn next.
Speaker 1: Year and something to think about, too is, like is
Speaker 1: there any Effective judge If soda doesn't resign with The?
Speaker 1: Yankees you, know does that affect anybody For? Judge maybe
Speaker 1: it's a good. Conversation we'll have plenty of it in the.
Speaker 1: Offseason and we're giving you guys some extra innings on
Speaker 1: the show today because we're gonna go a little bit
Speaker 1: long BECAUSE i do not want to skip past this
Speaker 1: two start pitchers for next. WEEK i think this is very.
Speaker 1: Important i've highlighted four players THAT i think are doable
Speaker 1: to whatever degree we're going to find out. Here these
Speaker 1: are four PLAYERS i think you need to pay attention
Speaker 1: to that have theoretical two starts for next week for
Speaker 1: The september, week starting with the highest of. Owned BUT
Speaker 1: i LOOKED. Cbs he's owned, more but it's still like
Speaker 1: in the seventy percentile. Range his consensus rank is like
Speaker 1: under forty. Percent Brian bayo with The Red, sox who
Speaker 1: has not been great this, season consists but he's been
Speaker 1: good as of recent especially over the last like two.
Speaker 1: Weeks next week he has got The New York mets
Speaker 1: and The Chicago White. Sox SO i ask, You Brian,
Speaker 1: bao yay or nay on two starts next.
Speaker 2: WEEK i think it's gonna have to be format dependent for.
Speaker 2: Me in deeper, LEAGUES i would do it if it's
Speaker 2: a shallow format like we're TALKING, espn if it's a
Speaker 2: ten team or twelve teamer with those shallow, ROSTERS i
Speaker 2: just couldn't get behind. It like he has been a lot,
Speaker 2: better the command's also not been that great, recently lots of.
Speaker 2: WALKS i still worry about the overall. Product there's not
Speaker 2: a high strikeout upside here a lot of the. Time generally,
Speaker 2: speaking it's a pass for. Me IF i can just
Speaker 2: start him against The White sox in the daily, League
Speaker 2: i'd absolutely do.
Speaker 1: It but both of them kind of does scare. Me,
Speaker 1: YEAH i agree with The White sox. ONE i would
Speaker 1: be willing to take the risk if the risk was,
Speaker 1: needed if that makes sense for. Everybody i'm not taking
Speaker 1: unwarranted two start risk just to do. It but IF
Speaker 1: i need the, Innings i'm gonna go with. That probably
Speaker 1: the highest and most talked about in the most obvious
Speaker 1: at this, point as although b with The a's who
Speaker 1: we hit the other, DAY i hit on the strikeout.
Speaker 1: Prop he's just been in dude. Range and guess what
Speaker 1: next week he has a phenomenal. Matchup he has got
Speaker 1: The mariners and The. Tigers this is great from a
Speaker 1: prop standpoint for. Strikeouts The a's have been pretty. HOT
Speaker 1: i Don't i'm not really sure you can get like
Speaker 1: if you're if you're bunching up like five or six
Speaker 1: teams that you want a pitcher to. FACE i think
Speaker 1: The mariners and The tigers would be at least two
Speaker 1: of those. Teams, obviously Like White, sox you would want
Speaker 1: to throw in, There beido yay or nay on the two.
Speaker 2: Start The tigers scare me a little. Bit there's certain
Speaker 2: bats in that lineup THAT i do worry, About but generally,
Speaker 2: speaking this is a go for. ME i think of
Speaker 2: all the guys we're gonna talk about in the two,
Speaker 2: starts this is probably the one you should be aiming
Speaker 2: for the.
Speaker 1: Most this is also. Mine Simon. Woods richardson's another one
Speaker 1: of those fifty percent ownership ON cbs way everywhere. Else
Speaker 1: he's Got Tampa bay In Kansas. City i'm gonna do
Speaker 1: this other. One David festa also in. There these two
Speaker 1: are The minnesota twins that are likely two. Starters he
Speaker 1: is way under. Owned also Has Tampa bay In Kansas. City,
Speaker 1: yeah your nay on the twins two starters next.
Speaker 2: WEEK i prefer to go fast, though with the more
Speaker 2: strikeout Upside for me, Personally simon With richardson is it's
Speaker 2: like almost What Kyle harrison was doing earlier in the.
Speaker 2: Year it's very. Solid it's usually like five, innings three
Speaker 2: or in, runs four strikeouts or, something but it doesn't
Speaker 2: really move the needle so much for, me WHERE i
Speaker 2: feel like fest that does have a much higher. UPSIDE
Speaker 2: i think he's a more talented. ARM i, mean they're
Speaker 2: both young. Guys there's a little bit of volatility risk with,
Speaker 2: both BUT i THINK i would lean Towards festa Before
Speaker 2: Simeon Wood, richardson.
Speaker 1: That's funny you say, that BECAUSE i think my two
Speaker 1: like someone, else someone in THE, jat but Like, Springs, like,
Speaker 1: Yeah Jeffrey springs out. There, SURE i just didn't put
Speaker 1: him on. THERE i didn't think he'd be. AVAILABLE i
Speaker 1: would say That bedo And festa are probably my two
Speaker 1: favorite speculative two start ads this.
Speaker 2: Coming yet we're on the same page FOR i think you.
Speaker 1: Agree, okay we're on the same. Page three up and three.
Speaker 1: Down we had three players with two. Homers we obviously
Speaker 1: had one player with three. Homers three players had two
Speaker 1: homer days, Yesterday Matt, Olsen Brendan, rodgers And Derek. Hill
Speaker 1: just like you guys all wrote it. Up number TWO
Speaker 1: Jj blede with a five for five. Day he also
Speaker 1: had a. Homer he, says many's just they know what
Speaker 1: they're doing with them. Optimizing and Then Nadie valdi seven,
Speaker 1: innings ten, strikeouts very very good start on the. Down Valente,
Speaker 1: Palazzo Rico palazzo four, innings six earned, runs gave up three.
Speaker 1: Homers no. Bueno Kate povich three and one third of an,
Speaker 1: inning gave up ten hits in five earned. Runs no.
Speaker 1: Thanks And torkalsen someone just put in the. Chat, hey
Speaker 1: remember When torkelsen was a sleeper this? Year oh for
Speaker 1: three with three. Strikeouts so it's still a little bit
Speaker 1: of a rough go on the injury. Front would you believe?
Speaker 1: This Kyle tucker went through a pregame workout On thursday
Speaker 1: at minute Made Park, JOE i have, SAID i think
Speaker 1: you could be done essentially With Kyle, tucker but they
Speaker 1: keep teasing us with. This you think we're gonna See
Speaker 1: Kyle tucker?
Speaker 2: Soon your guess is as good as. Mine, HONESTLY i
Speaker 2: hate to be the bad, analyst but who. Knows, man
Speaker 2: at this, POINT i feel like it could. Happen maybe
Speaker 2: we get a couple of weeks of. Him if you're
Speaker 2: killing an active bench spot at this point in a shallow,
Speaker 2: League i'm not sure it makes so much. Sense he's
Speaker 2: gonna have to come back and look exactly Like Kyle
Speaker 2: tucker of old to have it make. Sense but at
Speaker 2: the same, time you've been holding him for four. Months
Speaker 2: if you cut him today and he comes back next
Speaker 2: week and starts Doing Kyle tucker, things you're gonna hate.
Speaker 2: Yourself SO i feel like you should kind of lean
Speaker 2: towards holding. On but, man he's on the milk, cart
Speaker 2: and who knows what's gonna.
Speaker 1: Happen but, also, like what does it? Mean like they
Speaker 1: keep telling us dumb. Stuff they're like he ran a
Speaker 1: base and they're like pregame, Workout like what does that?
Speaker 1: Mean did he have a pregame chicken wings and he
Speaker 1: had a stretch, LIKE i don't know what that, means
Speaker 1: so i'd be more. Specific, yeah if you don't have
Speaker 1: to cut, him. Don't i'm just not, optimistic is really
Speaker 1: my big. Point Bobby miller apparently is dealing with a knee.
Speaker 1: Injury this is coming off of like what was FINALLY
Speaker 1: i think a decent. Start like he's just really been a,
Speaker 1: huge massive disappointment this. Year lucas erseg he Left thursday's
Speaker 1: game in the eighth inning after taking a comebacker off
Speaker 1: of his pitching. Hand been the closer with The, royals
Speaker 1: so that one kind of. Stinks Alec boem was removed
Speaker 1: From thursday's game due to a left hand. Discomfort that
Speaker 1: one could be. WORRISOME i. DON'T i saone in the
Speaker 1: chat was freaking out about it. Earlier But i'm not
Speaker 1: optimistic about that. One AND i think that one could
Speaker 1: actually be one of the more devastating ones on this.
Speaker 1: List and have you seen any update on?
Speaker 2: Bone so the latest THING i, saw And i'm just
Speaker 2: double checking in case there's a new. Update the x
Speaker 2: ray was, negative but they're going to send him for
Speaker 2: AN mri and see if there's anything a little more in,
Speaker 2: Nefarious so holding my, breath but like you, said not
Speaker 2: expecting great things.
Speaker 1: Here, yeah hold your, Breath hold on to your. Butts
Speaker 1: Tyler glass now is scheduled to play catch On. Friday
Speaker 1: have a. Catch apparently he's what he's going to. Do
Speaker 1: they're optimistic that he's going to return this, season so,
Speaker 1: again whatever that ends up actually, meaning And Red sox
Speaker 1: Plays David hamilton on The Tinday aisle with a fractured index.
Speaker 1: Finger he had been your stolen based monster and now he's.
Speaker 1: Not so there you. Go those are your. Injuries let's
Speaker 1: turn our attention over to some, bets my. Friends that's,
Speaker 1: right it is time for the best bets of the
Speaker 1: day On. Friday, SORRY i talked right over. Here you,
Speaker 1: know it kills me That bubba doesn't do, It and
Speaker 1: THEN i kind of.
Speaker 2: Know Why i'm THE i produced the, show SO i,
Speaker 2: like BEFORE i was doing it every day with, YOU
Speaker 2: i would hear. It So i'm, Like, okay someone's gonna
Speaker 2: have to fill in For. Well so When well says
Speaker 2: that there's going to be a gap, there so we'll
Speaker 2: have to Get bubba along, Here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Exactly, well you guys will have a chance
Speaker 1: to do. That we'll talk about that here in a.
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Speaker 1: Welsh but Mister Joe, rico what do you got going for?
Speaker 2: Today we're gonna start off With Seth lugo and he's
Speaker 2: been really not so great. Recently it's been the better
Speaker 2: teams when he faces a decent, offense they've really gotten.
Speaker 2: Him over the last four, Starts, Philadelphia, minnesota And boston
Speaker 2: have all kind of taken him out behind the, shed
Speaker 2: and today It's, houston AND i don't think he's going
Speaker 2: to do terribly well Against. Houston i'm looking at the
Speaker 2: outs prop and it's eighteen and a. Half they're expecting
Speaker 2: him to work into the seventh inning today against a tough.
Speaker 2: Offense considering what we've seen from him as of, LATE
Speaker 2: i just can't really see him doing, That So i'm
Speaker 2: taking the under On Seth lugo eighteen and a half.
Speaker 2: Outs i'm also going back to The Toads bradley well
Speaker 2: BECAUSE i saw the strikeout line at four and a half.
Speaker 2: Today it's a little bit daunting because it's Against San
Speaker 2: diego and they don't really strike out so, much but
Speaker 2: four and a half is a very low number to
Speaker 2: hit for a guy who's got a roughly thirty percent strikeout.
Speaker 2: Rate So i'm Taking TODs. Bradley it's a little bit,
Speaker 2: risky but it's at minus one thirty, five so the
Speaker 2: books do expect this one to hit as. Well and
Speaker 2: then the final one Is Vladimir Guerrero, junior who has
Speaker 2: been you, know outside Of Aaron, judge probably the hottest
Speaker 2: player in baseball for the last couple of. Months i'm
Speaker 2: taking over one and a half total bases at plus
Speaker 2: one ten today Against Pablo, lopez who has been fairly solid,
Speaker 2: himself but there have been some inconsistencies this year and
Speaker 2: the way That vladdie's, Hidden like if it Was Walter
Speaker 2: johnson on the other side of the, BUMP i THINK
Speaker 2: i might take over one and a half. Bases so
Speaker 2: those are the best Seth lugo under, Outs TODs bradley over,
Speaker 2: strikeouts And Vladimir Gero junior over one and a half total,
Speaker 2: bases and all of them at bet three six.
Speaker 1: Five, WELL i am not dipping my toe into the
Speaker 1: player prop market, today as much AS i want to looking.
Speaker 1: AROUND i was actually looking last night to try to
Speaker 1: get ahead of some. NUMBERS i just didn't feel anything
Speaker 1: THAT i really wanted to jump. Into BUT i did
Speaker 1: find some lines THAT i like to, play and we
Speaker 1: got a couple first five total run. Unders we're gonna play.
Speaker 1: Today first, up we're gonna go with The Chicago cubs
Speaker 1: and The Washington. Nationals we Got shota on the. Mound
Speaker 1: Jake irvan has also been pretty. Good four and a
Speaker 1: half under at minus one twenty, five, yes, please we're
Speaker 1: gonna take. That we're also gonna Go atlanta And philly
Speaker 1: on the four and a half under through the first five,
Speaker 1: innings a little bit higher on the one minus one
Speaker 1: thirty five on the, juice but we're gonna take both
Speaker 1: of those through the first five taking the, under and
Speaker 1: then we're gonna play a nurfy. Today we're gonna go
Speaker 1: with Your Toronto Blue jays and The Minnesota. Twins we
Speaker 1: Got gousman And Pablo. Lopez we're going no runs to
Speaker 1: the first inning, again a little bit more juice minus
Speaker 1: one thirty, five playing a little bit safer BECAUSE i
Speaker 1: don't like the player props. Today that's What i'm jumping.
Speaker 1: Into and, those my, friends are the best bets of
Speaker 1: the day For. Friday IF i can get the artwork in.
Speaker 1: There look at? That all, Right let's go over to
Speaker 1: the home run board WHERE i am still not. There my,
Speaker 1: god It's i'm. MOVING i don't THINK i had any homers.
Speaker 1: Recently Fred dinger can Confirm donnie hit me up like this.
Speaker 1: Morning it was like you get on the board because
Speaker 1: he wants to come bring. Something, NO i don't THINK
Speaker 1: i had any. Homers the bottom to get on the
Speaker 1: board is that thirty. Five JOEY p is at thirty,
Speaker 1: nine But wonky is coming in Hot Jumpin' JOEY p at.
Speaker 1: Thirteen but our leaderboard friends got to tell you it
Speaker 1: might be Over South AFRICAN. G i HOPE i didn't just.
Speaker 1: Drink South AFRICAN g has a six home run lead
Speaker 1: over second. Place he has fifty four to forty eight
Speaker 1: FOR B Trot Razor ramone came in like a wrecking.
Speaker 1: Ball he has come up to three with forty seven
Speaker 1: And larry's got forty. Five that's the top of our
Speaker 1: Board South AFRICAN, G B Trot, Razor ramone And LARRY.
Speaker 1: C but, wow there is almost a ten home run
Speaker 1: difference between fourth and first place on the home run,
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Speaker 1: again for next. Season just, wait maybe we'll do something even.
Speaker 1: Bigger love to have you, Guys so, oh home. Runs
Speaker 1: we've got to pick our home. Runs who's your home run?
Speaker 2: TODAY i went With Reese hoskins Against louder and his.
Speaker 2: Debut he has been very. COLD i think he's due
Speaker 2: to hit one today and a Great american ballpark against
Speaker 2: the guy making his first career. START i Think hoskins
Speaker 2: it's a get right day for.
Speaker 1: Him, OKAY i mean that's the bold home run call To,
Speaker 1: yeah AND i like.
Speaker 2: IT i like.
Speaker 1: It i'm gonna go With Rafael. Devers i'm not Sure
Speaker 1: devers is cash for me at. All i've wanted to
Speaker 1: Go Jared. DURANT i just wanted to pick on the,
Speaker 1: matchup SO i wanted someone In. Boston So i'm gonna
Speaker 1: go With Rafael devers through the weekend UNLESS i go
Speaker 1: on to the betting pros app and decide to pick.
Speaker 1: Otherwise li, said what is everyone who Beats? Welshkit you
Speaker 1: get a good Old pat on the back. Congratulation i'm
Speaker 1: proud of. You that's what it. Is that's what you'll.
Speaker 1: Get so here's a big, question what's going. On, september
Speaker 1: final month Of Leading, off is coming up here for the,
Speaker 1: season and again we're going to be getting into The dynasty.
Speaker 1: Stuff it really at the minute the season starts back, Up,
Speaker 1: Joe rico And Casey bubba for the most, part will
Speaker 1: be taking over for the show starting next. Week here's
Speaker 1: another caveat it's a holiday On, monday so there is
Speaker 1: no show On, monday BECAUSE i will still be on
Speaker 1: The monday. Episodes SO i will be on the next Couple.
Speaker 1: Mondays you guys Can i'll. Hang i'll be once With,
Speaker 1: bubba once with A. Rico but the other Episodes arico
Speaker 1: And Casey bubba are going to be taking you. Home
Speaker 1: so still same grade. Show it's just not completely without,
Speaker 1: me But i'm still kind of, here SO i. Can't
Speaker 1: you can't throw me into The joe pot or anything like.
Speaker 1: That So i'll be here On Mondays arico And bubba
Speaker 1: the other days as we finish Out Leading, off but
Speaker 1: we will have more off season content as, well and
Speaker 1: we'll continue telling about all that awesome stuff when we're
Speaker 1: Talking dynasty early ranks and all of The so find
Speaker 1: him At Joe rico ninety nine and you'll find him next.
Speaker 1: Week you also can find me over all over on
Speaker 1: The Fantasy pro. STUFF a very fun. THING i just
Speaker 1: want to remind everybody spent three hours last night With
Speaker 1: Justin Steele club Starting Pitcher Justin. Steele we did an
Speaker 1: episode which is going to be on The Fantasy pros football,
Speaker 1: side if you want to check it. Out we had a.
Speaker 1: Blast we Rased Derek brown and then we actually hung
Speaker 1: out for like almost two hours after we did another Best.
Speaker 1: Ball we were shooting talking. Shop careful WHAT i say
Speaker 1: here talking shop, here you know WHAT i was about
Speaker 1: to get in. Trouble we had a good. Time we
Speaker 1: had a good. Time Justin steele is an awesome. Dude
Speaker 1: so if you guys want to go check that, out
Speaker 1: we'd love to have. It but there you. Go that's.
Speaker 1: It extra long episode Because i'm not going to talk
Speaker 1: to you next. Week but you know you can find
Speaker 1: me at is it The. Wels you can find A
Speaker 1: rico At Joe rico ninety. Nine let's get, it my.
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