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Speaker 1: to Major League Baseball. Everybody where, everybody is hurt. And
Speaker 1: another guy just went on the IL eight seconds ago,
Speaker 1: Bogs Grayson Rodriguez to the IL fifty. Melanie Newman just
Speaker 1: reported it. So we'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 1: I literally just saw that when I refreshed X, and
Speaker 1: I'll go, oh, look at that. Isn't that a nice cherry?
Speaker 1: On top of the Mike Trout injury, which is where
Speaker 1: we're going to start here today. Scott Bogman, take a
Speaker 1: deep breath. Everybody, let's get after it. Here we go.
Speaker 1: Mike Trout needs surgery on his knee, sources told Jeff
Speaker 1: Passen obviously yesterday this news broke. He is going to
Speaker 1: miss a fair amount of time here with his injury.
Speaker 1: We're looking at months, not weeks, probably most likely would
Speaker 1: be my guest. Again, s some things floating around there,
Speaker 1: but he's had a really good year. I mean, eight
Speaker 1: sixty seven ops, ten homers, six steals in twenty nine games.
Speaker 1: He's been fantastic. He's gonna need the surgery to repair
Speaker 1: a torn meniscus in the left knee. Now again, it
Speaker 1: depends on how the tear is bogs, you know, I know,
Speaker 1: again playing baseball doing other things. Very different in terms
Speaker 1: of this injury. We've seen running backs have this sometimes
Speaker 1: it's a few weeks here, but I mean it feels
Speaker 1: like everything with Trout is more like in the months.
Speaker 1: So again, let's take this one step at a time.
Speaker 1: I think the first thing is the Mike Trout analysis.
Speaker 1: Was the ADP again baked in for him worth it
Speaker 1: at this point already he was about fifty overall, obviously
Speaker 1: not I'm really a point where he's gonna be won
Speaker 1: one hundred game.
Speaker 2: Player at best this year at best, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's at least two months, it seems like. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it it stinks, man, it really does. I thought this
Speaker 2: was the year too, and I know Welsh did. I
Speaker 2: thought this was the year we're getting great Trout. I know,
Speaker 2: during the Fantasy Fest. He talked about it as well.
Speaker 2: I believe with don Nell don but.
Speaker 1: No, Pianowski was the guy who was like, I'm out, Pianowski,
Speaker 1: that's who it was. You're right is And I told
Speaker 1: this to Welsh. Welsh was like, yeah, who got out?
Speaker 1: And I was like, Pianowski more often than not, is
Speaker 1: right about that, like Scott is one of the best theories.
Speaker 1: I know this because I played at leagues with the
Speaker 1: guy for a decade. And well, you can't predict injuries though,
Speaker 1: but predicting injuries his point was saying he's thirty two
Speaker 1: years old. Again. The thing that he was wrong about
Speaker 1: was the stolen bases coming back, which they did. But again,
Speaker 1: is that the cost now, like was him running more
Speaker 1: now the cost of this meniscus injury?
Speaker 2: No, I doubt it. The guy is injury prone, you
Speaker 2: know so uh And this isn't you know. We weren't
Speaker 2: worried about the knee. If you're boiling everything down, we
Speaker 2: were not worried about the knee. And I highly doubt
Speaker 2: that the stolen bases were the cause of this is
Speaker 2: probably you know, running into the wall hard, I mean
Speaker 2: Trout plays hard. There's he only knows one way to play,
Speaker 2: and it has led to him getting hurt, and we're
Speaker 2: just gonna have to bake that in more into next
Speaker 2: season and just expect this guy maybe at this point
Speaker 2: to play one hundred games. You know, he's going to
Speaker 2: have at least one long extended il trip each season,
Speaker 2: and he has the Finals to nosis on top of
Speaker 2: all of that. So yeah, it just it really sucks.
Speaker 2: And it kind of brings the end to the Trout
Speaker 2: era in baseball, right, And I mean it really kind
Speaker 2: of does. So he'll play for album many years he's
Speaker 2: got left, and he'll play as many games as he can,
Speaker 2: but he's never going to be the MVP level guy
Speaker 2: that we saw in terms of putting it together for
Speaker 2: an entire season. He may still be a great player,
Speaker 2: look at what he was doing before he got hurt, right,
Speaker 2: So there's still that in there obviously, which is amazing,
Speaker 2: But you just have to bake in the fact that
Speaker 2: he is going to miss games every season from now
Speaker 2: on if he doesn't retire. I mean, guy's got more money,
Speaker 2: you know, he's got so much money as I don't
Speaker 2: see I don't think so either. The guy the game,
Speaker 2: so he's probably gonna stick around for another four to
Speaker 2: five years and play one hundred games. It just it
Speaker 2: hurts to talk about. Man, he's one of the best
Speaker 2: ever and it really stinks to see him like this.
Speaker 2: It really sucks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does. I want to give a shout out though,
Speaker 1: to one of our listeners who messages on Twitter, Honkas,
Speaker 1: who show us a screenshot He says, thanks guys to
Speaker 1: me and the Welsh hashtag leading off where he did
Speaker 1: indeed trade Mike Trout last week for Julio Rodriguez. The
Speaker 1: trade that whilst I were talking about is like, look,
Speaker 1: you can make this trade right now. Chances are because
Speaker 1: somebody's impatient, somebody's not looking at the long term, somebody's
Speaker 1: not looking at the dangers of Trout. So Honk is
Speaker 1: good on you. He made that exact trade and showed
Speaker 1: us the screenshot of it, which is fantastic. And I
Speaker 1: guess the bigger point too now is the Angels are
Speaker 1: in again up the creek without a paddle. And I
Speaker 1: was bringing this up earlier here it was like, hey,
Speaker 1: if Mike Trout gets off to a good couple of months,
Speaker 1: the angel should absolutely try to remake this organization and
Speaker 1: trade Mike Trout and learn from the mistake that they
Speaker 1: had last year with Otani. Now they can't do that, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't think they'll be able to pull that off
Speaker 1: because or if they do, it'll be a fraction of
Speaker 1: what they could get had he had a full, healthy
Speaker 1: three months. If Mike Trout had an all star first half,
Speaker 1: I think you could get a package around Hestig Kurstad
Speaker 1: and Kobe Mayo and maybe some pieces like that, maybe
Speaker 1: just two guys, and rebuild this organization and bring that
Speaker 1: payroll down. But boxs where does this leave the Angels
Speaker 1: now too? And then we'll get to the fantasy implications too,
Speaker 1: because again, replacing my Trout is not an easy thing
Speaker 1: to do. But I do have some ideas and I
Speaker 1: want to hear talk about the Angels ramifications.
Speaker 2: First, Well, what do you think I mean, they're up
Speaker 2: that old creek that we don't like and they have
Speaker 2: no paddle, right, that is where it leaves him. I
Speaker 2: mean one of my favorite shows, by the way, I
Speaker 2: could say that. Look, I could say that, yeah, sure, sure, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's bellow two teas in a scene, but but yeah, man,
Speaker 2: it sucks. You take the biggest bat out of that lineup.
Speaker 2: I mean you're replacing him with the resurgence of Joe
Speaker 2: Adell MIGUELSONO until.
Speaker 1: Well, the resurgence of Joe Adele. From a power speed standpoint, yes,
Speaker 1: from a batting everge standpoint.
Speaker 2: By the way, it is a good band name.
Speaker 1: The resurgence of Joe adells a guy that I would
Speaker 1: love to get via trade right now because I think
Speaker 1: he's got another five months ahead of him.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: A guy who's been hitting, who's been hot right now,
Speaker 1: who is maybe this week band aid Mark Conna of Detroit,
Speaker 1: who again that's a long term solution, but he does
Speaker 1: have five homers on the season. So far in twenty
Speaker 1: nine games played, he is hitting two seventy eight on
Speaker 1: the year. In the last two weeks he's hitting three
Speaker 1: forty nine. So again that's a player maybe is a
Speaker 1: stopgap guy when we start to look, they're.
Speaker 2: Not trading for stop gaps. They're not putting more.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about fantasy now, I'm talking about casios for fantasy. Oh,
Speaker 1: for fantasy. I'm talking because when you said, what are
Speaker 1: the stop gaps? And I actually said, Joe.
Speaker 2: Brain, Joe, you gotta tell me when you switch, when
Speaker 2: you said Joe Adell.
Speaker 1: That made sense to me. Is like a stop gap
Speaker 1: in real life for fantasy. So maybe it is. He's
Speaker 1: still rostered in only what like sixty percent of leagues
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, it's pretty low. And you know he's
Speaker 2: been great. Yeah, in turn, there is no Look, here's
Speaker 2: the nice part is that you don't have to care
Speaker 2: about this roster spot for the rest of the year,
Speaker 2: right so you can churn it. Just take a guy
Speaker 2: that's hot. You know, you mentioned Markanna right now has
Speaker 2: been great. Great when us hitting one.
Speaker 1: Of leagues for a Dell, by the way, that's shocking.
Speaker 2: Still when he quits hitting, dump his ass, pick up
Speaker 2: somebody else. You know what I mean. You churn this.
Speaker 2: That's how you solve this problem. Is you pick up
Speaker 2: a hot guy, you ride the wave, you dump them,
Speaker 2: you ride another wave. That is what you do. You
Speaker 2: burn and churn for the rest of the year. That's
Speaker 2: the only way to make up a stat like trouts,
Speaker 2: a stat line like trouts. And that's if you're lucky
Speaker 2: enough to have Trout in a league that's shallow enough
Speaker 2: for those type of pickups. Not every league is that shallow.
Speaker 2: So you know, the big of the league that you
Speaker 2: took him in just to replace him on.
Speaker 1: Jacob Young from the Nationals. He has been white h
Speaker 1: He has been white hot a lot of stolen bases.
Speaker 1: Obviously the power is not something, but twelve steals on
Speaker 1: the year so far in twenty two games, and because
Speaker 1: of Laye Thomas's injury, he's a guy that's getting more
Speaker 1: at bats. Again, there's no solution here, as Bogin was saying,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of riding the wave of hot outfielders
Speaker 1: that are out there on the waiver wire. So Joe
Speaker 1: Odell would be my first one because he is guaranteed
Speaker 1: locked playing time now the Trout's out, he would be
Speaker 1: the I don't want to empty the tank for fab,
Speaker 1: but I would be aggressive if I had trout. Would
Speaker 1: you agree with that, yes, Okay. Casileanos would be a
Speaker 1: trade target. Kanna would be another guy we mentioned Young
Speaker 1: from the sense of the stolen bases. Look, I know
Speaker 1: Ben and Tende's had a good run here recently. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I want to buy into that, but
Speaker 1: that's another guy to the last two weeks who's been
Speaker 1: pretty hot. Pajez from the Dodgers another guy too. Against
Speaker 1: strikes out a ton, but still you know some more
Speaker 1: you can. JJ Blede is another guy that's been hot.
Speaker 1: I know there's no answer, but it is just these
Speaker 1: guys right now. Unless you have an excess or else
Speaker 1: and can make a trade. That's pretty much it. So
Speaker 1: let's move on to.
Speaker 2: What is Andrew Ben and Tendi rostered. I'm one.
Speaker 1: You take a guess. This is a fun game we
Speaker 1: like to play.
Speaker 2: Oh dude, I'm are you looking at because I'm looking
Speaker 2: at Yahoo.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at CBS.
Speaker 2: Uh So it's fifteen percent over there, three percent on
Speaker 2: Yahoo for Ben and Tendee. So you know guys are
Speaker 2: super low. Yeah, Carter has been good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you also just get called up Doyle out
Speaker 1: there too. Maybe make a here's here's an interesting one too.
Speaker 1: Maybe perhaps a long shot trade or by low trade
Speaker 1: on Nolan Jones if he comes back in a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks from that injury and he is healthy, Nolan Jones,
Speaker 1: there's power their speed there. That's an opportunity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say this. I it's it sucks because if
Speaker 2: you trade for if you trade for these low guys,
Speaker 2: for Casty and Nolan Jones, you know how long are
Speaker 2: you sitting on these guys until they pick it back up, right,
Speaker 2: So I'm for me for most cases, I'm just picking
Speaker 2: up the hot guy and we're playing burning suring the
Speaker 2: rest of the year. It stinks. It's not what you
Speaker 2: want to do. It's a lot more work, but it
Speaker 2: was better than for Nolan Jones. No, not if I
Speaker 2: have il spots, I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I'm just trying to gauge, like how
Speaker 1: much we want the two months guy Jones is too?
Speaker 2: Right, So is that going to lead to a surgery?
Speaker 2: So I don't want to like trade my one guy
Speaker 2: for another guy that's already hurt. So I think you're
Speaker 2: exacerbating the issue. Yeah, for Dougo has been hot. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Tyler Black just got called up.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about him today in the show too. Again.
Speaker 2: Tommy fam was just called back up, right, Yeah, So
Speaker 2: there's there's ways to help yourself through this. It's not
Speaker 2: all dead in the water, but it is way more difficult.
Speaker 1: It is. It certainly is. And look, the good news
Speaker 1: is Mike Trout was a fourth round pick this year,
Speaker 1: fifth round pick depending on what was going on in
Speaker 1: your league and the death of your league. So it's
Speaker 1: not going to kill you like you to when it
Speaker 1: was a first round pick. It's not gonna kill you
Speaker 1: quite the same way. But it does hurt, and especially
Speaker 1: because now again you've missed that window of capitalizing on
Speaker 1: the great month of April. You know, you miss that window.
Speaker 1: Now that he's hurt. Now that's going to be anywhere
Speaker 1: from like I mean, six weeks, eight weeks could be
Speaker 1: in that range. We'll see. But it's also sad for baseball.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think about King Graphy Junior's career bogs,
Speaker 1: and I think of, you know, how the end of
Speaker 1: his career was marred by injuries. But I also remember
Speaker 1: the great playoff, you know, against the Yankees and him
Speaker 1: having that moment Like Trout's never had that moment on
Speaker 1: the big stage.
Speaker 2: It plays left in baseball, So does I mean I
Speaker 2: think at this point, I think, at this point, maybe
Speaker 2: he's going to look down the barrel out of his
Speaker 2: career and know, I better get out of here. If
Speaker 2: I want to go playing significant games, I have to
Speaker 2: get out of this organization. He just needs to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly, would i'd love to see Trout get more
Speaker 1: or was he have three games in the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: think memories hurt that it was one time get three,
Speaker 1: not enough on time I went to the playoffs. It
Speaker 1: was super Funy we've.
Speaker 2: Been to more Eagles playoff games in his career sitting
Speaker 2: front row than he has actually with him.
Speaker 1: One thousand percent. So Grayson Rodriguez goes to the fifteen
Speaker 1: day I shoulder inflammation that was just reported recently. Melody
Speaker 1: Nubeen like eight seconds before the show tweeted that. So
Speaker 1: all right, that's the big conversation. Now another one bites
Speaker 1: the dust on the pitching front. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 2: I mean, what do you think my thoughts are? They're
Speaker 2: not great? Joe, uh yeah, to.
Speaker 1: A quote on another classic film, wrong response.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't know this guy. This guy is so
Speaker 2: good three seven one e r A pitching to his
Speaker 2: Sierra three seven five. The strikeout rate was great. You
Speaker 2: just put up a great start the other night, and
Speaker 2: it's just another one bites the dust. You know, it stinks.
Speaker 2: There's no there's no replacing that. This is the issue.
Speaker 2: There's no replacing these guys. There's plenty of dudes that
Speaker 2: have gotten hurt where it is just pick up the
Speaker 2: hot guy, and in some instances that's all you can do, right,
Speaker 2: But for these guys, I don't know, maybe you're gonna
Speaker 2: especially for the I mean there's a name.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Look, look, look you can I understand
Speaker 1: as the Diamondbacks fan you're taking offense to this, but
Speaker 1: he is going to pitch. He's got two starts so
Speaker 1: far this year, twelve innings, eleven strikeouts, one walk. The
Speaker 1: whip is a point five. I mean, can it get
Speaker 1: you through two weeks? Hopefully? But the bigger problem is
Speaker 1: what if this shoulder? Is it just this shoulder inflammation?
Speaker 1: Is there any damage? What happens when he goes for MRIs?
Speaker 1: That's the big concern at this point.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I mean it's hard to have. It's hard
Speaker 2: to have a good game plan for Grayson, you know,
Speaker 2: because it could be like Ramberg, Right, it comes back
Speaker 2: in a week, Zach Gallon. Everyone was panicking about last week,
Speaker 2: especially me. I was right after this Steelers had a
Speaker 2: great draft night, and then I see sorry about Gallon Bogman.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh no, what's gonna happen now? But
Speaker 2: it was a hamstring, So you hold your breath. You
Speaker 2: see how long it is and you adjust, you know,
Speaker 2: when we find out. So hopefully this is a quick
Speaker 2: eyel stint for some inflammation. Probably not, though, and then
Speaker 2: you go on from there. But yeah, there's no replacing
Speaker 2: Grayson Rodriguez. What are you gonna do? I mean, you
Speaker 2: trade one of your top hitters for a lower grade
Speaker 2: hitter in a pitcher, and that's a strategy. It really
Speaker 2: you have to thread the needle with that though. You know,
Speaker 2: you have to have the right person willing to deal people.
Speaker 2: So in most cases it's just burn and churn, which
Speaker 2: is not a fun answer. But yeah, TODs Bradley coming
Speaker 2: back up.
Speaker 1: That's a good name. That's one of the better names
Speaker 1: I think anyone's thrown out there. Tos Bradley has upside
Speaker 1: their their strikeout ability. Again, you had good spring was
Speaker 1: going in the right direction for him, and then obviously
Speaker 1: the injury happened. It was a big bummer. But another
Speaker 1: big bummer to Osea Brew actually took the minor league assignment,
Speaker 1: which kind of shocks me. Bogs like, maybe they're working
Speaker 1: on finding a trade for him. Perhaps that's the only
Speaker 1: thing I could think of, because Jerry was like, hey,
Speaker 1: good call on a Brew. In the chat, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of shocked that he didn't just take
Speaker 1: the DFA and move on.
Speaker 2: Is what is he making though?
Speaker 1: You know, I guess that's the question here. Look, I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess you'd take it, but you know, I'm surprised
Speaker 1: that that's that he accepted it. I guess you know,
Speaker 1: they wanted to go down to work. They haven't given
Speaker 1: up on him at a pairs. Like the notion was go down,
Speaker 1: work on your swing, whatever it is, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: That's great. It makes me a little bit nervous though
Speaker 1: for low Perfito. That's the other thing. Jack Flaherty. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about something positive. How about fourteen strikeouts for Jack flarerty.
Speaker 1: He's been steadily. I keep looking at the Jack Clarity
Speaker 1: game log last couple of weeks and going, wow, look
Speaker 1: at Jack Flaherty kind of putting things together. And when
Speaker 1: they brought him in, I thought, you know, this is
Speaker 1: one of these guys that when he was healthy a
Speaker 1: few years ago, we thought Jack Flaherty was going to
Speaker 1: be like a stud supposed to be a big time
Speaker 1: front of the rotation guy for the Cardinals and for Fantasy.
Speaker 1: And then injuries completely derailed him. But take a look
Speaker 1: at this twenty four swinging strikes a forty six percent
Speaker 1: CSW so far in the year. Now he's got a
Speaker 1: four er, but a one point zero three whip the
Speaker 1: XCRA is lower than the era fifty to five strikeout
Speaker 1: to walk.
Speaker 2: In through Arrah is two two four.
Speaker 1: What do you make of this renaissance of Jack Flaherty.
Speaker 2: Dude, we kind of thought a lot of people in
Speaker 2: the industry thought maybe Flerity is going to be the
Speaker 2: guy getting saves here in Detroit right before, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: so yeah, I mean Flarity has been outstanding. Uh revenge
Speaker 2: game narrative, right, of course, we always love those fourteen
Speaker 2: strikeouts against his old team, the Cardinals, so that was nice.
Speaker 2: But uh yeah, Flarity, if someone has dumbed him at
Speaker 2: this point, he is a great pickup. So I would
Speaker 2: I would love to have Flarity. I think I have
Speaker 2: one share of him right now. But I mean he's
Speaker 2: turning it around. Sometimes it just takes these guys a
Speaker 2: little bit to figure it out and maybe, you know,
Speaker 2: you get with a new pitching coach, whatever it is,
Speaker 2: and you see the transformation happen. I mean, look at
Speaker 2: Merrill Kelly played years right in the Korean League and
Speaker 2: he comes back over it, gets with brett Strom and
Speaker 2: has now, you know, a premier innings eater pitcher. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't say he's upper echellon pitcher, but pitching in the
Speaker 2: World Series the only d back to winning the World
Speaker 2: Series last year. So yeah, I mean, you know, I
Speaker 2: buy more resurgence from pitchers late in their career. I
Speaker 2: feel like than I do a lot of hitters.
Speaker 1: So fair enough, fair enough, and Flowery's not that old
Speaker 1: yet either you. Darvish made his return yesterday. Strikeout total
Speaker 1: was low, but he looked pretty good. So that's all
Speaker 1: we could take out of that five innings, will take it.
Speaker 1: Jordan Montgomery was cratching yesterday because of the two hour
Speaker 1: b colony delay. Boggs, that was a good time. And
Speaker 1: then they let the guy who treated the bees throughout
Speaker 1: the first pitch, which I thought was a nice touch there.
Speaker 1: Fred was the.
Speaker 2: Second first pitch too. Man, they were like they're ready
Speaker 2: to play. They were let the beat people go out there.
Speaker 1: It's hilarious. I loved it. Freddy Peralta got ejected yesterday.
Speaker 1: I mean he was certainly after a rocky start last
Speaker 1: time out, he was great, seven strikeouts to run like,
Speaker 1: he was terrific. We got the over somebody.
Speaker 2: They ejected, no warnings, no nothing.
Speaker 1: It was crazy. It was crazy. I don't get this.
Speaker 2: And Riley Green, who was another crazy.
Speaker 1: There's one more guy too, Riley Green. Maybe you can
Speaker 1: still buy low on him. But three to five with
Speaker 1: a homer yesterday, I don't know if that window is closed.
Speaker 2: There so uh it is, it's rapidly closing.
Speaker 1: But maybe, just maybe somebody's got an excess. That's another
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Speaker 1: run home run against Atlanta yesterday, so maybe starting to
Speaker 1: pull out of his tailspin. And Mason Miller another save
Speaker 1: this one against the Pirates. One not to but the
Speaker 1: grease strikeouts. Is he the best closer in baseball?
Speaker 2: He's one of the best, and you should have heard.
Speaker 1: Maybe I should make sure I do. Is he the
Speaker 1: best closer in fantasy baseball? Let's put it this way.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Kyle Finnegan has nine saves Joe, sobody's
Speaker 2: he's striking on the side every time? Just say Miller's great.
Speaker 2: I did. I was watching that game at the end.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw the last at bat,
Speaker 2: but it was Oneil Cruise versus Mason Miller. I believe
Speaker 2: it was Last Day and the Pirates announcers like the
Speaker 2: premiere guys in baseball. This is what you want to see,
Speaker 2: Mason Miller versus O'Neal cruise in front of a crowd
Speaker 2: of thirteen hundred or whatever it was. It's just he's right, like,
Speaker 2: these are two premier players and no one's at this
Speaker 2: game because these teams won't spend on their team.
Speaker 1: So he has more strikeouts than Joe Musgrove. He has
Speaker 1: more strikeouts than Jordan Hicks. He has more strikeouts than
Speaker 1: Max Freed, You Darvish Bailey ober Uh. He has more
Speaker 1: strikeouts than Hunter Brown. That's not surprising there. But I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got.
Speaker 2: A lot some guys that haven't been on the IL
Speaker 2: Mason Miller's outstanding. But let's not you know, let's talk
Speaker 2: about Tyler two games of what a third of an
Speaker 2: inning or whatever.
Speaker 1: The last two weeks he was back on track. But
Speaker 1: he's still a starting pitcher. And regardless how good or
Speaker 1: bad you are, when you have closers getting as many
Speaker 1: strikeouts as as mid level fantasy starters, it's something to
Speaker 1: pay attention to.
Speaker 2: And he's still, like Kelly said, I'm dangling Miller out
Speaker 2: there for tier one hitters. He what I even get
Speaker 2: that that is? And I like closers, but that's a
Speaker 2: great idea.
Speaker 1: It's probably a great idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but give you Max Freed.
Speaker 1: Making him a closer was the right idea. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about rookie. Lookie, Tyler Black was called up. Another guy
Speaker 1: we talked about guys Welsh, just Black. Welsh just completely
Speaker 1: crushed the prospecting last week. I can't wait for tomorrow
Speaker 1: and you should also join live on the program. But
Speaker 1: also we chop that up now as a special segment.
Speaker 1: But you go back and look at last week we
Speaker 1: were talking about Tyler Black. All these guys twenty three
Speaker 1: year old infielder hitting three to zero, three five homers,
Speaker 1: three steals twenty five games. They need offense in the
Speaker 1: worst way. Last year of five hundred fifty eight played
Speaker 1: appearance between double A and TRIPAA two eighty four, four
Speaker 1: seventeen five thirteen slash, eighteen homers, fifty five steels. So
Speaker 1: there's power their speed again. Tyler Black is an infielder.
Speaker 1: But if you'll give our offense with the trout injury.
Speaker 1: Black is a guy that I go right to.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And this is a guy that I drafted
Speaker 2: in a couple DC fifties right because I expected him
Speaker 2: to possibly make the roster. Didn't work out, but I
Speaker 2: ate one month and now here he is so very
Speaker 2: happy to have Tyler blackup, and he is a great
Speaker 2: pick up for those of you that have il spots
Speaker 2: and can put trout there and hopefully replace his productive
Speaker 2: Think of this question, keep seeing it together.
Speaker 1: Drop kurs Dad for Black? Would you do that? I mean,
Speaker 1: curse Ed's not getting that bats. He's just kind of like, yeah,
Speaker 1: to lend you that right now, I would do that
Speaker 1: with you. Uh, And look, Black might struggle. He could
Speaker 1: hit the ground running and be great. You just never
Speaker 1: know what the young players. That's the nature of the beast.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the young players.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Prospect Jackson Holiday three for six. So Jackson Holiday, we
Speaker 1: just know this about him. This one thing Jackson Holiday loves.
Speaker 1: It's little Debbie Snackkicks. And it is playing in Norfolk.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Norfolk is.
Speaker 2: So much fun hole nor I'm not hear at all everybody.
Speaker 2: I love it here.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, you.
Speaker 4: Know it really keeps the curls in my hair, That's
Speaker 4: what it does. Gee whiz something about the something about
Speaker 4: the water down here in the atmosphere. Boy, oh boy,
Speaker 4: sure is good. But there Jackson Holiday cheeks.
Speaker 2: Make sure that kid doesn't get burned, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I mean? Right extra suntaipotion. He looks like
Speaker 1: you could be your kid actually, just like if not Bogman,
Speaker 1: that could definitely be like I mean with your people.
Speaker 1: Don't know about the curls of the Bogman. I know
Speaker 1: about I know what's under that hat.
Speaker 2: I know lots and lots of ladies.
Speaker 1: It's under that at a special Let me tell you
Speaker 1: it is stunning and brave. Orioles third base prospect Kobe
Speaker 1: Mayo two for three with a three run home or two.
Speaker 1: He also loves Norfolk. Everybody loves Norfolk. Kyle Manzardo another
Speaker 1: guy Wells talked about last week, another solo home run
Speaker 1: for him, TikTok Guardians, let's go what are we doing here?
Speaker 1: Get this guy up?
Speaker 2: And Paul the Guardians have been winning games, they barely lost.
Speaker 2: Do you see them come all the way back last night?
Speaker 2: And then I didn't.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, it's like, what you've got this guy
Speaker 1: just so dominate by more. Bring this kid up. There's
Speaker 1: nothing left for him to do in triple A, Like
Speaker 1: the guy is literally nothing left to prove. Paul Skens
Speaker 1: also might have nothing left to prove. Now this I
Speaker 1: did watch. I did watch a good chunk of this,
Speaker 1: and what I loved most too, there's moments to where
Speaker 1: Skeens is doing what I love, which is moving guys
Speaker 1: off the plate a little bit like when you're throwing
Speaker 1: ninety nine hundred miles an hour and it's even just
Speaker 1: a little bit inside. You see these guys they like
Speaker 1: they're they're balid. Next pitch right of the outside corner,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, yep, look there's pitching everybody like
Speaker 1: that's what's pitching supposed to do. Another seven six, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: six shutout hitting, seven strikeouts for Paul Skenes. I like you.
Speaker 2: I like you telling people how things work, because Joe
Speaker 2: definitely got me one time with the John Love to
Speaker 2: see the way it works is.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: I was like, so mad you pulled that out at
Speaker 2: the perfect time. I was so mad, but also impressed, right, Like,
Speaker 2: that's a tough spot to be in, you know, mad
Speaker 2: and impressed at the same time.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's your moo, just spending time with
Speaker 1: me over the last decade that we've been from. I
Speaker 1: feel like that's pretty much it just mad, sort of impressed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, who was impressive yesterday? Let's do the three up.
Speaker 1: Marcus Simeon two for five, a double, a triple, two runs,
Speaker 1: Cole Reagan's hopefully you bought the dip because four hit
Speaker 1: six and two thirds over the Blue Jays, nine strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Jared Durant three for four with a run and RBI.
Speaker 1: I love Jared Durant every day. He just fills this
Speaker 1: that sheet. It's delicious. It's Jared duran is just like
Speaker 1: just points. If you're in a points league, you just
Speaker 1: just give Jared Duran a big giant hug because every
Speaker 1: day all he does is just fill the box score.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on Jaron Duran's season so far, which has
Speaker 1: been terrific to.
Speaker 2: Start, Yeah, he's been outstanding, and the Red Sox have
Speaker 2: you know, for all the injuries they sustained have kind
Speaker 2: of they kept the hitting up at least, so we
Speaker 2: love to see that. Hopefully, hopefully Devers getting out of
Speaker 2: April right. Hopefully Devers turns it around and he doesn't
Speaker 2: have these crazy injury things again. But yeah, Duran is
Speaker 2: having a great season.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he certainly is and one of the more
Speaker 1: mispriced guys in draft season this year. And I'm so
Speaker 1: glad that we were so aggressive on him because he's
Speaker 1: been everything. Hunter Brown has been Brown five and two thirds,
Speaker 1: six earned Brown downs for him boo against the It's
Speaker 1: just come on, man, I don't know what the teas
Speaker 1: of Hunter Brown starting to pitch well and then going
Speaker 1: back to this game today with six earned runs Yesterday,
Speaker 1: I should say, just terrible. Cookie Carrasco eight runs and
Speaker 1: four innings, No bueno, and Logan Webb let me down yesterday.
Speaker 1: Way to go, Logan nine hits three and two thirds.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I wagered on you.
Speaker 2: That was terrific, dude, nessor same thing for me. Nesser
Speaker 2: had five. I had five and a half and somebody
Speaker 2: kicked a ball and then he threw like twenty more pitches.
Speaker 2: He would have had a full another inning if not
Speaker 2: for the air. But you know, tough, Yeah, seriously tough.
Speaker 1: He's He's not alone though. Obviously there were some other
Speaker 1: guys that were bad, but those were the ones that
Speaker 1: just pissed me off the most. Let's talk about injuries.
Speaker 1: So top of the show we mentioned Grayson Rodriguez, so
Speaker 1: that kind of hit everybody like a ton.
Speaker 2: Of bits and trout. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got a fun so we won't spend too
Speaker 1: much time. Blake Snell bullpen session today. Louis Patino, remember him,
Speaker 1: he was gonna be a big picture. Well he's o
Speaker 1: Tommy John, Louis Patino. Walker Buehler allowed one run in
Speaker 1: five innings for triple A, so he's working his way back.
Speaker 1: But this is the most curious one. Alec Manoa twelve
Speaker 1: k's yesterday six innings. Would you be running to pick
Speaker 1: up Alec Manoa off the waiver wire right now if
Speaker 1: you just lost Grayson Rodriguez bogs absolutely not.
Speaker 2: No, what do you think is?
Speaker 1: What do you think? Manoa is roster percentage?
Speaker 2: Oh? Where's he right now? Water Burger?
Speaker 1: That burger?
Speaker 2: Oh it's ros percentage? Oh no, I bet he's at
Speaker 2: the Burger King drive through right.
Speaker 1: I've never had the burger. We don't have him around here.
Speaker 2: Oh Joey, but I hear that.
Speaker 1: I've had the in and Out in Vegas and case.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I shouldn't. I shouldn't say that it's good
Speaker 2: for fast food burgers. It is way better than McDonald's.
Speaker 1: And is it better than five guys fast food burger?
Speaker 2: No, but it's also not twenty nine dollars whatever five guys.
Speaker 1: But they but then they last time I got five guys,
Speaker 1: true story. Or two large fries. Literally the entire brown
Speaker 1: bag was filled with French fries, like I might not
Speaker 1: great the killing them at the play, like if they're
Speaker 1: eating there, they don't make it on the.
Speaker 2: Trim and found them good there. I mean, I guess
Speaker 2: I've heard get him Cajun style. But you know, you
Speaker 2: ask a fat guy about food, you're gonna get heavy
Speaker 2: opinions here.
Speaker 1: What that says about Alec, Well, I.
Speaker 2: Want Alec's in the drive through like what you did.
Speaker 1: The heavy opinions that was clever, look really good. Twenty
Speaker 1: seven percent roster just so you know, just saying, still
Speaker 1: floating out there, ladies and gentlemen. All right, one more
Speaker 1: injury to Yariel Rodriguez goes on the fifteen day IL.
Speaker 1: So that's why I said, hey, but noa twelve strikeouts
Speaker 1: triple A Rodriguez goes in the IL seems like an
Speaker 1: easy move to me. Seems like that's what we would
Speaker 1: do here. But I mean, in all honesty, do you
Speaker 1: think that's something we could possibly see here?
Speaker 2: I mean maybe Alec Manoa can come back at any point.
Speaker 2: I mean they're babying him, but I want him. I
Speaker 2: want him to string together a couple of these starts
Speaker 2: down there before he comes back up. So, I it's
Speaker 2: not for me.
Speaker 1: I'm not at Alca bodmin so bagman. It's not for him.
Speaker 1: He's not having it. He doesn't like it. But you
Speaker 1: know what we do like, we like bets. So it's Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Let's do the best Bets of the Day with Joey
Speaker 1: p and today. Scott Bogman is the Welsh is on vacation.
Speaker 1: He'll be back tomorrow. Don't forget everybody to make your
Speaker 1: bets at bet three six five. Use that promo code
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Speaker 1: five with the promo code leading off. Bogman, what do
Speaker 1: you have for the people today in the betting world?
Speaker 2: I mean byron bucks and over one and a half
Speaker 2: total bases is minus one ten. He's six for eight
Speaker 2: versus Flexen with three doubles in two homers, So I
Speaker 2: like that one a lot. Alec Boem over one and
Speaker 2: a half total bases at minus one oh five he's
Speaker 2: two for three vers sandarval Ay's sixteen for thirty over
Speaker 2: the last week. No one is hitting hotter than Alec
Speaker 2: Bohm right now, so let's put him on the board.
Speaker 2: And this is a weird one because they usually don't
Speaker 2: take these. But Ellie day La Cruz half a stolen
Speaker 2: base is plus one sixty because it's tough to predict
Speaker 2: when those stolen bases are going to happen. But right now,
Speaker 2: if Ellie gets on first, you might as well put
Speaker 2: him on second. Guess how guess how many caught ceilings
Speaker 2: Luis Campusano has between this year and last year.
Speaker 1: Oh oh wow?
Speaker 2: Uh two, that's right, Joe. It's zero, no, not one?
Speaker 2: So uh yes, I do think Ellie, if he gets
Speaker 2: on base, could steal seconds. So that's what I'm going
Speaker 2: for here.
Speaker 1: Love that love the Elle one. That's spectacular all right
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 2: I'm going unders by the way, just real quick. Mike
Speaker 2: in the chat says Welsh being sick tomorrow minus two fifty.
Speaker 2: You said after the water park he would maybe I'll
Speaker 2: be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: How did that move? I had it a minus four
Speaker 1: hundred when he left, so I don't know how it moved.
Speaker 1: I guess I guess the you know, one side was
Speaker 1: met pretty heavy there. But come back from the water
Speaker 1: park with two kids, Like come on, like I told you,
Speaker 1: when you leave the water park, they should give you
Speaker 1: a towel when you enter, an antibiotics when you leave.
Speaker 1: That's pretty much give me. But I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: under the flu. And I know Bogman Is you know,
Speaker 1: always says to me life is too short for the old,
Speaker 1: for the under But you know.
Speaker 2: What, like, hey, you know what, life's not too short
Speaker 2: for to make money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Jose bhutto my own guy. I'm going against
Speaker 1: the booty man under five and a half strikeouts minus
Speaker 1: one oh five today, Joe Musgrove, who's been lately. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna troll him to under five and a half strikeouts
Speaker 1: for him minus one thirty four to watch tonight he'll
Speaker 1: have twelve. But I'm gonna do my best here to
Speaker 1: stay calm. But Joe Muscrove another one trending in the
Speaker 1: wrong direction. A Boto I think more of a five
Speaker 1: inning pitcher two, So I don't expect him to go
Speaker 1: far into this game. And Yamamoto, I want to build
Speaker 1: some stuff. I want to build some love for Yamamoto. Today,
Speaker 1: Yamamoto over five and a half strikeouts against your Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: Bogs plus one twelve, and you can also take his
Speaker 1: under two and a half earned runs, so even if
Speaker 1: he just gives up two in a great start, you
Speaker 1: get even money on that. You can put the over
Speaker 1: five and a half strikeouts at plus one twelve and
Speaker 1: the Dodgers at minus one forty two on the money line,
Speaker 1: and you get anywhere from three to four to one
Speaker 1: on that depending on where you're making your wager. So
Speaker 1: that's the same game parlay of the day. Load it
Speaker 1: up with Yamamoto and the Dodgers. Yamamoto has been brilliant lately,
Speaker 1: striking out everybody this one. He's been dominant. Let's go
Speaker 1: put some money on the Dodgers and the unders for
Speaker 1: everybody else. That's how we're rolling today for the best
Speaker 1: bets of the day for Wednesday. All right, Bobs, it's
Speaker 1: time to call your shot now. Yesterday you had Aaron Judge,
Speaker 1: so where you're going.
Speaker 2: Only one for two on the home run calls today,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with jose Al Tuo Bay. Give me
Speaker 2: a leadoff hitter, you.
Speaker 1: Know, and a leadoff hitter who owns Tristan Mackenzie. By
Speaker 1: the way, have you seen the numbers. He's got a
Speaker 1: few homers already, hitting five hundred I think in his
Speaker 1: career against him. And that's where I'm going. Welsh never
Speaker 1: wants to I put Josel Twove in and then I
Speaker 1: saw you at l Twove and he said, isn't that
Speaker 1: nice that we could be friends? Because Welsh never wants
Speaker 1: to pick the same guy as me. And then if
Speaker 1: I picked the same guy as him. He changes it,
Speaker 1: so you and I are real friends.
Speaker 2: I'm not changing.
Speaker 1: I was first to the sheet, is mine first? Well,
Speaker 1: your first, your last year everything. Let's take a look
Speaker 1: at the homer board too, right now now I'm at ten.
Speaker 1: Stillar is still at thirteen, Yankee, still a thirteen. No
Speaker 1: change in the top of the board. It's been a
Speaker 1: slow year for home runs. I think it's gonna change
Speaker 1: when we get here turn the corner. But that'll do
Speaker 1: it for us. For everybody out there who's got Mike Trout,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, We'll get through this together. We will be
Speaker 1: your rock. Don't worry. We're gonna figure out some things.
Speaker 1: We'll get Welsh's take on that tomorrow. But again, that'll
Speaker 1: do it for us. The story of the game, however,
Speaker 1: it goes on for Scott Bogman, I'm Joey p. We'll
Speaker 1: see you next time, kids, avoid the true.
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