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Speaker 1: I want to get excited here about the Blue Jays.
Speaker 1: Let's start with this because not one, not two, not ten,
Speaker 1: not fifteen, not seventeen, not eighteen, but twenty twenty runs.
Speaker 1: So if you had the over in the Blue Jays game,
Speaker 1: chances are you cashed. I don't know what you could
Speaker 1: have teased it up to, but what at a crazy
Speaker 1: night there A lot of these runs did come later
Speaker 1: on in the game. George Springer hit his seventh home run.
Speaker 1: Guerrero hit his eighth home run. Chapman hit his seventh
Speaker 1: home run. Danny Jansen, what an incredible night for the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays just playing home run derby against the Rays.
Speaker 2: You got a love when the one team covers the
Speaker 2: over too, and and you got a love when position
Speaker 2: players come in. It's it's like free stat day. You
Speaker 2: know that's the giveaway. It's free stat day because Luke
Speaker 2: Rayley comes in and grand slammed of Vladimir Gerro Junior.
Speaker 2: You had, was it two or three position players pitch?
Speaker 2: Because I know Christian Betton Court and then Luke Rayley
Speaker 2: both pitched. Yeah, it was a disaster for the race.
Speaker 2: It was an absolute disaster, but an offensive juggernaut. I
Speaker 2: think I was looking and I think every single Jay
Speaker 2: who played scored a run except for Brandon Belt and
Speaker 2: like every single player had a hit in that game.
Speaker 2: What a loser is awesome?
Speaker 1: What a loser? Belt? A loser twenty runs didn't score
Speaker 1: one of them? Kind of loser? Or you it's tall neck, Well,
Speaker 1: nobody can possibly match Mike Glennon in terms of tall Next,
Speaker 1: I think we can.
Speaker 2: All get you know that one go look at Brandon
Speaker 2: Belt again and question.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know, Mike Lenning going on, you could
Speaker 1: see over any offensive lineman to the horizon line. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure. Uh yeah. So incredible evening last night, And
Speaker 1: of course we got to talk about this because Bizirisigiza
Speaker 1: is on it. Morell again and again. Uh yeah, Christopher
Speaker 1: Morel Homert in a fifth straight game. Oh, he also
Speaker 1: walked Tuesday against the Mets and their victory over excuse me,
Speaker 1: and the Cubs victory over the Mets. But it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Nine of the last twelve games he's gotten a home run,
Speaker 1: he's gotten hit and every single one of them. He's
Speaker 1: got three sixty seven batting average, a four h four OVP,
Speaker 1: nine eighty slugging in fifty two played appearances. He also
Speaker 1: has struck out every game, which is the thing we
Speaker 1: keep saying about him.
Speaker 2: Thirty almost thirty seven percent. It's one of the wild.
Speaker 2: This is why I said the other day, this is
Speaker 2: like old key Cove or bias, like crazy numbers and
Speaker 2: then like crazy strikeouts, and yet he just does it
Speaker 2: because like those that strikeout, stuff is not sustainable. Obviously,
Speaker 2: nine homers in twelve games sort of the hell it
Speaker 2: is is not sustainable, but he looks like a monster.
Speaker 2: And by the way, shout out our friend Dennis Sidler
Speaker 2: from Sidsgrass who is providing the helmet. It's actually doing
Speaker 2: a signing with Chris Morrell on Monday, So I think
Speaker 2: I don't know if I mentioned this, but we're gonna
Speaker 2: get behind the Christopher slash Chris Morrell thing on Monday.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have our Tuesday. I'm gonna have him ask him.
Speaker 1: He should get the so you can get a picture
Speaker 1: of you guys all together. Who'll put it up here?
Speaker 1: So that'll be fun. Does he either sign it correctly
Speaker 1: like on the actual merch or is it just like
Speaker 1: completely on the table or somewhere else. Like I feel
Speaker 1: like it's it's either or with him, right, So like.
Speaker 2: Every every third card is like completely.
Speaker 1: Every third card. It's like it's just like one part
Speaker 1: of his signature and the rest of it's on the
Speaker 1: table itself.
Speaker 2: He should just addicate to his name somewhere.
Speaker 1: That would be fun. Look, this is an incredible run.
Speaker 1: I'd be shopping this guy everywhere because he's basically given
Speaker 1: you what like a month and a half's worth of
Speaker 1: counting stats. I feel like in two weeks. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you're already ahead of the game. See if you could
Speaker 1: put him out there, See what's I mean? Somebody might
Speaker 1: just go this is the greatest superstar. But I think
Speaker 1: the Baiez conversation for me yesterday holds true, especially when
Speaker 1: you start to look at some of these k numbers
Speaker 1: that you know are very u I illuminating, to say
Speaker 1: the least. Pin Alonzo hit his eighteenth home run against
Speaker 1: the Cubs and a losing effort Juan Soto homeward in Washington.
Speaker 1: But I want to talk about Wan Sodo. I saw
Speaker 1: a fun breakdown of Juan Soda this morning, and I
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about it. So Wan Sodo
Speaker 1: is taking less walks over his last fifty at bats,
Speaker 1: and why didn't you know it? He's hitting more home
Speaker 1: runs and hitting better. Perhaps he's been too patient at
Speaker 1: the plate. He's got a great batter's eye. We all
Speaker 1: know that. But perhaps you know in some of these
Speaker 1: leagues where you have the OBP monster that is Juan Sodo,
Speaker 1: you're willing to go from the four hundred OBP to
Speaker 1: maybe the three seventy range if you can get these
Speaker 1: home runs and RBI totals and runs scored up, and
Speaker 1: I think that's a trade off. I think we're all
Speaker 1: willing to take. And maybe it's just a matter of
Speaker 1: Sodo being more aggressive, kind of like he was four.
Speaker 1: I guess all of the lineup protection dissipated around him
Speaker 1: in Washington. I feel like he fell into some bad
Speaker 1: habits in his last year of Washington because nobody was
Speaker 1: throwing this guy strikes and he just got a little
Speaker 1: bit too disciplined al most. And since he's gone to
Speaker 1: San Diego, I think he's forgotten that they have to
Speaker 1: pitch to him because there's too many other guys around him.
Speaker 1: I think the more aggressive one Soda that you're seeing
Speaker 1: is the reason why you're getting a little bit of
Speaker 1: a Wan Sodo renaissance right now. What are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on Sodo?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you can see something when a guy
Speaker 2: is too patient, you might put yourself in bad counts.
Speaker 2: And like one of the points here is his strikeout
Speaker 2: rate is like the highest of his career right now,
Speaker 2: and that's weird to go with a four hundred OVP
Speaker 2: guy and to also think like he's trying to be
Speaker 2: more offensively put But you know, if you are out
Speaker 2: there and you're not picking early counts to try to attack,
Speaker 2: and then you're playing off of your heels. Because his
Speaker 2: walk percentage, it has decreased for three straight years, but
Speaker 2: it's still like about twenty percent. It's like top of
Speaker 2: the league. But if you have like an over twenty
Speaker 2: that almost twenty two strikeout percentage, he's obviously just put
Speaker 2: himself into bad counts, you know, getting getting to two
Speaker 2: strike counts, and he's just not able to uh, he's
Speaker 2: just not able to jump on it. So this is
Speaker 2: what we want. This is the offensive Juan Soto we want.
Speaker 2: It's starting to turn around. He's only got a two
Speaker 2: sixty batting average XBA is in the same exact spot
Speaker 2: two fifty nine, but it's an over four hundred OVP.
Speaker 2: I think these are great and early signs. This is
Speaker 2: why well he went and bought back in on one
Speaker 2: so sure when he was struggling, because people people are
Speaker 2: freaking out about one sodo in April Rid, please, and I.
Speaker 1: Was certainly not one of these people freaking out about
Speaker 1: him one sodo. It was the last forty six at Batch.
Speaker 1: Just to back up all the stuff I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: this is over Fantasy bros dot Com. You can go
Speaker 1: and you can hit a lot of the stats and
Speaker 1: sort them by, you know, certain timeframes. A four homers,
Speaker 1: five RBI, seven run scored in his last forty six
Speaker 1: also for stylen bases. Just want to throw that out there.
Speaker 1: He's hitting three seventy with a four to eighty two OBP,
Speaker 1: a seven sixty one, slugging at a twelve forty three ops.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. And by the way, ten walks test strikeouts,
Speaker 1: so we're even there too. So Wan Soto has emerged
Speaker 1: in a big way, and it's great, like if you
Speaker 1: actually started to, you know, have some patience with some
Speaker 1: of these stars that you drafted. You're being rewarded. But
Speaker 1: it's also good for him to get out there into
Speaker 1: Washington too. Aaron Judge cannot be stopped. Thank goodness, I
Speaker 1: picked him and I paid attention to those Oriole stats
Speaker 1: I saw last time, because not only did he hit
Speaker 1: a home run for me, he ate a home run
Speaker 1: for the Yankees. So that's good. He finally broke that
Speaker 1: cold streak I was on. God, he tied up the
Speaker 1: game as a big homer. He's got eight home runs
Speaker 1: in his last nine games, hitting four twenty nine with
Speaker 1: a seventeen seventeen OPS. Over that run. Here you go
Speaker 1: against Baltimore since twenty twenty two, you're ready for this.
Speaker 1: Welsh three sixty seven batting average, twelve home runs in
Speaker 1: twenty two games with a thirteen forty nine OPS. Holy crap.
Speaker 1: Every time you see the Orioles against the Yankees, if
Speaker 1: you don't take every single Aaron Judge prop for the over,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're doing. Like, you got to
Speaker 1: invest in this guy against the Orioles because Welsh, it's
Speaker 1: clear they have no idea how to get this guy out.
Speaker 2: No, no, they do not. They can move walls in
Speaker 2: out to the side, they can put walls on top
Speaker 2: of walls. It doesn't matter. It's not going to stop
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge. He is the home He's a home run.
Speaker 1: Hitter to pick.
Speaker 2: I don't want to pick him every single day. Again,
Speaker 2: I want to, but I don't want. I don't want
Speaker 2: to play Joe from last year. How many of your
Speaker 2: homers do you think were Aaron Judge?
Speaker 1: Last year, I had a good I had a lot
Speaker 1: of him and a lot of Alonso. But that's just
Speaker 1: called good strategy. But again, Aaron Judge runs.
Speaker 2: I think Aaron Judge hit more homers than any person
Speaker 2: guest in the contest. So Aaron Judge technically won the
Speaker 2: home run contest last year.
Speaker 1: I think that's correct. I don't remember that. I think
Speaker 1: Wonky would probably know that data. Wonky maybe if you
Speaker 1: could throw that up there, what was the grand total
Speaker 1: number of the winner last year in the home run contest?
Speaker 1: Because that, you know, if it's just Aaron Judge, then
Speaker 1: you guess could pick Aaron Judge everything.
Speaker 2: I feel like it was so funny there forty nine,
Speaker 2: maybe fifty. It was somewhere and there. I mean I
Speaker 2: was there up until the end of the year. I
Speaker 2: just don't remember what the number was, but we were
Speaker 2: sitting there in the forties for a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also, Lord is Gariel, who is another player that
Speaker 1: you talked quite a bit about going into this year.
Speaker 1: Is like a really nice value player pick up. He's
Speaker 1: been really hot this month. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: him because, besides Morell, I think if Morell wasn't doing
Speaker 1: what he was doing, we probably talked more about Guryel,
Speaker 1: but we haven't. Three eighty two batting average right now
Speaker 1: with seven homers fourteen RBI, who was last eighteen games
Speaker 1: since May first, So that's pretty incredible. Now, he did
Speaker 1: sit yesterday, give him a day off, but well, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously he's not gonna get three eighty two the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. But what do you think is different
Speaker 1: with Guriel this year as opposed to what we've seen
Speaker 1: in the past from him in Toronto where he was
Speaker 1: a player that kind of teased a lot of this
Speaker 1: batting average always a strong suit, but power was really just,
Speaker 1: I think, frustratingly not part of his game. But it
Speaker 1: seems like at least in this running's on right now
Speaker 1: that seems to be going in the right direction. So
Speaker 1: have you seen any adjustments here with Guriel that make you,
Speaker 1: i would say, bullish on him for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I mean he's more aggressive at the plate.
Speaker 2: He's also barreling. If you want to talk about what's
Speaker 2: the biggest difference. Last year he had an under four
Speaker 2: percent barrel rate and this year it's over nine. It's
Speaker 2: closing in on ten. The Diamondbacks pretty much have trusted
Speaker 2: him hitting three or four and that was kind of
Speaker 2: the big thing in the offseason I was talking about
Speaker 2: was watch out because if Lordis is hitting three, you've
Speaker 2: got guys like Rojas and Carol hitting in front. You've
Speaker 2: got Walker behind him, who is you know, really is
Speaker 2: a stud, and that's going to put him in a
Speaker 2: situation to score a lot of run, a lot of RBI.
Speaker 2: The power output was something we were all hopeful for,
Speaker 2: and it's simply been for him about more barreling. He's
Speaker 2: hitting the ball a little bit harder, he's just making
Speaker 2: better contact overall. Who's to say, whatever it was in Toronto,
Speaker 2: but a new destination being put in a prime RBI spot,
Speaker 2: you know, he's picking up and maybe that's something to
Speaker 2: consider too, maybe a little bit more on the gamer side,
Speaker 2: where put lordis in those key situations, you know, put
Speaker 2: him in RBI, put him in running and runners in
Speaker 2: scoring position spots, and he's going to thrive a little
Speaker 2: bit more.
Speaker 1: Do you think the Diamondbacks can hang in this race?
Speaker 1: Because I know the Padres have scuffled, we know the
Speaker 1: Dodgers injuries and what's going on. Do you think Arizona
Speaker 1: has what it takes to hang in there? And if
Speaker 1: they do, what has to happen besides Marte and Guriel
Speaker 1: continuing this and Corbyn Carrol being good like on the
Speaker 1: pitching side, what has to happen beside Zach Gallon for
Speaker 1: them to hang in this division?
Speaker 2: Bullpen they've got. Their bullpen is absolutely atrocious, one of
Speaker 2: the worst in baseball. Scott McGuff ones to give them
Speaker 2: away Miguel Cash. They're leaning on Miguel Castro and Chafin,
Speaker 2: So like, can the Dinabacks do it?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: I don't know what Tory level is doing. They're running less,
Speaker 2: which is super frustrating. I think offensively they're set. They
Speaker 2: could I think they could always use like one more
Speaker 2: big power bat. I think that would play really well.
Speaker 2: But their main focus should be pitching. Like Ryan Nelson
Speaker 2: and Tommy Henry are getting away with stuff. Brandon Fott
Speaker 2: is turning some stuff around. We actually talked about that
Speaker 2: on rates and barrels, and Eno actually said that he
Speaker 2: sees some big signs stuff plus in the majors for
Speaker 2: Brandon Fott. He actually has a one to twenty plus
Speaker 2: on his slider and his change up. Brandon Fott does
Speaker 2: his fastball's league average, So like he's turning it around.
Speaker 2: You need one more good starter and you need to
Speaker 2: rehaul the whole bullpen because that thing is so With
Speaker 2: that said, I don't know how you do that. I
Speaker 2: don't know how you get three or four new rotation
Speaker 2: slash bullpen pieces.
Speaker 1: So I think it's bullpen pieces, you know, bullpen pieces
Speaker 1: I think could be had. You know, I think you
Speaker 1: could always that. I think is the easiest thing to
Speaker 1: find as you get to the trade deadline, because there's
Speaker 1: teams that want to just jet us in these guys.
Speaker 1: And there's guys that pop every year out of nowhere
Speaker 1: that are having good years and the next year they
Speaker 1: blow up again. So you know, teams are ready to
Speaker 1: get rid of those guys. You know what's a big question.
Speaker 1: Isn't that easier to take it? And they don't cost
Speaker 1: you as much in terms of prospects like the like,
Speaker 1: if you went out there trying to get a real
Speaker 1: big time bat, it's going to cost you big time prospects.
Speaker 1: I don't think Arizona wants to do that, but I
Speaker 1: do think that you want to. You know, if you
Speaker 1: want to fix the bullpen, you could go to and say, hey,
Speaker 1: Kansas City, come give me, you know, a world as
Speaker 1: Chapman and see if we can get him into a
Speaker 1: groove for you know, the last two and a half months.
Speaker 2: But see you're bringing up something that I know we've
Speaker 2: talked about. It's like, when is the band aid going
Speaker 2: to be pulled? When will the first piece of the
Speaker 2: jenga that's going to make it fall happen in the
Speaker 2: trademark because we keep talking about like teams could do this,
Speaker 2: teams can do that. No one's trading, everybody's in it.
Speaker 2: Every stupid team is like either twenty eight and twenty
Speaker 2: or twenty and twenty eight.
Speaker 1: It's just like not enough. I think by mid June
Speaker 1: you'll have that answer. And I think the first shoot
Speaker 1: drop is going to be a Dwardo Rodriguez with the Tigers,
Speaker 1: because I just the Tigers have to be realistic with themselves.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't care where you are in the
Speaker 1: standings or where you know other teams in the Central Struggle.
Speaker 1: I don't care. You're not a competitive team. And I
Speaker 1: know they want to prove to the fan base that
Speaker 1: they have something to show for all these trades that
Speaker 1: they've had, but they can't come. They can't win the
Speaker 1: American League. Crazy that can't happen. By the way, you
Speaker 1: have the answer fifty seven was the number of home runs.
Speaker 1: Go cards was on it. Thank you go cards. So yes,
Speaker 1: if you just picked it was close. Though Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: is sixty two and then his fifty seven, so it
Speaker 1: was pretty close. So you can't rely on it. You
Speaker 1: gotta have more than just Aaron Judge alone. Let's get
Speaker 1: to the rookie lookie, Mickey Moniac. Can Moniac be stopped?
Speaker 1: I mean, here you go, four hundred and eighteen foot
Speaker 1: home run on the second pitch of the game, an
Speaker 1: exit velo of one oh four point eight on that
Speaker 1: home run. So far, he's slashing four nineteen, four thirty eight,
Speaker 1: nine thirty five with four homer, seven rubbies and thirty
Speaker 1: two played appearances. A guess what Taylor Ward was sitting
Speaker 1: in his rear end on the bench again for Mickey Moniac.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be in the waiver wire. Spoiler alert. I
Speaker 1: wish i'd picked him up for a buck last week.
Speaker 1: I didn't. It was floating around there and I was like, Eh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's probably just you know, a good week whatever.
Speaker 1: And I'm mad because now it's gonna cost me more
Speaker 1: than a buck. I'm sure if it's so, is this
Speaker 1: it is this the Tailor Award year. Now a bench player,
Speaker 1: Mickey Moniac is the guy for the foreseeable future, because
Speaker 1: it's starting to feel like it, well, starting to feel
Speaker 1: like it.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say that like he just has the job
Speaker 2: the rest of the year, but he's going to get
Speaker 2: all the opportunity unless he proves otherwise. Listen, Moniac has
Speaker 2: got a little bit of Chris Morell in him as well.
Speaker 2: Don't forget about that. His strikeout rates around almost thirty
Speaker 2: five percent. He also doesn't like the buck three percent
Speaker 2: walk rate he has, which is one of the lowest
Speaker 2: of his career. He's doing that a almost thirty five
Speaker 2: percent strikeout rate, a three percent walk rate with a
Speaker 2: five I have sixty babbit, a five to sixty babbit
Speaker 2: that is not going to maintain. So here's here's my problem,
Speaker 2: and here's ultimately my problem. He doesn't walk to get
Speaker 2: on base. When he regresses down to the means of
Speaker 2: whoever he's going to be, it might still be a
Speaker 2: great player, it might be a three hundred hitter that'll
Speaker 2: come back down. But if it's not and it's coming
Speaker 2: down and down, he doesn't help himself by not striking out.
Speaker 2: He doesn't help himself by walking. So guess what, he's
Speaker 2: gonna get all the opportunity because you should because he's
Speaker 2: a monster right now.
Speaker 1: He's a freak.
Speaker 2: But I think he has a lot less wiggle room
Speaker 2: than you guys are giving him credit for because they
Speaker 2: have Taylor Ward who they're not willing to give up on.
Speaker 2: Jared Walsh just came back, and they got stupid Joe
Speaker 2: Dell who's in the miners hitting one hundred and nineteen
Speaker 2: mile an hour. So just to anoint Mickey Moniac as
Speaker 2: the guy, I think you guys, I think it's silly.
Speaker 2: But at the same point, like I don't even think
Speaker 2: we need to talk about other players right now because
Speaker 2: Mickey Moniac is doing this stuff.
Speaker 1: Feel good.
Speaker 2: If he's out there, you should have picked him up.
Speaker 2: You should have picked him up. If he's there, go
Speaker 2: pick him up right wave. But just be aware, thirty
Speaker 2: five percent strikeout rate, three percent walk rate not super
Speaker 2: super sustainable unless he keeps it up at every every
Speaker 2: step of the season, which she's doing right now.
Speaker 1: He's doing right now. But like I said, if you
Speaker 1: need to stream, somebody's stream but I'm like, why not?
Speaker 1: But yeah, he will turn into a pumpkin eventually. I
Speaker 1: do agree with that, and I've never been a moniac guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, when he was drafted by the Phillies, you remember,
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't believe this is everyone's consensus
Speaker 1: of the best player. It was a weird one. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think, very weird draft.
Speaker 2: That I'd have to go. Look, he went over somebody
Speaker 2: like he was one of those weird guys that went
Speaker 2: a least maybe even seven years.
Speaker 1: It might have been like twenty twenty fifteen or sixteen
Speaker 1: when he was drafted. I can't can't quite remember, but
Speaker 1: I'd like to see you find that out. I want
Speaker 1: to see what that is. Meanwhile, let's talk about another rookie.
Speaker 1: Lokie Bobby Miller held the Braves do one run in
Speaker 1: five innings to get a win his major league debut.
Speaker 1: So remember yesterday when he faden strided her a little bit.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a good idea. Well, it worked out.
Speaker 1: The average fastball, by the way, the four seamer ninety
Speaker 1: nine point four for Bobby Miller, he was throwing to
Speaker 1: smoke yesterday. So I don't know how long he's gonna
Speaker 1: stake in that rotation. But Gavin Stone hast exactly let
Speaker 1: the world on fire.
Speaker 2: No, exactly on fire. I don't think he looked good
Speaker 2: at all. He settled down, but we were talking about it.
Speaker 2: He had some insane thing where Gavin Stone had like
Speaker 2: fourteen whiffs to one strikeout in his start and his
Speaker 2: change He lived off of his change up. Bobby Miller
Speaker 2: definitely showed a much bigger arsenal. He was thirty one
Speaker 2: percent fastball, twenty seven percent slider and change up. He
Speaker 2: just didn't get the whiffs. He had a nineteen percent
Speaker 2: with rate csw was twenty one percent. So all that's
Speaker 2: telling you was like he wasn't fooling a ton of people.
Speaker 2: He also doesn't have good separation between just change up
Speaker 2: and slider. But he you know, can pump a ninety
Speaker 2: mile an hour slider. He hits one hundred. It was
Speaker 2: way in the zone, which is good and bad. You know,
Speaker 2: a young guy like this, you wanted to see the command.
Speaker 2: And he had a seventy two percent rate on his
Speaker 2: fastball inside the zone.
Speaker 1: So that's good.
Speaker 2: I think Bobby Miller has the inside. By the way,
Speaker 2: if we're looking at if we're looking out, who's going
Speaker 2: to take over the Dustin may roll. When juliuo Arius
Speaker 2: comes back, I just think he looked better, He looked
Speaker 2: more poised, he was able to go five. I'm in
Speaker 2: on him, by the way. Going back to that draft,
Speaker 2: that was the twenty sixteen draft team where Mickey Moniac
Speaker 2: went one. It was Mike sid I remember, yeah, and all.
Speaker 1: That was the Sens draft. He was two the Reds.
Speaker 1: It's right, since a guy that year.
Speaker 2: What a garbage draft this was. Look at this Ian
Speaker 2: Anderson three, Riley Pint who just made the Major sil
Speaker 2: Rockies four, Corey Ray, aj Puck, some other names. Braxton
Speaker 2: Garrett went seven, Matt Manning went nine, Kyle Lewis with
Speaker 2: the Mariners at the time when eleven, Josh Lowe went thirteen,
Speaker 2: Alex Kirlov fifteen, and then the names just kind of continues.
Speaker 1: And this is that's a good reminder for everybody when
Speaker 1: you play in dynasty a draft and you have these
Speaker 1: these years where the draft isn't great and you kind
Speaker 1: of sense when it's not. And I certainly when Mickey
Speaker 1: Moniac was the number one overall pick, I was like,
Speaker 1: this is not going to be a great draft. And
Speaker 1: I think that when you see that, you have to
Speaker 1: acknowledge it and you take these picks or you take
Speaker 1: these prospects when you draft them and you flip them
Speaker 1: like you know, imagine how well you did if you
Speaker 1: took some of these guys and flipped any of those
Speaker 1: names in the last five years and you know, always
Speaker 1: always major league talent. That's again, that's that's my deal.
Speaker 1: You know how I feel about that stuff. Every time
Speaker 1: you wait, you know, you know, it's great to have
Speaker 1: the ground floor of you know, great young players, but
Speaker 1: it's feels good to get really great players that already
Speaker 1: know how to win and play. So one more rookie, lookie,
Speaker 1: Matt McClain won for three with a homer, three RBI
Speaker 1: and a loss to the Cardinals. So he's been solid
Speaker 1: as well. He's got two fifty nine three seventy five
Speaker 1: four eighty one slash, so not too shabby for Matt McClain.
Speaker 1: Some injuries not a lot today, which is a nice
Speaker 1: refreshing change of pace. Louise Robert removed yesterday right hip tightness.
Speaker 1: Will keep an eye on that. Carls Correa scratched. What
Speaker 1: a surprise. Carls Correa scratch from a game. Bruce left heel.
Speaker 1: Brandon lowis scratched in the starting lineup yesterday with a
Speaker 1: stiff neck, so keep an eye on that one. Those
Speaker 1: can be tricky. And the Reds activated TJ. Freed, So
Speaker 1: if somebody dropped him, go pick him up. If not,
Speaker 1: if you have him, go activate him again because he's
Speaker 1: pretty solid all year. Garrett Cole, congratulations got his two
Speaker 1: thousand strikeout. You only had two k's in the game,
Speaker 1: so he barely got it. So he is the eighty
Speaker 1: seventh pitcher to hit two thousand strikeouts. He is also
Speaker 1: one of nine active guys to have two thousand strikeouts. So,
Speaker 1: Peanuts and cracker Jacks, let's go pe Uts and cracker
Speaker 1: Jacks in the chat. Give me the eight other guys
Speaker 1: at our sus Verlander are one and two. We already
Speaker 1: know that, So who are the other guys out there? So,
Speaker 1: pe Uts and cracker Jacks over two thousand strikeouts active guys,
Speaker 1: you've got. Let's see six more to go. Let's post
Speaker 1: them in there, and let's continue on here with the
Speaker 1: three up and three down. Griffin Canning outstanding yesterday against
Speaker 1: the Red Sox two hits, three walks, seven innings of
Speaker 1: shutout baseball. Goldschmid two for four, not one, but two
Speaker 1: solo home runs for Goldie and Nadie Evaldi, the greatest
Speaker 1: pitcher who ever lived. Five k's complete game, unbelievable, another
Speaker 1: one earned run nine. I mean, Nadievaldi has been Jacob
Speaker 1: de Gram for the Texas runs. He's a beast man,
Speaker 1: so good, so good. You know what's funny.
Speaker 2: I used to call I used to call Andrew Heeney
Speaker 2: baby de Gram, and it's actually been Evaldi as a teammates,
Speaker 2: So that's been the funny one.
Speaker 1: Casey got one. Kershaw is one of those names, and
Speaker 1: visitorsiges that got one. Wainwright rich Hill is not one
Speaker 1: of those names, folks. Zach Grinky is, so there you go.
Speaker 1: Trevor got it on there, Charlie Morton not quite, not
Speaker 1: quite Charlie Morton there, And no, it's not Jacob de Gram.
Speaker 1: Jacob de Gram is at seventeen, he's got sixteen hundred,
Speaker 1: He's nowhere near it. He's never gonna get to two thousand.
Speaker 1: It's never gonna happen. Ashcraft, he was terrible. I think
Speaker 1: we started calling a masscraft because I just like that's
Speaker 1: how he pitches five innings, ten hits, seven earned run,
Speaker 1: no walks, two homers. His the Ray is over five
Speaker 1: and a half. Tyler the Terrible was terrible three and
Speaker 1: two thirds, four earned runs. They skipped Senga so that
Speaker 1: he would be on a different day's rest there and
Speaker 1: avoid Colorado and all that stuff. So five k's, four
Speaker 1: earned runs for McGill. And of course the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Ray's bullpen, Todd Bradley kind of broke even had a
Speaker 1: lot of strikeouts, didn't pitch all that great, was kind
Speaker 1: of inefficient, but then it just kind of completely got
Speaker 1: out of hand. Fifteen earned runs after Todge Bradley left
Speaker 1: that game, so pretty crazy. Some other names here, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to look here. Bumgardner is one of them. Technically
Speaker 1: he is active this year. Chris Sale also one of
Speaker 1: those names. So Dooby got it in front of missing
Speaker 1: then we are missing one and I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's still active technically. The last one is Cole Hamil's.
Speaker 1: Wasn't he just signed recently?
Speaker 2: Way Actually he was with the Padres. He was just
Speaker 2: with the Padres in spring training.
Speaker 1: But he's got them all. Good job, Peanuts and Cracker
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Speaker 2: Well, they got their little promo going on. It looks
Speaker 2: like it's like a Taco Tuesday, but it's on a Wednesday.
Speaker 2: There's like a love Taco guy. It's like their Taco
Speaker 2: Tuesday thing. But what they did was they cut down
Speaker 2: a couple of the strikeout props. So I'm going to
Speaker 2: take advantage of that with Sean McClanahan, who went from
Speaker 2: I Believe on their platform six down to four and
Speaker 2: a half. So I'm going to take the four and
Speaker 2: a half strikeouts on Seae McClanahan. I will pair that
Speaker 2: with you, say, Kakuchi earned runs two and a half over,
Speaker 2: and I'm going with Christian Walker, who's got a good
Speaker 2: career versus Ranger swaz Just trying to pick on Ranger
Speaker 2: Swarz today. Actually Christian Walker Fantasy score seven. So McClanahan
Speaker 2: strikeouts you say Kakuchi earned runs and Christian Walker score
Speaker 2: all over all.
Speaker 1: Right, I am going with James paxon five and a
Speaker 1: half picture strikeouts over Aaron Judge. I know it's a
Speaker 1: big number nine and a half hitter fantasy score. I
Speaker 1: don't care over until it breaks. I'm going to continue
Speaker 1: to play it one so to one and a half total
Speaker 1: bases over. We just talked about how he's locked in,
Speaker 1: so these three guys, I'm going all in on also
Speaker 1: to go in on Boston. I mean, I'm Packson, I
Speaker 1: might as well be in on Boston on the betting
Speaker 1: side again. Head over to you know, betting Pros, or
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Speaker 1: our daily picks. Boston minus one o eight. You can
Speaker 1: put that together with the Mets at plus one o eight.
Speaker 1: You can have a good day there, Bryce Miller. Interestingly enough,
Speaker 1: that number is kind of low for me. Five and
Speaker 1: a half is the number for the K's. I'm going
Speaker 1: over that. It's gonna be minus one forty, but I
Speaker 1: think you can put it with something else and make
Speaker 1: it work again. Paxton five and a half k's minus
Speaker 1: one twelve. This is a very good one. And then
Speaker 1: it's Aaron Judge season, So you can go with plus
Speaker 1: one sixty five for getting a single. You can get
Speaker 1: to record an RBI plus one fifteen. You're getting to
Speaker 1: record a hit. The juice is terrible. It's minus two forty,
Speaker 1: so you don't want to do that one. But to
Speaker 1: hit a home run plus two twenty. And of course
Speaker 1: I think you know where I'm going with my home
Speaker 1: run call today. Again, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, Welsh,
Speaker 1: what are you betting on today? All right?
Speaker 2: What I'm gonna go with today? I have got tamp
Speaker 2: through the first five. Their team total runs two and
Speaker 2: a half, gonna bounce back, kind of going up against
Speaker 2: Kokuchie again. I think his earned runs gonna go over,
Speaker 2: so he would be the guy be playing against. I
Speaker 2: don't think Tampa's gonna let themselves get smashed and smooshed
Speaker 2: like they did yesterday. Two days in a row. That's
Speaker 2: minus one ten for their team total runs through the
Speaker 2: first five. I'm going with the Arizona Diamondbacks to be
Speaker 2: up by a run through the first five innings. With
Speaker 2: Zach Gallon on the Mount. I think there's a rebound
Speaker 2: there plus one ten and I'm gonna just go over
Speaker 2: all with Sea McClanahan strikeouts at five and a half
Speaker 2: over minus one thirty five. So kind of the Tampa
Speaker 2: of a Arizona game.
Speaker 1: I'm attacking Andrew here in the chat, just talking about
Speaker 1: he bought his first ever shriff of Sandy al Contra.
Speaker 1: I hope he deals today. He's gonna go me in Colorado.
Speaker 1: But interesting because I was just writing him up for
Speaker 1: the by low cell cell high little piece that we
Speaker 1: do on Fantasy Pros every single week. And I'll contra
Speaker 1: over the last few games, the last five games, that
Speaker 1: FIP is much better than people realize. ERA is still high,
Speaker 1: but the PIP is very good. The batting average of
Speaker 1: balls on play too, is well above three hundred. I
Speaker 1: just think it's just a matter of time. It's Sandy
Speaker 1: will get right. I don't think he was one hundred
Speaker 1: percent right. Remember we had that weird little injury hiccup, Yeah,
Speaker 1: early in April. I don't even know it was a
Speaker 1: biceps thing or something like that. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's just still kind of feeling the effects or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. But again, it's very rare. You get a
Speaker 1: small window even to buy, and I've gotten that.
Speaker 2: I've got a weird situation in a I play an
Speaker 2: Otno on Fangrasse League. It's like a Dynasty format and
Speaker 2: I got offered Sandeel Contra and it's a bigger trade
Speaker 2: with pieces that have to be adjusted, but theoretically it's
Speaker 2: Sandale Contra at thirty one dollars for my Bryce Miller,
Speaker 2: which is a dollar, and it's a key for format.
Speaker 2: I'm in second place, and I'm moving up because I've
Speaker 2: got an insane roster in this and there's I need
Speaker 2: a closer. There's a closer involved in Pete Fairbanks, but
Speaker 2: he's like fifteen bucks, and then they only want my cheap.
Speaker 1: When you have those money in the escalators and things,
Speaker 1: those become way more complicated. And I'd rather a Miller
Speaker 1: at a buck.
Speaker 2: We'll see, and I have McClanahan and Strider in the
Speaker 2: thirty dollars range and I kind of want more. And
Speaker 2: I did a really good job of getting cheap dollar guys.
Speaker 2: I had Jeffery Springs at like twelve bucks, but Bryce
Speaker 2: Miller at a dollar. It's a tough between the.
Speaker 1: Key I think in the keeper scenario there, I think
Speaker 1: you could still win now with what you have. I
Speaker 1: think that's the answer to that question. And I still
Speaker 1: possibly win now, I mean second place without this, and
Speaker 1: Miller can contribute for the next couple of years and
Speaker 1: give you price flexibility, I'll do, I hear you. You know,
Speaker 1: if there's another prospect instead, I would swap them out.
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Speaker 1: other Peanuts and the cracker Jacks. When we're looking at
Speaker 1: the DFS slate for today, Nessa Cortes eight point three
Speaker 1: is interesting. The other side of that game is interesting too,
Speaker 1: because Wells is pitched well for the for the Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 1: I know, Alex Fast just did a fun little thing
Speaker 1: on Twitter about him too, which is interesting. Code I
Speaker 1: sang at nine point six going against the Cubs today.
Speaker 1: It's really good in his last outing. Let's see what
Speaker 1: he does in this one. Sandy al Contra eight point
Speaker 1: nine in Colorado. Again low roster tournament play. Interesting. Then
Speaker 1: you've got Paxton and Bryce Miller ten point four to
Speaker 1: ten point nine. This is kind of where I want
Speaker 1: to live today. These are the two pitchers I want
Speaker 1: to have, and then just interchange them with the lineup,
Speaker 1: keep the lineup the same. New York, Boston, Seattle. That's
Speaker 1: where I'm looking for potential offense today. Anthony Volpi's two
Speaker 1: point nine, ty France two point eight homered yesterday, and
Speaker 1: Mickey Moniac is cheap as well. That's where you're looking
Speaker 1: for I'm looking again, Aaron Judge letting it ride. I
Speaker 1: don't care if it's boring, don't care. Prime Time up
Speaker 1: to nineteen, so close to twenty. BHB Daddy at eighteen,
Speaker 1: help us in Miami at seventeen along with JJ Callison
Speaker 1: Razor All at seventeen. Uh surces back on the board
Speaker 1: at ten, So Welsh, you gotta get back up there.
Speaker 1: We got to get up there. Welsh who are you
Speaker 1: gonna go for tonight for the big home run call?
Speaker 2: No, I'm torn. I've got two like not good names
Speaker 2: that I want to play, and I want both of them.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go, oh you know what, I got
Speaker 2: the hat on. I'm gonna go with Christian Walker. I
Speaker 2: will say. The other one I wanted was Jorge Solaire.
Speaker 2: I was really considering him, but I'm gonna go with
Speaker 2: Christian Walker.
Speaker 1: There you go, Razor already jinxing Judge? Oh for four?
Speaker 1: There you go? Okay, good, good, great, let's see you
Speaker 1: oh for four Versus my complete investment in Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: all day today. Like I said, when a guys sitting
Speaker 1: four hundred against the team, they have no idea to
Speaker 1: get him out, Like, just you keep throwing it and
Speaker 1: you know what, you can do it the next day too.
Speaker 1: Just kidd it. Every time I see Baltimore in New York,
Speaker 1: and it's just what I'm gonna do. Just all in.
Speaker 1: Just invest in Aaron Judge. I'd invest in Wan Soda
Speaker 1: right now too, because that guy has been red hot.
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Speaker 1: to Welsh. That'll do it for us. But the story
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