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Speaker 1: It's me Joey p. That's the Welsh. We are rested
Speaker 1: and refreshed from a fun weekend, lots of good times.
Speaker 1: Welsh's kids were active in the arts. I was supporting
Speaker 1: the arts, also supporting youth sports. Are twelve you Raiders
Speaker 1: moved on with a goal line stand. Three straight stops
Speaker 1: at the goal line in flag football. I've never seen
Speaker 1: such a thing and unbelievable victory. I'm still fired up. Goosebumps. Welsh,
Speaker 1: still the goosebumps. Yesterday it was an exciting day.
Speaker 2: I could see him. Yeah, they're on camera right now.
Speaker 1: What was the exciting time? I also see sixty comments
Speaker 1: in the chat before we even get going today. So
Speaker 1: welcome Peanuts and cracker Jacks. It's good to see all
Speaker 1: of you here in the chat. Welsh. Some good, the bad,
Speaker 1: and the ugly of the Major League Baseball this weekend.
Speaker 1: Juan Soto forearm, Let's start there, because when last we
Speaker 1: left you. Juan Soto's health was in peril, and it
Speaker 1: might still be in peril now he is. He is
Speaker 1: day to day with a forearm injury. Now he might
Speaker 1: be going to the IOL. We haven't ruled it out.
Speaker 1: He might be Okay, we haven't ruled it out. Trent
Speaker 1: Grisham was getting the start in case anybody cares about that,
Speaker 1: but Welsh the Yanks get a win yesterday. Obviously We'll
Speaker 1: get to Garrett Cole in a second. That's the other
Speaker 1: big Yankee news. A lot of Yankee centric stuff lately.
Speaker 1: But again it feels like the worst is not the
Speaker 1: scenario so far. So how do you kind of take
Speaker 1: this Wan Soto stuff right now? Do you think he
Speaker 1: is going to go on?
Speaker 2: They?
Speaker 1: I say yes, what's say you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I think the most likely situation would
Speaker 2: be though, kind of like why not do it? But
Speaker 2: they can retroactively put him on during God I think
Speaker 2: it was Saturday's scheme. Garrett Cole was being interviewed. It was, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's right. It was the day before the Summerset game
Speaker 2: and Soto is in the dugout, good spirits, messing around, laughing, cheering.
Speaker 2: You can kind of take like that could be a
Speaker 2: guy that doesn't hit the eel at all. But no
Speaker 2: matter what it is, whether it's he rests for a
Speaker 2: couple more days or he hits the eel and it's retroactive,
Speaker 2: it's not going to be a lot. I think he's clearly,
Speaker 2: you know, he dodged a major bullet here. He's gonna
Speaker 2: be fine. And then that does put a big question
Speaker 2: into a lot of what we discussed. What about Jason Dominguez.
Speaker 2: You know, they were rolling out the Trent Grishams and
Speaker 2: the you know, Verdugo's obviously locked in there, So what
Speaker 2: does that do? And it does kind of put like
Speaker 2: a shoulder shrug of I don't know, because all Jason
Speaker 2: Dimingez continues to do is dominate the minor league. He's
Speaker 2: just killing Triple A again, So I don't know if
Speaker 2: his potential return is going to be tied at all
Speaker 2: to one Soto. At this moment, it kind of seems
Speaker 2: like they really are pressing Dimnez down a little bit
Speaker 2: right now. So you know, I still say it's a
Speaker 2: great speculative ad until we have a little bit more clarity,
Speaker 2: but it might not amount to anything in the near future.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of games so far and at bats
Speaker 1: for tamingas you know. So right now we's up to
Speaker 1: let's see four in a ball, ten at double A
Speaker 1: and five so far at Triple A.
Speaker 2: Almost twenty ams.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if I mean that's that's
Speaker 1: barely spring training, right I mean, that's kind of in
Speaker 1: that range. So I mean, look, he is crushing ball
Speaker 1: triple A ist in five hundred right now. So certainly
Speaker 1: a guy that looks like he is, he's ready. So
Speaker 1: that's the good news if you're the Yankees, is if
Speaker 1: God forbid there is a problem, maybe you do bring
Speaker 1: up Tamingos. Maybe he does have a good week or
Speaker 1: two in him and Sodo gets healthy because you need
Speaker 1: Sodo for October. So don't be surprised if, regardless of
Speaker 1: whatever you're hearing or seeing right now, that he still
Speaker 1: goes on the aisle anyway. Garrett cole four and a
Speaker 1: third innings, one run in the rehab starts struck out
Speaker 1: four sitting around at ninety five range. Max Schuur's are
Speaker 1: also four shoutout innings for him taking the ball for
Speaker 1: Triple A on Sunday. So both of these guys we
Speaker 1: could get back sooner than later. I think Surezer will
Speaker 1: beat him back. That's my instincts Welsh, but Cole another
Speaker 1: good star art. What do you want to take out
Speaker 1: of these two reap starts for these two potential aces
Speaker 1: of their respective staffs.
Speaker 2: Actually wouldn't be surprised if these guys are on the
Speaker 2: exact same timeline, like right there. I mean, if sure
Speaker 2: there's only going four, you're gonna need at least one more.
Speaker 2: I think we've already speculated that we're going to get
Speaker 2: one more out of coal, and then he's going to
Speaker 2: come up. I think we'd call it the week of
Speaker 2: you know, whatever it is is seventeenth or because he's
Speaker 2: going to have that one more, which I think would
Speaker 2: line up till like Friday. But I think it's encouraging.
Speaker 2: I think every owner that has their share, whether you
Speaker 2: paid the high price early or you've got that major discount,
Speaker 2: this is a great time because he's gonna step I
Speaker 2: really truly believe he's going to step right back into
Speaker 2: all of it. Though, the only thing that is on
Speaker 2: my mind though is what truly will happen to Luis
Speaker 2: Heel in this situation. I have someone that I respect
Speaker 2: in their thoughts of it say that they actually think
Speaker 2: that heel could be moved to the bullpen when Garrett
Speaker 2: Cole gets activated, which I think would be wildly over dramatic.
Speaker 2: But you know, he's like thirty something innings away from
Speaker 2: his cap. I tend to want to be very pollyanna
Speaker 2: about the situation and say, you know what, I get it,
Speaker 2: but this guy is the second best pitcher on your roster.
Speaker 1: On yeah, do you want him to be starting games
Speaker 1: in October or do you want him starting games in July?
Speaker 2: But if you really care about the innings, I'm not
Speaker 2: even sure it's gonna be about that. Like, is it
Speaker 2: gonna be like if you put him to the bullpen now,
Speaker 2: then you're taking away that. I don't think you're taking
Speaker 2: away the big innings.
Speaker 1: I don't even think it's bullpen. I think he gets
Speaker 1: sent down. It becomes when he's three inning pitchers like
Speaker 1: the Max Myers of the world. That's what I think
Speaker 1: really happens. And that's gonna piss everybody right there.
Speaker 2: It's gonna piss me off because I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: the only defender.
Speaker 1: You're not wrong in your defense of it, but I
Speaker 1: think what it comes down to is the Yankees are
Speaker 1: looking long term the season and long term with heel,
Speaker 1: So what what are they doing? I mean, we're when
Speaker 1: he hits one hundred innings, he's gonna turn into a
Speaker 1: pumpkin here and I do think you're gonna see him
Speaker 1: become these three inning pitchers and then eventually they'll ramp
Speaker 1: him back up and hopefully by September you get him
Speaker 1: back up and around making last, you know, four starts
Speaker 1: of the year. That's your best path, barring anything disasters happened.
Speaker 2: It's tough. It's tough because every human being has taken
Speaker 2: the He's the ultimate cell. My only problem is I
Speaker 2: think it's gone so far that I can't. I don't
Speaker 2: think that makes sense anymore, Like it makes more sense
Speaker 2: to buy him because every human being is like you
Speaker 2: go to sell them his The way he is performing
Speaker 2: what he is providing you is so elite of elite.
Speaker 1: I know that's also un sustainable. I mean, he's not
Speaker 1: gonna picture a five four era, I mean a point
Speaker 1: five to four era like he did the last two weeks.
Speaker 2: Like, that's not gonna well, but I'm not betting on that.
Speaker 2: But if you're betting on a low three high two
Speaker 2: ERA with one of the better strikeout ratios in baseball
Speaker 2: and more maintain walks. He's like a top twenty s P.
Speaker 2: So it's like, I wish to take that off the market.
Speaker 1: I wish it didn't come to this. It's just it's
Speaker 1: the business of baseball, Welsh, and I just think it
Speaker 1: has us all trying to be more realistic. And you
Speaker 1: are right, but the unwritten rules of baseball tell us
Speaker 1: now that he's going to the minor leagues and he
Speaker 1: is going to be a three.
Speaker 2: I don't believe he's going to the minor leagues, and
Speaker 2: I really truly I see.
Speaker 1: I think the problem is you want to keep this
Speaker 1: guy on routine. You want to keep him healthy, you
Speaker 1: want to keep him normal. Move him to the bullpen
Speaker 1: having been pitched sporadically, I think is a disaster.
Speaker 2: You're not wrong about that, you know what, You're not
Speaker 2: that the scenario makes sense. I'm just I'm gonna live
Speaker 2: in this bubble that they are going to continue to
Speaker 2: let he'll pitch through July and then they're gonna come
Speaker 2: to terms of that whatever that is in August, whether
Speaker 2: that is we can't have him as a starter because
Speaker 2: we're so worried about these innings and now he's bullpen
Speaker 2: or you're gonna you're gonna screw him now. And this
Speaker 2: guy could be to the All Star Game, and if
Speaker 2: you move him to the bullpen now or in a
Speaker 2: week or so, I don't know. I just I find
Speaker 2: it hard to believe that they're going to take that
Speaker 2: drastic of a road. But I think it's an interesting
Speaker 2: conversation because buying the seeds of Fantasy pros, every damn
Speaker 2: tweet is you gotta sell heel, you gotta sell He'll.
Speaker 1: But a month now because I Winter was coming. But
Speaker 1: it's a great conversation. Let's let's move on to the
Speaker 1: other stuff. Here's Barry. I'm a feeling that people in
Speaker 1: my leagues have been listening to your show because every
Speaker 1: week when waivers run, they're picking up all the guys
Speaker 1: you talk about, so we've got to throw them off
Speaker 1: the scent. Well it's funny you say that, Barry, because
Speaker 1: starting this week, the trade video, the Waiver wire video
Speaker 1: are gonna be here in the show, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: be doing a segment now we're still gonna clip them off.
Speaker 1: So I hate to tell you this, but your friends
Speaker 1: are still gonna get to see them. But we want
Speaker 1: everybody to watch leading off, so we stay on the air.
Speaker 1: That's more important, Barry.
Speaker 2: You'll actually have the ability to be a day ahead,
Speaker 2: or at least, I don't know, hours ahead, before hours
Speaker 2: at least.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's a good watch live, very good point. If
Speaker 1: you're watching live, there's your incentive. We'll give you the
Speaker 1: names live and then you're ahead of the game. But yes,
Speaker 1: starting this week, so so the standalone videos, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get segments in the show, just like we do prospecting
Speaker 1: with the Welsh, and you're gonna see them on the
Speaker 1: YouTube channel probably like well said a couple hours later
Speaker 1: or what have you. Let's get to some more news
Speaker 1: and notes here. We also had let's see thet is
Speaker 1: putting Kyle Tucker on the il with the shin contusion. Now,
Speaker 1: the good news about this is Joey Loprafito's coming backup
Speaker 1: and he's gonna play some Miutfield Welsh. Now, I like this,
Speaker 1: here's my tin again. I didn't make the tinfoilt I
Speaker 1: gotta make a tinfoil hot today. Joey Loperfito does not
Speaker 1: get sent back down after this, he stays up there
Speaker 1: and jose A Brew is gone after this whenever Kyle
Speaker 1: Tucker comes back. What do you think? Am I crazy? No?
Speaker 2: I mean I actually thought that was the plan, Like
Speaker 2: when Abraia went down. Luperfto is playing in the outfield. Great,
Speaker 2: let's keep him, let's keep going here. But it just
Speaker 2: isn't you know, it doesn't. Jack Myers has been playing well.
Speaker 2: I guess they have. They feel they have like a glut. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think at some point they got to make that
Speaker 2: commitment that this is not working with a Brew and
Speaker 2: then Lupafieda Lupa Veto should be up I think rest
Speaker 2: of season. But you know what, do we know why
Speaker 2: did they send him down last time?
Speaker 1: But they sent him down because of money. They sent
Speaker 1: him down because it's like, look, we try to give
Speaker 1: this veteran the benefit of doubt. Let's give him a break,
Speaker 1: let's give him a shut down, Let's give him a restart.
Speaker 1: See if we can get him going. And can you try?
Speaker 1: You tried everything. Speaking of the astros, Jay Gris wants
Speaker 1: to know what do you think about Hunter Brown rest
Speaker 1: of season? He's had a nice turnaround lately and good
Speaker 1: thing too, because Verlander has been stinking and now Christian
Speaker 1: Hobby is out for the year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with the turnaround. I think we've talked about
Speaker 2: this a week or so ago. Lance Prasdowski had talked
Speaker 2: about how it looked like Hunter Brown had added in
Speaker 2: a cutter at some portion of this year, and you're
Speaker 2: seeing the percentage up. I'm sorry, cutter, a sinker. He
Speaker 2: didn't even throw it last year, the sinker, and it's
Speaker 2: now up to around eight percent so far in the season.
Speaker 2: It's created a really low batting average. It's creating him
Speaker 2: being able to hit multiple spots in the zone. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm with it, and you know, I mean his fastball.
Speaker 2: He's given up over three hundred batting average against his
Speaker 2: forcing fastball, but it's gotten expected batting average down around
Speaker 2: two point fifty. So giving a different look with that sinker,
Speaker 2: I think is opening up some of this, making maybe
Speaker 2: making that splitter more effective, or that split fingers got
Speaker 2: like an almost forty percent wiff rate. I think Hunter
Speaker 2: Brown is a really solid buy right now.
Speaker 1: Continuing on here, no Astros news anymore. We're done with that.
Speaker 1: George Kirby seven innings of one run ball against the
Speaker 1: Royals on the flip side of that same game called
Speaker 1: Reagan's six innings, struck out nine, no decision for him
Speaker 1: and Jose Ramirez. His MVP odds have moved since a
Speaker 1: Soto injury, so they were plus twenty four hundred now
Speaker 1: they're plus eighteen hundred over the weekend. I still say
Speaker 1: Jose Arameras is very much in this thing. Three for
Speaker 1: five with a run score two for him. Let's get
Speaker 1: some fun things. I don't know how fun. This was
Speaker 1: just kind of interesting. So Tyler Glastow gave you twelve
Speaker 1: strikeouts yesterday, but he gave up five runs and eight
Speaker 1: hits and six innings, so kind of a mixed bag.
Speaker 1: You know, got to save yesterday. Welsh now putting the
Speaker 1: stage for saves on the pupon Genesis Carper.
Speaker 2: This is ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for
Speaker 2: us to a sage me.
Speaker 1: When you name my love show ta Imanaga. Also getting
Speaker 1: back to the winning ways. He was five and zero
Speaker 1: through his first six starts. I think, gone five straight
Speaker 1: starts without a w that streak ends. Is he already
Speaker 1: still under two and the Cubs are ten and two
Speaker 1: when he pitches? How about them? Apples welshmm hmmm.
Speaker 2: He's been great. And you know for all of my monelide,
Speaker 2: my little ten what is it the cap ten caps
Speaker 2: tenfoil tenfoil hat Mine with Showta is really just a
Speaker 2: bit about him coming back down to earth a little bit,
Speaker 2: and that's all that's happening. Like mine was never like hey,
Speaker 2: he's gonna not be good because he throws the two pitches.
Speaker 2: It's just like, no, he's gonna find some stabilization. And
Speaker 2: I think we're starting to get that. The league is
Speaker 2: kind of caught up. He's becoming a really solid top
Speaker 2: twenty sp rest of season, get some of those wins.
Speaker 2: I think it's a really good sign. Probably a buying
Speaker 2: opportunity is passed if you wanted to get back into
Speaker 2: that business. But very very solid for Imanaga, and he's
Speaker 2: gonna be one of those NL Rookie of the Year
Speaker 2: top candidates.
Speaker 1: Here's another question here from the Pizan track Cracker Jacks.
Speaker 1: Better pick up Boss or Robbie Ray in a twelve
Speaker 1: team head to head? Isay Robbie Ray?
Speaker 2: I say Boss?
Speaker 1: I said why Boss for you?
Speaker 2: Because I don't think Robbie Ray. I mean Robbie.
Speaker 1: Ray is what I read this morning. That's the target
Speaker 1: date midjely.
Speaker 2: Well, I think I think Boz is going to be
Speaker 2: up like any day. He's already been in triple A.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm worried about the full usage of Robbie Ray,
Speaker 2: Like he pitched one inning a couple of days ago
Speaker 2: and I didn't see what this.
Speaker 1: Weekend he pitched. Well, well stick stay tuned everybody for
Speaker 1: more Robbie on the show Rookie Lookie houstin Waldroup was
Speaker 1: called up seven runs, fourhads, three and two thirds. And
Speaker 1: also the nats. I know people were trying to spin
Speaker 1: this like it wasn't that bad. I don't know, Welsh
Speaker 1: I watched it.
Speaker 2: Well, no, it definitely fell apart, But I think, what
Speaker 2: the spin, and I'm with the spin a little bit
Speaker 2: as I'm trying to pull this up. The spin is
Speaker 2: because he didn't give up a hit through the first
Speaker 2: part of the order. He completely dominated through that first set,
Speaker 2: and then it did fall apart. He gave up a
Speaker 2: bunch of week contact though, I think that was thing
Speaker 2: to be really positive about, but the pitch mix kind
Speaker 2: of failed to him. He got into that walking way.
Speaker 2: That split finger is a ridiculous pitch. It really is
Speaker 2: a ridiculous pitch. If you watch it, he was throwing
Speaker 2: it at any point in the count. It had a
Speaker 2: forty two percent with rate in this game. It was awesome,
Speaker 2: But he's gonna have to learn to have full implementation
Speaker 2: in there. I actually don't think like if everybody were
Speaker 2: to give up completely on Waldrip, I would be interested
Speaker 2: if they commit to him to continue going, because I'm
Speaker 2: not sure that they used him to stretch out the starters.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure this is going to be a full
Speaker 2: long term one, but I don't know. Dude, When you
Speaker 2: see starters like this absolutely dominant to start the game,
Speaker 2: guys couldn't get on the split finger. He'd goes split finger,
Speaker 2: then fastball, and then just fall apart in that second
Speaker 2: part of the I just feel like that's something that.
Speaker 1: He could and I think this is where we lose,
Speaker 1: not we, but but Baseball lose Royal the Royal WI. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, he walked four guys, you had one strikeout.
Speaker 1: The results matter, Yes, certain certain metrics do also be a.
Speaker 3: Well his his uh, you know, the spin rate was
Speaker 3: quite high, and I believe that there's something other things right, Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 3: well that's fine, and maybe all that we can look
Speaker 3: into bigger sample sizes and look the sample size of
Speaker 3: Triple A.
Speaker 1: And it was very good, like he's been very good
Speaker 1: this year. But at the end of the day, it
Speaker 1: was a failure. It was a failure, and it just
Speaker 1: it was just funny to watch the Twitter verse kind
Speaker 1: of try to spin this. And I know you're excited
Speaker 1: about it, Twitter Verse, and I know the prospect nerds
Speaker 1: love this stuff. But it wasn't good. Wasn't a good start.
Speaker 1: Drew Thorpe, He's gonna get a shot from Double A.
Speaker 1: Drewthorpe was a guy who had a good spring. I
Speaker 1: tried to pick him up my league this week. I'm
Speaker 1: so mad, Welsh I lost out by a dollar. I
Speaker 1: wanted to jump off of a tall building today I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I was like, why didn't get Hi? Why did I
Speaker 1: get him eight dollars bid over my seven dollar bid? Sucks? Anyway,
Speaker 1: he is at a one thirty five y fifty six strikeout,
Speaker 1: seventeen walks and eleven starts. How aggressive should we both
Speaker 1: be on Drew Thorpe.
Speaker 2: You know you got me thinking off of that last one.
Speaker 2: If one bad outing from Hurst and Waldrop is gonna
Speaker 2: make you say that he's garbage, then you shouldn't be
Speaker 2: aggressive garbage, I said, slamming anybody's failure.
Speaker 1: I'm not see that again. I didn't say you, I
Speaker 1: said the Royal Wing and you still got hurt.
Speaker 2: No. No, But what I'm telling you is is but you.
Speaker 2: But you are taking you like oh Twitter, everyone's trying
Speaker 2: to spin it.
Speaker 1: Oh results, the trip it like it wasn't that bad. Well,
Speaker 1: it was that bad. It was the freaking Nationals. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like the Dodgers beat him around the ballpark.
Speaker 2: Okay, well this is a White Sox team. So if
Speaker 2: you can't handle Worston Waldrip in his first start, you're
Speaker 2: not gonna be able to handle Drew Thorpe as a
Speaker 2: White Sox or any pitching prospect for that matter that's
Speaker 2: left out there. But I do believe that Drew Thorpe
Speaker 2: is gonna maintain kind of like Waldrop, low hard hit contact,
Speaker 2: great change up, really difficult differential between his fastball and
Speaker 2: change up. I think he's gonna give a hitters fit,
Speaker 2: but he might get hit up some. He's not gonna
Speaker 2: have run support the White Sox so buyer. Beware, you know,
Speaker 2: by what does that start? By the way, I didn't.
Speaker 2: I don't even know who the White Sox are going. No, no,
Speaker 2: I know that, But who are they playing?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Yeah, if it's the Braves, No, definitely not.
Speaker 1: I got to look at see the White Sox are playing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some of the White Sox are playing the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean they can't hit, they have no offense.
Speaker 2: There's a bunch of strikeouts. So yeah, I actually I
Speaker 2: do kind of like that start, but beware, he might
Speaker 2: give up three or four earned runs like rookie pitchers do.
Speaker 1: And he's jumping from double A. He's ever from double A. Look,
Speaker 1: I think with Thorpe you have tempered expectations because he's
Speaker 1: a White Sox. And again, I'm not saying that Waldrop
Speaker 1: is a failure. I'm saying his start was a failure.
Speaker 1: And everybody I kept looking at the internets, kept trying
Speaker 1: to tell me that it's not true, and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: it's pretty much true. Whyat Lang for two for four
Speaker 1: with a triple he smell that Welsh smells like rookie
Speaker 1: of the year is starting.
Speaker 2: To turn just oh, because he had a triple.
Speaker 1: He he had one triple and ladies, I was gonna
Speaker 1: get a ticket, one way ticket to UH to Scranton. Right,
Speaker 1: is that where the Yankees are?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Just said in the summerset, why not
Speaker 2: just caught? They should just release Louise Heel. He's worthless now,
Speaker 2: they should cut they should send him to the Mexican
Speaker 2: Independent leads.
Speaker 1: And I was like, Scranton Wilkes, He's gonna go work
Speaker 1: in the office, Louise Heal the paper company.
Speaker 2: I've never I've that's actually, I've never wanted someone to
Speaker 2: buck the trend and become Rookie Year more than Louis Hell.
Speaker 1: Now it's a little office on the kazoo.
Speaker 2: You know, they're doing a remake, or they're not like
Speaker 2: a remake, they're doing a new it's like an in
Speaker 2: universe new Office show.
Speaker 1: It's called a spinoff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there you go, spin off. But it's like.
Speaker 1: Office isn't original. The American Office is a spin off
Speaker 1: of these.
Speaker 2: And that is that in the same universe as the
Speaker 2: Bish Office.
Speaker 1: Now it's a remake. It's an Americanized version of the
Speaker 1: BBC Office with Rookie Gervais, which is very darkly funny
Speaker 1: and very different than the American Office. And I think
Speaker 1: if you saw that one first and loved it, he
Speaker 1: had a hard time getting into the American one because that's.
Speaker 2: There's some new one that looks it looks the casting.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe it's just you know, because we don't know
Speaker 2: them anything. Yeah, they're doing like a new thing Cranton.
Speaker 1: Heel's gonna be in scread I just want to point
Speaker 1: this out because I did some homework on this over
Speaker 1: the weekend, because for the TV show is that Gunner
Speaker 1: Henderson last year hit a buck eighty two, then he
Speaker 1: hit two twelve or whatever it was. He did nothing
Speaker 1: in April night nothing. Then he proceeded to hit five
Speaker 1: to six home runs and every other month drive in
Speaker 1: about fifteen to twenty runs every other month. And Wyat
Speaker 1: Langford is capable of that run and as great as
Speaker 1: heel is, if he a goes to the bullpen or
Speaker 1: b ends up becoming fodder at Scranton for two and
Speaker 1: a half months, guess what Wyatt Langford right now is
Speaker 1: like plus twenty five hundred for this award. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go spike at that today as well. Three up and
Speaker 1: three down Aaron Judge twenty fourth inger of the season.
Speaker 1: Good for him. Josel two by four for five belt
Speaker 1: at his tenth homer. Speaking about two bay, I had
Speaker 1: to move this find it, uh to get at. I
Speaker 1: had no room for the Altuve.
Speaker 2: That's the greatest bobblehead I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: You know how I got this? I had a bet
Speaker 1: with ERL Cohen that Jose Altuve wouldn't hit more than
Speaker 1: twenty home runs the following season after he hit twenty
Speaker 1: four or whatever it was. And I said, you're wrong.
Speaker 1: He has more power than you realize as a strong
Speaker 1: little man. You don't respect the little guy. And uh,
Speaker 1: we made a wager, and this is what I won.
Speaker 1: I won this. This was the way.
Speaker 2: So that's the best looking seen.
Speaker 1: The Game of Thrones Altuve because he's so little on
Speaker 1: the big throne.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's life size.
Speaker 1: That was mean. Threeks Google fan ten guys. That was
Speaker 1: also mean. That six to two thirds there against the
Speaker 1: Brew Crew, three down. Patrick Sandoval not so great against
Speaker 1: the Stros five runs, eight hits, five and two thirds.
Speaker 1: Verlander again no decision, four runs, seven hits and five
Speaker 1: and Ryan McMahon over four. He is now seven for
Speaker 1: fifty seven, but Verlander's the one I want to talk about.
Speaker 1: Welsh is old man. I'm finally come for Justin Ferlander
Speaker 1: because it's starting to feel.
Speaker 2: Like it, I mean from the version that he was. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's not that like lit last Yeah, I mean, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: well it's kind of similar to last year's ish version.
Speaker 2: But looking here, he's on a five year decline on
Speaker 2: his K percentage. He's almost on a five year increase
Speaker 2: on his walk It's the second highest walk rate of
Speaker 2: his career for three year increase on his actual era
Speaker 2: and expected era. And guess what another three year increase
Speaker 2: on barrel So allah, he's giving up a bunch of barrels.
Speaker 2: He's giving up a lot more runs, he's striking out less,
Speaker 2: walking more, He's becoming inefficient. He's a mediocre pitcher. He's
Speaker 2: just a mediocre pitcher at this point. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: he's streamable, but I'm also saying, if you're in a
Speaker 2: ten team league, he's not not streamable.
Speaker 1: I don't think of the Angels have been better than
Speaker 1: people realize the times and even me, I'll take the
Speaker 1: heat on that one, but don't against the Angels, like,
Speaker 1: come on, man, like we're.
Speaker 2: Chris Sale got blasted by the A's Like things happen,
Speaker 2: but I guess do.
Speaker 1: Happen, But I think it's happening more often. And Chris
Speaker 1: Sale is still giving you like eight strikeouts.
Speaker 2: In some of those games if he gets well they
Speaker 2: used to Chris Sale and him are not even in
Speaker 2: the same territory. But to your point, his two starts
Speaker 2: this month, he's given it four earned runs and only
Speaker 2: gone five. Like he doesn't. Here's a big thing. It
Speaker 2: doesn't really look like he's able to maintain consistency across
Speaker 2: multiple starts. He has like two. It looks like it's
Speaker 2: a two start run. He can go where he can
Speaker 2: go six or seven, and then he kind of blows
Speaker 2: up again. He's on that bad run right now, going
Speaker 2: five in his last two, giving up eight earned runs
Speaker 2: and only striking out seven.
Speaker 1: So injury news negative X rays on the wrist of
Speaker 1: Alex Bregman. That's good because Bregman's been very hot the
Speaker 1: last two weeks, very hot. I just want to say,
Speaker 1: we promised Robbie ray News, We're gonna give you Robbi rainings,
Speaker 1: five strikeouts and two innings in the rehab appearance at
Speaker 1: the Arizona Complex on Saturday.
Speaker 2: So again, but that's my issue right there. It's the
Speaker 2: it's the innings one and then two, maybe three.
Speaker 1: I think the All Star break. That's when what I
Speaker 1: read today was All Star Break like that there either
Speaker 1: before or right after, and that's good. I just look,
Speaker 1: I just like Robbi Ray is a pitcher, you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's you know, Jay Boz has a lot of talent.
Speaker 1: But Robbie Rays want to cy young.
Speaker 2: I mean, well he's I think maybe better. It's a
Speaker 2: better team context to Robbie is a weird dude by
Speaker 2: the if you ever been him, he walks around and
Speaker 2: just grunts like people talk to him, and he just
Speaker 2: he doesn't say words to be I swear to god,
Speaker 2: I'm not even when he pitches or just just any day.
Speaker 2: If he's ever like.
Speaker 1: Choosers like that too. He's like you, if he's on
Speaker 1: a day where he's pitching, you don't want to go
Speaker 1: near it. He's like a real guy.
Speaker 2: But that's like on the Mariner's backfield when Ray was
Speaker 2: a Mariner, he would just he would just walk on
Speaker 2: the backfields and he just he just doesn't say words.
Speaker 2: He's such an interesting individual, but he also was not
Speaker 2: good before he got hurt, and Bob's is really good.
Speaker 2: So maybe Robbie.
Speaker 1: Did you say Robbie Ray wasn't good before he got hurt?
Speaker 2: No? No, he had inconsistencies, didn't he? Am I making
Speaker 2: that up?
Speaker 1: I remember winning a cy Young Welsh?
Speaker 2: Hey did he win a cy Young right as he
Speaker 2: got hurt? Not one or four years ago?
Speaker 1: He won the cy Young in uh twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: One, eight e R in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Hold on, it was one start. He had an ad
Speaker 1: R in his three innings.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, you had a three seven to one ERA
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty, but he struck out.
Speaker 1: Two hundred and twelve guys and you know a one
Speaker 1: point one nine whip a three seven e R in
Speaker 1: the American League West. Okay, fine, like whatever.
Speaker 2: It was fine two years ago. He was fine twenty
Speaker 2: thirteen and exploded, You're a down try or.
Speaker 1: Mad still because I said, Louis, he's going to the bullpen,
Speaker 1: and you know it's still everybody I'm Since I've said that,
Speaker 1: I feel like I've ruined his whole Monday. I feel
Speaker 1: like he's got somebody's got a case of the Monday.
Speaker 2: Hate da anybody ever tell you got a case of mondays?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Hell no, you're directing.
Speaker 1: I feel better. Jack Flaherty's not going to start tomorrow
Speaker 1: against the Nats because of the bags. We said he
Speaker 1: was and now he's not there. You go, Ty Franz
Speaker 1: goes to the IL. Ten days, we have Yoshida working
Speaker 1: his way back for the Red Sox one for four
Speaker 1: triple A. Yesterday, Robert Gasser is gonna get a third
Speaker 1: opinion because the two weren't enough. So here's the thing.
Speaker 1: So the second opinion said that he has a durability
Speaker 1: issue in the ucl SO tears. But this durability issue
Speaker 1: so he might go into surgery anyway instead of the
Speaker 1: rehab route, just because there seems to be a weakness.
Speaker 1: What do you want to do about this? Wellh I mean,
Speaker 1: this seems kind of like very cloak and dagger. I've
Speaker 1: never heard this one of you.
Speaker 2: No, well, yeah, bye bye Gasser one one doctor, shame
Speaker 2: on you, two doctors, shame on.
Speaker 1: I just shame on everyone. I got out three.
Speaker 2: I'd like to get a found How many opinions do
Speaker 2: you need?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I go to the internet. You'll get all your opinions
Speaker 2: in one shot, which you have. We're done, Robert Gasser
Speaker 2: is not anything that we need to worry about for
Speaker 2: this year, by the way you blasted through it. Just
Speaker 2: want to mention Tyler Locklear got the call up. Who's
Speaker 2: someone that I had written up in the Prospect article
Speaker 2: for Type France and uh, deep deep deep. He's very interesting.
Speaker 2: I don't think he'll stick around. But what are you laughing?
Speaker 1: Give?
Speaker 3: He said?
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray was tragedy and Adra had once start.
Speaker 2: Well, he was, he was medioc he was fine the
Speaker 2: year before it almost he was.
Speaker 1: When you have when you have a strikeout rate above
Speaker 1: ten per nine, like that's a that's better than okay,
Speaker 1: and a whip at one point nine that's better than okay.
Speaker 2: Three of his last five starts in twenty twenty two
Speaker 2: he had four and five earned runs in each of those.
Speaker 2: Like I don't know. Maybe that's what's important in my
Speaker 2: brain was about.
Speaker 1: Him, but like, I don't know. And Robbie Ray pitching,
Speaker 1: you know for the San Francisco Giants in that ballpark
Speaker 1: is no.
Speaker 2: I think that's that's relatively nice.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not a very good ballpark for hitting
Speaker 1: baseballs either way.
Speaker 2: Post All Star Break, A four era in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: two with the Mariners in a one to three five win, saying,
Speaker 2: I guess if I said he was garbage garbage, he
Speaker 2: just wasn't great.
Speaker 1: You were very harsh. Bobby Miller two runs, one earned
Speaker 1: in the shoulder rehab started before innings on Friday. Triple
Speaker 1: A code I Senga Code I Senga will not return
Speaker 1: next month before the All Star Break. I you want
Speaker 1: to say out loud, I told you so everyone. I
Speaker 1: you know, I am one Welsh, isn't But I am
Speaker 1: one to say I told you hell, there's something about
Speaker 1: you put the blue and orange on and things just
Speaker 1: did not go well in life. It's just it's one
Speaker 1: of those things. But yeah, so could I sena A
Speaker 1: pitching and Alec Manoean pitching the rest of the year
Speaker 1: two he underwent surgery. So there you go, Welsh. Lots
Speaker 1: of fun going on in baseball, and today on a Monday,
Speaker 1: I think we've got some interesting bets. So are you
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Speaker 1: gonna kick things off today. New York Yankees on the
Speaker 1: money line minus one twenty six on the road with
Speaker 1: Rodnald the mound against Kansas City. The juice is a
Speaker 1: little bit, so I'm willing to go two units on
Speaker 1: this bad boy and I did over a bettingpros dot
Speaker 1: Com slash Joe great first three or four days last
Speaker 1: week and then like four fifth day kind of tailed
Speaker 1: off a little bit, so I want to start the
Speaker 1: week off right. San Diego on the run line minus
Speaker 1: one and a half. Dylan Cees has pitched great of
Speaker 1: taking on the Oakland A's This is a w don't
Speaker 1: blow this for me. Padres Cease has been excellent. Fernando
Speaker 1: Tatis over four hundred last few weeks. Also home road splits.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen this on Tattoos, incredibly different.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about three forty against two thirty Homan Road.
Speaker 1: He has been lights out at home, so Tatus has
Speaker 1: been red hot. He's been great at home. More tattoos
Speaker 1: stuff total bases over one and a half at minus
Speaker 1: one ten and if you put the Padres on the
Speaker 1: run line at minus one and a half along with
Speaker 1: Tatis to get a hit, you get plus one fifty four. That,
Speaker 1: my friends, is the same game parlay of the day.
Speaker 1: It's JP style. Welch, what do you have for the
Speaker 1: people today?
Speaker 2: Well, we're going to be playing some first fives and
Speaker 2: we are going to be playing some run totals. So
Speaker 2: I'm going to the Colorado Minnesota game. You've got Hudson
Speaker 2: and you've got Paddock. Paddock spin. Pattick can get into
Speaker 2: these good He's just like one bad inning. So between
Speaker 2: the two, I'm gonna play the first five over four
Speaker 2: and a half runs. I actually think the total game
Speaker 2: line even looks a little bit low for what we've
Speaker 2: usually been seeing. But Colorado Minnesota first five, four and
Speaker 2: a half runs over is my play. That's around like
Speaker 2: one minus one fifteen number two Toronto and the Brewers
Speaker 2: first five. You're actually getting even money for four and
Speaker 2: a half runs over Brios. Underlying stats have been kind
Speaker 2: of you got Colin Ray out there. I'm betting on
Speaker 2: the offenses to really play in here more so that
Speaker 2: the pitchers are imploding. The offenses are going to really
Speaker 2: take hand a Domas Scott a good record against Barrios.
Speaker 2: I love vladd in this game against Ray. And then
Speaker 2: I am going into a money line parlay. You mentioned
Speaker 2: San Diego Padres. The lines are rough today. Everything is
Speaker 2: just like it's like, you know, Dylan Ceaze eight and
Speaker 2: a half strikeouts plus money, but it's eight and a
Speaker 2: half and if you want to take the under, it's
Speaker 2: minus one ninety. It's like that's how the whole day
Speaker 2: is run lines and money lines and all of that
Speaker 2: is tough. So I'm taking a money line parlay San
Speaker 2: Diego Padres backing Dylan Ceese and the Baltimore Orioles backing
Speaker 2: Corman Burns. Both of those money lines together plus one
Speaker 2: forty six. That's probably one of my favorite ones of
Speaker 2: the day. It is the first one that I bet.
Speaker 2: Those are my three bets might add a player two
Speaker 2: on a shorter sleep. But you can follow me at
Speaker 2: betting pros dot com, slash Welsh.
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Speaker 1: over at bet three six five Welsh. We are getting
Speaker 1: to a point here where I am hanging on. Literally,
Speaker 1: it's like I feel like John McClain in die Hard.
Speaker 1: I might just hanging on by the skin of my teeth. Here.
Speaker 1: Look at me. Oh what did this called?
Speaker 2: Oh you're there. I mean I'm not even in the picture.
Speaker 1: You're at fourteen. I didn't know you were still in
Speaker 1: the competition. I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm at fourteen. That's actually kind of encouraging. I'm
Speaker 2: at fourteen.
Speaker 1: You're still in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2: I got a gunner one this weekend.
Speaker 1: You gotta go, you to get a gunner bomb. There
Speaker 1: you go. I'm gonna stick with my Fernando Tatis Junior.
Speaker 1: I need I've been ice cold for a long time now,
Speaker 1: So Tatis, I'm looking at you buddy, you're red hot.
Speaker 1: Don't let me down. Okay, Welsh, where are you going
Speaker 1: for your home run call today?
Speaker 2: All right, shoe leave the show. Well skidding on the board.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Vladimir Guerrero Junior, Vladdie Junior. He
Speaker 2: was kind of my big talk of what it was
Speaker 2: like two weeks ago on the trades of saying, hey,
Speaker 2: everything is great, the homers just haven't been there. All
Speaker 2: he's got to do. Get the ball in the air.
Speaker 2: What started to happen? Ball in air? This would be
Speaker 2: a good one. Better on the road, better slugging percentage
Speaker 2: on the road for vlad. He's got like two thirds
Speaker 2: of his homer more at bats obviously as well, but
Speaker 2: he's got a better slugging percentage overall, better home run
Speaker 2: rate on the road. So I'm gonna take Vlad today
Speaker 2: for my home run call and maybe he can get
Speaker 2: me two, maybe even three. Maybe I can get on
Speaker 2: the board this.
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