Speaker 1: What is up, Friendles, and welcome in Happy Friday to
Speaker 1: everybody right here. For leading off on the Fantasy Pros
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Speaker 1: love to have you. Joe Pizzapia back in the seat
Speaker 1: next week. We've got Joe Rico. We traded in our
Speaker 1: Joe's for the week. Joe, how are we doing, buddy?
Speaker 2: It's been a fantastic week. Man, this is really good.
Speaker 2: Getting to do shows with you consistently doing my job
Speaker 2: in Joe's job has been a lot of fun this
Speaker 2: past week. I'm looking forward to having him back. But
Speaker 2: it's been great getting to do shows with you all week,
Speaker 2: My friend.
Speaker 1: I like that you say that I'm not really looking
Speaker 1: forward to having Piece of Pa back. I know you,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you are. I don't know if the audience
Speaker 1: really is you know, the show didn't work out yesterday.
Speaker 1: I got some messages that people were like really excited
Speaker 1: that they got a little bit more Joe Rico. They're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, thank god, you don't have to have
Speaker 1: more Joe. I mean, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: the worst thing that could happen would be to have
Speaker 1: more Joe piece of pier right now? Wait? What what?
Speaker 1: What's that sound? What's that sounds? Somebody's place in water? Oh?
Speaker 3: I got some canol, Joey conol, nothing but the best,
Speaker 3: brought some pieces here for you. I see, Joe Rico,
Speaker 3: you look so beautiful. Thanks for giving me a vacation
Speaker 3: for a couple of days.
Speaker 4: I love you.
Speaker 2: My pisons.
Speaker 1: What's going on is my pisons? Hey yeah, just serious
Speaker 1: stereotypical things. I get to do this because there what.
Speaker 2: I got right here? Donnie, Hey, hey, I love it.
Speaker 2: Maybe thank you?
Speaker 1: Why don't you really? Let's let's we're gonna do a
Speaker 1: live at Canoli review with Joe piece of Here we
Speaker 1: go stuffed by Canoli in your mouth? No not get
Speaker 1: out of here. Come on, this is a this is
Speaker 1: a family. It's not in the morning all. I want
Speaker 1: to see how much you can take one one time.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna do the each side one so you
Speaker 1: lady on the trip. We're not gonna do a lady
Speaker 1: on the trip. All right, here we go.
Speaker 3: You want to get down.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a live Canoli report. I thought we
Speaker 1: weren't gonna get Joe Pizza Pia today, but we apparently are.
Speaker 1: We all took the chocolate covered ones.
Speaker 4: I don't know what that says about it, all right,
Speaker 4: cheers Joua Rico and Michael Gallay.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, we'll go. That's bad radio. It's a
Speaker 1: breakfast of champions.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty I don't have water in here.
Speaker 4: That's all right, Peanuts, Bracco Jacks, thanks for supporting.
Speaker 1: Joe.
Speaker 4: Rico is my feeling this week. He's doing a phenomenal job.
Speaker 4: I watch a couple of shows, not too many because
Speaker 4: I'm on vacation, but I just want to say hello
Speaker 4: to everybody.
Speaker 1: I'll see you Monday. I love you all. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go out some batting practice. We're gonna try to find
Speaker 1: a field. We got a bucket of balls, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna see where the day takes us. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but maybe some.
Speaker 4: More content for the channel.
Speaker 2: We'll find out.
Speaker 1: We'll see bye, everybody, Love you on a Tierra.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we found his crown. Thank goodness, there's too
Speaker 4: many things on it. Don't scratch my glasses. There you go,
Speaker 4: He's the worst.
Speaker 1: All right, buy everybody Friday. It was I just said
Speaker 1: that we wanted more Joe Rico, and we got Joe
Speaker 1: piece of Pia. What just happened? You guys set me
Speaker 1: up that totally didn't know. They were standing in my
Speaker 1: office next to me the whole time that was shout
Speaker 1: out to Yeah, did you like that?
Speaker 2: Were you?
Speaker 1: Were? You a little surprised there, Rico.
Speaker 2: I saw you talking before we were going on. You
Speaker 2: were talking on mute, and I was thinking, okay, you
Speaker 2: know his kids asked him a question. Your wife's asking
Speaker 2: you a question. I didn't think it was Joey P.
Speaker 2: But there was something in the back of my head
Speaker 2: that thought something might be up. But that was fun.
Speaker 2: I didn't expect that.
Speaker 1: I did, but I also was not fully expecting that.
Speaker 1: But Joey P in the house. Wait wait is it
Speaker 1: a Kaisa Trucks day? I didn't even look. I've done
Speaker 1: two kinds of trucks reads. All right, that's enough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've done. I think we're I think we're good. That's
Speaker 1: Kaisa trucks home for the canoli. That's why these canolis
Speaker 1: are so strong. Kaisa trucks. No Lo low c's for
Speaker 1: the Canoli's all right, little chaos to start the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for all hanging out. Special appearance Joe
Speaker 1: Piezapia and the great cousin Donnie. We thought we guys
Speaker 1: would start you guys off a little bit of fun.
Speaker 1: Obviously the audio people probably not loving quite as much
Speaker 1: because of the chaos. There not a great idea, by
Speaker 1: the way, to eat a canoli at the top of
Speaker 1: a show when you have no water or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Mister Joe Rico correct.
Speaker 2: I'm Italian. It comes up naturally to me eating connoly,
Speaker 2: but you definitely need to wash it down with something.
Speaker 2: Go get an espresso.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, I don't drink coffee, but I do need
Speaker 1: some caffeine percent all right. Yeah, now, I'm not a
Speaker 1: coffee guy. I don't do any of that stuff. I
Speaker 1: can't do it. But we can do all the baseball
Speaker 1: here for you guys. We got a ton of stuff
Speaker 1: here that will not include mister Joe Pizzapia. We got bets,
Speaker 1: we got breakdowns, We've got some chaos in the baseball world.
Speaker 1: We found out about and I was out there hanging
Speaker 1: with a certain somebody, so be on the lookout for that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do here very shortly. But let's dig into
Speaker 1: that co It was really good, by the way, very
Speaker 1: very phenomenal. Canoli back at it onto the baseball world.
Speaker 1: Tyler soda Strom one for five, league leading ninth home
Speaker 1: run yesterday against the White Sox. He does not stop
Speaker 1: hit it interesting. Rotal World put this out there. He
Speaker 1: is a three to two slider that he crushed like
Speaker 1: one oh four. I think really interesting about that too,
Speaker 1: and then mentioning that it was a slider. Is like
Speaker 1: his success on off speed stuff so far this year,
Speaker 1: Like he's hitting everything across the board. I did a
Speaker 1: show with Bogman where we were really like going hard
Speaker 1: into the Tyler Soderstrom stuff. What do you think the
Speaker 1: line is on Soderstrom? Well, I did the question of
Speaker 1: Christian Walker or Tyler Soderstrom rest of season. Where would
Speaker 1: you go with that?
Speaker 2: I think it would probably be Man. I hate to
Speaker 2: be like a prisoner of the moment, but it's probably Soderstrom,
Speaker 2: just every so slightly. I still really like Walker, We
Speaker 2: talked about that this week, but Soderstrom has just been brilliant.
Speaker 2: And something that I noticed yesterday was doing sleep in
Speaker 2: the Bob than Justin and Paul. I forget which one
Speaker 2: of us pointed this out, but I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people will say, well, he's in a minor league ballpark.
Speaker 2: You know, he's going to be taking advantage of these
Speaker 2: minor league fences, and that's why he's having success. I'll
Speaker 2: Vlotty Junior a couple of years ago. But if you
Speaker 2: look at the split so far, nine home games, Soderstrom
Speaker 2: has two home runs and he's hitting a buck fifty six.
Speaker 2: On the road, he has seven home runs and he's
Speaker 2: hitting four thirty nine. So he's not even like a
Speaker 2: minor league ballpark merchant. He's just legitimately a power stud.
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, if he hit forty home
Speaker 2: runs this year at this point, I don't think we
Speaker 2: should be surprised. It's mid April, he's got nine already.
Speaker 2: He could surpass forty.
Speaker 1: Even I'm going to want to be a prisoner at
Speaker 1: the moment either, and this is coming from a very
Speaker 1: hardcore Christian Walker guy. Right now, it's kind of l
Speaker 1: city for me on that. You know, the capital L
Speaker 1: on the Welsh for a Christian Walker, and I do
Speaker 1: believe though he's going to turn things around a lot.
Speaker 1: In the hitting profile. I think outside of the strikeouts
Speaker 1: those are up, everything else looks pretty good. He's going
Speaker 1: to start pulling fly balls. He traditionally kind of art slow,
Speaker 1: he's kind of streaky. I'm taking Sodastrum. I think Sodastrm
Speaker 1: like my big point too, It is he has such
Speaker 1: a good head start and I think that profile, which
Speaker 1: is elite at this level, even when he comes down,
Speaker 1: I just don't think he's going to come back where
Speaker 1: another player like Christian Walker is going to just catch
Speaker 1: face and we're gonna be like, oh, yeah this, You know,
Speaker 1: we should have had Walker the whole time.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I think Sodastrm is going to be consistent all year long,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to be surprised if he hits
Speaker 1: thirty homers. He's a third of the way there. Practically,
Speaker 1: that ballpark has beneficial. He's hitting the ball better. I
Speaker 1: think we got to be in hardcore and Tyler Soderstrom
Speaker 1: and I made a good move on the the rest
Speaker 1: of season ranks on Fantasy pros and I'll I'll do
Speaker 1: it again. I think there's going to be another move
Speaker 1: because I don't think I have Walker over him. But
Speaker 1: the more we looked into it and talked about it,
Speaker 1: I think I'm in. So that would be a question
Speaker 1: for the chat. Maybe we can even put up a
Speaker 1: pull if we want Christian Walker, Tyler Soderstrom. Where you
Speaker 1: guys at I'm very curious at the level of first
Speaker 1: baseman for everybody for Soda Strong.
Speaker 2: Where do you have him in the rioting as well?
Speaker 2: So you have him top ten.
Speaker 1: To pull it out. I want to say I have
Speaker 1: him top I want to say eleven or something like that,
Speaker 1: but I think he might deserve to be inside of
Speaker 1: it like Tristan Cassis or him. Cossus is struggling when
Speaker 1: you get it. It's not going to be Naylor Naylor.
Speaker 1: I'm going to have above him, but I think he's
Speaker 1: right below Naylor, And actually that might be where I
Speaker 1: ended up putting him in the rank, So I'm open
Speaker 1: to it. Yeah, big Soda, So let's see where you
Speaker 1: guys are at on him. Corbin Freakin' Carol has been
Speaker 1: one of the best guys. Barnutt war Number everything is
Speaker 1: telling us He's one of the best in the league.
Speaker 1: But we have been missing the stolen bases. We got
Speaker 1: that back yesterday. Three stolen bases bags are coming back.
Speaker 1: The hitting profile is ridiculous. I was actually taking a
Speaker 1: look on Baseball Savant. You can look at the batting
Speaker 1: stance data they have and you can see some of
Speaker 1: the changes. He's actually moved quite a bit forward in
Speaker 1: the plate, brought his feet in a little bit more,
Speaker 1: and that is allowing him to attack the ball with
Speaker 1: that big bat speed and things are going crazy. So
Speaker 1: I think I had this trade thing that someone had
Speaker 1: brought to me of like, hey, would you trade Soto
Speaker 1: for Carol? And I'm like, I actually think Carol's the
Speaker 1: play Dynasty and on redraft right now because I believe
Speaker 1: in him. The stolen bases just held him back and
Speaker 1: then they pop back up. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: there's a ton to like go go in on with
Speaker 1: Carol outside of like maybe if you just weren't a believer,
Speaker 1: I don't know where you're at on him, Like do
Speaker 1: you think Corman Carrol, if you could get a one
Speaker 1: soda or you could sell down, do you think that's
Speaker 1: the play on Carroll? Like do you believe this new
Speaker 1: hitting version of him is going to stay?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, I think I came into the season with Carol
Speaker 2: ranked ahead of Soto, and I'd still have to have
Speaker 2: to stick with that. I think with the shoulder, it
Speaker 2: just seems to have fieled itself, which I don't know
Speaker 2: how legit that is. Necessarily, I thought that this was
Speaker 2: going to be something that eventually needed some kind of procedure.
Speaker 2: But he has a twenty percent barrel rate, almost a
Speaker 2: sixty percent hard hit rate. His average exit velocity is
Speaker 2: ninety five for his career. It had been eighty nine.
Speaker 2: The hardest hit balis we're hitting his career came this season.
Speaker 2: That one fifteen point eight. I don't like that he's
Speaker 2: chasing more. If you look at his O swing percentage,
Speaker 2: he's thirty seven percent this season twenty seven for his career.
Speaker 2: Swinging strike rate was seven and a half percent last year.
Speaker 2: It's thirteen point eight this season. But everything else is fantastic,
Speaker 2: Like Corbyn, Carroll could easily be a thirty to fifty
Speaker 2: guy this season and win Nashville, get VP and wouldn't surprise.
Speaker 1: But we're also kind of moving into a territory where
Speaker 1: maybe he hits more homers than he steals bases. Though
Speaker 1: we don't know what direction that's going to go, it's
Speaker 1: really good to start seeing him steal some bases. I
Speaker 1: have some other cool news for you. I went out
Speaker 1: to the airs on a Diamondbacks facility yesterday and the
Speaker 1: other day Katel Marte was here, and there was kind
Speaker 1: of a word maybe from Katel the other day that
Speaker 1: obviously Tory Lavello was saying that he might not even
Speaker 1: back until like mid May. They didn't think he'd be
Speaker 1: back early April. Maybe potentially. Katel had said himself that
Speaker 1: he would like to be back next week. Well, I
Speaker 1: go out there and I got some video and if
Speaker 1: we can put that up Calle of him working. He
Speaker 1: looks good. This is Katel. This is my video from yesterday.
Speaker 1: He wasn't short, which was getting people kind of worked up.
Speaker 1: He went between second and short, but he was out working.
Speaker 1: This is a little corner field they have at the
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks facility. He's running it out. You can see he's
Speaker 1: got the leg kind of wrapped up, but he's moving,
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be limping. The arm looks good. This
Speaker 1: was after he did a running session, and then it
Speaker 1: followed up with him going doing a private hitting session.
Speaker 1: So one more here they had the Pioneer League tryouts
Speaker 1: in the back. But Katel looks solid and we could
Speaker 1: take him at short. But then we had the collab
Speaker 1: of collabs of all time, Joe Rico, I present to
Speaker 1: you Kutel x Welsh because me and Katell we rocked
Speaker 1: it out. Baby, that's right, straight from the show yesterday,
Speaker 1: Me and Katel. It's very bright. He was not constipated.
Speaker 1: I also the eyes were getting me a little bit,
Speaker 1: but Diamondback had up shout out to Rota Waar. Me
Speaker 1: and Katel rocking out as two best friends do. And
Speaker 1: everyone's quest in the world is this right there? Will
Speaker 1: we see a where in the world are Katell and
Speaker 1: Welsh this year? I don't know. It's a possibility. We
Speaker 1: could look into it if people wanted it. We had
Speaker 1: where in the world We're Welsh and Corman Carroll Well,
Speaker 1: kud Tell and Welsh. We're hanging just being best friends yesterday.
Speaker 1: It's a great picture, right, I mean, I'm not very photogenic.
Speaker 2: It's a fantastic picture. It's the coolest guy in Arizona
Speaker 2: and Katel Marte is there as well, so it's a
Speaker 2: really good job.
Speaker 1: It's my boy. I love Katel so much. He's like
Speaker 1: one of my favorites. We was before Carol was out there,
Speaker 1: but we took the picture at the facility, got some
Speaker 1: of that scoop video. I got you guys covered, all right,
Speaker 1: we can my horrible smile and face can come off
Speaker 1: of there real quick. But just wanted to share with
Speaker 1: everybody a little bit of could tell action and people
Speaker 1: like that, people like that friend of the show, Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh this is a good point.
Speaker 2: Stay away, friend of me.
Speaker 1: If he's a friend of the show, that's not good.
Speaker 1: I got to tell you that. Justin Steele just had
Speaker 1: surgery today and he did.
Speaker 2: Think every So it's Cruval Mayor's hate.
Speaker 1: What are you talking here, Mayor? You must be behind.
Speaker 1: I think he's behind and he's just seeing the segment
Speaker 1: win show. Oh look at that. Oh someone's negative. Oh
Speaker 1: something isn't to his liking. Shut up, Mayor, get out here.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back into it. Christopher Sanchez picked
Speaker 1: up his second victory of the season twelve strikeouts over
Speaker 1: seven innings against the Giants. We told somebody on a show,
Speaker 1: I think it was on Wednesday. Do not get rid
Speaker 1: of Christopher Sanchez, no matter what you do. Where do
Speaker 1: you think Sanchez has vaulted as far as value.
Speaker 2: Goes top fifteen or top twenty starting pitcher? For me,
Speaker 2: there was an interesting article that Mayor and Worm went
Speaker 2: through yesterday on the cycle. It was ESPN did like
Speaker 2: an ace rankings, just going through all the aces in baseball,
Speaker 2: and they had Christopher Sanchez at like eleven or something
Speaker 2: like that, and it was Kylie McDaniel. ESPN can get
Speaker 2: kind of a bad reputation. M Kylie knows what he's
Speaker 2: talking about. You know. When you start seeing that kind
Speaker 2: of thing, maybe he's closer to ten than fifteen. But
Speaker 2: without a doubt, for me, he's a top twenty starting pitcher,
Speaker 2: no question.
Speaker 1: You know, he was one of those guys that popped.
Speaker 1: We talked a bunch about this in the draft season
Speaker 1: that some of the projections just had it right, even
Speaker 1: though it was an outlier. I think it was.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I think it might have been ATC that had him
Speaker 1: as like a top twenty pitcher as far as war
Speaker 1: goes the bat or no, No, you know what, I
Speaker 1: think it was the bat because I think I highlighted
Speaker 1: it with Cardi, but both of those systems had him
Speaker 1: way higher than he was being ranked, and he just
Speaker 1: seemed like it was an obvious pickup for him. I
Speaker 1: like the sustainability. Would you rather have Ooh, that's too much?
Speaker 1: Would you rather have rest of season? Let Freddy Peralta
Speaker 1: or Chris Sanchez?
Speaker 2: Chris Sanchez? For me, I like per Alta, but Sanchez
Speaker 2: seems to be on another level at this point. That
Speaker 2: change up is one of the best pitches in baseball.
Speaker 1: It is, and he added the cutter for more strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Chotto Imanaga or Chris Sanchez Sanchez.
Speaker 2: I've been a little bit out on Imanaga this year.
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Speaker 7: today's guest is rough around the edges. Please welcome Crust.
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Speaker 2: Are you talking about yourself?
Speaker 7: And you can take him anywhere?
Speaker 2: Why do you invite?
Speaker 1: And we are out of time? Are you really cutting
Speaker 1: me off?
Speaker 7: And Crustables are the best part of the sandwich?
Speaker 1: Sorry crust Okay, So, I mean, I don't think we
Speaker 1: need to necessarily run a poll for that, but the
Speaker 1: values up I think he's somewhere in that direction. By
Speaker 1: the way, the poll that we did before eighty three
Speaker 1: percent Soda Man eighty three percent over Walker. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, recency and stuff like that, but I think
Speaker 1: we're all in. We're definitely all in on the Soda Man,
Speaker 1: and his valuation has just gone through the roof. Kumar
Speaker 1: Rocker recorded his first MLB victory. More importantly, eight strikeouts.
Speaker 1: He picked up three run ball. You know, he's still
Speaker 1: kind of in the streamy type of range. Is there
Speaker 1: any takeaways for Kumar Rocker? Is he in a circle
Speaker 1: of trust at all?
Speaker 2: For you, I'd kind of given up after that Seattle start.
Speaker 2: This was definitely a positive, but there's still a lot
Speaker 2: in his profile that worries me. Stuff comes in a
Speaker 2: little bit below average. He's giving up a ton of
Speaker 2: hard contact eleven percent barrel fifty one on the hard hit.
Speaker 2: The strikeout rate for the season is only seventeen percent.
Speaker 2: The ERA is at six thirty eight, and a lot
Speaker 2: of the estimators are better, but they're not like drastically better.
Speaker 2: They're pretty not bad, like a three eighty six. Sierra
Speaker 2: is all right, but I just don't know if he's
Speaker 2: quite ready to trust yet, especially for the majority of
Speaker 2: players in ten and twelve team leagues. I play in
Speaker 2: a lot of deeper leagues. I'll speculate on him a
Speaker 2: little bit this weekend, and like fifteen teamers if you're
Speaker 2: playing an AL only, for sure, but if you're in
Speaker 2: a twelve team standard size Yahoo or ESPN league, I
Speaker 2: just don't think I'm there yet.
Speaker 1: It's pretty interesting because like he has to live off
Speaker 1: the slider. That was always his issue. The sinker and fastball.
Speaker 1: They is not doing anything. They're getting hit really hard,
Speaker 1: They're not whiffing anybody evs or like ninety two ninety
Speaker 1: three batting average is high. But his slider is absolutely
Speaker 1: elite pitch and he throws it more than anybody. So
Speaker 1: he's kind of doing like the Hunter Green. But he
Speaker 1: just doesn't have a power fastball. So I'm really not
Speaker 1: sure how he's gonna make it out of there. By
Speaker 1: the way, we found out the craziest story. Arico texts
Speaker 1: me and goes, dude, we were betting against Spider Man.
Speaker 1: We found out the Patrick Corbin against bet we had.
Speaker 1: We're all we're trying to do for two days is
Speaker 1: bet against Patrick Corbin. He's gonna get blow out. Blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. Then he ends up looking like Cy Young well,
Speaker 1: it might have been performance enhancing, because if we can show,
Speaker 1: Ai has told us he turned into Spider Man. He
Speaker 1: could hardly walk. We found out because he was bit
Speaker 1: by a venomous spider before the game and apparently had
Speaker 1: new powers, new powers where you could throw sliders at
Speaker 1: any point and fastballs that Mike Trout wouldn't even swing at.
Speaker 1: He threw Mike Trout in his first at bat a
Speaker 1: fastball down the freaking gut and Trout just stared at it.
Speaker 1: But there was performance enhancing. He was bit by a spider.
Speaker 1: That's AI's version of what happened. I think that was
Speaker 1: probably pretty accurate. And it was his left hand too.
Speaker 1: It's exactly impressive.
Speaker 2: I don't even know anymore, Like the gods are just
Speaker 2: making fun of us at this point. I think it's
Speaker 2: it's hilarious. It's a venomous spider bite the day of
Speaker 2: a star. Maybe that's why they were doing like the
Speaker 2: moving around with Molly and everything like that. But I
Speaker 2: don't even know how to analyze this. It's just just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Well, that actually does make sense. That makes sense because
Speaker 1: he was supposed to pitch that other day. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then you know apparently the one nine nine nine nine
Speaker 1: Spider traveled through the Spider Verse and it gave him powers.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, like, if Patrick Corbyn has another
Speaker 1: the Corbyn Verse, that's one hundred percent right. If Patrick
Speaker 1: Corbyn has another one, I think we're gonna have the
Speaker 1: new trend in baseball where guys are gonna just be like,
Speaker 1: you know how, like parents will have like chicken pox.
Speaker 1: Parties are just gonna have like Spider By parties, and
Speaker 1: we're just gonna have a bunch of superhumans. And we
Speaker 1: had Corbyn Parker apparently, so we were going up against
Speaker 1: Spider Man. The odds were always against us. A couple
Speaker 1: of other things. Braves recalled Alex Redugo from Triple A,
Speaker 1: Brian de Lacruz down anything for you whatsoever on Verdugo and.
Speaker 2: Only fifteen teamers maybe, like I know, only for sure,
Speaker 2: fifteen teamers maybe, but the majority of listeners can just
Speaker 2: ignore this.
Speaker 1: I think I'm pretty on that as well. And then
Speaker 1: Griffin Canning was awesome yesterday on the Cardinals struck out
Speaker 1: eight two and one now three four three E Ray.
Speaker 1: Do you think Canning has moved up? I guess he
Speaker 1: was a little bit already out of like the streamer range.
Speaker 1: But is your level of confidence moved up in canning
Speaker 1: as he's stacking up some of these strikeouts.
Speaker 2: A little bit. I think he's fine as like a
Speaker 2: streamer if you see a good matchup. But a lot
Speaker 2: of the things we usually look for, they're not amazing necessarily,
Speaker 2: you know, double digit walk rate, fifty three percent hard
Speaker 2: hit against. This stuff is very pedestrian, ninety one overall stuff.
Speaker 2: Plus I don't know. I think if you see a
Speaker 2: good matchup, if he's facing a bottom ten or fifteen offense,
Speaker 2: you can think about streaming him. But I'm not running
Speaker 2: to the waiver wire to grab him.
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Speaker 1: is okay with it. I know we should do a
Speaker 1: couple five minute check in to see that he's good
Speaker 1: with the segment, so I think he'll be good with this,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. We'll see. Let's see, Lucius, it's
Speaker 1: good afternoon. I just managed to trade Torque, Pepio and
Speaker 1: Alvarado for Christian Walker and Hunter Brown? Did I do good?
Speaker 1: For context? I have Hoffman and thanks to Welsh, I
Speaker 1: made sure I got munios. My boy. It's a five
Speaker 1: x five headhead ops league. So you managed to trade.
Speaker 1: So you traded Torquepio and Alvarado to get Walker and
Speaker 1: Hunter Brown. That's why I'm reading that. Are you doing
Speaker 1: the same Are you reading it that way?
Speaker 2: I'm reading it that way. I would personally prefer the trio.
Speaker 2: Torkosen has been fantastic. I think that he can probably
Speaker 2: be something similar to what we saw a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago, thirty Homers, maybe ninety Ribis. I've always been
Speaker 2: a Pepio guy. Admittedly it hasn't been a great start
Speaker 2: for him with the command, and Alvarado seems like he
Speaker 2: is locked in as the closer for now. The other
Speaker 2: side of that, Walker we've talked about his concern I
Speaker 2: like Hunter Brown a lot, but I think the trio
Speaker 2: is more appealing to me.
Speaker 1: I mean honest with you, I think in like a
Speaker 1: month this could swing back to that side, Like you
Speaker 1: might have the two best players in the trade. So
Speaker 1: I'm cool with it from that perspective. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, like I think Torque has kind of leveled solid.
Speaker 1: Pepio is not like super far off from Hunter Brown
Speaker 1: and you got the big closer, you know, I think
Speaker 1: it doesn't. I don't think it looks like a win
Speaker 1: right now, but it definitely couldn't. It's a great question,
Speaker 1: good guy Dolan, I was offered, would in Sanchez for
Speaker 1: his Schwarber? I feel like I've been given a little
Speaker 1: too giving up a little too much. Thoughts he has
Speaker 1: Carol two, I'd be asking for too much if I
Speaker 1: ask for him instead, so would Yeah. Wood In Sanchez
Speaker 1: for Schwarber is an insanely stupid trade. We just talked
Speaker 1: about Sanchez being a top fifteen to twenty pitcher. James
Speaker 1: wood In Schwarber's values are pretty even right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I actually probably. I mean, he's not gonna accept Carol,
Speaker 1: but I would ask for Carol instead. I'm not doing
Speaker 1: that trade. I don't, I can be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I'm doing Wood for Schwarber just straight
Speaker 1: up yeah, that's on the basis unless it's an OBP league.
Speaker 2: That duo was pretty appealing, would I mean, it's funny.
Speaker 2: I was worried about the launch angle stuff with Wood.
Speaker 2: The launch angle's gotten worse, but he's hitting the home run.
Speaker 2: So what do I know?
Speaker 1: I don't know. By the way, did I tell you this?
Speaker 1: Someone just brought up torpedo bats. I think I said
Speaker 1: this in ITL. I went to another game after hanging
Speaker 1: with my very good friend Katel Marte and I went
Speaker 1: to the Royals and was it Royals and Mariners playing
Speaker 1: an extended spring training game. And a dude broke a bat,
Speaker 1: and every player went like you got in trouble, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, what are they doing? He broke a torpedo
Speaker 1: bat and they all like they grabbed it and like
Speaker 1: carried it over. They treated it like this, like baby,
Speaker 1: and they were all looking at it because he broke
Speaker 1: it and they had to give him a normal bat.
Speaker 1: He did not get a hit at that, by the way,
Speaker 1: but I thought you guys would like that. They were.
Speaker 1: It's going to probably be a thing long term. Jake
Speaker 1: bal I got Nick Kurtz in a minor league' s pop,
Speaker 1: but most likely not for long. I have Alonzo at first,
Speaker 1: Naylor at corner, and Torklesen eate utility. Who rides the
Speaker 1: pine for Kurts. It would be only torque if someone's
Speaker 1: riding the pine. But like you might have to go
Speaker 1: through some bumps with Kurts, like I don't. We shouldn't
Speaker 1: anoin Kurtz when someone was like, hey, I want to
Speaker 1: drop Naylor for Kurts. No, don't do that, Like, don't
Speaker 1: we don't know what this is going to look like,
Speaker 1: and there's some bumps in the roads with rookies. You
Speaker 1: want Kurts if it clicks early. So I would probably
Speaker 1: let Kurtz ride some pine over Torque. I don't know,
Speaker 1: unless like maybe it's a really good matchup for the
Speaker 1: A's and they're at home early on it's torque.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would base on the way everybody's been talking
Speaker 2: about Kurtz. I would see, you know, off put them
Speaker 2: on the trade block in your league and see what
Speaker 2: the offers are. You might get a crazy offer. You
Speaker 2: might get offered Naylor for him straight up, or another
Speaker 2: top hundred type of player. You never know, You never know.
Speaker 2: He might come up to the bigs and hit twenty
Speaker 2: five homers this year. He might be back in Triple
Speaker 2: A in three weeks. You just you just never know
Speaker 2: this is a good time to sell a prospect.
Speaker 1: The best time is usually before and the valuations are crazy.
Speaker 1: I would love to know. I don't know if we
Speaker 1: asked this the other day. We just did so many shows.
Speaker 1: But especially to the YouTube audience. If you guys have
Speaker 1: seen some Nick Kurtz trades, put them in the comments.
Speaker 1: I would love to see what some Nick trade Nick
Speaker 1: Kurts trades are looking like, like some actual ones, because
Speaker 1: I know there's gonna be some weird ones, but I
Speaker 1: have a feeling there are some insane ones, like you know,
Speaker 1: when we're talking about Naylor here, all right, a couple more,
Speaker 1: then we're gonna get to some more news and we'll
Speaker 1: pop back to a few Is it time to drop Tovar?
Speaker 1: And then someone ELSEO said, drop Tovar with Netto being activated?
Speaker 2: Eh, yeah, I'd be fine with that, dropping Tovar to
Speaker 2: activate Neto. I'm not a big Tovar guy, though, so
Speaker 2: that might be a little bit of a blind spot
Speaker 2: for me, but I prefer Neto.
Speaker 1: Uh Kirene Paris or Dylan Moore.
Speaker 2: Neither really, but I'd go Paris if I had to
Speaker 2: choose one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would go Kyrien Paris right here, But Dylan
Speaker 1: Moore's look good, yea very much early on. Let's do
Speaker 1: one more. I got Tolia Johannio cleared through waivers. I
Speaker 1: need to scoop him up, right, I have totally Johannio
Speaker 1: cleared waivers. Peripherals look good, crazy low Babbitt. Last year,
Speaker 1: Suarez is close to Tolia's ceiling this year, that's a
Speaker 1: good way to put it. Would you drop Tolia for
Speaker 1: Johannio Eohannio's also, you know, obviously struggled.
Speaker 2: I would. I think there's gonna be some ups and
Speaker 2: downs with Suarez, But I think if you just look
Speaker 2: at like the preseason projections, they were still factoring in
Speaker 2: his Seattle numbers a little bit too much. So I
Speaker 2: don't know if he's going to get second half twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four Suarez all the time. He might be a
Speaker 2: little bit streaky, but I think he's still probably a
Speaker 2: thirty home run guy or somewhere close to it. I
Speaker 2: don't really trust Togglia much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totallya totally. Yeah, the G is confusing, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: no I want you ever we all want to say toglia,
Speaker 1: but it is totally. I just remember Buddy Dennis, who
Speaker 1: does signings, he had that he had a signing with
Speaker 1: Tolia and they talked about that in the very first signing.
Speaker 1: He was just like, yeah, the g's silence. So it's
Speaker 1: very interesting. But you know what, I'm gonna put the
Speaker 1: G back on until you start hitting. You don't deserve
Speaker 1: the silent G right now when you're not making me
Speaker 1: look rookie, lookie. Twins are promoting one of their top prospects,
Speaker 1: Luke Keishel, twenty two year old second baseman triple a's
Speaker 1: this year. The start is fine, he's in in two
Speaker 1: sixty one, about a three eighty obp's got a homer,
Speaker 1: bunch of stolen bases, great walk to strikeout ratio more
Speaker 1: eleven to nine, so close to not more walks and strikeouts,
Speaker 1: but really really great hit tool. I would say this,
Speaker 1: I don't think he has a long long term sustainability.
Speaker 1: Anything could happen, of course, but in the short term,
Speaker 1: if you've got like the you know, there's no one
Speaker 1: out there and you want to pick him up. I
Speaker 1: think from a fantasy value standpoint, he's one of the
Speaker 1: higher valued guys we've had vnup. I'd rather have Keishel
Speaker 1: long term, but it's just because like Willie Cashro's banged up,
Speaker 1: Carlos Grasco's banged up, Miranda went down and then he
Speaker 1: got banged up, like everybody's just hurt. Brooks Lee just
Speaker 1: got back. I just don't think there's long term sustainability.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure how hard I would be speculating.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you have anything to add on Keshel.
Speaker 2: Not really, I'll leave the prospect stuff to you.
Speaker 1: Well maybe this one. Though the Brewers are calling up
Speaker 1: Caleb Durban Friday, and Caleb Durban is a stolen based monster.
Speaker 1: There's some power in there. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: long term outlook again, I just don't know what that's
Speaker 1: going to look like. But he is a guy that
Speaker 1: I would speculate on. Ironically, I think I would actually
Speaker 1: speculate on Durbin over Keshel right now, even though I've
Speaker 1: got Luke as a higher valued prospect. But you want
Speaker 1: stolen bases, you should look at Caleb Durban. So that
Speaker 1: is what I'm letting you guys know. Three up and
Speaker 1: three down. Riley Green went three for five, drove in
Speaker 1: a pair of runs on Thursday. Why is this important?
Speaker 1: Because every human being was like, why is no one
Speaker 1: talking about Riley Green? He stinks we got to be
Speaker 1: done with him. He had like a forty something percent
Speaker 1: K percentage, finally had his big three hit game. I'm
Speaker 1: a little down on this in general. Do you have
Speaker 1: any positive takes off of him finally picking up some hits,
Speaker 1: even though it's been a really slow start, anything on
Speaker 1: Riley Green?
Speaker 2: For you? It was a nice game. I'm still a
Speaker 2: bit worried the strikeouts being where they are thirty nine
Speaker 2: percent and still like that is that's tough. That's tough
Speaker 2: to come to build around, especially when you're looking at
Speaker 2: some of the play discipline metrics. He's swinging a lot
Speaker 2: more of this season than he has previously. He's up
Speaker 2: to about seven percent in that department. He's swinging more
Speaker 2: outside of the zone. He's making less contact in the zone.
Speaker 2: I just I feel a little bit worried about him still.
Speaker 2: I've got a lot of questions about him, and there's
Speaker 2: been a lot of talk about his struggles, at least
Speaker 2: in my DMS, I think that in a really shallow league,
Speaker 2: I'm not as married to him as I would have
Speaker 2: been even a month ago. I think if it's like
Speaker 2: a ten team league and there's a hot bat on
Speaker 2: the wire, I wouldn't mind moving on. That might be
Speaker 2: a hot take. But I'm kind of down on him
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm kind of with you on that, and then
Speaker 1: we're going to pair this together. Mark Viento's hit his
Speaker 1: first homer of the year on Thursday in that win
Speaker 1: behind Griffin Canning. Both of those guys in major struggles
Speaker 1: that have had some big questions finally have a good performance.
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Speaker 1: guys to meet the challenge to bounce back? In Fantasy Personally,
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Speaker 1: if I was an a TEND team, I probably am
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Speaker 1: auctionally only one more on the three up. Edward of
Speaker 1: Rodriguez struck out nine. He has been a strikeout monster
Speaker 1: this year. Against the Marlins, he gave up three runs.
Speaker 1: He's pretty inconsistent, though. Do you are you comfortable with
Speaker 1: him as just at least a streamer because of the
Speaker 1: strikeout potential.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that you could probably roster him in
Speaker 2: twelve teamers, and you know, the matchup was really nice
Speaker 2: for him. So I was recommending him like all over
Speaker 2: the place the other day. But I don't know that
Speaker 2: he's somebody that I trust for all thirty two starts.
Speaker 2: I think you kind of got to pick and choose
Speaker 2: your spots then a little bit.
Speaker 1: I kind of agree with that on the down ToJ Bradley.
Speaker 1: He was hit up six runs, five and a third
Speaker 1: against the Yankees with a loss. Tanner Biby gave up
Speaker 1: six runs and five and two thirds and a loss
Speaker 1: of the Orioles. Jordan Hicks, also not super great, gave
Speaker 1: up five runs over seven innings of work. Let me
Speaker 1: ask you this, who are you more worried about? Tos
Speaker 1: Bradley or Tanner Biby? Not asking you who is necessarily better,
Speaker 1: but your level of worry is higher with which one
Speaker 1: of those pitchers.
Speaker 2: Might be a little bit higher with Biby like that,
Speaker 2: There's been really nothing encouraging. Strikeouts are down, walks her up,
Speaker 2: he's giving up a fifteen percent barrel rate, stuff his
Speaker 2: way down. There's there's not a lot to really be
Speaker 2: encouraged by so far. He's kind of alternating between good
Speaker 2: and bad starts to this point. With Taj, I still
Speaker 2: think there's a lot more there. The strikeouts have been
Speaker 2: pretty solid. He's always been a little bit shaky with
Speaker 2: the command eight percent walk right previously. He's at ten
Speaker 2: percent this year. I think if I had to invest
Speaker 2: in one or the other, it would be probably Bradley.
Speaker 2: I think that's it.
Speaker 1: I feel like it would have gone the other direction
Speaker 1: if people were answering that. I think the strikeout potential,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm really torn. I think it would
Speaker 1: be I think it would be Byby, but Bradley's really
Speaker 1: still interesting with the strikeout potential. But this has just
Speaker 1: been inconsistencies that I'm just not sure one hundred percent by.
Speaker 1: On the injury front, Grayson Rodriguez was scratched from his
Speaker 1: schedule bullpen session on Thursday. Oh double ooh, I don't
Speaker 1: I'm not feeling good about that. The investment was already
Speaker 1: really risky if you were going to have him mid season.
Speaker 1: To me, that is at minimum probably two to three
Speaker 1: weeks more that's going to hold back and obviously can
Speaker 1: equate to even worse things. You kind of agree, Yeah.
Speaker 2: He's dost like, so you're not getting value at him
Speaker 2: this year. I'm sorry. It's it's one of those situations
Speaker 2: where we're going to push this down the road and
Speaker 2: then eventually he's gonna have surgery. They're going to keep
Speaker 2: doing this for like a year, and then he's gonna
Speaker 2: have surgery.
Speaker 1: That's why he's not a friend of the show. But
Speaker 1: you know, friends of the shows have been in the
Speaker 1: hospital beds this week. Our boy DJ dj Hers was
Speaker 1: in there a couple of days ago. Justin said, I
Speaker 1: think he's having it today or tomorrow. So but Grayson
Speaker 1: not looking good. Mason Winn said to begin a minor
Speaker 1: league rehab assignment a triple A today. White Langford was yesterday,
Speaker 1: and Pablo Lopez is scheduled to make a rehab start
Speaker 1: on Saturday. So act to Zebbie Matthews, they just don't
Speaker 1: want to give us any Zebbie Matthews, let's do. Let's
Speaker 1: do a few more questions and then we'll get to
Speaker 1: our bets and the home run board to see what
Speaker 1: they got. You guys are plowing in the questions today,
Speaker 1: Van Rod, Jacob Wilson or Sworez. I guess Johannio Sworrez
Speaker 1: so power or con tact.
Speaker 2: Probably Wilson. For me, I really like Jacob Wilson. If
Speaker 2: you really need a power, I don't mind going with Suarez,
Speaker 2: though I think it's kind of team dependent.
Speaker 1: This one kills me. When you ask who are you
Speaker 1: most worried about? Then we mentioned half of someone's fantasy staff. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I know how that feels. Speaking of staff with the
Speaker 1: k upside thoughts on Dolander rest of season. I think
Speaker 1: I've been pretty transparent. I told you guys before he
Speaker 1: was called up. I know he's a Colorado Rockies pitcher,
Speaker 1: but I think his stuff and his talent is there.
Speaker 1: I think tonight is going to be a little bit
Speaker 1: of a nice challenge for him, but I think the
Speaker 1: k upside is going to be six to seven strikeouts
Speaker 1: per night. I think he can maintain lower eras. I
Speaker 1: think he is actually a Colorado Rockies pitcher to hold
Speaker 1: on to. But you know, you gotta be careful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of want to see a little bit
Speaker 2: more first, but I don't have any problem with that either.
Speaker 1: Well, Junior finish as a top three third baseman this year,
Speaker 1: so Ramirez would be one. Then he would have to
Speaker 1: and you got Dever's, Riley Machado at least, and then
Speaker 1: and then Jazz also. I think it'd be pretty tough.
Speaker 2: It would be pretty hard. Yeah, right now, where does
Speaker 2: he come in right now?
Speaker 1: Like, you can't have him above Machado and Riley right now,
Speaker 1: so he's already not I don't know if he's going
Speaker 1: to those guys and you still have Jazz endeavors who
Speaker 1: could pop back up. So I don't think so.
Speaker 2: To date, he is the third third basement if you're
Speaker 2: looking at the player raiders. But he's ahead of Riley,
Speaker 2: he's ahead of Jazz, he's ahead of Jose Ramirez. Right now,
Speaker 2: it doesn't seem likely to sustain. Do you think he'll
Speaker 2: be better than Bregmant the rest of season?
Speaker 1: Well, that's a good question. I'm going to still say
Speaker 1: no because I'm pretty I'm pretty big on Bregman right
Speaker 1: now in that ballpark, and it's still early, but maybe
Speaker 1: the possibilities are out there. Third base is pretty robust.
Speaker 1: Everybody but Viento's so unfortunately, everybody but Ventto's has been
Speaker 1: like really good, feel bad for that Ian happ or
Speaker 1: Tyler O'Neal.
Speaker 2: Probably Ian Half. He's just so consistent every year he
Speaker 2: never gets the do he's earned. And Tyler O'Neal, we
Speaker 2: know he's going to miss some time at some point,
Speaker 2: that's true.
Speaker 1: How long un till Bubba is up? I would say
Speaker 1: the clock ticks next week as a possibility, it might
Speaker 1: be a week after. I think they might. I think
Speaker 1: the pitch count is about where we need to get it.
Speaker 1: After this start, and then I think it could be
Speaker 1: any time after that. So I think the clock starts
Speaker 1: to tick if you want to stash maybe into this weekend.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I don't fully know WrestleMania or baseball.
Speaker 1: This weekend baseball always, yeah, I don't. I don't know
Speaker 1: enough about Joe would have said WrestleMania. We should asked
Speaker 1: him about that, but Mayor would hated that segment. But
Speaker 1: I don't know enough about wrestle I don't know anyone
Speaker 1: that's wrestling. I don't know. Is I think John Cena,
Speaker 1: is he in it?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not Is Joe still around.
Speaker 1: He might still be in my house, he might be
Speaker 1: causing chaos, but he's not in here anymore. So I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: So I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about it is baseball for us.
Speaker 1: It is all baseball. You do your WrestleMania with Joe
Speaker 1: piece of p I think there's a cool betting video
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Speaker 1: go and check that out. A little side plug there,
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Speaker 1: We earned it back because I had a nice two
Speaker 1: and o day. Joe, I think you were one and two,
Speaker 1: but you were really good the day before. We were
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Speaker 1: You bet under four and a half and we hit
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Speaker 1: what do you got for today? You've been just killing
Speaker 1: the player props. You've been loving that. So what's on
Speaker 1: your player prop card for today?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I tend to go more heavy on the player
Speaker 2: props and I got to shout out the Betting Pros
Speaker 2: prop bet cheat sheet, which you guys can check out.
Speaker 2: You can sort by different filters, different odds and everything.
Speaker 2: It lays everything out for the day. You get the
Speaker 2: nice graphic on the screen here if you want to
Speaker 2: bet total bases hits Home runs whatever it is you
Speaker 2: can find, not what's the best value on the day
Speaker 2: and shoe heeyo. Tani at plus money for bases is
Speaker 2: pretty much an auto for me. I don't really get it.
Speaker 2: It's up against Jacob de Gram, and I was the
Speaker 2: biggest Jacob de Gram fan probably in the world coming
Speaker 2: into the season. But I'll be the first to tell
Speaker 2: you that he has really not looked great so far.
Speaker 2: I think he will turn it around. But getting plus
Speaker 2: money on two bags for Otani feels like a safe
Speaker 2: bet to make. Josh Naylor He's been absolutely on fire
Speaker 2: Welsh and getting him at the same number plus one
Speaker 2: and a half or excuse me, plus one oh five
Speaker 2: for one and a half total bases also feels pretty good.
Speaker 2: It's not a hard pitching matchup today with Colin Ray
Speaker 2: against him on the other side, so I'm gonna lean
Speaker 2: into the hot streak. He's Howard and I believe three
Speaker 2: consecutive games and love me a Canadian and Josh Naylor,
Speaker 2: so we're gonna take him there and then the last
Speaker 2: one Jackson job. I don't really dig the strikeouts. He
Speaker 2: just doesn't really rack up the numbers. It's usually two, three, four,
Speaker 2: somewhere in that range. He's going up against Kansas City today.
Speaker 2: They're a team that doesn't strike out a ton. I
Speaker 2: think last season they struck out less than any other team.
Speaker 2: This year they're about twenty one percent. And I think,
Speaker 2: you know, Joe may get to three, but I don't
Speaker 2: really see him going four or five strikeouts here. I'm
Speaker 2: just not really impressed with the strikeout ability so far
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, that's a that's a bold undertake there, the
Speaker 1: undertaker for Wrestlemandia.
Speaker 2: I like that me ericson.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm with I'm definitely with that. The Roads
Speaker 1: would be a tough team, and Job's strikeouts have been weird,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. There's also could be a Max
Speaker 1: Meyer one. But I like those bets in there. You
Speaker 1: know I was going to ask you just real quick,
Speaker 1: Jacob de Gram, Jacob de Grom's strikeouts are like five
Speaker 1: and a half. They're pretty low this week for a
Speaker 1: normal Jacob de Grom. There's no temptation if you think
Speaker 1: he's going to bounce back.
Speaker 2: Against the Dodgers. I didn't look at that line that
Speaker 2: what's the number you're getting plus.
Speaker 1: Five and a half. I think it's no, it's not
Speaker 1: plus money, but it's like five and a half. Last
Speaker 1: time I looked, it was like five and a half
Speaker 1: minus one ten. You know, pretty standard stuff. It's just
Speaker 1: the number is low. Like Cole Reagan's is like eight
Speaker 1: strikeouts today, So to go to six on to go
Speaker 1: to six on him as as a whole.
Speaker 2: Thing, Yeah, I think the Groom's going to bounce back, don't.
Speaker 2: I don't mind that number, but against the Dodgers, I
Speaker 2: kind of want to see him get right first, Like
Speaker 2: I am a little nervous. I heard something that Pollock
Speaker 2: was saying yesterday that he's locating his pitches really well
Speaker 2: and he's just kind of getting unlucky. So I'm hoping
Speaker 2: that that turns around today. But it's been rough. It's
Speaker 2: been very rough for mister de Gram.
Speaker 1: Now, I hear you. I am going with the strikeout
Speaker 1: prop today a big money play. The juice might be
Speaker 1: a little bit different right now, but JT. Gin four
Speaker 1: and a half strikeouts. He is going up against the
Speaker 1: Brewers today, who are a much higher strikeout team. Jtginn
Speaker 1: had like a fifteen k per nine in his minor
Speaker 1: league starts. He hit this number in his first start,
Speaker 1: and that was against a much tougher strikeout team. So
Speaker 1: I really like the potentials of this. Again, is pretty
Speaker 1: sneaky good stuff and you're getting massive plus money. So
Speaker 1: plus one thirty Washington first five money line back in
Speaker 1: McKenzie gore against the Rockies, Rockies against left handers, a
Speaker 1: little bit of run support as well. In favor of Washington,
Speaker 1: We're going just straight up first five money line. It's
Speaker 1: juiced up minus one forty. I don't want to play
Speaker 1: the run line on it. And then let's go Friday
Speaker 1: with a little bit of a hits parlay everybody. Let's
Speaker 1: have a little bit of fun. Three players to get
Speaker 1: one hit for the day. We got Corbyn Carrol, We've
Speaker 1: got Francisco Lindor and Austin Riley, all of them to
Speaker 1: register one hit. That bad boy is plus one twenty
Speaker 1: and funny, dude, the props on Corbyn Carrol, like total
Speaker 1: bases are two and a half, you can only do
Speaker 1: hits runs RBI at two and a half, he's been
Speaker 1: on base like crazy. I like him as our lynch Pin.
Speaker 1: I love Lindor's matchup Riley as well. So all these
Speaker 1: guys that get one hit. You're getting a little bit
Speaker 1: of plus money at one twenty. Those are my bets,
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Speaker 1: go look at the home run board. I did not
Speaker 1: get on the board yesterday, Arico. I don't think you
Speaker 1: did either. We're all still kind of holding the board.
Speaker 1: Looks pretty similar to this week. We're all struggling, Wonky
Speaker 1: and I are still there. Doctor Glenn has moved up,
Speaker 1: Razor Ramone has moved up back into fifth place far out,
Speaker 1: and Marty in the lead at twelve. So congratulations to
Speaker 1: you guys. I don't think Piece of Pia has any
Speaker 1: so all is still right in the world. I know
Speaker 1: a couple of people still talking about it, but my friends,
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Speaker 1: and your HOMERWN call?
Speaker 2: Going a little off the beaten path with Nathaniel Lowe
Speaker 2: in Colorado. I like what he's done so far this season.
Speaker 2: We've seen him hit three home runs. He's got a
Speaker 2: essentially a career high barrel rate. It was higher in
Speaker 2: the COVID season, but eleven point four percent this year,
Speaker 2: forty seven on the hard hit. Really, it's going up
Speaker 2: into Colorado against the young pitcher, and I like his
Speaker 2: chances to go yard today. A plus eight fifty if
Speaker 2: you're interested in the better market.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's a really I really like those odds.
Speaker 1: I'm going with Fernando. It's a little over two and
Speaker 1: a half. Bernando Tatis Junior going up against the Astros,
Speaker 1: but going up against I want to call this guy
Speaker 1: Rusty because Rusty Gusto would be the greatest name of
Speaker 1: all time. But it's not Rusty, it's Ryan Gusto U
Speaker 1: for the UH for the Astros. This is going to
Speaker 1: be in Houston. I really like that matchup. So I
Speaker 1: am going to go with Fernando Tatis for my home
Speaker 1: run call. Let's see we can do one or two more,
Speaker 1: then we're going to get out of there. Should I
Speaker 1: start res Musin today against Yankees?
Speaker 2: I would? I love them. I'm a big fan.
Speaker 1: I do too. The offense kind of worries worries all
Speaker 1: of us, I think, But I would Trenan or erseg.
Speaker 2: Oh Man probably Seg. It's we're talking saves plus holds
Speaker 2: the league. We're talking just saves, just saves. I don't
Speaker 2: think either one of them is dad valuable, but I
Speaker 2: think i'd go with there Seg.
Speaker 1: I think start just one job Boisneski or Shane Smith.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was an.
Speaker 2: Esky for me, wasn't esky for me as well? Yeah, Okay, there.
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Speaker 1: Catel front, got you some good fantasy info, and set
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Speaker 1: I can breathe a little bit more. Arica, you did
Speaker 1: a fantastic job as always. We love you. Brother. Errica
Speaker 1: is gonna be back for one show next week because
Speaker 1: I will be out for one. So for Joe Rico,
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