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Speaker 1: Pye's appear with me is the Welsh and of course
Speaker 1: it's you. It's been a fun weekend of baseball to
Speaker 1: talk about the Blue Jays. At some point stop scoring runs.
Speaker 1: I think against the Red Sox. I don't know for sure.
Speaker 1: It might still be going ja.
Speaker 2: There's rumors around the world that they're still scoring runs.
Speaker 2: As we speak at this moment, runs are still being
Speaker 2: scored on the Boston Red Sox. No one really knows.
Speaker 3: We just are told the tale we did.
Speaker 1: The legend of the Toronto Blue Jays offense continues to
Speaker 1: grow here and hopefully that's a team that offensively needs
Speaker 1: to get off to a good start. Lauris Guriel has
Speaker 1: been red hot too. I keep waiting for that shoe
Speaker 1: to drop. I keep saying he's a guy to trade
Speaker 1: high at this point because he just can't sustain it
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned. But it's good to see
Speaker 1: some life out of the Blue Jays offense. We're gonna
Speaker 1: see some life this week out of Jacob Degram hopefully
Speaker 1: as well. Lots to talk about. There was even the
Speaker 1: trade over the weekend too. Daniel Vogelbach goes to the
Speaker 1: Mets for a minor league reliever. Your thoughts on this
Speaker 1: from a fantasy perspective, what kind of impact and vogel
Speaker 1: Back have in this lineup? But it appears the Mets
Speaker 1: are also connected to Trey Mancini I saw today connected
Speaker 1: to Josh Bell. So lots of moving pieces there. What
Speaker 1: happens to Alonso then is first basement, does he like
Speaker 1: get more days in the dhpot you think?
Speaker 2: I think it just gives them a little bit more flexibility.
Speaker 2: I think one big thing is it signals the absolute
Speaker 2: end Dominic Smith. I know he's been down miners and
Speaker 2: there have been trade rumors with him. I think that
Speaker 2: was all but a signaling that he's gone. I can't
Speaker 2: tell if vogel if this is gonna be like a
Speaker 2: Vogelbach is locked in. This was their choice or this
Speaker 2: was just a really cheap addition if they can't make
Speaker 2: another move. I mean, from a fantasy perspective, here's one
Speaker 2: of the positive vog Bak is seen a lot of
Speaker 2: pitches this year.
Speaker 3: He can come out of the leadoff spot.
Speaker 2: He was in the Pirates leadoff spot, and he's gonna
Speaker 2: make a lot of contact. I don't have really really
Speaker 2: high hopes unless I was in a deep league, But
Speaker 2: I just think it provides a little bit more flexibility
Speaker 2: throw a linzo over a DH even more so, they're
Speaker 2: comfortable if they want to screw around or they want
Speaker 2: to throw him near the top of the lineup. That's
Speaker 2: where things get interesting. You know, maybe total base props,
Speaker 2: maybe you're just trying to chase some runs. But outside
Speaker 2: of that, I mean, he's relatively minimal fantasy value.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the fact that Dom Smith's probably the odd
Speaker 1: man out now in keeper leagues and dynasty leagues and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Welsh, I mean to me, Don Smith
Speaker 1: was never a prototypical first base slugging kind of guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought he was an odd draft pick
Speaker 1: at the time. I didn't love it, But look, you know,
Speaker 1: he's been a guy that's shown you he could hit
Speaker 1: for some high average. Do you have any hope for
Speaker 1: him getting an everyday job somewhere else potentially? Do you
Speaker 1: see him as a buy cheap I don't want to
Speaker 1: say buy low, but a buy on the cheap and
Speaker 1: somebody could be useful. Or is this a guy that
Speaker 1: the organization's moving on because they're telling you he's not
Speaker 1: really a full major league every day player.
Speaker 3: I kind of think it might be the latter right
Speaker 3: there too. It reminds me of the Clint Fraser situation,
Speaker 3: remember where.
Speaker 2: It was like, man, Clint Fraser could just get going
Speaker 2: if you could just get this spot and we could
Speaker 2: see the bat speed Da da da, And then he
Speaker 2: did and it didn't work, and we always kept wondering, like,
Speaker 2: why isn't Clint Fraser off this team?
Speaker 3: The ink he's really holding so high?
Speaker 2: And then it were I kind of see it as
Speaker 2: a similar situation that's gonna end up happening. If he were,
Speaker 2: you know, such a talent that everybody thinks they can fix,
Speaker 2: why would they have not made a trade.
Speaker 3: You got to imagine the Mets are just dying to move
Speaker 3: off of him. There's no home.
Speaker 2: And also you want to do right by the player sometime.
Speaker 2: So I think I would like it to more Clint
Speaker 2: Fraser than it is hidden talent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you could tell Mike Mayer's back in the
Speaker 1: check because He's already saying, I look jaundiced in my
Speaker 1: new lighting. This is just me. I am very swarthy
Speaker 1: and dark on the YouTube channel in the summertime I
Speaker 1: step outside, I get tam. It's just my complexion.
Speaker 3: I do have a request about it. This is a
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Speaker 1: Uh. Hey go, let's get this some more headlines, everybody.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah uh. Petere Alonzo powers the Mets past the
Speaker 1: Padres efter two anemic offensive nights for them. Ruiz reaches
Speaker 1: base four times for the Nats as they top all
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks. He had a Nolas Garcia had four hits,
Speaker 1: a home run in his stone base, and a victory
Speaker 1: over the A's. This was a player I talked about
Speaker 1: last week. Is interesting by low I know the TV show.
Speaker 1: I do, because this is a streaky player and he
Speaker 1: had gone I think at one point he had a
Speaker 1: stretch where he'sit in a buck eleven over ten games,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, that's a perfect time to make
Speaker 1: a trade for Garcia because you know eventually he's gonna
Speaker 1: have the turnaround. And here we go, he's the turnaround.
Speaker 1: And you know, whenever you see schedules looking for the
Speaker 1: West too, where they're gonna beat up on teams like
Speaker 1: the A's uh, it's you know, you go ahead and
Speaker 1: you start to invest in those teams. You had Robbie
Speaker 1: Ray hit hard against the Astros and they get swept.
Speaker 1: So the Mariners riding high fourteen game win streak. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Astros, Welcome to the big League. So now
Speaker 1: you've got a real team you got to play against.
Speaker 1: They've got a four game set coming up later this week,
Speaker 1: and none of those matchups favor them. In fact, it's
Speaker 1: Verlinder versus Ray. I think in that one where you
Speaker 1: thought they might have a shot. Look, the Mariners also
Speaker 1: deal with injuries. You had Winker go down with an injury,
Speaker 1: you had somebody else was injured. Two for them. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to remember what it was. Hurt and Hanniger supposed
Speaker 1: to be coming back soon. He just started with the wrist.
Speaker 1: But is this was did we see the end of
Speaker 1: the Mariners run?
Speaker 3: No? No, no, no, I don't think we can do that.
Speaker 2: I mean, there were some players early on that played
Speaker 2: a little bit above, but.
Speaker 3: You know you know you.
Speaker 2: Have a hurt Winker, you have a hurt Julio. Those
Speaker 2: are not great pieces. Hanniger is going to come back
Speaker 2: to power the offense.
Speaker 3: But I mean, it's just.
Speaker 2: Repeating from what we've said a whole lot. Like I
Speaker 2: think this team needs to make a crazy impactful trade.
Speaker 2: I know, obviously they thrown in the soda stuff. Get
Speaker 2: a new table setter, get someone I'd like to see
Speaker 2: someone at the top of the lineup. I'd love to
Speaker 2: see like ty France hitting two with somebody that just
Speaker 2: really gets going on a leadoff spot. And then get
Speaker 2: one more impactful pitcher because that pitching is just robby.
Speaker 2: You don't know what Robbie Ray you're gonna get at
Speaker 2: all times. You've got young guys. Yeah, it's not it's
Speaker 2: not built for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: It's built for like go for the regular season, Welsh.
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest with Magical Dream, Like, oh look
Speaker 2: at how fun is this team. It's like Moneyball, Like
Speaker 2: we write a movie about it. Like if they were
Speaker 2: to do anything, it's with this cast But I don't
Speaker 2: think they're going to do anything with this crew. So
Speaker 2: I really really believe that they should be just hyper
Speaker 2: hyper aggressive on you.
Speaker 1: Don't know where they go though. I don't think they're
Speaker 1: going to go back to the Reds because they already
Speaker 1: made their deal with the Reds. I'd be very surprised
Speaker 1: if they went back to that well again, like even
Speaker 1: maybe for a tier Molly. But they're not gonna get Castillo.
Speaker 1: But it's it's kind of an when they get I mean,
Speaker 1: who you get, is that the Kellenick deal?
Speaker 2: I mean, legit, the team should give a consideration. Well,
Speaker 2: you don't have to trade both of those guys they
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: For Castillo, I think you might. I mean, Kent is
Speaker 1: far from a sure thing maybe.
Speaker 2: But you've got some they've got other pieces that You've
Speaker 2: also got a guy like Brash, which I feel like
Speaker 2: the Reds would just.
Speaker 1: Or Martin, noelve Marte if you really.
Speaker 3: Wanted to go that high.
Speaker 2: I think they would need to get like a bat
Speaker 2: back if they wanted to trade Marte and Kelnick. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's a huge, massive trade you'd have to get. It's
Speaker 2: a trade that fantasy people will be like, what but
Speaker 2: real life they'd be like, well you're getting a controllable
Speaker 2: young you get.
Speaker 1: Drury back too. He would be a useful piece you
Speaker 1: could move all over the place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and Mantes is still out there as well.
Speaker 2: You have to think that could be in consideration.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just don't think you want to give up
Speaker 1: the trade for a guy who, uh, you know, shoulder issues.
Speaker 3: So that's a good point.
Speaker 2: It's a really really good I mean, Luis Castillo is
Speaker 2: like the bell of the ball.
Speaker 3: I think at this point he's the.
Speaker 1: Bell of the ball. Well, you were bell with the
Speaker 1: ball the home run contest this week and taking Paul
Speaker 1: Goldschmidt two yesterday. What you had four over the week,
Speaker 1: I mean something absurd, right, you were.
Speaker 2: Just on fire, well very far away, as I said,
Speaker 2: we'll talk about it is a big ut you go
Speaker 2: for a weekend's It was a huge jump, but it
Speaker 2: was like twenty percent of my total and I was like,
Speaker 2: oh god, I'm so far away. I need a huge push.
Speaker 2: I need a couple more of these, like three or
Speaker 2: four day spans with four homers. I'm I'm not quite
Speaker 2: at the board, but we're getting there. And Goldie did
Speaker 2: me well let's sniffing four bombs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sniffing the board. All right, let's move on to
Speaker 1: some more news here on the injury front. Stephen Mattz
Speaker 1: diagnosed with the torn MCL and left knee. It was
Speaker 1: a weird play at first base and you could see
Speaker 1: it go and it was just like, yep, there we go,
Speaker 1: there we have it, and that's an injury. I think
Speaker 1: you know what it's up for the Cardinals right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Cardinals are kind of up against it
Speaker 1: as Gray's gold Schmith's been and you're not gonna have
Speaker 1: goldschmin or Arnatdo going against Toronto this week. So make
Speaker 1: sure you're setting your lineups appropriately there. In fantasy, I
Speaker 1: will say this, the Cardinals kind of have to make
Speaker 1: a move here. They are still in striking distance of
Speaker 1: that division Welsh. But more to the point, in this
Speaker 1: wild card you want to stay afloat here. I think
Speaker 1: they have a really good chance of making the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But you know the MAT's injury, not that he is
Speaker 1: the biggest, most important one, but you're talking about innings now,
Speaker 1: so you know the guy who's like gone from the innings, well,
Speaker 1: I think that hurts them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think they're they're probably going to be
Speaker 2: in the cheaper market. Like we keep going back to
Speaker 2: where like every time we're talking about teams acquiring, we're like, hey,
Speaker 2: cause to you La Montas, But they're a team that
Speaker 2: would probably be going really cheat Merril Kelly massive Bumgarner
Speaker 2: has been put out there in the Diamondbacks. I think
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to Probably they're gonna dig down that hole.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna as much as we they need somebody,
Speaker 2: it's not going to be someone I think.
Speaker 3: That we're like, oh my gosh, breaking news.
Speaker 2: It'll just be like, oh, the Cardinals might be able
Speaker 2: to fix this type of guy.
Speaker 1: Frey Peralta had his uh struck out three eyes in
Speaker 1: Triple A on Sunday, So he is working his way back.
Speaker 1: If for some reason he was dropped in your league,
Speaker 1: please go pick him up. I mean it's possible sometimes
Speaker 1: rosters get squeezed, especial when you have limited il spots.
Speaker 1: With the way baseball is well also floating out there,
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 2: Kind of a like this could be way longer than
Speaker 2: you think. Like this I think was the lost case scenario.
Speaker 3: I think as a.
Speaker 1: Brave Peralta roster or roster r it was pretty long.
Speaker 1: It's good.
Speaker 2: It was a long time, yeah, and tout I had
Speaker 2: I have to grow them in Peralta. It's not good,
Speaker 2: but I think I'm coming off of two straight wins
Speaker 2: and I have no chance to win it. But I
Speaker 2: am making a nice little comeback here and hopefully both
Speaker 2: of those guys are gonna help me.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And also speaking of injuries too, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: jas Chishmow for a while too, which hurts already a
Speaker 1: bad offense in Miami. I mean, Miami went thirty four
Speaker 1: innings without scoring a run, and you know losing gestchism
Speaker 1: is not going to help.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Jesse Winker left his game with the right ankle's brain,
Speaker 1: so we'll keep an eye on that. Adam Duval season
Speaker 1: ending risk surgery for him, So the Braves lose a
Speaker 1: bat there. They're one of the deeper offenses they can
Speaker 1: afford to lose him. And Harris has played so well
Speaker 1: in the outfield too, so they have some depth there obviously.
Speaker 1: But to me, it's all about just getting Ozzie Albi's
Speaker 1: back healthy too, and the Braves offense is gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: Deval is not a huge injury there in that sense,
Speaker 1: but it is something from a depth standpoint, I could
Speaker 1: see them adding another outfielder at some point in time
Speaker 1: over the next two weeks. For Alvarez returns from the
Speaker 1: IL but sits on Sunday still got lingering soreness in
Speaker 1: the right hand. Does this concern you for the second
Speaker 1: half year with Alvarez in terms of his fantasy productivity
Speaker 1: A little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I would say anytime you're dealing with any type of
Speaker 2: injury with him, especially hand injuries, and he's zapping of power,
Speaker 2: is something you want to look for.
Speaker 3: He's not quite on.
Speaker 2: The injury prone tag, but it's something to monitor. I
Speaker 2: don't know if there's much to do with it. If
Speaker 2: you're really really fearful of injuries and zapping of power,
Speaker 2: he's been playing at a premium, you could always look
Speaker 2: to consolidate. I'm not sure I would recommend that at
Speaker 2: that point. That might be a little bit over reactionary.
Speaker 2: The only other thing I want to add before we
Speaker 2: jump on, because this wasn't on here, because I think
Speaker 2: this is important. Bernando Tatis said he took on field
Speaker 2: batting practice over the weekend, and he had said that
Speaker 2: he's expecting to face live hitters this week and potentially
Speaker 2: start a rehab assignment next week. So the first week
Speaker 2: in August would be starting a rehab assignment to.
Speaker 3: Whatever degree that could be.
Speaker 2: You could be looking at Tatis back second to middle
Speaker 2: half of.
Speaker 3: August, which would be huge, huge, huge.
Speaker 2: But there's another injury person you worry about, and their
Speaker 2: value is jumping up right now because Tatis is he's healthy,
Speaker 2: he's working, you know, healthy, he's working to be healthy.
Speaker 2: He's going to be doing rehab assignment, so his value
Speaker 2: is rocketing back up. Let me ask you, Joe, would
Speaker 2: you rather have rest of season Brinando Tatis Junior or
Speaker 2: Jordan Alvarez?
Speaker 1: Uh? Still Alvarez for me, because I also am not.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, it's a good question because when you
Speaker 1: deal with hand injuries here, you never know what's going
Speaker 1: to happen. But to me, I think what we're seeing
Speaker 1: here with Alvarez is more management. They're running away with
Speaker 1: that division. There's no reason to push Alvarez if he's
Speaker 1: having any soreness or anything like that. So I would
Speaker 1: still take Alvarez as opposed to the guy who was
Speaker 1: out for a very long period time with an injury
Speaker 1: and not in timing. You know, it's like, even if
Speaker 1: Tatis is healthy, where's the timing at We don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe he jumps back in there boom when he's good
Speaker 1: to go, maybe he doesn't. Maybe it takes him a
Speaker 1: month or three weeks. And if so, it's already almost August.
Speaker 1: So I was still thinking, alvers, who would you take?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's part well, that's part of the
Speaker 2: question for the rehab, for the rehab assignment, but.
Speaker 1: The rehab in the world. You know, timing on major
Speaker 1: league pitching is not the same as you know.
Speaker 2: It's it's tough, you're not You're not wrong about that.
Speaker 2: I almost need to not answer it. I don't know,
Speaker 2: because it's tough because he can't ask.
Speaker 1: A question of be and then not give an answer.
Speaker 3: We move on to other topics.
Speaker 1: It just hars.
Speaker 2: When Tatis comes back, he will be close to one
Speaker 2: of the number one fantasy players. It's similar to like ronald'
Speaker 2: kunye missing that time comes back, Bam, you're one of
Speaker 2: the top guys in all of baseball. He's going to
Speaker 2: also be one of those guys. And it it's tough
Speaker 2: because I think you know from a power speed five
Speaker 2: tool perspective. He immediately starts to fill that role. But
Speaker 2: Jordan Alvas has been so dominant this year, and I
Speaker 2: don't know if we quite have any like any indication
Speaker 2: that you know, he really is going to be zapped
Speaker 2: of power or he's going to struggle with this risk
Speaker 2: injury or it's linger, any little linger.
Speaker 3: It's an easy Tatis. It might be a tatoos. Overall.
Speaker 2: I think I'll side on the not Welsh, like the
Speaker 2: one side of my brain's like the devil's side of
Speaker 2: my brain that's like the upside and the other one's
Speaker 2: like Welsh. Don't just do the right thing. And I'll
Speaker 2: do the right thing, which is safe. And Jordan Alvarez
Speaker 2: but a little devil, he's poking.
Speaker 1: A linger one of my favorite Cranberry's tunes as well.
Speaker 1: Just want to throw that out there. I'm such a
Speaker 1: fool for you. I am all right? Can we talk
Speaker 1: about this a little a little uproar one of our
Speaker 1: favorite potential second half breakout guys who needs it the
Speaker 1: worst way? Nick Cassianos had a little breakdown as it were. Report.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, the Sultan of Segue. So yeah, So the
Speaker 1: reporter asked him, yo, do you do you hear the booze?
Speaker 1: And he was basically said, that's a stupid question. And
Speaker 1: he's right. I mean, oftentimes I'm the guy who's like,
Speaker 1: just you know, shut up and answer the question. That's
Speaker 1: your job. You're getting paid hundreds of millions of or
Speaker 1: just answer the question. But you know what, he's right,
Speaker 1: is a dumb question. Of course he hears the booze.
Speaker 1: Of course he does. And after this all broke down,
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen it, run to the Twitter machine.
Speaker 3: Of watching it's it's uncomfortable. And reporter got a little
Speaker 3: pissy too, like.
Speaker 2: He kind of got yeah, he kind of like like,
Speaker 2: I know, he was kind of like a smaller dude,
Speaker 2: like it wasn't a good move and he kind of
Speaker 2: like got his finger out and moved forward. And then
Speaker 2: the guard is like, no, we're not doing this. But
Speaker 2: he did have a good point where he told Castillo
Speaker 2: he's like, you know, he's like, if it's you should
Speaker 2: be casios. I'm sorry, I can st see on my head.
Speaker 2: He asked cas like, you should still be able to
Speaker 2: answer a stupid question, and.
Speaker 1: You know what, how about ask a better question. I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy knows he's struggling. The guy obviously cares, and
Speaker 1: you ask him, does he hear the booze? It's Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: You can hear the booze when you cross the city line.
Speaker 3: It's a snarky reporter question, like a.
Speaker 1: Snarky reporter question in a town. And and this brings
Speaker 1: up a bigger point, and it's a fantasy point, it's
Speaker 1: a betting point. It's just a baseball point. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day. You have these cities like Saint Louis,
Speaker 1: where they cheer you no matter what, where they're always
Speaker 1: super positive, and you have cities like Philadelphia. By the way,
Speaker 1: the Phillies are possibly going to be the team that's
Speaker 1: the longest playoff drought, by the way, if they miss
Speaker 1: the playoffs this year, that's f fun fact. So does
Speaker 1: environment matter in terms of investibility when it comes to players,
Speaker 1: when it comes to fantasy, when it comes to wagering,
Speaker 1: when it comes to all of these things. Because Philadelphia
Speaker 1: is a negative place. I love it. I lived there
Speaker 1: for a while. It's a fun place. I still go there.
Speaker 1: Just took my kids there in the fall. We had
Speaker 1: a great on the spring, we had a great time.
Speaker 1: But think about it. I mean, is it is not
Speaker 1: the easiest place to play. It's not the easiest place
Speaker 1: in terms of the fan base or the media base.
Speaker 1: Do you think that that's something that you know, we
Speaker 1: see guys go there, that we should be just a
Speaker 1: little bit concerned or factor that into our evaluations of them.
Speaker 2: I don't know that would be a wild thing where
Speaker 2: it's like we've gone and we're like, all right, off.
Speaker 2: You know, any pictures in Colorado down, hitters in Colorado up.
Speaker 2: If we've started like putting the negative factor, this is
Speaker 2: be the negative zone in Philadelphia where players go and
Speaker 2: if they're not really super mentally tough, are they who's
Speaker 2: ever gone.
Speaker 1: To Saint Louis and then been bad? You know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Like think about it, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: like it's well, they do a really good job of
Speaker 1: targeting players. But typically speaking, I'm not even mean the
Speaker 1: homegrown guys. I'm talking about the guys who get traded
Speaker 1: there or signed there. You know, most part it's Gangbusters, man,
Speaker 1: and everyone's like, boy, they're geniuses. They're geniuses. But it's
Speaker 1: also wonderful environment.
Speaker 3: It's I think it's a happy place. You think it's
Speaker 3: it's very happy.
Speaker 1: From a baseball line. You go, oh for four four
Speaker 1: k's or like, get them next time, kid, you go
Speaker 1: for four four k's in Philadelphia, they're throwing batteries at
Speaker 1: you and they're It's just it's true. It's interesting. It
Speaker 1: was a dumb question, by the way to the reporter was.
Speaker 2: Super snarky, and he was like a hyper aggressive and
Speaker 2: if I were like in a mode and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: and again he was coming at me like that, I
Speaker 2: would just be like I would have been.
Speaker 3: I mean, I probably would have been a little bit
Speaker 3: more than you know what.
Speaker 2: I'm actually gonna have tip Cassie once for not like
Speaker 2: escalating it further because I thought the reporter was was
Speaker 2: a he got hot after he was doing he got
Speaker 2: really hot and the security guard literally like pushed him. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's and it's just like these dudes are there's a
Speaker 2: lot of did ask a dumb question?
Speaker 1: With a Mike Mayer question? Hey, hey, Nick? To hear
Speaker 1: the booze? I mean the question is when you hear
Speaker 1: the booze as a professional, are you able to block
Speaker 1: that out or or is this is the stress of
Speaker 1: you know, situation leading over Like ask the question that way,
Speaker 1: do you hear the booze? Is a dumb question.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of death.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like how does it affect you when your hometown
Speaker 2: teen is turning against you?
Speaker 3: In that respect? There's a lot of different.
Speaker 1: Clown question bro which once again Philadelphia. If you're a call,
Speaker 1: that's Bryce Harper and you know, like Washington years right,
Speaker 1: Remember I was like, you know there's certain places.
Speaker 2: That Washington No, No, I know he was in Washington,
Speaker 2: But was it a Washington reporter that asked him?
Speaker 1: I can only assume it was. I can only assume
Speaker 1: it was local beat reporter that asked But if it
Speaker 1: was a Philly reporter, that'd be amazing. But like certain
Speaker 1: places where you know, you get media who really pushes things,
Speaker 1: and I like when players call it out. And I
Speaker 1: also like when players just answered tough questions people ask him.
Speaker 1: Speaking of tough questions, Victor Roblasse had his way with
Speaker 1: Madison Bumgarner and Basi Munggarner called on the clown and
Speaker 1: then Victor ro Blass wore a red nose this weekend,
Speaker 1: which I thought was super fun fun facts. I know
Speaker 1: Welsh loves the fun stats and the fun facts. When
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays exploded for two thy eight hundred runs
Speaker 1: on Friday night. They scored twenty eight runs on the road,
Speaker 1: hit it inside the park, grand slam, hit for the
Speaker 1: home run cycle. So there was a solo, a two run,
Speaker 1: three run, and of course the grand Slam, which by
Speaker 1: the way, inside the park, grand side with Rodmiltapia with
Speaker 1: it was Duran right in the outfield who missed the ball,
Speaker 1: lost it in the in the twilight or whatever, but
Speaker 1: then he didn't run after it, which drove me crazy.
Speaker 1: Plus it had a player with six hits and nine
Speaker 1: inning game. That's the first time that's all occurred ever
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball. But more to the point, watching
Speaker 1: that game as a Red Sox fan, I can't imagine
Speaker 1: you're happy with the effort level at times, and I
Speaker 1: understand Chrisale got hurt. I am selling the Red Sox
Speaker 1: rest of season. I think the Red Sox are indeed
Speaker 1: going to be sellers. I think JD. Martinez is going
Speaker 1: to be on the move. I would not be shocked
Speaker 1: if Xander Bogart was on the move. I think they
Speaker 1: wave for Chrissale. They got Chrisale. They don't have Chrisale now.
Speaker 1: I think it's all the way down the effort level.
Speaker 1: When you miss a ball like that and you don't
Speaker 1: even make a move after it, that tells you everything
Speaker 1: going on with that team. I don't care. That's a
Speaker 1: professional moment and it's unprofessional.
Speaker 3: By the way, did you even you weren't looking at
Speaker 3: the screen? Did you see my nose?
Speaker 1: Oh? Oh, very nice. I wasn't looking at this.
Speaker 3: Great I have that.
Speaker 1: That's tremendous. You're a clown, bro.
Speaker 3: I'm a clown bro.
Speaker 2: Does someone actually text me the Duran stuff? Because I've
Speaker 2: been I've just been kind of critical of him that
Speaker 2: in prior minor League years and stuff like that with
Speaker 2: uh just the little baby ankles and some of the
Speaker 2: effort stuff that was out there, and I thought he's
Speaker 2: done a whole lot better this year. But then someone
Speaker 2: was like, yo, you have to look at this, and
Speaker 2: I watched that video and I was like, that's amazing.
Speaker 2: Not only did you know he think that was Homer,
Speaker 2: but they just stood there and he just let the
Speaker 2: I mean, does do something like maybe they can't? I mean,
Speaker 2: I see uh Mayor and there maybe talking about the
Speaker 2: camerangle that made it look really bad because Verdugo.
Speaker 3: Was coming in. But it does seem kind of like
Speaker 3: systematic across.
Speaker 1: It's bad. It didn't move, you know, when it's out
Speaker 1: and the guy's running at least like trow like you care,
Speaker 1: like there's an effort either.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. Even if you're faking it, just
Speaker 3: be like, oh, I'm gonna get it. Oh you got it.
Speaker 1: Dane and somebody else brought up in the chat to
Speaker 1: going back to the Philly thing. Alec Bowm earlier in
Speaker 1: the year too, we talked about that, like how the
Speaker 1: crowds on it. You know, it's.
Speaker 3: Phillies are Red Sox.
Speaker 1: Oh, good question, Phillies Phillies because there's more than the
Speaker 1: Red Sox. Wow, well there's less talent there. I think
Speaker 1: maybe not on the pitching side, but in the bullpen
Speaker 1: they're not good. When no Bryce Harper, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: Radfield ever is another one. He gets hurt, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's like, I don't know, man, I think the
Speaker 1: Red Sox are in for a rude awakening. This day
Speaker 1: in baseball history was not interesting, So yesterday was. Yesterday
Speaker 1: was the famous George Brett hind Tar game, which, again,
Speaker 1: if you didn't grow up in the eighties. It's too
Speaker 1: bad that that was not happening now because the amount
Speaker 1: of gifts and memes off of George Brett sprinting out
Speaker 1: of the dugout to try to kill an umpire practically
Speaker 1: or Billy Martin or whoever is one of the all
Speaker 1: time great moments in baseball. Super fun, super amazing. I
Speaker 1: love George Brett, miss him dearly. Here's trivia for you, though,
Speaker 1: question is who are the five players who record at
Speaker 1: least four thousand total bases with the Red Sox? So
Speaker 1: there you know, if you have an answer, who's got
Speaker 1: four thousand total bases with the Red Sox? If you
Speaker 1: have an anertes one, it was the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: So David Ortiz, yes, was one of those guys. He
Speaker 1: is the lowest on the trough. I think it's pretty
Speaker 1: easy to get two of them. So who are the
Speaker 1: other two?
Speaker 3: I think Manny question is he on that list?
Speaker 1: It is not Manny Ramirors because so much of his
Speaker 1: damage did come in the Cleveland Day.
Speaker 2: It's okay, yeah, yeah, well, and that it took me
Speaker 2: off of saying like no, I'm just going like big
Speaker 2: guys like no, mar would probably be go Card's.
Speaker 1: Got one of them, right. It is Yastremsky is one
Speaker 1: of the names.
Speaker 3: Yes, this makes a lot of we got and David Ortiz.
Speaker 1: Ted Williams obviously the other one. So okay, solid picks
Speaker 1: got that one there.
Speaker 3: Uh oh, Wade Bogs is that it is not Wade No, No,
Speaker 3: his raised days. There are a lot of raise days.
Speaker 1: Not even the raise days. But you know you got
Speaker 1: to hit a lot of home runs for the total
Speaker 1: basis too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people forgets we're missing one. So let's face it out, guys.
Speaker 1: You're missing one. Who is it? No, it is not
Speaker 1: Wade Bogs, It is not not no ma, it is
Speaker 1: not uh movon, it's none of those guys. But we'll
Speaker 1: hit some uh deep dive here in the meantime. So
Speaker 1: this was somebody did a deep dive over on fangrafts
Speaker 1: of players at the same age as Wan Soto and
Speaker 1: the the w RC plus of Wan Soto compared to
Speaker 1: other players. I just want to rattle off the names
Speaker 1: of the players ahead of one Soda at this juncture.
Speaker 1: So Wan Soda is ninth, eighth is Jimmy Fox double X,
Speaker 1: Mickey Mannal at seven, Albert Pools at six, Mike Trout
Speaker 1: to five, Tayka before stand musual three, Joe Jackson too two,
Speaker 1: Ted Williams at one, the players behind one so to
Speaker 1: Eddie Matthews. So what do these all have a common
Speaker 1: all hall in the Hall of Fame except for Joe Jackson,
Speaker 1: which obviously don't that story.
Speaker 3: I don't not say number eleven.
Speaker 1: Though, and number one. I was getting to that number
Speaker 1: eleven Fernando Tatists Junior, which I thought was fascinating. Could
Speaker 1: you imagine if the Padres did pull this off and
Speaker 1: gotten the two of those guys together.
Speaker 2: That would be the one that actually, in my mind,
Speaker 2: that might be the wildest, most anti climactic of just
Speaker 2: like if it was one for one, there's like I
Speaker 2: was just gonna swap these guys. They could be fun
Speaker 2: that they changed jerseys, but it'd be like, oh, we
Speaker 2: don't have five or six players changing over, we didn't
Speaker 2: have the the It would be like a true like
Speaker 2: fantasy one for one. If they made that move, it'll
Speaker 2: never happen. I would say it's the least likely thing
Speaker 2: of anything. I think the Cardinals would be more likely
Speaker 2: to acquire soda than Tatis being traded for him, but
Speaker 2: you know he's hurt. Only my point when I bring
Speaker 2: up the Tatis Jordan's stuff, don't forget.
Speaker 3: How good Tatis is. We've been missing him for some time.
Speaker 1: We forget. We do forget sometimes because get frustrated with
Speaker 1: the injuries. So the five players for the Red Sox,
Speaker 1: Stromsky was one Ted Williams. By the way, Stromsky has
Speaker 1: more total bases than Ted Williams, only because Ted Williams,
Speaker 1: you know, missed four years I think total between two
Speaker 1: wars he served in. Uh, but still pretty stunning of
Speaker 1: how great Ustremsky was five thousand total bases, fifty five
Speaker 1: hundred actually and change, Ted Williams at forty eight hundred
Speaker 1: and change. Uh, David Ortiz was at forty eighty four.
Speaker 1: In between. One of the names here somebody did get right, Uh,
Speaker 1: just to bring this up here in a moment, it
Speaker 1: was Dwight Evans was one of them. Because the Resiges
Speaker 1: that got it. Do we have the last one underrated player? Well,
Speaker 1: there's one more. There's one more, because there's five we got.
Speaker 2: We got them, We got Ted Williams, we got Yustremsky,
Speaker 2: David Ortiz.
Speaker 1: Stremsky Williams or white Evans.
Speaker 3: There's one more white Evan. Okay, it's not Jim Rice.
Speaker 1: I thought we have it is Jim Rice. It is
Speaker 1: Jim Rice. So there you go. There you go.
Speaker 2: Comment though, mister red Sox got it right under just
Speaker 2: Bob's I love this YouTube comment from Chame Bloom says,
Speaker 2: is it Alex Ferdugo He's a fantastic.
Speaker 1: Heims heim Bloom hem Bloom. I believe, yes. Nice to see.
Speaker 1: It's nice to see a celebrity in the chat today.
Speaker 1: Hein Bloom there in the chat clearly has nothing better
Speaker 1: to do. Here's some stat heroes over the weekend. Brady
Speaker 1: Singer six innings, twelve strikeouts from brity singer Chris Bassett
Speaker 1: at eleven strikeouts and no decision. He bitched great, did
Speaker 1: not get at w when you know it' zany al
Speaker 1: Contra other ten strikeouts to earned run. I mean, unbelievable trick.
Speaker 1: Scoobel bounced back. That was very important. A lot of
Speaker 1: people have lost faith. You shouldn't. Sometimes guys just have
Speaker 1: bad stretches. School has been great. Some other guy named
Speaker 1: justin Verland has been great too. Are just gonna feel
Speaker 1: so good when he wins that Cy Young Welsh other
Speaker 1: nine K's seven innings for him, Paul gold Schmid four
Speaker 1: dingers over the weekend, Aaron Judge eight for thirteen, three homers,
Speaker 1: Hunter renfro boyle Boy big weekend for him, three dingers.
Speaker 1: We had Jose al Tuove with six or fourteen with
Speaker 1: two homers, Menez finally our boy Alloy two homers for him,
Speaker 1: and Romul Tapia ten ribies on the weekend. Not too shabby,
Speaker 1: of course, the zero's Paul Blackburn at the very top
Speaker 1: ten earned runs. He has nine and a half e
Speaker 1: RA through the last twenty innings. So there you go,
Speaker 1: Mike Mayor, loving life. Look, Oh, I said, well this
Speaker 1: is the guy to pick up. I never said these
Speaker 1: Cy Young, and we got our use out of him.
Speaker 1: And then you hopefully traded him high and we I
Speaker 1: even did a video where I said trade him high. So,
Speaker 1: Mike Mayor, just if you could.
Speaker 3: Trade him high? Yeah, I think we all would have
Speaker 3: agreed with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course you do. Nadie Valdi nine earned runs,
Speaker 1: Ian Anderson's seven in his start. Not good for Ian Anderson.
Speaker 1: Back to the old ways, Showy al Tani did strike
Speaker 1: out eleven but he gave up six earned. He had
Speaker 1: a bad uh. He had really good first five innings
Speaker 1: and I kind of fell apart. I think was in
Speaker 1: the six or seventh. Shane Bieber, bad star for him.
Speaker 1: Can't have that. If you're the India, you almost did it.
Speaker 1: The Guardians can't have that. I almost did it. I
Speaker 1: stopped myself. I started India Guardians. I did that and
Speaker 1: I haven't done that all year. I've been very good
Speaker 1: about the Guardians thing. But they need Bieber to be
Speaker 1: good in all of it starts if they're gonna stay here.
Speaker 1: Lucas Giolito batstar for him, six earn no bueyo. We
Speaker 1: mentioned Robbie Ray and Miles Michaelis six earned for him.
Speaker 1: Jeter downs over eleven eight k's, CJ. Cron two for
Speaker 1: thirteen seven k's. It has not been a good two
Speaker 1: months for CJ. Ryan McMahon also bad oh for ten
Speaker 1: six k's. When you face guys like you know, wood
Speaker 1: Drift and Burns, you tend to have bad weekends. And
Speaker 1: then Cassianos now betting two forty five with eight homers
Speaker 1: on the year one for thirteen stretch. But Welsh, there
Speaker 1: you go four homers for him, he's up to twenty
Speaker 1: three positive Grouch and Go cards both have four day
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Speaker 1: deal tonight, little tricky, weird slate. Not a lot of
Speaker 1: good pitching. I'd look for a lot of overs tonight.
Speaker 1: Max Freed with the k prop at sugar House at
Speaker 1: five and a half. I don't think the over against
Speaker 1: the Phillies, like the Phillies are scuffling right now. Jose
Speaker 1: Ramirez total base is one and a half, you're getting
Speaker 1: plus money Sugarhouse at one zero six on that one,
Speaker 1: and then Brandon Drury at a one and a half
Speaker 1: total bas is getting plus one to eighteen. He's been great,
Speaker 1: Welsh You're on Drury tonight as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was my number one to go into hitting
Speaker 2: three twenty six against lefties, and he has had hits
Speaker 2: in every game in July but five, So you know,
Speaker 2: whatever the math is on how many games he's played,
Speaker 2: you're probably over seventy five percent of hits in games.
Speaker 2: And I love the dominance against lefties. So three twenty
Speaker 2: six against lefties. Give me the total base over also
Speaker 2: gonna attack kind of the same thing, Freddy Freeman, total
Speaker 2: base hitting three four er against righty's a guy at
Speaker 2: the Spina tonight with Washington and all over Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 3: Those are two that I really like. I struggle with.
Speaker 2: The pitching props. I don't think I not a good slate,
Speaker 2: like a whole bunch. I probably have void k props,
Speaker 2: probably moved to more like first fives or lines.
Speaker 1: I'd need to go overs on earned runs tonight. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just it's gonna be invested offense tonight because it's
Speaker 1: not a good slate of pitchers. It really isn't. Max
Speaker 1: Freed on DK at ten to five I'd invest in,
Speaker 1: and then secondary arms. I'd look at Jacob Derezi at
Speaker 1: seven eight got good win potential, or Aaron Ashby at
Speaker 1: home seven to seven. Those that's it. That's it. I'm
Speaker 1: keeping it very simple. You get your Max Freed and
Speaker 1: then one Ashby lineup, one Oderezy lineup with Freed. I
Speaker 1: think Tony Gonsolin could be a trap tonight. I'd be
Speaker 1: very concerned about that ten point two salary. I'd rather
Speaker 1: have Max Freed and then on the single site you're
Speaker 1: gonna get on FanDuel you're gonna get Sean Manaya on
Speaker 1: that one. So I like him at nine to nine.
Speaker 1: He's the best value on the board. I'd look for Atlanta,
Speaker 1: I'd look for the Dodgers. I'd look for the Houston
Speaker 1: Astros tonight in terms of stacks, and I'm looking for
Speaker 1: Austin Riley to go yard tonight. That's my pick, mister Riley.
Speaker 1: Austin Riley and only Austin Riley. Your thoughts tonight, Well
Speaker 1: should you have in the home run call Coup.
Speaker 2: I've been an Austin Riley guy lately. I think you
Speaker 2: carried him over from last week.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Freddy Freeman, like I said, with
Speaker 2: my little basemarker, just hitting up righty so and it's
Speaker 2: a great writing to be hitting up.
Speaker 3: So give me Freddy Freeman on the home run call tonight, all.
Speaker 1: Right, who's got what's Mike Mayor got tonight.
Speaker 2: With Manny Machado. I almost went Manny Machado too. That
Speaker 2: was actually my first one. I decided to move away.
Speaker 2: So you and Mayor a kind of on the same
Speaker 2: mental path for homers today. But hopefully he does not
Speaker 2: get one and I can close the ground a little bit.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right tomorrow Welsh and Bogman, have
Speaker 1: you because I'm gonna be in New York with my
Speaker 1: kids going to the big WWE show tonight at Mass
Speaker 1: Square Garden of all the nights to be going to
Speaker 1: the garden nights of all the nights. Who knows what
Speaker 1: wild things? There's always crazy things that happened in the garden. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that is the triple H. I know, maybe we'll get
Speaker 1: Triple H coming out, possible edge return, lots of exciting things.
Speaker 1: Who knows.
Speaker 2: Maybe came out and was like, Vince, you're fired. That
Speaker 2: was great, great, like passing the torch moment.
Speaker 1: It would be not gonna happen, but you might get
Speaker 1: aged to come out. You never know. Fun things always
Speaker 1: happened at the garden. That is a great place to
Speaker 1: see a WW so we're excited about we're staying over.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make it back in time for the show,
Speaker 1: but that's okay because my boys, the from the IL
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