Speaker 1: Welcome in my friends the Peanuts and Cracker Jacks to
Speaker 1: leading off right here on fantasy pros. I am not.
Speaker 2: Joe Piece of Pia.
Speaker 1: Over there is not Chris Welsh. That's actually me. That's
Speaker 1: Ryan Wormley and Ryan we've got a little bit of
Speaker 1: an overlay problem today. I have the Joe Piece of
Speaker 1: Pa line and you've got the Chris Welsh line. So Ryan,
Speaker 1: I suggest you have bad takes on Dylan Ceese. You
Speaker 1: learn up on some prospects even more than you already know.
Speaker 1: You can't just talk Orioles and oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe get.
Speaker 2: A tiara or two. What should I do as Joe
Speaker 2: Piece of Pia?
Speaker 3: You should probably shave your head.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say it's a good thing that I'm
Speaker 4: not in the Joe Piece of pac because I have
Speaker 4: way too much hair as it is, even for my
Speaker 4: normal standards, let alone Joeyp's normal standards. And I think
Speaker 4: we were already gonna maybe lament about the Mets a
Speaker 4: little with the justin Verlander news, but I probably want
Speaker 4: to do that a little bit more than you're going
Speaker 4: to already.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Corbyn, Carroll just like say things about Corbyn
Speaker 1: Carroll and you'll be okay. But you know what, this
Speaker 1: is actually great because I don't have to hear anything
Speaker 1: about Dylan ces today because you're me, so you're can
Speaker 1: get all of it.
Speaker 2: So Ryan, what is the Twitter handle again?
Speaker 3: Is at Ryan Warmley.
Speaker 4: That's warmly like the name, like the word, not the
Speaker 4: name war m l y.
Speaker 1: All right, So all your diamond, all your diamondback and
Speaker 1: Welsh hate send it over there for the overlay issue.
Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to leading offroat to you by prize picks.
Speaker 1: No Joe piece of pa today because he's actually in
Speaker 1: my land. He is actually within the vicinity of me.
Speaker 1: I believe right now he is out here wandering the
Speaker 1: world and I will see him very shortly. But me
Speaker 1: and Ryan Wormley, we've got it lockdown for you today
Speaker 1: after what was an awesome opening day full of all
Speaker 1: of the stuff and things. And you mentioned this before
Speaker 1: we got on like we're not gonna always talk about
Speaker 1: like rule changes and stuff, but we saw some big
Speaker 1: changes overall. Number one being the pitch clock. Ryan average
Speaker 1: game time two hours forty two minutes. Ten out of
Speaker 1: the fifteen games were under three hours. That was down
Speaker 1: about a half an hour across the board. Pitchclock had
Speaker 1: three or four incidents. I think Marcus Stroma was like
Speaker 1: the number one. There wasn't anything absolutely insane like game
Speaker 1: time's down. I think overall fun up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was average about one violation per game.
Speaker 3: I think it ended up.
Speaker 4: I think it was fourteen violations on the day if
Speaker 4: I remember correctly, So it's not too intrusive. My biggest
Speaker 4: issue with the pitch clock, like just the idea of
Speaker 4: it and throughout screen training, was I hated seeing like
Speaker 4: games end on it, right, and those were the extreme examples.
Speaker 4: Of course, you don't expect that to happen certainly every
Speaker 4: game or anywhere close to it. Those are the ones
Speaker 4: where I take issue when it just speeds up the
Speaker 4: game like this. It's actually pretty nice. I am somebody
Speaker 4: who's a bit of a purist when it comes to
Speaker 4: baseball and the history and the rules, but this seems
Speaker 4: to be pretty effective, and it didn't seem to interfere
Speaker 4: with games as much as I had thought it might
Speaker 4: when I first heard about the rule change.
Speaker 3: So you're right.
Speaker 4: It was an awesome opening Day. Every opening days fun
Speaker 4: for its own reasons. This was a really fun day,
Speaker 4: and I think the pitch clock to a degree contributed
Speaker 4: to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think overall, like the changes in the rules,
Speaker 1: across the board only had positives. The other one stolen bases.
Speaker 1: Stolen bases were up. Our friend, our mutual friend, Alec Fast,
Speaker 1: he had this tweet highlighting and that on the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two opening day five stolen bases, four were caught
Speaker 1: with a fifty six percent success rate. Well, on opening
Speaker 1: day here we had twenty one stolen bases, only two
Speaker 1: caught a ninety one percent success rate. Your Orioles had
Speaker 1: five of those stolen bases. They accounted for roughly almost
Speaker 1: a quarter of all the stolen bases. But across the board,
Speaker 1: dudes were running and it's exactly what we expected. Early
Speaker 1: on in spring training the numbers were starting to increase.
Speaker 1: By the end we saw a full double stolen base
Speaker 1: attempts and stolen bases done from this year to the
Speaker 1: prior year. And that showed over in the very first game.
Speaker 1: We really might be on for multiple fifty plus stoes
Speaker 1: and base guys. We got to see how aggressive it
Speaker 1: is full term. But I was very excited about seeing
Speaker 1: all those stolen bases. I think it's great for the
Speaker 1: game overall and for fantasy, maybe a little bit easier
Speaker 1: for the rest of us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's super fun. And you mentioned the Orioles getting five.
Speaker 4: You know, it's hard to tell. Was that they were
Speaker 4: taking advantage of Reese maguire and Boston or It was
Speaker 4: also Jorge Mateo and Cedric Mullens who led the American
Speaker 4: League as a duo last year. So this is a
Speaker 4: team that was already willing to run with It's really fast, guys.
Speaker 4: I'm not surprised they ran even more this year, but yeah,
Speaker 4: they matched last year's opening day total. There were a
Speaker 4: fewer games last year, of course an opening Day, but still,
Speaker 4: that's kind of crazy to think about. And the success
Speaker 4: rate is what really stands out to me, not just
Speaker 4: a volume, because I think we all expected, just given
Speaker 4: all the rules changes, to see more attempts, but to
Speaker 4: see them actually being effective right off the bat. I
Speaker 4: think you will see more teams start to run more
Speaker 4: and more.
Speaker 3: We saw it early. I think we're gonna see it
Speaker 3: often throughout the year.
Speaker 4: And it makes it interesting because there have been so
Speaker 4: many years in the past recently where it's so difficult
Speaker 4: to find steals that they become at a premium and
Speaker 4: you're playing in roto leagues now, if they're become more
Speaker 4: readily available, it kind of changes how you have to
Speaker 4: approach that stat really going forward until these rules changes
Speaker 4: ever happen again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think it's gonna keep going.
Speaker 1: Like obviously the different game sizes and Opening Day last
Speaker 1: year this year, but I think that number still was
Speaker 1: up over like the full weekend of Opening Day weekend
Speaker 1: on last year. I still don't even think we've scratched
Speaker 1: the surface. We had a couple of multi stolen base attempts.
Speaker 1: I think there's a couple guys. Obviously I'm a Corbyn
Speaker 1: Carroll homer, But Corbyn Carroll going up and gets a
Speaker 1: lefty yesterday, I'm much more intrigued about it today, where
Speaker 1: he probably gets higher in a lineup. That's a guy
Speaker 1: that's going to be running. I think when we go
Speaker 1: when we look at the stolen bases over Opening Day
Speaker 1: weekend compared over, we're gonna really have our minds blown
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 4: Well, don't forget I'm actually the Corbyn Carroll homer today
Speaker 4: because I.
Speaker 2: Am sorry, mister Welsh. I'm sorry, mister Welsh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I have to, I have to make some
Speaker 1: joke about the Mets, and I have to.
Speaker 2: I have to keep it into my wheelhouse for sure.
Speaker 1: The Al East big offense Orioles ten runs, Red Sox
Speaker 1: had nine Blue Jays ten Also, by the way, Springer
Speaker 1: was phenomenal, and we had the Yankees with the Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge homer. Let's also not we don't have it on
Speaker 1: this list, but let's not forget the Rays with Wander
Speaker 1: Franco hitting that big late homer. A lot of offense
Speaker 1: out of the Al East. Ton of excitement in there,
Speaker 1: but also maybe some questions on pitching in general outside
Speaker 1: of garat Cole was like, you know, obviously great with
Speaker 1: the big.
Speaker 2: Strikeouts, but a lot of offense.
Speaker 4: And your division, yeah, really fun to watch every Alea's
Speaker 4: team one except for you know, two of them were
Speaker 4: facing each other, so one of them had to lose there.
Speaker 3: You're right.
Speaker 4: I when putting together the notes, I didn't write down
Speaker 4: the Rays because they only scored four runs.
Speaker 3: But you're right, Wander Franco obviously a highlight there.
Speaker 4: As well, and I think this is going to be
Speaker 4: a sign of things to come in the division throughout
Speaker 4: this entire year. You know, as an Orioles fan going
Speaker 4: into the year thinking about their chances of making a
Speaker 4: surprise run at the division title. You know, the Yankees
Speaker 4: are top heavy, they obviously have stars. I don't love
Speaker 4: their depths. The Red Sox, I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 4: be very good. Sorry, Mike Mayer. You know the Rays
Speaker 4: are always obviously a smart team. The Blue Jays are
Speaker 4: the ones that really scared me. Like, if there's a
Speaker 4: team I think in this division that can actually run
Speaker 4: away with it, I think it's Toronto. It's not just
Speaker 4: George Springer. Obviously, Boba Schet Vladdie had a good day.
Speaker 4: Those three guys combined to go eleven of sixteen in
Speaker 4: Game one, six runs for RBI between that trio.
Speaker 3: I think that offense is really scary.
Speaker 4: I know Minoah didn't pitch well, but obviously Gossman you know,
Speaker 4: in that rotation as well.
Speaker 3: So I think that's a really scary team.
Speaker 4: But the entire division, I think we're gonna see a
Speaker 4: lot of fireworks this year.
Speaker 1: But you know, there's a good point in the chat
Speaker 1: j Full Full of Metal K brought up that like,
Speaker 1: was this bad pitching or was this dominant offense. Wonky
Speaker 1: had the classic Wonky little snark in the chat of like, hey,
Speaker 1: who knew that Klueber and Gibson. I mean, you're gonna
Speaker 1: put it up here, you know who didn't think that
Speaker 1: Kluver and Gibson was not.
Speaker 2: Going to be a huge pitcher's duel. It's a decent point.
Speaker 2: It's obviously a big offense.
Speaker 1: But like George Springer five for five, do you think
Speaker 1: this had to I mean, I guess you do because
Speaker 1: you said it like that.
Speaker 2: Do you think this has to do.
Speaker 1: With more of the power and not maybe the lack
Speaker 1: of pitching overall in the division?
Speaker 3: I'm sure to a degree it's both.
Speaker 4: I don't love the pitching in the division, so that's
Speaker 4: not like some crazy angle that I didn't think about.
Speaker 4: But it's also not like these teams scored six seven,
Speaker 4: eight runs. This nine runs, ten runs, ten runs. I
Speaker 4: think that the power in the in the division is
Speaker 4: just really good. I think it's the most powerful division
Speaker 4: in the sport. It's just something that I expect to
Speaker 4: see a lot. And also we saw across the board
Speaker 4: a lot of pitchers struggled, not just in this division yesterday,
Speaker 4: I don't know. It's sort of like a cliche to
Speaker 4: say that, like pitching usually starts off ahead of the
Speaker 4: hitters in April, that wasn't the case yesterday, but I
Speaker 4: wasn't just in the division.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's something to do with the pitchclock. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm sure we'll see that play out more as.
Speaker 4: The season goes on, But my gut tells me that,
Speaker 4: you know, on the graph of this, more of that
Speaker 4: percentage is the hitters unless the pitchers, though again I
Speaker 4: don't think the pitcher's for that.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually kind of agree with that too. I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot you saw like PitchCom issues.
Speaker 2: I saw like that.
Speaker 1: I think it was Zach Gallen kept like dropping his
Speaker 1: PitchCom and there's all these weird PitchCom things that were
Speaker 1: going on, and there's adjustments across the board and not
Speaker 1: being able to throw over that is gonna take a
Speaker 1: little bit of time, which hitters are gonna be able
Speaker 1: to take advantage of a couple more in the news,
Speaker 1: we'll get to the injuries as we blow through. O'Neal
Speaker 1: Cruz Hunter greamed huge matchup Cruse four to twenty five
Speaker 1: homer one oh, one came off the fastball. If you
Speaker 1: picked him, Remember yesterday, what a dummy me with the
Speaker 1: home run call. I flipped a coin, Ryan, I said,
Speaker 1: my gut or my manament, Chad, it was my head.
Speaker 1: But then all of a sudden it got into me.
Speaker 1: I wanted to pick oneal Cruz. I flipped the coin
Speaker 1: and I got it wrong. If you went Oneal Cruz,
Speaker 1: it worked out Hunter Green though through forty four pitches
Speaker 1: and triple digits he struck out eight. Is really good
Speaker 1: matchup of two couple young guys, but Oneal Cruz took
Speaker 1: that when it makes me feel all types of fantasy feelings.
Speaker 4: Ryan, Yeah, I mean this is the future of the
Speaker 4: NL central right is these young stars. And obviously it
Speaker 4: feels kind of weird to put in the headlines, you know, Pirates, Reds.
Speaker 4: It's there's our teams that were interested in this year
Speaker 4: in terms of the division, but just for the future
Speaker 4: of what it looks like a couple of really fun
Speaker 4: young stars. And we were talking actually yesterday after this
Speaker 4: had already happened, how the exit VLA from Cruise plus
Speaker 4: the pitch velocity from Green on that pitch that he
Speaker 4: hit out is got to be one of the highest
Speaker 4: combined velocity readings we've ever seen in a matchup, because
Speaker 4: they both bring the heat in their own ways and
Speaker 4: it's really fun to watch and they're two special talents.
Speaker 1: I saw an overlay two thing that said there was
Speaker 1: one pitch. It obviously didn't register that way, but it
Speaker 1: was like one oh five. It came in one oh
Speaker 1: five one Hunter Green, but it didn't register on stat cast,
Speaker 1: But I saw that, and I was just like.
Speaker 2: What are we doing here? What are we doing with
Speaker 2: the oldest Yeah, it is crazy.
Speaker 1: On the last bit of news, Otani fastest pitch in
Speaker 1: the game and hardest hit ball in the game, which
Speaker 1: is just a crazy, crazy number. You had an interesting
Speaker 1: stat twenty six opening days starts since nineteen oh one
Speaker 1: with ten strikeouts, no runs allowed. But the first time
Speaker 1: the pitcher lost the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as I like putting it in the notes, he
Speaker 4: got tungsten Armo doyleed again.
Speaker 3: It's just that tweet.
Speaker 4: From several years ago is just the gift that keeps
Speaker 4: on giving, And it's so true.
Speaker 3: Every time you tune.
Speaker 4: Into an Agel's game, Otani does something is doric and
Speaker 4: then they lose the game. That was a tweet from
Speaker 4: Sarah Lang so credits a her for pointing that out.
Speaker 4: But yeah, he just he remains incredible, fun to watch,
Speaker 4: best player in baseball, and yet the Angels still can't
Speaker 4: do anything with it.
Speaker 2: No, no, they can.
Speaker 1: Hopefully, my internet looks like it's all wonky, so hopefully
Speaker 1: you guys can hear me. Okay, all the craziness of
Speaker 1: Opening Day destroyed everything apparently at my house. On the
Speaker 1: injury front, Justin Verlander places on the IL could miss
Speaker 1: a month. Max Fried came out with a strained hamstring,
Speaker 1: likely headed to the IEL. Do not like that one whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Wilson Katrice left with a left knee contusion, Daniel Bard
Speaker 1: came out on the fifteen day IL.
Speaker 2: Due to anxiety.
Speaker 1: Luis Urias also had a little hamstring strain, and Aderbert
Speaker 1: Mondesty officially placed on the sixty day ile. Any of
Speaker 1: those stand out to you, it kind of Freed was
Speaker 1: the one that jumped out to me as like the
Speaker 1: biggest concern, but I guess it wasn't an arm issue.
Speaker 4: Well, Freed is definitely the biggest concern because I think
Speaker 4: I roster him in every one of my leagues this year.
Speaker 3: I love Freed.
Speaker 4: I have them in all my dinastics everything, so that
Speaker 4: that one hurts a lot. And then the Vertlander just
Speaker 4: was kind of a surprising thing to see, you know,
Speaker 4: as opening day is getting going could miss a month.
Speaker 4: Like he's obviously been at the top of the picture
Speaker 4: rankings for years and years and years, and now he's
Speaker 4: getting older.
Speaker 3: He's not there anymore.
Speaker 4: And this is why you kind of get nervous about
Speaker 4: older pictures, is the injury problem.
Speaker 3: So those are the two that stand out to me.
Speaker 4: I guess also Contrari's just because Catcher is so shallow,
Speaker 4: and you know, you never want to see a catcher
Speaker 4: dealing with knee issues given the what they have to
Speaker 4: do when they're playing catcher.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially getting a little bit older too. Like the
Speaker 1: offense really, I mean you could say that offense really
Speaker 1: need him, but like, look at all the pieces that
Speaker 1: we're coming out, Brennan Donovan, Yeah, awesome yesterday, Jordan Walker
Speaker 1: getting his first hit. So they can afford it, but
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Speaker 2: Why would you not want to do so? Right, mister
Speaker 2: Chris Welsh.
Speaker 1: By the way, my hair was this big issue yesterday
Speaker 1: in the chat. I appreciate that you have got we've
Speaker 1: got both, like the big poof that's going on, so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, arguably too much poof.
Speaker 2: But yeah, well I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was saying, maybe you know, like those memes where
Speaker 1: it's like upgrade and it keeps getting bigger and bigger
Speaker 1: and bigger.
Speaker 2: Like we'll do that.
Speaker 1: I think through the season. Maybe I'll just never cut
Speaker 1: it and we'll see if we can get it. Like
Speaker 1: I can sit down and we can get it off
Speaker 1: the screen for the entire year is what I'm looking
Speaker 1: for us in stats three up and three down. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna blow through these three stats. I know exactly who
Speaker 1: you gonna pinpoint.
Speaker 2: CJ. Cron was awesome.
Speaker 1: Four for five, two homers, five rbs, absolutely dominated the padres.
Speaker 1: And one of the funniest things that Bogin and I
Speaker 1: were kind of reliving is a lot of people have
Speaker 1: focused so much on how, oh well CJ. Cron He's
Speaker 1: really great at home, but you can't play him on
Speaker 1: the road. Well, he completely destroys the narrative by doing
Speaker 1: it on the road, and he dominated it.
Speaker 2: And which was not just on the road.
Speaker 1: In San Diego on a cold, wet night there was rain,
Speaker 1: there was They were like mopping up the fields, putting
Speaker 1: kitty litter or whatever the hell they were putting on
Speaker 1: over their dirt, and he was still able to dominate
Speaker 1: your boy, Ally Rudgman five for five a homer of
Speaker 1: four RBIs plus we saw Garrett called Dylan Ce's and
Speaker 1: Chow Hail Tone all went at least six while striking
Speaker 1: out ten and.
Speaker 2: Allowing one or fewer runs. Those are some big stat ups.
Speaker 1: But I know Adley's on your mind. Because he looked incredible.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean some people are asking what's more impressive, Adley
Speaker 4: going five for five or me going five for five
Speaker 4: and slow pitch.
Speaker 3: Softball last night.
Speaker 4: I'll leave that up to the listeners today side, I
Speaker 4: had a couple options. You know what I wanted to
Speaker 4: wear on this show. I've got my Orioles Hawaiian sure.
Speaker 3: I that I love.
Speaker 4: I've got a Fantasy Pros baseball jersey, which is great.
Speaker 4: But I had to rock the Adley Rushman jersey. Of course,
Speaker 4: see it is Rushman. I don't know if I can
Speaker 4: get it up in the camera shot. I could turn herround. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but this is an Adley jersey. It's my favorite jersey
Speaker 4: I own, of course, at least until they failed to
Speaker 4: sign him, which will be devastating.
Speaker 2: Half that a really interesting thing.
Speaker 1: I so not that we can't get off on a tangent.
Speaker 1: It tangent a lot more. Joe's not here to wrangle
Speaker 1: me in. But like I had this exact conversation with
Speaker 1: Scott Bogwin, we're opening day. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I need a Corbyn Carroll jersey. I've got an autograph one,
Speaker 1: but I want one to wear and he was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna turn forty this month, are coming
Speaker 1: up into here in April, and it's like I might
Speaker 1: be out of the range where I can wear a jersey.
Speaker 1: What do you think the appropriate age to jersey ratio
Speaker 1: is ryan as someone who is in their thirties wearing
Speaker 1: a jersey of another.
Speaker 4: I'm just barely in my thirties. I am only thirty,
Speaker 4: so I'm not like, you know, that far into it.
Speaker 4: I am probably I don't know a limb here. I
Speaker 4: think you can wear a jersey at any age. I
Speaker 4: think you can bring a glove to a game at
Speaker 4: any age. We like sports because they're a game, they're fun,
Speaker 4: they're an escape. They appeal to the kid and us. Like,
Speaker 4: I will never judge anybody for wearing a jersey. I
Speaker 4: do judge sometimes some of the customer jerseys you see,
Speaker 4: although there was a funny one somebody had arson judge
Speaker 4: on a Giants jersey that I saw walking around in
Speaker 4: reference to the John Hayman sweet of course. But in general,
Speaker 4: if you love a player like I think it's totally fine.
Speaker 4: I do think football jerseys are maybe a little better
Speaker 4: to wear because it's just sort of like once a
Speaker 4: week you gather for the big game, like all on Sunday,
Speaker 4: where as supposed to baseballs every day.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna wear jersey every dayor anything.
Speaker 4: But I think if you're going to a stadium, I
Speaker 4: don't care what age you are, like wear the jersey.
Speaker 4: I just get nervous about, like I said, getting a
Speaker 4: young guy like Carol, I guess he's actually got the extension,
Speaker 4: but like a guy like Adley, like they don't eventually
Speaker 4: extend him, then the jersey will look bad down the line.
Speaker 4: That's happening to be with my Lamar Jackson jersey right now.
Speaker 4: But in general I'm very pro jersey.
Speaker 2: Okay, good, this is a good chat.
Speaker 1: This is a good chat. That is the support. Thank
Speaker 1: you guys for all supporting that we can wear jerseys.
Speaker 1: Now I just need a Corbyn Carol one, so yes
Speaker 1: please and thank you.
Speaker 4: Also also clearly before we move on, because I just
Speaker 4: have to actually talk about Adlee incredible. It's not like
Speaker 4: rest of the season rankings like jump into number one
Speaker 4: at catch or anything, but if he becomes the number
Speaker 4: one catcher in fantasy, like this is what it's going
Speaker 4: to look like. Some power obviously had a foreigner foot
Speaker 4: home run and then a lot of singles taking the
Speaker 4: pitch going the opposite way with it.
Speaker 3: Great. I think the lineup, you know, I thought this
Speaker 3: was going into the game.
Speaker 4: Obviously it played out this way is going to be
Speaker 4: much improved around him.
Speaker 3: That's more opportunities for runs and RBI.
Speaker 4: I just think he's going to have an incredible season
Speaker 4: and outside of the steels, like, I think he'll be
Speaker 4: the best catcher in like basically the other four category.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's possible.
Speaker 1: I said on IL that I think he's the number
Speaker 1: at least the number two catcher lockdown by All Star break,
Speaker 1: and he might be number one. The other thing that
Speaker 1: keeps away is like Germito hitting three and also stealing bases.
Speaker 1: But what he did yesterday was absolutely phenomenal. Also, Chris
Speaker 1: Evans in the chat was pooh poohing CJ. Krohn, which
Speaker 1: is fine because I'm not saying I'm not sitting here,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find the comment. Yeah right here, wimpy
Speaker 1: shots barely clear the wall. Don't get too excited. But
Speaker 1: that's not the point. The point is is he was
Speaker 1: successful on the road. Like we're not saying CJ. Cron
Speaker 1: is the biggest, baddest, first basement, go and trade everything
Speaker 1: for him. But no, his weakness is on the road.
Speaker 1: He dominated in a cold, wet environment that he did
Speaker 1: on the road, that this is not what he does.
Speaker 2: So that's what's exciting about c J. Kron.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Also, a wimpy home run is still a ball you
Speaker 4: hit over the fence against a major league pitcher, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: And then on the injuries, we're gonna are the down
Speaker 1: three stats are gonna plow through these. Jacob de Gram,
Speaker 1: Nola Gallon, Manoa, Michaelis all of that five earned runs,
Speaker 1: a lot of three and two thirds. Also on opening Day,
Speaker 1: Corey Kluber also allowed. But as you pointed out, who
Speaker 1: cares Max Munsey with the worst performance I think of
Speaker 1: the day zero for five with five strikeouts, which was insane.
Speaker 1: We also saw Eloy schwerb Er, Austin Heyshawn Murphy all
Speaker 1: go zero for five in that Bad Boy.
Speaker 2: The Munthsie one really really stood out to me.
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Speaker 1: The Welsh just dropped you a winner in the very
Speaker 1: first show presented by Prize Picks yesterday. If you paid
Speaker 1: attention and you listen, I gave you a five to
Speaker 1: one on your money. I had Pablo Lopez four strikeouts,
Speaker 1: he smashed O Tani strikeouts, smashed Na Chatto one and
Speaker 1: a half hit run RBS. Well he got an RBI
Speaker 1: in his first at bat and then he got a hit,
Speaker 1: So we got it. We smashed it. Hopefully you guys
Speaker 1: bet it. Did anyone bet mine? By the way, and
Speaker 1: don't lie. You let me know in the chat if
Speaker 1: someone did, I'm gonna put your comment up.
Speaker 2: I was very excited about that.
Speaker 1: I have feelings on Pablo Lopez, which we're not gonna
Speaker 1: get to but I was able to crush it. Ryan,
Speaker 1: Why don't you give us your price picks and then
Speaker 1: I'll give everybody my price pick.
Speaker 2: Play of the day. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, I was gonna say, we don't have time to
Speaker 4: get into it, but Pablo Lopez looked great.
Speaker 1: He's my biggest spot waiting for my trade video if
Speaker 1: it's coming out next week. He will be on that
Speaker 1: because there were some crazy changes.
Speaker 3: So my picks here.
Speaker 4: I've got Robbie Ray over five and a half strikeouts
Speaker 4: against Cleveland. The Guardians struck out nine times in yesterday's game.
Speaker 4: Mookie Bets over seven Fantasy points. He was really bad
Speaker 4: yesterday over four to three strikeouts. If a Star has
Speaker 4: a bad first game, I'm very happy to go back
Speaker 4: to them in the second game. And then Bada Machado
Speaker 4: over one and a half hits runs RBI going up
Speaker 4: against Kyle Freeland of the Rockies. Twenty dollars wins you
Speaker 4: one hundred on that if you go the full power play,
Speaker 4: which I am. I don't play this game too, hey,
Speaker 4: my bets, and go with the flex oning you to
Speaker 4: hit two out of three.
Speaker 3: I go all in every time, and I expect to
Speaker 3: hit it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think if I were to do a fun
Speaker 1: because you can go up to five, I haven't unloaded
Speaker 1: a five here yet. I want to see just a
Speaker 1: tiny bit. I definitely want to check some of all
Speaker 1: that out. But if you were to go like a
Speaker 1: five player one, I might play a little bit of
Speaker 1: insurance here.
Speaker 2: But we'll see. Today.
Speaker 1: On mine, I am going to be rocking another three,
Speaker 1: just like Ryan for a five times. I've got Julio
Speaker 1: the Total Bass more. I'm gonna go on the more side.
Speaker 1: I'm going back to the well with Manny Machado a
Speaker 1: lot today, seven and a half Fantasy points more. I'm
Speaker 1: going with Mookie bets Fantasy score seven or more so
Speaker 1: Julio Total Bass, Machado's Fantasy score, and Mookie Betts.
Speaker 4: I didn't realize before putting mine together that we both
Speaker 4: have both Machado and Mooki on there. I also like
Speaker 4: that we're both going more with all three of ours,
Speaker 4: because you know, we're here to have fun, Like I know,
Speaker 4: like you know, historically betting unders on prop bets and
Speaker 4: things like that are usually.
Speaker 3: More lucrative, but like it's fun to root for stuff
Speaker 3: to happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yea one hundred percent. I'm not a big under
Speaker 1: better guy. Speaking of our bets for the day, I
Speaker 1: got a couple bets for you if you guys want
Speaker 1: to place them, They're gonna be kind of in line
Speaker 1: with what we just talked about. Jordan Alvarez. Jordan Alvarez
Speaker 1: total base one and a half. I'm going with the over.
Speaker 1: It's plus one fifteen saw that I believe over on
Speaker 1: DK Robbie Raith, like you just mentioned, I love this
Speaker 1: one today, five and a half strikeouts, It's plus one
Speaker 1: oh five on DK. I'm all about that one. And
Speaker 1: Mookie Bets total base one and a half. These are
Speaker 1: just straight bets. These are not the price pick ones.
Speaker 1: It's plus one thirty today, and why I like it.
Speaker 1: He's a career three hundred hitter against Merle Kelly and
Speaker 1: four of his seven hits against Kelly extra base hits.
Speaker 1: So again, for me, there's also a part of like,
Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna have multiple days of struggling
Speaker 1: or anything like that. So I'm going back to the
Speaker 1: well with Machado a little bit more and Mookie Bets
Speaker 1: getting back in it. I'm definitely with Ryan, what are
Speaker 1: some of your bets for the day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, check the betting pros prop bet cheat sheet if
Speaker 4: you want to see some of these.
Speaker 3: These are some of the recommended ones on there.
Speaker 4: Josey Ramirez over one and a half of total bases
Speaker 4: against Seattle. That is going up against Ray who I
Speaker 4: like to get a lot of strikeouts, but I still
Speaker 4: think that the Guardians will get some hits in there
Speaker 4: as well. Juan Soto over zero point five runs against Colorado.
Speaker 4: Not a great day for him yesterday. Again, Stars bouncing
Speaker 4: back in game two. I think the Padres are gonna
Speaker 4: bounce back in a big way today. And then Nick Martinez,
Speaker 4: I don't think they bounce back on the mound because
Speaker 4: I have him over one and a half earned runs
Speaker 4: against the rackis that's minus one twenty.
Speaker 3: So those are my three, by the.
Speaker 1: Way, on the bets yesterday, I didn't hit two, but
Speaker 1: I hit Wander Franco total base plus one thirty yesterday
Speaker 1: and I gave you guys a parlay my big parlay
Speaker 1: of the day, Tampa Bay win and Atlanta total team
Speaker 1: total runs four and a half. If you parlay that
Speaker 1: together like I did, those did pay so ja ching
Speaker 1: love that over on the DFS. Mister Ryan Wormley, you
Speaker 1: gave us, you gave us some good plays here.
Speaker 2: I've got a couple things.
Speaker 1: Actually, I'll just throw it out mine because mine is
Speaker 1: a little bit smaller. David Peterson is kind of a
Speaker 1: pivot play for me. I think Christian Javier looks like
Speaker 1: he's going to be the highest played guy. I kind
Speaker 1: of like to pivot sixty six on DK a value
Speaker 1: hitter for the day, James Outman going up against the
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks again. But I do like stacks of Arizona and
Speaker 1: San Diego today. I think the lefty the lefties that
Speaker 1: they're going to get in and move higher in the
Speaker 1: lineup on the Diamondbacks against Dustin May is going to
Speaker 1: look a little bit better.
Speaker 2: And I think San Diego is going to come back.
Speaker 2: But what do you have?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like those picks.
Speaker 4: And I will just readily admit I am not a
Speaker 4: very avid DFS player. So for me, it's more I
Speaker 4: kind of look through and say, these are some things
Speaker 4: that stand out to me as values and guys I
Speaker 4: like to have good days today, unless like, here's a
Speaker 4: strategy of building your lineup. But some of the values
Speaker 4: that I like Robbie Ray is my favorite picture going today.
Speaker 4: It's obviously I hate that they do this where it's
Speaker 4: a much smaller slate on game two, on day two
Speaker 4: of this season. I know that it's like they want
Speaker 4: to leave it open for like in case it gets
Speaker 4: rained out on opening Day, but also like you could
Speaker 4: just still do the ceremonies in what was originally scheduled
Speaker 4: for the second game. It's the first one does get
Speaker 4: rained out. It just bothers me every year you have
Speaker 4: all this fun excitement of opening Day and then it's
Speaker 4: like such.
Speaker 3: A letdown on day two. So Ray is my favorite
Speaker 3: picture going today.
Speaker 4: On the smaller slate, Andrew vaugh a lot at twenty
Speaker 4: eight hundred, Miguel Rojas twenty two hundred, Max Muncie. I
Speaker 4: know he had five strikeouts yesterday. This is a total,
Speaker 4: just like I believe that he is a better player
Speaker 4: than that. So at only thirty two hundred, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: go back to him, and again not a ton of
Speaker 4: great options at third, and then I would pay up
Speaker 4: for the outfielders. Mookie thirty nine hundred, Kyle Tucker four thousand,
Speaker 4: want so to four thousand, any of those outfielders if
Speaker 4: I'm gonna spend my money somewhere, I'm gonna go cheaper
Speaker 4: on in field because I see a lot of values
Speaker 4: there and outfield just give me the stars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I actually agree with that. Obviously.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a little bit little about Gorman Carroll
Speaker 1: today because I think this is a big opportunity. But
Speaker 1: I love Mookie, Obviously it's something I'm gonna try. I
Speaker 1: don't try to go crazy with it, and maybe Joe
Speaker 1: adjust it. But like when we're talking like prize pick
Speaker 1: bets dfs, those are.
Speaker 2: Gonna kind of be in line.
Speaker 1: Like if I've got a guy on Price Picks, I'm
Speaker 1: probably also going to look at what, you know, if
Speaker 1: I have his one and a half total basis on
Speaker 1: Price Picks, I'm probably gonna look at what is that?
Speaker 1: Is it plus money over on any other book, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna like that as well, And that would in
Speaker 1: turn be something I would end up taking a look
Speaker 1: at over on you know, any of the DK sides
Speaker 1: or Fandule or wherever you guys are playing your daily
Speaker 1: Fantasy sports.
Speaker 2: Last up here, my friends, is the home run call.
Speaker 2: It is killing me. The coin flip. The coin flip
Speaker 2: that could have got me one to zero.
Speaker 1: Ryan, I flipped it. My gut started to say, O'Neil Cruz.
Speaker 1: I stuck with Manny Machado. Manchado didn't actually particularly look great,
Speaker 1: which had me a little bit worried. But I am
Speaker 1: a glutton for punishment. Mister Chris Welsh lash Ryan Wormley,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go back to the well. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go back to the well. I'm gonna take Manny machatdo tonight.
Speaker 1: He's got a good track record versus Kyle Freelan.
Speaker 2: He's a lefty. I think we can get that going
Speaker 2: a little bit more.
Speaker 1: And this will probably be my last shot at just
Speaker 1: attacking many Minchatto.
Speaker 2: I really thought he would.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna try to get on the board with
Speaker 1: Manny Machado. What's say you, my friend? Because Joe and
Speaker 1: I both did not get on the board, nor did
Speaker 1: Mike Mayer in day one.
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, instead of back to the well
Speaker 4: for you, it's back to the Welsh for my pick.
Speaker 4: I am really annoyed the Orioles aren't playing. I actually
Speaker 4: told my Fantasy pros co worker Andrew Erickson. He messaged
Speaker 4: me yesterday he said he had a free bet and
Speaker 4: wondered which oriol that I would recommend he'd take to
Speaker 4: hit a home run, And I immediately said Adley Rutchman,
Speaker 4: and it paid off.
Speaker 3: That would have been my pick yesterday.
Speaker 4: I know I can't take credit for it, but obviously
Speaker 4: I happily would have done that with no orioles to pick,
Speaker 4: and again a smaller slate, just not a ton of
Speaker 4: guys that I'm like super excited about, like this is
Speaker 4: something I feel good about. I just picked a great
Speaker 4: power hitter petal On, so obviously you know he's a
Speaker 4: forty homer.
Speaker 3: So I had a hitter.
Speaker 4: So I'm going with him as my as my call
Speaker 4: here and hoping it works out.
Speaker 1: All right, someone said this, and I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Maybe this is gonna be my new thing, so I'll
Speaker 1: never be on the board I did have. If I
Speaker 1: did have a guy that I was thinking about, I
Speaker 1: did have. I have no what is this justin I
Speaker 1: have no coin flipping skills. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: my friend, I think I have phenomenal coin flipping skills.
Speaker 1: As I was able to keep it on my hand
Speaker 1: and not drop it. I just had to reach for
Speaker 1: this there is another guy that's in my brain here,
Speaker 1: and here's the problem.
Speaker 2: I feel like the secondary guy is the guy.
Speaker 1: So let's do this. My pick is Manu Shao. The
Speaker 1: guy that's in my brain is Mookie Bets for the day.
Speaker 2: Mooky bets good track record, like I said, has three homers.
Speaker 1: I believe against its three homers against Merrill, Kelly heads,
Speaker 1: Manny Machado tails.
Speaker 2: Mooky bets sound good.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: Here we go, we're going Manny again. So Molky bets
Speaker 2: to hit the home run.
Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you this Welsh.
Speaker 4: While the coin was in the air for that half second,
Speaker 4: what did you want it to land on?
Speaker 1: I wanted to land on mookiy bets. I wanted to bets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you guys. I saw someone mentioning how to do
Speaker 1: the how to go in and do the bets or
Speaker 1: do the home run calls? You want to get in
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Pros discord, you can get in. There's
Speaker 1: a home run call room. It's super easy. You just
Speaker 1: type it in, Bam, the bot tracks it. You were
Speaker 1: locked in. I believe next week we're probably going to
Speaker 1: be getting the home run board. Whoever had oneil Cruise yesterday,
Speaker 1: which I think a bunch of you did.
Speaker 2: You are on?
Speaker 1: I know probably a couple of you are in the
Speaker 1: chat that are on. But we will be celebrating it
Speaker 1: all next week as the board comes back, hopefully also
Speaker 1: new overlays because mister Ryan Warmley is going to be
Speaker 1: with me on Monday and Tuesday as Joe is just
Speaker 1: traveling back out here in Arizona.
Speaker 2: I should see him on Sunday.
Speaker 4: How nice it must be to be able to take
Speaker 4: a vacation on day two of the season of the
Speaker 4: sport that you cover.
Speaker 1: Well planned there, Joe, how about hey, welcome everybody. It's
Speaker 1: opening day and he's gone, He's gone, he's out of here.
Speaker 1: But Ryan, chris Well, she did a great job today.
Speaker 1: I'm Joe Pisapa slash chris Well. She can find me
Speaker 1: on Twitter at is it the Welsh Ryan?
Speaker 2: What was the twitter again?
Speaker 3: At Ryan Warmley?
Speaker 4: And that's warmly like how you dress when it's uote outside,
Speaker 4: not like my last name.
Speaker 2: It was well shit in the womb, we did it.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you guys had a fantastic opening day. Hopefully today
Speaker 1: is as good. You guys know where to find us
Speaker 1: over on the Discord all the cool everything's going to
Speaker 1: really be kicking off too with more chats. We've also
Speaker 1: got the room where you guys can ask questions. There's
Speaker 1: private you can message me Ryan, you can message anybody
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Speaker 2: Goodbye, my friends,