Speaker 1: The pirate ship is cruising. Let's play ball. Welcome in
Speaker 1: everybody to Fantasy Bros. This is leading off, brought to
Speaker 1: you by Bed MGM, the King of Sports Books. It's
Speaker 1: me Joey p joe Pisavia, back from vacation, refreshed, ready
Speaker 1: to go. Maybe a little tanner than I left, I
Speaker 1: don't know. But it's nice to see my friend the Welsh.
Speaker 1: It's nice to see all my friends here, the Peanuts,
Speaker 1: the Cracker Jacks, the Randohs Welsh, my friend How's things?
Speaker 1: How was life without.
Speaker 2: Joey p Oh buddy? It was?
Speaker 3: It was an adventure across the board from we're going
Speaker 3: to travel the galaxy.
Speaker 2: We're gonna travel.
Speaker 3: It's really good that you bring your hair and your
Speaker 3: head up here because we are going to have the
Speaker 3: finality of a contest.
Speaker 2: I created some villainry.
Speaker 3: I was able to become public enemy number one on
Speaker 3: a Pacific player and you know, not hitting homers and
Speaker 3: oh and I did start a absolutely brand new trend
Speaker 3: right there with the MGM ad read. So it's been
Speaker 3: a magical tour of four days. But I'm gonna imagine
Speaker 3: you were quite missed. Of course I missed you well.
Speaker 1: I missed you, I missed all of our team here,
Speaker 1: and yes, doctor Glenn, I am full of butter beer
Speaker 1: and tanned and ready to go a lot of walking.
Speaker 1: Florida is very hot. It was a magical time there,
Speaker 1: and it was a magical time without me, I'm sure
Speaker 1: for everybody else. But I saw your Tiara. I saw
Speaker 1: lots of.
Speaker 2: A little bit of a surprise.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, oh no, no, no surprises because everybody,
Speaker 1: you know, got very excited about all the photoshop work
Speaker 1: that was being done too. I have seen all of
Speaker 1: the Joe photoshop with hair, which some of them are
Speaker 1: pretty magnificent. It's making me rethink my my bald choice.
Speaker 3: Here and Joey can I can I say? You know,
Speaker 3: I wasn't lying at the end. I don't know if
Speaker 3: I imagine we want to do this at there, but
Speaker 3: we have a couple new presentations of hair. We are
Speaker 3: going to present them, and Joe is going to pick,
Speaker 3: and we are going to give the winner.
Speaker 2: We're gonna give my fantasy pros hat away, right.
Speaker 1: I yeah, here, We'll do a hat. Let's go. I
Speaker 1: just I also want to say I'm open to keeping
Speaker 1: this contest running for another week because they've been so
Speaker 1: good what I've seen, and everyone's been setting me the
Speaker 1: screenshots of them. They're spectacular. I've been very impressed with
Speaker 1: some of the work. Some of your work needs a
Speaker 1: little little work. Tell me you guys could use a
Speaker 1: little help on the photoshop. So very good. There's varying levels,
Speaker 1: but you know what, Welsh I got to say. It
Speaker 1: was nice to get away for a couple of days
Speaker 1: with the kiddos. It was nice to hang out. And
Speaker 1: I hate Disney. I've always you know, I stand by that.
Speaker 1: We tried Epcot for a few hours. It's that was
Speaker 1: the one I thought I could stomach.
Speaker 2: Nope, I don't, can't do it's Epcot, I don't remember.
Speaker 1: That's the one with all the countries, which is cool.
Speaker 1: They have the New Guardians ride. But here's the thing
Speaker 1: at Disney. You gotta do the thing where you have
Speaker 1: to pay fifty dollars for the app and then it
Speaker 1: costs you can book windows of time where you can
Speaker 1: wait online, and then it's an extra fifteen dollars a
Speaker 1: person for the Fast Path. No no, no, no, no
Speaker 1: Universal Studios. You stay at the hotels, you go on
Speaker 1: all the rides, you get automatic Express Pass, and there's
Speaker 1: nothing better where more elitism or that feeling inside when
Speaker 1: you have that fast pass badge and you're showing everyone
Speaker 1: your badge and you're just walking right past all the randos,
Speaker 1: you're walking by everybody you feel so you feel so elitists.
Speaker 1: That to me is the best ride.
Speaker 3: Just yeah, no, I actually I agree with that. That would
Speaker 3: be the most important thing I'm into Disney. Disneyland is
Speaker 3: like my thing in my part of the world here,
Speaker 3: and I haven't gone in a long time. My kids
Speaker 3: kind of want to go, but it's like we have
Speaker 3: to prepare because I if I go, I need to
Speaker 3: have the most magnificent pass. So I'm looking down on
Speaker 3: the mud people as I walk by.
Speaker 2: I can't blow it all.
Speaker 1: It's what it's all about.
Speaker 2: No, it is what it's all about.
Speaker 1: But universal is a whole different crowd. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: the Harry Potter crowd, it's the Marvel crowd, It's it's
Speaker 1: the nerd crowd, which is where I feel very comfortable,
Speaker 1: whereas suppose everybody, like grown middle aged people wearing ears
Speaker 1: makes me uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: You know, I did not to judge or anything like that,
Speaker 3: but I have known a person or two, and I
Speaker 3: know a person or two that they are you know,
Speaker 3: my age, and their life exists around Disney, like they
Speaker 3: go three or four times a year, and they're super
Speaker 3: not trustworthy, Like I really do not trust.
Speaker 2: Them, like someone that's like Disney's our life and.
Speaker 3: They're like, you know, maybe if you're fourteen, but not
Speaker 3: when you're thirty eight.
Speaker 1: This says it all right here, doctor Glenn Universal greater
Speaker 1: than Disney. It's just it's not even close. Man, it's
Speaker 1: not even close. So let's get to baseball here. Enough
Speaker 1: about that. Let's start with Julio Rodriguez. What a catch
Speaker 1: he made yesterday, also slugging his thirteenth home run against
Speaker 1: the A's. Speaking of the A's, Romon and laur I know,
Speaker 1: homer twice and plated four runs. Justin Turner hit two
Speaker 1: home runs. That was very nice there against the Padres.
Speaker 1: Had him in a couple of lineups. That was very nice.
Speaker 1: Joe Musgrove struck out ten, so everybody worried about that
Speaker 1: one shaky Joe Musgrove start, can all calm the hell
Speaker 1: down and relax. Patrick Wisdom crushing two homers against the Reds.
Speaker 1: Then you know. So. For Christopher Morrell had five hits
Speaker 1: as well against the Reds.
Speaker 2: Yes, two homers from Mayor.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately he took Patrick Wisdom yesterday, an incredibly good pick.
Speaker 2: Bubba loved the pick. I like the pick.
Speaker 3: I played the same game when was pushing out and
Speaker 3: it was all Patrick Wisdom and all there.
Speaker 1: When the wind's blown out at Wrigley, get involved. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's been hard with the Cubs because it's not a
Speaker 1: great lineup. And shout out, I'm remiss there. Shout out
Speaker 1: to Bubba, and shout out to Bogman for holding down
Speaker 1: with my friend the Welsh here while I was out,
Speaker 1: gave me a few days the first proper vacation in
Speaker 1: like three years. Like that. We actually got on a
Speaker 1: plane and went somewhere. So that was very nice. Michael Perez,
Speaker 1: how about that three homers against the Brewers. The Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: Pirates just keep hitting home runs. And I heard while
Speaker 1: I was gone there was something about, oh, I don't
Speaker 1: know anyo, Cruz, perhaps something regarding you as the Welsh. No, no, nothing.
Speaker 3: I don't know talking about I mean we might have
Speaker 3: talked a little bit about him here or there. Maybe
Speaker 3: he had a home run yesterday and maybe I immediately
Speaker 3: got anxiety and you know, I have to have a
Speaker 3: drink to chill out on what today is going to
Speaker 3: be in the chat has been no less. But yeah,
Speaker 3: you know the the under two forty hitter did hit
Speaker 3: a home run yesterday.
Speaker 1: Well, I but I but here's the thing, this is
Speaker 1: on your cruz. Being good out of the gate is
Speaker 1: not unexpected.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: We literally said this the day he got called up
Speaker 1: here on the show. The next day we said, look,
Speaker 1: there's a good chance he has a good start here,
Speaker 1: and if he does, and he plays really well, trade him,
Speaker 1: Like if you can package him right now in a
Speaker 1: redraft league for wander Franco. You do that. You do
Speaker 1: that trade immediately, so and you don't look back, You
Speaker 1: don't think twice about that trade. It's probably taken more
Speaker 1: than Anio cruise. But I'm just saying, whenever a rookie
Speaker 1: comes up and has media success, it doesn't really shock
Speaker 1: me all that much. It's the adjustment that's coming that
Speaker 1: I think we're all waiting for. So let's uh, let's
Speaker 1: let's call it what it is and stay in slight here.
Speaker 3: Like I said, I mean, my I'm fine with it.
Speaker 3: It's it's actually fun and you know it gives me
Speaker 3: a bit. It will make people think about me at
Speaker 3: all times. Onell cruise, uh in the hatred that is
Speaker 3: now just attached to me, it's displaced because all it
Speaker 3: is is, I'll say one last time for the week,
Speaker 3: his hype does not match his production. And to see
Speaker 3: a guy be the odds on rookie favorite and you
Speaker 3: know it's a strikeout guy. He hits a couple of
Speaker 3: incredibly awesome home runs. It all started by that ridiculous
Speaker 3: home run call in his first homer or in the week,
Speaker 3: and that's where it's laid out to. But that's that's
Speaker 3: the funny thing about this. You completely agree with me
Speaker 3: on this trade him in redraft Dynasty. It's a different
Speaker 3: discussion about on you cruse this season. His hype is
Speaker 3: it's to a next level. He might be a really,
Speaker 3: really good trade option. And we actually posted a poll
Speaker 3: about it from the end this Leekantasy Baseball podcast, and
Speaker 3: we said like what would you give up? What would
Speaker 3: you give up for him? And the biggest thing we
Speaker 3: saw someone would give up CJ.
Speaker 2: Krohn for O'Neil Cruz.
Speaker 1: How fast can I hit the accept button on that trade.
Speaker 1: But I think that's Look, that makes sense. It's something
Speaker 1: we were prepared for. It's something we discussed, and I
Speaker 1: think it's great that it's happening. So your Annio Cruz investment,
Speaker 1: if you think about it, you invested in him, he
Speaker 1: didn't play for two months. Now he's finally up right
Speaker 1: and he's playing great. So you have to look at
Speaker 1: it realistically and say, okay, and the investment made an
Speaker 1: Annio Cruz. Can I flip him for something that I
Speaker 1: really know? And I can? I mean, look, would you
Speaker 1: take Corey Seeger for him right now? I think you would. Yes.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's probably a trade you could probably take
Speaker 1: as well. There's a few trades out there I think
Speaker 1: are ripe for the taking right now with Annio Cruz
Speaker 1: having this great week, and now's the time to make
Speaker 1: that move because in two weeks from now, if he
Speaker 1: has a bad stretch or you know, a two for
Speaker 1: twenty five stretch, that trademarket value is disintegrated and you
Speaker 1: just have to understand it's not a great Pittsburgh lineup.
Speaker 1: No matter how many home runs I hit in the
Speaker 1: last three days, it doesn't matter. It's still not a
Speaker 1: great lineup, and you know, the line of protection is
Speaker 1: not going to be there long term. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of negatives.
Speaker 2: That's what all gets stuck with. But to see that's
Speaker 2: what all to get stuck with it.
Speaker 3: Everybody focuses on, you know, me having some fun with
Speaker 3: it and trying to entertain, and it becomes in Sandy,
Speaker 3: that's okay.
Speaker 2: I can be the what was it that bear? And
Speaker 2: I'll remember that one. Chris Welsh is all hype.
Speaker 3: I will remember those things, and I'll remember all these
Speaker 3: but I'm also going to remember all of the production
Speaker 3: and all the awesome trades people are gonna pull off.
Speaker 3: And there is an art to taking advantage of hype.
Speaker 3: All through fantasy baseball. Everybody says, what's the big stick
Speaker 3: right now, Joe, this is when you're gonna win your
Speaker 3: fantasy league because everyone's starting to turn and focus on
Speaker 3: fantasy football one hundred thousand percent. It also goes to
Speaker 3: jumping on hype and being able to move players. There's
Speaker 3: an art to it, and in my mind and how
Speaker 3: I look at it, this is a prime example of
Speaker 3: one of those. And he still may have some really
Speaker 3: good numbers, but will at the end of the year,
Speaker 3: twelve homers and eleven stolen bases.
Speaker 2: Will that end up being worth.
Speaker 3: You know, keeping him instead of maybe jumping on and
Speaker 3: getting a great trade.
Speaker 1: So, and to answer JP's question, I'm a Slytherin through
Speaker 1: and through. I think we all know that.
Speaker 2: Do they have a thing there where you like put
Speaker 2: on the thing? Look?
Speaker 1: The Gringots riote is spectacular. My oldest daughter did not
Speaker 1: want to do the Hagrid thing. She doesn't like roller
Speaker 1: coaster stuff, but they got I mean, it's if you're
Speaker 1: a Harry Potter, BUTRK and I am. It is the
Speaker 1: greatest place on earth, especially at night time whenever when
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, like those lights come on around
Speaker 1: there and you're walking around, it's it's spectaclic.
Speaker 2: But wouldn't that be the coolest thing. Why do they
Speaker 2: not have that? Why do they not have a pose
Speaker 2: for the hack they go on and they pick your house?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think I think people have
Speaker 1: already know what their houses are when they come there,
Speaker 1: so they don't want some random They've taken a lot
Speaker 1: Potter tests already and they have a real attachment. The
Speaker 1: last thing they want is to get there. I was
Speaker 1: about to tell them you're a raven claw and you've
Speaker 1: you've spent your last five years of your life thinking there's.
Speaker 3: Gonna be someone that's gonna like Sue. They're gonna be like,
Speaker 3: I'm not a slither in. This place is a scam,
Speaker 3: and they're gonna say.
Speaker 1: Wonky Penguin's also a Slytherin. Right now, I love to
Speaker 1: see what the other people. If you know what your
Speaker 1: potter house is, drop it in the chat here.
Speaker 3: I'm probably I think if we did a poll, everyone
Speaker 3: would vote me Slytherin for sure.
Speaker 1: What's that about vote? You have to answer the questions.
Speaker 1: You have to take the test, all right. Speaking of
Speaker 1: taking the test, I think like Juan Soto is uh
Speaker 1: has been given test and he looked at it. He said,
Speaker 1: I don't feel like it. Wan Soto apparently has turned
Speaker 1: down a second giant offer from the Nationals, and I
Speaker 1: don't blame him. Hector Gomez had been reporting by the
Speaker 1: Way Thursday Night thirteen years for twenty five he was
Speaker 1: going to accept it, or that they had upped it
Speaker 1: or something like that, and of course Sector Gromez was wrong.
Speaker 1: I don't see any reason if I'm Jan Sota where
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to hit the open market. Wan Soto
Speaker 1: is extraordinary talent. Wan Sota is so young, He's accomplished
Speaker 1: so much, He's already got a ring. Juan Soto, to me,
Speaker 1: is looking at the Nationals long term and if you're
Speaker 1: won Soto in the next five years, where's the path
Speaker 1: to winning? It's look at that division with the Mets
Speaker 1: and the Braves, look at that division with the Marlins pitching,
Speaker 1: and look at the system that the Nationals have. Why
Speaker 1: in God's name would you want to stay there? There's
Speaker 1: no great stars coming through the system to support him,
Speaker 1: not on either side of the ball. You know.
Speaker 3: The one thing and I look at this because I
Speaker 3: saw it was Phil Hughes who tweeted out today and
Speaker 3: he was just like, should we be worried that Juan
Speaker 3: Soto's turning down this type of money to go to Washington?
Speaker 3: You know, I look at it as a different thing
Speaker 3: where I go, Man, should we be worried at how
Speaker 3: just mess this system is?
Speaker 2: Because three hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3: Million dollars to four hundred million dollars, this insane number.
Speaker 3: I have to assume that this has got to be
Speaker 3: about years, because what's more insane to me is the years.
Speaker 2: That are attached to these contracts, not the money. If
Speaker 2: I want to know young, so to that.
Speaker 3: But that's to my point though, Dude, he's twenty four,
Speaker 3: but they're talking about a thirteen year contract. The guy
Speaker 3: will be almost as old as me when his contract
Speaker 3: is done. What you can see, the inflation of these
Speaker 3: continent is super old. These the inflation of these contracts,
Speaker 3: He's going to be underpaid in six years and they
Speaker 3: know it. And the problem is is all these contracts
Speaker 3: are four hundred million dollars for thirteen years, when these
Speaker 3: players probably want basketball contracts four years, one hundred and
Speaker 3: seventy five million dollars. They want the big annuals so
Speaker 3: they can continuously keep going out into the open market.
Speaker 3: And I wonder, I don't know, I don't know what's
Speaker 3: good and what's bad for baseball. Would it be better
Speaker 3: to get these lower end contracts the players can hit
Speaker 3: the open market not freak out, so they can stay
Speaker 3: in their perspective cities. Or is it going to be
Speaker 3: worse that he's going to turn down this money and
Speaker 3: he's going to be out into the free agent market
Speaker 3: and clearly.
Speaker 2: Go to New York, Boston, Florida, wherever he's.
Speaker 1: Gonna go to a big look, he's gonna make hundreds
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars anyway. I think for Soto it's
Speaker 1: legitimately about he seems like a very competitive dude. Much
Speaker 1: by nature, he wants to be in a like. He's
Speaker 1: already won a World Series, so he can pretty much
Speaker 1: write his ticket wherever he wants to go. He's gonna
Speaker 1: make hundreds of million dollars anyway. Don't you want to
Speaker 1: do it in a location where you're gonna win more
Speaker 1: consistently and have more chances of playoffs, because we all know,
Speaker 1: if you're going to be considered one of the all
Speaker 1: time great players, typically you have to have some playoff
Speaker 1: runs in there. And I don't see a lot of
Speaker 1: playoff runs for the Nationals the next five years. And
Speaker 1: everybody likes a big annual. I think we all love everybody.
Speaker 1: I'm a sucker for a big annual. I don't know
Speaker 1: about you.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm a sucker for any money in the facual. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: big old in.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Listen, we're not measuring annuals here, Joe, We're not measuring that.
Speaker 2: It's not the size of the annual.
Speaker 1: It's all right. Let's get to Jeff passing his tweet
Speaker 1: from yesterday. Over the last three weeks show, Hayle Tani
Speaker 1: has put up two and a half wins above replacement.
Speaker 1: He has been the single best pitcher in baseball and
Speaker 1: the fifteenth most productive offensive player. Uh and that is
Speaker 1: spectacular and once again the Otani. I look at it
Speaker 1: before the show today, plus two seventy on FanDuel over
Speaker 1: there and same thing, just two fifty I think ont MGM, So,
Speaker 1: I mean, we told you. I told you it was
Speaker 1: going to go back into this direction. So it's going
Speaker 1: to be a question. And of course, of all the
Speaker 1: days I come back, you know, I'm murrady. I'm doing
Speaker 1: the show sheets at seven o'clock in the morning, and
Speaker 1: you know, look at stats. I'm going through stuff and
Speaker 1: there's Mike Mayer welcome back, Happy Bobby Benia Day, welcoming
Speaker 1: me back. Of course, I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 1: I was coming back from Bobby Bobby Day. July first,
Speaker 1: already Bobby Benia gets his twelfth installment of one one
Speaker 1: point one nine, three, two four eight point two zero
Speaker 1: exactly one seven.
Speaker 2: They're breaking a code.
Speaker 1: One million, one hundred and ninety three thousand, two hundred
Speaker 1: and forty eight dollars and twenty cents. That's exactly what
Speaker 1: makes the Mets so far have paid him fourteen million
Speaker 1: dollars and change uh for him not to play for
Speaker 1: the two thousand season, thirteen years left by the way,
Speaker 1: and fifteen million plus left to go.
Speaker 3: That is the shocking thing to me as I look
Speaker 3: at this that I cannot believe thirteen years. Listen are
Speaker 3: child like. We will have to be telling our children
Speaker 3: about this, Joe. Our life has a majority, a good
Speaker 3: majority of our life has consisted of Bobby Bonia day
Speaker 3: and him being paid. There'll be a time, I know,
Speaker 3: it's crazy to think where he's not being paid and
Speaker 3: we're going to have to try to explain Bobby Bonia Day.
Speaker 3: I still, to this day, I think it is such
Speaker 3: a great tactic of players to be able to hold
Speaker 3: and get their money like that, and I wish more
Speaker 3: players would do it, and I think it makes it fun.
Speaker 3: And we're still talking about Bobby Bonia but I can't
Speaker 3: believe it's here again.
Speaker 1: I don't believe it's here, and somebody suggested that Uncle
Speaker 1: Steve Cohen go out and make a make a ceremony
Speaker 1: out of it every year where they hands Bobby Bennie
Speaker 1: a giant check when I think it would be hilarious.
Speaker 1: I think it would be great.
Speaker 3: Not to belabor this, but like the does the team
Speaker 3: clearly like why don't they just.
Speaker 1: Buy it out?
Speaker 2: Like do they not want to want it?
Speaker 1: Because?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: Because they want to take less money on the buyout?
Speaker 1: Where is your boy?
Speaker 3: What if they said, what if they said, we will
Speaker 3: give you that exact whatever dollar amount you just said,
Speaker 3: the thirteen to fifteen point, we will give you that
Speaker 3: to stop the annual Why why would they not do that?
Speaker 3: Because because they talk about it every year. I mean
Speaker 3: every year they look I don't know, I feel like
Speaker 3: they look stupid. They kind of look dumb Bobby and
Speaker 3: looks really smart like you got one over. I feel
Speaker 3: like they kind of look dumb. I don't know, Like,
Speaker 3: wouldn't they just want to buy it out and just
Speaker 3: be done with it.
Speaker 1: That's a true story. I actually got stuck on a
Speaker 1: train in New York with Bobby Benia's sister one day.
Speaker 1: True story. Uh, and the train stopped and we were
Speaker 1: sitting next to each other.
Speaker 2: We just just like, are you Joe piece of pa
Speaker 2: And you're like, as a matter of fact, hey.
Speaker 1: Yo, no, not not in this lightest. She was just
Speaker 1: really funny and we were hanging out and we were
Speaker 1: just chatting, and you know, we got to talking about
Speaker 1: what do I do? When does she do? All stuff?
Speaker 1: She goes, well, you probably know my brother. And I
Speaker 1: said who's your brother and she said Bobby Bennie And
Speaker 1: I said, holy crap. And then she started telling me
Speaker 1: about how yeah, and he got all fat and he
Speaker 1: lived in Florida and blah blah bah. She was hot, hilarious,
Speaker 1: like she was just so tough on him. And I
Speaker 1: asked her about this contract. It is a true story,
Speaker 1: and she said, she said, he's got investments and things.
Speaker 1: I think at a restaurant he had something else and
Speaker 1: ye know that's like his fun money. Like every year,
Speaker 1: like he just that's his fun money. He goes and
Speaker 1: does you know other things with her or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: But it's I mean, imagine loans with it. They get
Speaker 1: a million dollars. Here's a fun fact too. Fun fact.
Speaker 1: Stephen Kwan likes every other month in April, the guy
Speaker 1: hit three fifty four for the Guardians in May, a
Speaker 1: buck seventy three. In June he hit three fifty four.
Speaker 1: What do you make of Steve Kwan?
Speaker 3: Well, oh, I mean that, you know, what's so funny
Speaker 3: is the inconsistencies for a player that is built around
Speaker 3: being so consistent. He was a high, high contact hitter.
Speaker 3: He doesn't strike out. Also doesn't really have counting stats.
Speaker 2: I make of him.
Speaker 3: I you know, this isn't gonna be the best comparison
Speaker 3: because he's been so incredible, But it's like the Luisa
Speaker 3: Rise type of thing. You know, Luisa Rise obviously has
Speaker 3: picked it up, but he still is an accounting stat guy.
Speaker 2: That's Stephen Kwan.
Speaker 3: He's good for batting average, he's good for stretches on points.
Speaker 3: He's not I don't think a locked in consistent player
Speaker 3: or anything like that. And I mean based off that,
Speaker 3: you know, little the three month or we need to
Speaker 3: trade him. We need to trade him going into July
Speaker 3: because it's gonna get rough. I think there's a lot
Speaker 3: adjustments in Major League Baseball. I wish he just did more.
Speaker 3: I wish he could steal base Like if he could
Speaker 3: steal bases, everything.
Speaker 1: You want one to this. And you know, here's the
Speaker 1: thing about the olen basis too. Speed is important, but
Speaker 1: it's more about that craft or stolen basis, and that's
Speaker 1: the lost art form. I remember when Ricky Henderson came
Speaker 1: to the Mets and he taught Roger Sedanio, who was
Speaker 1: super fast, how to steal bases, and Roger s Daniel
Speaker 1: exploded because he understood how to get a jump, he
Speaker 1: understood about the pictures and their pickoff moves. There's a
Speaker 1: craft to stealing bases that lost nowadays that people don't
Speaker 1: put the work and the time in because it's no
Speaker 1: longer something that managers want you to do. And it's
Speaker 1: funny because I feel like managers don't want you to
Speaker 1: do it because the craft is gone and people got
Speaker 1: thrown out too much, and it's sort of a chicken
Speaker 1: in an egg scenario. But the craft are stolen bases
Speaker 1: is something I feel like an athletica like Stephen Kwan
Speaker 1: could learn if he really applied himself and actually raise
Speaker 1: his stock and raise his value.
Speaker 3: I completely agree, and not to like rebring this back
Speaker 3: up again, but you know, in a couple of years ago,
Speaker 3: I did my interview with Julia Rodriguez, and this was a.
Speaker 1: Lot of nam the show today for us. By the way,
Speaker 1: look at us, look at it.
Speaker 2: It's a classic Q and I situation.
Speaker 3: But this was in twenty eighteen and in my interview,
Speaker 3: and some people have cited it because it was like
Speaker 3: a pinnacle moment of his stealing bases that he said
Speaker 3: to me. He was like, I want to steal more
Speaker 3: bases than the Arison a folly. He's like, that's what
Speaker 3: I'm trying to do. He'd already stolen like three and
Speaker 3: the one thing he pointed out about this game was
Speaker 3: that he got thrown out and then sure enough he
Speaker 3: starts to steal. Huli Rodriguez is not the fastest person
Speaker 3: on the planet or on the field, but in the
Speaker 3: minor leagues when he's in high A, he started to
Speaker 3: take that craft really seriously and look at where he's
Speaker 3: at now, and you can't do it.
Speaker 2: And like you said, unfortunately, managers.
Speaker 3: Not all of them, Tory Leavello with the Diamondbacks hate
Speaker 3: stolen bases, so it's not all appreciated. But if the
Speaker 3: guys take it really serious, you don't have to have
Speaker 3: the game changing speed to be able to be very impactful.
Speaker 2: Julio Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: You have to have good athleticism, and you have to
Speaker 1: understand the craft of getting a lead and the craft
Speaker 1: of getting a good jump, and understanding what catchers behind
Speaker 1: home plate, what you know reading account you know so
Speaker 1: much a stone basis is reading the count. And I
Speaker 1: don't know a lot of people, you know, even even
Speaker 1: like baseball fans don't even necessarily realize that. Like you're
Speaker 1: looking for an off speed pitch to go on, you're
Speaker 1: looking for the curve ball, You're looking for a slider.
Speaker 1: You're looking for something it's harder to handle. That straight
Speaker 1: four seam fastball is not the easiest pitch to throw
Speaker 1: somebody out on. The forcing fastball is the easiest. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: the all speed pitches are not. So that's something you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta keep in mind and understand a little bit.
Speaker 1: So maybe Kwan could be that guy. It's time for trivia.
Speaker 1: Here you go, boys and girls. Who was the only
Speaker 1: infielder in again? Keyword is infielder to post a twenty
Speaker 1: plus homer twenty plus steel season in his rookie season.
Speaker 1: Only infielder twenty plus homers, twenty plus steels. If you
Speaker 1: know the answer. Drop in the Chat of Fantasy Pros
Speaker 1: MLB and subscribe to the channel. Also, this is a
Speaker 1: fun thing here Stathhead spotlight. Yesterday, Michael Perez became the
Speaker 1: first catcher in Pirates history did three home runs in
Speaker 1: a game. The most recent catchers with three home run
Speaker 1: games in the major leagues let's see Kyle Higashigawa, Travis
Speaker 1: Darnaut did it, yes, Monti Grandal, Sebb Zavala was the
Speaker 1: one too that I know. Mike Maher was very excited
Speaker 1: about dal Navarro, Victor Martinez, Mike Lieberthal back in twenty ten.
Speaker 2: Oh, Mike, Michael Press, former Diamondbacks prospect.
Speaker 1: By the way, Soriano is a good guest. By the way,
Speaker 1: it's not Alfonso. Sorry, but you're getting warm. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say. Here's a deep dive for you going
Speaker 1: into this week's action. The ten lowest ops is in
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. Some of these names not surprising. Miles
Speaker 1: Straw number two at five point fifty one, Nicky Lopez
Speaker 1: fifty fifth, excuse me, five seventy one. You expect that.
Speaker 1: Adam Fraser five eighty six. Here's one that was pretty surprising.
Speaker 1: Spencer Torkosen at five seventy three and Witt and Merrifield
Speaker 1: at five ninety one. At number nine. Robbie Grossman, by
Speaker 1: the way, was number ten at six.
Speaker 3: I was about to say, I'd like to point out
Speaker 3: there are three tigers on the ten lowest press in baseball.
Speaker 2: Number one is Jonathan Scope. Three tigers on there.
Speaker 1: Not great, No, not great. And you know understand why
Speaker 1: because you know, either somebody's a big deficit in the
Speaker 1: OBP or a big deficit in this slugging. But to
Speaker 1: be a deficit in both, you know, wit Maryfield at
Speaker 1: this stage in July first to be under six hundred ops,
Speaker 1: that's appalling for player who's been so good. We're talking
Speaker 1: two hundred hit seasons, and like, I don't expect him
Speaker 1: to hit twenty home runs, but still that that to
Speaker 1: me was the one that really stuck in my craw.
Speaker 1: Anybody on this list, you know Torkoso.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he absolutely just like jumps out on this list
Speaker 3: because if you look at this, you could make the argument,
Speaker 3: like Grossman maybe not in scope as far as power hitters,
Speaker 3: but Spencer Torkelsen, yes he had some contact issues, but
Speaker 3: we never thought like this.
Speaker 2: And also look at the adjustment the rookies have had.
Speaker 2: All the rookies have.
Speaker 3: Really kind of come through and broken out a little
Speaker 3: and mean Julio Rodriguez, obviously, Bobby Witt, and Tortosen has
Speaker 3: never gotten it together. It is really worrisome. He had
Speaker 3: this big thing on him about low off speed pitches
Speaker 3: even at ASU. And I actually remember in the first
Speaker 3: game in the AFL, Mackenzie Gore was pitching against him
Speaker 3: or first or second whatever, and Gore just attacked Torkalsen
Speaker 3: low in the zone attack attack attack, and he got Torkosen.
Speaker 3: He was able to take advantage of him. And I'm
Speaker 3: just worried that there's too big of a book out
Speaker 3: in Torklesen's not adjusting.
Speaker 1: You buy him in Dynasty and Keeper now absolutely absolutely,
Speaker 1: I think it's dirt dirt. I mean, here's the thing is,
Speaker 1: if we know that obviously he knows this. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so many metrics, so many measurable, so many, so
Speaker 1: much data that they have about. Look, this is what
Speaker 1: they're doing to your kid. You got to adjust to it.
Speaker 1: It's kind of frustrating when a player doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: be adjusting to it. And look at and it's a
Speaker 1: Torkosen thing. And Andrew Vaughn's a player who has adjusted.
Speaker 3: I feel, and that's what I'm saying. Look at Andrew Vaughn,
Speaker 3: he's a better contact hitter. Those two were kind of
Speaker 3: like one A one B for many years, especially in
Speaker 3: the Pac twelve as a call and asu hitter. So
Speaker 3: I have a lot of belief I've seen Tourkosen in
Speaker 3: person from college to even in the minor leagues that
Speaker 3: I think this can be rectified.
Speaker 2: It's just going to take longer.
Speaker 3: And Andrew Vaughn is like a prime example of he
Speaker 3: finally found his footing and sometimes it just takes longer.
Speaker 2: They're not all Julio and Bobby Witt.
Speaker 1: All right, the answer is no mare Garcia para and
Speaker 1: that's Splunk, got it correct? Congratulations Splunk. It's nice to
Speaker 1: you there. In all fairness, I mean, Mike Maher also
Speaker 1: said it. But who wants to give Mike Mayor credit
Speaker 1: for anything? All right, let's get to the stat hero
Speaker 1: from me yesterday. You say Kakuchi, I say good start,
Speaker 1: six innings, one earned run, eight k's Joe Musgrove. We
Speaker 1: mentioned his ten K performance. Luis Garcia one earned over
Speaker 1: five and a third. Luis Sevarino has been very solid
Speaker 1: this year for the most part, to earned run six k's,
Speaker 1: excuse me, four K six innings, Kyle Hendrix six innings
Speaker 1: to earn seven k's. The hitters, certainly, Michael Perez was
Speaker 1: the guy with the three homers, Patrick Wisdom with two,
Speaker 1: Justin Turner with two, Ramon Loreano hit two, Derek Hall
Speaker 1: hit two. Then we have Tommy Famm with a homer
Speaker 1: three for five task Carnandez who's been much better. He
Speaker 1: was one of our favorite bi lows a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you did PJ. Higgins, which I believe is a
Speaker 1: store on Diagon Alley somewhere where I was in the
Speaker 1: Harry Potter world. I went to p J. Higgins, got
Speaker 1: a few, got a cauldron and a few other things there.
Speaker 1: And Jacksonwinsky with another home run. Look, Jackson Winskey's gonna
Speaker 1: strike out a ton two. CA's hitting bombs. He is
Speaker 1: only thirty percent rostered on CBS right now.
Speaker 3: Thirty I don't understand, I don't care.
Speaker 1: I mean, Joey Gallo's got a higher ross persntion Jackson
Speaker 1: Winskey Jackson to joke Alla is the worst. Look you
Speaker 1: know me how I always felt about player in baseball?
Speaker 1: Ian Anderson two innings, seven earned runs. He was a zero.
Speaker 1: Graham Ashcraft also not good. I'm pretty sure Graham Ashcraft
Speaker 1: was in Oasis. Wasn't he? I feel like, wasn't he
Speaker 1: like the bass player for Oasis?
Speaker 2: That's a good pullback a way.
Speaker 1: Champaigne super nova in the sky. Adrian Martinez, Hazus Cruz,
Speaker 1: and Max Schrock also were bad. But again, who cares hitters?
Speaker 1: Yesterday Josh Johnson over four three k's Chris Taylor, who
Speaker 1: is not being good over the last two weeks. He's
Speaker 1: hit in the buck eighty. I was looking into his
Speaker 1: stats before the game today. Also home run calls am
Speaker 1: your Cruz obviously homeward. Now, apparently you guys did a
Speaker 1: contest the other day too without me, So what happened
Speaker 1: there with the content? I was a rookie.
Speaker 3: It was a rookie contest, So rookie batters, if they
Speaker 3: hit one, you get two, and I don't remember. Mayor
Speaker 3: took advantage of that too. Mayor has been on an
Speaker 3: incredible hot streak since you were gone.
Speaker 1: Yes, since I've been gone. I'm off the board for
Speaker 1: the first time. There's the board. You can see it
Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel. High Cobies is up to thirty,
Speaker 1: so running away with it. So I'm still at twenty
Speaker 1: two I think, or whatever I am. So now I
Speaker 1: can't believe. I was gone for a week and had
Speaker 1: Alvarez and he hit one home run. I get one.
Speaker 2: He did hit one.
Speaker 3: He hit one because I had him with you, I
Speaker 3: think on Monday. But then he they ran into each other.
Speaker 1: I got it. Well, that's kind of it's uncomfortable to
Speaker 1: run into each other. It hurts. Now, all right, let's
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Speaker 1: a total basis even money on my board. Jordan Alvarez
Speaker 1: and Garrett Cole tonight against the Cleveland Guardians six and
Speaker 1: a half k's that's the mark. I'll take the over.
Speaker 1: The juice is a lot minus one forty five, but
Speaker 1: it's worth the squeeze. What do you like today on
Speaker 1: the prop that boy, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: If I didn't see if Alvarez is in the lineup,
Speaker 3: that would be something I would beg into. I picked
Speaker 3: two Joe Ryan strikeouts four and a half overlike Eliki
Speaker 3: wi willm Contreras, total bases one and a half, even money.
Speaker 3: Those are a couple that I'm digging today, dig in today,
Speaker 3: digging in today, you get we inter Just watch me
Speaker 3: and my kid just watched the first Spider Man and
Speaker 3: I had to explain Macho Man to him.
Speaker 2: He didn't understand.
Speaker 3: Like he had not opened a professional wrestling he was like,
Speaker 3: he's like, but that's bone Son. I'm like, no, no,
Speaker 3: he's really macho man. He's like and then they did
Speaker 3: the elbow and he's like did that hurt? And I'm
Speaker 3: like he's like, is that real? And I'm like, oh, buddy,
Speaker 3: you just asked the biggest mind question of our Yes,
Speaker 3: that real craft.
Speaker 2: It hurts.
Speaker 1: You know, it still hurts. Trust me, I did combat
Speaker 1: for twenty years as a stun person. It hurts, but
Speaker 1: there's ways to take it. A difference between you know,
Speaker 1: feeling it and pain. Trust me, you feel a lot
Speaker 1: of it. And these guys are you know, the steel chair.
Speaker 3: Came out and Bone saw boone saw hit Spider Man.
Speaker 3: He hit him with that, and my kid was like,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, was that real?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, buddy, will have a conversation.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, dude, that those Spider Man movies
Speaker 1: are so cheesy by today's standards, it's unbelievable. And what
Speaker 1: pissed me off is the New Spider Man The knew
Speaker 1: Uh Doctor Strange, directed by Sam Raimi, who they never
Speaker 1: should have left back in the Marvel universe. Nope, nearly
Speaker 1: ruined that movie.
Speaker 3: I mean, he didn't even watch WandaVision. He was just
Speaker 3: like just making a story. I gotta tell you, I'm
Speaker 3: really out on Sam Rai. I'm not a Sam Raimi
Speaker 3: guy at all, like at all.
Speaker 1: There's one or two good ones. Back is a great.
Speaker 2: Movie back in the nineties eighties. Yeah, okay, sure, Evil dea.
Speaker 1: If darkness is fun. But they're fun cheeseball corny. I
Speaker 1: don't want that was fun.
Speaker 3: When they didn't have when there was no skillers, no,
Speaker 3: like you know, computer anime, when they couldn't do anything
Speaker 3: like that. And he's like, look, I'm doing this with
Speaker 3: puppets and stuff like, no, I'm.
Speaker 1: Doing this with puppets.
Speaker 3: He's like, I'm telling this little fun story, and everyone
Speaker 3: else is like, hey, we can do all this amazing
Speaker 3: stuff with television now and green screens.
Speaker 2: I'm Sammy even that.
Speaker 1: He's just complete, Like the third one, especially by the
Speaker 1: time we get to that third Tobe Maguire Spider Man.
Speaker 3: But they have the scene where Toby Maguire is like,
Speaker 3: look at haw a walk. That's the worst scene in
Speaker 3: any super It kills Superhero.
Speaker 1: The slow motion screaming no that goes on in some
Speaker 1: of those movies. It's just cornball.
Speaker 3: We're going backwards too, he wanted My kid watched the
Speaker 3: Tom Holland he loved Andrew Garfield ones. And then now
Speaker 3: we're we're dealing with Tobey Maguire.
Speaker 1: Well we did. We did the Tom Holland, then into
Speaker 1: the We went backwards into Tobey Maguire and then the
Speaker 1: Garfield ones, which I had never seen, and I thought
Speaker 1: they were actually pretty good.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Take here, Andrew Garfield might be the best Spider Man
Speaker 3: Tom Holland. I know it's blasphemous, Andrew Garfield rewatching those
Speaker 3: in He's He's incredible.
Speaker 1: I think if you're a fan of the I think
Speaker 1: if you're a fan of the comics, you're probably correct.
Speaker 1: I think he's the most comic book like Peter Park.
Speaker 3: And the cartoons, but I like the He's the most
Speaker 3: presentation of Spider Man of that Marvel's ever given us.
Speaker 2: In the cartoons.
Speaker 1: He's always you're gonna get more heat for this or
Speaker 1: for the annual cruise.
Speaker 2: That's that's a great question.
Speaker 1: Where's the poll? Mayor put up a poll? All right,
Speaker 1: here's your DK starting pitchers tonight. You got expensive Corbyn
Speaker 1: burns against the pirates. I don't care go for it.
Speaker 1: I'd rather have Corbyn Burns than Garrett Cole tonight. If
Speaker 1: I had to choose Joe Ryan eight point eight, that's
Speaker 1: my secondary army of the night, Christian Hovey at nine
Speaker 1: point two. If you want to mess around with Cobb
Speaker 1: and Lance Linn, you could try that. Lance lin is
Speaker 1: dirt cheap at seven to six. But I'd rather stick
Speaker 1: with Joe Ryan at eight eight point pay for a
Speaker 1: little bit more standalone cash game. Corbyn Burns tonight tournament's
Speaker 1: Christian Hovier at nine point one or Tony Gonsolon at
Speaker 1: nine point four on Fandel with the metsa Yankee to
Speaker 1: and I like those lineups to get some, you know,
Speaker 1: some good offense going tonight, DK lineup builders Mark Conna,
Speaker 1: Buddy Kennedy, Mister Kennedy and Alex Kiroloff. And then FanDuel
Speaker 1: you got Eduardo Escobar, Carson Kelly and Julie Guriel. And
Speaker 1: here's what you all been waiting for. Watch you you know,
Speaker 1: let's get her home run call. I'm taking Pete A.
Speaker 1: Lonzo for the weekend. That's where I'm going where you're
Speaker 1: going for your home run call? And then we'll get
Speaker 1: to the Joe Pizza behavior.
Speaker 3: I mean, I was gonna take Christian Walker, and then
Speaker 3: I saw Mayor had him.
Speaker 2: I'm in shock. I was in shock that he did that.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna take his guy, Raphael Devers for the
Speaker 2: rest of the weekend.
Speaker 1: In purple tuity. Here we go, ladies and gentlemen, The
Speaker 1: Joe Pisapia hair show has begun. There it is. There's
Speaker 1: the Bryce Harper one.
Speaker 2: No, it's Devil's Advocate.
Speaker 3: That's where you are trying to Yeah, you're al Pacino
Speaker 3: selling Keanu Reeves on a.
Speaker 1: I want to make a deal. I want to make
Speaker 1: a deal with you. By the way, it's very good.
Speaker 1: I wish the hack was just a little lower. It
Speaker 1: looks like I've got some like a caveman, almost like
Speaker 1: I've got some weird cranium issue.
Speaker 3: You actually look like you just look like you look
Speaker 3: like you smelly like you know, La Van. You walk
Speaker 3: out and you're like, hey man, hey man, you look
Speaker 3: like you smell like hemp.
Speaker 1: Is what I got? Oh, I totally do. Here's the
Speaker 1: something about Merry one which.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you, Joe, let's come over here. This
Speaker 3: one is my personal favorite. I think this is the winner,
Speaker 3: but I don't get to make the call.
Speaker 2: So this is my personal favorite.
Speaker 1: Here we go, here's another one here. Oh look at
Speaker 1: this one. My goodness, lord period. Personally, this one's not that.
Speaker 1: I mean, the kid can play all about that one.
Speaker 1: Somebody give me the long hair here in this one.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen that one.
Speaker 1: That one. This one, this was pretty good. I mean good.
Speaker 1: You gotta start the hairline a little lower, people, just
Speaker 1: a little. No.
Speaker 2: I think that one's perfect. Actually, oh, I mean it's
Speaker 2: weird when it's that.
Speaker 1: And then this one to me, like, I'm so happy there,
Speaker 1: I'm tall, I'm thin, I've got glorious red hair. No,
Speaker 1: you know, here's the thing. I love all these. I
Speaker 1: want to extend this over the weekend. So if anybody
Speaker 1: else has got one, I want to extend this over
Speaker 1: the weekend. If you've got a Joe Piezapia hair photoshop,
Speaker 1: you're bored on a Friday or a Saturday. Over the
Speaker 1: holiday weekend. We have no show on Monday because of
Speaker 1: the holiday. We'll be back again Tuesday. So if you
Speaker 1: got any more of these again, go to YouTube see
Speaker 1: what you're up against. I want to give somebody a
Speaker 1: free fantasy pros hat. Let's get on it. I want
Speaker 1: to give away free stuff Tuesday. I'm gonna announce the winner.
Speaker 1: So those I gotta say that, the grom One's very good.
Speaker 1: The Guriel is kind of where I'm leading right now.
Speaker 1: But the dust is.
Speaker 2: Something about piece of Pia I think is pretty special.
Speaker 2: Is that hair jail? Is that hair jail?
Speaker 1: It's my again, It's straight from my high annual.
Speaker 2: That's something about Joey. Something about Joey.
Speaker 1: Pretty much. There you go, all right, Chris is gonna
Speaker 1: be mad us for screwing up all of his is
Speaker 1: wonderful overlay work with all of these, but it's worth
Speaker 1: it because we got a good joke out of it.
Speaker 1: I hope you had fun. It's great to see you
Speaker 1: all again. Like I said, we're off Monday. We'll be
Speaker 1: back on Tuesday for more glorious baseball talk in the meantime.
Speaker 1: That'll do it for us, But the story of the
Speaker 1: game goes on for the Welsh. I'm Joey p We'll
Speaker 1: see you next time.
Speaker 2: Kids.
Speaker 1: Great weekend,