Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome into the final leading off of
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two season. I am one of the hosts,
Speaker 1: Chris Welsh, joined by the great and powerful Joe Piezapia. Bye,
Speaker 1: God bye, God. He's here, Joe Pizzapia, Hey Yo, Hey yo,
Speaker 1: what's going on?
Speaker 2: Welsh? I know like it's the last day of baseball season.
Speaker 2: I always like to come on the last day and
Speaker 2: say hello to those people who are still listening for
Speaker 2: the baseball show. I see my cousins still here, and yes,
Speaker 2: that is a football guy. I have not watched US
Speaker 2: baseball in the last thirty days. I'm not gonna lie,
Speaker 2: but I think Aaron Judges hit a lot of homers,
Speaker 2: and yet I still don't think I'm anywhere near winning
Speaker 2: that contest. Somehow, I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 1: Well, how do you pick thereon Judge in perpetuity from
Speaker 1: the start of the season, you would be winning this content. True,
Speaker 1: you picked it a couple of months ago. You know,
Speaker 1: it was funny Donnie and I if people don't know,
Speaker 1: cousin Johnny Donnie and lives actually right near me out
Speaker 1: here in Arizona. And we all got to hang out
Speaker 1: and we were trying to we were trying to coordinate something.
Speaker 1: We were gonna even do a call today. I got
Speaker 1: so busy yesterday I forgot. But he was getting to
Speaker 1: the point where Donnie was gonna come to my house
Speaker 1: and then just appear in the background that you.
Speaker 2: Know, if you give him your address, he might do
Speaker 2: that anyway, just random mind now, But.
Speaker 1: I got I also, I got like a sick kid
Speaker 1: or two, so I don't want to bring anybody into
Speaker 1: my house and that if you know what's going on.
Speaker 1: But we were going to do a whole thing with
Speaker 1: that and like cousin Donnie show up. But it's been
Speaker 1: a good season, and you have been missed, my friend.
Speaker 1: I've been trying to miss on the court as the
Speaker 1: substitute teacher. But it is good to see your face
Speaker 1: me personally. It's good to do a podcast with you.
Speaker 1: It's been quite a bit. We haven't got to do
Speaker 1: any football and it's been baseball and a bit. So
Speaker 1: it's good to see that beautiful bald head, that beautiful
Speaker 1: that beautiful smile, that Joe piece of Pierre resonates. And
Speaker 1: it's good to have the crew back together, which if
Speaker 1: you know, you think about it, Joe, you and I
Speaker 1: in day one so far this year, which was a
Speaker 1: new turn for us.
Speaker 2: That's rights. And I'm another year older now too since
Speaker 2: I last saw you, So that's that's happened as well.
Speaker 2: I'm wearing my leading off shirt as well, representing the
Speaker 2: brand today hanging out. I will say this, I have
Speaker 2: been sort of, you know, quietly following what's going on.
Speaker 2: The Aaron Judge stuff is amazing, and I think that
Speaker 2: the Yankees are going to be so upset that they
Speaker 2: didn't try to get that contract done earlier because he's
Speaker 2: thirty one years old. Well, he's thirty one years old,
Speaker 2: and if he wins a triple Crown, how do you
Speaker 2: not overpay this man? Like, how do you how do
Speaker 2: you sell that to the fan base At this point
Speaker 2: you can't. So They're gonna end up giving Aaron Jodge
Speaker 2: a bad contract because they were trying to cheap out
Speaker 2: on the front end. And I'm enjoying that that I'm enjoying.
Speaker 2: I'm enjoying all the Justin Verlander shares that I not
Speaker 2: cash out of that stayed true, no matter how tempting
Speaker 2: it was at times. I predicted the demise of Shane
Speaker 2: McClanahan when last I saw you, so or on pace
Speaker 2: with that, and my Mets are still relevant, so go
Speaker 2: figure they're still in the hunt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, things are things are working out in that respect.
Speaker 2: And Alvarez got called up today. Did you see that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that. Yeahs it's crazy. It's actually
Speaker 1: it's like a really crazy time. But it is good
Speaker 1: to have you on here. So like the theme though,
Speaker 1: this is where if the world wanted to perfectly set
Speaker 1: you an eye up, this would have happened. So last
Speaker 1: night I'm doing my stuff and as a little thing,
Speaker 1: I don't know if people know they saw that that
Speaker 1: it's a huge, crazy thing. But I'm gonna be doing
Speaker 1: some content with CBS Fanacy Baseball a little plug there,
Speaker 1: and I was kind of prepping for that. And I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there and I'm watching and I noticed Shohito Tani
Speaker 1: has a no hitter going through the seventh and I go,
Speaker 1: oh my god. Joe Piezapia is coming back on the
Speaker 1: show tomorrow. And if there is one thing, if there
Speaker 1: was a theme to this year, it would have been
Speaker 1: the constant, maybe nauseating conversation around Otani versus judge MVP.
Speaker 1: All I wanted in the world was for Otani to
Speaker 1: throw a no hitter. You and I to come on
Speaker 1: here and then we get to burn it all down.
Speaker 1: We get to turn the whole ship down. Unfortunately we
Speaker 1: don't get to Otani still with an incredible performance. I
Speaker 1: was watching some of it. He looked gassed and we
Speaker 1: got a note here, Matt Birch, this is tweet. Otani
Speaker 1: now fifteen wins with a two three five E almost
Speaker 1: twelve K per nine in twenty seven pitching starts this year.
Speaker 1: The only players all time to post those numbers are
Speaker 1: better in a season Pedro Martinez and Randy Johnson. I
Speaker 1: would like to point out that is just one of
Speaker 1: his personalities. That is the pitching personality. The hitter personality
Speaker 1: is still there. I was also doing a early mock
Speaker 1: draft twenty twenty three, early early mock draft, and Bogman
Speaker 1: and I in our final in this League Baseball episode.
Speaker 1: For like a month, we were looking at values and
Speaker 1: looking at Yahoo system. Otani is a top thirty five player,
Speaker 1: both parts of him because, as you know RPID Yahoo,
Speaker 1: he's stupid. Yeah here, which is the dumbest thing on
Speaker 1: the planet. I hate it to this day, but literally
Speaker 1: both versions of him are top thirty five players. Yet
Speaker 1: you know Judge is still going to run away with it.
Speaker 2: Joe, Yeah, he is. And the interesting thing is he's
Speaker 2: actually a lot closer to the people realize to Verlander
Speaker 2: in a lot of ways. Both twenty seven starts for them,
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty one innings for Otani, one hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy for Verlander. Otani's got more strikeouts, but the
Speaker 2: whip is lower for Verlander point eight five, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: It's under one, and the era for Verlander is under two,
Speaker 2: which is one point eight. So it's I feel like
Speaker 2: he's going to get shut out of both awards, and
Speaker 2: I think you could have made a case that you know,
Speaker 2: he could have won both. You know, it's and we've
Speaker 2: seen that happen before, where like Verlander, Roger Clemens, guys
Speaker 2: who have won the Cy Young at MVP in the
Speaker 2: same season, but it's a pitcher doing it. The fact
Speaker 2: that you know you have somebody who could legitimately do both,
Speaker 2: but Aaron Judges just having that special season. And it's
Speaker 2: funny because last year Vlad had a season that was
Speaker 2: not historic, but on triple crown pace there for a
Speaker 2: while and we all said, it doesn't matter if he
Speaker 2: wins a triple crown. I think it's the sixty one
Speaker 2: home runs. It's because he's a Yankee. That's why it's
Speaker 2: taken off to what it has. But I keep going
Speaker 2: back to the same thing too, which is, you know,
Speaker 2: if you are the Angels, you are not going to
Speaker 2: win next year. It's not happening. Your team is terrible
Speaker 2: outside of Mike Trout who hardly ever plays and shoey Otani,
Speaker 2: who's amazing. This is your chip to move to remake
Speaker 2: this organization. And if they don't do in the offseason,
Speaker 2: I think it's a huge mistake. And I know it's
Speaker 2: a pr nightmare, but so is losing. And I don't
Speaker 2: know how many years you can have a team that
Speaker 2: doesn't make the playoffs like they do with a salary
Speaker 2: cap or salary I should say as high payroll high as.
Speaker 1: They do, you know. And the funny thing is you
Speaker 1: could go both ways, like can they even trade him? Now?
Speaker 1: After this season? It looks even tougher, but it would
Speaker 1: have been even more impossible if you were to win
Speaker 1: the MVP. How can you trade the MVP two straight years,
Speaker 1: so you could maybe get out from under it. One
Speaker 1: of the interesting things. So I went to go take
Speaker 1: a look and see what was out there. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what was still out there at DraftKings to
Speaker 1: look at the awards. That was our thing we did
Speaker 1: for so long. It's nostalgic. Ah, we get to go
Speaker 1: and look back at the Oh, well it's gone. They're
Speaker 1: all gone, but they're all still One bet that is
Speaker 1: out there, and it is fascinating. If you want to
Speaker 1: get down and dirty for the next what is it,
Speaker 1: five days of baseball? Six days of baseball? I want
Speaker 1: to get down and dirty. You have this bet available
Speaker 1: for you, and the juice is interesting. It is Aaron,
Speaker 1: and I want to get your take on this. Aaron
Speaker 1: judged to win the Triple Crown minus one fifteen on
Speaker 1: both sides, yes or no. So check this out. Home
Speaker 1: run in the bag, RBI in the back. He is
Speaker 1: point zero two batting average points behind Luisa Rise. Right
Speaker 1: now he has a three thirteen batting average. Louisa Rise
Speaker 1: has a three to fifteen batting average. He has to
Speaker 1: make that up in this time. Would you what side
Speaker 1: would you bet?
Speaker 2: Because you can they have left tier schedule wise or
Speaker 2: the last remaining games for the Yankees. That has something
Speaker 2: to do with it too, because if those teams have
Speaker 2: quit and those teams are thrown out, you know, Jabebroni pitchers.
Speaker 2: It makes me like the Judge probably, I think it's
Speaker 2: interesting you're getting minus one fifteen. I wouldn't have thought
Speaker 2: it was that much. I thought it was like minus
Speaker 2: one oh five.
Speaker 1: See I well, oh really, I actually thought they might
Speaker 1: like play the no to like minus one forty and
Speaker 1: the yes to like minus one oh five. They might play,
Speaker 1: but they're literally just hedging on it right there. So
Speaker 1: they've got the Orioles and the Rangers to finish out
Speaker 1: the year, and you know, no foot is being to
Speaker 1: take off the gas with Judge going for number sixty
Speaker 1: two and continuously trying to run this out. So that's
Speaker 1: what you've got for the Yankees moving forward. Six games
Speaker 1: left and.
Speaker 2: They're in Yankees or No, they're on the road.
Speaker 1: That's a key marker here. They are the next three
Speaker 1: against Baltimore, it is, but they finish out the year
Speaker 1: of four game stretch in Texas and the twenties is
Speaker 1: kind of a neutral park.
Speaker 2: Just said, you know, I think Vegas is telling you
Speaker 2: they feel pretty confident that he's going to get it,
Speaker 2: because I would have thought, you know, this would have
Speaker 2: been a different number personally, so I think it.
Speaker 1: But it's both sides are one fifteen though, like you
Speaker 1: think that confidence.
Speaker 2: The yes again, everything you know, I think for this
Speaker 2: is when those everything has to break right where batting
Speaker 2: average is so fluky, you know, in terms of like hits.
Speaker 2: You know the fact that it's not a bigger number
Speaker 2: for the yes with the juice, like it was like
Speaker 2: minus one thirty or something like that, or I'll excuse me,
Speaker 2: it wasn't you know something where they were enticing you more.
Speaker 2: I think that, yeah, I kind of think that I
Speaker 2: would go towards the yes side of this one.
Speaker 1: Actually, well see, but that's kind of the thing is
Speaker 1: I also think, like who in God's name is going
Speaker 1: on there and betting no? So I think that that's
Speaker 1: where they could have played to the juice more.
Speaker 2: Everyone who hates the Yankees, well yeah, but I mean,
Speaker 2: if you hate the Yanks, you really hate Judge that much,
Speaker 2: you hate that he can't get a triple crown. It's
Speaker 2: the only thing I think you do I think you
Speaker 2: still do ask ask the where's where's uh, you know,
Speaker 2: the cardinal fans in here? Where's were wearing wonky penguin
Speaker 2: in here? What does she think about this?
Speaker 1: That's I'm curious in the chat who's making or what
Speaker 1: side of this bet are you making? He gets it
Speaker 1: or he doesn't. He has point zero two batting average
Speaker 1: points behind Louisa Rise. Let me see if there's anybody
Speaker 1: else that's closed here. Xander Bogarts has a three zero nine,
Speaker 1: So yeah, this is a one. This is a two
Speaker 1: dog race here because Xander Bogarts is point zero four
Speaker 1: batting average points behind. A break is not going to
Speaker 1: do it, so qualified, that is it? Luisa Rise versus
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge point zero two batting average between the yes
Speaker 1: or no on whatever side gets it. I think it's
Speaker 1: a fascinating bet right now because we can't do our
Speaker 1: MVP bet because.
Speaker 2: You know what's you know what? Also, I hope that
Speaker 2: you know, I know we talked a lot of fantasy.
Speaker 2: We did talk a lot of wagering this year too.
Speaker 2: I want people to feel more comfortable making baseball wagers
Speaker 2: because I think that you know, fantasy is a very
Speaker 2: long drawn out thing, you don't get as much action
Speaker 2: on it. I think if you were smart this year
Speaker 2: and you didn't even have to make very big wagers
Speaker 2: on things that you could have come out really positively.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw some of and this is straight from
Speaker 2: sportsbook on my bets. Julia Rodriguez fifteen bucks, right, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna win ninety seven to fifty on that fifteen dollars investment, right, okay,
Speaker 2: Paul gold Schmidt, a ten dollars investment, gonna win fifty
Speaker 2: two bucks on that, right, A Hunter Green, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take a bath on. I was very aggressive. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: lose it. That's gone, that's done. Justin Verlander ten bucks
Speaker 2: to win two sixty and that was at the plus
Speaker 2: twenty five hundred. At plus thirteen hundred, I put another
Speaker 2: ten bucks in there plus one forty, so I got
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty dollars in and then another one
Speaker 2: fifty dollars where I tripled down at plus seven hundred,
Speaker 2: four hundred dollars, So a combined let's see twenty seventy
Speaker 2: dollars on Justin Verlander is going to net me almost
Speaker 2: five hundred. Actually, no, on a thousand what am I
Speaker 2: saying almost one thousand dollars. You can do this, everybody.
Speaker 2: This is not hard. You don't have to have a
Speaker 2: lot of money to make betting on baseball work for you.
Speaker 2: You have to pay attention to it. Like the stock market.
Speaker 2: You have to cash out when you can, and you're
Speaker 2: gonna lose some money here and there. You're gonna make
Speaker 2: some money here and there. But the trick is, can
Speaker 2: you get some of the big things? Right? I think
Speaker 2: I have judge as well, Sandy al Contra. Ten dollars
Speaker 2: is going to win ninety on that, fifteen dollars is
Speaker 2: going to win eighty two to fifty on that, and
Speaker 2: that's it for the baseball bets there. So look, I
Speaker 2: want people to stop with this nonsense of like, well
Speaker 2: I don't have enough money to wage or it's a
Speaker 2: hard thing. Well it's not. Just follow along with us
Speaker 2: when we say we're doing it, do it along with us.
Speaker 2: Five bucks ten bucks again, a seventy dollars investment is
Speaker 2: now going to become one thousand dollars, right. I bet
Speaker 2: that is more than most people win in all their
Speaker 2: fantasy all year round from playing fantasy baseball.
Speaker 1: Right now, see season long bets are almost think of
Speaker 1: it like best ball at this point, because what it
Speaker 1: is is your investment is something that you're You're just
Speaker 1: tracking from a fun perspective to be cashed out at
Speaker 1: the end of the year. There you go, Donnie, that's right,
Speaker 1: Joey drinks are on you. So for sure on that side,
Speaker 1: I'd also say that the n seat, like there's steps,
Speaker 1: you know, the long award season stuff is fun to bet,
Speaker 1: but you also can find your niche, you know. I
Speaker 1: think the exposing of like the betting the first five
Speaker 1: has been a lot better than just betting like run
Speaker 1: lines total, the prop market has been fun. I think
Speaker 1: we found out strikeouts are probably.
Speaker 2: The first five when you have those those big pictures
Speaker 2: on the mound too, you know, like how are those
Speaker 2: first five innings? You know, there's there's ways to do it.
Speaker 2: And I'm not somebody like you know, I'm actually not
Speaker 2: a betting person. Like I've been to Las Vegas twice
Speaker 2: one the first time I was there, I never played
Speaker 2: a single thing. I know, people are like, what are
Speaker 2: you crazy? Like I just didn't care. I don't care.
Speaker 2: It's not my thing. But if you know baseball and
Speaker 2: you like baseball. There's ways to turn that into something
Speaker 2: that is a car payment or or you know, a
Speaker 2: nice weekend with your kids somewhere, or a nice weekend
Speaker 2: away from your kids.
Speaker 1: Betting interest to have different fun. By the way, side note,
Speaker 1: the first time I went to Vegas is ampletely truor sorry,
Speaker 1: first time I ever went to Vegas. When I was
Speaker 1: old enough. We stayed at New York, New York. We
Speaker 1: were with a friend. They were the girls were up
Speaker 1: at the hotel. Me and my friend walk down, go.
Speaker 2: To a.
Speaker 1: Oh god, what is it roulette table? I go put
Speaker 1: it on. My birthday's twenty two, So I put it
Speaker 1: on Black twenty two, twenty bucks, Black twenty two, hit
Speaker 1: Black twenty two. You've never seen like a dealer like
Speaker 1: the guy through it. He was so annoyed because it
Speaker 1: was like he's like, you guys, just get I'm like,
Speaker 1: just got here, blah blah blah, Black twenty two. Very
Speaker 1: first time I ever played roulette in my life doing anything.
Speaker 1: Why would you pick the full on number only put
Speaker 1: one bet down? Yeah, Vegas. So sometimes you can also
Speaker 1: hit that with baseball, and there's a lot out there
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 2: Think about early on too, and we were doing some
Speaker 2: of these shows together where we talked about, like the
Speaker 2: win total of the Mariners this year was eighty two
Speaker 2: and a half, right, and we said that's too low.
Speaker 2: They were in a five hundred team last year. Look
Speaker 2: how much better they got year over year and they
Speaker 2: got to have Julio this year. There's things that you
Speaker 2: can do, and there's ways you can look it where
Speaker 2: you take all this fantasy baseball knowledge and while you're
Speaker 2: playing fantasy baseball, use it to make some more immediate
Speaker 2: and long term money because it can be done. And
Speaker 2: I think that was the one thing I'm most proud
Speaker 2: in the last two years that we've done on this
Speaker 2: show is we've taken the fantasy stuff. We've wrapped it
Speaker 2: into the gambling stuff. We've made it kind of one
Speaker 2: thing where people can go out there and be successful
Speaker 2: with it. That's what I want people to do. I
Speaker 2: want people to have some action and enjoy what's going
Speaker 2: on and take all this knowledge you're pouring over, these stats,
Speaker 2: you're pouring over these trends. You know all these things,
Speaker 2: make some investments in them, pay attention to what's going
Speaker 2: on there, because it's literally you're leaving money on the table,
Speaker 2: and you don't have to have thousands of extra dollars
Speaker 2: to end up making thousands of dollars. I've literally probably
Speaker 2: made a couple hundred dollars of investments, and I'm going
Speaker 2: to walk away this year, just like last year with
Speaker 2: Bryce Harper and Otani, a couple thousand dollars and that
Speaker 2: is huge, and it's something that I want everybody to
Speaker 2: feel more empowered about next season too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, lastly, one of the things I've
Speaker 1: kind of harped on it a couple of times was
Speaker 1: taking the awesome home run contest, which we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about at the end. Take the home run contest,
Speaker 1: and I've parlayed loosely, I would use a home run
Speaker 1: contest into betting total base props, you know, like when
Speaker 1: you do your work and you find your absolutely great
Speaker 1: point home run. I don't bet the home run like
Speaker 1: some people would do. I go bet the total base
Speaker 1: to get two total bases, so if you just miss it,
Speaker 1: you can't tell you how many times I got a
Speaker 1: guy in a homer and he would hit a double.
Speaker 1: So I agree with you full through. Something we could
Speaker 1: be talking about all off season some different ways to
Speaker 1: attack betting if you're new to it or you want
Speaker 1: to get into it or whatever. But it was fun.
Speaker 1: It was fun translating and you said it best. You
Speaker 1: can translate fantasy Info into betting and you don't have
Speaker 1: to go crazy or anything like that. All right, let's
Speaker 1: blow through some of this stuff. Joe. You mentioned one
Speaker 1: of the probably the biggest pieces here that we could
Speaker 1: hit on. For whatever reason, we're six days before the
Speaker 1: season is going to end, and the Mets are like,
Speaker 1: now it's time. Francisco Alvarez. Officially, I know he's coming up.
Speaker 1: He's eligible for the playoffs because he was on the
Speaker 1: forty man roster before we turned into September. He's gonna
Speaker 1: come up. They said he's going to hit against lefties,
Speaker 1: which they're just talking about this last night. That there's
Speaker 1: only one lefty in the lineup scheduled coming up, and
Speaker 1: it's Max Freed, So I imagine they're gonna give some
Speaker 1: other spots, most likely going to DH so that's the plan.
Speaker 1: I thought he would actually come to the Airs in
Speaker 1: a fall league which starts next week, which I'll be
Speaker 1: to get more playing time, but no, they're going to
Speaker 1: push it into the playoffs. I think he will probably
Speaker 1: strictly DH. I cannot imagine they're gonna throw this young
Speaker 1: kid out, you know, catching a Jacob mcgrahm game or
Speaker 1: anything like that, either DH, Bat and Joe. I think
Speaker 1: that's what he's going to be. And we talked a
Speaker 1: lot about Alvarez through the year. It's just weird that,
Speaker 1: you know, we were talking about him coming up when
Speaker 1: you left, and we're talking about in the day you
Speaker 1: come back that he's making his debut. So I know
Speaker 1: you haven't been a.
Speaker 2: Lot of an injury in between. Wasn't there Didn't he
Speaker 2: have an ankle or something.
Speaker 1: There's like a hand injury he was out for. That's
Speaker 1: why go to the AFL. But you know he got
Speaker 1: came back like a couple of weeks ago, and similar
Speaker 1: to what the Rockies do with Tovar Zekie, Tovar missed
Speaker 1: a ton of time, not a ton of experience. Instead
Speaker 1: of pushing him lightly, they just brought him right up
Speaker 1: to the majors. And that's what Alvarez is. Because I
Speaker 1: really truly believe that Alvarez is going to break camp
Speaker 1: with the Mets next year so a they can put
Speaker 1: his bat in at DH and be a second catcher,
Speaker 1: and see ABC would be for him to be viable
Speaker 1: for the extra award for guys finishing in the top
Speaker 1: three of rookie You can get a first round pick
Speaker 1: if your guy wins the Rookie of the Year, and
Speaker 1: you can get other compensatory picks if they finish in
Speaker 1: the top three. So the Mets are also going to
Speaker 1: be able to get themselves an extra pick with him
Speaker 1: being fully eligible next year. But to me, this is
Speaker 1: a sign he's breaking camp next year and it's going
Speaker 1: to make a very interesting fantasy guy.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. I picked him up mid year in
Speaker 2: my keeper league for a buck, and I'm going to
Speaker 2: hold him next year for the dollar escalator. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not every day you get somebody who could be
Speaker 2: a top five offensive catcher. And I always say the
Speaker 2: same thing, which is catching's always harder. You got a
Speaker 2: situation where these guys have to learn the pitchers, learn
Speaker 2: what's going on all that stuff. Offense sometimes gets fall
Speaker 2: to the wayside. But the nice thing is now the
Speaker 2: National League you have the DH Bob, so you can
Speaker 2: get him in there and maybe he ends up being
Speaker 2: part time catcher. Who knows because the bat's so good.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's the way they want to handle. We'll see
Speaker 2: what the off season brings for them, but that's definitely
Speaker 2: somebody that I agree He's going to be somebody next
Speaker 2: year that I do think is going to break camp
Speaker 2: with the team. I think if he can help them
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, they want him to help them in
Speaker 2: the playoffs. Like they're in. Steve Cohen is in. They
Speaker 2: have gone all in. I commend them for having some
Speaker 2: of the discipline they had, but at the same time,
Speaker 2: I think they did miss out on some moves they
Speaker 2: could have made. I've been looking to in the last
Speaker 2: thirty days what I've missed, and you know what, I
Speaker 2: also found that was really charming and fun. The first
Speaker 2: thirty days of this show, it felt like it was
Speaker 2: dominated by Steven Kwan. You know, he hit three twenty
Speaker 2: eight over the last thirty days. How about that.
Speaker 1: I think he ended up as like a top fifty player.
Speaker 1: When you get into like algorithmic fantasy places like how
Speaker 1: they rank it, Yeah, no, one percent. It is a
Speaker 1: full circle. We started full circle, We're ending back with
Speaker 1: Stephen Kwan doing all the counting stats. It really is
Speaker 1: fascinating speaking of stats. Let's go through a couple of
Speaker 1: stat heroes and would you look at this though, this
Speaker 1: is my favorite one from yesterday. Jared Kelnick with a
Speaker 1: double don Night, two for five, two homers, three RBI,
Speaker 1: three runs. Going into last night, Kelnick in the month
Speaker 1: of September already was rocking a two seventy batting average
Speaker 1: and only struck out in five five times in eight games.
Speaker 1: I believe it was hit his third home run in
Speaker 1: this is the ninth game here. Only little dodgy thing
Speaker 1: is everything he's doing is still off of fastballs. Both
Speaker 1: homers he hit last night solid TV over one hundred,
Speaker 1: great launch angle as he does, but both were fastballs.
Speaker 1: But we're getting this little diny taste of Jared Kelnick
Speaker 1: before we go into the offseason, whether he's with a
Speaker 1: new team or not. There's gonna be a little bit
Speaker 1: more biting back into Jared Kelnick, which is gonna probably
Speaker 1: be a very fun conversation for us to have in
Speaker 1: the offseason, Joe, and would be very interesting how it
Speaker 1: comes out in the Fantasy Black Book off season.
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, man, I wonkee I see in
Speaker 2: the chat saying don't fall for Kellennick, and I understand.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't care that these sitting fastballs. I
Speaker 2: care that he's identified fast balls and when they're coming
Speaker 2: into count to him, if at all, And that's good.
Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna to freak out about that because
Speaker 2: I think most of the you know, most balls the
Speaker 2: guys are gonna try are going to be fast balls
Speaker 2: most of the time. Not everyone's a good off speed
Speaker 2: pitch hitter. I wonder if Kalenick is this guy who
Speaker 2: just becomes more valuable to the Mariners this offseason and
Speaker 2: that potential than it does to some other team. I
Speaker 2: think a change of scenery would be fascinating, but it's
Speaker 2: it's also fascinating to look back and think about that trade,
Speaker 2: right that that trade got crushed when it was made,
Speaker 2: and think about how what Edwin Diaz became this year
Speaker 2: and what Jared Kalnick has been. And I think if
Speaker 2: you're the Mets, even with that cano salary you took on,
Speaker 2: you would make that deal every single day and twice
Speaker 2: on Sunday to go back there again.
Speaker 1: They love to redo that trade and just like do
Speaker 1: the opposite again, like can we get Edwin d I
Speaker 1: mean they would love to pull that off, and you're
Speaker 1: just not going to be able to do it, you know.
Speaker 2: And looking at the standings too, of you know where
Speaker 2: everyone's finishing. You know, Seattle's at eighty five wins already,
Speaker 2: so they're gonna blitter that eighty two and a half
Speaker 2: win total that they had going into the season. I
Speaker 2: think it's fascinating to see here at the end of
Speaker 2: the year, the White Sox are still two games under
Speaker 2: five hundred. After all this, they just couldn't figure it out.
Speaker 2: I think it's fasting to see Cleveland at the top
Speaker 2: because we always said Minnesota was a paper tiger and
Speaker 2: it wasn't gonna last. Those were all things that were
Speaker 2: very good. But I think the most shocking thing just
Speaker 2: in the America League is that the Baltimore Orioles are
Speaker 2: going to be a five hundred team this year. That
Speaker 2: to me is stunning and looking back at it, what
Speaker 2: we thought, oh man, you know that big ballpark factor
Speaker 2: that changed that they made. Did you think it was
Speaker 2: going to have this much? It definitely has had an
Speaker 2: impact on these games where they've been a little bit
Speaker 2: more able to stay in these home games. There's no
Speaker 2: doubt about that. Do you think it was going to
Speaker 2: have such an impact potentially because at home they are
Speaker 2: ten games over five hundred for the year. Ten at home, No.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean the positive is like the development
Speaker 1: they've been putting towards their pitching. They this is the
Speaker 1: fruits of their labor, like bringing in that while just
Speaker 1: a little bit extra space. They've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: success with the pitchers. I didn't expect them to be
Speaker 1: this good. And what's so great about it is what's coming.
Speaker 1: I mean, Adley Ruchman, I believe, had the second highest
Speaker 1: war in the second half of the baseball season, and
Speaker 1: he's going to go in in the talk of the
Speaker 1: top three catchers we're going to be drafting in fantasy.
Speaker 1: He will be a top one hundred. I actually suspect
Speaker 1: he will be a top seventy five overall pick. I
Speaker 1: think Adley, Varshow and Romuto are going to be, you know,
Speaker 1: the three catchers that everyone's vying for. And said the
Speaker 1: top one hundred. Gunnar Henderson has come up and looked
Speaker 1: fantastic and they still have more guys coming. So it's
Speaker 1: a very bright, bright bright future for the Orioles right now.
Speaker 1: And a few of the other lower teams in trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, change out the competitive balance just a few
Speaker 1: other little stat things. Is I want to get, you know,
Speaker 1: through to the home run contest. We don't need to
Speaker 1: go through all them. Hanniger did have two homers. If
Speaker 1: you're talking about y kel Nick might be expendable. That's
Speaker 1: another one of those reasons. On the pitching side of Tawny.
Speaker 1: In that game, went eight, struck out ten, did end
Speaker 1: up giving two hits, and he got it seven to
Speaker 1: two thirds before he gave up the hit. Unfortunately, walked
Speaker 1: one for down huge game. Only give up two hits,
Speaker 1: struck out ten and Jeffrey Springs, who have a whole
Speaker 1: off season conversation about how underrated I think he is.
Speaker 1: Went six, gave up three hits, five k's, has not
Speaker 1: given up more than two runs in the month of September.
Speaker 1: It's actually six straight starts where he hasn't given up
Speaker 1: two runs or more. He's only given up two runs
Speaker 1: once this whole time. So he has been insanely impressive
Speaker 1: and he will be in the off season. Joe, you've
Speaker 1: been gone the home run contest? Has did you been
Speaker 1: gone so close? This is a fun fact me and
Speaker 1: Sir Sis the only ones with a homer yesterday. I
Speaker 1: unfortunately didn't put the magic out that you and Mayer
Speaker 1: did with you know, I mean essentially you slash judge.
Speaker 1: I did cross the forty homer marker, which I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that was kind of a big thing for me
Speaker 1: in learning it.
Speaker 2: Where am I I don't even know where? I mean?
Speaker 2: Top ten you are.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately we don't have any art. We haven't had art
Speaker 1: for a little bit. Here happens, Yeah, we haven't had
Speaker 1: it for a bit. But you all are top ten
Speaker 1: the leader going into this weekend. Unfortunately, you know, leading
Speaker 1: off is done, so you guys are gonna have to
Speaker 1: go into the discord and find out the results and
Speaker 1: everything like that. Fantasy pros probably share something like that.
Speaker 1: Cat Fox is in the lead at fifty six.
Speaker 2: Oh where'd that name even come from? I know that name.
Speaker 1: It was just up up, up, up took it. Cat
Speaker 1: Fox is in the lead. Helpless in Miami and l
Speaker 1: Scale are both in second with fifty five, one homer away.
Speaker 1: High Covees at fifty four, and then you got a
Speaker 1: couple of fifties lower deep b leming go cards. Mike
Speaker 1: Mayer is eighth and Joey is ninth, except you guys
Speaker 1: are tied. You're both technically eight. You both have forty
Speaker 1: eight home runs going.
Speaker 2: Why is he ahead of me? Though? That doesn't make
Speaker 2: any sense at all.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think whoever put the leaderboard up here
Speaker 1: put Mike Mayor. I trying to actually get the logic.
Speaker 1: Why is he out there?
Speaker 2: I don't know, there is no logic to it. That's
Speaker 2: just Mike Mayor pulling strength.
Speaker 1: I think it's just because you put Judge in there.
Speaker 2: Probably. But here's the other thing too, Looking back in
Speaker 2: the season now and 're looking at it, I think
Speaker 2: it's so apparent, especially actually it's really in both leagues,
Speaker 2: but it's even more so. I feel like in the
Speaker 2: National League, how stark it is between the good, the
Speaker 2: really good teams and the really bad teams. You know
Speaker 2: where you know, you have the Mets and the Braves
Speaker 2: approaching one hundred wins. You have the San Diego Padres.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at you know, they haven't exactly been exactly
Speaker 2: where they wanted to be necessarily, but they are sixteen
Speaker 2: games over. The Phillies are still in this hunt. The
Speaker 2: Milwaukee is still in this hunt. But then after that,
Speaker 2: the Cubs are such a bad team. Colorado, Miami's gonna
Speaker 2: lose ninety games, so they already did. The Cincinnati is
Speaker 2: gonna lose maybe over one hundred, Pittsburgh iss gonna lose
Speaker 2: close to one hundred, Washington's gonna lose one hundred. Losing
Speaker 2: one hundred games is bad for baseball. And on the
Speaker 2: other side too, Detroit, Kansas City, and Oakland are all
Speaker 2: gonna be ninety plus lost teams. That's bad for baseball.
Speaker 2: And I don't know when we're going to find more
Speaker 2: parody in the league, but there needs to be more
Speaker 2: parody in the league in the sense that we can't
Speaker 2: have this continue and Baseball things that it wants to
Speaker 2: expand again, which I know they've talked about, which is absurd.
Speaker 1: I just can't even do the expand stuff. It's that
Speaker 1: just beyond me. If you keep expanding baseball, just talked
Speaker 1: about the subagman, keep expanding baseball, you're going to get
Speaker 1: to the point we are literally not you know how
Speaker 1: we had the figurative different leagues al and you're literally
Speaker 1: going to have to break the league up. You can't
Speaker 1: have thirty eight forty team you can't keep doing this.
Speaker 1: You can't expand to do markets unless you're just taking
Speaker 1: away from markets that are not doing their job and
Speaker 1: putting them in other spots. You know. I would also say,
Speaker 1: like if you're petitioning for like, well, this state doesn't
Speaker 1: have a team, well, we also don't need three in
Speaker 1: one state, you know, and you're not going to change
Speaker 1: the tradition of the Chicago Cubs of the White Sox.
Speaker 1: We don't need too much. Like, I can't do expansion.
Speaker 1: I can't do all of that talk too. It's too much, Joe,
Speaker 1: it's too much for there's too many things baseball isn't
Speaker 1: doing correctly. That would just be another in the added list.
Speaker 1: We just need it to be better, not adding more
Speaker 1: like we add a omaha.
Speaker 2: Well but I mean we've talked about it. They're never
Speaker 2: going to do a salary cap there his CBA has
Speaker 2: now agreed on and all this stuff. You know, it's
Speaker 2: just the you're trying to find the incentive. They've all
Speaker 2: got these major TV contracts and these major deals and
Speaker 2: the money's flowing in there. But I continue to say
Speaker 2: the same thing, which I know everyone thinks I'm crazy,
Speaker 2: But the regular season is just too long nowadays for
Speaker 2: what And I know it upsets a lot of purists.
Speaker 2: And I was once a baseball purist myself, and then
Speaker 2: I had my first beer, and then I realized that,
Speaker 2: you know, there's more to life than one hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty two baseball games. At this point, we just need
Speaker 2: to do it better in a better way. More playoffs,
Speaker 2: less regular season. I think that will spark some new
Speaker 2: life in baseball. Baseball should have the most life in August,
Speaker 2: because it's the point in time when the sports calendar
Speaker 2: where there's just more opportunity and you have a lot
Speaker 2: of kids who are off and there's a lot of
Speaker 2: time to watch these games. And instead they're just dog
Speaker 2: day of August games that really don't mean all that
Speaker 2: much and we're all just focused on September. That I
Speaker 2: think is is a problem that they still yet to address,
Speaker 2: and I hope that they do. I know they're never
Speaker 2: going to. I just hope at some point we get
Speaker 2: a little bit more parody, because if you've expanded the playoffs,
Speaker 2: you want to have more teams that are really viable
Speaker 2: for it. Instead we have once again, we've just gone
Speaker 2: down one more tick and we have Okay, Now, instead
Speaker 2: of these two teams fighting, now three teams are fighting,
Speaker 2: and then there's one other ancillary team. It should be
Speaker 2: six other ancillary teams. It should be hot as hell
Speaker 2: right now. We should all be thinking, oh my god,
Speaker 2: these like six teams could all make it if this happens.
Speaker 2: If this happens, it should feel like March madness. But
Speaker 2: it doesn't. Unfortunately, it feels like a foregone conclusion where
Speaker 2: we're just watching the phillies of the Brewers punch it
Speaker 2: out here at the.
Speaker 1: End, I agree that that it should be shortened, but
Speaker 1: I would you know, point you as we in this part.
Speaker 1: I would point you to how Baseball managed changing their
Speaker 1: baseballs and how fans have totally not freaked out over
Speaker 1: extending a couple inches to a base that they're adding.
Speaker 1: Baseball and fans on team change, they don't mix very well.
Speaker 1: So talk about taking games away Baseball, I'm not.
Speaker 2: Talking about sea and that's the thing. I'm not talking
Speaker 2: about taking games away. I'm talking about restructuring them. I
Speaker 2: want to restructure the games. I want to make them
Speaker 2: more playoff orient. I want to make one hundred game
Speaker 2: regular season or one hundred and one games and then
Speaker 2: I want sixty one game tournament to get to the end,
Speaker 2: and I think that would be super cool, and then
Speaker 2: run it in first week October, but can't because the
Speaker 2: way they are already past that point, it can ever
Speaker 2: be done. I'm living in a fantasy land. But I
Speaker 2: will say this, there's some wonderful things in baseball this year.
Speaker 2: The Aaron Judge home run thing has been amazing. Even
Speaker 2: from a Met fan perspective, I think it's been fun
Speaker 2: to see favorite teams like the Dodgers and Mets actually
Speaker 2: be favorite teams. I think it's been super fun to
Speaker 2: see Shoheo Tani do what he's done. Julio Ronriguez, I mean,
Speaker 2: what were your other high points this year? Welsh for
Speaker 2: the year in baseball. Julio was a big one for
Speaker 2: me too. He's just so fun to watch.
Speaker 1: I think Julio was probably one of the biggest me personally,
Speaker 1: but I think Bobby Witt it was criminally underrated and
Speaker 1: overshadowed by what Julio did. I mean, also from a
Speaker 1: fantasy perspective, we had a lot of changing of the guard.
Speaker 1: I think pitching expand a catchers I think are kind
Speaker 1: of reformed the dh brought new life into the value
Speaker 1: of having an owning catchers. Now, I mean where in
Speaker 1: most worlds a Sean Murphy wouldn't be someone you need
Speaker 1: to consider, or a halle Hendro Kirk or something like that.
Speaker 1: Those guys staying out in Dhing gives more life and
Speaker 1: Dalton Varshow has got there. I think there's a litany
Speaker 1: of highlights that we could take from it, and we
Speaker 1: can look back on from what I think has changed
Speaker 1: in Fantasy that will be expanded upon in this next
Speaker 1: season and the Fantasy Black Book, which I know is
Speaker 1: going to be in the works. Here one other shout
Speaker 1: out we want to do Joe And I don't know
Speaker 1: if you have it handy, but you know, for.
Speaker 2: I always have it handy healthy purposes.
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Speaker 2: I think that's got We ought to find budget for that.
Speaker 2: I also want to say number one, the Welsh is
Speaker 2: the best. I want to thank the Welsh for not
Speaker 2: only you know, coming on this year doing the show
Speaker 2: with me. I know he's been dealing with a lot
Speaker 2: of stuff in the last year. He is not only
Speaker 2: a great friend, he's a great co host. He's a
Speaker 2: great baseball person, He's a great human being. He also
Speaker 2: knows a whiskey, which I appreciate quite a bit. I
Speaker 2: want to thank everybody who's filled in too in the
Speaker 2: last month, because you've had I know, Casey Bubba, I
Speaker 2: know Blonkey's done it. I know we had Andrew. Who
Speaker 2: else am I missing here? I'm missing and Clegg and
Speaker 2: Chris and Chris Clegg as well. Everybody just fantastic filling
Speaker 2: in there. I also want to thank everybody who's listened
Speaker 2: and watched this show, because you guys are make it fun.
Speaker 2: Like that is why we're here every single day doing
Speaker 2: this show. Because then you guys are here at the
Speaker 2: end and there's still people watching it live on September thirtieth,
Speaker 2: that's absurd, Like, you guys are crazy personally, I love you.
Speaker 2: Thank you. It's it's amazing to be part of this
Speaker 2: little cult community to hear of people who still love
Speaker 2: baseball and still care about baseball. And you know what,
Speaker 2: I think I hope that you see this show as
Speaker 2: that platform too, because you've seen the espns of the
Speaker 2: world get rid of baseball and you've seen those of
Speaker 2: downsides that everywhere. I'm trying to grow it here Fantasy Pros.
Speaker 2: Welsh coming in was a huge part of that. I know.
Speaker 2: Last year Dan and I were doing this show, and
Speaker 2: everybody who stayed here, even on the first week, everybody
Speaker 2: didn't like Welsh. See by the end you did. I
Speaker 2: told you he's like an acquired taste. You got to
Speaker 2: stick with it.
Speaker 1: A fine one.
Speaker 2: And there's doctor Glenn see we tolerate you too, and
Speaker 2: the Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks. You're all the best.
Speaker 2: Like seriously, it's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I just want to add thank you to everybody.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what my future holds here with
Speaker 1: Fantasy Pros. This is my last show and I'm just
Speaker 1: out into the wilderness. Hopefully I'm back because I do
Speaker 1: love you all. I've enjoyed the show very much as
Speaker 1: I've explained to multiple people, it's been weird this year
Speaker 1: because a lot of what I've done is I've felt
Speaker 1: like a substitute teacher, where I've kind of been like
Speaker 1: fit well now, like filling into what other people do.
Speaker 1: So there's some things that are maybe not as natural
Speaker 1: to how I would normally be. But hopefully in the
Speaker 1: future I can continue to bring my weirdness out into
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Baseball scape, and hopefully I can do it
Speaker 1: here because I really do. I like the community, I
Speaker 1: love the podcast like the people at Fantasy Pros. I
Speaker 1: desperately missed doing podcasts with you, Joe, So hopefully you
Speaker 1: guys tolerated someone enjoyed or maybe really enjoyed me here.
Speaker 1: But like I said, I don't know what it holds,
Speaker 1: but hopefully I will be seeing you all in the
Speaker 1: near future, very very much. So, Joe, let's end this
Speaker 1: bad boy out with a home run call. You know
Speaker 1: you haven't been here for a long Let's get you
Speaker 1: home on calling me buddy, but Aaron Judge for.
Speaker 2: The first anybody but Aaron Judge? But well, no, here's
Speaker 2: this is trap? Is Maryady? Have somebody in perpetuity? No?
Speaker 2: I haven't.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I have not really seen
Speaker 1: Mayor's picks. I know he's probably making them. He has
Speaker 1: no perpetuity. I think he just comes in at some
Speaker 1: random time and does.
Speaker 2: It tonight for one night only, Pete Alonso, and then
Speaker 2: I want judge the rest of the weekend.
Speaker 1: That's Albarette.
Speaker 2: I will make a home run call tonight, give me Alonzo,
Speaker 2: and then judge the rest of the time.
Speaker 1: Okay Ooh, Julio's hurt. I mean, you know, here's a problem.
Speaker 1: It would have been hilarious if Byron Buxton was there because.
Speaker 2: I could pick him.
Speaker 1: But the guy's been earned all year, so it's like,
Speaker 1: I can't do anything with that.
Speaker 2: Ill Byron Buxton. But he's hurt.
Speaker 1: Give me Bryce Harper. I'll end out with Bryce Harper.
Speaker 1: He's got a good BVP.
Speaker 2: I gotta see what did he end up doing? Like
Speaker 2: I was started, like where is the end of the Buxton.
Speaker 1: Twenty eight homers? But I think he played like thirty
Speaker 1: eight games, So.
Speaker 2: Let's see how how many games did he play? Don't
Speaker 2: even look? I ask you how many games? Off the
Speaker 2: top of your head do you think you.
Speaker 1: Take a get? I think it was like, it's ninety
Speaker 1: two or one hundred and ten somewhere in there. That's
Speaker 1: my range I'm taking. I know, that's why.
Speaker 2: Why can't I find the game? Oh? Here we go,
Speaker 2: Here we go, games played, Here we go, ninety two,
Speaker 2: ninety two games played. Hey, twenty eight home runs, only sixteals,
Speaker 2: but twenty home runs and a lovely two twenty four
Speaker 2: batting average. There. Oh oh Byron Buxton.
Speaker 1: Oh double header for Harper, there you go go. Cards,
Speaker 1: always honest about the double headers. Can never get away
Speaker 1: with anything. All right, then I will change mine.
Speaker 2: To even at the end. This group keeps you honest.
Speaker 2: I love this girl.
Speaker 1: You know I'm gonna pick tonight Aaron Judge. I get
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge it. So that's it, all right, guys. Uh,
Speaker 1: awesome to have Joe back. I'm glad Joe you're You've
Speaker 1: been busy as hell. You got a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: going outside of podcasts and inside of podcasts that's going down.
Speaker 1: So uh, I'm glad that you were able to uh
Speaker 1: shake out a little time, especially on the last one
Speaker 1: of the season. Here. So you're a great friend, your
Speaker 1: awesome host, a great fantasy guy, and hopefully we're doing
Speaker 1: more in the near future. Joey, I'll let you. I'll
Speaker 1: let you send us out.
Speaker 2: That'll do it for us. But the story of the
Speaker 2: game goes on for the Welsh and all the Peanuts
Speaker 2: and the cracker Jacks. I'm Joey P. We'll see you
Speaker 2: next time. Kids, lead up,