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Speaker 1: to some baseball. The Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks are here,
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Speaker 1: right at it, the Welsh, because we've got a lot
Speaker 1: to go to here today, and we'll start with Byron
Speaker 1: bucks and returning to the lineup. Oh today on Thursday.
Speaker 1: How's that going for you, buddy?
Speaker 2: Oh hey, I was told he's done. I was told
Speaker 2: he's gone. It's over. Byron Buxton season way past us. All.
Speaker 2: Are you telling me that Byron Buckson is back today?
Speaker 1: That's what they're saying today? Oh today?
Speaker 2: Okay, then I'm back in the studio. As I told you,
Speaker 2: I was held up in the secret bunker yesterday until
Speaker 2: Buckson returned to the lineup. I'm back in the main studio.
Speaker 2: Maybe have Byron Buckson on some picks today, Joey.
Speaker 1: Coincidence, I think not. You all your tinfoil hats aside.
Speaker 1: You can make of it what you will. Bucks, it's
Speaker 1: back while she's out of the bunker. These two things
Speaker 1: did happen. Let's talk about something that also happened, which
Speaker 1: is Showy Otani. I'm glad I made an early wager
Speaker 1: on him for MVP again back to back, because yesterday
Speaker 1: he flirted with perfection.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: I was not into him against the Astros in all
Speaker 1: fairness yesterday it's a DFS pick. He was a little
Speaker 1: high in terms of price, tough lineup still kind of
Speaker 1: like I don't think I feel like that, But you
Speaker 1: know what, I was totally wrong. I'll take the l
Speaker 1: on that one because he struck out twelve guys there.
Speaker 1: Oh when he drove in two runs too, because he's
Speaker 1: showing up to big.
Speaker 2: Did you also hear that they said they're like, we
Speaker 2: weren't taking him out regardless of what was going on,
Speaker 2: like perfect game intact, he was going to keep going
Speaker 2: and then unfortunately he gave up.
Speaker 1: Ye okay, Aaron is trolling you, he says, Buckston. Oh
Speaker 1: for four day, Welsh, I think can stop your your
Speaker 1: happiness today. I don't don't think anything can break it.
Speaker 2: Bucks's back, Buxton's back. So we're in it. We're in it,
Speaker 2: oh for four I don't think so.
Speaker 1: All right. Seattle's Logan Gilbert, who was the pitcher we
Speaker 1: were on yesterday Blanks the Rangers for six and two thirds.
Speaker 1: He looked great again. You know, we talked so much
Speaker 1: about Gilbert in this offseason of being one of these
Speaker 1: guys that might be able to take that next leap forward.
Speaker 1: You were very bullish on Logan Gilbert. It's very encouraging
Speaker 1: to see him start off the year so strong. Welsh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think it was like last year.
Speaker 2: I had said I thought he was the number one
Speaker 2: pitching prospect in the miners, and he's just got a
Speaker 2: flurry of good pitches that he commands across the zone.
Speaker 2: You know, we're seeing a lot of guys that have
Speaker 2: been able to take advantage of this like plus command
Speaker 2: and being able to you know, hit both sides and tops,
Speaker 2: you know, vertical and horizontal parts of the zone, and
Speaker 2: like Joe Ryan some what we're gonna talk about Todays
Speaker 2: had a lot of success doing that, and Gilbert finds
Speaker 2: a lot of success doing that. He's a big, big,
Speaker 2: tall guy, and when his pitches are on and his
Speaker 2: command is on, it's big numbers, and you're starting to
Speaker 2: see it. I'm very excited. I really think, legit, Logan
Speaker 2: Gilbert could be the guy in this rotation. And I'm
Speaker 2: saying that with Robby Ray there. Really I don't know
Speaker 2: if it can happen this year, but I think he
Speaker 2: can be the guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or at least two one A's here's a great
Speaker 1: one from I think it's lomer boy. I'm reading that correctly.
Speaker 1: Is there a chance that Otani wins MVP and cy Young?
Speaker 1: I haven't seen this wager out there yet. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's impossible because of the way the American League
Speaker 1: pitching is structured right now. Garrett Cole certainly doesn't like that. Dude,
Speaker 1: I've already got my investment in Verlander. But you think
Speaker 1: about what's left. It's Bieber. Can he hold up? I mean,
Speaker 1: a continues to make starts like this, you know, Robbie
Speaker 1: Ray's gonna repeat. I don't know about that. It's it's
Speaker 1: not a crazy thing. And if somebody's gonna put a
Speaker 1: wager if bet MGM's gonna put that out there. I
Speaker 1: want to see those odds because I'm kind of curious
Speaker 1: what they are. If they're like seven and a half
Speaker 1: or nine to want somewhere in that range. I would
Speaker 1: bet on that.
Speaker 2: If he were to get what did he get last year,
Speaker 2: like one hundred and thirty innings, one hundred and forty thirty.
Speaker 1: I want to say you can double check that if.
Speaker 2: He were to push one fifty and fine and not
Speaker 2: have those like blow up ones that he does, you know,
Speaker 2: because they'll have that one game where he goes, you know,
Speaker 2: two innings, gives up eight. If he kind of maintains
Speaker 2: that's a good point, I can't imagine it would just
Speaker 2: rip the soul out of all the writers to have
Speaker 2: to like give both awards to one player. I feel
Speaker 2: like there's always makeup stuff that happens with him. I
Speaker 2: can't see them wanting to do that, But I mean,
Speaker 2: I would probably take that bet at this point simply
Speaker 2: because of what you're talking about with the Ale pitchers.
Speaker 2: It's just overall top end pitching has sucked, and Otani
Speaker 2: if he does pulls and strings up a few more
Speaker 2: of those and keeps up hitting. Yeah, definite possibility.
Speaker 1: Well, Gilito was another guy. He's already on anil.
Speaker 2: That's my guy. But he does come back Sunday. He
Speaker 2: comes back Sunday.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying it's you know, already when we're
Speaker 1: talking about innings numbers and things like that, Otani, for me,
Speaker 1: the number would have to be one sick the issue
Speaker 1: to get into that comment.
Speaker 2: Really see, I think I think if you get one fifty,
Speaker 2: you got to get like eighty percent of what he
Speaker 2: was as a hitter, and then I think you've got
Speaker 2: a I mean, you're not gonna do a six perfect
Speaker 2: or anything like that. But you know, he's got to
Speaker 2: touch crazy K numbers. He's got to touch two hundred strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Or he always touches crazy K numbers. That's the one
Speaker 1: thing he's got going for him. So it's just can
Speaker 1: he keep the elra in a good place. That's I mean, that.
Speaker 2: Would be a good The bottom line is is that's
Speaker 2: an interesting one that you put probably like you know,
Speaker 2: a quarter of a unit or something like that, or
Speaker 2: if you play low units, you know, if you're gonna
Speaker 2: like twenty five bucks or something you want to throw
Speaker 2: twenty dollars on it for the hell of it. You
Speaker 2: should get really good odds. I would suspect on a
Speaker 2: dual MVP Cy Young Award winning.
Speaker 1: I have Atani at plus three and a half right
Speaker 1: now for MVP MVP.
Speaker 2: What is say, what does Cy Young look like?
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I'll take a look at that
Speaker 1: when we run through these next things. Work in the meantime,
Speaker 1: Sandy al Contra goes eight score less, takes a no
Speaker 1: decision No One. Arnaudoso loves to go ahead Homer and
Speaker 1: the ninth draw. There, Mackenzie Gore picked up his first
Speaker 1: major league win. Congratulations for you. Mackenzie was a good
Speaker 1: outing for him across five innings of work. And the
Speaker 1: Padres won six nothing against the Reds. It was just
Speaker 1: the Reds, but still, and Joey Votto continues to struggle.
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez blasted a grand slam. Boy. Nothing is stop
Speaker 1: this guy. I told you this is you know. I
Speaker 1: had Louis Roberts the long shot for MVP, but maybe
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez on this two looks like he's in another
Speaker 1: universe right now. A lot of injuries to get to
Speaker 1: Also today, Welsh. Unfortunately, Astro's placed Altuve on the ten
Speaker 1: day IL we knew that was coming. Jadi Martinez not
Speaker 1: likely to play Thursday. He's doing with a groin issue.
Speaker 1: Keep an eye on that. And Josh Bell heading for
Speaker 1: an MRI exam on his knee and George Springer good
Speaker 1: news X rays negative on the forearm. Josh Bell, that's
Speaker 1: a piece that you know, the Nats really can't afford
Speaker 1: to lose in the middle of this lineup because it's Sodo,
Speaker 1: it's Cruise, and then I don't know what the hell
Speaker 1: else they can throw out there, So this is kind
Speaker 1: of important for that. NAT's one you gotta gotta keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that, don't you think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I completely agree with that. That team, like I
Speaker 2: said in the off season, they're doing that weird thing
Speaker 2: where it's kind of like, you know, they're they should
Speaker 2: be rebuilding, but they're not, and they're spending some money,
Speaker 2: so they have got to be at the top peak performance.
Speaker 2: They can't afford, you know, any of this nonsense to
Speaker 2: happen to them.
Speaker 1: Did you find the cy Young odds because I haven't
Speaker 1: known here now I can no, no, please, I've been
Speaker 1: looking for them, right here. Let's see that's National league.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the American League. Say Young Shoeotani fifteen
Speaker 1: to one right now, So.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you got three to one on MVP,
Speaker 2: fifteen to one on Cy Young, they got to give
Speaker 2: you like thirty to one to lockdown both, right, at
Speaker 2: least thirty to one, I guess. But they can't just
Speaker 2: add them up. They can't give you eighteen to one
Speaker 2: for both. That's ridiculous. That's gotta be.
Speaker 1: It's heard that. I just think that he's such a
Speaker 1: he's so far it advanced for MVP because what he does.
Speaker 1: Look that number, by the way, on fandals going to
Speaker 1: two sixty, it was three fifteen hours two sixty, So
Speaker 1: that's moved into the beginning of the season already, and
Speaker 1: I think it's going. The only reason, once again, one
Speaker 1: it didn't start out as a minus number is because
Speaker 1: he's a picture and because the minute he has an
Speaker 1: armed problem, it crushes him and it takes him out
Speaker 1: of the running, and his injury quotient goes up significantly higher.
Speaker 1: So he's a far riskier play, which is why he's
Speaker 1: a fun investment for MVP, because he is the undoubted
Speaker 1: favorite and the odds should be mindus of us to
Speaker 1: start the year. You know, another guy we didn't talk about,
Speaker 1: Dylan Cees, that he deserves a little bit of love
Speaker 1: in this conversation too, because he's been excellent to start
Speaker 1: the season.
Speaker 2: Also, I mean, has been a massive strikeout option. He's
Speaker 2: one of those guys that was ready to take the
Speaker 2: big jump that that kind of like I don't want
Speaker 2: to call them the middle tier of pictures because they're not,
Speaker 2: but I'm saying middle of like that first round where
Speaker 2: it's like, you know, fifty sixties, seventies and that type
Speaker 2: of range, you're outside of your aces. Those guys have
Speaker 2: kind of shined. There's been more of a shine on
Speaker 2: them than there have been the top end, where like
Speaker 2: Joe Musgrove is flying up board, Shane McClanahan leader in
Speaker 2: MLB and CSW percentage right now. And then you've got guys,
Speaker 2: all these.
Speaker 1: Guys, these exactly the pictures we just manoah, all the
Speaker 1: guys that we talked about the entire offseason saying, fade
Speaker 1: the top of pitching, Fade the top of pitching. It's
Speaker 1: just not worth the risk or the investment. And if
Speaker 1: he did that, so far, it's been good. Giliito another
Speaker 1: one of those guys.
Speaker 2: But it's like the dream. It's the dream of pitching
Speaker 2: is to fade the top end. The only other thing
Speaker 2: I wanted to add on the Otani front. I'm actually
Speaker 2: really surprised that you're not seeing books jump in right
Speaker 2: now because it's kind of a fun wager to throw
Speaker 2: in and then take it off later. Like, this isn't
Speaker 2: a bet that they're going to put up in July
Speaker 2: when he's got you know, he's second in strikeouts in
Speaker 2: the league, he's got the third best ra and do
Speaker 2: it now.
Speaker 1: I think they might put it up there, because once
Speaker 1: the juice goes minus on Otani for MVP, the action stops.
Speaker 1: So how do you ignite the action again? You create
Speaker 1: a new betting pool for Hey, what about the combo
Speaker 1: boys and girls? What do you think about this one?
Speaker 1: What if he wins both? That to me is well
Speaker 1: exactly what they're going to do, and I would look
Speaker 1: for it right before they all start. Interesting, that's actually
Speaker 1: what's going to be so difference of opinion, but both
Speaker 1: very interesting. Let's go to Joe's Tough Guys. Trevor story
Speaker 1: got beamed last night in the melon, but he stayed
Speaker 1: in the game. I saw this happen live as it happened,
Speaker 1: and I was very afraid for Trevor Story. Was watching
Speaker 1: this game actually when it did, because I got frustrated
Speaker 1: watching Carlos for don destroy the Mets, so I flipped
Speaker 1: over and I saw MLB had the red Sox. I
Speaker 1: was watching that and Trevor Story got nailed, and he's
Speaker 1: somehow convinced everybody to stay in the game, which I
Speaker 1: was shocked that they let him. Usually it's like, guys, yeah,
Speaker 1: you get hit in the head, you gotta go through
Speaker 1: the protocols. But I don't know, so good for you,
Speaker 1: Trevor Story to also tough guy? How about this one?
Speaker 1: Welsh the gel Cabrera, when asked about being one hit
Speaker 1: away from three thousand, he said, who the f cares
Speaker 1: we lost? When has this game ever been fun about
Speaker 1: individual accomplishments? That's from Michel Cabrera. That's a tough guy
Speaker 1: right there.
Speaker 2: You like that is very tough. That's the hard. Oh
Speaker 2: thing I'm gonna go back to. That's the Welsh hardo.
Speaker 2: That's the being like who cares that? The whole we
Speaker 2: don't care about individual accomplishments. It's like, all right, buddy,
Speaker 2: are you okay in August?
Speaker 1: In August, when I'm at knee deep in football and
Speaker 1: you're hosting this show, that you could change it to
Speaker 1: Welsh's heart Os, you could absolutely.
Speaker 2: Change Oh okay, and then it'll be allowed.
Speaker 1: Then it'll be allowed then, because then if I have
Speaker 1: no responsibilities at that point, can we talk about this
Speaker 1: Carlos Rodon It's been really good, so I got frustrated
Speaker 1: with him. But twenty nine strikeouts here, most by a
Speaker 1: pitcher in their first three starts for the Giants in
Speaker 1: quite some time. This is a I mean, he looked great,
Speaker 1: He looked completely in control. Do you think there is
Speaker 1: any world where Carlos Rodin can just shred that injury
Speaker 1: prone label and make an advance and become one of
Speaker 1: these guys that becomes a reliable picture in real life
Speaker 1: and fantasy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm the worst person to ask about
Speaker 2: that because I'm so defunct about injuries. But I do
Speaker 2: present you with a cheap plug alert. On the end
Speaker 2: of this League Fantasy Baseball podcast today, we had mister
Speaker 2: Nick Pollock of Pictureless and this becomes a really big
Speaker 2: piece of conversation actually is Carlos redon and to pull
Speaker 2: out yesterday I agree, like the wellshart overs is joeyp uh.
Speaker 2: We put out a poll yesterday of Carlos Dan versus
Speaker 2: Shane McClanahan. These were two guys that were both are
Speaker 2: both currently top five in swinging strike percentage and top
Speaker 2: five in CSW percentage. And these guys are absolutely dominating.
Speaker 2: And you literally have this like debate of canra Dawn
Speaker 2: stay healthy versus a young pitcher in a raise, you know,
Speaker 2: a rotation and how much do they really unleash the guy?
Speaker 2: And at the end of the day you can go
Speaker 2: here and extended conversation about it, I believe, and I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't process and work out of a world where
Speaker 2: I'm taking this guy and I'm like, he's just gonna
Speaker 2: get hurt. He's just gonna get hurt. He can't be
Speaker 2: this good because I mean, I think you can have
Speaker 2: a factor of that in But if your default process
Speaker 2: of him in conversation is well, yeah, he's not gonna
Speaker 2: last and he's gonna get hurt, then I don't know
Speaker 2: what to tell you. Is he is he at a
Speaker 2: peak of trading right now? Maybe, but I still believe
Speaker 2: so many people are working off of you will get hurt.
Speaker 2: He can't stay healthy. He's putting up ridiculously phenomenal numbers
Speaker 2: in a system or a team that takes care of
Speaker 2: pictures well, in a division that works really well for him.
Speaker 2: I think this is a potential guy. Nick Pollock, I
Speaker 2: would give one teaser on the show, said if he
Speaker 2: were to play the rest of the season, would be
Speaker 2: a top three overall pitcher. So that's where we are.
Speaker 1: I think he's more valuable to the team that drafted
Speaker 1: him right now because I don't think the trade market's
Speaker 1: going to do way to say it, Yes, it's he's
Speaker 1: more valuable to you who have him already, because I'm
Speaker 1: telling you the open market is not going to bear
Speaker 1: the value you think because everyone's too afraid. That is
Speaker 1: such a ride the wave.
Speaker 2: That is such an important thing that you say that.
Speaker 2: I sometimes I can articulate and sometimes I can't. But
Speaker 2: that statement right there, I think holds true to so
Speaker 2: much a fantasy that a player can just be more
Speaker 2: valuable to the drafted person than it is in a
Speaker 2: trade market or a bye of those guys, even if.
Speaker 1: He's still more valuable to you who drafted him, probably
Speaker 1: because the market doesn't always yield the returns you think
Speaker 1: on players like this, because there's so much to me.
Speaker 1: Let's get yeah, I mean, I agree, you're in with
Speaker 1: the Welsh he doesn't have bucks, and then maybe.
Speaker 2: You if you're in a league with me. It's one
Speaker 2: of those two things. It's if I own him, you're right,
Speaker 2: there's no value in trading him because I won't and
Speaker 2: the market is hot if you're in the league with
Speaker 2: me if I don't have him, because then you can
Speaker 2: send them to me.
Speaker 1: There you go. By the way, if you want to
Speaker 1: be a peanut and a cracker jack, make sure you're
Speaker 1: watching this show live. Jesse Ell says we need Welsh's
Speaker 1: hardos merch. I'm sure you can get that. I'm sure
Speaker 1: Welsh's only fans have that art.
Speaker 2: I can only imagine.
Speaker 1: Uh, the DFS slate is really like tonight, So we're
Speaker 1: just gonna breeze through that later in the show. But
Speaker 1: instead I wanted to to bring up some fun facts
Speaker 1: because everybody likes some fun facts. And you know, yesterday
Speaker 1: we kind of look at some individual players, so I
Speaker 1: thought today it'd be fun to look at some team
Speaker 1: numbers and some team stats. Right now, right now, these
Speaker 1: are the top five six ish offenses in baseball. You
Speaker 1: got the Los Angeles Angels, no surprise, they are, especially
Speaker 1: Tommy being fantastic. They've got sixteen homers already. The Angels.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers, duh, right there, right after them, They've got
Speaker 1: eleven homers, sixty four runs the Angels have scored sixty five.
Speaker 1: Cleveland the Guardians at sixty two runs scored. That's third
Speaker 1: best in the league. Then the Rockies against the Rockies
Speaker 1: Grant AsSalt but still sixty two.
Speaker 2: That's wow.
Speaker 1: That's surprising. The Mets at sixty one a little surprising,
Speaker 1: and the Padres at sixty one. So the Cleveland one's
Speaker 1: the one I want to talk about because I think,
Speaker 1: you know, this was a team that we went into
Speaker 1: it going wow, it's pretty much Joser Ramirez and everybody else. Now,
Speaker 1: Owen Miller went on the il Franvill's had a slow
Speaker 1: start to the season, but you think Cleveland can can
Speaker 1: kind of keep this pace up at all?
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I do, And I'm not sure I would
Speaker 2: have said that preseason because of Miles Straw, a table
Speaker 2: setter at the top because of that high end contact
Speaker 2: that Stephen Kwan provides. It is contingent on Jose Ramirez.
Speaker 2: But Jose Ramirez has picked up the team. I mean,
Speaker 2: those sixty two runs scored, I'm gonna guess like sixty
Speaker 2: of them were Jose Ramirez at this point, He's unreal.
Speaker 2: Two Grand Slams to start the year. What the positive
Speaker 2: this team has going for them is as Jose Ramirez
Speaker 2: comes down, you know, to earth a little bit freand
Speaker 2: no Reys is going to pick it back up. He
Speaker 2: looks cold as ice right now. I mean, my bold
Speaker 2: predition couldn't be look worse right now because this is
Speaker 2: not his Guy's not built for any type of cold weather.
Speaker 2: This is a warm weather, big boppin' hitting guy, a
Speaker 2: little bit streaky, and he can pick up some of
Speaker 2: the slack. I also think this team is going to
Speaker 2: be involved in the trade market, you know. I mean
Speaker 2: they've hit a little bit of gold with Owen Miller.
Speaker 2: I'm at Rosario has put up great underlining stats, which
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you just wait till he starts to unleash.
Speaker 2: I think I think there's a matter of time before
Speaker 2: he starts really really popping and They've got a lot
Speaker 2: of the pieces that might only be one or two
Speaker 2: pieces away in the trade market. So I actually think
Speaker 2: the Guardians are going to be able to maintain this
Speaker 2: throughout the year with the type of players that they have. Well,
Speaker 2: it's a very well constructed team that's just missing like
Speaker 2: one or two other solid players to build around.
Speaker 1: Now. Of course, the Penuts and the Crackerjacks. Mister Buster
Speaker 1: has a trade alert for US. Welsh receives Byron Buxton.
Speaker 1: Mike Mayer receives Ryan Mountcastle and a shocking Fantasy Pros
Speaker 1: one for one deal, so.
Speaker 2: I could see excellent.
Speaker 1: I think that he probably would. On the other side.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some pitching notes here. The Giants, of course,
Speaker 1: with Rodn and Webb at the top, yere in Vra
Speaker 1: at two three three overalls of staff, the Dodgers right
Speaker 1: behind them at two three eight, and the New York
Speaker 1: Yankees believe it or not, De Spike Gerrett Cole struggles
Speaker 1: between nestro Cotz and Savbrino giving them some good starts
Speaker 1: two five to two. The Mets, no surprise, two five six.
Speaker 1: Their pitching has been fantastic. Last night was the first
Speaker 1: bad start for bast he's had all year. And then
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Orioles at two five seven, that's the one
Speaker 1: I want to talk about.
Speaker 2: Holy crap.
Speaker 1: So Jordan Lyles one earned run on April fifteenth against
Speaker 1: the Yankees. Then Tyler Wells on the sixteenth, zero earned runs,
Speaker 1: four innings, Bruce Zimmerman, who I mean what five innings,
Speaker 1: no earned runs, Spencer Watkins who spells his name with
Speaker 1: an S, not even a C. I know that's all
Speaker 1: about against Oakland, one earned run, five innings, Chris Ellis,
Speaker 1: no earned runs. Now, look, I know it's against Oakland,
Speaker 1: and I know though the Yankees could be a little
Speaker 1: feast or famine. And then go back to Jordan Lyles
Speaker 1: again today. Oh yes, I said yesterday no earned runs.
Speaker 1: What in the hell is going on in Baltimore, Welsh?
Speaker 1: Is this a matter of you know, I know three
Speaker 1: of those games were in Baltimore with the new look
Speaker 1: Camden Yards, but still, what is this just like a
Speaker 1: strange anomaly or you think there's something to.
Speaker 2: Do something, Well, it's an anomaly. Let's not let's not
Speaker 2: even try to like bake around anything else. It's an anomaly.
Speaker 2: But the Baltimore Orioles have really really changed the way
Speaker 2: that they approach pitching, very high end analytical organization. On
Speaker 2: the prospects side, the way that they're developing guys is
Speaker 2: really really popping. I mean, they've got some incredible finds
Speaker 2: and Grayson Rodriguez and DL Hall, who are you going
Speaker 2: to be there sooner rather than later? Probably Grayson Rodriguez
Speaker 2: would be the next big prospect up I kind of assume,
Speaker 2: but you know, it's not going to just be in
Speaker 2: the minors. They're going to take a lot of the
Speaker 2: high end analytical approaches of you know, actually paying attention
Speaker 2: to the underlining stats. I'm assuming. I actually got to
Speaker 2: spend some time on the hitting side with Tim Gibbons,
Speaker 2: who was a Triple A manager and was with the
Speaker 2: AFL out here and talk about the team and how
Speaker 2: their approach is very personal guy and the team as
Speaker 2: a whole is just they are diving in to see
Speaker 2: what can they unearth from these players, and you're seeing
Speaker 2: that happen. So you know, this is pure speculation, but
Speaker 2: with how they've been treating their minor leaguers, you've probably
Speaker 2: got coaches that are sitting out there they're looking at,
Speaker 2: you know, vertical drop on pitches. They're looking at every little,
Speaker 2: you know, pitch mix, they're looking at swing strike percentage,
Speaker 2: they're looking at every single way that they can tap
Speaker 2: into these players that I don't know who Spencer Watkins
Speaker 2: is like Spencer Spencer. Spencer with an S is not
Speaker 2: someone we're familiar with. But you know, you can game
Speaker 2: plan in base It's not just a feel between a
Speaker 2: catcher and a pitcher. A team can go in and
Speaker 2: they can say, we don't want you to throw a
Speaker 2: lot of this pitch. We want you to attack this
Speaker 2: area of the zone. This is your strength. This team
Speaker 2: struggles against sliders. And I think that's a lot of
Speaker 2: big game planning where you know, there's not all big
Speaker 2: game planning in baseball, as much as we want to
Speaker 2: believe professional sports do that. And I think Baltimore is
Speaker 2: doing that right there. That's pear speculation here, but I
Speaker 2: don't think it's gonna last. It's Baltimore. Spencer has an
Speaker 2: Essen either, that's not gonna hold.
Speaker 1: I don't either. I think it's the Yankees are just
Speaker 1: up and down in Oakland's drugton No offensively so, but
Speaker 1: it is fun. It's fun to think about and look
Speaker 1: early trends when it comes to wagering and dfs very important,
Speaker 1: or even sending your lineups and fantasy on daily basis too.
Speaker 1: And you're looking for some streaming pitchers right now. Jordan
Speaker 1: Lyles sure is out there and he's probably helping somebody's
Speaker 1: era today in baseball history, nineteen ninety four Indians at
Speaker 1: the time was the Indians now the Guardians first Basement.
Speaker 1: Eddie Murray hits home runs from both sides of the
Speaker 1: plate in a game for the eleventh time in his
Speaker 1: career to bring Mickey Mantle's record to home also moved
Speaker 1: Murray past Dave Kingman for twentieth all time Welsh Murray
Speaker 1: was one of the great switch hitters we've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Is switch hitting just not a thing anymore? I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so few guys that do it. In the eighties
Speaker 1: and even into the nineties, it was such an attribute
Speaker 1: to have. Now it just seems like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like nobody really kind of cares that the specialization really's
Speaker 1: moved in. But I remember a time where switch hitters
Speaker 1: were abundant. It doesn't seem like that that art form
Speaker 1: is going to come.
Speaker 2: Back any remember, Like to Shara, like to Shaa. He
Speaker 2: was one of like the biggest so many process for
Speaker 2: Joe World and money. Yeah, I think if I remember correctly,
Speaker 2: I could be saying this wrong. Someone can correct me.
Speaker 1: They will.
Speaker 2: I think Cedric Mullins was a switch hitter and didn't
Speaker 2: he stop this like past year or two.
Speaker 1: Don't know, I know that for sure. Maybe the peanuts. No,
Speaker 1: I feel it's a crack attack. Drop it.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's what it was. But to your point,
Speaker 2: I think you know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: what people have seen is if a guy is going
Speaker 2: to tap into his power, they want to come off.
Speaker 2: They want to come off of switch hitting, and they
Speaker 2: want the guys to focus Okay, yeah it was on Mullens.
Speaker 2: They want to focus on the strength of that power side.
Speaker 2: The switch hitters, I think the majority that you're gonna
Speaker 2: see into the future, they're gonna be players that are
Speaker 2: just built around contact, you know, that aren't trying to
Speaker 2: tap into you know, bigger pieces of power, and you
Speaker 2: know it's gonna have to have not big struggles. I think,
Speaker 2: for an instance like Mullins, that one side he really
Speaker 2: struggled with contact on it. So yeah, it's it's the
Speaker 2: maturation of baseball, taking away things that don't make sense anymore.
Speaker 2: There'll be no shifts, there'll be no switch you know,
Speaker 2: there'll be none of it at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: There will also be no other catcher ever for the
Speaker 1: Cardinals besides YadA Malina. YadA your Molina and Adam Wainwright
Speaker 1: are now in sole possession of third place in Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball history three hundred and seven games together. That's
Speaker 1: that's an impressive eyelight there for both of those guys.
Speaker 1: Now it'll trivia question. I'm sure everyone's gonna run to
Speaker 1: the Google machine. Who's ahead of them? Now Welsh knows
Speaker 1: the answer, Yeah, to the show sheet, which you know,
Speaker 1: usually Welsh doesn't, but for this show he does.
Speaker 2: But boy, these names are gonna be real easy for
Speaker 2: everybody to pick them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will give you a hint there if you
Speaker 1: could at least give the picture. I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Yea. The pitchers. You gotta think guys who
Speaker 1: were just pitchers for a team for a very long time.
Speaker 1: And of course it's it's more in the fifties and
Speaker 1: sixties era of baseball.
Speaker 2: Thanks World War to check that out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know what, the one that came to
Speaker 1: mind for me at first, I was like, I wonder
Speaker 1: if it's Whitey Ford and Yogi Berra it is not.
Speaker 1: So if you got guesses, go ahead drop him in
Speaker 1: the chat here over on our MLB channel here Fantasy Pros.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, we'll come back to that. We'll run
Speaker 1: through some of the heroes we already talked about. Otani Rodono, Alcntra,
Speaker 1: Brandon Woodrow, nice bounce back nine case for him, that's
Speaker 1: what we want. Eleven shutout innings since that seven earned
Speaker 1: runs in that frigid Chicago air, Gilbert and Gore we
Speaker 1: talked about. Tony Gonsolin, unsung hero, not a big strikeout guy,
Speaker 1: has allowed one earned run though through thirteen innings, six
Speaker 1: scoreless yesterday, Dalton Jefferies six scoreless as well five k's
Speaker 1: and a loss of the Orioles, Daniel Lynch five k's,
Speaker 1: excuse me, five innings, two k's and went over the twinkies,
Speaker 1: So my twinkies stack did not work yesterday. Barrios six k's,
Speaker 1: six innings for him, that was a much needed start
Speaker 1: to he did at that one moment where you let
Speaker 1: that ball get away from him, and I thought that
Speaker 1: would be his undoing in that game because you could
Speaker 1: see Brios obviously not want to hit story that ball
Speaker 1: got away from him. But he did settle down there
Speaker 1: now brought that era down to six three five. So
Speaker 1: this was a big start last night against the Red
Speaker 1: Sox for Barrios. You agree.
Speaker 2: I agree. We talked about a little bit him on
Speaker 2: that latest podcast as well with Nick Pollock. It's like
Speaker 2: it's Nick had said, you know, Brios is kind of
Speaker 2: like he always comes back to the same spot, whether
Speaker 2: he's up or down or positive. But the really really
Speaker 2: like early struggles with a picture like him have me
Speaker 2: worried that it's going to be a big tumble so
Speaker 2: for him to get back up. And also there's another reminder,
Speaker 2: another reminder on a lot of these names that you've
Speaker 2: put up here, small sample sizes, the amount of people
Speaker 2: they're spinning their heads around, freaking out, like the Beatle
Speaker 2: jew about one guy struggling in one start. Take a breath, man,
Speaker 2: we're still in April. All of these things can adjust.
Speaker 2: People are probably cutting Brios after his start to the season.
Speaker 2: It'll be okay, just chill out, you know, maybe bench
Speaker 2: he'll be.
Speaker 1: All right, all right. Stat Hero hitters he had Carmago
Speaker 1: going one excuse me, four for five with a home run,
Speaker 1: Cassianos went yard three for four, Anthony Rizzo home run.
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman's been excellent. He had a home run three
Speaker 1: for four. Jerkson Profar, who I picked up last week
Speaker 1: on a lark man. I threw him in my lineup
Speaker 1: as a second utility guy. He's been great. Stolen base
Speaker 1: home run for him. Kyle Schwarber has been red hot,
Speaker 1: Alec Boom another home run for him, Dalton Varshow with
Speaker 1: a dinger, and Rommel Tapia one for five, had a homer,
Speaker 1: a stolen base. Stat zero's Jacob Deerzi not a good
Speaker 1: star for him. Six runs and two thirds of an inning,
Speaker 1: so that was pretty short. There is HER's up to nine.
Speaker 1: Start picking up Christian Javier everybody ever, come on, let's
Speaker 1: go go get him. It's only a matter of time.
Speaker 1: Do it. Now, you should draft him in the first place.
Speaker 1: Five earned runs. It is dude, that throw smoke. Dallas
Speaker 1: Kichel said, Hey, Jacob DEREIZI you ain't see nothing yet.
Speaker 1: How about eight earned runs in one inning? So pretty
Speaker 1: stunning there and that loss to the Guardians. Marcus Stroman
Speaker 1: has struggled for the Cubs. Seven earned runs for him,
Speaker 1: and Chris Basst just didn't have good stuff yesterday. You
Speaker 1: got in trouble in the first inning, got away from him.
Speaker 1: It was a couple of bloops, a couple of weird things,
Speaker 1: one hard hit ball. Don't panic. Chris bass has been
Speaker 1: excellent on the hitting side. I want to run through
Speaker 1: these Welsh Joe Adell forty five percent strikeout rate, Julio
Speaker 1: forty one point nine percent strike out Ray Dansby sponts
Speaker 1: In forty one another bad night for Jared kellnick over
Speaker 1: three to three k's. What do you make of these
Speaker 1: young kids right now? I mean, are they just not
Speaker 1: ready for prime time? Or do you think you just
Speaker 1: continue to be patient?
Speaker 2: I mean the Joe Adell one is the one you
Speaker 2: worry about, like, how many parts of seasons do you
Speaker 2: need to be in before you cannot strike out over
Speaker 2: thirty percent of time? Julio's getting squeezed. It's pretty been
Speaker 2: pretty popular on Fantasy Baseball Twitter, but you can go
Speaker 2: and look at a lot of is called strikeout. You
Speaker 2: know his chart, and I mean he's getting squeezed outside
Speaker 2: the zone like crazy. Kelnick and and Adele are both
Speaker 2: a little bit of a worry. Kelnick is starting to
Speaker 2: find a little bit of rhythm. But I think you're
Speaker 2: seeing a little bit more of what those guys are.
Speaker 2: Julio Rodriguez is not going to be a thirty plus
Speaker 2: strikeout guy. I'm not worried about that. Uh, it's very
Speaker 2: early on. But like you said, a lot of these
Speaker 2: young guys got pushed up, maybe more than they would before.
Speaker 2: Three months ago, four months ago. I literally chastise you
Speaker 2: if you were taking Julio Rodriguez because I'm like, why
Speaker 2: Mariners are not going to do this? They did it,
Speaker 2: It's not going so well. It's also why I do
Speaker 2: not invest heavily in young guys in redraft. Just never
Speaker 2: do a pitching or hitting. Obviously, I'm a prospect guy.
Speaker 2: Love him in Dynasty, that's the play, but I'm not
Speaker 2: a big young guy investor.
Speaker 1: Only one word, only one for me, and his name
Speaker 1: is Hunter Green. That was the guy invested in so far.
Speaker 1: Fingers crossed, I mean Bobby came for the trivia question.
Speaker 1: The picture the picture. One of the pictures was from
Speaker 1: the Detroit Tigers, number one overall and the second guy
Speaker 1: at three hundred and sixteen games started together with this
Speaker 1: catcher was with the Boston and Milwaukee Braves. So there's
Speaker 1: your hint there.
Speaker 2: There's no way anyone gets any of these in lists.
Speaker 1: They're gonna get it with.
Speaker 2: Someone's gonna post it in and they're gonna be like, hey,
Speaker 2: it's this guy and this guy, and it's like a cheater.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, how about this. You like this, We've
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Speaker 1: this the home run board.
Speaker 2: What up?
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Speaker 1: So there's our home run.
Speaker 2: All Look, I'm glad they didn't try to squeeze us
Speaker 2: in there either. So it's like Joe one Welsh one, No, no, no.
Speaker 1: No, don't squeeze us. We don't deserve it. And come later,
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Speaker 1: she's the props. I like Marcus simeon Total Bases over
Speaker 1: on DK one and a half. I like the over
Speaker 1: Luis Robert against the Cleveland Guardians and Police Sack. I
Speaker 1: like the over on his one and a half total
Speaker 1: bases same one and a half on DK, on Vlad
Speaker 1: and Joe Ryan four and a half on Fandule for
Speaker 1: the kprop, I like the over Joe Ryan's got some
Speaker 1: stuff and Casey's got some k's, So that's what I like.
Speaker 1: Any of these are something else? Pop to you real quick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love your Joe Ryan one so much, so
Speaker 2: I have that one as well. That is the only
Speaker 2: K prop. I really like it over four and a half,
Speaker 2: and you have it on FANDAL. I think also MGM
Speaker 2: has a good one. I gotta you, gotta tell you,
Speaker 2: I do like your Robert and I love your Vlad one.
Speaker 2: The other two laugh as you want. Byron Buxton one
Speaker 2: and a half over total bases minus one thirty on DK,
Speaker 2: you absolutely freaking believe it as he returns, and I
Speaker 2: kind of like, say as Zuki one and a half
Speaker 2: over total bases over on MGM is plus one thirty
Speaker 2: five against pirates. So give me Suzuki, gimme Buxton, of course,
Speaker 2: and give me the Joe Ryan k prop.
Speaker 1: Look the slate here is all weird. Fanduels got a
Speaker 1: three thirty start slate. DK's got a couple games you
Speaker 1: can play, but they're not really sexy games. You got
Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers in there. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: Jordan Hicks because everybody wants to know she'd be streaming
Speaker 1: Jordan Hicks today. He's five eight on DK. Would you
Speaker 1: throw him against the Marlins today as a secondary arm
Speaker 1: on DK? Because to me, that's what's whether you want
Speaker 1: to make that jump or not. With Jordan Hicks, Can
Speaker 1: he get a W because he kind of needs to,
Speaker 1: I think basically, But I don't know if he's gonna
Speaker 1: pitch that long. I don't think.
Speaker 2: That's why I don't. My sole reason why I'm not
Speaker 2: interested is I don't think he's in there to qualify
Speaker 2: for a win. I could be wrong, as they've been
Speaker 2: stretching him out. I just don't think he's gonna be
Speaker 2: making it through.
Speaker 1: We'd have to have everything break well for him. He'd
Speaker 1: have to have like, you know, one or two really
Speaker 1: efficient innings, like yeah, right right. The guy that I
Speaker 1: do like is if you play FanDuel and that three
Speaker 1: thirty slate play Paul Blackburn. He's been very good so far.
Speaker 1: He's just seven to six. Nobody cares. Nobody likes the
Speaker 1: A's clearly because nobody shows up to the games. They
Speaker 1: had three thousand people the other night. We'll get to
Speaker 1: that maybe tomorrow. But Paul Blackburn's seven point six. You
Speaker 1: can go get whatever you want. Lineup builders on DK Hey,
Speaker 1: if you want to take a shot on Julio, maybe
Speaker 1: he gets hot today at two point eight. Nelson Cruz
Speaker 1: on Fandel. I would lock in Nelson, Cruz and Soto
Speaker 1: together with the Washington Stack and Paul Blackburn. That's how
Speaker 1: I would approach FanDuel DFS tonight, let's call our home run.
Speaker 1: I'm going with my boy Luis Robert. One of those
Speaker 1: total bases, how about comes from a home run? So
Speaker 1: give me Luis Robert, my dude, let's go. I need
Speaker 1: a home run in the worst way. Welsh, where are
Speaker 1: you gonna go for your home run? Call tonight? A hmm?
Speaker 2: Byron Buckston. We're gonna go Byron Buckson on the return. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: why would I not? I've been awful right now in
Speaker 2: this You've been awful. Yeah, I'm gonna stay on brand.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with my guy, because I'll get all
Speaker 2: the love if Byron Buckson does actually hit it. It's
Speaker 2: good play coming back. Give me Byron Buckston? Why not?
Speaker 1: And Marcus Simeon is Mike Meyers. Pick again. If you've
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Speaker 1: these fun things. Tomorrow we'll be back again with Ryan
Speaker 1: Warmley is gonna be our special guest here on the show.
Speaker 1: So if who knows, if fox and that's three, Welsh
Speaker 1: might find a way somehow to show up again and
Speaker 1: be on the show. But great work from the Peanuts
Speaker 1: and Cracker Jacks. The answer, by the way to the
Speaker 1: trivia question is Mickey Lolitch at the very top there.
Speaker 1: That's right, remember old Mickey Lolitch with the Big Ears
Speaker 1: and Bill Freehan of the Detroit Tigers, and then Warren
Speaker 1: Spawn and Del crandall everybody's favorite Del crandall right off
Speaker 1: the I just thought it was fun for any of.
Speaker 2: The old time j Ful Medal said, Hey, Welsh must
Speaker 2: have a life sized fathead of Buckston. No, I've got
Speaker 2: it of Warren Spahn, Who are my guys again? I've
Speaker 2: got them back there. I've got these guys I always have.
Speaker 2: I've got Mickey Lolich and Bill Frean, That's who I've
Speaker 2: got back there. Of course everyone knows that Joe from
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty three.
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Speaker 1: of the game goes on for the Welsh. I'm Joey
Speaker 1: p see you next time, kids, Lolich. The want