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Speaker 1: A fun weekend of baseball. We actually had a Max
Speaker 1: Scherzer start, unbelievable. We have an updated Top one hundred
Speaker 1: prospect list, which I want to hit some names with
Speaker 1: you about, because goodness knows, every single day it's a
Speaker 1: different prospect in Major League Baseball. And because of that,
Speaker 1: we have a new segment in the show that is
Speaker 1: just for prospects. I don't know what to call it yet,
Speaker 1: but you know what, every day we talk about one
Speaker 1: or two of them. So we're gonna continue to do that.
Speaker 1: When their own little perfect niche isn't that nice that
Speaker 1: they get their own little time, now, get.
Speaker 2: Their little home, little place. Yeah, I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: we should have a contest, like the segment name.
Speaker 1: Ah, that's not bad, that's not bad. All right, peanuts, crackadreze,
Speaker 1: get to it. I know it's early. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: you to work already. So what do you want to
Speaker 1: name the prospects segment? They're gonna do every single day now.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what I called it. I just
Speaker 1: put prospect Alert. But that's crap. That's no good. So
Speaker 1: we can't have that. It's gotta be something different. I'll
Speaker 1: be all the sirens and things like that. I don't Yeah, we.
Speaker 2: Kind of like the the like iteration of like, you know,
Speaker 2: the pe if we can find something in there. I
Speaker 2: don't know what it is. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 2: some some rhyming type of thing that makes it fun.
Speaker 2: So Joe his heart can warm every little time he
Speaker 2: gets to say the name something like that. You guys
Speaker 2: got a problem with prospect I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think they used to say, like in rap, like
Speaker 2: orange was one of the toughest. Well, I don't know,
Speaker 2: rookie cookies with prospect rookie cookies. Okay, it's I'm uncomfortable
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 1: You're uncomfortable with the Rookie Cookies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just it's throwing it out there, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it does makes me feel good.
Speaker 1: Oh, Future Pros, this is Eric's got a good one already,
Speaker 1: the future.
Speaker 2: Prostasy Pros, Future Pros.
Speaker 1: All right, that's not bad so far, Eric, you're winning.
Speaker 1: We'll see how the rest of it goes. And yes,
Speaker 1: we will talk about Matt McClain and some others in
Speaker 1: a second. Here, let's start with the top of the
Speaker 1: headlines from the weekend. Max Scherzer actually pitched and pitched
Speaker 1: well over the National six strikeouts in five innings. Matt's
Speaker 1: actually scored eight runs in that game. Shocking on all
Speaker 1: accounts in this entire piece. Tanner Biby one of our
Speaker 1: guys from the Rookie Cookies. So something doesn't Rookie Cookies
Speaker 1: is gonna stick around. Tanner Bibby seven and two thirds,
Speaker 1: two hit ball, struck out seven and no decision for
Speaker 1: the against the Angels. And here's the thing we always
Speaker 1: talked about the ebs and flows, right, Bibby came out
Speaker 1: that first start was really good. Then earlier last week
Speaker 1: he kind of had that, you know, that rookie letdown start.
Speaker 1: As we often see this is a huge bounce back.
Speaker 1: I'm sure people who sat him in those daily transaction
Speaker 1: leagues or daily lineup leagues were probably pissed off when
Speaker 1: they looked up at that line on Sunday. But this
Speaker 1: is kind of I feel like the patients you have
Speaker 1: to practice with, guys like Bibby who you know they
Speaker 1: have the talent. If you'll look, he was one of
Speaker 1: the biggest risers too on the prospect list. I was looking.
Speaker 1: He was actually up twenty one spots from fifty five
Speaker 1: to thirty four on the MLB Top one hundred. And
Speaker 1: I know that's not for prospects and fantasy necessarily going
Speaker 1: to go as baseball it's a little different, but still,
Speaker 1: what did you think of the star from Bybe yesterday? Yeah?
Speaker 2: This is I think this is actually what you needed,
Speaker 2: you know, because at some point he was going to falter.
Speaker 2: All these guys are going to falter. I think it
Speaker 2: also definitely shows like when and how much stomach does
Speaker 2: everybody have for these guys if he was dropped after
Speaker 2: that one bad start, because I feel like because of
Speaker 2: the amount of prospects that are coming up right now,
Speaker 2: people's ability to holder their leash is a lot shorter
Speaker 2: than usual, but you know, with like the maturation of
Speaker 2: like learning the game, failing is sometimes the best recipe
Speaker 2: for future success. And I think you kind of saw that.
Speaker 2: It looked like he used his slider a little bit
Speaker 2: less than this, but it's efficiency because its efficiency was
Speaker 2: kind of down, but the fastball change up got it going.
Speaker 2: His change up, by the way, through twenty three percent
Speaker 2: of the time had a thirty eight percent with rate
Speaker 2: on it, which is really impressive in a thirty nine CSW.
Speaker 2: So the thing I love about it is the guy
Speaker 2: can command across the board and he's got a couple different,
Speaker 2: like two different big strikeout options offerings if you will,
Speaker 2: in that slider which can have curveball like effects if
Speaker 2: people have watched it in the downplane it has, Or
Speaker 2: he can go to the changeup and that's huge. That's
Speaker 2: something that you know Brandon Fought didn't show. I actually
Speaker 2: don't know if you have him on here, Joe, but
Speaker 2: he went yesterday and we got to see the pitch
Speaker 2: mix change. So I love it. I love watching guys
Speaker 2: have pitch mixed changes and find success. Biby did it
Speaker 2: hate to tell you fought haters Fought did it yesterday
Speaker 2: under fifty percent usage on his fastball. His sweeper got
Speaker 2: it going and he threw his curveball more So, I'm
Speaker 2: encouraged both of these guys. It's not about fought, but
Speaker 2: this is a great thing for Bibby, and I think
Speaker 2: it kind of like stabilizes his value.
Speaker 1: Fought by the way up from forty nine to thirty
Speaker 1: three on the prospect list as well. So he's another
Speaker 1: riser someone who's not rising right now. Horay Matteo not
Speaker 1: in the Orioles starting lineup Sunday in the month of May.
Speaker 1: You're ready for this. If everybody's talking about Horry Mateo,
Speaker 1: my god, he's an elite fantasy player in month of
Speaker 1: May hitting one oh five slash gross. If the Tao
Speaker 1: wasn't a cell high, I don't know who was.
Speaker 2: And this up your Jordan Westburg's. I'm just let everybody know.
Speaker 2: I'll crap up your Jordan west Okay, eleven homers, Okay,
Speaker 2: three hundred batting average. Okay, you got me, George Westburg?
Speaker 2: What he's coming up?
Speaker 1: Okay? I think you should. I mean, this happens every
Speaker 1: year where people stumble upon a player and they get
Speaker 1: so infatuated with being, you know, getting a great productivity
Speaker 1: out of them, and I know that's that's sort of
Speaker 1: going along with some of the people who have investments
Speaker 1: in Jared Kellennick, and I get that too, but Kellennick
Speaker 1: was a very highly rated, can't miss prospects, so eventually
Speaker 1: you would hope that he would hit. But it's so
Speaker 1: fascinating to me. I saw some trades. I saw people
Speaker 1: going out there and you know, taking the tale for
Speaker 1: Bobby Witt Junior and things like that, and I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna I swear to you. I saw that trade happen.
Speaker 1: Someone sent it to me on Twitter, and I was like,
Speaker 1: why would you do that? Why would you stop? Just relax,
Speaker 1: like you just take a deeper I don't like it either,
Speaker 1: but this is what happens. People get infatuated with the
Speaker 1: hot start in April, and by the time we get
Speaker 1: to August, nobody can remember April. I know, I can't
Speaker 1: Zach Gallon, he can't be stopped. Another great performance on
Speaker 1: Saturday over the Giants, five hits over seven to two thirds.
Speaker 1: He was terrific. Christian Yelich actually had two home runs
Speaker 1: in one game, so there you go. He's good for
Speaker 1: the rest of the month of May. Probably Louis Robert
Speaker 1: two for four. He's starting to pick things up, so
Speaker 1: maybe the message getting sent to Luis Robert. Ever since
Speaker 1: he got sat down for not running out that ball
Speaker 1: to first base, he's kind of come alive as well.
Speaker 1: We do have some entries also from the Peanuts and Crackerjack.
Speaker 1: All right, prospects from Zen that's kind of so bad.
Speaker 1: We've got the rookie lookie from EWE two k.
Speaker 2: I your rookie cookie actually like affects me. But the
Speaker 2: rookie looking, let's do like like that.
Speaker 1: That is rookie looking better than the future pros. I
Speaker 1: mean future pro sounds more professional. But then again, this
Speaker 1: is us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it depends like future Pros would almost be
Speaker 2: like some an article that I put together where rookie
Speaker 2: lookie would be something where Joe's.
Speaker 1: Like, everybody, rookie look look look rooky looking. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what, It's gonna be tough to beat that on
Speaker 1: Wonkey says prospect prospects, which is pretty funny. A lot
Speaker 1: of piece of prospects. I see a lot of that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff there, Uh, call up, ball up. That's
Speaker 1: not bad. There from again E two k always uh
Speaker 1: but the rookie lookie, I don't know, man, rookie lookie
Speaker 1: sounds pretty yeah, pretty good for me that might think that.
Speaker 2: Might be it. Unfortunately, because well I know where Joe's
Speaker 2: gonna go with it.
Speaker 1: Let's do our first rookie looking right now, rookie, looky,
Speaker 1: rookie looking, let's looking at this guy. It's the Reds.
Speaker 1: So we were speculating who the Reds were going to
Speaker 1: call up, right TJ Friedel injury, all these things going on. Well,
Speaker 1: Matt McClain's gonna get called up from Triple A Louisville today.
Speaker 1: Twenty three year old infielder was the Red's first round
Speaker 1: selection seventeenth overall for the twenty twenty one draft in
Speaker 1: Triple A, tearing it up three forty eight four seventy
Speaker 1: four seven to twelve, twelve homers, forty rebies, ten steals
Speaker 1: in fifteen tries. So Welsh, how aggressive should we be
Speaker 1: on this? McLain again? You know, John McClain probably still
Speaker 1: the one A of all mclans.
Speaker 2: A right, is Matt.
Speaker 1: McLain possibly going to get into that number two spot here? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I have like I just have like reservations about Matt McClain,
Speaker 2: I think than other people, just because I've seen so
Speaker 2: much of him. He was out here in the AFL
Speaker 2: recently and he's got a big hole in his swing,
Speaker 2: but he seems to have fixed that so far this season.
Speaker 2: So I'm just not sure at what degree. He was
Speaker 2: striking out almost thirty percent of the time last year,
Speaker 2: AFL kind of started getting back to the same thing.
Speaker 2: Low offspeed breaking stuff would get right by him. This
Speaker 2: year under twenty percent k rate, So the big change
Speaker 2: is there. I mentioned this I was on CBS last night.
Speaker 2: I mentioned this that one of the things you can
Speaker 2: see in his game as well is I think he's
Speaker 2: a little bit more comfortable with off speed stuff. So
Speaker 2: in the ever race to chase off speed stuff, what
Speaker 2: you've got to do is you're gonna you know, you're
Speaker 2: going to be comfortable with being able to catch back
Speaker 2: up to fastballs, so you can get on those sliders
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. And you see him hitting the
Speaker 2: ball opposite field, which I think is encouraging. So it's
Speaker 2: like he's hitting the ball more opposite field this year
Speaker 2: than he's ever done in his career. It's over thirty
Speaker 2: percent of the time, he's had huge results. Strikeout numbers
Speaker 2: are low, so I want to be optimistic. You know,
Speaker 2: he was actually people don't remember, but he was like
Speaker 2: a top fifteen pick some years back by the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2: But he decided to go back to UCLA. And this
Speaker 2: is a good, good player with sneaky power. I've got
Speaker 2: some on my Twitter profile if you guys want to
Speaker 2: check it out, some video from the AFL. So all
Speaker 2: of that to be said that what he's doing is
Speaker 2: full on five tools. I'm spending. I'm investing because he's.
Speaker 1: Got the gig.
Speaker 2: But I do have reservations that everybody that's staring at
Speaker 2: his stats are like, oh my god, look at three
Speaker 2: forty eight. I'm worried about the batting average long term.
Speaker 2: I wonder if this couple. But he can give me.
Speaker 1: Questions here too, because we have like Renegade wants to
Speaker 1: know McLain or Dela Cruz. Well, Dela Cruz is the
Speaker 1: better asset. I think you and I would agree on
Speaker 1: that that hands do. So if that's the case, then
Speaker 1: here's another question from Tim in the chat. Does McLain
Speaker 1: call up delay in Carnassi on Strand's arrival. I say yes,
Speaker 1: because that's clearly the direction they're going here, So they
Speaker 1: could have brought up Cees. They didn't, so I think
Speaker 1: the answer is short yes. Is it a long delay, No,
Speaker 1: But it's definitely a delay maybe.
Speaker 2: I don't know, if I gotta be honest, I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's that long on any of these guys.
Speaker 2: These guys all play different spots. Ellie's been playing third
Speaker 2: in Triple A. Matt McClain the shortstop. Barrero has not worked,
Speaker 2: so Matt McLain can just jump right into that spot.
Speaker 2: Cees can play third, but he's a first baseman, so
Speaker 2: it's like when they're ready to make that commitment, they're
Speaker 2: going in. So I'm not really sure he has delayed.
Speaker 2: I also just don't know what they're doing in general
Speaker 2: with all their prospects, So sure, like by virtue of this,
Speaker 2: I'll say, yeah, it has delayed. But I still am
Speaker 2: just gonna like maybe every week until it comes up,
Speaker 2: and I'll be wrong. I'm gonna just be like he's
Speaker 2: coming up soon, very very soon. There's no reason for
Speaker 2: him to be down there outside of like whatever stupid
Speaker 2: roster construction they're doing. Some of these dumb guys.
Speaker 1: Speaking of rookie lookies, we've got another one here for
Speaker 1: you got a couple. Cody Bradford is going to start
Speaker 1: Monday today against the Braves. So he's got a point
Speaker 1: nine to one ERA, a point eighty six whip, thirty seven,
Speaker 1: k's thirteen walks in thirty nine innings, so it's pretty
Speaker 1: good for seven stars in triple A. He's going against
Speaker 1: Charlie Morton. I think there's opportunity for a little upset
Speaker 1: here because text has been so good and Lacy is
Speaker 1: blowing that save yesterday. A little shaky there with him
Speaker 1: and what's going on with the bullpen. But what do
Speaker 1: you think of Cody Bradford too, Because it's another guy too.
Speaker 1: People are probably it's so frustrating when you get these
Speaker 1: If only we can get these little tidbits, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like Sunday night, Sunday afternoon sometimes you know, when these
Speaker 1: things pop on Monday after waivers run in many leagues.
Speaker 1: I get everyone's super frustrated. I get it. It was
Speaker 1: hard to be ahead of McLain. I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: thought that one was coming, did you.
Speaker 2: I think that one happened like literally is like waivers
Speaker 2: were going.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I've been attempting to be a week.
Speaker 2: Ahead on things. I picked up Cees last week and
Speaker 2: then I actually picked up Ellie this week. Assuming that
Speaker 2: I really think it's like we're coming to a time
Speaker 2: these guys. I think all these guys are coming soon.
Speaker 2: Because also, by the way, if they didn't want to
Speaker 2: bring up Ellie, Spencer Steer could go back to third
Speaker 2: and ces can play first. There's plenty of wiggle room
Speaker 2: that that team has. But on Cody Bradford, the numbers
Speaker 2: are pretty solid. The K numbers have gone down though
Speaker 2: he was in double A last year had an almost
Speaker 2: nine and a half K PRI nine, it's down to
Speaker 2: eight and a half. His walks are actually up. He
Speaker 2: has one of the most absurd ERA to XIP changes.
Speaker 2: He has an under one ERA but he has an
Speaker 2: over five expected you know x FIP. So I'm not
Speaker 2: like jump into it. And this is also a spot start.
Speaker 2: They've already said that all they're doing is they're giving
Speaker 2: a little bit of wiggle room for their starters, and
Speaker 2: they've moved everybody back a day. So I'm not sure
Speaker 2: Cody Bradford's going to be there for long. But you know,
Speaker 2: I think there's some potential efficiency that can be in there.
Speaker 2: He's just not going to be a big strikeout guy.
Speaker 2: He's also not a big groundball guy, so I'm a
Speaker 2: little bit worried about the ballf line.
Speaker 1: Let's take another question from the chat here, Tough Talk
Speaker 1: with Teachers podcasts has dropped Vulpi. Did I make a mistake? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, bench, you don't want to drop these guys. Look,
Speaker 1: Volpi is a very good player. I was a little surprised,
Speaker 1: to be honest, that he started the year with the
Speaker 1: big club. I thought, maybe, you know, fifty to one
Speaker 1: hundred at bats and triple A and sea legs under
Speaker 1: him a little bit would have been better. But I'm
Speaker 1: still not worried about Volpe. I don't know why. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess because I've seen him play so much that
Speaker 1: I just think he's a really good player, and I
Speaker 1: think he's just pressing still enough they go figure it
Speaker 1: out over time. But in a ten team league, I
Speaker 1: get it, but yeah, there you go, right. In a
Speaker 1: twelve team league, I think it's more of a bench
Speaker 1: kind of play. Or he's a trade bait. You trade
Speaker 1: him and you hope he gets something else for him,
Speaker 1: as somebody else sees it as a bi low opportunity.
Speaker 1: But if you're really struggling need help, then that's the
Speaker 1: kind of help. Another guy, do you think Mickey Moniac
Speaker 1: can help anybody? Three or four with a Homer two steals.
Speaker 1: I know he's got some speed. I know he was
Speaker 1: looking really good in Triple A. Is he on your
Speaker 1: radar at all? Because I've never been a big fan
Speaker 1: of his, but it's hard to deny the Triple A
Speaker 1: numbers before he got called up this week. We're good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not a big Mickey Moniac guy. Like the
Speaker 2: team obviously has done some good things in revamping some
Speaker 2: of these outfielders. Brandon Marsh has been like, you know,
Speaker 2: proof and point, but no, I'm not a big Mickey
Speaker 2: Mooniac guy. So it's gonna be a passing with Angels now.
Speaker 2: But I'm a pass on Mickey Moniac.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the injury list here. Noah
Speaker 1: Sindaguard will start today against the Twins. How long that's
Speaker 1: anybody's guess? Jose Alvarado, So it turns out, you know,
Speaker 1: we were kind of the sky is falling last week
Speaker 1: but the elbow inflammation. Apparently the MRI was clean, so
Speaker 1: they're expecting him to resume throwing some time later this week,
Speaker 1: which is again kind of stunning, and we'll see how
Speaker 1: that all goes and gets filtered out. Dylan Carlson removed
Speaker 1: yesterday because of an ankle injury Anthony Rendon, surprising because
Speaker 1: he is like the Cal Ripken of baseball nowadays. He
Speaker 1: had left in the six with a tight left groin.
Speaker 1: I feel bad, like, I mean, the jokes aside, like
Speaker 1: I just it must suck for Anthony Rendon to just
Speaker 1: not be able to do his job physically. Like I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's a training thing he needs to
Speaker 1: do different, I don't know what it is. But it's
Speaker 1: so sad to see a player of that kind of
Speaker 1: talent just never be able to play baseball.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just be like an AA group of
Speaker 2: guys that like can't all play. It's like Jacob de
Speaker 2: Grom's like, you know, meetings in session, Jean Carlo, please
Speaker 2: sit down. Anthony Rendon's gonna be speaking today and it's
Speaker 2: just a prosper there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, my name is Steven Strasburg. It's been seven
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty four days since I've thrown a pitch.
Speaker 1: It's that kind of thing, you know, you get you
Speaker 1: get like the little tiny things, or you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's the number of days on the il, it's the
Speaker 1: number of days that you're sober.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, like Jacob Groan gets third start and he's like,
Speaker 2: I got my chip. I got chip today, you know,
Speaker 2: like that type of thing.
Speaker 1: Oh, and Larry Walker is everyone sponsor Larry Walker because
Speaker 1: he is the greatest of all the hurt stars ever,
Speaker 1: because he still managed to get into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: But I used to call it when I used to
Speaker 1: you know, back in the day, make it mad day,
Speaker 1: when I used to be you know, scouting my fantasy players.
Speaker 1: I used to have what was called the Larry Walker List.
Speaker 1: I used to make this note of the guys that
Speaker 1: are good but they're always hurt. You just gotta just
Speaker 1: either get a disc Kevin on Numer stayway from I
Speaker 1: used to call it the Larry Walker list, and there
Speaker 1: he goes. Still made the Hall of Fame. CJ. Crohn
Speaker 1: not making the Hall of Fame. I'm safe to say
Speaker 1: fifteen day I l with back spasms. That's an every
Speaker 1: good thing. At at least actually YONDI Diaz is gonna
Speaker 1: undergo the MRI on his injured groin, so that would
Speaker 1: be another injury. Oh man, the rays just are They
Speaker 1: are taking injuries at an alarming clip. So so much
Speaker 1: for analytics. Joey Gallo was removed from Sunday's game against
Speaker 1: the Cubs because of a leg injury. Carl Swordan, who
Speaker 1: was going to have physical activity. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that was putting together ikea furniture or what that. I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what that means. But he threw from
Speaker 1: sixty to seventy five feet on Saturday and Sunday, So
Speaker 1: two days of playing catch. That's great. Nicolodolo unfortunately, is
Speaker 1: going to miss a minimum of four weeks with calf
Speaker 1: tendonitis or tendonosis. Is that what it is? I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is. I don't know is caf LA.
Speaker 2: They're all just like they're all just making up words.
Speaker 1: Whatever that's the sublexation of his calf tendon or whatever
Speaker 1: the hell. Marlin's placed aj Puck on the fifteen day
Speaker 1: il with left elbow nerve irritation. Now here's one. Well,
Speaker 1: sh we got to talk about Mason Miller is gonna
Speaker 1: get a second opinion tomorrow on the elbow. So the
Speaker 1: MRI I came back clean, but he's having pain, which
Speaker 1: is why they put him on the il and now
Speaker 1: he's going for a second opinion.
Speaker 2: No way this is good.
Speaker 1: There's no way.
Speaker 2: I refuse to believe that this is good.
Speaker 1: There's no so I thought I was wrong last week.
Speaker 1: You might be right.
Speaker 2: You might circle back, you might this might be the
Speaker 2: euro step of injury correctness, like you like had one
Speaker 2: and you're gonna come back to it. There's no way
Speaker 2: that this is a good thing that they're redoing.
Speaker 1: Nope, never good, never good. All right, who was good?
Speaker 1: Let's tell you the three up and three down Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge not one but two Homers on Saturday. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure you picked Aaron Judge, so you got two more bombs.
Speaker 2: I think the I might have to be corrected. I
Speaker 2: think that's eleven. I think I got I think that
Speaker 2: was ten and eleven that I just if you made
Speaker 2: the board double might have got jumped a bit close.
Speaker 1: I'm close. Digi's double Diggi's rookie. Lookies, this is what
Speaker 1: we've become. This is what we've become Mitch Keller? What
Speaker 1: does he become a monster? Thirteen thirteen strikeouts over seven innings.
Speaker 1: Sunday morning, I had Nick Pollock from Picture List on
Speaker 1: my Sports Career television show, which, by the way, you
Speaker 1: can watch on Amazon Prime now. It's all over all
Speaker 1: the streaming networks every Sunday morning eight to ten Wallda
Speaker 1: Wall Fantasy baseball and football during football season. And Nick
Speaker 1: was on, and he is one of the guys. We
Speaker 1: were talking about what why Mitch Keller has evolved into
Speaker 1: what he has and it surprised everybody, but he thinks
Speaker 1: it's pretty sustainable. And he had a lot of good
Speaker 1: stats regarding that. So great for the Pirates, great for
Speaker 1: Mitch Keller. Couldn't happen to a better guy. I told
Speaker 1: you I'm a big fan. I'm rooting for Mitch Keller.
Speaker 1: I like that dude, John Gray, another dude. I like
Speaker 1: five nothing shut out performance there three hip ball against
Speaker 1: the A's. I know it's an A's, but still it's great.
Speaker 1: Here's a three down. A bunch of bullpen guys kind
Speaker 1: of spit the bit this weekend, Rice ol Glacis first
Speaker 1: blown saved. His velocity was down a couple of ticks two,
Speaker 1: so coming after the first start, first appearance I should
Speaker 1: say was good. Volosity was fine, second one not so good.
Speaker 1: So maybe it's just working his way back dead arm.
Speaker 1: That's possible. Keep a close eye. Kelly Jansen gave up
Speaker 1: three runs to earn Blue a save this weekend to Saturday,
Speaker 1: and Shae McClanahan, not so Shay McClanahan esque against the Yankees,
Speaker 1: gave up four and a no decision. So obviously you
Speaker 1: were not too worried about McClanahan, but Welsh in term
Speaker 1: of Mitch Keller, I mean, that guy has just been unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And look, here's here's one from U two Gays. We
Speaker 1: have so many people in the chat watching us live
Speaker 1: right now, but this one fan right here is just
Speaker 1: crushing it. Drop Mitch Keller to pick up tag weeks ago.
Speaker 1: So there you go. That's how life's going for OO
Speaker 1: two Gay. That's simply an oohy moment. Sure that makes
Speaker 1: me sad too.
Speaker 2: That does make me said, I'm all about Mitch Keller.
Speaker 2: We've hit him a couple whatever it was two starts back,
Speaker 2: but you know, Nick probably talked a lot about it.
Speaker 2: But he's added in this cutter, and this cutter has
Speaker 2: made a difference because his fastball is way more effective
Speaker 2: thirty percent with rate. This cutter has come on here
Speaker 2: and got a twenty two percent with rate, and he's
Speaker 2: changed the pitch mix. And Keller, you know, back in
Speaker 2: the day, was a really good command pitcher. He wanted
Speaker 2: to hit his corners. He just didn't have the stuff
Speaker 2: to get buy anybody. And that's now changed, and he
Speaker 2: look he looks elite. He looks dominant right now. And
Speaker 2: it's kind of tough because I know I don't always
Speaker 2: mean like negative about the pirates, but yeah, it's tough
Speaker 2: for the pirates sometimes. But this guy looks elite. He's
Speaker 2: found this, he's found his pitch mix. And that's been
Speaker 2: the story of this year, guys switching stuff up, change
Speaker 2: and a I'm throwing a sweeper here and doing this.
Speaker 2: It's finding the right mix. And Keller has done it,
Speaker 2: and he is a huge strikeout option right now. He
Speaker 2: might low key be like our our cheap Pablo Lopez.
Speaker 2: You know, everything that Pablo Lopez has turned into and become,
Speaker 2: and he's seven to eight strikeouts every single game. Keller
Speaker 2: might low key start being that person.
Speaker 1: Wonky, I love you, but Mitch Keller, come on, come on, Wonky.
Speaker 1: All right, Mel has a this is I gott I
Speaker 1: do want to talk about this. It wasn't on the sheet,
Speaker 1: but Mel p two bringing this up here in the chat.
Speaker 1: It says, please talk about Paxton Joe exclamation point. I
Speaker 1: don't know what to tell you. I have packs in
Speaker 1: a few leagues because I stashed him on my eye
Speaker 1: l and I thought, well, he's been terrible. I'll probably
Speaker 1: just drop him on Sunday. And then he goes out
Speaker 1: there Sunday and he drops nine strikeouts and I don't
Speaker 1: know what to do. He legitmately, like do I drop
Speaker 1: him back into the pile? Do I cut somebody? I
Speaker 1: am about a complete lost right now? Welsh?
Speaker 2: What is what are the options? Because like I watched
Speaker 2: that start, because I remember I had.
Speaker 1: The two total runs strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Yeah wait, he gave up two total runs in the
Speaker 2: first inning, and I was like, here we go. But
Speaker 2: then he started getting into place. I will say, if
Speaker 2: you watched ninety seven, no, he stuff looked good and
Speaker 2: he got a couple of calls that went his way
Speaker 2: that could have maybe effected and changed the game up
Speaker 2: a tiny bit, but still either way, he looked good
Speaker 2: and he was sweeping across. So I mean, but what's
Speaker 2: the option, what's the option of packs and versus who?
Speaker 2: For you?
Speaker 1: Well, not for me. For me, it's a different set
Speaker 1: of circumstances because he's got keeper implications and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So I've got to, you know, just be careful. But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying for everybody out there who I think
Speaker 1: was stashing him, they probably looked at us like, well,
Speaker 1: whatever I took a flyer didn't work, and just go
Speaker 1: throw him back. But now you have a little bit
Speaker 1: of a roster crunch.
Speaker 2: I mean, how about this, how about this, let me
Speaker 2: present this to you, James Paxton off of that performance
Speaker 2: versus everybody has dropped Taj Bradley and the Rays are
Speaker 2: falling apart, and you can speculate on Taj Bradley coming
Speaker 2: back up even though he's been bad in the miners.
Speaker 2: We've talked about what he's been doing. So what's say
Speaker 2: you would you drop Paxton to uh stash Bradley right now?
Speaker 1: I would still want Bradley long term because I'm always
Speaker 1: terrified of Paxton. But if you are in a dog
Speaker 1: fight right now, and you are at the top, and
Speaker 1: you want to stay on the top, you gotta roll
Speaker 1: with Paxson because he's there, because he's making is gonna
Speaker 1: make contributions, maybe for better or worse. But he'd got
Speaker 1: to be there to make an impact. And that's the
Speaker 1: only thing I think. If you're at the top of this,
Speaker 1: if at the bottom of the standings or middle of
Speaker 1: the standings, then you can have a little bit of
Speaker 1: like leeway with stuff. But if you're at the top
Speaker 1: of the standings, you got to stay at the top.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if Bradley is the way to
Speaker 1: do that right.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just don't know.
Speaker 2: Paxton's the way.
Speaker 1: I just now Paxton are fought because I'm sure that's
Speaker 1: a real one for a lot of.
Speaker 2: People, probably is a real one. I just like, I
Speaker 2: don't believe, and I'll be wrong about this. I don't
Speaker 2: believe that James Paxson is going to be good for
Speaker 2: long term, and it also has to do with his health.
Speaker 2: So I guess I would take fought. I would take
Speaker 2: Taj Bradley because I just don't believe. I also want
Speaker 2: to play like upside and I have a really hard
Speaker 2: time buying into that with James Paxson, even though he
Speaker 2: looked pretty good. Even though the fastball was good, off
Speaker 2: speed stuff was good.
Speaker 1: This is an easy question too. We got an easy
Speaker 1: one here. Tim wants to know better packs and James
Speaker 1: Paxon or Bill Paxon's clearly Bill Paxton, I mean the
Speaker 1: brother in Weird Science Aliens. I mean, come on, Bill Paxson,
Speaker 1: what's the treasure? Oh? And what a simple plan? That
Speaker 1: is a great movie with Billy Bob Thornton who plays
Speaker 1: his brother. And they I think it's a Stephen King
Speaker 1: story actually, and they find this this it's like a helicopter,
Speaker 1: small plane that crashes with this whole big case full
Speaker 1: of money. They don't know who these people are, where
Speaker 1: it is, and it's kind of what happens to them
Speaker 1: in this small town when they take this money and
Speaker 1: then slowly the things leak out about who these people were.
Speaker 1: Great little thriller kind of movie. Bill Paxson's tremendous National Treasure.
Speaker 2: Bill Paxon, Okay, yeah, Bill, I'm Bill Paxson.
Speaker 1: Bill Paxson, James Paxton. A couple of moments there, but
Speaker 1: Bill Paxon one hundred percent. Let's get I don't know,
Speaker 1: I got nothing there. Welsh.
Speaker 2: By the way, just pointing out true lies. Maybe my
Speaker 2: favorite Bill Paxson, like of all time? Is it true lies?
Speaker 2: When he's the car dealer ship guy I love.
Speaker 1: I just like the brother in Weird Science to me,
Speaker 1: the older brother who's such a jerk, you know, and
Speaker 1: then he gets turned into that pile of goo. You
Speaker 1: remember that, Like just that weird pile of goo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. I know I'm a little older than you.
Speaker 1: So but like Weird Science, I mean.
Speaker 2: Come on, no, I mean I've seen Weird Science.
Speaker 1: But like I am jelly, so good, so good as
Speaker 1: the guy when he's freaked out in that movie. There's
Speaker 1: nothing better than that except prize Picks. That's what's better.
Speaker 1: Right now, you can go out and download the app,
Speaker 1: or you just go to prizepicks dot com and start
Speaker 1: to play. It's super fun. Welsh has been killing it
Speaker 1: here and use that promo code leading off when you
Speaker 1: sign up against one word leading off, get one hundred
Speaker 1: percent to pause a match up to one hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: Put one hundred bucks in, get a hundred See how
Speaker 1: that works, Welsh, what's working for you? On the prize
Speaker 1: picks today.
Speaker 2: All right, let's pick him out. Let's get going, and
Speaker 2: I've got three plays for you. So this is a
Speaker 2: twenty pays of hundred if you want to play these out.
Speaker 2: First up, Hunter Green, his strikeout's kind of low today
Speaker 2: going up against Colorado. I think there's obviously a worry
Speaker 2: he's gonna get run out of town. Colorado actually hasn't
Speaker 2: been striking out to like any aggressive degrees. But this
Speaker 2: is still Hunter Green five and a half, and I
Speaker 2: believe he's hit this in three of his last four
Speaker 2: when I was doing my research. So Hunter Green strikeouts,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take the over. I like Pete Alonzo today
Speaker 2: in a lot of places. He eats up Patrick Corbyn
Speaker 2: with a three fifty batting average above, so you're gonna
Speaker 2: see him kind of across the board. So I will
Speaker 2: play total basses. Sometimes I want to play Fantasy points,
Speaker 2: but in this case, I'm gonna just just just in case.
Speaker 2: Just a nice little double from Pee Alonzo, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go there. And George Kirby's Fantasy score is low, and
Speaker 2: that has a lot to do with his really low
Speaker 2: strikeout numbers, even though the last start was solid twenty
Speaker 2: four and a half is his fantasy score, and outs
Speaker 2: in a win alone can get you there. I actually
Speaker 2: very tempted to take his strikeouts today, but I'm jumping
Speaker 2: all over that George Kirby fantasy score twenty four and
Speaker 2: a half, over Alonzo total bases and Hunter in strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Those are my three plays.
Speaker 1: Before I get to my prize picks, I've got to
Speaker 1: first call somebody out tracks. He was not in Spaceballs.
Speaker 1: That's Bill Pullman, you goon, Yeah, that's not Bill Paxton.
Speaker 2: But for one of my all time favorite movies.
Speaker 1: Thank God for Sabo's goggles because Tombstone, Now I forgot
Speaker 1: for a moment there. I space Tombstone, one of my
Speaker 1: all time favorite movies. If Tombstone is on, it's like
Speaker 1: Goonies for me. If it's on and I'm flipping around
Speaker 1: the channels, that will be the rest of my afternoon
Speaker 1: or even whatever. I'm just gonna end up watching the
Speaker 1: whole thing. It's so and I don't even like Westerns.
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 2: It is Susterns.
Speaker 1: Tombstone is I think the all time best of that genre.
Speaker 1: It's so good. Also, I forgot too, he was in
Speaker 1: Apollo thirteen another great movie too, uh and uh Titanic. Also,
Speaker 1: I forgot he was in Titanic. I was looking at
Speaker 1: some of the really little pieces. Yeah. Remember he's the guy.
Speaker 1: He's the modern day like, he's the guy with the
Speaker 1: old lady who's like, oh, come on, old lady, maybe
Speaker 1: you can help us find the thing that you threw
Speaker 1: over the you know.
Speaker 2: Again, there's a lot of it's like, all right, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna see it.
Speaker 1: And then I'm I saw Taic once in the theater
Speaker 1: and I went, okay, I'm good show heel Tani. I'm
Speaker 1: also a good pitch your strikeout seven. Let's go to over,
Speaker 1: George Kirby at four four, I want go over. Here's
Speaker 1: a fun one I like too, The Hits plus runs
Speaker 1: plus RBI one and a half on Kyle Tucker today.
Speaker 1: I like that one. That is a good one for
Speaker 1: mister Tucker. For betting today, I got a three leg
Speaker 1: parlay four y okay. I got the New York Yankees
Speaker 1: to upset. I know Alec Minoa is typically money against
Speaker 1: the Yankees, but this guy's been hot mess. You're getting
Speaker 1: plus one forty two. You can bet this on its own.
Speaker 1: Seattle if you want to add this to the mix.
Speaker 1: Pretty good favorite favorites, even though they're on the road.
Speaker 1: Kirby against the Red Sox minus one twenty four and
Speaker 1: you're getting either even money on vpople or I even
Speaker 1: found it on FD at plus one hundred for the Twins.
Speaker 1: Pablo Lopez against Cindergard. Yes, please put the Yanks Mariners
Speaker 1: twins together. You get plus seven to seven to four,
Speaker 1: so that is a more than seven to one, almost
Speaker 1: eight to one you're gonna make. If there are ten
Speaker 1: bucks on there, you win seventy seven. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: good day at the office, right there, Welsh, What do
Speaker 1: you have in the betting market today?
Speaker 2: I like that Seattle one. I might even play that
Speaker 2: Seattle one. Just separate.
Speaker 1: You could all three of these separate, I think, and
Speaker 1: then put them together if you want. And then if
Speaker 1: you don't hit on all three, you've broken. Even you
Speaker 1: hit on one or two or two of the three,
Speaker 1: you're still basically a push for the day, No big deal,
Speaker 1: no see, no harm, no foul. I don't like Twister.
Speaker 1: Everyone keep talking about Twister. Twister is fine. I don't
Speaker 1: like Hellen Hunt.
Speaker 2: I just I also don't like Kellen Hunt, but I
Speaker 2: like them crazy but anyway, right, I love that Hunter
Speaker 2: Green strikeout. I like the Otani strikeout. I just don't
Speaker 2: like the odds on either one of them. So let's
Speaker 2: just pair them together. Let's just get down with it.
Speaker 2: It pays you plus one seventy five if you take
Speaker 2: the over on both Green and Atani strikeouts together. I
Speaker 2: think that's a pretty fun one. My team total run
Speaker 2: of the day, I'm going with Houston. So in the
Speaker 2: first five innings, the Houston Astros just score two and
Speaker 2: a half runs, plus one ten it's plus money. So
Speaker 2: that's a really solid one. And I'm gonna go with
Speaker 2: Pede Lonzo total bases. I don't do total bases a lot,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna go with that, even Stephen for Pete
Speaker 2: a Lonzo. Those are my three plays as of now.
Speaker 1: Amazing to think Bill Paxon, by the way, I'm become
Speaker 1: the Bill of Paxon Show today. He was also in
Speaker 1: Commando and The Original Terminator too. What a career for
Speaker 1: Bill Paxton. Another great movie, One False Move, Great Independence is.
Speaker 2: It Paxton's prospects? Is that gonna be that lucky?
Speaker 1: It's definitely the rookie lucky but back and he passed
Speaker 1: away in twenty seventeen, far too young. Yeah, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Some sad stuff. Here's this is sad too. Albert Casanova says,
Speaker 1: Alex Bregman is available in my league? Is he a
Speaker 1: must pick up? Or wait and see what? Who dropped
Speaker 1: Alex Pregman into Welsh? Why do these things happen?
Speaker 2: Well, because he hasn't been like magnificent.
Speaker 1: I know he's mid. I know we called him mid
Speaker 1: the other day.
Speaker 2: But is he must pick up in like a ten
Speaker 2: team league? Is he a must pick up in a
Speaker 2: ten teague?
Speaker 1: Is he not? Somehow? I mean, I don't Welsh? Does
Speaker 1: it come to this?
Speaker 2: It's kids getting to that. Like I would pick him up. Sure,
Speaker 2: I pick them up because I like to buy into
Speaker 2: track records. It's a great team context hitting and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, but aggressive, but you know in twelve teaming
Speaker 2: up it's like a no brainer.
Speaker 1: But I'm not. I'm not the biggest breaking bike either,
Speaker 1: But like you shouldn't be a free agent, that's for sure.
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Speaker 1: com slash collect and today the DFS slate that we
Speaker 1: are looking at. This is very simple. So here's your
Speaker 1: approach today. You've got four pitchers that are all right
Speaker 1: in the same price wheelhouse, all four of good matchups.
Speaker 1: One of the four is gonna pop. You create your
Speaker 1: lineup in terms of hitters around this price range, which
Speaker 1: is about ten point five K all right above him.
Speaker 1: Below you've got George Kirby at ten, Frey pril to
Speaker 1: ten to nine, Framberg at ten to seven, Pablopez a
Speaker 1: ten to four, as long as you have between ten
Speaker 1: and eleven K available for that pitcher spot. Basically, use
Speaker 1: the same lineup that you like, whatever you can get
Speaker 1: in there that you feel good about. Seattle, Houston, those
Speaker 1: are two spaces you're looking for a potential offense today.
Speaker 1: You go ahead and that's how you approach it, and
Speaker 1: then just interchange the pitchures. One of these guys is
Speaker 1: gonna hit and take you in a tournament to a
Speaker 1: big spot. Colton Wong two point three, Alex Bregman who
Speaker 1: is mid at two point eight. I hope it's two
Speaker 1: home runs today, Alex Kiirrolov two nine and Bryce Ran
Speaker 1: two point five. Those are some of the guys to
Speaker 1: help offset some of that cost. Welsh. Let's look at
Speaker 1: the board, shall we? Fantasybroos dot com slash Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: where you make it. Oh my god, look at that.
Speaker 1: Just squeak it in by the hair on his chinny
Speaker 1: chin chin. The Welsh is at number ten. I'm so proud.
Speaker 1: Eleven Homers primetime still at fifteen. Guys, don't let Welsh win.
Speaker 1: Don't do don't let this happen again. If you want
Speaker 1: to join, we're giving away an autographed Corbyn Carol helmet
Speaker 1: and it just goes to show you if you had
Speaker 1: a bad April doesn't matter because nobody had a worse
Speaker 1: April than Welsh. And look how good he's been so Welsh,
Speaker 1: I know you had a bunch from from our boy,
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge, I'm going with Alvarez again. I'm just sticking
Speaker 1: with it tonight. Where are you going for your home
Speaker 1: run call?
Speaker 2: Oh Man, hot as can be? Yeah, And I did
Speaker 2: that a horrid, horrid April like first three weeks. I
Speaker 2: don't think I had a single home run call. Look
Speaker 2: at that, all right, I'm gonna go with Pete Alonzo,
Speaker 2: no shocker with everything I said. I think he's got
Speaker 2: five career homers versus Patrick Corbin. This is a BVP play.
Speaker 2: Patrick Corbin in general is not as bad as we
Speaker 2: like to present. But you know, remember you had the
Speaker 2: like I'm attacking Patrick Corbin every time, been a little
Speaker 2: bit better than we assumed. He give up six homers
Speaker 2: last month, He's only giving up one homer. There's a
Speaker 2: little bit of Donus in there, and Peter Alonzo owns him.
Speaker 2: He calls him daddy. So Peter Alonzo, home run today,
Speaker 2: get me back further up on the board, so I'm
Speaker 2: not off immediately tomorrow.
Speaker 1: There you have it. Ending on this note, because Joseph
Speaker 1: Mosca hilarious and the chat today, I actually wanted to
Speaker 1: watch Twister, praying Helen Hunt would get swept up in
Speaker 1: the Tornado. Yes, me too. My personal hell would be
Speaker 1: tied to a chair having to watch all six seasons
Speaker 1: of Mad About You. That would be my own.
Speaker 2: Booh, you have like a deep hatred.
Speaker 1: For I can't stand her, and even that that great
Speaker 1: movie she did with Nicholson, as good as it gets.
Speaker 1: Just the whole time, I was like, why can't anyone
Speaker 1: else be in this? But her?
Speaker 2: Was the Alien movie? Wasn't she in the Alien Movie?
Speaker 1: I don't know, That's all I know. And someone just
Speaker 1: said too, jose abrew was dropped in my league. Well
Speaker 1: that's different. Jose Ah Brady is an older player who
Speaker 1: fell off last year and he's been terrible this year.
Speaker 1: And his ADP Brekman was still somebody that was pretty
Speaker 1: high up there in ADP. But you know what, he
Speaker 1: has not been the same player since the scandal. I
Speaker 1: think we can a agree on that. So that is
Speaker 1: one interesting bit of news. Tomorrow, since we'll have more
Speaker 1: time so much weekend action, we'll get into more of
Speaker 1: this prospect list. I put it in the Rookie Lookie
Speaker 1: section for tomorrow already so that we carry it over.
Speaker 1: And we broke two hundred live watching today, so Bravo everybody,
Speaker 1: all of you out there hanging out. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Bill Paxton, Shout out to McLean making his debut today
Speaker 1: along with the Texas Ranger pitcher Bradford, who is of
Speaker 1: both those guys. Good luck to them, godspeed, whatever the
Speaker 1: hell that means. And then tomorrow we'll come back and
Speaker 1: do it all again every day twelve thirty live on
Speaker 1: the YouTube channel. Make sure you subscribe to Fancy Bros. MLB,
Speaker 1: and I'll do it for us, But the story of
Speaker 1: the game goes on for the Welsh. I'm Joey P.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next time. Kids.
Speaker 2: My bad is