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Speaker 1: The chat joining us live. We've got now one, We've
Speaker 1: got two rookie lookies and Welsh right out of the gate.
Speaker 1: Some great questions from the Peanuts and Cracker Jacks. Here's somebody,
Speaker 1: dB Cooper, very famous person. See we get very famous people.
Speaker 1: Who is the show? We don't know, We don't know
Speaker 1: who he is, where he is, what's going on. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to get to the drama in the Yankee
Speaker 1: blue Jay game too, because that was hilarious last night.
Speaker 1: But dB stashed Liberatory and now he is starting today.
Speaker 1: Do I start him or Benjim? See how he does?
Speaker 1: And he loves us both. Isn't that nice that someone
Speaker 1: else he likes us actually loves us? But look, it
Speaker 1: depends on your options tonight. It's a really good Pilate's
Speaker 1: a lot of good arms out there. What do you
Speaker 1: think you think you give the kid a chance or no.
Speaker 3: I mean the safest bet with any of these rookies
Speaker 3: is to not put them out there in their first go.
Speaker 3: There are some you know, power pieces to a Milwaukee offense,
Speaker 3: but I live on the danger side a little bit.
Speaker 3: It is a home game, the offense has been really hot.
Speaker 3: I do think a couple of runs might be given up,
Speaker 3: but I'd love to see him go five or six.
Speaker 3: I'd love to see him pick up the win.
Speaker 4: You know, So I think I'm I'm leaning.
Speaker 3: Fifty five to forty five that I would start him.
Speaker 3: But if you want to play it safe, you don't
Speaker 3: want to screw up any ratios and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: Maybe bention him for the first one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could wait and see. Sometimes that first start
Speaker 1: is even better it's the second one. You know. Tanner
Speaker 1: Bibey was very good in his first start. Then there
Speaker 1: was a couple hiccups and then he kind of get
Speaker 1: right there. Sometimes that adrenaline is a good thing. Sometimes
Speaker 1: guys struggle with it. But I feel like for him,
Speaker 1: this is you know, this is a little different. I
Speaker 1: think the expectations a little different. This was more a
Speaker 1: matter of not.
Speaker 4: This isn't his first rodeo.
Speaker 1: It's not his first he's been up at four, So
Speaker 1: I would start him with a decent amount of confidence
Speaker 1: today if you had the need and the ability to
Speaker 1: in fact do that. Let's get to the headlines though, Well,
Speaker 1: so we got to start with a whacky game. So
Speaker 1: my daughter had a concert last night. We've got back
Speaker 1: to back concerts. Yeah, choir last night, not Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: That's a couple of weeks. This was choir, and tonight
Speaker 1: is banned for my oldest daughter. So back to back.
Speaker 1: So I got home about eight fifteen or so eight thirty.
Speaker 1: I turned on the baseball and immediately it's the Yankees
Speaker 1: and the Blue Jays and more Shenanigans and Domingo Herman
Speaker 1: getting thrown out for pine tar and the umpire said,
Speaker 1: it's the stickiest hand I've ever felt in my entire life.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let that quote linger out there. Then
Speaker 1: you had the whole nonsense going on where the Blue
Speaker 1: Jays manager was upset because the Yankees third base coach
Speaker 1: was so far out of the third base area. Then,
Speaker 1: of course Aaron Boone saying, hey, your third base coach
Speaker 1: is way far out of the area. This was hilarious
Speaker 1: going back and forth. Meanwhile, Gossman's throwing darts, Judges hitting
Speaker 1: home runs. Anyway, it's aw a great breakdown to last
Speaker 1: night where you know, Yonder Alonzo and MLB Network was
Speaker 1: talking about how you know he thinks that Judge and
Speaker 1: the Yankees weren't looking to the third base coach as
Speaker 1: much as they were looking to where Alejandro Kirk was
Speaker 1: setting up. And then they showed footage of how early
Speaker 1: he was setting up to a certain corners and that's
Speaker 1: just again gamesmanship at the end of the day. That's
Speaker 1: not cheating, that's playing the game. Welch, What did you
Speaker 1: think of last night's Toronto Yankee Shenanigans. It was pretty fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I like the pettiness definitely.
Speaker 3: The rivalry two seems to be really pushing because we
Speaker 3: always focus on Yankees Red Sox, right because.
Speaker 1: Yankee Red Sox is dead. Right, it's dead.
Speaker 4: Because Red Sox aren't competitive enough, and the the Red.
Speaker 1: Sox won a bunch of championships too, And I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I suppose that's the case as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I think it's great.
Speaker 3: I don't have any The only thing I had an
Speaker 3: issue with across the board on any of this is
Speaker 3: the sticky stuff, whatever the hell is.
Speaker 4: Going on there.
Speaker 3: There's like a video two of his pants. His pants, yeah,
Speaker 3: looked all poopy and just brown and this crap was
Speaker 3: all over his pants, whatever the hell it was, and
Speaker 3: he was just going towards there, like I just don't
Speaker 3: know why.
Speaker 4: It's like, it's like it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Is he illegal?
Speaker 3: They're they're testing for it. Like what are dudes doing?
Speaker 3: Have they been getting away with it so much? I
Speaker 3: could just jump in that one. I just don't understand
Speaker 3: all the other stuff. It's gamemanship. It's fine by me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean here's the thing. Now you have
Speaker 1: herm on. He's gonna miss ten days, so the suspension's coming.
Speaker 1: And I heard this was the same umpiring crew that
Speaker 1: was dealing with Herman last time around too, where he
Speaker 1: had to change his glove like three times or whatever
Speaker 1: the hell I mean. I don't know. This is fun.
Speaker 1: And Razor Ramon of course the first to make he
Speaker 1: beat me to it. He made a lipotur commercial for
Speaker 1: a libertre So you might have to take one of
Speaker 1: those for your blood pressure. Is it for blood pressure
Speaker 1: or is it for uh, cholesterol. I don't know what
Speaker 1: it's for.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure that the side of it don't take
Speaker 4: I don't take it. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean she get him as a sponsor for the show.
Speaker 1: You know it was red Hot No One Aaronato. I
Speaker 1: wish I was on this training.
Speaker 3: On my trade video this week he was on my
Speaker 3: trade video. Though, Man, I did this video. It does
Speaker 3: kill me. I just want to point it, it kills me.
Speaker 3: I did this video on Sunday morning, Sunday morning, it
Speaker 3: comes out on Tuesday, and that gave like three days
Speaker 3: of Aeronaudo to be balling out. So legitimacy of Aeronaudo
Speaker 3: breaking out hit a little less hard on the video,
Speaker 3: but nonetheless, he was the number one guy on the
Speaker 3: trade video this week.
Speaker 4: Was mister Nolan Aeronaudo.
Speaker 3: And I know people jump in the chat for any
Speaker 3: person they love that I'm trading away or anything like that.
Speaker 3: I've already seen it in the comments and stuff. But
Speaker 3: let's get some love for Nolan Ernado and the breakout
Speaker 3: and he's just back to it, and he's so weird
Speaker 3: because there was a not a lot that was in
Speaker 3: favor of it.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 4: I was talking about those with a few people.
Speaker 3: There wasn't a lot of like underlying stuff that was
Speaker 3: sitting there where it's like, oh my god, he's gonna
Speaker 3: bounce back with his XBA and blah blah blah, and
Speaker 3: it was just like, no, it was very little, but
Speaker 3: it worked out and it's a great buy if you
Speaker 3: were able to get in, you know, even before I
Speaker 3: posted the video.
Speaker 1: And the funniest part is, like, I mean, for the
Speaker 1: most part, I'm just looking at the comments on that
Speaker 1: video fans ROSMLB Subscribe Today development notifications, and they're all
Speaker 1: really nice. No, they're all really good. Like it's like,
Speaker 1: this is great, Welsh's awesome. None of the like troll
Speaker 1: things that you would think in terms of yeah, no
Speaker 1: one I don't knows with five home runs in a row,
Speaker 1: except except there's always got to be one jerk at
Speaker 1: the party who just says terrible advice. So, James Saunders,
Speaker 1: what's your problem, James? What's your problem? You know, cam here,
Speaker 1: do you want to hug James? Is that what you need? James?
Speaker 1: You need a hug, because I'll give you a hug,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: But you know, I even moved away from like trading away,
Speaker 3: because that's what people get very pissy about. The most
Speaker 3: pissy that you all get is when I tell you
Speaker 3: to trade away somebody. So when I tell you to
Speaker 3: trade four, I feel like it's a lot easier to
Speaker 3: stomach and easier to an easier palette for everybody.
Speaker 4: But you know, can't please clarity.
Speaker 1: Craig Johnson and the chat Lipatorius for cholesterol. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I thought it was could also cause temporary blindness and
Speaker 1: the condition known as hotdog fingers. Ronald Acunia in his
Speaker 1: tenth homer of the season. He's pretty good at baseball.
Speaker 1: Last time I checked bought the Braves did lose to
Speaker 1: the Rangers. An interesting matchup today? What matchup? This is?
Speaker 1: Spencer Streider and Nady Valdi. Today we baby, Let's go
Speaker 1: Bailey Ober. How good has this guy been? This was
Speaker 1: another one of these guys that, like last year, people
Speaker 1: had expectations for some mixed results this year. Second time around,
Speaker 1: Welsh Ober has been very strong. One run over six
Speaker 1: innings Tuesday. They get a win over the Dodgers in
Speaker 1: that game. What were your thoughts on Bailey Ober's performance
Speaker 1: and the rest of season outlook for him? Because it
Speaker 1: looks like this might be a guy you picked up
Speaker 1: off the waiver wire for a buck or two and
Speaker 1: he's paying off huge dividends right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's been consistent.
Speaker 3: You know what the problem was is he was one
Speaker 3: of those guys recently people have been asking questions are like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know this guy, that guy Ober? Which do I
Speaker 3: drop or can I drop all of them for?
Speaker 4: Said rookie pitcher.
Speaker 3: And Bailey kind of generally sat in that range, but
Speaker 3: he's he's moved himself out of it with how consistent
Speaker 3: he's been. I mean, he's struck out six in four
Speaker 3: straight games as I'm looking, he's only given up more
Speaker 3: than one earned run once in a law four and
Speaker 3: on the home run totals, he's only had one game
Speaker 3: of his five start of this year where he's given
Speaker 3: up a single home run. So, like Bailey, Ober has
Speaker 3: been really, really solid, and he's in a twelve team,
Speaker 3: totally back into your rotation. Mustone also want to point out,
Speaker 3: going back real quick to Strider and Eovaldi, you have
Speaker 3: all these strikeout numbers today it's.
Speaker 4: Five and a half.
Speaker 3: I didn't even see that. I might have to put
Speaker 3: that in the n a strikeout. I saw room with
Speaker 3: me yesterday in our big ye Carla.
Speaker 1: Verlin more on him in a second, and.
Speaker 4: We had a couple guys.
Speaker 3: Luckily I wasn't the one that screwed the parlay yesterday.
Speaker 3: I wasn't just the one, but I did screw it.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, I don't want to have a parlay's in.
Speaker 3: But there's a couple of strikeout numbers I really like
Speaker 3: today and Eovaldi g it's juice to hell, but it's
Speaker 3: five and a half up against Atlanta, which I really like.
Speaker 3: Strider is at eight and a half.
Speaker 4: But check this out.
Speaker 3: The highest juice is on Strider at eight and a half.
Speaker 3: It is minus one fifty. It pays where e of
Speaker 3: all these five.
Speaker 4: And a half one four there's.
Speaker 1: A combined on prize picks too. By the way, Oh
Speaker 1: what is two of them? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Boy? If it is, I mean based on those numbers,
Speaker 4: probably be fifteen. I would say fifteen.
Speaker 1: Think it was sixteen or fifteen. It was one of
Speaker 1: those two.
Speaker 4: For sure, it was fourteen and a half, I'd smash.
Speaker 1: Not that it's definitely fifteen or fifteen and a half, sixteen,
Speaker 1: somewhere in that range.
Speaker 4: It was you know what I think I'm taking.
Speaker 3: I think if it's fifteen, and I think I might,
Speaker 3: I might chance it if it's sixteen.
Speaker 1: Did you put this in the chat here, the Colt
Speaker 1: Keith to have a six hit cycle first player? Did
Speaker 1: you do this? Who did? I did not? I believe
Speaker 1: this was Wonkee or Mayor just throwing things in the chat.
Speaker 1: So apparently Colt Keith, who may or may not have
Speaker 1: been in a boy band with that name, Incredible Tigers.
Speaker 1: Six hits cycle there for him, So congratulations to him.
Speaker 1: But the real rookie lookies, it's about Matthew Libertore getting
Speaker 1: called up from Triple A. The top pitching prospect in
Speaker 1: this rotation or in this organization, I should say, who knows?
Speaker 1: I mean, he could be the best one in this rotation,
Speaker 1: worls and done by the end of the year. Wayne
Speaker 1: Right having some issues. So the three point one three era,
Speaker 1: A one point one seven with fifty six k's in
Speaker 1: forty six innings a Triple A certainly worth an ad
Speaker 1: If he's still floating around there, We've been stashing him
Speaker 1: four weeks now. It's funny I've got him and Ventos
Speaker 1: on a team. So today Joey P is a happy boy.
Speaker 4: It's your rookie lookie. It's Joey.
Speaker 1: It's the Joey P rookie lookie of the day. So
Speaker 1: this is a very exciting thing. But wow, look, I
Speaker 1: don't think this is a you know, we've speculated so
Speaker 1: much with some of these young pitchers where well maybe
Speaker 1: they come up uri Perez starter or two, maybe get
Speaker 1: sent out like all that. I don't think that's the case.
Speaker 1: I think this is they desperately need somebody to help
Speaker 1: every fifth day to give him some better opportunities to win.
Speaker 1: Flowherty's been better of late. If they can get something
Speaker 1: good out of Matthew Livertore, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I think that Saint Louis can start to make that
Speaker 1: climb back into relevancy. What are your thoughts he arrest
Speaker 1: of season for this player or do you think this
Speaker 1: is one of those situations whereas the spots start and
Speaker 1: he gets sent down. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, I wanted to take a look here at what
Speaker 3: the rotation looks like right now because that's a important
Speaker 3: to this.
Speaker 4: So here is your five.
Speaker 3: You've got Montgomery, Wainwright, Matts, Michaelis and Flaherty so there's
Speaker 3: an unfortunateness to this, but there's an unfortunatests to what
Speaker 3: you're gonna say.
Speaker 4: Those are five names. Those are five names. So where
Speaker 4: does he sit?
Speaker 3: They'd have to make the commitment. Now Matts has stunk
Speaker 3: and if you wanted to move him to the bullpen.
Speaker 3: The cool thing here with Libertor is you could just
Speaker 3: replace him.
Speaker 4: With another lefty.
Speaker 3: And I think that is a huge advantage here. He's
Speaker 3: been awesome in the miners. Strikeout numbers have been better
Speaker 3: than they've ever been before. He's made some alterations, I
Speaker 3: want to say, and he's always had a really good curve.
Speaker 3: But I don't know if he's throwing a sweeper, but
Speaker 3: I believe some of the vlo is up on Libertor
Speaker 3: and he's a monster. And you know he has him
Speaker 3: and Nolan Gorman. If people don't remember our best friends,
Speaker 3: they were out here here in Arizona and they get
Speaker 3: to play together again. I mean, this is like in
Speaker 3: Libertor was the guy like Norman was. Gorman was fun,
Speaker 3: but Libertor was the big name pitcher and he can
Speaker 3: pound the strike zone. But he's found inconsistency and his
Speaker 3: stuff just wasn't missing bats so it's done that in
Speaker 3: the minors. I think he can come up. I think
Speaker 3: he can impress. I have to assume right now, based
Speaker 3: on what this rotation looks like, that this is a
Speaker 3: show me what you got and give some rest and
Speaker 3: everything like that, and then he might be sent back down.
Speaker 3: But if he does fall out, I don't know where
Speaker 3: they go with this. Is it Matt's Is Matt's the
Speaker 3: only clear way. I think it's Commers not going.
Speaker 1: In And they were rumors floated around two weeks ago
Speaker 1: that Matt's might get bounced for the rotation, and I
Speaker 1: think they were just trying to be a little bit
Speaker 1: more patient. Obviously the catching issues too, I think that
Speaker 1: had a whole thing to do with cantrerorist not doing
Speaker 1: things the same way as the Yadi, but Yadi was
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna do things the way Yadi does. I don't
Speaker 1: think the Cardinals realize how special of a player Yadi
Speaker 1: or Molina is. I mean, I know they do, but
Speaker 1: when you remove that player for the pitchers, it is
Speaker 1: a huge void. And I think it's shown up this
Speaker 1: year where whether it be his preparation for games, calling games,
Speaker 1: I think it's been an absolutely huge difference, So that
Speaker 1: transition hasn't gone as smoothly as I think they Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think that's something that probably all of us
Speaker 1: as analysts should have done a better job of saying, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what you know, just because Wilson con charge
Speaker 1: a good offensive player, he might not have the same
Speaker 1: kind of catchup preparation necessarily. Maybe this is something we
Speaker 1: should be a little.
Speaker 4: Lyrical, like what pictuer did anybody care about in this rule?
Speaker 1: Like Joran Montgomery was well, Jordan Montgomery's the one guy
Speaker 1: I think he cared about, but he's been okay. Flawherty's
Speaker 1: been better of late.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he's been way better of late. But he
Speaker 4: wasn't like a big option.
Speaker 1: No, he wasn't. He wasn't a big target darkthrow.
Speaker 3: This is a positive that he's going today because this
Speaker 3: gives us enough time to figure out what the hell's
Speaker 3: going to go on into next week because he's going
Speaker 3: to pitch. You know, technically, if you kept in line,
Speaker 3: he would be pitching like on Monday next week. So
Speaker 3: this is the start that's going to affect fab. My
Speaker 3: gut tells me, based on what we're seeing in this
Speaker 3: rotation that unless they go to a six man rotation.
Speaker 3: Liberatory is just going to be one start. Let's see
Speaker 3: what you have. So I would be weary of like.
Speaker 4: How I spend.
Speaker 3: But if he dominates, then maybe they really do have
Speaker 3: a decision on their hands that will be rectified by
Speaker 3: Sunday when fab and Stuff is running.
Speaker 1: Here's a good question from Craig. Craig wants to know,
Speaker 1: is Charlie Morton is sell high after his last start?
Speaker 1: I say yes. I look at those underlying numbers, the
Speaker 1: x FIP and the FIP and the XCRA, and they
Speaker 1: are not as good. Uh. And the strikeout rate has again,
Speaker 1: barring the last start, has not been as solid this
Speaker 1: year as it was in years past, plus the age.
Speaker 1: So I say yes, let's say you Welsh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I'm fine with that.
Speaker 3: I'm not beholden to Charlie Morton that he's going to
Speaker 3: like massively rebound or anything like that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the other rookie lookie, which
Speaker 1: is Mark Viento's getting called up? I'm excited or a
Speaker 1: rookie lookie your biggest Both of these guys well on
Speaker 1: tea though, well yeah, please, there's nothing that's going to
Speaker 1: help the Mets, but maybe this can at least help
Speaker 1: the offense. So thirteen homers, thirty eight games, thirty seven rbi,
Speaker 1: A three thirty three batting average, a four to sixteen
Speaker 1: ovp A, six eighty eight slugging and eleven four ops.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, I don't know what. There's nothing left
Speaker 1: for Vento's to prove now, he's just got to come
Speaker 1: up to the major leagues. The question is, you bring
Speaker 1: him up, you have to play them every day third base.
Speaker 1: He's not the greatest glove, neither is Batty. So you
Speaker 1: can have this argument, what are you going to do
Speaker 1: with these guys? I can't imagine Vento's not getting every
Speaker 1: day at bats though, between DH and third base, like
Speaker 1: he's got to play every day. If you bring them up,
Speaker 1: he don't bring up prospects to sit them. Yes, it
Speaker 1: will hurt at Duardo Escobar. I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 1: get rid of him. Maybe get Baty to play some outfield,
Speaker 1: But if anything, I think it hurts Batty more than
Speaker 1: anyone else. Potentially maybe Vogel back a little bit, but
Speaker 1: again that's not big a fantasy asset. So what are
Speaker 1: you think here about the Viento's call up and your
Speaker 1: expectations for him this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually I don't agree. I don't think it
Speaker 3: the biggest effect is on Baty. I think those two
Speaker 3: have to kind of be separated. I think it's got
Speaker 3: to be some exist Yeah. I think maybe the biggest
Speaker 3: is going to be Eduardo. I mean, I think they
Speaker 3: want Beatty in the lineup every day, and if they're
Speaker 3: gonna want, you don't bring Vento's up to not play him.
Speaker 3: So I think Vento's is probably like a Dhi option
Speaker 3: who can maybe spell Alonzo. And then I think Baity
Speaker 3: is third base, and if they want to try to
Speaker 3: pigeonhole Edward is still in then it's going to have
Speaker 3: to be there unless they're going to play any of
Speaker 3: these guys at a corner outfield. But you know, the
Speaker 3: one thing that Vento's needed to prove was he needed
Speaker 3: to prove the strikeout rate could lower, and it did.
Speaker 3: He was almost twenty nine percent in triple A last year.
Speaker 3: He was over twenty nine percent in the majors. Last year,
Speaker 3: he cut it down to twenty percent with a higher
Speaker 3: batting average really than he's ever had before in the
Speaker 3: minor league career and he's got big monster power. He's
Speaker 3: making better decisions and I assume he's probably going to DH.
Speaker 4: This is great.
Speaker 1: This is a great more size white rower not jumping
Speaker 1: at ad Vento's ad Mauricio like this is the Mets
Speaker 1: are in a bad spot and they need to do something.
Speaker 1: They need to turn it over because even if regardless
Speaker 1: of what happens with these players, they have nothing to lose,
Speaker 1: and maybe the future just starts now. Maybe this is
Speaker 1: a year where they don't contend and they take a
Speaker 1: hard look at these contracts with Schuzer and Verlander, and
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the hard thing. When you invest
Speaker 1: in pitchers over the age of thirty seven, you can't
Speaker 1: be surprised when things aren't working out. Like I mean,
Speaker 1: I understood them at the time. I know last year
Speaker 1: the Mets were a fun team to watch. This year
Speaker 1: they have not been fun and they're losing to bad teams.
Speaker 1: Like this run of losing to teams under five hundred
Speaker 1: that they should be pounding on is just brutal. Here's
Speaker 1: a fun one from Patrick Patrick. First time, long time,
Speaker 1: So Patrick, welcome to the show, buddy. Is there anything
Speaker 1: to be done if you're rostering multiple underperformers, guys like
Speaker 1: France Rodriguez, Riley Ymenez. Other than just hold, I say no,
Speaker 1: there's really unless you see some underlying thing where you
Speaker 1: are concerned with health or concerned with some metrics that
Speaker 1: are really negative. I'm holding all these players because Riley, Julio,
Speaker 1: our elite, Jimenez, it could be a really good contributor.
Speaker 1: I think Jose Ramirez is kind of slow ish start,
Speaker 1: and I know he's on the bereavement list now too,
Speaker 1: so that has something maybe to do with maybe the
Speaker 1: slow start. We don't know what's going on with him personally.
Speaker 1: I didn't see what the situation was. France is a
Speaker 1: good contributor, so I say just hold. Welsh, what do
Speaker 1: you say?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you can not what you can do
Speaker 4: with those those guys.
Speaker 3: I mean a guy like France you could probably dump
Speaker 3: if you're in like a smaller league, if you're in
Speaker 3: like a ten man league, but you're not doing anything
Speaker 3: with Hi, or you're not doing anything with Riley, probably
Speaker 3: not him men as either. I'm going from the mindset
Speaker 3: that we're asking this in a ten team and a
Speaker 3: twelve team. Yeah, you're not really doing anything for any
Speaker 3: of these players. You gotta sit, you gotta hold, and
Speaker 3: you gotta you know, pray to the fantasy gods that
Speaker 3: it turns your way, or you really need to make
Speaker 3: a trick, you could.
Speaker 1: Uncle Ted talks needs a hug in the chat today,
Speaker 1: really angry about.
Speaker 4: It like anything?
Speaker 3: I say, Uncle Ted, come on, bring it in.
Speaker 1: What's what's the matter? Look, look, life is short. Let's
Speaker 1: let's try to have fun. That'll be so negative, all right, Ted?
Speaker 1: Come on, Teddy? Ever, meaning's gonna be alright. I don't
Speaker 1: know if everything's gonna be right for Vladdie though. Heading's
Speaker 1: for an MRI if you're coming out yesterday and that
Speaker 1: with a knee injury in that crazy game, Mason Miller
Speaker 1: got some clarity finally on him. There It is diagnosed
Speaker 1: with a mild you see l sprain in the right elbow. Now,
Speaker 1: mild is good. I think it's one of the better
Speaker 1: outcomes you could hope for. But again, you ain't gonna
Speaker 1: see this guy anytime soon. No.
Speaker 3: The word was they are optimistic that he will pitch
Speaker 3: again this year. That does not leave me optimistic.
Speaker 1: Nor should it so. If you listen to us, and
Speaker 1: he made preparations you should have. Now, Look, there's a
Speaker 1: perfect opportunity to if libertur is available, there you go.
Speaker 1: You just swap one for the other and you hope
Speaker 1: that like Cardos are.
Speaker 3: Come out with Masimila. That's actually the important thing to
Speaker 3: talk about here is like you can agree draft, you
Speaker 3: can dump them in.
Speaker 1: Like if you're limited injury spots, it's okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's actually an exact question I got like yesterday
Speaker 3: was I've only got like three I L spots?
Speaker 4: Can do I keep Masimeller? Like no, you can just
Speaker 4: move on. Pick up you need to go.
Speaker 1: But this is what's going on. And and Ted, we
Speaker 1: love you, so don't get don't you know we all
Speaker 1: have our salty days, but you know, don't take it
Speaker 1: out on Archie Bradley or whatever you want to take
Speaker 1: it out on right now. Maybe Archie Bradley can rageous prospect.
Speaker 1: Kumar Rocker is going to undergo Tommy John surgery. So
Speaker 1: after all that, eventually he had the Tommy John anyway,
Speaker 1: I mean, like this is you know, the medicals don't lie,
Speaker 1: they just don't.
Speaker 4: Money.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be on the ten day IL with turf toe,
Speaker 1: which is not something you see a lot of the
Speaker 1: baseball players have sometimes as Vin Diesel and the Fast
Speaker 1: and Furious just passed through my house.
Speaker 4: I heard that, heard that. I didn't know what that was.
Speaker 1: It was right there. It was all the amazing cast
Speaker 1: of The Fast Show.
Speaker 4: It's all about family. Family. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh, still never seen one Fast and Furious real, will
Speaker 1: never never because I tried to watch the first one once.
Speaker 1: So I think when I was in college, I was like,
Speaker 1: this is dumb, and I'm like and I never went back,
Speaker 1: and I don't know how it went from car racing
Speaker 1: to somehow some sort of I don't know, global spy
Speaker 1: chain thing that they're involved.
Speaker 4: Like what, I think, you'd like it, you'd like it.
Speaker 3: Then they just get great actors and actresses on the
Speaker 3: back and going.
Speaker 1: They get a lot of good people in them now,
Speaker 1: which makes me wonder, Well, you know, I'll see almost
Speaker 1: anything she's in. I do love Charlie's but I'm just
Speaker 1: saying saying The Old Guard on Netflix, by the way,
Speaker 1: great movie. It's kind of like The Highlander if you
Speaker 1: like that kind of stuff. Charlie's really underrated little movie.
Speaker 1: She's like immortal, very good, lots of good fighting too.
Speaker 1: Check it out this weekend. If you got nothing going
Speaker 1: on but jazz chishom with the turf dough, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be sidelined for a while. I got a question about
Speaker 1: Matt Mrvis, who congratulations, Merv, you hit your first home
Speaker 1: run of your major league career. So here's a question.
Speaker 1: Somebody asked me this. I have Gunner and Nervis. Who
Speaker 1: would rather have rest of season? Welsh Christ, Gunner Henderson? No,
Speaker 1: Christ was not available as a choice. It was Matt
Speaker 1: Mrvis or Gunner Henderson. Those were the two.
Speaker 3: I guess I'm gonna say Gunner because I think I
Speaker 3: do double yesterday.
Speaker 4: It was nice.
Speaker 3: I think this can at some point turn around. I
Speaker 3: think they might be pretty similar. I think they might
Speaker 3: be in a similar ish spot. Nervous, more power, Gunner
Speaker 3: provides other stuff that he's not doing because he's not
Speaker 3: hitting anything right now.
Speaker 4: But it's pretty close.
Speaker 3: If you wanted to like argue and take the other side, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to disagree. I think these guys live
Speaker 3: in the same land.
Speaker 1: Look at Wonky. Agree with me that that movie is great.
Speaker 1: The Old Guard's great. It should have been in theaters,
Speaker 1: But I think it was the weird pandemic time. So
Speaker 1: I just went right to Netflix. Is it new or
Speaker 1: a couple of years old? Now?
Speaker 4: Is that the Is it like?
Speaker 1: And it's got the kid who played Dudley and Harry Potter.
Speaker 1: He's kind of like the bad guy in it. He's
Speaker 1: kind of a jerk in it. It's good. It's good, funny.
Speaker 4: Now I'm going to research it because I don't.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of those straight to Netflix movies that
Speaker 1: are pretty good. I'm just gonna say, all right.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at it.
Speaker 1: It's a good movie. I'm telling you. Had it been
Speaker 1: in theaters, I think it would have done like if
Speaker 1: it came out now, I think it would have been
Speaker 1: pretty solid return on there.
Speaker 4: I think this, but don't remember.
Speaker 1: Here we go. We gotta talk about this because Lance
Speaker 1: Linn was good yesterday. Now he was good without Jose
Speaker 1: Ramirez in the lineup. So I just want to I
Speaker 1: want to preface that that the Guardians offense has been trash.
Speaker 1: Fiber was not good. Everything was pointing the wrong direction
Speaker 1: throughout this whole lance Linn saga. The strikeout rate has
Speaker 1: always been solid. I know a lot of people are frustrated.
Speaker 1: I drop lanslid everybody dropp lancelid that's fine. Is this
Speaker 1: the turnaround of lance Lin or is this just a
Speaker 1: blip on the radar where he faced a low rent
Speaker 1: team with missing their best player. I think it's more
Speaker 1: of the latter.
Speaker 3: What do you think I mean it's gonna be an
Speaker 3: annoying answer. I think it's somewhere in the middle. I
Speaker 3: think everybody wants lancelind. I think everyone wants definitives. They
Speaker 3: want Lancelin to either be great again or he's going
Speaker 3: to be atrocious garbage and he's an easy drop and
Speaker 3: I don't think you're gonna get that. I don't think
Speaker 3: that's gonna get out there. He wasn't magnificent as far
Speaker 3: as like his wiff rate in this was only twenty
Speaker 3: three percent fastball cutter did everything. Nothing else was a
Speaker 3: part of it, but a thirty four percent CSW. But
Speaker 3: my argument with him has been he's striking guys out,
Speaker 3: he's striking dudes out. So if he can get control
Speaker 3: of his stuff, you're gonna get higher ks. And if
Speaker 3: this team has got some offensive support, I think he's there.
Speaker 3: Here's my deal with him. He's not that like, oh cool,
Speaker 3: I got him at one fifty and he's such a
Speaker 3: great deal. He actually is probably more representative of where
Speaker 3: you drafted him. I think he sits in the middle.
Speaker 3: I think he can be an SP four or five,
Speaker 3: and those can have inconsistencies instead of what everybody's making
Speaker 3: him out to be an SP two, and then when
Speaker 3: he fails, it's like there's this garbage and he's done.
Speaker 3: I think he's just an inconsistent back end of the
Speaker 3: rotation starter that you can hold if you want.
Speaker 1: Here you go, here's Uncle ted nervous was terrible in
Speaker 1: the WBC. Come on, Teddy, can we mute him?
Speaker 4: Can we mute the negativity?
Speaker 1: I one more negative and you're gonna get muted in
Speaker 1: the chat and you've been an og Teddy, But come on,
Speaker 1: this is the power of positivity here. Oh, sabos Goggles
Speaker 1: brings up a go to a two extraction two? Yes,
Speaker 1: I know, so I saw the first extraction with Hemsworth.
Speaker 1: Did you see the Hemsworth Extraction movie on Netflix? That
Speaker 1: was fun to take?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, guys thought that was a pretty good movie.
Speaker 1: Distraction two I will watch. So, yes, Sabos Goggles a
Speaker 1: spot on there. So let's get to the down ously
Speaker 1: got more ops. Gossman seven innings, ten k's no decision,
Speaker 1: unfortunately just two win runs well Zardo six innings, seven
Speaker 1: kse one earned the downs, Justin Verlander Boo three strikeouts,
Speaker 1: six earned runs. Wait to make your home debut Shane
Speaker 1: Bieber six runs, five earned, twelve hits and four to
Speaker 1: two third against the White Sox, and then the plane open.
Speaker 3: Oh well, you know no, let's let's simmer on that
Speaker 3: one for a second. Let's simmer in that for a second.
Speaker 3: The big f and cry babies that came out of
Speaker 3: the woodworks last week because Shane Bieber was good. These
Speaker 3: massive cry babies that came out because everybody me and
Speaker 3: Frank Stanfuler saying, hey, listen, we don't really love Bieber
Speaker 3: and he's probably a trade candidate. And the cry babies
Speaker 3: that came out because he had a good stary. Oh
Speaker 3: my god, he's so much better than everybody said, you
Speaker 3: guys are stupid.
Speaker 1: There you go, that's good, you get you feel strong now.
Speaker 4: I feel my inner Ted talks in man. Just I
Speaker 4: just need to do.
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Speaker 1: strikeouts and going over against KC. Bryce Harper, Fernando Tattoos
Speaker 1: over on their hitter Fantasy score Welsh, what do you have?
Speaker 3: Technically I hit yesterday, but I only had one guy play,
Speaker 3: so that didn't help out in the the Haters Ball.
Speaker 3: The haters Ball only had one guy that was actually active,
Speaker 3: so that didn't end up working out. But I guess
Speaker 3: I was kind of a, you know, on it with
Speaker 3: those haters. But we're not hating today. We are going
Speaker 3: to go with three players. Bryce Harper score Fantasy score
Speaker 3: eight over.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with rot. This might be a little
Speaker 4: bit hating Ross strippling earned runs two and a half over.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of attacking that game today against the Phillies
Speaker 4: and then, oh, you actually got have to get this
Speaker 4: in in the next ten minutes.
Speaker 3: Edward Rodriguez strikeouts five and a half. If you want
Speaker 3: a replacement, I actually and I don't know if it's
Speaker 3: on there.
Speaker 4: I assume it is. I do love Nadi Evaldi as
Speaker 4: long as it's five and a half.
Speaker 3: If they do that six thing, I do not know
Speaker 3: if I'm touching it, but if it's five and a half,
Speaker 3: I can replace him.
Speaker 4: But Edwardo is my third piece of my price.
Speaker 1: Right, Welsh, what do you have in the betting stuff today?
Speaker 3: All right, betting, I have got Phillies in that same
Speaker 3: game up against Ross Strippling. Phillies first five team total
Speaker 3: runs two and a half over we smacked yesterday pretty
Speaker 3: much everything but my k prop. So we're going with
Speaker 3: the Phillies first five team total runs two and a half.
Speaker 4: That's even money.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Edwardo strikeouts five and a half
Speaker 3: and Sonny Gray strikeouts five and a half, and that's
Speaker 3: kind of better money. I want to take Eovaldi.
Speaker 4: I don't like the.
Speaker 3: Juice, but maybe, just maybe I might throw Eovaldi in
Speaker 3: and pair him with one of these guys. With Sonny
Speaker 3: Gray Rodriguez, you can get a little k prop going
Speaker 3: if you want to do that, because I like that
Speaker 3: one as well better.
Speaker 1: Uh Exotic dancer name Ross Stripling or Genesis Cabrera.
Speaker 4: Oh, Genesis Cabrera.
Speaker 1: I think Genesis care and welcome to the stage, Genesis Cabrera.
Speaker 1: Let's get your head together on my own. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: three leg parlay today the Troit Tigers on the money
Speaker 1: line minus one sixty four, get it in right now
Speaker 1: with Dwardo Rodriguez against the Pirates the Padres heavy favorites
Speaker 1: minus two ninety. But if you put that along with
Speaker 1: the Rangers, who are upset special for me today against
Speaker 1: the Braves at home here for Texas plus one thirty four.
Speaker 1: You put the Tigers, Padres Rangers together, you get plus
Speaker 1: four six, So four to one Drew Smiley over on
Speaker 1: three three and a half strikeouts for Drew Smiley, I
Speaker 1: think you can get the over on that. And Spencer Schreider.
Speaker 1: I love Stryder whenever I see a number that high,
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Speaker 1: out the stuff here for DFS today. Eduardo at ten
Speaker 1: six if you're playing the all day there, Sunny Gray
Speaker 1: attend two, you Darbish at ten for Nadiavaldi at ten
Speaker 1: oh eight. I think Strider's gonna be very popular today,
Speaker 1: as he should be. I'm thinking on the other side
Speaker 1: of that, I think he can match him. He could
Speaker 1: get the w Look. Remember, with starting pitchers, you're always
Speaker 1: looking for six innings, six k's and potential. That's what
Speaker 1: you're looking for, and Nadiavaldi I think has that. And
Speaker 1: I think because he's going against the Braves, a lower
Speaker 1: roster percentage. Arizona Philly, San France, San Diego especially, That's
Speaker 1: where I'm looking for offense. JD. Davis is two point nine,
Speaker 1: Matt Carpenter two point six, Jake Cornworth two point eight.
Speaker 1: I'm going to Fernando Tettis Junior for my home run
Speaker 1: call today. And speaking of home runs, Fantasypros dot Com
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Speaker 1: homers up at sixteen primetime. No Welsh, Welsh is off
Speaker 1: the board.
Speaker 4: I gotta get back.
Speaker 1: It was so fun while it lasted. Welsh, what do
Speaker 1: you have for the people for your home run call today? Well?
Speaker 3: Am I attempt to get back up. I'm going to
Speaker 3: go with Bryce Harper. Bryce Harper good BBP plays is
Speaker 3: kind of a way to attack. This doesn't actually have
Speaker 3: a home run, lots of doubles, six hundred batting average
Speaker 3: against Rost Rippling career wise, so there's a little bit
Speaker 3: of a track record. So I'm hoping to jump on
Speaker 3: Bryce Harper get me back on.
Speaker 1: The board, please, yeah, pretty much. Also throwing into this,
Speaker 1: I saw this. I gotta find it in the chat
Speaker 1: much or where it went?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Tim Sawyer always good for a laugh. Uh. Coco Crisp
Speaker 1: wasn't an exotic dancwer name. Yes, yes, it was so
Speaker 1: good one Coco Crisp definitely would qualify there. We used
Speaker 1: a whole article on that.
Speaker 3: I think I'm just about to say it seems like
Speaker 3: you're creating a whole theme here.
Speaker 1: We gona do that. He's like a top ten list
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Speaker 1: Welsh great to hang out. I hope Ted gets some
Speaker 1: rest and comes back from fresh tomorrow in a better mood. Okay,
Speaker 1: everyone has their days.
Speaker 4: But someone's angry.
Speaker 1: Get that's what I'm angry myself. I'm gonna go get
Speaker 1: some lunch. Thanks for hanging out talking baseball with us.
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Speaker 1: goes on for the Welsh. I'm Joey P. We'll see
Speaker 1: you next time.
Speaker 3: Kids.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 4: We can only road out of the time.