Speaker 1: Why can't we have nice things? Let's play ball.
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Speaker 1: It's me, Joey p Joe Pi's appeia with me. Today
Speaker 1: is back the Welsh, clean shaven and ready to go,
Speaker 1: and we've got some baseball stuff to talk about today.
Speaker 1: We got your betting stuff, we've got your prop bets,
Speaker 1: we got your dfs.
Speaker 2: We've also got your fantasy baseball. We've got some history
Speaker 2: and a whole lot more. But Welsh, we.
Speaker 1: Have to start here on a sour note. Unfortunately, because
Speaker 1: people say to me all the time, Joe, why can't
Speaker 1: you enjoy what's going on with the New York Mets?
Speaker 1: Why can't you be happy with how well the Mets
Speaker 1: have done? And I inevitably respond back because I know
Speaker 1: it's always a matter of time before things go sideways.
Speaker 2: Max Scherzer was.
Speaker 1: On the mound, felt a poll in his side, left
Speaker 1: the game, took himself out immediately. I know they're saying,
Speaker 1: they're hoping it's not so bad and all these things,
Speaker 1: But Welsh, this is why we can't have nice things.
Speaker 1: So I unfortunately am here sitting and just miserable because
Speaker 1: Max Scherzer, who had been carrying this staff here, looks
Speaker 1: like he's headed for the eye. L So what can
Speaker 1: you say to me to make me feel better?
Speaker 3: I mean, there's always tomorrow, the sun. The sun will
Speaker 3: come out tomorrow. It's like Byron Buxton for me. You know,
Speaker 3: this is actually very similar to like when Byron Buckson
Speaker 3: goes down, like it's very upsetting, and when he's not
Speaker 3: in the lineup. And this has been baseball though, this
Speaker 3: has been baseball all year. You know, it's like, hey,
Speaker 3: this is fun, this is good, and he's gone, He's gone.
Speaker 4: The Sure's are one is.
Speaker 3: Pretty brutal though for that entire Mets team, that is
Speaker 3: the heart and soul. And I don't I don't know
Speaker 3: what else to tell you, my friend, except the sun
Speaker 3: come out.
Speaker 2: Wait, beautiful voice. That makes me feel a little.
Speaker 4: Bit in that thing.
Speaker 2: What I will say is.
Speaker 1: Is also this that you know, from a from a
Speaker 1: fantasy standpoint, in terms of our approach, I guess the
Speaker 1: one solace we could take is our approach going into
Speaker 1: this year was Faye the top ten.
Speaker 4: Pitchers, great point. Yeah, all the other guys.
Speaker 1: In that next column. Look, get two of those guys.
Speaker 1: Get get a Pablo Lopez and a Giolito.
Speaker 2: Get this guy, Joe.
Speaker 3: Muskrove, Get a Joe musk Rove, and get a you
Speaker 3: know you Darvish or whatever. Yeah, I don't have any
Speaker 3: Walker Buehlers in those struggles. Don't have any Max Suersers,
Speaker 3: don't really have many. I don't think I have any
Speaker 3: Shane Bieber's have kind of avoided all of that, which
Speaker 3: you know, push comes to shove. It'll be interesting to
Speaker 3: look at the end of the year on you know,
Speaker 3: the return, if you really if you took like, you.
Speaker 4: Know, the top ten sps and then you take the
Speaker 4: next ten sps, which is a little subjective.
Speaker 3: You know, how big of an overall production difference if
Speaker 3: we did we did averages, if we average out you know,
Speaker 3: strikeouts and e RA and stuff like that. Like, how
Speaker 3: big of a difference did you get drafting high high
Speaker 3: starting pitchers then you did waiting a little bit. I'm
Speaker 3: not sure it would be so much different. Plus, if
Speaker 3: you add in those il stints and miss days, might
Speaker 3: not be too big of a difference.
Speaker 2: You might be correct.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll have to get that mayor Era into check.
Speaker 1: This actually makes me feel nice before we even get
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Speaker 1: We're branching out. It's an empire we're creating here. So
Speaker 1: besides the miserable, horrible, terrible, no good mac schures or news,
Speaker 1: let's get to some other things that might make me
Speaker 1: feel better. Nick Pavetta, how about that two hitter against
Speaker 1: the Astros After the astrost five thousand home runs the
Speaker 1: night before nine k's one earned run for Paveta. He
Speaker 1: is now at a four to twenty two e ra
Speaker 1: Kenley Jansen blew his first save of the year, with
Speaker 1: Keston hero walking things off for the court to run.
Speaker 3: Just like we all Scriptedston just like scripted tested hera
Speaker 3: blowing the Kenley Jansen save like we all thought, what
Speaker 3: is this thoud.
Speaker 2: We're disappointing prospect Keston Hero or Jared Kelnick.
Speaker 4: I mean right now it's Kelnick. Kelick's not in the majors.
Speaker 2: Oh oh god, I don't know. I think either handster
Speaker 2: would have hurt my my soul, but.
Speaker 3: I mean Kesten here hurts like that guy looked like
Speaker 3: such a good contact hitter. The one thing I would
Speaker 3: have bet on him if it would have been like
Speaker 3: I was gonna tap into his power.
Speaker 4: Is he gonna run?
Speaker 3: I'd say, well, he's gonna hit, Like the guy is
Speaker 3: gonna hit and he's gonna make that work for him. Nope,
Speaker 3: not whatsoever. But you know he's starting to roll a
Speaker 3: little bit. He's getting a little groove.
Speaker 2: Yeah, boy, oh boy, all right.
Speaker 1: Jared Walsholber Twice, I was telling everybody that's the perfect
Speaker 1: guy to swap in the video. If you can make
Speaker 1: a trade for Taylor the Ward and go get Jared
Speaker 1: Walsh in something else, go do that.
Speaker 2: Well, he made that trade yesterday. You're doing okay.
Speaker 1: David Bedner fans two in a save Pete Alonzo, Homers
Speaker 1: plays four, and Mets win despite losing Max Scherzer, So
Speaker 1: really they lost, and c J Cron becomes the first
Speaker 1: nationally guy to hit the double digit mark in Homers graduation. CJ,
Speaker 1: good for you. Back to the injuries here, Welsh. So
Speaker 1: Chris Paddock is going to have a second Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 1: We didn't really talk about this yesterday. It's it's a
Speaker 1: huge bummer. I mean, the Padres really made out like
Speaker 1: gangbusters on this trade. This feels like one of those
Speaker 1: trades that happens in fantasy where you're like, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: give you this picture for a closer or whatever, and
Speaker 1: then the picture goes on the ile a couple weeks
Speaker 1: later and you go, who boy, dodge that bullet.
Speaker 4: Doesn't that kind of all have that we've all had that.
Speaker 3: I love person I personally love Chris Paddock.
Speaker 4: Two. He's just like a he's a good dude.
Speaker 3: I think he's a really great He was a great
Speaker 3: pitcher for a time. That third pitch stuff just absolutely
Speaker 3: killed him, and he was starting to find his own again.
Speaker 3: He was starting to find his command. That was a
Speaker 3: problem when you're like a basketball change up guy, You're
Speaker 3: probably gonna need a little bit more, and he was
Speaker 3: starting and also, you're gonna need like pinpoint command and
Speaker 3: he started to find that command again.
Speaker 4: And I don't know.
Speaker 3: Again, we'd have to go back and look at the
Speaker 3: history of it. But how successful you know, have any
Speaker 3: pitcher been coming off a second Tommy John Because I
Speaker 3: know we have a little bit of a history on it.
Speaker 3: I don't really recall many guys coming back successfully from twodjs.
Speaker 4: I can't remember who they are. That's a good question,
Speaker 4: A why I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like one of the Cubs guys had two
Speaker 1: Tommy John's.
Speaker 4: That sounds right.
Speaker 3: There's somebody in my brain and I cannot excuse me.
Speaker 3: I cannot unlock them right now. Who had to Tommy John's.
Speaker 3: And I believe it was like one in college or
Speaker 3: high school or something like that, and then one right
Speaker 3: early in their career. And I cannot unlock who that
Speaker 3: is right now. But I just don't feel like the
Speaker 3: success rate is super great. So I'm personally bummed for Paddock.
Speaker 3: I definitely had shares because he was dirt, dirt cheap, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what can you do?
Speaker 1: And he looked pretty good when he got over in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: he's actually pitching well the Stray.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were working with him better.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's been a lot of criticism on the
Speaker 3: Padres pitching coaches as of late, like especially with what
Speaker 3: happened in the minors with Mackenzie Gore. They had multiple
Speaker 3: DJ guys and you know, maybe the twins were doing
Speaker 3: something right, but then.
Speaker 1: Sucks too late, too little, too late, unfortunately there and
Speaker 1: it's one of my favorite Beck songs from the nineties
Speaker 1: to Tommy John's and a Microphone, that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 4: Now you know what, I loved that one too.
Speaker 3: Mayor by the way, he pointed out Drew Rasmussen had
Speaker 3: to Tommy Johns, so that's not relatively Yeah, I didn't either.
Speaker 3: That's a pretty good success story for him returning though.
Speaker 3: You know, guy can't hit ninety pitches. If literally a
Speaker 3: comment was coming to earth and it required him to
Speaker 3: go ninety they would be like, well, it's been a
Speaker 3: good run.
Speaker 2: Well he's in the right place for that.
Speaker 1: So Chris Sawyer here, one of our panists, and Jack
Speaker 1: Cracker Jacks has a question here, just traded Zach Gallon
Speaker 1: and Alec Thomas for Brandon Woodrup and Lejandro Kirk at
Speaker 1: a twelve team daily head to head points league. He
Speaker 1: loves you, he says, he loves the Welsh. He would
Speaker 1: like an input on this trade. What do you think
Speaker 1: about this trade? Gallon and Alec Thomas. I'm assuming it's
Speaker 1: redraft here, and I mean, look, you got Woodroff to
Speaker 1: me in head to head points, especially if the points
Speaker 1: favor of the pitching side. I'd always have Woodroff every
Speaker 1: day of the week. I think he did pretty well
Speaker 1: here in this trade. I think it's a good trade
Speaker 1: for both sides, which is what you want at the
Speaker 1: end of the day.
Speaker 4: Well did he get that? He got the Gallon and
Speaker 4: Thomas side.
Speaker 1: Correct, he just just traded Gallon and Thomas for Woodroff.
Speaker 2: So gotwood got Youah.
Speaker 3: You know, it's actually funny. I was just looking at
Speaker 3: the other day. I'm creating a sheet of just easy
Speaker 3: finding stats and stuff. You know, sometimes you go down
Speaker 3: the rabbit hole, you go on fan grafts, and you're
Speaker 3: just like, well, I'm starting to find areas I want
Speaker 3: and I'm saving them. And one of them was I've
Speaker 3: been looking at pitchers that are successful through the first
Speaker 3: three innings. So I'm sorting and splitting the first three
Speaker 3: innings by innings five and six, just to kind of
Speaker 3: take a look and see who pops. One of the
Speaker 3: guys that's relatively alarming, I don't have it in front
Speaker 3: of me is Brandon Woodruff, who had I believe top
Speaker 3: five worst era in baseball innings four, five and six
Speaker 3: right now and a really horrific Xome just kind of
Speaker 3: gets destroyed second time through the lineup, which I agree
Speaker 3: with you. I was surprised because there's names in there
Speaker 3: you would kind of expect. I really should have tried
Speaker 3: to pull this up. I didn't know we were going
Speaker 3: to talk about him, but maybe yeah we can. And
Speaker 3: that has me worried a little bit on Woodroff, on
Speaker 3: the lack of success on the back end. We've seen
Speaker 3: him get a little bit wonky and having that much
Speaker 3: of a blown up ra innings four, five and six,
Speaker 3: you're talking about completed games. I wouldn't hate if you
Speaker 3: had the Gallon side, to be honest with you, in
Speaker 3: that trade, Woodroff is the best player in the trade,
Speaker 3: but Gallon has proven himself pretty solid this year.
Speaker 4: Better team for Woodroff, but.
Speaker 3: Alec Thomas is kind of a little bit of a dude.
Speaker 3: Kirk doesn't do much for me here, Thomas does a
Speaker 3: little bit. I think it's a very even trade, if
Speaker 3: you will, and that's what you want.
Speaker 1: You get the best play, but the other side gets
Speaker 1: the best bulk, and that's a good trade. Everybody wins.
Speaker 1: Me personally, I always want the better player. That's the
Speaker 1: RPV and me. By the way, he also when the
Speaker 1: Penis and Cracker Jacks JP is trolling me. Two weeks
Speaker 1: in a row, Joey p suggested a picture of pickup
Speaker 1: and then they land on the IL.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's true.
Speaker 1: So it was a couple of weeks ago, and then
Speaker 1: he had Tommy John and Jacob Deerzi last week.
Speaker 2: I said, look, pick him up two stars, let's go
Speaker 2: why not car it on? And then the rest?
Speaker 4: Who's your next one?
Speaker 1: So somebody better put him in bubble wrap? Please love
Speaker 1: a god. Can we put that guy in bubble wrap
Speaker 1: and protect him? Let's go to uh some more about
Speaker 1: can we talk about this? Albert Pools last night goes
Speaker 1: in the top ten four hits in the history of
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball at number thirty three thirteen thirty three fourteen,
Speaker 1: so he is now officially up there ahead of him.
Speaker 1: Still we have let's see, do you Carl Yastremsky, Paul Molliterter,
Speaker 1: Hannis Wagner. So it's a lot of famous names. Derek
Speaker 1: is at number six, and I was scrolling through to
Speaker 1: see where each hero was and this guy was like,
Speaker 1: I couldn't remember exactly how many eachi ro hits there
Speaker 1: were in the major leagues. In the major leagues, he
Speaker 1: had three thousand and eighty nine.
Speaker 2: Hits in his major league career.
Speaker 1: Dude, it's an insurd and it started at the age
Speaker 1: of twenty seven. I just want to play it out
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 4: That was the thing that got me.
Speaker 3: Actually, it's funny because they were I was watching a
Speaker 3: broadcast the other day and they were doing this bit
Speaker 3: where they were like, they were talking about pool holes
Speaker 3: and three thousand and they were saying, who are the
Speaker 3: next guys that are going to be able to get there?
Speaker 3: And they had shown you know, Awtuve is kind of
Speaker 3: like thirty two years old, kind of close, and they
Speaker 3: were talking about Machado and Machado's got like seventeen hundred
Speaker 3: He's only twenty nine years old, and they're showing these
Speaker 3: five guys who are on this list, like who could
Speaker 3: be the next three thousand hitter, and they're kind of
Speaker 3: arguing about it, and I had the same thing in
Speaker 3: my head. I'm looking and I go, my god, each
Speaker 3: Row at twenty seven reached three thousand hits, and we're
Speaker 3: looking at these guys who have, at twenty nine years old,
Speaker 3: seventeen hundred and maybe they'll get there. I was two
Speaker 3: years younger, and he did what Icha did was it's
Speaker 3: one of those like hindsight type of things. We look
Speaker 3: back and we're like, wow, he was incredible. He really
Speaker 3: was well.
Speaker 1: And Mike Marriages threw up here that Eachiro had another
Speaker 1: twelve hundred and seventy eight hits in Japan, which is
Speaker 1: what I was alluding to. Next, the point is combined,
Speaker 1: he's at forty three sixty seven, and a lot.
Speaker 2: Of people say, oh, it doesn't count. It was Japan.
Speaker 2: You came up at eighteen years old, this guy. Okay,
Speaker 2: so let's say take away the first eighty games. Let's
Speaker 2: take away eighty hits or whatever he's got. Right after that,
Speaker 2: you got to realize the Japanese seasons.
Speaker 1: Are short by thirty games practically, so you know, he's
Speaker 1: playing one hundred and thirty games, one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: five games, whatever he's doing here. So even with that,
Speaker 1: if he had been playing in Major League baseball since
Speaker 1: the age of let's say twenty or twenty one, I
Speaker 1: have almost zero doubt in my mind, barring a catastrophic injury,
Speaker 1: a fluke injury, that Eachiro wouldn't have the most hits
Speaker 1: in the.
Speaker 2: History of baseball, and we'd look at him differently.
Speaker 1: When people say who's hit King, I know they say, well,
Speaker 1: Pete Rose, but I always say Echiro, And I think
Speaker 1: it does matter professional baseball. You have a four thousand
Speaker 1: hits in your career, and the people then make the
Speaker 1: argument about, well, you know he's not facing, he's good
Speaker 1: of pitching, all this stuff. That that argument doesn't hold
Speaker 1: water because when the dude came over here, he broke
Speaker 1: the single season hit record. So don't tell me about
Speaker 1: how he couldn't hit major league pitching back now, of
Speaker 1: course he could have.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not going to count the the stuff
Speaker 3: he got in Japan like as a totality and be
Speaker 3: like he is the true I think he would have
Speaker 3: been though, Like I'm what he did, They're awesome.
Speaker 2: When he thirty games in Japan every.
Speaker 3: Year, he would have done it for sure. I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna look at him and go, oh, well, he is
Speaker 3: the number one hit leader, because if I add those
Speaker 3: two together, it is a bit of a different game.
Speaker 3: But I don't think it's as dramatic as people think.
Speaker 3: And regardless of the point, back to your point was
Speaker 3: that had he been here from the jump, he would
Speaker 3: probably have two or three hundred hits on Pete Rose
Speaker 3: right now. And it is fascinating to look at, going
Speaker 3: back to Poolholes for a second, that pool Holes is
Speaker 3: definitely gonna get to ten. But the question is is
Speaker 3: can he get past Honus Wagner. Is he gonna get
Speaker 3: another one hundred hits? You know, because he's gonna get
Speaker 3: to ten easy. He Gristremsky and Honus Wagner are within
Speaker 3: one hit of each other. So if he can get there,
Speaker 3: it's either he gets to ten or he's eight. And
Speaker 3: then there's a little bit of a shot at maybe
Speaker 3: seven or something like that. That's as high as pool
Speaker 3: Holes is gonna get.
Speaker 1: Trent here with some great stats here each wrote some
Speaker 1: of the most off the wall stats of all time
Speaker 1: baseball history. Two thousand hits in less than ten seasons,
Speaker 1: average two hundred and twenty hits in his first ten
Speaker 1: major league baseball seasons. Just absolutely stunning there. Speaking of
Speaker 1: stunning a crazy baseball stories, I saw this on the
Speaker 1: internets yesterday. The Yankees cut third round pick Jake Sandford
Speaker 1: for allegedly stealing bats and gloves from his teammates and
Speaker 1: then trying to sell them online. He also allegedly scam
Speaker 1: fan selling autographed equipment and never delivering it.
Speaker 2: I mean, is this the strictest story you've ever heard
Speaker 2: of it?
Speaker 3: I told you I'm actually gonna talk a little bit
Speaker 3: about it on another show, Prospect One. But likes many
Speaker 3: people know, I really like like autograph stuff.
Speaker 4: I got all this stuff here.
Speaker 3: I'm into memorabilia and I follow some groups. I had
Speaker 3: actually seen this claim four ish months ago of people
Speaker 3: being like, first it was, hey, Jake Samford is on
Speaker 3: these groups saying he's gonna do his own signing because
Speaker 3: people do private signs.
Speaker 4: I have a couple of friends promoter.
Speaker 1: Of those, like Julio's done one like if they do yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: people they come in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like the yeah agents they cut deals and these
Speaker 3: guys they put these signs where you can send in
Speaker 3: and get st the autograph.
Speaker 4: So he was doing like his own and people like, hey,
Speaker 4: check this out.
Speaker 3: Da da da, And then all of a sudden, people
Speaker 3: started being like, hey, Samford is scamming people.
Speaker 4: He's not doing it. And I kind of watched it
Speaker 4: from afar and I was like, this is really interesting.
Speaker 3: And then it came out that he was not only
Speaker 3: scamming fans, he was like stealing teammates stuff. This is
Speaker 3: a third round pick who had a really good year
Speaker 3: last year, who got a signing bonus, and people really
Speaker 3: like he was stealing these guys stuff, and he was
Speaker 3: like going out and putting it on eBay or whatever
Speaker 3: the hell he was doing. This is wild. This is wild.
Speaker 3: He got a big signing bonus too. I don't understand it.
Speaker 3: It's a crazy story. I would love to like read
Speaker 3: twelve more articles about what.
Speaker 4: The hell is going on.
Speaker 3: And by the way, he just signed with the Ottawa
Speaker 3: Frontiers Baseball League, Like he deleted all his social media
Speaker 3: and stuff and then he went and signed and is
Speaker 3: playing you know, out of the States.
Speaker 2: Now, what a weird thing.
Speaker 3: To do.
Speaker 2: I mean, she's I don't know, so strange.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to some of the stat heroes
Speaker 1: of the day. Obviously Nick Pivetta at the top of
Speaker 1: the list of pitchers. Who would have thought that against
Speaker 1: the Astros eight k's no walks stunning, a complete game
Speaker 1: for him. Zach Wheeler was very good yesterday. Nine k's
Speaker 1: no walks for him, no earned seven innings. So Zach
Speaker 1: Wheeler clearly has found himself again. Do you think it
Speaker 1: was the shoulder at the beginning of the season and
Speaker 1: having that delay?
Speaker 2: Was that the problem?
Speaker 1: Or I mean, do you think maybe it was just
Speaker 1: a fluky start to the season. What do you make
Speaker 1: of the early struggles of Wheeler and now Wheeler looking
Speaker 1: very reminiscent of the guy who was dominating last year.
Speaker 4: I think it was Inurie stuff.
Speaker 3: If you remember, I have a vivid memory of the
Speaker 3: injuries in the preseason because in taut he had he
Speaker 3: had just gotten hurt, and there was this kind of
Speaker 3: like interim period of was he going to really be
Speaker 3: able to was he gonna miss time? What was going
Speaker 3: to happen? And then it was he was going to
Speaker 3: throw in the spring training game. So I got him
Speaker 3: at a discount, and people were moving away from him.
Speaker 3: I think readjustments to what we saw in the off
Speaker 3: season of you know, guys not being able to work
Speaker 3: out with teams, also suffering a little bit of injury
Speaker 3: that set him back.
Speaker 4: Maybe you've got some weather stuff. I think all of
Speaker 4: those play in.
Speaker 3: I definitely am kind of tuned into the preseason injury
Speaker 3: setting him back a little bit, and then he's just
Speaker 3: right back at it, which I'm very happy about.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: Drew Rasmisen did not throw one hundred pitches five or
Speaker 1: in run seven k's Jordan Lyles was also good on
Speaker 1: the other side of the Yankee Gay whood have thought
Speaker 1: that eight k's two earned runs, Garrett Cole five Kays
Speaker 1: two earned over seven shoho Atani seven k's two earned runs,
Speaker 1: and Josiah Gray three earned six inning seven strikeouts for him.
Speaker 1: Austin Riley was my bi loo this week, and the
Speaker 1: article that I wrote or contributed to I shouldn't say wrote,
Speaker 1: I contributed to over on fantasypros dot com. The power
Speaker 1: numbers are there. He was just struggling a little bit,
Speaker 1: just by Austin Riley. Anywhere you can, if you still can't.
Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm two for two with a dinger. He continues
Speaker 1: to be red hot Jared Walsh with the two home runs.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Jazz Chishm right now. Jazz Chisholm is electric.
Speaker 1: He is exciting to watch. He is great for the game.
Speaker 1: The different hair color, the speed, the helmet flying off
Speaker 1: when he rounds second base. He is everything I feel
Speaker 1: like we should be excited about for baseball. And I
Speaker 1: want more. I want more publicity for Jazz Chisholm. Who
Speaker 1: is I gotta say, out performing a lot of our expectations.
Speaker 1: Many of us were a little concerned they wouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to do reach that level. He has done that,
Speaker 1: so everybody that was on Chishm has absolutely been validated
Speaker 1: so far. Can he maintain this pace in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form whiles.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean that was the question that my concern
Speaker 3: and why I was fading on him this year was
Speaker 3: I put him in the Jave Baya's camp that he
Speaker 3: could be streaky. You know, he doesn't. His walk rate
Speaker 3: isn't great. He swings through a whole bunch. He can
Speaker 3: be a big strikeout guy. That's a problem. He's always
Speaker 3: trying to pull. He is trying to pull and smash baseballs.
Speaker 3: He's got electric batspeed, just like Kave Bayas. So my
Speaker 3: concern and sometimes you do that when you look at
Speaker 3: these guys, you go, well, you know, you can put
Speaker 3: two and two together and say, you know, this type
Speaker 3: of style equals this type of style, so the results
Speaker 3: might be the same. And it was that, well, you know,
Speaker 3: the team context just kind of get out of it.
Speaker 3: He's been incredible. Can he maintain it?
Speaker 4: I don't know, that's the question here, Like this is
Speaker 4: his problem.
Speaker 3: Is he can get really strikeout heavy, he can get
Speaker 3: just swinging at every single pitch. And what will pitchers
Speaker 3: do to adjust to him? That's the other question. We
Speaker 3: don't know yet what needs to be adjusted to him
Speaker 3: as a hitter and how is he going to react
Speaker 3: at this point though I'm not going to even harp
Speaker 3: on that pres that I was fade.
Speaker 1: Did we see the adjustment last year? Ready Welsh to Chisholm,
Speaker 1: like his readjustment to the league?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well no, And I think the beginning of this
Speaker 3: season is he his readjustment to the league. So is
Speaker 3: there another That's what I was saying, Is there another readjustment.
Speaker 4: And what is right now? How do you change and
Speaker 4: attack this guy?
Speaker 3: And you know, one of the ways you can do it,
Speaker 3: We can do it if we want to speculate is
Speaker 3: go to you know, like a baseball savant. We could
Speaker 3: look and see what the pitch mix is right now
Speaker 3: where is he really successful and you might get analytical.
Speaker 4: Let's just say as hypothetically.
Speaker 3: Because I'm not looking at it right now, but let's
Speaker 3: say he's, you know, hitting fastballs at a three point
Speaker 3: fifty clip right now, where last year he was hitting
Speaker 3: him at two eighty. And he's not really hitting any
Speaker 3: breaking pitches. You might see own team coaches start to
Speaker 3: say they want to attack him with more off speed
Speaker 3: stuff out of the zone, and how is he going
Speaker 3: to adjust to that? All of that aside is to
Speaker 3: be the speculation. He's incredible right now. His power speed combo,
Speaker 3: he's electric. I think he's one of the better middle
Speaker 3: infield guys in baseball right now. I've boosted him up
Speaker 3: in my redraft ranks quite a bit because I think
Speaker 3: you have to, because he's a huge fantasy asset and
Speaker 3: he's not showing any of the hobby bias swings right now.
Speaker 4: He's just mashing, Yeah he is.
Speaker 1: Isaac Perettis two home runs against his former organization.
Speaker 2: That must have felt good for him.
Speaker 1: Luis Ariz had four run scored and a steel yesterday.
Speaker 1: Cole Calhoun another guy I talked about in the waiver
Speaker 1: wire video today, home run.
Speaker 2: He's hot right now.
Speaker 1: Look, he's a streaky player, and when he's running hot,
Speaker 1: I think he's rostered in less than twenty percent of
Speaker 1: leagues right now. He needs some help in the outfield.
Speaker 1: Go grab him. Ty Frantz, Well, he's been helpful. Home
Speaker 1: run two, RBIs three for five.
Speaker 2: Good and MJ. Melendez with a home run yesterday.
Speaker 1: Any of these other guys in the stat heroes and
Speaker 1: the hitters stick out to.
Speaker 3: You, Welsh, I mean MJ. Melndez has kind of cleaned up.
Speaker 3: I hate it in TGFBI to catch your league. I've
Speaker 3: had Melndez roster. I him rostered, but I had him
Speaker 3: starting when he got called up because you can play
Speaker 3: other spots and stuff. And then of course this week
Speaker 3: I took him out for you know, just a solid
Speaker 3: bat because he wasn't doing much.
Speaker 4: And he connects with his first two major league homers.
Speaker 3: He start and he you know, he's really getting the
Speaker 3: time and he's gonna get more continued time with Salvi
Speaker 3: Prez on the IL.
Speaker 4: So m J.
Speaker 3: Melndez is someone to continue watching because this is an
Speaker 3: opportunity right here for him to stick around for the
Speaker 3: long haul of the season. None of that was guaranteed,
Speaker 3: and this is the chance for him to long haul
Speaker 3: stay even when Cam Gallagher comes back. If he continues
Speaker 3: to hit, he can hit a couple other spots. With
Speaker 3: Salvi coming back, I think m J. Melndez could be
Speaker 3: around for a bit. And you know, any of these
Speaker 3: guys that can play more than just a catch are valuable.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's get to the stat zeros. Dalton Jeffries
Speaker 1: six earned runs over four hitting, Zach Davies five earned
Speaker 1: runs over four, Kirby Snead two thirds of an ending,
Speaker 1: five earned runs, Jake Walsh no outs.
Speaker 2: For earned runs.
Speaker 1: That's the that's the pinnacle, that's the chef's kiss of
Speaker 1: the stat Zeros.
Speaker 2: Come in there, give up two hits.
Speaker 1: Four earned runs, walk a guy and knock get it
Speaker 1: out at Duardo Escobar is zero for four with three k's. Boy,
Speaker 1: oh boy, the Escobar experiment is going to be coming
Speaker 1: to a halt pretty soon. Javey or Bayez Oh for
Speaker 1: four with three k's, Joey Bart Oh for four with
Speaker 1: three k's, Luis Robert Oh for four with three k's,
Speaker 1: Josh Bell over five just just a flat over five,
Speaker 1: also Oh for four but no strikeouts. Jad Ya Pez,
Speaker 1: Christian Walker, fordu Goo Sigura and Robbie Grossman. What is
Speaker 1: going on with Robbie Grossman. Robbie Grossman had a breakout
Speaker 1: season last year, and I know he's been a bit
Speaker 1: of a journeyman. I know he's bounced around a little bit.
Speaker 1: But everything looked like the guys sort of turned a corner.
Speaker 1: It looked like a really nice value and it is
Speaker 1: just completely disintegrated in people's hands this year. I have
Speaker 1: no shares, but I almost feel like I should send
Speaker 1: a greeting card or something to people who do, because.
Speaker 4: Send it too.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't even bring it up to him.
Speaker 3: The yeah now now it's his number one play Hi,
Speaker 3: even Jack in the chat Bogman, It's Bogman's fault. This
Speaker 3: was like his number one targeted player. Every mock draft
Speaker 3: we did loved it.
Speaker 4: Uh, I did not.
Speaker 3: I'm not a big Tiger's outfield guy. I faded a
Speaker 3: kil Bado, I faded Robbie Grossman, and both have have
Speaker 3: worked out quite well for me right now. But yeah,
Speaker 3: we should all send Bogman a card or and I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: or you know, a care package of some sorts, maybe
Speaker 3: Omaha Steaks.
Speaker 1: Maybe I do. I do love the Omaha Steaks. Now,
Speaker 1: Max Meyer has not been good recently. He has been
Speaker 1: injured list with a nerve issue, so I mean there's
Speaker 1: something had to be up. We talked about it earlier
Speaker 1: in the week. Look just hold for now. Nerve issues
Speaker 1: can always be scary. I don't know how much detail
Speaker 1: we've gotten yet on this, uh, but I see here
Speaker 1: that about fourteen minutes ago wrote a wire A couple
Speaker 1: other places CBS reporting, So he's on the AyL, which, again,
Speaker 1: you don't want to see the guy hurt, but at
Speaker 1: least it explains what was going on here.
Speaker 3: Yeah I didn't, I didn't hear the Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean too. And I hadn't heard about the il thing.
Speaker 3: I was worried because he was pretty walk heavy in
Speaker 3: his last start and he's gotten lit up. But it
Speaker 3: also this tells you the story. This tells you what's
Speaker 3: going on the problem is is in what capacity he
Speaker 3: do you hold? How long is this going to linger?
Speaker 3: How long does it take him to get back? I
Speaker 3: would say let's assume this is like a normal ish
Speaker 3: stent of eye L and then the return period. I
Speaker 3: think you're at least three weeks before there's a real
Speaker 3: possibility that he would be called up. So if you're
Speaker 3: just sitting him on a bench, this is your call.
Speaker 3: This is your call as a fantasy owner. You what
Speaker 3: do you do? If you've got NA spots, This is fantastic,
Speaker 3: but you know you might be upwards of a month
Speaker 3: before you actually now get Max And I don't know
Speaker 3: how much that's going to be worth. It's again depending
Speaker 3: on your roster size or how aggressive people are, because
Speaker 3: this could be one of those situations you dump them
Speaker 3: and everybody swoops him up if they've got roster.
Speaker 4: That's my fear. I don't think it's definitive if you
Speaker 4: can keep him. Yeah, I just don't think it's definitive
Speaker 4: that you keep him at this point. It's there's context
Speaker 4: to it.
Speaker 2: It's a roster to roster issue.
Speaker 1: I definitely agree with that, and if you have questions
Speaker 1: about that, you can always ask. That's the perfect thing
Speaker 1: on Discord to ask us when you go over to
Speaker 1: Discord and you join that at fanacros dot com slash chat.
Speaker 1: These are the kind of things we could talk it
Speaker 1: out with your roster. All right, Let's go to the
Speaker 1: home run board and there you go, Niking of the
Speaker 1: North at fourteen, de Blum at fourteen, and all I
Speaker 1: do is win at thirteen, Larry Ce up to thirteen.
Speaker 1: Also Larry C called Mike Trout yesterday and at De
Speaker 1: la Gadio with Justin Turner moved up to eleven. So
Speaker 1: nice job there by, my boy adele. Let's go to
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Speaker 3: That coat, by the way, that crown is just what's
Speaker 3: that clean? That crown is so clean.
Speaker 2: It's just so.
Speaker 4: Pretty interesting point.
Speaker 2: It looks good.
Speaker 3: It's completely cha Yeah, no, I can tell it's plastic,
Speaker 3: but it's just a very clean.
Speaker 4: It looks good on your head when you do the reado.
Speaker 1: I said, I'm very regal, I said, just generally speaking,
Speaker 1: i have a very very regal, very kingly features.
Speaker 2: It's a very strong, ye funny looking nose.
Speaker 4: Yeah you know you don't you got the nose, you
Speaker 4: got kind of the eyebrowight, Yeah, you are very regal,
Speaker 4: very much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it covers up my giant bald head, which
Speaker 1: is also helpful. George Kirby tonight over on bet MGM.
Speaker 1: The strikeout prop minus one fifty six is the Jews.
Speaker 2: But it's three and a half. Three and a half.
Speaker 1: That sounds like an easy one to me, Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: at total bases one and a half, the Jews is
Speaker 1: won minus one fifteen. Bryce Harper's got even money on
Speaker 1: the same total base prop at one and a half,
Speaker 1: same with Stanton is also even Corey seeger one and
Speaker 1: a half total bases at plus one thirty tonight against
Speaker 1: fran Barvaldez in Houston. Then you got Cedric Mullins at
Speaker 1: plus one twenty five at the total base prop at
Speaker 1: one and a half. You've got Austin Hayes at one
Speaker 1: and a half also a plus one twenty against Jordan Montgomery.
Speaker 1: Both of those guys, and then Kyle Tucker total bases
Speaker 1: against two who I believe is the bus driver from
Speaker 1: the Simpsons at one and a half plus one ten.
Speaker 1: Those are all I bet MGM, so go bet them today.
Speaker 1: Oh Welsch, did you have anything that stuck out to
Speaker 1: you on this Well?
Speaker 3: I really like the Kirby one. That's one that I'm
Speaker 3: gonna play. I gotta tell you, Like Judge continue, I
Speaker 3: want to play it every single day, Judge, I want
Speaker 3: to play every single day. There is a part of
Speaker 3: me that has this like it's gonna stop at some point,
Speaker 3: but he is so hot right now. I think it's
Speaker 3: always going to stand out in any projection system. Look
Speaker 3: for hit ones too. I actually played a that was
Speaker 3: a really nice one. They had just singular one hit
Speaker 3: for Stanton and Alonzo yesterday and Stanton didn't play, and
Speaker 3: then Alonzo got the homer and I won the bet.
Speaker 3: I didn't win a whole bunch, but I put those
Speaker 3: two together. But it was just one hit. So look
Speaker 3: for those on your book if they're giving it, because
Speaker 3: if you take any of those two hot guys, you
Speaker 3: can put those together. And I liked that one. Those
Speaker 3: are a couple of guys Pete Alonzo I like today.
Speaker 3: I would probably play it at one and a half
Speaker 3: total basis. The other one is a Gallon. So Zach
Speaker 3: Gallen strikeouts, Cubs bottom twenty five, one of the you know,
Speaker 3: the six or seven worst teams as far as strikeouts go.
Speaker 3: I think they average around nine a game. Zach Gallon's
Speaker 3: at five and a half on strikeouts. So I might
Speaker 3: put Gallen and Kirby together in a little strikeout prop
Speaker 3: for some extra juice and play that out.
Speaker 1: Here you go, Jesse Elg's and foremost Melons is out today.
Speaker 1: So that's very disappointing because I just look at these
Speaker 1: first thing in the morning, God them up into the
Speaker 1: show sheet. But now my one's not in the lineup.
Speaker 1: So I hate you get scratching that one off your list.
Speaker 1: It's the worst, especially when you're like, oh, that's a
Speaker 1: really good one.
Speaker 2: Nope, he's not there.
Speaker 1: DFS, you could put Kirby together on DK along with
Speaker 1: Framber Valdez or Gallon. Valdez is just eight point five,
Speaker 1: Kirby's just seven point eight. Rich Hill is real cheap
Speaker 1: at six point five. I feel like it's a trap,
Speaker 1: but I'm curious. I would stick with Framber Valdez and Kirby.
Speaker 1: I think that's a good situation there. If you want
Speaker 1: to go Gallon and Valdez, you can on DK on
Speaker 1: the single pitch your site, Kirby's eight point five on Fandal,
Speaker 1: Gallon is ten point six. I'd rather split the difference
Speaker 1: and just go rambervald Does at nine to seven, and
Speaker 1: then it's stack up Houston. Speaking of Houston, that's where
Speaker 1: I'm going for my home run call tonight with Jordan Alvarez,
Speaker 1: going to go back to what works. I'm at six
Speaker 1: Welsh Where you're going for your home run call? Who's
Speaker 1: going yard.
Speaker 4: Well, I mentioned it.
Speaker 3: I'm going to go with mister Pete Alonzo, who doesn't
Speaker 3: have a big old track record against Dakota Hudson, but
Speaker 3: he is hitting four hundred against him. He did it
Speaker 3: last night. We go back to back, so let's see
Speaker 3: if the team is hyper aggressive. Somebody then go card said,
Speaker 3: can we get a prop bet on? Does Pete get
Speaker 3: hit by a pitch? But I'm going to go with
Speaker 3: mister Pete Alonzo today.
Speaker 2: There you go, who's Mike Mayer goot today?
Speaker 4: Say the same thing? Oh does hey?
Speaker 2: Luis Robert is where he's going today? So there you
Speaker 2: have it.
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