Speaker 1: Otani on the move. Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody
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Speaker 3: on you know that Instagram app. I don't know if
Speaker 3: you ever do the reels, and it's like.
Speaker 2: Try the bald filter. I should just do the bald filter.
Speaker 1: On each There you go, bald in the crown the
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Speaker 2: We're getting there, so.
Speaker 1: You know you say that, but then like when we
Speaker 1: hung out in March, you know, yeah, the hair and
Speaker 1: the whole spike, but I got it good.
Speaker 2: The full head of hair going.
Speaker 1: I don't understand that you've got the full Are you
Speaker 1: going bald in the back because I can't hear so
Speaker 1: much than me.
Speaker 3: I can't see the kind of thin in the front side.
Speaker 3: So we're almost there.
Speaker 1: If you got it flaunted until you han't anymore, and
Speaker 1: then when it's going, take charge of that. Sob don't
Speaker 1: you always.
Speaker 2: Told me that?
Speaker 3: By the way, in the industry, he says, Hey, if
Speaker 3: you've got it flaunted.
Speaker 1: Advice hashtag if you got it flaunted. All right, it's uh, look,
Speaker 1: I'm glad we're not starting the news today with some incredible,
Speaker 1: depressing Mic Trout story like yesterday, because that was that
Speaker 1: was not the way I wanted to start the show yesterday.
Speaker 1: But then you know, it was the biggest news you
Speaker 1: could possibly imagine, and so something you really had to
Speaker 1: talk about. So instead, we're gonna talk about shoeo Toni
Speaker 1: today all day long because struck out eleven. Uh. So
Speaker 1: here you go, Angels fans, Now you have to worry
Speaker 1: about Mike trouton never playing shoeo Tony is so good
Speaker 1: that now all of a sudden, I wonder if the
Speaker 1: Angels president or owner was listening to the show yesterday,
Speaker 1: because I called for an entire top to bottom rehul
Speaker 1: of the organization, and I think trading Otani is the
Speaker 1: thing to do. Apparently they are really seriously listening now. Uh.
Speaker 1: And he struck out eleven they lost to the Rangers.
Speaker 1: I mean he's acquiring two assets to let show Heyo
Speaker 1: Tani walk in a contract. Ear would be the dumbest
Speaker 1: thing ever. And the more service time you give to
Speaker 1: another team, the bigger the hall of prospects. I am.
Speaker 1: You know you asked me about percentages of Sodo and
Speaker 1: I said I was at ninety nine percent. He gets traded, Yeah, Otani,
Speaker 1: I would have said, like ten a week ago. Now
Speaker 1: I'm at a coinfoot I'm at fifty to fifty. Where
Speaker 1: are you with this?
Speaker 3: So here's what's interesting about it is essentially the talks
Speaker 3: are like the exact same thing as Soda. They're saying
Speaker 3: they want the top four prospects of any system or whatever.
Speaker 3: And the only reason I think the cause what do
Speaker 3: you say to your fifty percent?
Speaker 1: I'd say, I think it's a coin flop. Right now.
Speaker 3: I think I'm like twenty five percent, but I was
Speaker 3: zero percent, like you know, ten days ago. The reason
Speaker 3: this is interesting is you already have four to six
Speaker 3: teams that have put out these huge, massive offers interested
Speaker 3: in Sodo. Those same offers could go and apply to
Speaker 3: the Angels.
Speaker 1: So he's more impact, if you think, because you're getting
Speaker 1: two players and now the National League has the d
Speaker 1: H so you don't have to worry about that act anymore.
Speaker 1: That was that was the bigger stumbling block to trading
Speaker 1: Otani's because well, you know, how does that work with
Speaker 1: a National league team. You don't have any of that nowadays.
Speaker 1: That's all gone with the new CBA. Baby, it's a
Speaker 1: new world. It's the brave new world. And Otani, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Angels should be open for business here. If they
Speaker 1: get four big prospects, they should do it.
Speaker 2: They're so bad.
Speaker 3: It's they made Spencer Howard last night, who I bet against.
Speaker 3: I lost my butt off because of Spencer. They made
Speaker 3: Spencer Howard look like a cy Young Award winning It
Speaker 3: was nuts that they couldn't get any hits. They couldn't
Speaker 3: do anything. I mean, it would have been nice if
Speaker 3: Otani would have gotten two total bases in a bet
Speaker 3: as well. But they're atrocious in every facet of the game,
Speaker 3: and with the trout news, with what they've built with
Speaker 3: their system, looks like listen, I'm not four this. Like
Speaker 3: even in Fantasy, if you guys send me a trade
Speaker 3: and you're like, hey, I can get these three or
Speaker 3: four guys, but I got to give up this great
Speaker 3: player nine out of ten times. I'm even if you're rebuilding,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be like, no, I'm gonna keep the great player.
Speaker 3: I want great I want to build around great players
Speaker 3: because I think I can build around them.
Speaker 2: I don't know if the Angels can do that.
Speaker 3: The Angels don't seem competent in it, so they might
Speaker 3: be best suited to move on from Otani get as
Speaker 3: many pieces as they possibly can, because this organization just
Speaker 3: doesn't feel like.
Speaker 2: They are not gonna complete next year.
Speaker 1: They are not close. And the longer you wait on
Speaker 1: Otani you are walking a very thin line because the
Speaker 1: injury risk is very high because he's a pitcher. So
Speaker 1: if he gets hurt in August and needs Tommy John surgery,
Speaker 1: then you are really up the creek without a paddle.
Speaker 1: Consider that if you're the Angels, like yeah, and you know, honestly,
Speaker 1: if you're a fantasy owner too, from a fantasy perspective,
Speaker 1: you have Otani right now, and you know you're in
Speaker 1: a keeper league situation with him. I think it's fascinating
Speaker 1: if you're not competing somehow. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: would have Autani not be competing, but if you were
Speaker 1: in that scenario, this would be the cash in time
Speaker 1: for him as well, because if be going to a contender,
Speaker 1: he can't get much better statistically speaking, I mean maybe
Speaker 1: some more wins would be nice, but other than that like,
Speaker 1: statistically it can't get better. But if you're a non
Speaker 1: competitive team that you can only hold on at Tony
Speaker 1: for another year, I would look to be cashing him
Speaker 1: in too. But to me, the Angels have to start
Speaker 1: having this realization that they are not gonna be competitive
Speaker 1: next year either. It is time to cash in all
Speaker 1: the chips and you know a lot. Doctor Glenn put
Speaker 1: it in here in the chat. But he's right, Oh,
Speaker 1: Tani is a better asset to win right now than
Speaker 1: Sodo because you're getting two players for one, and that's
Speaker 1: worth a lot and something the Angels should really think about.
Speaker 3: I just don't know, like who can make it happen? God,
Speaker 3: I feel like I probably do say this all the time,
Speaker 3: but I immediately was thinking, you know, like like the
Speaker 3: Angels would a I'm sorry that the Angels, the Mariners
Speaker 3: would have the number one need for a guy like him.
Speaker 3: They need rotational help. They could you know, another bat
Speaker 3: would go really well in there. Oh my god, that
Speaker 3: would make sense. The Cardinals, the Cardinal would make all
Speaker 3: the sense in the world as well, though they'd be
Speaker 3: pushing a certain somebody off at d H. But again,
Speaker 3: you could use some more bat help. And you could
Speaker 3: use the starting pitcher. There are teams that you know, I.
Speaker 2: Think the focus you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the padres of all that pitching.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're going to move a pitcher back
Speaker 1: in that deal.
Speaker 2: Maybe for the Angels, that's a lot of snell, a
Speaker 2: lot of Snell rumors.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that I could like it might be
Speaker 1: a combination of major and minor league players. It's funny.
Speaker 1: I I thought about this and I wanted to ask
Speaker 1: you the question. I know my feelings on it, which
Speaker 1: is is it harder for Like, if I'm the Angels,
Speaker 1: I think it's harder to trade Otani to the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: then it is necessarily if you're the Washington Nationals to
Speaker 1: trade Soto to the Mets. It's in your division. But
Speaker 1: the end of the day, who cares is the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But there's it's kind of like the it's it's it's
Speaker 1: the public perception is almost worse from a pr standpoint,
Speaker 1: then in division doesn't matter as much as ew, we're
Speaker 1: giving our best player to the Dodgers. Angels fan, that
Speaker 1: does not sit well with you, but check this out
Speaker 1: the Angel I'd rather give him to the Mariners. I
Speaker 1: don't think they could trade them to the Yankees. You
Speaker 1: can't trade them to a powerhouse Yankees team.
Speaker 2: You're both easier.
Speaker 1: Than the Dodgers, if you know what, I actually disagree.
Speaker 2: I actually think the Yankees are something.
Speaker 3: How can they stomach if they want to be competitive,
Speaker 3: that they've moved him to a team that is gonna
Speaker 3: not even allow them to get to the World Series.
Speaker 3: I know what you're saying. What you're saying is not wrong.
Speaker 3: Dodgers Angels trying to compete for that share. It's a
Speaker 3: bad look. But I think the Yankees might be the
Speaker 3: worst of all of them. So then you're starting to
Speaker 3: deal with like, you know, would the Mariners be a destination?
Speaker 3: He would even want to go back to the Cardinals
Speaker 3: or kind of that middle ground area of stuff. I
Speaker 3: don't know, it's crazy that we're having this discussion. It's
Speaker 3: crazy that this really is being I.
Speaker 1: Know, Oh, Tani Sodo like all these high What in
Speaker 1: a fantasy trade? What would you expect back from Otani?
Speaker 2: You know what a lot?
Speaker 3: I own Otani in the Scott White twenty fourteen league.
Speaker 3: It's a points league, though I have not received Oh did.
Speaker 1: You take over the team that I abandoned. They go
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 3: Well, they did like a draft. They did like a draft,
Speaker 3: and I took Otonni.
Speaker 2: I didn't even get him in.
Speaker 1: The just not the dynasty league he runs.
Speaker 2: This is the dynasty league. No, I think I took
Speaker 2: over you. But they did a like like a draft
Speaker 2: with a rearranging of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I've
Speaker 2: got Otani and I've had him.
Speaker 3: I've received the worst trade offers you could ever see,
Speaker 3: and then people have stopped sending offers. I mean, really,
Speaker 3: I haven't received one good offer in that league.
Speaker 2: I got people.
Speaker 3: I have Bobby wit Corbyn, Carroll, Shohio, Tani, and I
Speaker 3: would expect minimum three pieces for Otani and if if
Speaker 3: I were moving off of him, and at least two
Speaker 3: have to be of the highest quality. I mean we're
Speaker 3: talking massive, massive, high quality and like a standard let's
Speaker 3: just say fifteen team rotor league if I were moving
Speaker 3: OTAWNI See. The problem is is the prospect game isn't
Speaker 3: as sexy as it usually is. So you know the
Speaker 3: top of the game is like.
Speaker 1: Don Well, in a redraft league, Let's let's do it
Speaker 1: in a redraft league. In a redraft league, I would
Speaker 1: want I'm trying to think it would be I have
Speaker 1: to be a pitch are probably in the like Aaron
Speaker 1: Maybe Aaron Nola is even to like Aaron Nola and
Speaker 1: a hitter? Is that would that be o Tani level?
Speaker 2: I mean easy, Well, and see here's the problem.
Speaker 3: Then you go start going all right, well, is this
Speaker 3: a weekly or is this the daily transaction league? That's
Speaker 3: fair because Otani is a little bit of a different price.
Speaker 3: I I think Aaron Nola and let's just just jump
Speaker 3: to my mind. I know he got banged up yesterday,
Speaker 3: George Springer. I don't even I don't even know if
Speaker 3: that's enough. Honestly, I don't even know if that's good.
Speaker 3: Though those are the stats that Atani puts up in general.
Speaker 1: So well, that's the thing. It's like, you need to
Speaker 1: get what you're trading off, the risk of having all
Speaker 1: that injury potential in one player for two other players
Speaker 1: and then and but he's that enough? That is the question?
Speaker 1: Or do you need you know, maybe a picture you're
Speaker 1: buying low on a little bit and then two other players.
Speaker 1: I guess it's it really is e of the beholder
Speaker 1: at this point. But it's it's fascinating because the fantasy
Speaker 1: value or even dynasty value of Showyotani versus the real
Speaker 1: life value. The real life value of showy Otani is
Speaker 1: going to bring back a huge haul of prospects as big,
Speaker 1: if not bigger than Sodo. Then Nats have a problem
Speaker 1: here because if Otani really is in the mix, they
Speaker 1: better take whatever the best offer is, and they better
Speaker 1: not wait because they I can see a lot of
Speaker 1: teams going, oh, whoa, you want all this, but we
Speaker 1: can get Otani for all of next year two and
Speaker 1: he's a pitcher and a hitter. I don't know, Wan
Speaker 1: Soda sounds like a great idea, but you know what,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it this way. They better watch themselves.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: The Mets would make one of the biggest sense here
Speaker 3: for Otani of all of them. I just don't know
Speaker 3: if their system is as ripe as some of the
Speaker 3: other system I mean, you know, if you have the
Speaker 3: Mariners offering you know, the Martes and the Kirby's, and
Speaker 3: you've got the Yankees that are out there actually offering
Speaker 3: Jason and Volpi and that type of stuff, I don't
Speaker 3: think they can compete in that, but they would fit
Speaker 3: that like big market to be aggressive in the NL
Speaker 3: that I think would really work it.
Speaker 2: Otani offen to that side, but I just I don't know.
Speaker 3: SOA looks like it's it's gonna happen and they are
Speaker 3: just gonna wait till the last minute to see what
Speaker 3: teams are gonna bit against each other. I want to
Speaker 3: I actually want to see the Sodo trade go down
Speaker 3: now so teams can turn their attention and get hyper
Speaker 3: aggressive on on Tony if it's gonna happen. The problem
Speaker 3: is is if this doesn't go down, this would be
Speaker 3: a guest of mine. If this doesn't go down until
Speaker 3: you know, trade deadline day, the Sodo trade, it could
Speaker 3: be harder unless team unless there have been enough teams
Speaker 3: that have just taken themselves out of the race, like
Speaker 3: there's a reported Yankees have removed themselves from the trade discussions.
Speaker 3: I just think it'll be hard to last minute put
Speaker 3: an O Twani trade together.
Speaker 1: But if I don't know the money or Sodo become
Speaker 1: a met I will show up next week and I
Speaker 1: will be hammer drunk at noon and it's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1: I just want to tell you, so you should all
Speaker 1: be ready for that as baseball fans, I am gonna
Speaker 1: be on here so excited. All right, let's talk about
Speaker 1: other things not named Showy Altani. We'll come back to
Speaker 1: it in a second. Uh Trade Turner three hits and
Speaker 1: a steal versus the Rockies, and Tyler Anderson seven inning
Speaker 1: against the Rockies. We talked about him as the APPO
Speaker 1: player of the night. Hopefully you listen there. Especially on
Speaker 1: Fandle he was super cheap. He's super cheap on DK
Speaker 1: as well. Alex Bregman in a homer and also drove
Speaker 1: in three against the Mariners. Bregman, we just did a
Speaker 1: video last week about him about Look, this is one
Speaker 1: of the biggest second half buys you could possibly go
Speaker 1: in on. All the deeper stats are good on Bregman.
Speaker 1: If you haven't already, please throw some trade offers out
Speaker 1: there for Bregman. I know the window might be closing
Speaker 1: because he's been good. He had a home run against
Speaker 1: the Yankees last week, but he came back. Bregman to me,
Speaker 1: was one of these perfect bi low candidates out there,
Speaker 1: who are you gonna gains star back. Also, of the
Speaker 1: Mets did make a trade for Tyler Naquin, so again
Speaker 1: bench outfielder get him in kind of in a rotation
Speaker 1: of stuff that makes a lot of sense. Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: his third walk off home run against the Royals, and
Speaker 1: George Springer is gonna be evaluated for the elbow discomfort.
Speaker 1: We'll see what brings of that. You don't want that
Speaker 1: to be the case of you're the Blue Jays. You
Speaker 1: want to be a full strength. Also, Corey Seger left
Speaker 1: with a lower laying injury, but just precautionary. So everything
Speaker 1: seems to be okay there.
Speaker 3: I'll also just to hear the thing real quick if
Speaker 3: you guys remember me mentioning it if you follow me
Speaker 3: on Twitter at is at the Welsh. I was over
Speaker 3: at the Rangers facility last night and I can report
Speaker 3: Josh Young looking pretty good.
Speaker 2: One of the top process Yeah, yes, yes, let's talk
Speaker 2: about you know, from a.
Speaker 3: Dynasty perspective, was a top one hundred guy. First at
Speaker 3: bat since October of twenty twenty one. I watched all
Speaker 3: three of visit bats. That dude, by the way, after
Speaker 3: his third at bat, boom, he was out. He was
Speaker 3: out of there. But I took some pictures in video,
Speaker 3: all good swings, lots of loft. Last one he got
Speaker 3: a hit.
Speaker 2: Look fast. I was surprised how fast he.
Speaker 3: Looked like, trimmed out a little bit, looked very healthy,
Speaker 3: good spirits and kind of think there's the potential for
Speaker 3: the back half of this year for him to get
Speaker 3: the call up if they're a little aggressive with the assignment.
Speaker 3: But just letting everybody know he got his first at bats.
Speaker 3: He's going to play an infield next week. And if
Speaker 3: you want to see some video, you can go check
Speaker 3: out my Twitter timeline is the Welsh. Also, I talked
Speaker 3: to Kamara Rocker. Kamara Rocker, I actually weirdly, I parked
Speaker 3: my car, I got out of my car and Kamar
Speaker 3: was just walking on the sidewalk and I was like, hey,
Speaker 3: what I did?
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, well yeah, actually you know I interviewed him,
Speaker 3: but it's because they had this apartment complex right next
Speaker 3: to this.
Speaker 1: How do you do that? You just walk up and
Speaker 1: say like, hey, I'm paparazzi. Can I interview I'm the Welsh.
Speaker 3: Well I didn't interview him there. I interviewed him at
Speaker 3: a stadium years ago. But no, he literally I got
Speaker 3: out of my car, had my bag, start walking and
Speaker 3: he's just walking right to the side, big old water
Speaker 3: jug and I was like.
Speaker 1: Hey, didn't recognize you.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, very few, very few records A white guy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: good guy. And I'd be like, oh you call me
Speaker 2: big guy.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you know, but.
Speaker 3: Kamar is here just letting everybody know he is hanging
Speaker 3: out at the Ranger's facility him and.
Speaker 1: Just said this, I'm the Welsh. You know me?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Don't you know who I am? I'm the Welsh. One
Speaker 1: other implication I think needs to be talked about. And
Speaker 1: I haven't heard anybody mentioned this yet, but but we
Speaker 1: might have a wrinkle in our MVP plans because if
Speaker 1: Otani does get traded all of a sudden, the al
Speaker 1: MVP shares we have Votani go to so big picture
Speaker 1: Joey p is here to help all of you with this.
Speaker 1: I would right now, even though it's minus money, most
Speaker 1: places put some money on Aaron judge. You have to
Speaker 1: hedge this, and you have to do it with a
Speaker 1: good sized number to make some money back to make
Speaker 1: up the Otani share. Again, it's a fifty to fifty.
Speaker 1: It's a coin flip. I don't think it's a bad
Speaker 1: investment anyway. I don't think you want to dip out
Speaker 1: of the Otani investment, but you have to if you
Speaker 1: haven't already hedge on on Aaron Judge for MVP. You
Speaker 1: have to do it because when he leaves in the
Speaker 1: American League, if he does, those chairs go up and smoke.
Speaker 3: But do you think it would hurt if he was
Speaker 3: traded to another American League team as well?
Speaker 1: And or you have to you have to think fifty percent.
Speaker 1: Like I said, you have to open the field up
Speaker 1: to the National League more.
Speaker 2: Now, No, no, I agree with what you're saying.
Speaker 1: I think I think the Mets, Dodgers, Padres, Cardinals are
Speaker 1: all better potential suitors except for the Yankees in the
Speaker 1: americanly the Yankees.
Speaker 3: I think your your Judge idea is a great idea,
Speaker 3: and I would do it on a site like fandel
Speaker 3: where you can do your constant cash outs just in
Speaker 3: case even if you you know, if he doesn't get
Speaker 3: traded and then you sell it off and you lose
Speaker 3: a buck or two whatever, you can do that. But
Speaker 3: I'm saying if he were just an hypothetical be traded
Speaker 3: to the Yankees.
Speaker 1: That was my next thing. I was like, what if
Speaker 1: he gets traded to the Yankees. But to watch him
Speaker 1: and Judge together, my god, like that would hurt. But
Speaker 1: even if it hurts Judge, it hurts Judge.
Speaker 2: It does hurt Judge.
Speaker 1: But also the media attention goes to Otani immediately because
Speaker 1: he's pitching and all, my god, moving that little ballpark.
Speaker 3: Oh god, would that burned into his MVP if he
Speaker 3: was moved to a new team. And then you're taking
Speaker 3: away the context of the pre You think writers and
Speaker 3: everything would kind of ding him that he's now on
Speaker 3: a new destination and they're almost going to kind of
Speaker 3: write off some of what he did early well year.
Speaker 1: It's not so much that dinging him if he goes
Speaker 1: to another American League team, it's the what if he
Speaker 1: goes to a National League team that he's out of
Speaker 1: the running, which is fascinating because he then might become
Speaker 1: in the National League running. Because as good as Paul
Speaker 1: Goldschmid's been, if Shoeo Tani has the same August September
Speaker 1: kind of lift off crazy season and propels a team
Speaker 1: into the playoffs and just like completely just absolutely goes
Speaker 1: sho Heo Tani on the world, you would I would
Speaker 1: immediately again look to the National League odds and see
Speaker 1: what they are, because it could be as good as
Speaker 1: six to one because he's late in the game. But
Speaker 1: there's every reason to think that he could win it.
Speaker 1: There's so many fascinating betting implications from the Otani movement.
Speaker 1: Potentially that again I've heard nobody talk about. But this
Speaker 1: is why you're here and leading off every day to
Speaker 1: hang out with us. Let's go switch gears here to
Speaker 1: some other fun stuff. Fun fact Camdy Yards lest Yes,
Speaker 1: it could be Treman City's last game there. His last
Speaker 1: hit might have been an inside the park on run ball,
Speaker 1: hit the outfielder in the head and then the trem
Speaker 1: Man CD ran around the basis. So that was a
Speaker 1: nice moment, This thing in baseball history. In nineteen ninety six,
Speaker 1: Tommy Lesorda called it a career after twenty seasons as
Speaker 1: the Dodger manager. He had a heart attack and an angioplasty,
Speaker 1: and he was like, I'm good, I'm good. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: call it a day. I'm not gonna come back. But
Speaker 1: that's what it took to get that guy off the field.
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge walked off the field as a winner yesterday.
Speaker 1: He finished second in the twenty seventeen I'm sorry he
Speaker 1: finished first in the twenty seventeen American League Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year voting. The question for today is in trevia
Speaker 1: who finished second in twenty seventeen. If you know the answer,
Speaker 1: drop it in the chat at Fantasy pros MLB. Of course,
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Speaker 1: In the meantime, here's the Fantasy stat heroes from yesterday.
Speaker 1: Brady Singer ten K's Welsh. How good has Brady Singer
Speaker 1: been in the last few starts? My goodness? Where did
Speaker 1: this come?
Speaker 3: I mean, good lord too. This was another one of
Speaker 3: those I just got slapped on the rist yesterday where
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm gonna attack Brady Singer against the Yankees,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna attack Spencer Howard versus the Angels, and nope,
Speaker 3: Brady Singer has everything going for him right now, big strikeouts.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's gonna be interesting to see.
Speaker 3: I do feel like he is getting to be one
Speaker 3: of these guys where he goes on those runs, He's
Speaker 3: got that like five or six start run awesome, then
Speaker 3: Taper's back then comes back. I just don't know if
Speaker 3: the consistency is quite there. I know my buddy Nick
Speaker 3: Pollock was kind of tearing some of it apart, but
Speaker 3: he was phenomenal.
Speaker 2: It was ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Gave up one hit, struck out ten yesterday on a
Speaker 3: very very difficult, difficult team to do.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: We had Tyler Anderson we mentioned into the top. Jam
Speaker 1: Is and ty On also good in that game with
Speaker 1: the Royals no earned over six eight k Zach Wheeler aks.
Speaker 1: He was our main DFS guy. Him and Wheeler. We
Speaker 1: were talking about Lee last night and Tyler Anderson so
Speaker 1: did well last night. Alex Wood and Yarborough also six
Speaker 1: strong innings for both those guys. Hitters. Matt Chapman two
Speaker 1: Dingers look at that there and need him to step up,
Speaker 1: especially if George Springer missus any time. Xander Bogarts went
Speaker 1: yard one for two, Hayzus Aguilar with a home run,
Speaker 1: Calvin Mitchell three four with a homer, three rebbies for
Speaker 1: Trey Turner. Alex Bregman looked real good at the plate yesterday.
Speaker 1: Kevin Hello Newman to Ribby's himself. Kyle Schwarber hit a
Speaker 1: home run, so did Nathaniel Low and Trey Mancini, of course,
Speaker 1: the inside the Parker. In terms of pitchers, stat zero's eh,
Speaker 1: I mean familiar blowing the lead. Not too bad of
Speaker 1: a night for the pitching. Joey Bart over four two
Speaker 1: k's with Maryfield over four, two k's, Brian Hayes over five,
Speaker 1: two k's, Ryan mount Castle over four with three k's.
Speaker 1: Take that. That's your karma. Mike Mahyor for all of
Speaker 1: the discussion and all the hazing of Paul Blackburn all
Speaker 1: this time in JJ Blade after hitting his first home run,
Speaker 1: went over five with three k's. There again, we don't
Speaker 1: have a home run board, so just have to take
Speaker 1: everyone's word for it that Mike Mahyor is still on it,
Speaker 1: but High Cubes is still at the top with thirty seven.
Speaker 1: The bloom is or to blum Is thirty four, Title
Speaker 1: Chasers thirty three, Mike Mayor apparently thirty three with Nike
Speaker 1: King in the North. I feel like Niking in the
Speaker 1: North was on that leader board and number one for
Speaker 1: so long ever and has gone ice cold. I can't
Speaker 1: buy it home one.
Speaker 3: I wonder if he's okay. I haven't heard from him,
Speaker 3: haven't seen anything.
Speaker 2: I wonder if he's okay.
Speaker 3: But by by the way, Hikobe got a schwarberbomb yesterday
Speaker 3: to further that lead.
Speaker 2: Just so everybody now.
Speaker 1: Also, Red Baron got the answer. Andrew Bennin tend was
Speaker 1: second that year in the Rookie of the Year voting,
Speaker 1: and now the Yankees have the number one and the
Speaker 1: number two guys in the Rookie of the Year voting
Speaker 1: for twenty seventeen. Isn't that nice story?
Speaker 2: That's what they always were trying to do.
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Speaker 1: Bobby ray FanDuel five and a half K's I like
Speaker 1: the over on that minus one thirty eight. Alec Manoa
Speaker 1: got to pay a one to fifty minus one fifty juice,
Speaker 1: But I think it's worth it if you put it in
Speaker 1: a parlay in the five and a half k's over
Speaker 1: on DK on Andy FanDuel Sandy al Contres at five
Speaker 1: and a half k's was that this morning again minus
Speaker 1: one fifty big juice, and then Jordan Alvarez. I know
Speaker 1: it's a potentially tough matchup against Robbie Ray, but plus
Speaker 1: one thirty five on Alvarez, I mean for total bases
Speaker 1: one and a half. Give that to me. Tough night.
Speaker 1: But Welsh, what did you find when he started to
Speaker 1: sparse through stuff?
Speaker 2: Well? I like the Sandy one.
Speaker 3: I hate the juice. If I was pairing it with something,
Speaker 3: I think my pair would be Jose al Tuove. Total
Speaker 3: bases at one and a half over, I'd like to
Speaker 3: put that together great BVP numbers, then go over five hundred.
Speaker 2: A couple others.
Speaker 3: I like Brian Bio three and a half strikeouts. It's
Speaker 3: kind of a low total versus a strikeouty team.
Speaker 2: So he's is that a real word strikeout e? Nope,
Speaker 2: that's my word.
Speaker 3: It's just just one of mine's a strikeye OUDI Teamy
Speaker 3: and Bio has gotten up to eighty pitches, which was
Speaker 3: what I was looking for. If they're letting him go
Speaker 3: that marker, so I feel comfortable with that. It's against Milwaukee,
Speaker 3: Milwaukee bottom like seven in the league in strikeouts per
Speaker 3: game and Vladimirgerer Junior little bases one and a half,
Speaker 3: one of the probably better matchups versus a crappy pitcher.
Speaker 3: So sandyel tuve Bio and Vladimir Guerrero Junior.
Speaker 2: My four plays.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the next section here. Of course,
Speaker 1: a little DFS Garrett Cole on the Mountain night ten
Speaker 1: point four certainly a good investment on dk Alec Minoa
Speaker 1: was nine point four, though a thousand dollars different. So
Speaker 1: I definitely look at him as a secondary arm or
Speaker 1: even a pivot off the big guys. But if you
Speaker 1: are going to pay up Brandon wood Trof, I think
Speaker 1: is the best matchup potentially a ten k. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's just gonna smoke them, tricky one because
Speaker 1: you have Verlander and home against Robbie Ray. The Seattle
Speaker 1: Mariners have just been getting owned lately by the Houston Astros.
Speaker 1: And again, Daddy, this is this is the problem. Now,
Speaker 1: like you kind of want to go in on the
Speaker 1: Verlanders out of this game. But if you're looking to
Speaker 1: go opo, this is a way to break that streak
Speaker 1: a little bit. Robby Ray at nine to three. He
Speaker 1: put him with Woodroff. That's an interesting tournament lineup. I
Speaker 1: think Lance Lynn is gonna be popular two tonight on
Speaker 1: D he's just six point eight as the secondary army,
Speaker 1: the logia do whatever you want, so consider exposure to
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray maybe one share in a tournament tonight. The
Speaker 1: same could be said. I think over on fandel where
Speaker 1: he's nine point seven, that's a good tournament salary pitcher
Speaker 1: over on FanDuel with once again low roster percentage because
Speaker 1: he's going, oh, they haven't beaten the Astros, blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Brandon Woodruff at ten point three also
Speaker 1: good investment. Alec Manoa ten two. Then you have an
Speaker 1: interesting one too because you have Bassett nine to nine
Speaker 1: against all Contra at eleven four. I don't want to
Speaker 1: invest in I'll contract eleven four because once again he
Speaker 1: could pitch great and not get the win. How many
Speaker 1: times would we watch this terrible team. I actually think
Speaker 1: Chris Bassett has some APO appeal. What do you think
Speaker 1: of Bassett and Robbie Ray as some of those guys
Speaker 1: tonight that have a little bit of opposite love.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Bassett's a tough one because it's against Sandy,
Speaker 3: But I like the logic. I like both of the
Speaker 3: logic on those because Sandy would be probably my biggest
Speaker 3: avoid of everything you just said from a DFS perspective
Speaker 3: because of that right there. I mean eleven four the
Speaker 3: win at the end, I like that. I mean, I
Speaker 3: don't know how everybody. Everyone's gonna be on it, but
Speaker 3: like Manoa would probably be my number one play.
Speaker 2: It's I think there's a good opportunity for a win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, He's a good cash game there for sure. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to our home run calls of the night.
Speaker 1: Where are you going for your home run call this evening?
Speaker 2: Welsh?
Speaker 3: So I am going to go with Jose Altuve, who
Speaker 3: I mentioned my total base kind of something I like
Speaker 3: to do on my homer calls. I like to pair
Speaker 3: that with my total bases. But I want to pivot
Speaker 3: for the weekend, so put it in the books here.
Speaker 3: I want a Goldie weekend. I almost went with Goldie
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Altuve and then Goldie for Saturday Sunday.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Aaron Judge in perpetuity. That's right,
Speaker 1: this is my August perpetuity call. It's terrible, it's chalky,
Speaker 1: but you know, keep getting some home runs. And this
Speaker 1: time I learned my lesson to check back in on
Speaker 1: where we are, cause last year I did the Bryce
Speaker 1: Harper one and it went bananas and then everybody went
Speaker 1: past me and then just took Bryce Harper so they
Speaker 1: I couldn't catch up. So it's fair gamesmanship. I respect that.
Speaker 1: Don't hate the player, hate the game. So I'm there.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Aaron Judge as my perpetuity pick
Speaker 1: here for the rest of the season. So every time
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge it's a home run, you can be miserable
Speaker 1: because you hate the Yankees and because something good happened
Speaker 1: for me and I like to be the villain of
Speaker 1: the show. I have enjoyed this season so much with you, Welsh.
Speaker 1: It has been so great to hang out here again.
Speaker 1: I can't stress this strongly enough. Make sure you follow
Speaker 1: him on Twitter at Isit the Welsh. If you played Dynasty,
Speaker 1: you must be listening to the Prospect one podcast he does,
Speaker 1: and of course join the itail army over on Patreon.
Speaker 1: They got great stuff him and Bogman, great guests all
Speaker 1: the time. But they've got the live streams going there.
Speaker 1: They got all these things. But I want to personally
Speaker 1: just thank you for coming in this year doing such
Speaker 1: fantastic work here on the show. And you know it's
Speaker 1: good because you filled literally the seat of Dan Harris,
Speaker 1: and we needed somebody that was well above six feet
Speaker 1: tall to do that and you did that.
Speaker 3: No, well, definitely big enough to fill that seat. But
Speaker 3: we all miss Dan. We're gonna miss you, my friend.
Speaker 3: Hopefully I can maybe even convince and steal you to
Speaker 3: make a surprise appearance once or twice. Just listen in
Speaker 3: and chalk it up with everybody.
Speaker 1: Shirtless hammered Juan Soto to the Mets. Put it in
Speaker 1: the books and if Showy Otani like, that's something I
Speaker 1: haven't even wrapped my brain around yet, but I mean
Speaker 1: some I once again, I'm in a coin flip here
Speaker 1: with Otani because if I'm the Angels. Look, it's been great,
Speaker 1: but are you gonna win? Do you have anything in
Speaker 1: this pipeline? You know the system, how's the Angel system?
Speaker 2: Give them a great It's oh yeah, it's the.
Speaker 1: Minus system at best.
Speaker 3: I would say it's yeah, it's it's bottom half of
Speaker 3: the league for sure. They got Sam Bachman as a pitcher.
Speaker 3: I mean, Adela isn't prospect eligible anymore. They got a
Speaker 3: couple other dudes out there.
Speaker 2: It's not great.
Speaker 3: It's not a good It's not a system that you
Speaker 3: build off of. They need to replenish. They probably love
Speaker 3: for it to not have to be Otani that they're
Speaker 3: doing it from. But you know, you have four or
Speaker 3: five guys that could change a course for the next
Speaker 3: couple of years.
Speaker 1: And Otani would absolutely be the biggest impact trade deadline guy.
Speaker 1: You're getting two players for one that is incredible. And
Speaker 1: you know what, we would then have the chance to
Speaker 1: watch Shoeyotani in the playoffs, which is good. That's good
Speaker 1: for baseball. We need that. We need Showeo Tani in
Speaker 1: the playoffs.
Speaker 2: We need I was thinking the same thing earlier. That's
Speaker 2: so funny you said that.
Speaker 3: I was thinking, can you believe that we're sitting here
Speaker 3: not getting to see show Heyo Tani just absolutely go
Speaker 3: bonkers in the playoffs right now.
Speaker 2: We need that every single year.
Speaker 3: And we're not agree if I think if Otani or
Speaker 3: Soda gets traded, you got to at least record me
Speaker 3: a video that I can play on here in one
Speaker 3: of them of you just going off about it.
Speaker 2: Or given your take, Well, we'll discuss that off air.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, off all the PENUTSA Cracker Jacks.
Speaker 1: I don't know Riley, but Riley has just summed it
Speaker 1: up here. This is quintessential. It's so funny seeing Mets
Speaker 1: fans not even able to comprehend being unbelievably good because
Speaker 1: they've been scared for so long. And Riley was one
Speaker 1: hundred percent correct on that one hundred percent. But who knows,
Speaker 1: I mean, who knows where the rest of the season
Speaker 1: is going to take us. But again, I want you
Speaker 1: to stay with us here on fancy pros MLB channel. Again. Uh, Chris,
Speaker 1: tell us, who are you got? You got? Wonky? Is
Speaker 1: Mike Mayer even gonna show up once in a while?
Speaker 3: We got I don't think we have any mayor And
Speaker 3: the ratings go way down with him.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I might have a couple surprise guests for next week.
Speaker 3: We'll see because there's gonna be there's a chance you
Speaker 3: guys might occasionally get a solo show with me, which
Speaker 3: I would tell you I'm gonna rely heavy on the
Speaker 3: comment thread as we go through the rest of the year,
Speaker 3: I might kind of do it in general. I might
Speaker 3: pick up a question or two from the chat, so
Speaker 3: make sure that you guys are hanging in there. But
Speaker 3: next week we definitely do have Bubba and Wonky, and
Speaker 3: then I think the rest of the schedule is pretty
Speaker 3: filled with with with people every single day. It's just
Speaker 3: next week is a little bit lighter, so I might
Speaker 3: have a couple other surprises.
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. All right, that'll do
Speaker 1: it for me, But the story of the game goes
Speaker 1: on for the Welsh. I'm Joey p I'll see you
Speaker 1: next time. Kids, Enjoy your baseball.