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Speaker 1: that of course is the Welsh, and it's you, the Peanuts,
Speaker 1: the Cracker Jacks, all of our good friends here talking.
Speaker 1: It's a baseball We've got lots of stuff to talk
Speaker 1: about from yesterday with I was gonna be a boring
Speaker 1: old slate. Well it turned out to be a slugfest
Speaker 1: in Saint Louis, so a lot to talk about there. Well,
Speaker 1: of course, have some rookie lookies to talk about. We
Speaker 1: of course we'll have a little DFS, a little wagering,
Speaker 1: a little of everything Welsh as we head into the
Speaker 1: weekend and Welsh. I think the big thing to start
Speaker 1: with is obviously something amazing happened, something magical yesterday. Not
Speaker 1: only did you get a home run call correct, I
Speaker 1: got a home run call correct? Yours of course was
Speaker 1: Max Munsey, which was perfect and Max Munsey homerd wait
Speaker 1: for it off Genesis Cabrera yesterday. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think we could write a better script coming into Friday,
Speaker 1: could we?
Speaker 2: No, that was I didn't even know that it was
Speaker 2: Genesis Cabrera until we have a little chat between you
Speaker 2: and myself, Mayor and Kelly Kirby. And when I saw
Speaker 2: it blowing up in there, I was like, oh, wow,
Speaker 2: this is magic and this is the first time, and
Speaker 2: I mean, we'd have to go get the statisticians to
Speaker 2: go and look, when's the last time you and I
Speaker 2: both had a home run call together? Hasn't happened this year?
Speaker 1: If it did, it happened in April. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't think it has. I think the first I may.
Speaker 2: I hit none in April pretty much. So I don't know, man,
Speaker 2: I don't think we've done it this year, and god
Speaker 2: knows when it was last year. So that was a miracle.
Speaker 2: Genesis Cabrera showing up was magical. So thank you, Genesis,
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't I saw the monthly home run,
Speaker 1: but I know who was off of them. This morning,
Speaker 1: I was watching a little quick pitch kind of getting
Speaker 1: caught up on the things that went on, and uh,
Speaker 1: and there it was. There was Justice Cabrera and Max Monty,
Speaker 1: and I was like this is just perfect. This is
Speaker 1: a beautiful way to end the week after a fun week,
Speaker 1: and we can you know, we'll talk about that. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about also Noan Aeronado going yard in that game too.
Speaker 1: He has been red hot Wilson Contreras twice with the
Speaker 1: home runs. The Burger phone was getting used a lot.
Speaker 1: Yesterday Adam Wainwright had to dial up the Burger phone.
Speaker 1: But what in the hell is going on? It's funny
Speaker 1: was because we kept talking about No. One Aeronaudo. What
Speaker 1: a good bilo he was in my home league. I
Speaker 1: saw him trying to get traded like every deal it
Speaker 1: was like No One Aeronado, No Onen Ernaudo try to
Speaker 1: like get shopped around. I couldn't believe it. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: why are people trying to get rid of this guy?
Speaker 1: He's just in a slump, Like just be patient with
Speaker 1: this dude. But man, has this guy exploded? So is
Speaker 1: Saint Louis now? Saint Louis still needs to get better
Speaker 1: pitching That still has to happen. But do you think
Speaker 1: Saint Louis has turned a corner here in these last
Speaker 1: few days?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think offensively they're finding their footing. Goldie's been
Speaker 2: locked in. They're still kind of moving around some of
Speaker 2: the pieces. You know, I had talked about maybe trading
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund. Edmond has been pretty solid. Their outfield is
Speaker 2: still pieced together. Lars Nootbar again, I kind of been
Speaker 2: targeting a lot of Cardinals. Lars Zoopar was another one
Speaker 2: to buy. He's been kind of heating up. And with
Speaker 2: the whole pitching situation, We're gonna see how it all
Speaker 2: lays out. But they they kind of gave off and
Speaker 2: on like where Matthew Libertor is going to go.
Speaker 1: They're like, well, we.
Speaker 2: Think he's gonna get another start, he's gonna stay with
Speaker 2: the team. He might be bullpen, which would be garbage.
Speaker 2: But I can't imagine they're gonna be able to keep
Speaker 2: him bullpen after that performance. So we'll have to kind
Speaker 2: of see what happens with Libertory. But I think this
Speaker 2: whole team has turned the corner around. Goodbyes overall. And also,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've looked Jordan Walker struggling in
Speaker 2: the miners too.
Speaker 1: I do not been good you brought that up because
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that, and and sometimes that happens you know,
Speaker 1: the guys get frustrated. They you know, I don't want
Speaker 1: to say they pout, but they it does knock their confidence.
Speaker 1: Sometimes some guys respond, you know, they they get sat down,
Speaker 1: they come right back. Well, we're talking about one of
Speaker 1: those guys who was kind of teetering on that edge.
Speaker 1: One more big note from that game, Freddie free Minute
Speaker 1: of Grand Slam was a three hundredth career home run
Speaker 1: for Freddy Freeman. Couldn't hapen to a better guy like
Speaker 1: it's Freddy Freeman, the most likable guy in baseball. I
Speaker 1: feel like he is because I love.
Speaker 2: He's in that general vicinity. Yeah, he's up there.
Speaker 1: He's terrific. Good for him, three hundred, Good for you. Now,
Speaker 1: more to the point going into the season, Welsh, you know,
Speaker 1: we did a lot of betting pro shows together. We
Speaker 1: had a lot of conversations about the Dodgers and my
Speaker 1: concern for the back end of his rotation, and also,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not a big Julio Urius guy. And
Speaker 1: obviously his last start not good. Obviously May's injury is
Speaker 1: a problem. Obviously cinderguard is cinderguard. I know we talked
Speaker 1: about it yesterday. I'm gonna keep driving this home. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers got to figure something out. And I know that
Speaker 1: part of that figuring out is gonna be Dave Roberts
Speaker 1: talking about Gavin Stone that he quote makes sense end
Speaker 1: quote to be the guy who replaced us in May.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna happen. So Stone is out there in
Speaker 1: your leagues, and I imagine he probably is in most
Speaker 1: I imagine he's not rostered. I have to look up
Speaker 1: the number. I'll take a look at it. But in
Speaker 1: your opinion this weekend, he didn't make my waiver wire
Speaker 1: video at the time. Again, Gavin Stone's a guy that
Speaker 1: you know we're not as high on necessarily. But how
Speaker 1: much equity would you put into Gavin Stone, considering right
Speaker 1: now if you're looking to get him off the waiver wire?
Speaker 1: Looking at his roster verstagel for let up a second.
Speaker 1: He is thirty five percent roster, so still available in
Speaker 1: almost sixty five percent of leagues.
Speaker 2: Well, a great question might be Gavin Stone or Matthew
Speaker 2: Libertre And I tell you, well, you know what, I
Speaker 2: almost might lean in the other direction, because I still
Speaker 2: think the Cardinals are making horrifically bad decisions, and by
Speaker 2: not making a commitment. I don't know what they're gonna
Speaker 2: do with Libertory. They're gonna put him in the bullpen
Speaker 2: long relief for like three or four weeks and put
Speaker 2: him up. If Gavin Stone does struggle that I have mentioned,
Speaker 2: they can easily go in another direction. Here's what I'll say.
Speaker 2: I think they both are in the exact same, similar
Speaker 2: fab range. I think they should go about the same price,
Speaker 2: whatever that ends up being, whatever investment you guys put in.
Speaker 2: I think they should go about the same because they
Speaker 2: both have they both have an parent risk, and Gavin
Speaker 2: Stone found himself a little bit. He lives off of
Speaker 2: this big change up, the splittery changeup that he's got,
Speaker 2: which could induce some big whiffs if he can command
Speaker 2: the fastball. So I kind of almost tiny bit side
Speaker 2: on maybe Gavin Stone with all the issues they have,
Speaker 2: because they might experiment with some other guys and he
Speaker 2: might be locked up. But like I said, I think
Speaker 2: both of these guys probably should be valued about the same,
Speaker 2: which we totally wouldn't have said before the season.
Speaker 1: That is also fair. Angelo is saying Angelo mona samanta Jenaton,
Speaker 1: Angelo says Otani to the Cardinals. That's what he says,
Speaker 1: that's my best Tony Danza voice. Here's the thing, though,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, this would have to be a rental if
Speaker 1: they went after Otani because it would probably cost them.
Speaker 1: I would imagine libertore And and Jordan Walker. I go, oh,
Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm then that's what I'm asking for.
Speaker 1: That's a lot to give up for a rental. And
Speaker 1: I don't think the Cardinals have the funds after paying
Speaker 1: Aeronauto and gold Schmidt.
Speaker 2: To imagine the cardinal's trying to make the decision between
Speaker 2: a guy that can hit and pitch. They their brains
Speaker 2: would explode at the thought of a guy that wants
Speaker 2: to hit on the same day that he's pitching. There's
Speaker 2: no way they can make those decisions. I will put
Speaker 2: a zero point zero percent chance that Otani is ever
Speaker 2: a Cardinal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's probably a unlikely thing. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say this too. You know, it feels like, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think this is intentional, but you know, obviously
Speaker 1: what's going on with Otani. Had he not you know,
Speaker 1: had the National League not adopted the DH to be
Speaker 1: a very different set of circumstances. I feel like too,
Speaker 1: for him, you know, they's really doubled his market potential,
Speaker 1: and that's good for baseball. It's it's good for Otani
Speaker 1: anybody else who comes along in the next ten years
Speaker 1: who can do anything close to what he's doing. And
Speaker 1: I wonder if teams are gonna start to value that
Speaker 1: more because it's something you do see in college baseball
Speaker 1: still to a certain degree, not as much, but you'll
Speaker 1: see some of these guys you know who can do both.
Speaker 1: You've seen them get drafted in the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: There's actually a guy right now named Bryce Eldridge who
Speaker 2: Joe Noyle was just talking about, who has a can
Speaker 2: hit ninety seven and putting up one ten Max Eves.
Speaker 1: To me, if I'm an organization, I look at that
Speaker 1: and saying, hey, this is a good investment long term
Speaker 1: because I can get two players in one so fisically
Speaker 1: it's more responsible. And I think you're gonna see other
Speaker 1: teams start to look for those kind of guys. But
Speaker 1: teams have to.
Speaker 2: Learn to develop and they can't and they I mean
Speaker 2: Jake Cronilworth was like a two way player. Brendan McKay
Speaker 2: with the Rays was one of those guys teams don't
Speaker 2: know how to manage these guys. There was a guy,
Speaker 2: Bubba Chandler in the pirate system right now, who I
Speaker 2: think he's just finally made the full commitment. Last year
Speaker 2: he was hitting. The Giants have one right now in
Speaker 2: Reggie Crawford. Teams don't know how to manage these guys.
Speaker 2: So I agree this would be a more cost efficient
Speaker 2: way for teams to approach if players could do it.
Speaker 2: But no one knows how to properly develop these players.
Speaker 2: And I just wanted to say when the Atani stuff,
Speaker 2: you say he doubled his options, but I think his
Speaker 2: options went from you know, two to three or two
Speaker 2: to four maximum. Like it's fun to be like, oh,
Speaker 2: my team could get him and all the oriole Oh
Speaker 2: he's not. He's gonna be like a met he's gonna
Speaker 2: be a Yankee, he's gonna be a Dodger, he's going
Speaker 2: to be an Angel. Like those are the teams. Like
Speaker 2: maybe you can throw in the Mariners, but like we're
Speaker 2: just being silly. It's going to go to one of
Speaker 2: the huge, huge dollar teams and we all know it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a fun game of survivor. And I
Speaker 1: see Razor talking about survivor in the chat here about
Speaker 1: yeah who went home and some fun stuff there. So yes,
Speaker 1: I was not surprised who went home, but I was
Speaker 1: rooting for somebody else to go home because there's a
Speaker 1: crazy woman on that island and they're crazy if they don't.
Speaker 2: Are you're talking about, Oh you turn that into surviving.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm about survivor there. I'm trying to, you know,
Speaker 1: the best I can. It's Friday. It's Friday. Mister Cortez
Speaker 1: gave up two runs and six things and then Carlos
Speaker 1: Esteveznach's tenth save. He was on the waiver wire pickup
Speaker 1: video a couple weeks ago, so hopefully you nabbed him
Speaker 1: because he was flowing out there a lot longer than
Speaker 1: he should have been. That was shocked. It was only
Speaker 1: fifty percent of leagues even a couple of year weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Adie Ruschman had to run home run and he walked twice.
Speaker 1: A good day for Rutchman. He continues to be great.
Speaker 1: We're also seeing I feel like a resurgence is the
Speaker 1: offensive catcher this year. You know, between Murphee, between Rutchman,
Speaker 1: we've got a little bit more of that, you know, Alvarez.
Speaker 1: The Mets starting to hit a little bit. Now. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen with Alvarez necessarily because we
Speaker 1: see Gary Sanchez is gonna be brought up from the
Speaker 1: minor league. So do you think that Alvarez is the
Speaker 1: guy that gets sent down? Would that be kind of
Speaker 1: counterproductive at this point?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think Navarrees is coming back. He's not
Speaker 2: back yet, I don't.
Speaker 1: Believe so he's out for weeks still.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but when he comes back, that'll be probably Gary
Speaker 2: Sanchez going I don't I don't know's it's a great question.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Mets, what are they gonna do if Nevaaz.
Speaker 1: I mean, is a great defensive catcher, but he can't
Speaker 1: hit water if he fill out of voat. So to
Speaker 1: get rid of Alvarez right now when you need offense,
Speaker 1: I think would be very short sighted. But if you
Speaker 1: have Alvarez as your standalone catcher right now today, you
Speaker 1: gotta start looking around for possibly another option the Mets.
Speaker 2: The Mets might be a team that really need to
Speaker 2: look at themselves and figure out where the trademarket is
Speaker 2: and maybe open up that Pandora's box because they got
Speaker 2: all these pieces that are just like, Okay, you're right
Speaker 2: when Navarus comes back, you got Nedo. What do you
Speaker 2: do with Alvarez? You can't dh him really on opposite
Speaker 2: days because you've got Vento's and Baby up, and they're
Speaker 2: trying to figure out vogel Buck. They got too many
Speaker 2: Ronnie Mauricio sitting out there, They've got two. They have
Speaker 2: riches that are too close to the majors that if
Speaker 2: they've got deficiencies in other spots, they really should look
Speaker 2: to maybe move something, move one of these guys. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's Alvarez, by the way, and not love blatantly Vento's
Speaker 2: or Baby, but I do think that's something that that
Speaker 2: team should, especially with the money that they spend, they should.
Speaker 1: That's why I keep coming back to the Mets. The
Speaker 1: Mets have the need for Ottani. The Mets have the
Speaker 1: prospects though Otani, the Mets have the will to lock
Speaker 1: him up long term. Money is no object to Steve Cohen.
Speaker 1: That's why everyone keep saying all the gains stay on
Speaker 1: the West Coast. I just don't think it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I really don't. We'll see at the end. I love this.
Speaker 1: It's my favorite thing the first time, long times, Josh Dodd.
Speaker 1: I've listened to every single episode of Leading Off, but
Speaker 1: never been here live among the Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks.
Speaker 1: Keep up the good work, Joe and Chris. Your show
Speaker 1: makes my daily commute tolerable. Josh, We've been called tolerable
Speaker 1: many times in our life, both Welsh and myself. But
Speaker 1: thank you, yes, hey, tolerable. Take out the trash, will
Speaker 1: you please? But Josh, all joking aside, thanks for listening,
Speaker 1: and this is great. I love when people join us
Speaker 1: here live in the chat. It's fun to hang out here.
Speaker 1: The the Penis and Cracker tracks are amazing. Let's do
Speaker 1: a little rookie lookie. So according to Cardinals manager Very Cardinals,
Speaker 1: every show today for all you Saint Louis fans Thursday.
Speaker 1: Matthew Liberator will start next week, he said yesterday. So
Speaker 1: that is good. We were speculating will he make a
Speaker 1: second start. We was gonna work out of the bullpend. No,
Speaker 1: he will make a start in the road. Trip Uri
Speaker 1: Perez got's first major league win. Congratulations son, good job.
Speaker 1: And then Tosh Bradley did get back. Now he struggled
Speaker 1: in the beginning I gave up two runs over five
Speaker 1: innings that he did settle down a little bit. So overall,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, if you stayed away, you were
Speaker 1: probably happy. If you had to start him, you probably
Speaker 1: looked and said, Okay, it wasn't so bad. I think
Speaker 1: that's kind of the takeaway from Tosh. He wasn't what
Speaker 1: he looked like in the minor leagues, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you kind of saw the stuff. You saw
Speaker 2: the things that we were a little bit worried about
Speaker 2: with him. The command was a little sit spotty, the
Speaker 2: cutter wasn't hitting where he needed it to go. But
Speaker 2: you know, he was able to get away with a
Speaker 2: lot of stuff. The changeup was going. You just you
Speaker 2: wish to see it a little bit more of the curveball.
Speaker 2: But I think overall pretty good. And by the way,
Speaker 2: we can also say goodbye officially to Uri pres strikeout
Speaker 2: props being four and a half. I think the last
Speaker 2: two have been four and a half. They have smacked both,
Speaker 2: I think in the third inning, so we can say
Speaker 2: bye bye to those. Those were nice while we had them.
Speaker 1: And Cody, you're right, I did say this about Wan
Speaker 1: Soda that he would be a Met eventually, because I
Speaker 1: could tell Steve Cohen really liked Wan Soto, but at
Speaker 1: the time they didn't want to move the prospects. And
Speaker 1: I told you the problem was they were never going
Speaker 1: to trade him in the division, so I knew he
Speaker 1: wasn't going to be via trade. And if the Mets
Speaker 1: don't get Otani, they will go after Wan Soda in
Speaker 1: free agency. It's going to be one of those two
Speaker 1: guys for sure. So Cody, you're right, I did say
Speaker 1: Soda will be a Met. There's still time for that
Speaker 1: to happen. But there's no way the National is going
Speaker 1: to trade him to the Mets. Like that was going
Speaker 1: to happen. They would have had such a massive overpaid.
Speaker 1: It's never ever going to be the case. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's go to one more here. Anthony Volpi, who we
Speaker 1: were talking about, was on the precipice got bench two
Speaker 1: days ago. Yesterday hit a home run. Maybe this burns him.
Speaker 1: I still say it's he's a great bilo across the board.
Speaker 1: I still believe in Anthony Volpe despite the struggles, and
Speaker 1: I think it's great that they're sticking with him injury front.
Speaker 1: Tommy Edmund removed yesterday lower abdomen soreness. That sounds painful.
Speaker 1: Jared Walsh, who's been dealing with chronic migraines and headache issues.
Speaker 1: He went three for three with a pair of walks
Speaker 1: yesterday in a rehab assignment. So if you're desperate for
Speaker 1: some corner help in a deeper league, maybe Jared Walsh
Speaker 1: can give you a little bit of a help if
Speaker 1: he is healthy. Seth Lugo is not healthy. He goes
Speaker 1: onto the aio with a calf strain. Aaron Savali three
Speaker 1: scoreless innings on Thursday, so he is starting to get
Speaker 1: closer to returning. So Indians Rock Indians.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, let's get on. Joe remember my mistake
Speaker 2: last week? Oh oh, Chat, uh oh oh? Joe is
Speaker 2: the team Joe?
Speaker 1: What was it? Well, they were the Cleveland Indians, so
Speaker 1: at one point they were I don't think it's the
Speaker 1: same thing, Chat, I don't think it's the same thing.
Speaker 2: I think you're just worse. I think your's just worse
Speaker 2: than what they were called.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like I said something like I called them.
Speaker 2: I just said the wrong name. I didn't say a
Speaker 2: name that was canceled. Joe. This chat is garbage, by
Speaker 2: the way, not one person getting on your case about
Speaker 2: it in this chat I'm looking at because.
Speaker 1: Mine, Mine was an honest point that I made one
Speaker 1: time and called myself. You made it eight times one small.
Speaker 2: But again, it wasn't.
Speaker 1: Hard to lead you out of it. I think so hard.
Speaker 1: I was like, are you sure anyway?
Speaker 2: The Guardians you wanted to ask who's going on?
Speaker 1: We ask who gets bounced when Savali.
Speaker 2: Comes back, Peyton, Battonfield. That's it's an easy one that
Speaker 2: that's the one that we've known that was is gonna
Speaker 2: go away. The bigger tests are going to be coming
Speaker 2: up here quickly. When trist McKenzie is available and comes back,
Speaker 2: who's going to get who's gonna kick rocks? And I
Speaker 2: think that's gonna be my gut, says caw Kwan Trill.
Speaker 2: He should go far away, far far away, and that's
Speaker 2: going to be your rotation. That would be the two
Speaker 2: rookies Savallee, McKenzie and Bieber. But you know, listen, they
Speaker 2: Savally I don't think should be guaranteed anything either. And
Speaker 2: you have Gavin Williams in the in the wings, so
Speaker 2: a lot of options for them. But yeah, Peyton Battonfield
Speaker 2: is going to be saying bye bye.
Speaker 1: Yes now the chat. Yeah, I didn't call them the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Guidos or something like that.
Speaker 2: No, you just call them that they actually changed, because.
Speaker 1: They actually changed. And I made a mistake. I'm tired.
Speaker 1: It's Friday again.
Speaker 2: This is what you're to make mistakes here, Joe. There's
Speaker 2: no mistakes.
Speaker 1: But I called myself as I made it, and I
Speaker 1: could tell it was like one of those bubbles, those
Speaker 1: cartoon bubbles. I could see it in my mouth. I said.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I still say San Diego Chargers every now and again.
Speaker 1: These are just things that are ingrained in you after
Speaker 1: forty years. You know, franmil Reyes got signed to a
Speaker 1: minor the contract.
Speaker 2: Do you care who did he used to be with
Speaker 2: he used to be with it? What was that team? Joe? No,
Speaker 2: what was that other team that he.
Speaker 1: Was winning out? The Padres? Which, by the way, how
Speaker 1: much long are we going to call him the Padres?
Speaker 2: Oh? Is that offensive?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just saying, like, how much long
Speaker 1: did we call him the Padres?
Speaker 2: Joey Joey digging? Joey's digging. No, I have no interest
Speaker 2: in him. Frama Rays with the Nationals or anybody. Unfortunately.
Speaker 2: I love friand of Race. He's like such a nice
Speaker 2: guy and stuff too, But uh, the game is not there,
Speaker 2: so no, we don't. We don't have any fantasy interests here.
Speaker 1: I love the Washington Commanders. Somebody give me a Washington
Speaker 1: Commander's hat and I'll put it on it right now,
Speaker 1: all right, h three up and three down from yesterday.
Speaker 1: Wilson Contreras obviously the two three run home run. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: So Wilson Catrera has had a you know, a little
Speaker 1: bit of a stern talking to you. Maybe Marmall's a genius.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's exactly the old school, tough guy manager that
Speaker 1: this team needed. I don't know, but we could go.
Speaker 1: Everybody wanted to fire this guy, And now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, this team has really come to life in
Speaker 1: the last couple days. Aaron Judge two for four with
Speaker 1: another home run. Holy crap. Four home runs this week
Speaker 1: against the Blue Jays. Unbelievable. Should just be Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: every day for home run calls. Boba Shitt three to
Speaker 1: four with a solo homer. In that same game, Oleo
Speaker 1: Urius lit up for six runs, over three innings. I
Speaker 1: can't get past this going into the season. Welsh. I
Speaker 1: know we had this conversation a lot with Urius where
Speaker 1: he was being valued as a fantasy Asian. I just
Speaker 1: did not believe he was. I don't think fantasy Asians
Speaker 1: go out there and have as many of these kind
Speaker 1: of starts as Yurius does on occasion. He is more
Speaker 1: Jose Burrios than he is Clayton Kershaw. And I know
Speaker 1: that that upsets a lot of people if I say that,
Speaker 1: But you know what, I think it's true. I think
Speaker 1: it's true. And until he proves otherwise, you can't put
Speaker 1: him in that same Zach Gallan, Spencer Streyder, those guys
Speaker 1: are aces in fantasy. Urius is not that guy, and
Speaker 1: going in if you look back at the ADP, that's
Speaker 1: exactly where he was ranked. And I think it was wrong,
Speaker 1: and I still believe it's wrong, and I think it's
Speaker 1: playing out that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, drafted. The idea of drafting him before, like Zach
Speaker 2: Gallen is so silly right now, and I think Zach
Speaker 2: Allen has jumped into a completely different range. You know,
Speaker 2: there were some early positive signs with areas the strikeout,
Speaker 2: numbers were going up, but they seem to have. His
Speaker 2: chase rate is in the essentially top twenty five percent
Speaker 2: of the league, but everything has kind of stabilized down.
Speaker 2: Biggest hard hit percentage of his career he's given up.
Speaker 2: His K percentage has now dropped to a three year low.
Speaker 2: Is less effective. He's getting hit on the fastball a
Speaker 2: whole lot more. As a two to eighty three batting
Speaker 2: average last year he gave up a one.
Speaker 1: Confidence on the mound Welsh to the demeanor's not good,
Speaker 1: and I always, you know, this is something that all
Speaker 1: the you know, fun Twitter pitching gurus and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: they're never going to talk about. Right, They're gonna give
Speaker 1: you the X plug, they're gonna give you all these
Speaker 1: other things, but they're never gonna talk about demeanor. Confidence,
Speaker 1: commanding the space and the mound. This is something that
Speaker 1: the great pitchers do. It's something that even the great pitchers,
Speaker 1: when they're not great anymore, still do, Like Max Schuers
Speaker 1: is not what Max chers there was, but I'm sure
Speaker 1: most guys are pretty you know, afraid to face matchers
Speaker 1: or most days still like there's still an intimidation factor's
Speaker 1: a control factor with that guy, and I think the
Speaker 1: best pictures have that, and Urius does not have that
Speaker 1: demeanor at all. You could tell he's shaken there. And
Speaker 1: we got to talk about this too before he gets
Speaker 1: to the rest of the downs, because if we don't,
Speaker 1: Mike Maher's gonna explode. He's tweeting about it. He's talking
Speaker 1: about it. Gunnar Henderson's heating up Gunner Henderson.
Speaker 2: I think it was like literally the eleventh hour, you
Speaker 2: know that, like it was the last second. He didn't
Speaker 2: have much more time, in my eyes, to get going
Speaker 2: than he did and he and I think over last
Speaker 2: week he said over three hundred he's been good. This
Speaker 2: is why they were tenuous about, like, don't want to
Speaker 2: drop him if you could go in other directions. I
Speaker 2: think there were some scenarios where we kind of had to,
Speaker 2: but I'm telling you this dude probably did it within
Speaker 2: one week. More of his struggles, I think the team
Speaker 2: would have made the really, really tough decision. Jordan Westburg
Speaker 2: just said his twelfth homer of the day. The other day,
Speaker 2: he's knocking at the door. Joey Ortiz has been getting opportunities,
Speaker 2: so I think he's saving himself a gig right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, continuing on with the downs, Adam Waynwright five runs,
Speaker 1: but at least he had the Burger Phone. Only two
Speaker 1: of them were earned, so not everything was his fault,
Speaker 1: but still a W against the Dodgers in a big
Speaker 1: one too. That game was fun. Last night, Hora Mateo
Speaker 1: returned to action, but it didn't matter. He went over
Speaker 1: four all the Hori Mateo stuff right of replacements, he
Speaker 1: is hitting, get this right over the last fifty one
Speaker 1: played appearances one oh six one one twenty eight slash
Speaker 1: so bad. I mean, I don't know if I ever
Speaker 1: remember a player being that hot in April and this
Speaker 1: cold in May, Like this is this is like frozen
Speaker 1: tundra cold. This is unbelievable. I mean, do you just
Speaker 1: drop him or do you? Benjamin at this point, like
Speaker 1: I don't have many drop you know what.
Speaker 2: Personally, I know he had a lot of stolen bases
Speaker 2: and whatnot, but like that was a big draw. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm not drawn to that anymore. I don't see how
Speaker 2: it's amazing that the Orioles.
Speaker 1: I'm not drawn to that anymore.
Speaker 2: I don't care for that sort of man means nothing.
Speaker 1: I'm over that stage of my life. I'm moving on.
Speaker 2: It's pretty incredible that they dealt with these struggles from
Speaker 2: multiple guys when they have got a minor league system
Speaker 2: that is chock full of guys that are not just
Speaker 2: like kind of know they're ready. Westberg and Kowser could
Speaker 2: come up and play today today. They could if they wanted. So,
Speaker 2: I just don't see why they're gonna hold on for
Speaker 2: too much longer. I think it's I think he's gonna
Speaker 2: get designated at some point. You don't even need him
Speaker 2: as a super util guy because Joey Ortiz can play
Speaker 2: that if they want so. I think it gets designated
Speaker 2: soon and they bring up Jordan Westburg and that's the
Speaker 2: right thing to do.
Speaker 1: I just I can't I'd love to go back and
Speaker 1: see some of the trades for Horey Matteo, like what
Speaker 1: people got in return for him on I don't know,
Speaker 1: April twentieth, like that would have just been amazing.
Speaker 2: But what is his season number right now? Is he
Speaker 2: down to?
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Speaker 1: how about cold May.
Speaker 2: How about we celebrate me for the win yesterday. That's
Speaker 2: another cash I am more Welsh.
Speaker 1: Can we do that? That's all I wanted to do
Speaker 1: today with Well, let's.
Speaker 2: Celebrate you that played it, that you have the money
Speaker 2: because I even gave you a secondary option because I
Speaker 2: put Trout in there and that hit so we were
Speaker 2: able to get through it. It's actually two fifty two,
Speaker 2: not to sixty two. It's actually a pretty good line.
Speaker 2: I'm being a little dismissive of it. I think I
Speaker 2: forgot how good of a line because he's been so bad.
Speaker 2: His XBA is pretty decent, all right. Maybe I maybe
Speaker 2: I spoke out a turn. Maybe I was being a
Speaker 2: silly goose because those type of numbers they might give
Speaker 2: him a much bigger window, but it doesn't change that.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to hold on to a
Speaker 2: starting gig.
Speaker 1: I even knew at al wort A Mundy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a good way to put it.
Speaker 2: I think there's a similar swing set in there too,
Speaker 2: so way way better stats than I even I remembered going.
Speaker 2: But I, like I said, I don't think it's going
Speaker 2: to be able to uh. I think he'll be able
Speaker 2: to hold off Westburn. But like I said yesterday, the
Speaker 2: hater Sandwich cas so both hates hates Cashed And then
Speaker 2: I said trout, and I said, ah, you know what,
Speaker 2: we can place it with Uri Bing Bang. So let's
Speaker 2: see if we can make it two in a row.
Speaker 2: I will attempt to no promises.
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Speaker 2: two total bases, one and a half over total bases
Speaker 2: for Fernando Tatis Junior. Those are my prize picks.
Speaker 1: There's a poll up right now that the mayor bear
Speaker 1: who decided to come to work today for us actually
Speaker 1: put up and who deserves to be canceled more. Welsh
Speaker 1: still leading the pack here by a wide margin fifty
Speaker 1: seven percent.
Speaker 2: So you know what, let's add Mayer to that again.
Speaker 1: I caught myself literally as I said it. It was
Speaker 1: an honest mistake, and it was true. I didn't keep
Speaker 1: calling them a different team name that they weren't a
Speaker 1: completely different identity of another team that they might look
Speaker 1: similar also play in the American League Central. If I
Speaker 1: kept calling them the Twins over and over again and
Speaker 1: they weren't the Twins maybe.
Speaker 2: A little different, I think you guys don't deserve me.
Speaker 2: I just held that kind a couple of things here too.
Speaker 1: Oh I don't deserve you, all right, all right, let's
Speaker 1: get to my prize pix here. James Packson five and
Speaker 1: a half interest strikeouts. I am going to go the
Speaker 1: over on this, and I am this is I've struggled
Speaker 1: with this all day, but I'm gonna go with the
Speaker 1: over on it. Bryce Harper seven and a half hitter
Speaker 1: Fantasy score over Marcus Simeon, looking for him to have
Speaker 1: a big day in Colorado too. I think there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of runs there. Eight and a half.
Speaker 1: Speaking of runs, also, I want to look at that
Speaker 1: Oakland Houston game today, you got some subpar pitching on
Speaker 1: that mound. Nine and a half is the run total.
Speaker 1: I know it's a big number. I'm going over in
Speaker 1: the minus one oh four Seattle for the upset, the
Speaker 1: Battle of the Bryces, Bryce Miller against Bryce Elder. How
Speaker 1: often Major League Baseball have two guys named Bryce gone
Speaker 1: against each other?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's yeah, that's a very by the way,
Speaker 2: like two thousand plus name where everyone's.
Speaker 1: Like Aiden Bryce. I think Jackson and Bryce are gonna
Speaker 1: come over. We're gonna hang out, We're gonna play Fortnite.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be super cool. And then of course the
Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox plus one thirty on the money line.
Speaker 1: That's on DK. But speaking of Bryce Miller, four and
Speaker 1: a half is the number, minus one twenty five. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go over on that. Zach Gallon six and a
Speaker 1: half k's it's gonna be slightly over, I'm but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go over again. That's at minus one fourteen. But
Speaker 1: I feel really strongly, the most strongly I should say,
Speaker 1: what a strong guest about Houston Oakland and the over
Speaker 1: in that nine and a half. I think you know
Speaker 1: Oakland's out the greatest offensive team. We know this. But
Speaker 1: even if they can patch together three or four runs
Speaker 1: here in this game, I think Houston's gonna well take
Speaker 1: care of the rest todaygainst Walda Chuck. So that's that's
Speaker 1: where I'm sitting. Where are you sitting when it comes
Speaker 1: to the bets today?
Speaker 2: Well, all right, I've actually got two bets. I'm going
Speaker 2: with the Diamondbacks on we have a third bet that's
Speaker 2: actually a part of our big parlay every single day,
Speaker 2: Joe myself, Mike Mayer, and Kelly Kirby put together a
Speaker 2: four leg parley. You can play that one of us
Speaker 2: will inherently lose. I think I might have the most
Speaker 2: losses on it. Yet I'm not one hundred percent sure
Speaker 2: because I can't do some of the stuff I like
Speaker 2: to do sometimes. But today, on that one, I had
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks money line, but my two favorite bets inside
Speaker 2: of it. I've got the Diamondbacks first five to be
Speaker 2: up by a run. It's a little juice at one
Speaker 2: thirty five, but it's just enough where you could still
Speaker 2: play it. So they just have to be up by
Speaker 2: one run after five innings. Reminder, Zach Gallon is pitching
Speaker 2: on that they're going up against Johanna Alviedo. I like
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks team total runs two and a half over
Speaker 2: that's plus one twenty five, and they're averaging over four
Speaker 2: runs per game over their last I think three games,
Speaker 2: and Oviedo has gone over this two of his last three,
Speaker 2: so I love that. That's actually my favorite, the team
Speaker 2: total runs. I'm also going back to Tampa Bay. They
Speaker 2: screwed me yesterday, but I'm going with the team total
Speaker 2: runs two and a half. I'm doing that bad boy again.
Speaker 2: It's minus one ten. Those are my bets, so but
Speaker 2: you can always go check out the Betting Pros site
Speaker 2: and the Leading Off group if you want to check
Speaker 2: out any bets. I can't put my team total runs
Speaker 2: in there, but I can put some of my others,
Speaker 2: so I might add some more. So go and follow that,
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Speaker 1: now Welsh when we're looking at the DFS slate for
Speaker 1: the day again, the Battle the Bryces. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: Bryce Miller. He's cheaper, He's nine point nine, not much
Speaker 1: different than Elder. If you want to make a lineup
Speaker 1: and then just make two lineups, one with Elder, one
Speaker 1: with Miller, there's nothing wrong with that. Chances are one
Speaker 1: of those lineups is going to be better than the other.
Speaker 1: I think that's a good philosophy today. If you want
Speaker 1: to avoid that game altogether, that's also cool. If you are,
Speaker 1: then you go to the top of the board with
Speaker 1: Joe Ryan, where Zach Gallen or you go bound to
Speaker 1: the bottom end with James Paxon eight point three, the Mets,
Speaker 1: the Rangers, especially the Houston Astros, and the Dodgers. Those
Speaker 1: are the offenses I want to get into today. Mark
Speaker 1: Fiento's if he's in the lineup. The two point eight
Speaker 1: Miguel Vargus, who's been really good. I wrote him up
Speaker 1: on Fantasybros dot Com in our whole you know by
Speaker 1: low Sell high stuff. Miguel Vargus has been really good
Speaker 1: these last couple of weeks. He's really starting to hit
Speaker 1: two point seven k Louis our Ees two point eight Welsh.
Speaker 1: When it comes to home run calls today, I know
Speaker 1: you and I both hit home runs. You're probably back
Speaker 1: on the board, but Ethan was unavailable today a home
Speaker 1: run board. He's traveling. I wanted to see that. I
Speaker 1: know you wanted to see. Instead, how about I show
Speaker 1: you this picture of Wanso. Oh yuck, oh, how about that?
Speaker 2: It's so disgusting.
Speaker 1: Again, that is the reaction of Juan Soto to Juan
Speaker 1: Soto seeing Wan Soto statue.
Speaker 2: It's like the guy in the Goonies, remember the what
Speaker 2: was the guy's name who was trapped.
Speaker 1: Well, you're doing it again. That would be Sloth slot again.
Speaker 2: Exactly what am I doing? I didn't do anything. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying names. I'm making very careful about that. Your
Speaker 2: knock up. But can we get Bobblehead, Sodo and Sloth
Speaker 2: at some point back to back, because I mean that
Speaker 2: is that is.
Speaker 1: I love the Goodies. That's one of my favorite all
Speaker 1: time movies. They're actually showing it in the movie theater,
Speaker 1: the movie theater by my house. Every week they show
Speaker 1: old movies, and they're doing the Harry Potter series on
Speaker 1: Saturdays or doing all these amazing fun stuff. And in
Speaker 1: September they're showing Goonies and I've never seen Goonies on
Speaker 1: the big screen, so very excited about that.
Speaker 2: You know what, this might be hated. I rewatched it
Speaker 2: with my kid. I don't no, no, I'm sorry, like no,
Speaker 2: I watched it when I.
Speaker 1: Was a girl show. Now we're canceled. Now I'm canceling you.
Speaker 1: I can't. It's not fine.
Speaker 2: It's fine.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know, it's not just chat. Can you
Speaker 1: back me up here? The Goonies is great, please, for
Speaker 1: the love of God, I mean.
Speaker 2: It's fine, Like it's the storytelling is pretty rare.
Speaker 1: Whatever it's it's it's canceled.
Speaker 2: You guys can watch that. I'll watch like, you know,
Speaker 2: shows with like really deep and rich like storylines and
Speaker 2: stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Now lines, these are children fighting for their home, fighting
Speaker 1: for their home. Welsh about to all move. They're all
Speaker 1: going to move to different places. They're losing their home,
Speaker 1: they're losing their community, all for big business industrialization of
Speaker 1: this wonderful small town America. You want to talk about
Speaker 1: the struggle for the soul of small town America? That's
Speaker 1: what about that? And pirates?
Speaker 2: What's the kid with the Shuffle's.
Speaker 1: That guy all? Now? It's it's it's what was his name?
Speaker 1: How mean? It's chunk everybody? But it's really.
Speaker 2: Massively annoying character on the rewatch I remember you liked
Speaker 2: him when you were a kid. Rewatch it. You hate
Speaker 2: You want everything bad to happen. You don't like anything
Speaker 2: about the kid. You don't want him to have the body.
Speaker 2: It's just not it's not great. It's I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe I need to like rewatch it. But I remember
Speaker 2: watching with a kid, and actually it's it's.
Speaker 1: A Spielberg production. By the way, I know people say
Speaker 1: it's a Spielberg movie, but Richard Donner directed it. Richard
Speaker 1: Donner again one of the great directors period. I want
Speaker 1: to say, Richard Donner did Leath a Weapon, Richard Donnod
Speaker 1: did some of the best movies you'll ever see in
Speaker 1: the eighties and early nineties. So I mean, guys, really.
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's fine. It's it's that like late
Speaker 2: eighties early nineties absurdity of stories where it's like these
Speaker 2: kids a whole and then hey, look there's pirates, and
Speaker 2: it's just you're just like all right, like it's it's fine.
Speaker 2: It's I think we had more imagination back when we
Speaker 2: were kids. Now there's so much in television and stuff
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: That's why I kind of love it because it's simple
Speaker 1: and it all feels like, hey, you know, crazy things happened.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit more realistic. There's no cgi, there's
Speaker 1: no other things. And what's fun too thanos. You know
Speaker 1: in that movie, you get obviously Josh Brolin playing oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he was the brother brother, and you get Sean Aston
Speaker 1: who was in Lord of the Rings. So you get
Speaker 1: two guys as kids who were in two of the
Speaker 1: biggest movie franchises in the history.
Speaker 2: It's just like bad parents, you know, like all they
Speaker 2: are parents, but how funny the worst parents on the planet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then the Corey Felpen speaking Spanish to that
Speaker 1: poor Spanish woman is trying to help them back up
Speaker 1: and telling.
Speaker 2: Me about what actually enjoyed. Corey Felps Again, I don't
Speaker 2: hate it, It's just I'm not like, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: idolize it and sit here and be like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: Goonies is so great. Everybody, let's go back and rewatch.
Speaker 1: You hate Star Wars too, Cody Wilson.
Speaker 2: Star Wars a great. Star Wars is a great storyline. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's awesome. I mean I love Puppet, the Puppet, the
Speaker 2: puppet Yodo. I watched all the Star Wars stuff my
Speaker 2: home run call before we have Star Wars.
Speaker 1: I love Yolo Yolo my favorite.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like no goods, there was like a puppet
Speaker 2: back then, and then it gets into like much bigger
Speaker 2: stuff here. I'm gonna go with Aaron Judge today. I
Speaker 2: feel like it's cheap. I apologize. I kind of wanted
Speaker 2: to go with Tatis because I got them on my
Speaker 2: shirt today. But Aaron just going in Cincinnati. I don't
Speaker 2: fly balls are going to be four hundred, four hundred
Speaker 2: foot homers for Judge, So I'm gonna kind of easily
Speaker 2: go with this one. Try to stack up, but I
Speaker 2: think I'll just take it for the weekend. So give
Speaker 2: me Aaron Judge for the weekend. I'm kind of being
Speaker 2: a cheater, but I am getting at the top of
Speaker 2: the leaderboard.
Speaker 1: Hot Takewash. I think you love Goonies. You're just afraid
Speaker 1: to say that you love Loonies because your favorite character
Speaker 1: is Data, and you think that that's going to lead
Speaker 1: people down a bad road for you because that character
Speaker 1: obviously is a little, you know, stereotypical. I just do
Speaker 1: the show. That's the truth. I'm gonna go with Bryce
Speaker 1: Harper for this weekend. That's what I'm going to do,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, we're gonna have a good time. And
Speaker 1: if you want to talk about something. My kids, I
Speaker 1: keep trying to get them to the original Star Wars again.
Speaker 1: There's some corny, crazy stuff in those when you're just
Speaker 1: watching bits and pieces where you're like, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: a little melodramatic and ridiculous, And I love Star Wars
Speaker 1: as a kid, but the older I get, I've moved
Speaker 1: on tomorrow Marvel stuff and other things. So Welsh has
Speaker 1: obviously left the show because it's gotten to that kind
Speaker 1: of thing. It's been a great run for us here.
Speaker 1: Oh there he is, he's back there. Perhaps he'll lay
Speaker 1: some booby traps later on the booby traps, Ye, booby traps.
Speaker 2: So there you go, Yola, Yoda, everybody, there you go.
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Speaker 1: goes on for the Welsh. I'm Joey Ping. We'll see
Speaker 1: you next time, kids,