July 25, 2025 • 26 mins
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Intro - 0:00:00
Josh Naylor Trade - 0:01:20
Eugenio Suarez - 0:05:38
Luis Severino - 0:08:37
Fernando Tatis Jr. - 0:11:49
Eric Lauer - 0:11:59
Gunnar Henderson - 0:13:19
Steven Kwan - 0:13:29
Gregory Soto - 0:13:32
Rookie Lookie - 0:13:44
Luis Robert Jr. - 0:18:25
3 Up, 3 Down - 0:18:53
Julio Rodriguez, Randy Arozarena, and Willson Contreras - 0:18:55
Jason Alexander, Yu Darvish, and Sonny Gray - 0:19:05
MLB Best Bets - 0:20:38
HR Board and HR Calls - 0:22:55
Outro - 0:25:50
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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we could give you the one gone Jersey. Welsh. Good
to see you, my friend. Somebody overslept a little bit
this morning before the show. I heard.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yes, almost we made it though, you know what we
didn't have to say anything because we made it here.
But there's a possibility that somebody woke up at fifty
six before the hour.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We're just gonna throw that out.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Don't you have an alarm? You have children? I do too.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I was literally looking and I'm like it's on. I'm like,
why did this thing not go off? I have no idea,
but I'm here. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Let me tell yourself the brother.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
When the Diamondbacks do what they do, you take a
long sleep, a super long sleep.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
You lumber if you will.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, you go to bed and you hope you don't
wake up. That's where I'm at with the Diamondbacks after
they just made the start of the bad trades. They
traded Josh Naylor to the Seattle Mariners. That's going to
be the big piece of the conversation. But before we
even break down into that, what local radio is doing
(01:57):
in Arizona, just to prep everybody, is that they are
lowering the bar for Arizona Diamondback fans, and they're doing
it with one of their local radio hosts with this
statement saying that expect Merle Kelly to get more than
Gino Swarrez in trades and they're public. That seems asinine
(02:18):
when you think about it.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Really, no it should.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Gino Sworg is hard to.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Find right now, especially if the if the Marlins are
a no go. Pitching is very hard, right.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But Merle Kelly's average, He's average. So but what they're
doing is they're lowering the bar. They're lowering the expectations
for everybody on what the trades are. And then thirty
minutes after that statement's out there, Josh Nayler gets traded
for Ashton Easy and Braden Garcia and you went and
you just went, who exactly bad trades are afoot for
(02:50):
the Diamondbacks. So I'm going to be sleeping a little
bit more, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
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you should sub with Prime five bucks right here. You
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account on Twitch And of course yesterday we were on
here doing NFL today at five eastern, and they'll be
more NFL content on hard Twitch channel, so don't forget
to put that in your calendars and watch. But that's
where we were starting today, which is the Josh Nayler
(03:15):
trade and for Welsh to not have anything to say
about the prospects. That's how you know it's pretty rough.
Josh Nayler on the year, look statistic wise, you know,
three hundred and forty nine at bats, hes got four
nine runs scores, He's got one hundred and two hits.
He's hitting two ninety two. He's always gonna have a
good average. Obp's good three sixty. The ops is eight
oh seven. Excuse me. He's only got eleven home runs,
so you'd that could be a little higher. But now
(03:37):
he's more of a twenty ish home run guy than
a thirty ish home run guy. Fifty nine RBIs the
surprise of the eleven soul bases for him. Just that's
that's one that you kind of I didn't realize that.
I was like, oh, Josh Nayler has eleven steals. But
let's talk about this trade here from the Nailer standpoint,
we could talk about the diamonbacks. I think we just
did what they didn't get. But what Josh Naylor provides
(03:58):
them is another bat in the middle of this war
with a very good pitching staff. I don't love the
home ballpark factor. I don't think any of us do.
So I'm not saying it's gonna kill Josh Nayler's value,
but it's not a getting traded to, you know, the
Yankees or Boston or Chicago Cubs or some one of
those spots. It's not that same kind of thing because
Seattle is what it is. But what do you think
(04:18):
of the Josh Nayler value going forward in fantasy with
the half of his games being played in Seattle now
rest of the season.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, like we talked about we did this a couple
of days ago when we were talking about Gino. Is
that if anybody is going to go to Seattle like,
it's going to be a negative. There's no other way
to put it. That ballpark is not good. It was
the worst ballpark factor for right handed hitters. You guessed
it also the worst for left handed hitters. It's the
(04:46):
worst for everybody that's out there. I will also throw
this out here, Naylor only two point fifty seven on
the road, was hitting three twenty four in Arizona. Also
a negative. But you do bring up one little, slight
interesting point that he doesn't hit a bunch of homers
like he's a big, big RBI guy. Doubles in there
(05:07):
makes a lot of contact, so he could still you know,
put those big RBI numbers up, he could still steal
a little bit. But I mean his batting average struggled
on the road outside of Arizona. It's the worst ballpark
factor overall home run ballpark factor. It's not the worse
for left handed hitters, but it's just you know, it's
in that bottom half. So this is a negative. This
(05:28):
is an overall negative for him to move to this spot.
I mean, you had Katel and you had Corman Carrol
hitting in front of you, and now you've got some
probably struggled on the batting average. So I don't love it.
I just don't love it.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Also, the other odd thing was that Daniel Kramer of
MLB dot Com was reporting that the Mariners are still
interested in Suarez too. I'm like, well, why didn't we
just get that done at one time? Like that doesn't
make it. Of course they are.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
They trade with the name. They're like, look at what
the Diamonbacks are trading you guys.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, I mean maybe it's just a matter of like
other teams are negotiating too, and they're just you know, say,
oh well, wait, you know, on it, but depends on
where it goes. But I don't know, certainly you'd like
to get a little bit more. I know Naylor was
a rental what still Yeah, I think it liked to
eat a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, And the guys that they got like not to
be like so dramatic about it, but Brandon Garcia is
already going to be with the Diamondbacks. I think they
just optioned him. They'll probably bring him back.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
He's just a reliever.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He's got some interesting stuff, shapey fastball, sweeper is but
you know, he's been around since twenty twenty two and
he's strictly a reliever. Twenty five years old and then
is he is like a twenty one year old who
has moved one level for three straight years. So he's
in like, you know, high A.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
He's okay.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
You know, he's got a bunch of pitches. I don't
think any of them are dramatically awesome, but he might
have been a.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Bunch of pitches. I got all these pitches. I was
with all these pitches.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I was I was close to crash out territory yesterday,
if you know the term, like I was close to
just like Oh, this is what it was between like
what they what they got, and how they approach the
trade to the media, trying to like lower expectations that
these trades are gonna not be as good, Like you
can wait it out too that match, you guys could
(07:12):
chill out and hang for a week and see if
someone will pay some more.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I think it is a power move by the Mariners
because they've got really good starting pitching. Now you've lengthened
the lineup with Nailers. You got Julio, you got Cawbrawl,
you got a Rosarine, you got Nailor. That's really good.
That's a really formidable group in the middle of that lineup.
This is a good move for them. I might have
to go check and see what the odds are for
the Seattle Mariners, because I think the American leagas so
mediocre that if you get Gilbert Kirby and wu All pitching, well,
(07:38):
you know, no matter what Casillo brings you or doesn't
bring you, Like, that's a really tough team to face
in a short series if those bats are hot and
if those pitchers are healthy.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Also, to your point, I wanted to look as you
said that they are second in that division, and then
who's in front of them. It's the astro astro where
they're pulling their best diamondback. Everybody's injured things, so it's
very obtainable. They've got a lead on the Rangers. They
should be aggressive. We said this yesterday. You should be more.
Teams should be aggressive. The more aggressive you are, the
(08:08):
better deals you might get and put pressure on the
rest of the week. I was not in weekend mode.
I'm in crash out mode.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Well did you go to see the movie last night?
Is that why you were by Fantastic four? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, I did see it. Well, like like midday, Yeah,
well I didn't like see the latest showing and like
I said, I don't know what happened, but I am here,
so no, nothing is held against me. By the way,
Fantastic Four, it's a good movie.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Good not great. You didn't say great, good movie. That's good,
all right? I was a kid.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Great ratings, but it was good. It was a good movie.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
From top of right. Luis Severino helped me hit the
same game parlay yesterday. I did it yesterday on the show.
I got the Sevarino over on the K's because he
was really good. It was four and a half and
he was way over that.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Then I had the Lawrence Butler run and the Nick
Kurtz rbi Jia change Tachang was four to one. Good
times there. I hope you bet that Mason Miller got
his twentieth save. Do you think that the Athletics should
trade Mason Miller? Because what good is a great closer
on a crap team? And if you're never gonna make
them a starting pitcher, you're not gonna be relevant anytime soon.
Those are think some teams should come knocking about Mason
(09:15):
Miller and say, hey, Athletics, what the hell you need
a closer for? You never have a night dinning? Really
anyway to see in.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
The first place, Well, I mean I think they are
close to competing. You lost me a little bit. They're well,
it's like good, are good? The Athletics are close to competing? Really, No,
I think they think they're close to compete. I know
their records.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I just think I'm gonna growl hairback. That doesn't make it.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So, Yeah, they're the worst in that division. So like
I understand that that you know, the record is not indicative.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
They're twenty games under five hundred.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Well they also I'm with all that, but they have
the pieces when you want to start competing. You've got Rooker,
who's got the deal, You've got Butler, you've got guys
coming up, You've you've got your closer, and you've got
maybe a few of the starting pitchers. Like, they made
moves for a team that was ready to try to
compete the this year, and it didn't end up happening,
(10:02):
so they got to make a few more moves. Sure,
you could entertain the idea of trading Mason Miller, but
I don't think you do, and you should. I bet
the market seems the market seems very right now. Like
I feel like everybody's.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Like I just thought this was an outside the box one.
Like if I'm thinking outside the box, if I need
a reliever, I'm like, hey, Athletics, you guys aren't gonna
be good anytime soon. Like, even if you think you're
gonna be better next year, you're really going to compete
in that division necessarily, I don't know, maybe, but that's
a huge stretch. But again, the closers are recyclable. You know,
if Mason Miller was one of the great arms, you know,
coming through an organization the last couple of years, but
(10:37):
they couldn't kep him healthy. They moved him to close
the role. It worked out. It was smart, and he's
been dominant there. Now it's like, okay, now, what, like
why don't you trade him for a good starting pitcher,
you know, because those guys pitch five or six innings
and closers pitch one only when you have the lead.
I just think it'll be smart for them to shop that.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
The problem if that truly was available. I think that's
a discussion point. We don't get to ever hear anything.
I kind of wish there was somehow.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Like I just think in trades, this might be a
maybe he's available if somebody smart enough to ask.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, okay, so if if okay, so if a team
like the Brewers were out there and offering Logan Henderson,
or it's like the Phillies offering abel and paint, Like
are you okay? Did you say it's too much?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
No? I said, smash, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But that's when went like, I don't I'm not trading
Mason Miller for just Logan Henderson. Like if you can
get the elite, elite guys, if you can go get
Andrew Painter and Aiden Miller from the Phillies. Now, I
think that's a different discussion, But I don't think they
even entertained that. I don't think they they're close to.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Cousin Donnie said after yesterday's show he tried to find
out his stripper name using the Rookie of the year
from your Rookies of the year the year you were born.
Turned out it was just his first and last name.
So that's kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
What what I don't remember our name?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So what was it? Yeah, that's yeah, Fernando Dottist junior.
Signs of life there for him. Three for five with
a homer, two run scored, wasn't enough the Padres and
Michael Kelly took a loss there to the Cadinals. Eric
Lower has still been really good. His sixth victory of
the season. Good for him. One run, five hits over
(12:08):
eight innings. Man, Eric Lower, what a great pickup guy.
We talked about on the Waiver Wires show a couple
of weeks ago. We said, hey, pick him up. He
qualifies an RP two. You never know what you gonna get.
All these guys sometimes they go on runs and he
is going on a great run right now. He looks
like a really important piece if the Blue Jays want
to continue to be contenders and lower, I would just
keep running him out there until further notice. I know
(12:30):
some people were like hesitating, like I don't love this matchup.
Look until he proves otherwise, you keep running him out there.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I think he's beyond the matchup at this point. Yeah,
he's got the two six one ERA with an expected
two nine to one ERA, so he's under three twenty
six percent K percentage, best of his career, Lois walk
rate of his career. He was out there. Did you
see the joke he had? He had a big, old
fat black lip, And then they were asking what happened
and he made a joke about, well, you know, you're
(12:57):
not supposed to talk to Max Scherzer on game day,
and I decided to go have a conversation with him,
alluding to that Max gave him the big fat lip.
But like, he's comfortable, he's there, he's elite. So I'm
one hundred percent with this. Like he was on my
prop bet last week or yesterday, he's been the dude
for multiple weeks. Now, I'm completely bought in with him,
(13:19):
so I co sign everything that you say on Eric Klower.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
All right, let's talk about Gunnar Henderson. Two for four
for him, so hopefully we can get a good weekend
from him. He's got Colorado coming to town, so maybe
this is nice Gunnar Henderson breakout weekend. Stephen Kwan two
homers for him. Not a big power guy, but still
very nice to see. And Gregory Soto turned out to
be the man in the ninth here to pick up
the save here for the Baltimore Orioles. So also, you know,
(13:45):
that's something to keep in mind for some streaming saves
with Batista on the IL, let's do a little rookie. Look,
he's Nick Kurtz three for five, a pair of doubles. Beautiful.
Check out this well, Nick Kurtz has seventeen doubles, two triples,
nineteen homers, twenty eight walks in sixty five games. No
other player today abuse since nineteen oh one has reached
those marks through his first sixty five career MLB games.
That's pretty sexy right there. How do you like that?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah? I mean that's like those are my favorite stats,
the obscure ones where just like people are just throwing
out numbers and create it and they're like, no one's
ever done this. It's still impressive, even though it's kind
of ridiculous. But I'm seventeen doubles the nineteen homers. I
don't know what the triples are put in there, but yeah,
Nick Kurtz is the dude, and you know it's working
on my Dynasty ranks, and you know, you have this
(14:31):
battle between Vlad, I think Pete Alonzo also belongs still
in the discussion and Kurts like those are the top three.
Like Kurtz has jumped Olsen and jumped to anybody else.
It's like those three in the Dynasty discussion and rest
of season. You know, I've still kind of had my
like little tiny reservations that maybe you can absolutely maximize
in a trade, but you know, we really don't need
to have that. He he is going to break my heart.
(14:53):
He is going to completely push Cam Smith out of
this discussion and he is going to run away with
a Rookie of the Year. Nick Kurtz has got it,
He's got it locked.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Here you go Lucero saying, can you get some Spencer
Jones and the majors? Well, maybe soon because three home
runs yesterday a triple A Welsh thirteen homers and nineteen games.
I mean, the Yankees almost have to at this point
give him a shot, don't they. I mean, this has
got to happen. I imagine by next week. No, I mean,
how do you keep a guy down at Triple A
who's got thirteen homers in nineteen games, even if it's
(15:26):
a fluke. I mean, what do we do here? You
gotta play him, right?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I love Spencer Jones talk his his.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
His, uh, change to his. I haven't got to see
a lot of Spencers. I'll be honest. It's football season stuff. Yes,
he's basically ripped off Otani period, end of story. He's
ripped off the Otani swing. I'm telling you right now,
that's what he's done. And it's impressive watch him. Watch Otani,
(15:52):
not in the setup, but in some of the approaching
the baseball into the follow through. It is extremely Otani
like and it's fascinating to watch. I'm not calling him
Altani because he's not. I don't want to, because I've
seen him in person and it was a much taller stance,
was a much different stance. He has evolved things and
he is a very different open, much more open than
(16:13):
he used to be even and his approach to the
baseball is very Otani like right now.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Although by the way, maybe Billy was like Otani's taller,
He's not Spencer six foot seven seven. So what's happened
is in the release of like where the bat makes
contact out that all is like ripped straight from Otani's playbook.
But what he's done, and this happened recently, he is
he has this open outward stance. Once we get batting
(16:41):
stance data, it'll be really interesting. He's completely open and
he's bent and then you know, pitch is set up,
he comes up and then he has like the the
high leg kick and then it releases it. I honestly,
it's a crazy looking batting stance. But what I have
been touting about Spencer Jones for so long is that
I think he's a really smart guy on top of
(17:01):
a crazy freak of an athlete. And you know, the
reason he had moved to Torpedo bats were because that
they did bat analysis and hitting analysis on where he
was making contact. So it's like they've also figured out
the timing mechanism for him to do his best and
now he looks like a guy that has gone from
the Yankees would love to trade him to a guy
that they don't want to trade. And I have always
(17:23):
been a big Spencer Jones guy, and I think in
some capacity he is in the majors. Whether the Yankees
pull off some big giant trade. They don't seem to
want to trade him, but if they did, you know,
there's O'Neill Cruise, I think they should.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I think the amount of cash that they've spent on
Garat Cole and Eric Judge and know some of these
guys last couple years, I think they need Spencer Jones.
They did. It's like the way they needed the Domingas.
They need another one of these guys to offset some
of this cash. And that free contract is huge to
a lot of money they're spending on a couple of guys.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah, I mean, I don't disagree, but there's rumors that
the Yankees are talking about O'Neill Cruz. The only way
you're gonna get o ono Cruz is if a guy
like Spencer Jones is involved. So I think either if
it's another team or the Yankees do probably give him
a look. And then if he's up. Guy can steal bases.
He's got tremendous power. So yeah, like I'm only.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Kris would be a disaster in New York City. You
don't run out one of those balls hit you in
center field, forget it. You are dead to people, it's
gonna be. He ain't ready for New York. I can
tell you that right now. That's a terrible idea. League
old wants to know what Spencer Jones translator caught gambling
with his money like Otani. Not yet, but there's still time.
There's still time. Oh you jokesters, You guys are so
(18:27):
I love these guys, all right. Rumors time the Mets
are among the teams that checked out on Louise Robert.
I'm not surprised by this at all. I've been telling
everybody love.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Him, by the way, like like there's a couple of teams,
but apparently the Mets are like hardcore on Louise Robert.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Right now, My god, lengthens the lineup. He doesn't have
to be close to the guy. He's like the fifth guy,
and that's phenomenal for him. There's no pressure, just go
play a good center field, stay healthy, hit some bombs
and just just be cool, man, Just go be cool,
all right, Let's go to three up and three down.
That's cool. Julio Rodriguez Homer and Stole Bass, Randy A
Rosarina two run Homer, the Mariners win over the Angels,
(19:05):
and Wilson Contreras two for three with a dinger a
double and fur Ribby's the downs, Jason Alexander. You know, Seinfeld,
money doesn't last all that long. Eventually you got to
go and make a start for the Astros. He was bad,
He got hit hard everywhere. Eleven hits and six innings,
five runs. You Darvish was terrible. Not staying away from
him this year completely eight runs on eight hits, brutal.
(19:28):
And then Sonny Gray too. Any's Sonny Gray potential here
to get traded the last couple of weeks. He's just
a blit. He's just lit that on fire. Seven runs,
eleven hits over five frames. He's been awful, Welsh, just awful.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I mean they could, they could zack Gallen him. If
you can move Gallon, you can move Sonny Grace. I
think Gray's guy good pitch, mixed stuff. I mean, I
would rather Sonny Gray than Zach Allen, but I don't
I know the Cardinals want to blow the thing up.
I just don't know if they want to blow it
up to that degree it moved.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I love this. Everyone's become you. They added S's Roberts
for Mauricio. Somebody else had Louise Roberts's Louise Robert. Everybody
not like Julia Roberts or Eric.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I actually particularly love when people still do the Robert.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
They're like Louise Louise Robert. I think I was at
early when he was a prospect. I was a Louis
Robert guy.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
No, everybody thought that that was going on, But it
was the minute he came to Stateside. I remember this
because there was a don't.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Get the Robert hard tea sound very often in Spanish.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
No, and there was like a little scrumming interview at
camel Back Branch. It was like the third day he
was here Stateside and his agent's like, it's Robert. Like
they just confirmed, like it's Robert. It's not Robert.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Cajuni or Louis Robert Welsh. You woke up just in time,
so let's use him. It's time for the best bets
of the day with Joey p and the Welsh. Let's
start with mine here, Freddy Parolta, Milwaukee Brewers at home.
The Brewers have been so good there were Freddy Parolta,
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to give me Milwaukee on the run line at minus
one and a half, minus one thirteen. The Phillies come
to town to take on the Yankees, and we've got
Aaron Judge to drive and run minus one twenty five.
I love that today with Taiwan Walker on the mound
and then Will Warn on the other side. Give me
Bryce Harper to driving a run at plus one twenty.
I'm hot off the SGP yesterday for the Athletics. The
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Athletics four to one. Nail that Welsh. Let's go best
bets for Friday. Dousit, dous it.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
We're gonna go heavy strikeouts. There's some strikeout ones to
play with, some plus money plus money strikeouts. Let's go
with Ryan Nelson. Diamondbacks are trading off pieces, no bueno.
They're gonna play it up, and they're gonna play it
up because it's the Pittsburgh Pirates. So Diamondbacks and the Pirates.
Ryan Nelson, he can strike him out. We're gonna go
four point five over at plus one ten. Yes, we
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got Brian Bayo. Brian Bayo has been pretty dang good.
It is against the Dodgers. But also don't forget the Dodgers.
They can strike out. They can throw some strikeouts out there.
Brian Bayo can go deep into the game it is needed.
Four point five over is also plus money. And Shotto
Imnaga at plus one twenty five five today for five.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
And a half.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
So we got to get to six strikeouts. That is
against the Chicago White Sox. You're gonna be dropping that
off speed all day long. I actually very much like
all of these strikeouts. You could even play them down
to make a fun little parlay go four, four and five,
or you can play them all straight up, which is
the safer way to go and get good plus money.
Those are my best bets of the day.
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Take a look at the home run board again. You know,
a few home runs are hit last night, but we
got to tie at the top Welsh George and Whips
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at forty three. Very exciting times. This is like Sosa McGuire. Oh,
speaking of which, Oh, it's a Sosa jersey. That's what
we're giving away. Look at that perfect transition.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Ma Wire was out here yesterday too, by the way,
he was over at the A's facility. Cubs and A's played,
So just another little, nice, little McGuire thing. That'd have
been too bad. What if I could have had a
McGuire jersey and had him sign that and we could
have given away a McGuire and Sosa jersey. That'd been amazing.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
It'd be nice, that would be nice. I'm going with
a Philly this weekend for my home run call in
Yankee Stadium, Bryce Harper in any bitty Yankee stadium. Give
me Bryce Harper this weekend, because I think Bryce is
starting to get a little hot here. And the Phillies
always show up with a big competition. This is a
good it's a big series for the Phillies. I go
gick it up for this one. You know, anytime Philly
and New York kind of match up there, this would
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be a fun time. Welsh where you going for your
home run call for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Let's take Diamondbacks. Let's a big embarrassing failure. Let's go
Corbyn Carrol, let's go Okay, we'll go here Corby barrels
for his home run call. Imperpetuity unless I decided to
change it over the weekend, especially if they're a big
embarrassing failure, you know, in the next twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Trading, I mean, I don't think he's gonna get traded,
so I think you should be okay.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
No, no, he's not gonna get traded. But all all his
best friends, it's that book. All my friends are dead.
They're all gonna just disappear around him.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
All your friends are major League Baseball players. That's what
I thought. So question for you, Fantastic four? Why just
good not great? What held it back? Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
It just was like it was a solid story. It
just wasn't earth shattering, you know what I mean, Like
you're great.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Like so if Thunderbolts is five stars, this is what
three and a quarter? Three and three?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You know?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, the story was probably like Thunderbolts five stars.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I don't want to misspeak for No, it's not five stars.
It was probably like four okay, And this was like
this is good. I didn't I didn't walk away okay.
I didn't walk away from Fantastic four being like, oh
my gun, I've got to go rewatch it. I can't
tell anybody. I can't do that. I was just like,
it's a good movie. It was a good movie. They
have some after credit scene. It was fine, Like it's
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kind of a lot of what you expect. There weren't. Yeah,
I don't want to spoil it. I'm not gonna spoil anything.
But it's not like it was like take for this
in for instance, they said they had the little like
here's the movies that you watched, and they had one
of them as Multiverse of Madness. That was not a
good movie. But the cool thing in that movie was
in the middle. It was like, oh my gosh, there's
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Professor X and it was the Illuminati from another unit.
There was like none of that.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So while that movie got ruined because they had the
wrong director, Sam Raimi should never been anywhere near the
Marvel universe again after the Spider Man movies. But but
I digress.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
They had the giant Galactus popcorn things eighty dollars, and
they also were selling a giant Herbie cup eighty dollars.
They've they've got, They've gone too far on the collectible.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Things, too far cinema. All right, that'll do it for us, everybody,
But the story of the game goes on for the Welsh.
I'm Joey. We'll see you next time, kids later. Thanks
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to see you, my friend. Somebody overslept a little bit
this morning before the show. I heard.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yes, almost we made it though, you know what we
didn't have to say anything because we made it here.
But there's a possibility that somebody woke up at fifty
six before the hour.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We're just gonna throw that out.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Don't you have an alarm? You have children? I do too.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I was literally looking and I'm like it's on. I'm like,
why did this thing not go off? I have no idea,
but I'm here. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Let me tell yourself the brother.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
When the Diamondbacks do what they do, you take a
long sleep, a super long sleep.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
You lumber if you will.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, you go to bed and you hope you don't
wake up. That's where I'm at with the Diamondbacks after
they just made the start of the bad trades. They
traded Josh Naylor to the Seattle Mariners. That's going to
be the big piece of the conversation. But before we
even break down into that, what local radio is doing
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in Arizona, just to prep everybody, is that they are
lowering the bar for Arizona Diamondback fans, and they're doing
it with one of their local radio hosts with this
statement saying that expect Merle Kelly to get more than
Gino Swarrez in trades and they're public. That seems asinine
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when you think about it.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Really, no it should.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Gino Sworg is hard to.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Find right now, especially if the if the Marlins are
a no go. Pitching is very hard, right.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But Merle Kelly's average, He's average. So but what they're
doing is they're lowering the bar. They're lowering the expectations
for everybody on what the trades are. And then thirty
minutes after that statement's out there, Josh Nayler gets traded
for Ashton Easy and Braden Garcia and you went and
you just went, who exactly bad trades are afoot for
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the Diamondbacks. So I'm going to be sleeping a little
bit more, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
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to put that in your calendars and watch. But that's
where we were starting today, which is the Josh Nayler
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trade and for Welsh to not have anything to say
about the prospects. That's how you know it's pretty rough.
Josh Nayler on the year, look statistic wise, you know,
three hundred and forty nine at bats, hes got four
nine runs scores, He's got one hundred and two hits.
He's hitting two ninety two. He's always gonna have a
good average. Obp's good three sixty. The ops is eight
oh seven. Excuse me. He's only got eleven home runs,
so you'd that could be a little higher. But now
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he's more of a twenty ish home run guy than
a thirty ish home run guy. Fifty nine RBIs the
surprise of the eleven soul bases for him. Just that's
that's one that you kind of I didn't realize that.
I was like, oh, Josh Nayler has eleven steals. But
let's talk about this trade here from the Nailer standpoint,
we could talk about the diamonbacks. I think we just
did what they didn't get. But what Josh Naylor provides
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them is another bat in the middle of this war
with a very good pitching staff. I don't love the
home ballpark factor. I don't think any of us do.
So I'm not saying it's gonna kill Josh Nayler's value,
but it's not a getting traded to, you know, the
Yankees or Boston or Chicago Cubs or some one of
those spots. It's not that same kind of thing because
Seattle is what it is. But what do you think
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of the Josh Nayler value going forward in fantasy with
the half of his games being played in Seattle now
rest of the season.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, like we talked about we did this a couple
of days ago when we were talking about Gino. Is
that if anybody is going to go to Seattle like,
it's going to be a negative. There's no other way
to put it. That ballpark is not good. It was
the worst ballpark factor for right handed hitters. You guessed
it also the worst for left handed hitters. It's the
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worst for everybody that's out there. I will also throw
this out here, Naylor only two point fifty seven on
the road, was hitting three twenty four in Arizona. Also
a negative. But you do bring up one little, slight
interesting point that he doesn't hit a bunch of homers
like he's a big, big RBI guy. Doubles in there
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makes a lot of contact, so he could still you know,
put those big RBI numbers up, he could still steal
a little bit. But I mean his batting average struggled
on the road outside of Arizona. It's the worst ballpark
factor overall home run ballpark factor. It's not the worse
for left handed hitters, but it's just you know, it's
in that bottom half. So this is a negative. This
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is an overall negative for him to move to this spot.
I mean, you had Katel and you had Corman Carrol
hitting in front of you, and now you've got some
probably struggled on the batting average. So I don't love it.
I just don't love it.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Also, the other odd thing was that Daniel Kramer of
MLB dot Com was reporting that the Mariners are still
interested in Suarez too. I'm like, well, why didn't we
just get that done at one time? Like that doesn't
make it. Of course they are.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
They trade with the name. They're like, look at what
the Diamonbacks are trading you guys.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, I mean maybe it's just a matter of like
other teams are negotiating too, and they're just you know, say,
oh well, wait, you know, on it, but depends on
where it goes. But I don't know, certainly you'd like
to get a little bit more. I know Naylor was
a rental what still Yeah, I think it liked to
eat a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, And the guys that they got like not to
be like so dramatic about it, but Brandon Garcia is
already going to be with the Diamondbacks. I think they
just optioned him. They'll probably bring him back.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
He's just a reliever.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He's got some interesting stuff, shapey fastball, sweeper is but
you know, he's been around since twenty twenty two and
he's strictly a reliever. Twenty five years old and then
is he is like a twenty one year old who
has moved one level for three straight years. So he's
in like, you know, high A.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
He's okay.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
You know, he's got a bunch of pitches. I don't
think any of them are dramatically awesome, but he might
have been a.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Bunch of pitches. I got all these pitches. I was
with all these pitches.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I was I was close to crash out territory yesterday,
if you know the term, like I was close to
just like Oh, this is what it was between like
what they what they got, and how they approach the
trade to the media, trying to like lower expectations that
these trades are gonna not be as good, Like you
can wait it out too that match, you guys could
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chill out and hang for a week and see if
someone will pay some more.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I think it is a power move by the Mariners
because they've got really good starting pitching. Now you've lengthened
the lineup with Nailers. You got Julio, you got Cawbrawl,
you got a Rosarine, you got Nailor. That's really good.
That's a really formidable group in the middle of that lineup.
This is a good move for them. I might have
to go check and see what the odds are for
the Seattle Mariners, because I think the American leagas so
mediocre that if you get Gilbert Kirby and wu All pitching, well,
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you know, no matter what Casillo brings you or doesn't
bring you, Like, that's a really tough team to face
in a short series if those bats are hot and
if those pitchers are healthy.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Also, to your point, I wanted to look as you
said that they are second in that division, and then
who's in front of them. It's the astro astro where
they're pulling their best diamondback. Everybody's injured things, so it's
very obtainable. They've got a lead on the Rangers. They
should be aggressive. We said this yesterday. You should be more.
Teams should be aggressive. The more aggressive you are, the
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better deals you might get and put pressure on the
rest of the week. I was not in weekend mode.
I'm in crash out mode.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Well did you go to see the movie last night?
Is that why you were by Fantastic four? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, I did see it. Well, like like midday, Yeah,
well I didn't like see the latest showing and like
I said, I don't know what happened, but I am here,
so no, nothing is held against me. By the way,
Fantastic Four, it's a good movie.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Good not great. You didn't say great, good movie. That's good,
all right? I was a kid.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Great ratings, but it was good. It was a good movie.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
From top of right. Luis Severino helped me hit the
same game parlay yesterday. I did it yesterday on the show.
I got the Sevarino over on the K's because he
was really good. It was four and a half and
he was way over that.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Then I had the Lawrence Butler run and the Nick
Kurtz rbi Jia change Tachang was four to one. Good
times there. I hope you bet that Mason Miller got
his twentieth save. Do you think that the Athletics should
trade Mason Miller? Because what good is a great closer
on a crap team? And if you're never gonna make
them a starting pitcher, you're not gonna be relevant anytime soon.
Those are think some teams should come knocking about Mason
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Miller and say, hey, Athletics, what the hell you need
a closer for? You never have a night dinning? Really
anyway to see in.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
The first place, Well, I mean I think they are
close to competing. You lost me a little bit. They're well,
it's like good, are good? The Athletics are close to competing? Really, No,
I think they think they're close to compete. I know
their records.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I just think I'm gonna growl hairback. That doesn't make it.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So, Yeah, they're the worst in that division. So like
I understand that that you know, the record is not indicative.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
They're twenty games under five hundred.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Well they also I'm with all that, but they have
the pieces when you want to start competing. You've got Rooker,
who's got the deal, You've got Butler, you've got guys
coming up, You've you've got your closer, and you've got
maybe a few of the starting pitchers. Like, they made
moves for a team that was ready to try to
compete the this year, and it didn't end up happening,
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so they got to make a few more moves. Sure,
you could entertain the idea of trading Mason Miller, but
I don't think you do, and you should. I bet
the market seems the market seems very right now. Like
I feel like everybody's.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Like I just thought this was an outside the box one.
Like if I'm thinking outside the box, if I need
a reliever, I'm like, hey, Athletics, you guys aren't gonna
be good anytime soon. Like, even if you think you're
gonna be better next year, you're really going to compete
in that division necessarily, I don't know, maybe, but that's
a huge stretch. But again, the closers are recyclable. You know,
if Mason Miller was one of the great arms, you know,
coming through an organization the last couple of years, but
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they couldn't kep him healthy. They moved him to close
the role. It worked out. It was smart, and he's
been dominant there. Now it's like, okay, now, what, like
why don't you trade him for a good starting pitcher,
you know, because those guys pitch five or six innings
and closers pitch one only when you have the lead.
I just think it'll be smart for them to shop that.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
The problem if that truly was available. I think that's
a discussion point. We don't get to ever hear anything.
I kind of wish there was somehow.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Like I just think in trades, this might be a
maybe he's available if somebody smart enough to ask.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, okay, so if if okay, so if a team
like the Brewers were out there and offering Logan Henderson,
or it's like the Phillies offering abel and paint, Like
are you okay? Did you say it's too much?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
No? I said, smash, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But that's when went like, I don't I'm not trading
Mason Miller for just Logan Henderson. Like if you can
get the elite, elite guys, if you can go get
Andrew Painter and Aiden Miller from the Phillies. Now, I
think that's a different discussion, But I don't think they
even entertained that. I don't think they they're close to.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Cousin Donnie said after yesterday's show he tried to find
out his stripper name using the Rookie of the year
from your Rookies of the year the year you were born.
Turned out it was just his first and last name.
So that's kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
What what I don't remember our name?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So what was it? Yeah, that's yeah, Fernando Dottist junior.
Signs of life there for him. Three for five with
a homer, two run scored, wasn't enough the Padres and
Michael Kelly took a loss there to the Cadinals. Eric
Lower has still been really good. His sixth victory of
the season. Good for him. One run, five hits over
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eight innings. Man, Eric Lower, what a great pickup guy.
We talked about on the Waiver Wires show a couple
of weeks ago. We said, hey, pick him up. He
qualifies an RP two. You never know what you gonna get.
All these guys sometimes they go on runs and he
is going on a great run right now. He looks
like a really important piece if the Blue Jays want
to continue to be contenders and lower, I would just
keep running him out there until further notice. I know
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some people were like hesitating, like I don't love this matchup.
Look until he proves otherwise, you keep running him out there.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I think he's beyond the matchup at this point. Yeah,
he's got the two six one ERA with an expected
two nine to one ERA, so he's under three twenty
six percent K percentage, best of his career, Lois walk
rate of his career. He was out there. Did you
see the joke he had? He had a big, old
fat black lip, And then they were asking what happened
and he made a joke about, well, you know, you're
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not supposed to talk to Max Scherzer on game day,
and I decided to go have a conversation with him,
alluding to that Max gave him the big fat lip.
But like, he's comfortable, he's there, he's elite. So I'm
one hundred percent with this. Like he was on my
prop bet last week or yesterday, he's been the dude
for multiple weeks. Now, I'm completely bought in with him,
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so I co sign everything that you say on Eric Klower.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
All right, let's talk about Gunnar Henderson. Two for four
for him, so hopefully we can get a good weekend
from him. He's got Colorado coming to town, so maybe
this is nice Gunnar Henderson breakout weekend. Stephen Kwan two
homers for him. Not a big power guy, but still
very nice to see. And Gregory Soto turned out to
be the man in the ninth here to pick up
the save here for the Baltimore Orioles. So also, you know,
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that's something to keep in mind for some streaming saves
with Batista on the IL, let's do a little rookie. Look,
he's Nick Kurtz three for five, a pair of doubles. Beautiful.
Check out this well, Nick Kurtz has seventeen doubles, two triples,
nineteen homers, twenty eight walks in sixty five games. No
other player today abuse since nineteen oh one has reached
those marks through his first sixty five career MLB games.
That's pretty sexy right there. How do you like that?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah? I mean that's like those are my favorite stats,
the obscure ones where just like people are just throwing
out numbers and create it and they're like, no one's
ever done this. It's still impressive, even though it's kind
of ridiculous. But I'm seventeen doubles the nineteen homers. I
don't know what the triples are put in there, but yeah,
Nick Kurtz is the dude, and you know it's working
on my Dynasty ranks, and you know, you have this
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battle between Vlad, I think Pete Alonzo also belongs still
in the discussion and Kurts like those are the top three.
Like Kurtz has jumped Olsen and jumped to anybody else.
It's like those three in the Dynasty discussion and rest
of season. You know, I've still kind of had my
like little tiny reservations that maybe you can absolutely maximize
in a trade, but you know, we really don't need
to have that. He he is going to break my heart.
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He is going to completely push Cam Smith out of
this discussion and he is going to run away with
a Rookie of the Year. Nick Kurtz has got it,
He's got it locked.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Here you go Lucero saying, can you get some Spencer
Jones and the majors? Well, maybe soon because three home
runs yesterday a triple A Welsh thirteen homers and nineteen games.
I mean, the Yankees almost have to at this point
give him a shot, don't they. I mean, this has
got to happen. I imagine by next week. No, I mean,
how do you keep a guy down at Triple A
who's got thirteen homers in nineteen games, even if it's
(15:26):
a fluke. I mean, what do we do here? You
gotta play him, right?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I love Spencer Jones talk his his.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
His, uh, change to his. I haven't got to see
a lot of Spencers. I'll be honest. It's football season stuff. Yes,
he's basically ripped off Otani period, end of story. He's
ripped off the Otani swing. I'm telling you right now,
that's what he's done. And it's impressive watch him. Watch Otani,
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not in the setup, but in some of the approaching
the baseball into the follow through. It is extremely Otani
like and it's fascinating to watch. I'm not calling him
Altani because he's not. I don't want to, because I've
seen him in person and it was a much taller stance,
was a much different stance. He has evolved things and
he is a very different open, much more open than
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he used to be even and his approach to the
baseball is very Otani like right now.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Although by the way, maybe Billy was like Otani's taller,
He's not Spencer six foot seven seven. So what's happened
is in the release of like where the bat makes
contact out that all is like ripped straight from Otani's playbook.
But what he's done, and this happened recently, he is
he has this open outward stance. Once we get batting
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stance data, it'll be really interesting. He's completely open and
he's bent and then you know, pitch is set up,
he comes up and then he has like the the
high leg kick and then it releases it. I honestly,
it's a crazy looking batting stance. But what I have
been touting about Spencer Jones for so long is that
I think he's a really smart guy on top of
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a crazy freak of an athlete. And you know, the
reason he had moved to Torpedo bats were because that
they did bat analysis and hitting analysis on where he
was making contact. So it's like they've also figured out
the timing mechanism for him to do his best and
now he looks like a guy that has gone from
the Yankees would love to trade him to a guy
that they don't want to trade. And I have always
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been a big Spencer Jones guy, and I think in
some capacity he is in the majors. Whether the Yankees
pull off some big giant trade. They don't seem to
want to trade him, but if they did, you know,
there's O'Neill Cruise, I think they should.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I think the amount of cash that they've spent on
Garat Cole and Eric Judge and know some of these
guys last couple years, I think they need Spencer Jones.
They did. It's like the way they needed the Domingas.
They need another one of these guys to offset some
of this cash. And that free contract is huge to
a lot of money they're spending on a couple of guys.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah, I mean, I don't disagree, but there's rumors that
the Yankees are talking about O'Neill Cruz. The only way
you're gonna get o ono Cruz is if a guy
like Spencer Jones is involved. So I think either if
it's another team or the Yankees do probably give him
a look. And then if he's up. Guy can steal bases.
He's got tremendous power. So yeah, like I'm only.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Kris would be a disaster in New York City. You
don't run out one of those balls hit you in
center field, forget it. You are dead to people, it's
gonna be. He ain't ready for New York. I can
tell you that right now. That's a terrible idea. League
old wants to know what Spencer Jones translator caught gambling
with his money like Otani. Not yet, but there's still time.
There's still time. Oh you jokesters, You guys are so
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I love these guys, all right. Rumors time the Mets
are among the teams that checked out on Louise Robert.
I'm not surprised by this at all. I've been telling
everybody love.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Him, by the way, like like there's a couple of teams,
but apparently the Mets are like hardcore on Louise Robert.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Right now, My god, lengthens the lineup. He doesn't have
to be close to the guy. He's like the fifth guy,
and that's phenomenal for him. There's no pressure, just go
play a good center field, stay healthy, hit some bombs
and just just be cool, man, Just go be cool,
all right, Let's go to three up and three down.
That's cool. Julio Rodriguez Homer and Stole Bass, Randy A
Rosarina two run Homer, the Mariners win over the Angels,
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and Wilson Contreras two for three with a dinger a
double and fur Ribby's the downs, Jason Alexander. You know, Seinfeld,
money doesn't last all that long. Eventually you got to
go and make a start for the Astros. He was bad,
He got hit hard everywhere. Eleven hits and six innings,
five runs. You Darvish was terrible. Not staying away from
him this year completely eight runs on eight hits, brutal.
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And then Sonny Gray too. Any's Sonny Gray potential here
to get traded the last couple of weeks. He's just
a blit. He's just lit that on fire. Seven runs,
eleven hits over five frames. He's been awful, Welsh, just awful.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I mean they could, they could zack Gallen him. If
you can move Gallon, you can move Sonny Grace. I
think Gray's guy good pitch, mixed stuff. I mean, I
would rather Sonny Gray than Zach Allen, but I don't
I know the Cardinals want to blow the thing up.
I just don't know if they want to blow it
up to that degree it moved.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I love this. Everyone's become you. They added S's Roberts
for Mauricio. Somebody else had Louise Roberts's Louise Robert. Everybody
not like Julia Roberts or Eric.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I actually particularly love when people still do the Robert.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
They're like Louise Louise Robert. I think I was at
early when he was a prospect. I was a Louis
Robert guy.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
No, everybody thought that that was going on, But it
was the minute he came to Stateside. I remember this
because there was a don't.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Get the Robert hard tea sound very often in Spanish.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
No, and there was like a little scrumming interview at
camel Back Branch. It was like the third day he
was here Stateside and his agent's like, it's Robert. Like
they just confirmed, like it's Robert. It's not Robert.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Cajuni or Louis Robert Welsh. You woke up just in time,
so let's use him. It's time for the best bets
of the day with Joey p and the Welsh. Let's
start with mine here, Freddy Parolta, Milwaukee Brewers at home.
The Brewers have been so good there were Freddy Parolta,
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to give me Milwaukee on the run line at minus
one and a half, minus one thirteen. The Phillies come
to town to take on the Yankees, and we've got
Aaron Judge to drive and run minus one twenty five.
I love that today with Taiwan Walker on the mound
and then Will Warn on the other side. Give me
Bryce Harper to driving a run at plus one twenty.
I'm hot off the SGP yesterday for the Athletics. The
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Athletics four to one. Nail that Welsh. Let's go best
bets for Friday. Dousit, dous it.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
We're gonna go heavy strikeouts. There's some strikeout ones to
play with, some plus money plus money strikeouts. Let's go
with Ryan Nelson. Diamondbacks are trading off pieces, no bueno.
They're gonna play it up, and they're gonna play it
up because it's the Pittsburgh Pirates. So Diamondbacks and the Pirates.
Ryan Nelson, he can strike him out. We're gonna go
four point five over at plus one ten. Yes, we
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got Brian Bayo. Brian Bayo has been pretty dang good.
It is against the Dodgers. But also don't forget the Dodgers.
They can strike out. They can throw some strikeouts out there.
Brian Bayo can go deep into the game it is needed.
Four point five over is also plus money. And Shotto
Imnaga at plus one twenty five five today for five.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
And a half.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
So we got to get to six strikeouts. That is
against the Chicago White Sox. You're gonna be dropping that
off speed all day long. I actually very much like
all of these strikeouts. You could even play them down
to make a fun little parlay go four, four and five,
or you can play them all straight up, which is
the safer way to go and get good plus money.
Those are my best bets of the day.
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our other friend. Yeah, all of our friends are here.
Take a look at the home run board again. You know,
a few home runs are hit last night, but we
got to tie at the top Welsh George and Whips
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at forty three. Very exciting times. This is like Sosa McGuire. Oh,
speaking of which, Oh, it's a Sosa jersey. That's what
we're giving away. Look at that perfect transition.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Ma Wire was out here yesterday too, by the way,
he was over at the A's facility. Cubs and A's played,
So just another little, nice, little McGuire thing. That'd have
been too bad. What if I could have had a
McGuire jersey and had him sign that and we could
have given away a McGuire and Sosa jersey. That'd been amazing.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
It'd be nice, that would be nice. I'm going with
a Philly this weekend for my home run call in
Yankee Stadium, Bryce Harper in any bitty Yankee stadium. Give
me Bryce Harper this weekend, because I think Bryce is
starting to get a little hot here. And the Phillies
always show up with a big competition. This is a
good it's a big series for the Phillies. I go
gick it up for this one. You know, anytime Philly
and New York kind of match up there, this would
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be a fun time. Welsh where you going for your
home run call for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Let's take Diamondbacks. Let's a big embarrassing failure. Let's go
Corbyn Carrol, let's go Okay, we'll go here Corby barrels
for his home run call. Imperpetuity unless I decided to
change it over the weekend, especially if they're a big
embarrassing failure, you know, in the next twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Trading, I mean, I don't think he's gonna get traded,
so I think you should be okay.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
No, no, he's not gonna get traded. But all all his
best friends, it's that book. All my friends are dead.
They're all gonna just disappear around him.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
All your friends are major League Baseball players. That's what
I thought. So question for you, Fantastic four? Why just
good not great? What held it back? Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
It just was like it was a solid story. It
just wasn't earth shattering, you know what I mean, Like
you're great.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Like so if Thunderbolts is five stars, this is what
three and a quarter? Three and three?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You know?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, the story was probably like Thunderbolts five stars.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I don't want to misspeak for No, it's not five stars.
It was probably like four okay, And this was like
this is good. I didn't I didn't walk away okay.
I didn't walk away from Fantastic four being like, oh
my gun, I've got to go rewatch it. I can't
tell anybody. I can't do that. I was just like,
it's a good movie. It was a good movie. They
have some after credit scene. It was fine, Like it's
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kind of a lot of what you expect. There weren't. Yeah,
I don't want to spoil it. I'm not gonna spoil anything.
But it's not like it was like take for this
in for instance, they said they had the little like
here's the movies that you watched, and they had one
of them as Multiverse of Madness. That was not a
good movie. But the cool thing in that movie was
in the middle. It was like, oh my gosh, there's
(25:25):
Professor X and it was the Illuminati from another unit.
There was like none of that.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So while that movie got ruined because they had the
wrong director, Sam Raimi should never been anywhere near the
Marvel universe again after the Spider Man movies. But but
I digress.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
They had the giant Galactus popcorn things eighty dollars, and
they also were selling a giant Herbie cup eighty dollars.
They've they've got, They've gone too far on the collectible.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Things, too far cinema. All right, that'll do it for us, everybody,
But the story of the game goes on for the Welsh.
I'm Joey. We'll see you next time, kids later. Thanks
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