Leading Off April 1st, 2025 (Ep. 962)

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is leading
off live. It is me, Joey p Jophi's a being
with me as always is the Welsh, and it to
you the Peanuts and the Cracker Jackson. If you notice
Glitchy Joe he's dead. We killed him. We found a way.
Thank goodness, Michael Kelly and John our producers, the backhand
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(00:27):
of whatever was going on in my computer when.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Got the emoji, just when we got the glitch emoji,
or I.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Could just it's April Fools. I could just pretend to
glitch right after all.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm so sick at April Fools. I hate April Fools.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
I hate it as a sports person because all you
see all day is the stupidest memes of this person
got traded. Oh this person.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (00:51):
I almost thought the Jerks and Profar news was April
Fools a little early and somebody went out there, but
that turned out to be true. We're gonna break down
that also. Some other people are using the torpedo bats.
We're gonna get to all of that. Eli Dolg Cruz
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winner of the Nico Forner jersey. Very exciting times here, Welsh.
Let's get to the headlines because it's a bad day
for the Braves. Jerkson Profar eighty game suspension testing positive.
I guess now we know why they signed for Dugo.
I think they knew this was coming down the bike.
I'm just telling you. And then Ranaldo Lopez goes on
the IL. Bryce Elder gets called up. So Elder Dugo.

(02:20):
Any of those guys worth adding? And what does it
mean for those folks who drafted Jerrekson Profar just dropping
him to the wire? I assume.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, so Profar, I saw this news yesterday when I
was doing ITL show as well, and I was like,
I don't believe you. I'm not going to fall for this.
The day before April Fools and then Mike Deportos was
on Twitter was starting to put it out, but then
about an hour later, passing them ran with it. hCG.
It's a masking agent that hides the steroids and it

(02:49):
was a Manny Ramirez thing. Suspended for eighty games. You
can cut them, see you. I don't think you need
to hold out and especially have that hostage roster spot
taken for you know, half of the season when he
comes back, He's going to be relevant. You can cut
his ass cheater, see ya, bye bye, Verdugo. Clearly, I

(03:10):
kind of agree with you. I think they knew that
this was coming at some point in the year, and
they signed for Dogo because it didn't really make a
lot of sense when you had Brian Dale Lacruz and
you had Jared Kelnick out there. So I think they'll
continue to roll out some version of a platoon while
uh Acuna is out. I think Verdugo can play some more.
I don't think there's a ton of fantasy value. You'll
have a Lacruze Kelnick platoon that's going to go out there.

(03:33):
I don't think there's a ton of value. You're gonna
hate this, Joe. I think Michael Harris is the biggest
beneficiary because he's going to move up the lineup he
led off yesterday. I think you're gonna see him leading
off more. That might be a slight little uptick. But
the guys that are replacing, Nah, there's nothing that I'm
down for with the Braves, just another little slap.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah. I think you might see Acunia as a timetable
moved up just to Tad too, just saying, uh, I
think that's pretty good luck too. Yeah, keep an eye
out for that. Let's take a couple of questions here.
Let's go to MS. What do you do with Jackson
Job after the first start? Command of meh, possibly tipping pitches. Look,
you know what you're getting into with these young kids.
They got a lot of upside. But sometimes it takes
it a while to me. If you're panicking already about Job,

(04:13):
then you didn't know what you were getting into. I
would then wait for a good start and deal him.
That's what I would do, because he could have limitations anyway,
Jackson Job and he thoughts about what you saw of
his first start.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
I don't know if you can like just deal. I mean,
if you can deal them, great, that's awesome. I think
he's kind of free. I think that's why people are wondering.
I don't think. I think it's more about, like, you know,
should I kick him to the wire and you know,
go with some streaming options. If someone like Jeffrey Springs
were out there, like, yeah, I'd absolutely do it. But
if you've listened to me at all for a long time,
since a year over a year and a half ago,

(04:45):
I talked about seeing him in the AFL. There's one
thing that he dos does consistently is that he is
not like a backwards pitcher. You kind of know what's coming.
He pitches to count, he's adding more pitches in. He
was thirty eight percent fast ball, twenty nine percent cutter,
change up. He didn't really go with the curveball a
whole bunch. I think it was okay. It was his

(05:07):
first start. I'm not going absolutely nuts. The changeup had
good whiffs. The cutter had good whiffs. But he's kind
of like, you know who he is, and he's not
super sneaky pitcher. So I think he's gonna run a
four ERA this season. I think the strikeouts would be okay.
I think he's a streamer pitcher. So my answer would
be is if there's a nice streamer out there, I
would go with it. I mean, we're gonna talk about him,

(05:28):
but like I don't Chris Bubach yesterday looked really good,
so I'd be able to get to the movie off.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
You're gonna get to the Bubbola in just a moment.
Here Red Sox and Garrett Crochet in agreement of six year,
one hundred and seventy million dollar contract. Gee, I feel
like we just talked about this yesterday, didn't we We
talked about the possibility of, Hey, maybe a deal devers
and you end up extending Crochet or extending Campbell or
Roman Anthony. Right, my goodness. This is why you watch

(05:53):
Leading Off, this is why you subscribe to the YouTube channel.
And we're getting real close to twenty five thousand, so
make sure you subscribe today. Also, Ellie de la Cruz
is big day, his big day out four for five,
two homers, a double, seven rebiz, a steal. Fourteen to
three was the final score against the Rangers. But Ellie
was using the torpedo bat. I'm excited because you know,

(06:14):
I love Ellie and I've got Ellie shares, so this
was good for me. Do you think now that Ellie
had this big day that you're gonna see a lot
more torpedo bets in the pipeline by the weekend.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Oh, we've had that's already happening. I will still stand
to this. I'm shocked that that many people are becoming
more noticed on it his players, because players have been
using it. They actually interviewed the MIT guy. He works
for the Marlins Now yesterday and he had said they'd
been working on this for two years. Lots of players
have known about it, but they've been trying to perfect it.

(06:45):
And then as you're seeing this big public success, then
orders are going through every single broadcast I watch yesterday
and I watch a bunch of different games, clicking through
every single one was talking about how dot players were
putting in an order for torpedo bats every by Friday.
By this weekend, everybody that is on the initial run
is going to have a torpedo bat. Well, my biggest

(07:08):
stance on this, I think is great for baseball, Ellie.
There's obviously a benefit. One thing I keep holding to
and I'm dying to talk to some pictures about this.
How are pitchers going to bounce back? How are they
going to adjust to the barrel being in a different spot,
you know? Is it going to change to pitch mixes?
Is there a certain type of pitch you want to
throw them more to kind of counteract that for maybe
more ground balls? I don't know. But Ellie went off,

(07:31):
and the superstars continue to go off. This is why
at one point I had Ellie at like three on
my overall list. Love him, took him four across the board.
He is disgusting and I almost bet him for my
home run call yesterday. I still got a homer, but
I would be on the board you did.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
I wish I bet him yesterday. Man. My advice to
everybody out there, bet the overs on games where you
know torpedo bats are until.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
But we don't know. That's the other thing we need,
like a corpedo back.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
You know where theykees are, well, we know where the
aches are. Yeah, right now, I think it's eight and
a half today. I'm just saying a couple other things here. Yeah,
we should have a torpedo bat tracker. That's a fun
one from b over here. I love the Peanuts and
the Crackerjacks are on fire today. In the chat, this
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out with you guys, talking baseball. Let's get to some more.

(08:20):
Jose Ramirez, this was really good news. He was in
the lineup on Monday three for four and he had
a home run. I mean, so if you're worried, no worries,
everything's fine. Carson Kelly had himself A Good Day too
hit for the cycle. So that's a fun thing. Cub
scored eighteen runs in that one. A good Day from
Kyle Tucker and then the Dodgers unfortunately had a little
mishap with Freddy Freeman. And that mishap is in quotes

(08:43):
according to Dave Roberts. So he was getting into the
shower on Saturday and he tweaked a surgically red angle. Now,
well with the it's funny you say that, because with
the help of AI technology, I have a little insight
as to what went on. So let's throw the pictures
up here and show you. So here was Freddy Freeman
in the shower. Here's what he was doing there. As
you could see, it looks like he was hanging out

(09:03):
in some sort of small pool of soap.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
And then he sums into the abyss. That's like, does
that rack me down to hell? Like the it was
a Sam Raimi movie. Very interesting that. Okay, A, I
think everyone's going to focus on the left picture. If
you're listening on the podcast, definitely come and look at
this the left picture. He's in his jersey, and that's
everyone's going to be wise. In his jersey here's a
better question. Why are his pants rolled up with the

(09:29):
jersey and.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
The pants the baseball pants. Sometimes it's a day.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
It's also a bidet, by the way, look at the
spout coming up.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
It is. But the other fun thing he is you
could see in picture number two that once he fell,
the water continued and and obviously deteriorated his jersey into
his flesh, which is very disturbing. And now it's a mishap.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
His pants are becoming short. He looks like like Chris
Evans a little bit.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
There's a Chris Evans quality. This is shout out to
Freddy Freeman. Hopees he hope he gets better soon. Let's
shout out some of the people some new subs today. Wells,
who do you see on the new sub wagon here
on our Twitch stream.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Well, we got a lot of new followers in here
going ballistic menci RJ I know RJ jag as a
tummy lesorda very ape.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Oh I know tummy Yeah, I like too.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
And shout out to our boy Cooper V subscribed using
Prime absolutely free for him. Yeah, gets rid of ads,
supports us. He linked his Prime account to Twitch, which
everybody can do. And as now he can make the
run calls, he can make home run calls, exactly right.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
All right, let's go under the radar guys here. Jake Magnum,
great name, four for four, two Ribbies, two steals on Monday,
so he's filling in for Josh Low on the il
for the raise. David Peterson nine strikeouts for him. Now,
Peterson was a guy and I wrote up in the
Black Book this year, and I write up the picture profiles,
and I really liked when I started to dig into
the deeper metrics and then went back and watched some
of the starts. See when I was like, you know,
I think David Peterson, if they just left him alone

(10:56):
for thirty starts, he could be a really viable middle
of the rotation fantasy starter. And so far, I look,
it's the Marlins lineup. We could talk about that all
we want. It's not a great lineup, but still very
encouraging first outing and a good spring for Peterson as well.
Also another one of my favorite under the radar pitchers
in draft season, Brady Singer, great start seven innings against

(11:16):
the Rangers, struck out eight against the Reds. Auto Lopez
also in that same game with the Mets. Obviously, the
Mets put on a lot of noise there, but three
for five, two homers. So I saw somebody earlier asking
about Auto Lopez. I did see you. I was saving
it for now Auto Lopez. There you go, twelve team
Cats got two il spots. Kirby, my other should hold
on to Lopez. I think you do. And I also

(11:39):
think you know Lopez is a guy that at this stage, well,
she'd probably want to be picking up because second base
is weak. I'm not saying he's gott a hit form
massive power, that's not really his profile, but he does
have two home runs already.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah. I mean I got this question yesterday where it
was Polank or Auto Lopez. I lean, I leaned Polanco.
I still kind of do, even tho their offense has
been But if you're talking about short term production right now,
he's there. He's absolutely there because he's leading on he's
hitting clean up for the Marlins, like he's hitting in
a prime spot. We saw that with Andro Jimenez as well.

(12:13):
So I think Auto Lopez is definitely a speculative pickup.
My problem is is I'm not sure the sustainability on
it for the entire season and there are a few
guys out there that I think might be really interesting
to pick up, but I'm totally down with it. We're
in a struggle buzz right now. People are like, I
don't want to wait three days for Michael Tolia. Should
I cut him and pick up Gavin Sheets. That's like

(12:35):
a big one out there if injuries are kind of hitting.
I think ottol Opus is a really good speculative bat,
but I would have a quicker trigger finger getting out
from under him. Kind of believe in Planco a little
bit more, but love the spot and these like weird,
cleanupy type of guys that are hitting for like Andro Himenez.
It's contact hitters there, RBI opportunities, and to credit the

(12:57):
Marlins are playing a little bit better, So I would
go Autolope. See, like, there's a good question. Cooper just said,
Otto Lopez or Luis from Guifo? I right ring Geefo
for this season. Like there's a very small short sample
size of Otto Lopez. But is Otto Lopez worth it
if you've got like an open middle infield spot. Absolutely,
but I'm not cutting ring Guifo for it.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
We just had an update here. It looks like from
Mike Mayor where he's saying that they're going in discord
torpedo bat home runs as half a home run. He's
going to now count it as because Mike Mahyor is
you know, he's very strict about things. So so if
you get a torpedo bat home run, it's not gonna
be a full home run according to Mike Mahor. This
is this is outrageous. I think everybody in the chat

(13:37):
should boom Mike Mahyor. If you are not happy with
this decision, you know right now you leave things in
the hands of Mike Mahra. This is what happens.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Boom this man, do the uh the Kurt Angle chant
you suck.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Suck, yeah, you suck, just yeah, get all the booze.
Look at the booze flying in already. I love it.
Boo that man. Boom hard guys, it's April Folst.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
I barely could go along with it. It made me
feel mad. I could barely go along with that Mayor
wanted to do. You know what. Boom Mike Mayor for
wanting to do an April yeah joke on this show.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
So many boo that boo that just boom Mic mayor
on principle. All right, three up and three down, Chris
boo bick, shout out the Brewer. Six innings struck out,
eight are Bubbola looking really good here? Tyler Glass Now
eight strikeouts of his own were five squirrels and things
against the Braves and Pete Alonzo big day two for
four with a grand slam on Monday ten to four.

(14:29):
That's all blow out of the Marlin. So really good
stuff there. The Mets offense starting to wake up a
little bit. They had tons of stranded runners in that
Houston series, so they faced Sandy al Contra today. Might
be a little tougher, but it's good to see that
Mets offense doing well. But Bubbala is the one I
want to talk to. I want to talk about that
guy for a moment, because he's probably available, I would
imagine on most waiver wires. Still, I'll get the percentage

(14:51):
exactly where he is. But talk to me about what
your expectations are for him and this Royals rotation. That look,
it's gotten off to kind of a rocky start. Reagan's
wasn't at his best. So where are you at with
the Bubbola?

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah, Chris Bubich a couple that which really interesting. I
was actually I've got a little il twitch as well
that I was streaming on and I was streaming during
this match like it's a tennis match during this game
and watching Bubach, really really impressed with the pitch mix
as well, because like he's heavier fastball, but he's got
two different versions of a slider. He was throwing his

(15:23):
change up. He did it all ten percent or more
of the time, but because of the secondaries and the
command on the fastball, he ended up getting a forty
four percent with rate on his fastball. He had eleven
whiffs on twenty five swings. Everybody was behind on the counts.
He was throwing ninety three here pinpointing corners didn't have

(15:44):
really great, awesome whiff or called strike rates on the secondaries,
but those ended up setting up the fastball. Now, I
don't think the fastball with percentage is something maintainable. We
don't see that in a lot of starting pitch. It's
very unique that they like that's the dominant thing. But
it was the command with the pitch mix and kind
of pitching from behind that I was really really impressed with.

(16:06):
Brewers are a little bit of a disaster right now.
Offense obviously, like Churio is swinging through everything figured out. Yeah,
I suppose. But like the Royals have done a really
good job in some of their pitching development. They've they
did the cutter stuff with with Cole Reagan's fastballs are
ticking up a lot in their development. I think Bubich
is a a streamer, but b might be a guy

(16:29):
to potentially hold on to. And I don't think I'm
going to be comfortable putting him out there versus like
you know, Torpedo Yankees or maybe even an Astros. But
when you're getting these type of matchup, you know, like
a Pirates or a Mariners or something like that. I
really like Chris Bubach right now. So yeah, I'm glad
we talked about.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Him, and somebody mentioned in the channel was going to
mention it, but they they beat me to it qualifies
an ourp Guess the roster percentage on CBS of him.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Well, I just saw somebody put the ESPN to one.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Well, the ESPN doesn't count because everything's free over there
and everything's insane.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Do you want me to actually know? Is this rhetordic?

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Let's guess what the paid leagues are paid league, I
would say better one for roster percentage fifteen percent, sixty
six percent actually much higher than I think.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Okay, yeah, and CBS always runs higher rates because if
a guy is starting, everybody picks up.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
What's the ESPN number?

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Nine percent? So I think it's cultured like a twenty
percent in more standard leagues. Again, I don't think you
go and cut him and people someone's like, oh Bailey Ober,
he's solked it. No, don't do that, but like boo
bitch is Definitely I was very impressed with the start,
and I think I would I would all yeah, twenty
one percent. There you go.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
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(17:57):
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(18:20):
Peanuts and the cracker Jack.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Those quarterstips are fire by the way, Huck Finn. That
was actually a company gift from Fantasy Pros. When we
did our big company meet up, we got those. They
are one of the best things that I own now
and we did a photo shoot in those, so Huck,
you are correct. Fire quarter zips.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Welsh? Is this true? There was a call up for
the pirates just now, there was.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
It happened just a tiny bit ago. So speaking, we're
doing the three up, how about let's do a physical up.
Very funny because I just talked about this yesterday on
the prospect side. We were talking about the mus Stones
in Bubba Chandler. But there's one guy that could put
a wrinkle into it, and Thomas Harrington was called up.
So that's actually our big first like real call up here.
Thomas Harrington is called up for the start today. There

(19:04):
was a rumor preseason that with the Jared Jones injury
in a short term, they might bring up Harrington before
Bubba Chandler to get him, let him get like a
little bit more seasoning. But he's going to be in there.
Pretty interesting strikeout props only at three and a half,
and you know he's going to be going up against
that Raised team. So that's kind of Razor Marlins now
that I'm forgetting. But Thomas Harrington good fastball, really good slider,

(19:28):
good splitter, there's some decent strikeout potential. Last season, Big
numbers had a pretty good spring. He's kind of a
nine k per nine type of guy, runs a low
e ra. He's in the pitching factory of the Pirates.
He's kind of streamable. Yeah, it's the race here, so
he is kind of streamable to day and the low Yeah,

(19:48):
the low prop number is very interesting to me. Rookies
are kind of scary sometimes, but like Thomas Harrington, I
like Bubba Chandler is more explosive. Maybe this pushes back
the timeline just a tiny bit for Bubba Chandler, But
this did happen Thomas Harrington up. I think you could
potentially stream and like positive just said, would you drop
Job for Harrington in a points league? Yeah, I think

(20:11):
they're in the general space, only here's the only.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Girl in the same universe. I wouldn't drop Job.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
I have not seen so caveat this. I have not
seen if they've given us any information about what this
is about. Is this a one off spot start? Are
they going to give him potential to stay in the rotation?
Sometimes they'll just throw a guy out, let him get
a start, and kick him to the curb. That is
a possibility, But like I said before, I don't think
Job is in a especially in a point so I
think he's just I think he's like a stream slash

(20:37):
maybe hold I drop him for.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Job has way more of an asset value, you know,
when you're looking at potential, you know, like, even if
you don't like him on your roster, somebody else is
going to like that upside. Sure, Captain Morgan, not sure
if you talked about it yet, But how about Jordan
Hicks and season long also first twitch stream and new
to Fantasy Baseball this year. Loving the content. Thanks Captain Morgan,
appreciate you. U was a guy that I was in

(21:00):
on last year. If you recall, and it was a
good beginning of the season for Jordan Hicks. I knew
he was gonna have limitations converting as a reliever. You
knew he was gonna be a five inning pitcher guy,
and you knew that once you hit three months in
the season, he was going to turn into a pumpkin,
and he did. Do you have different expectations for him
this season after that full year of starting again, Maybe
some limitations of that Division two facing a lot of Padres,

(21:22):
facing a lot of Dodgers. You know those aren't necessarily
the best matchups for you.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
I'm not the biggest Jordan Hicks guy reliever I watched
when he was a cardinal in the AFL. You know
that was a guy that was touching one hundred and two.
He's dialed that back a sinker did in this last
start hit one hundred. He was sitting ninety eight. So
it's you know, it was big and loosely. When I
say fastball, I'm referring to the sinker and the four team,

(21:46):
and then he rocks that sweeper where he had a
fifty percent whiff rate on the sweeper. Mylely problem is
is he's like kind of a two pitch pitcher. You know,
It's like it's the fastball version and it's a sweeper.
He's had pretty dominant command issues or negative command issues
like over his career, but he's in a really hit
or friendly environment. It's a tough division. I also think

(22:06):
Jordan Hicks is just on the positive side of streamers.
I think there's like the positive side of streamers. There's
like maybees and then there's hard passes. I think Hicks
is somewhere in between. The pot and the positives are
guys that you can hold on to it for a
little bit. But I personally am not super long term
optimistic on that.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah, Like as a streamer in a deeper league, I
think it's okay. You know, this is like a you know,
fifteen team league guy, not a messo, like.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
If he's picturing a home versus Colorado, Like, yeah, give me.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Right, that's different, Right, that's a streamer. Boobacher Hicks. It's
Boowich for me, Boobachia. Long term, yeah, yeah, all the bubblah,
All right, let's go on here to the downs. We
got the ups. Kumar Rocker, yikes, he got rocks six
runs and three innings. They get this guy all over place.
Emerson Hancock also got rock yesterday six runs and two
Chris Bird's innings.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Paddick also got rocked. You didn't put him. Chris Paddock
got obliterated by the White Socks. Who the White Socks
were no oh hitting the twins through six innings. Chris
Paddock looked like trash hit his fastball. I wanted to
go this fastballs up early in the games. Fastball was
up in the first inning. Dial it back down. Garbage, Rocker, garbage,
Hancock the biggest garbage.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, also garbage. Raphael Devers goes to over nineteen fifteen
strike a strikeouts. When will it stop? Welsh? That's the question,
when will it stop? Dylan Cruz over four with two
more strikeouts as well? So who gets right first? Devers
or Cruise?

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Wait, which cruise?

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Which cruise? Dylan Cruise? I would say not Terry Cruz Devers.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Well, I've owned you, ol Cruise. In my head, I.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Get dev I mean spelling.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Who's who's uh panicked? Who's panicked about Raphaeld Devers?

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Right now?

Speaker 2 (23:48):
I think that's a big concern.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
I think I think every look we're gonna do the
first trade video after this show's over, so watch that
on the YouTube channel because we're going to talk about
the value of Devers, and I've got feelings about it,
so I know we got other agendas today. We're gonna
talk about Devers, but cruise being a prospect, cruise might
be sent I think we're worried about that. I think
I don't think he should be, because the Nationals have

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We love our sponsors here. All right. You want to
get your hard hit rate up, you take the Kaisa tracks.
That's what you do. Let's talk about some injuries. Sean
Murphy will begin a rehab assignment with triple A Guinnette
on Tuesday. Gunner Henderson on the IL with intercostal strains,
expected to return when eligible. That's Thursday. Labor torres to
the ten day IL with the oblique strain, so we'll
see him in a couple of weeks and cees Christian

(26:37):
and Konnarci on strand day to day with a hand contusion.
So Gunner Henderson coming back on eligible Thursday. This is
a huge win here, very excited for this return and
fantasy managers, Look, you've been patient for about a week
now right to start the season. Here you go Gunner
Henderson on his way back. That's good news.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Any discounts you got is phenomenal. I'm super excited about this.
I've got him in my tout league. I didn't put
him in. It's a weekly. It's a draft and hold
and do you have to set the weekly lineup and
there's none of that like flip into Friday. If you
could flip into Friday, perfect to get him out there.
I didn't start him for the week, but Gunner coming
back is going to be huge for that offense. And
want to point out Jordan Westberg has a been smashing

(27:16):
the ball. We're seeing great early numbers from him, but
he's also hitting three for this team. He continues hitting
three and you've got Gunner sitting up at the top.
There is a phenomenal, phenomenal fantasy value. Jordan Westburg is
another beneficiary of it. And Joe is just seeing the
comments after that.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
The comments, the look they've promised us they're going to
shorten the read. I said, look, it's a little long.
The show is only about thirty five to forty minutes
every day. But you know it's a medical read, so
you've got to have certain things in there, right, you know.
It's just like in the gambling reads and things like that.
There's certain things about one hundred gambler. There's legal things
are real. I actually kind of, now that I've done

(27:55):
it here on the show, I kind of want it
to be a little longer. I feel like we could
do another two or three minutes on the Kaisa tricksy.
You know, I don't know, but that's what Kaisa Trix
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Speaker 2 (28:08):
Play again, let's get longer.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Let's get to our best bets of the day. It
was a good day for betting yesterday. Christopher Sanchez seven strikeouts,
just got it. Welsh had it, I had it. Welsh
was three and oh yesterday I had my little parlay
too with the Phillies and the wind to ching. He
also got his home run call yesterday. We'll get to
that in a second. But remember, if you're placing your
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five dollars bet in there, you get two hundred and
bonus bets if you win today. Keeping it simple, give
me the Braves on the money line to finally defeat
the Dodgers the Evil Empire. You got nay on the
other side, Freddy Freeman's hurt. I grabbed this one early

(28:53):
because of the Freeman issue, because they haven't lost yet.
Chris Sale is great. This is the perfect situation. A
mismatch of the pitcher is where the Dodgers finally take
an l here and I think it's from the Atlanta Braves.
So give me the Dodgers today on the money line
plus one thirty six. Also love Bobby wit today. As
you mentioned before, the brewers of all kinds of issues.
So I'm gonna take advantage of it. I was watching

(29:15):
some Bobby Wit at bats. He looks real so solid
right now, just hitting balls hard all over the place.
Bobby Wit over one and a half total bases minus
one fifteen. Now, Welsh, I know you didn't love the
slate today, but we were able to coerce you through
a couple bets.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yeah, that's a behind the scenes thing. Everyone's like, do
you have your bet? You evorite bets? And I was
just like, I did it last night. I did the
work here, didn't I don't love the slate. I think
there's really if you ended up wanting to kind of
avoid it. I, as I mentioned, am coming off of
a bad opening weekend. I got my what is it?
My eyes were too big for my stomach in the
betting world, and it was bad. But I've honed things

(29:52):
in perfect three and Ozho yesterday and if you hit
that home run call it was two and a half
to one. But I did pick a couple bets that
I do like, even though there are no slipped j's
in the names. I hit the Sanchez strikeout number and
the under total basis, so thank you for putting that, Cali.
But the bets that I've got today, Toronto Washington total runs.

(30:14):
We've got Barrios backup on the board. We've got Trevor Williams.
Really Also the offense is Toronto's offense. I love Bashett
at the top and Vlattie being able to get to them.
Also Washington's offense at the top, where you've got Abrams
and you've got James Wood who's looking good. Nate Low like,
there's some really interesting names in there. At eight and
a half. I like the over we're getting a lot

(30:34):
more offense. Texas run run line minus one point five.
The Reds offense has been really good. Eavaldi has been
or at least was really solid in that first start.
They've got Carson Spears in there. I think the Rangers
are going to get to him offensively, and Nate Evaldi
is going to avoid the torpedo bat we'll see and
Corbyn Carroll. We're gonna go Corbyn Carroll total bases one

(30:56):
point five. In this one. We got Will Warren on
the mount for the Yankees first off offense. Diamondbacks are
definitely gonna score on the offensive side, as will the Yankees.
But Corbyn Burns is on the mound, so I didn't
want to go with any total runs. But Corbyn Carroll's
been absolutely smashing the ball, not getting big, big results,
but he's hitting just under three hundred. He has actually
cash this total base in three of four games already.

(31:19):
One was a two hit game, he had doubles in
the other games. You got Will Warren, who's going to
pitch to a bit more contact, and we're getting huge
hard hit numbers. So I like Corbyn Carroll total bases
one point five. There are some books out there that
is close to one and a half to one, So
I like the Corbyn Carroll total bases one point five.
But again I will preface I'm not in love in

(31:40):
love with the slate. If something changes, I will connect
it on betting pros. You can follow me and Joey
and something we'll get out there. But I don't think
it will. I don't want to touch Chris Sale or
Michael King or any of the strikeout strikeout props stink today.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, there's not a lot of I think the best
way I say, it's not a lot of values on
the slate today, Like it's just not Therefore, just keep
it simple today, you know, look for certain you know,
keep it simple stupid and I you know, if these
are the comments in the twitch, I can't wait to
see the YouTube comments today. I'm just saying, like, it's magnificent.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Do you see self advocate? Right, there's like Joe, everyone
could hear you. I don't know if you knew this.
Everyone could hear you giggling as I was trying to
like be it serious.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
And they're so funny. Some of them are really some
of they are really good. By the way, if it
looks like a torpedo bat, that might be that Perni's disease.
You gotta go get that looked at. I'm just saying, like,
get it looked at.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
All.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Right, let's get to the home run board because obviously
we've got home runs to talk about. And if you
want to get your home runs called, go to our
discord fancy ros dot com slash chat. That's the place
to be for all the latest when it comes to
home run calls and Welsh. You could see right now,
look on the board up to six Welsh is it two?

(32:53):
But two is not good enough to break the top
twenty right now? So I got zero still, so I'm
far behind. I better get on the board soon. Otherwise
bad things will happen. But this is what happened last
year to you. I think I went like two weeks
without calling a home run and then it just went
red hot. So I'm a slow starter on this contest.
I'm not worried at all. Sammy sosaid, that's what I hear.
If you're a slow starter, you get it up. All right,

(33:15):
let's get to the home run calls of the day.
I'm sticking with my Bobby Wit Junior. Love this matchup
in Milwaukee especially.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Is it wait, is it puppet time or is this me?

Speaker 1 (33:29):
I don't know, it might just it might be. It
might be me. That's all I can tell.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Poppet.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Joe is ready to shop.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
We can hear you now, Joe, but we can't see.
We couldn't. Yeah, no, we can't. Well, the board is on,
but I was gonna play.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Well, let's take the board off. Okay, Well there, I
don't know what happened there, So temporary and sanay relax.
Put that away. Let's get a home run call, all right,
Bobby Wit plus four hundred. That's where I'm going here
for mine. I'm sticking with the Bobby Wit Junior today.
Although I wish it was anybody but Eovaldi today because
I would be all in on Ellie de la Cruz
with the new bat. That being said of Aldi's very

(34:03):
good picture, I'm gonna just wait on that. But if
Ellie goes yard, I'm never gonna forgive myself. I'm gonna
be miserable tomorrow. Welsh, where are you going for your
home run?

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Call man? It is so tough when that happens to
you too, because like I don't know if it's me,
and I wanted to start puppet joeing. So thank you
for everybody in this time of a very difficult time
for me where I didn't get to do a full
puppet Joe there. I'm gonna go with Corvin Carroll on
this one. Like Mayer said, keep the Corbyn. Carroll's up
for me. If you want to bet it, by the way,
plus six hundred today, it's a six to one on it.

(34:33):
The total basis are there. I will say, there's a
really interesting discrepancy in some of the books. I saw
one book at almost one and a half to one
on the total basis. One was even money again Will
Warren Cormyn Carroll is hitting the ball super super hard
to tell. Marte might be a good bet, but I'm
gonna just roll with my boy Corbyn Carroll at the
tippy top for my home run. Get him on the
board and get me on the board is what we're

(34:55):
looking for. And shout out to wild and wonderful subscribing
on Prime right before we end this back boy Joe
hey y.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know what happened there. It was
a moment in time, but I didn't freeze at all
really until then.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
So people are learning about we have we have a
puppet Joe emoji. It's me with the puppet. He most Yeah,
it's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Any other shout outs today before we call it a
day of some new people who joined us during the
show today because lots. I feel like we're hot today.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Yeah, a couple subs, Like I said, wild and wonderful.
We had beef was in there. A couple guys subscribed.
I will say heavy on the subscribing with Prime. Take
advantage of it. If you guys have not done that before,
just connect your Prime to Twitch. You can then sub
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(35:44):
You can use our goofy emojis of Fantasy pros and
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So subscribe with prime. Thank you to everybody, and I
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Speaker 1 (36:01):
You know, if you're going to take a shower today,
don't be like Freddy Freeman, be very careful. You know,
you want to get that matt down there. You know,
if it's in the bathtub it's a little slippery there.
You know, don't be doing any aerial gymnastics there. Question though,
serious question before we go out here on Freddy Freeman.
Are you worried that the body's just breaking down a
little bit? Because I feel like that's where we're at
with him. It was clear with mac Suers were a

(36:22):
couple of years ago, right like three years ago, that
that's what was starting to happen. Yeah, are we getting
closer to that with Freddy Freeman? I fear that we are.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I'm gonna let
his shower be the dictator, like the dictator of.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
No I'm I'm talking about last season. Look, I know
he had a rough year with his family stuff. Freddy
Freeman is just the aces Man. He's I love Freddy Freeman.
He's a brave that I love, and now he's a
Dodger that I love. I mean, how hard it is
to be both of those things and have me still
love you. It's very difficult.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
But this but I'm three or five every hitter, every
player over thirty five, I'm concerned about it, especially every
day players. It's definitely something to watch it. I'm a
little bit of a fade on him this year. So
it's a super awesome offense. But you're in this space
where they're probably like, we need to get one hundred
and thirty games out of Friday this season, and they
want to save him for the playoffs. It's a little

(37:13):
Laker esque with like Lebron, like the Dodgers can do that.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Yeah, look you could do that stuff. Now listen tomorrow.
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