May 22, 2025 • 40 mins
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Intro - 0:00:00
Nick Kurtz - 0:00:58
Logan O’Hoppe - 0:02:42
Jasson Dominguez - 0:03:44
Jake Burger - 0:05:38
Jacob deGrom - 0:06:14
Kevin Gausman - 0:12:55
Gavin Williams - 0:14:30
Hunter Brown - 0:14:38
Christian Yelich - 0:16:56
Michael Harris II - 0:19:53
Fun Facts - 0:23:16
Jean Segura - 0:23:55
Rookie Lookie - 0:25:11
3 Up, 3 Down - 0:27:21
Dustin May, Corbin Burnes, and Tylor Megill - 0:27:24
JP Sears, Carson Palmquist, and Logan Webb - 0:29:47
Injury Updates - 0:30:59
MLB Best Bets - 0:35:30
HR Board and HR Calls - 0:37:12
Outro - 0:39:34
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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 joe Pizipia with me,
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you gotta do. Welsh, good to see you, my friend.
I can't wait to give this Jose Ramirez jersey. Wait
at one of our wonderful listeners. It was a good
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night for home runs. Two guys went yard twice yesterday
and both made me smile very very much, but for
different reasons. Okay, I guess, okay, I guess it's Kurtz.
It's well Nick Kurtz, first of all, because okay, not
only did it go yard twice, there was some moonshot
one Like, he is hitting the ball hard. He looks
(01:11):
like the guy that I kept watching at Triple A.
I don't know if you saw the home runs last
night or just saw the box score, but I saw
the homers and they were spectacular. They were mammoth Nick Kurtz,
big time power. Now is he gonna play today against
the lefty? That's the question, Like we're gonna give him
a rest. I hate when guys do that. You know,
a guy gets hot and all of a sudden you
sit him. But Nick Kurtz hitting those home runs, starting
(01:34):
to rack up a few more. He's starting to look
like he's settling in and patience is being rewarded.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
So the game works with a lot of these rookies.
He doesn't have a hit versus lefties yet. By the way,
he has had some at bats, but he does not
registered to hit. It'd be probably behoove them, especially if
they're committed to not having him in a platoon, like
they said that they would let him get some at
bats versus lefties. But no, this is the game with prospects.
(01:59):
I think there's a bigger question about the ROI where
you get this, you know, great young guy and then
they're awesome and then they kind of pair back down
and they come back like, what's the level of roy
you need really for investment? But Kurtz wasn't a pre
drafted guy. He was a player that you did spend
some fab on and things are starting to click. That's
all that you've been looking for, and the underlying stuff
(02:22):
is pretty phenomenal. The strikeouts are still the problem, but
that thing is cut from you know, into the forties
down to it's still thirty five percent. It still sucks,
but you know he's getting there. He's getting acclimated. It's
an incredible ballpark for him to be in. Nick Kurtz.
My pushback for weeks against all of you, all of you,
Joe and all of you has been that we hold
(02:43):
on and Nick Kurtz is starting to click a little bit.
So it's nice.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Also, two home runs, but this isn't the other one
I'm referencing is logo o hoppy four seventy. Yeah, that
was a far shot too. Sears was throwing BP yesterday
in that ballpark. It was a crazy town. Shout out
to Iron Mike, who just subscribed here on our twitch.
But yeah, logan o'happy two homers. The Angels won ten five.
Also in that game, Lawrence Butler hitting a home run,
So maybe, just maybe, you know, getting a little hot here.
(03:08):
Hopefully that'll work out too. Also, when I was watching
a Mets game yesterday, Mets red Sox, which was entertaining
the time, stressful at others. The Juan Soto at bats,
Everyone's gonna make a big deal out of it, because,
oh mon Soto never strikes out three times. And again
it's Garrett Crochet. He's one of the best left handed
pitchers in baseball. Give him a break. And then when
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they went to the bullpend, he hit a ball that
all night the wind was blowing in, and he hit
a ball that probably would have been out in a
lot of places, but it went all the way to
dead center in Boston. And Duran hit a ball too
that just died. It should have been a Grand Slam.
I couldn't believe it didn't get out of that ballpark.
It died the way the wind was blowing in yesterday.
So take things with a grain of salt. Jason Dominguez,
(03:50):
he took your salt and he threw it over the fence.
Solo Homer for him wins the game. Ryan Yarborough also
really good. I did watch some of that game last
night too, flipping around one run, eight strikeouts. I don't
know what version of Ryan Yarborough all of a sudden
has just dropped into the Yankees lap, but it's been
pretty decent. And I've been, you know, trying to get
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him bounce from this rotation. I still think he's going
to get bounced from this rotation eventually. But Yarborough, is
this a guy potentially you want to stream just simply
based on the fact that he's a Yankee.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I think if you're in a spot where you know
it's a really good matchup, I would consider it. But
my interest in Yarborough's kind of minimal. My interest in
Dimingez continues to roll. I think back in a very
I Told you So a moment preseason where I was
doing this big industry prospect draft and I had taken
Dimenez at the top. I still doesn't look like phenomenal,
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but it was this Rokie versus Jason Dimingaz situation and
just haven't had people in the camp with me about
Jason Dimingez. And you know what, again, things are clicking.
You Sometimes you bank on that talent skill set and
you just hope that the player has enough to be
able to know bounce back and show progression. And that's
what he's done. Jason Diminga still has an elite fifty
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four percent hard hit rate so far this year. Barrel's
dipped a little bit, but he's getting the ball in
the air. He's tripled his lawnch angle, he's hitting the
ball on that sweet spot better. He's walking more. You
love to see it, and he's diversifying his ability of
different pitches to hit and he smacks the crap out
of the ball. He can run some Jason Dimingez. You know,
we've been a little wishy washy about that. I feel
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like the questions we've got on Dimingez where it's always
like Domingez or you know, like even Chandler Simpson, Diminga
has been a little bit dicey. But it's really starting
to click and you're seeing some of those loud stats
and Mike quietly walk into like a twenty twenty season
when it's all done.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Also yesterday, walking into not one but two home runs.
My pick from yesterday, Jake Berger.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Oh, I didn't realize that.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Smash Burger yesterday. That's right, smash Burger is everywhere. I
got two of them, so I don't know my I
up at dipple digits yet. Can we get a get
a verification now?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I think was I had eight or seven?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I don't know if I was at seven or eight.
If I was at eight, I'm at ten now and
I'm coming for you ambout eleven.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Oh oh, well, surely a couple away from me. I
cold Stone, cold cold Stone.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Oh I'm Smashburger right now. All those two home runs
were so good. Yesterday also so good. Jacob de Gram
three hits, two runs, one walk, nine strikeouts, and seven innings.
He got no decision. Unfortunately, the Rangers could not handle
their business against the Yankees. We talked about the Dominguez
walk off, but this was exactly what I expected yesterday.
This is the only one of my couple bets. Unfortunately,
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besides the home run and the d Gram strikeout total
they'd hit. But this is what you want to see
out of Jaob Gram. The last couple of starts he's
really settled in and I'm gonna take the l on
this one. I was very afraid. I'm still very afraid.
Every time he goes out and has a start like
this and looks really good pitching deep into games. That's
the thing that I think you look for with Jacob deGrom.
(06:55):
I hope it holds. That's all I hope, because he
is one of, if not the best bitcher and baseball
and it's been so unfortunate that we haven't had him
for about four years now, maybe even five, when you
really can think twenty nineteen was the last really good
Jacob de Gram moments, but it's been so difficult to
think that a guy can miss that much time with
all the injuries and all the surgeries and all the issues.
(07:17):
To come back and even find some remnants of himself
is very encouraging. I'm not holding my breath that it's
going to last all year, but you have to be
really impressed with Jacob de Gram has done so far
in the last couple starts especially.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, I think maybe you can hold your breath a
little bit, like you do know the injury lingers out there,
but you know, I've been speculating on this for a
couple of weeks, and you just you continue to see
it kind of playing out that. You know, he he
down ticked everything for about the first month of the season,
and maybe that was strictly a health situation, you know,
and his velo is down a little bit. Results were
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a little bit different. We've also seen a very concerted
change in how he uses a change up. Last year
he threw it only five percent of the time, you know, sample's,
of course, but this year he's throwing at nine percent
of the time, almost ten percent. Let me look if
there any other years of high usage, Yeah, eight percent,
eight percent. In twenty twenty we saw sixteen percent. So
(08:12):
it's kind of getting back to those roots. Vilo is
up as of recent starts. Change up. It's starting to
get going, and you know, he's he's lowering barrel rates
pitched against and he's just not trying to be the
fifteen strikeout guy every single game.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I really do think that this version of him is
a sustainable version. Now, I don't know if I'm going
to pay top five sp or anything like that. There's
an argument that maybe you can sell high on him,
but I also think there's you know if someone were worried,
like I would be comfortable maybe buying in on him
for the rest of this season that he can he
actually legitimately might put up like one hundred and fifty
(08:48):
innings at this point. With how how this is working?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well, remember they talked about an Ils did for him
some point in a year, just to give him a breather. Yeah.
I recall Pedro Martinez towards the end too, when he
wasn't the guy finding a different version of himself as
a pitcher. I don't think with the velocity this all
last night that that's quite where we're at. But Pedro
had some really successful years towards the end there with
the Mets, when he wasn't quite the dominant guy of
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nineteen ninety nine anymore. Lucissero's I want to shout out
because they graduated today with a master So congratulations. That
is how you could get a master's degree and still
be here every single day watching this show and it
not make you dumber. I don't know, I don't know
how that works, but congratulations. That is really something FORGID.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
It's like graduation any time, So congratulations, Yes, everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I'm going to a graduation right after this show. I'm
going to one. But so everybody congratulate Lucissero's in the
chat though, that's a great thing. Picked too, Augustin, Jason,
josh Lo, Nick Kurtz. I guess, just in a vacuum,
who do you want rest of season? I don't want
to let go of Kurtz. I think it's Kurtz and
Domingez or the guys that I want. How about you?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I think it's low and Dimingez, but like I don't
know how I have catchers might make it important? About Agostin,
I think those are all really close. Unfortunately at that list,
Kurtz might actually be at the bottom for me, or
he is not might but he.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Is game OVA. Who do I drop when Akooney is activated?
Viento's Doyle or Augustin? I think Doyle boy, He's he
dropped off. What an incredible drop off year over year.
Doyle was so solid last year, and I know people
were saying was gonna regress, but man, Welsh, that guy's
just falling off a map compared to what he did
last year. And last year people were saying, oh, it's
(10:29):
not gonna last, not gonna last, and he kept going
in the second half. This year has been nothing close.
I think it's Doyle.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I want to look to Uh. By the way, I'll
be very self deprecating. I'm doing a little too much
of like I was right. So well, we'll knock myself
never enough pages. I definitely will knock myself down a
couple pages. But I have to have been one of
the lowest on Brenton Doyle. Yeah, he was absolutely straight
fade for me into the season. He had huge uh
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he was hit like two hundred on the road, I
think three hundred at home. He had HUGEZ didn't buy
the crazy big counting stats. I say all of this
in that like putting him at high high points of
the lineup. He's got four homers, five stolen bases. He
could still be a twenty twenty guy this year and
be relatively ish successful. But it's pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It is.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
The results are bad. The stuff though, I will throw
out he might borderline by right now because he's got
a two fifty four expected batting average, thirteen percent barrel rate.
He's not striking out anymore. The profile looks this just
looks very similar and guess what, shocker, he's underperforming against
four seam fastballs. That is something that tends to bounce
back for hitters that have any real juice to them.
(11:39):
So maybe he's a little bit of a buy. But
on that list, I think he would be the guy
I would cut.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Angel theory has a question, who could I get for Eavaldi?
Sell high head to head? Well, I don't think you're
so on high. I've ald he's been really good the
last couple of years. I would think the return for
him you're not gonna get like super elite. Could you
get a James Wood for him? Who is like kind
of that tiered in that next grouping? Like I'm just
looking at names like Saya, Suzuki, James Wood.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I think I think player is too low. I think
James Wood might be too high.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
So it's Goldilocks.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, we need to find that just perfectly.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I want to play it just right back in my trade.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Like I actually am. I'm kind of with the Selish
thing on selling Evaldi high, but I don't know like
it should get you.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
What about Bregman? How about Bregman? Is that the one
I can give you?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I would smash take?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Okay, all right, I have always really good.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
He's been amazing, But like, I don't know if I
buy the k percentage increase, sticking three percent walk rate,
that's I mean, I guess he has had some four percent.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I don't I had last year in a lot of leagues. Man,
he is just he's quietly really good and just nobody
seems to care because all the hype is always around
the other bigger names in that rotation. It was Sureser
for a while, and now as the GRAM everyone's talking
about nobody talks about Evaldi. Kevin Gossman, let's talk about him.
I've been waiting for this. I've been laying in the weeds.
No runs, nine strikeouts, no walk seven innings. Let's go
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against the Padres too. Take that, Michael Kelly. Uh, how
about that performance from Kevin Gossman. Tommy Edmund I even
seen him in a long time. I know he's been hurt,
so hopefully he comes back, because right now, Kevin Gosman,
I think with this performance, it's kind of leapt back
into the lead in that big one.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah maybe, I mean, I don't remember, like how we
judge it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
By the way, I know it's hard because Edmond's not
playing so I.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Gotta go backwards for just one second. Todd and the
chat mentioned Eovaldi as far as first halves go, and
this is interesting. He has been a first half guy
for years two nine to seven pre All Star era
last year four eight one in the second half first
half two eight three. In twenty twenty three second half
seven point one eight oh twenty twenty two three point
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three four in the first half second half four point
nine to one. So that is years upon years of
over a run differentials first and second half. Sometimes you
have first and second half players. But yes, oh Joe,
it was all right, Gosman, Tommy had.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
That was pretty good last night. Padres would say, Kevin
Gosman was pretty good. I just I just want the
starting pitcher, not the utility infielder that had a good
month against the team that he always crushes, which was
the Cubs. Fabby Davis Junior says more Goldilocks or Joe
Jodlock's voice, Do we approve that message? Or now one voice,
the one that I just did like this? Oh goodness, gracious.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It's a grave voice.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
So you like that, all right? Videos, Yeah you think so?
Six innings struck out six for Gavin Williams yesterday. Good
to see him starting to get right. Hunter Brown got
wrong though. Five runs, seven hits, five innings. It's funny.
The last time he struggled was also in a day game.
I know because I was on TV hosting In Game
Live at the time for Sports Grid and we were
(14:54):
watching a Hunter Brown game and he kind of rallied
that first inning. He was really rough against the White Sox.
Maybe Hunter Brown's just not a day game pitcher. I
don't know, but we can look those are the only
I'd love to see the splits on that because this
was very Hunter Brown. Like, I am not concerned in
the least about this performance. It was against the Rays,
not a great offense. So I understand why people are
(15:14):
puzzled right now. We're all puzzled, but I will say,
like that's, you know, it's it's not something I'm gonna
get concerned about necessarily.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
There is a big differential. But the day games he's
still a great pitcher. So he has a point eight
three ERA in night games right now, so there's five
starts at night ridiculous, point seven to seven whip point
eight three ERA day games, he's got a point or
he's got a one point zero seven whip three and
one record but a three four one ERA, so it's
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over two runs differential. But that's still a pretty great
pitcher that he is in the day. So I'm not
sure if there's a I mean, there's kind of a
correlation there for sure, But you know that that was
a I don't know if that was like the tough,
tough matchup that you're staring at. But he's gonna regress
a little bit, like he's expected. He already told us
that story. He's still pretty a lead across the board. Well,
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you're more worried about is if they start to stack
and he starts to look average, and you know he's
not getting away with maybe some of the stuff he
was getting away with earlier in the year. That would
be what we're watching. He's also he I don't think
I realized this. He's a pretty high percentage with fastball guy,
and you don't see I mean, I guess you got
to look at k percentage, but yeah, she's for k
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percentage from his forcing fastball. That's not something we see
a ton of. You usually see forcing set up a
lot of other stuff. So that's all.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
A guy who knows how to locate a fastball.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Do it feels sticky, but he's done.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Sticky if you know how to locate it. I think
that's the problem. Everybody throws a hundred. They just throw
it straight. They can't locate it. They can't change the
eye angle of the of the hitter. Todd also says
that my Jodylock's voice is across between Jackson Holiday with
a bad British accent. I would agree. I think that's
exactly what I was going for. Nailed it. Also a
Christian Yelich. We talked about him yesterday in the Q
(17:03):
and A. We have big discussions, so I don't want
to go too much into it. Go back and watch
a Q and A. It's on the YouTube channel Fantasy
Rose MLB. So Yelich was somebody we talked about off
air yesterday after we recorded the Waiver Wire show, also
available on demand on the YouTube channel. Coincidentally, I think not,
and then we got into a bigger discussion about Yelich.
The counting stats are still there, the home runs, the
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stolen bases, the batting average hasn't been He grounded out
four times and struck out yesterday against the Orioles. He
has a sixty four percent ground ball rate. Well just
thought that was a little high of a number there,
twenty eight percent strikeout rate, and it's just not been
good for Yelich. My concern with Yelich and people say,
well do you buy what do you do a player
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who was chronic back issues is just not when I
want to make investments in. That's it. It's as simple
as that for me.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, I saw somebody put I'd mentioned this on the
live stream, and then I think it was this morning
someone mentioned a it's one of the worst ground ball rates.
But he also the new stat on a baseball savant
with attack angle, because like you'll see, some of these
players like Jacob Wilson and stuff have these really really
low attack angles, which is just letting the ball travel
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more and more and more and not not being afraid
to put it in the ground. But Yelich isn't doing that.
Yeliwi has like league prototypical attack angle of like a
ten degree, So that means he's getting on the ball
at the proper time, which in theory would not increase
ground balls like crazy. That would be as if he
lost his attack angle. So it's really odd, and to me,
I'm not sure if that's something that continue. I mean,
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maybe you just become bad and it doesn't matter. But
there's still and that would be like his barrel rate
really sucks and stuff like that. But there's some stuff
that I look at that don't seem like they can stick, Like,
you know, a negative launch angle. He has a negative
launch angle right now. That's crazy. So I'm not really
sure where it's coming from, you know, seems to be
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in his head or something like that. I'd love to
just see some data that's like, oh, hey, look, his
attack angle is usually like ten degrees. It's down at four,
so he's super behind and that's why he's just beating
everything into the ground. Kind of don't know, he's just
hitting a bunch of ground balls, making bad decisions. Maybe
it's his back, who knows. I tend to slightly be
a bye on him still, but I understand why people
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are just getting out of the business because you can't
be successful with that many ground balls.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Now, I buy Cheerio, but I'm not going to buy Yellish.
That's where I'm at with those guys. By the way,
attack angle, you can find this fall on CBS nine
pm Eastern, followed by max Velocity at ten. Definitely part
of our extreme Tuesday nights.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
That's my new name. By the way, Joe people weren't
here yesterday. I'm all max Velocity.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
There you go. Shout out to Jeff two. We'll see
if we can get on the show tomorrow. He had
a graphic MAUP for max Velocity. He tried to get
it to look like an adult film star, but AI
has restrictions on it, which is a shame. But at
least we know you're adult film star. Name now Joster
Damas everybody's favorite now Sunday on Sports Career, were during
a two hour look back at the first fifty games
(20:05):
of the season Sunday morning. So go find sports Grid
watch me on there eight to ten because there's a
really fun thing. And as I was going through all
the stats, trying to pull up the you know, first fifty,
you know, trying to look back at what's going on,
look ahead a little bit, I found one of our friends,
Michael Harris first fifty game stats, and I just figured
I would throw him out here to twenty four batting average.
(20:25):
He has three whole runs, all three of them really exciting.
I scored twelve whole runs twenty four RBI Michael Harris overrated.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
You said that I thought there was more that you're
gonna get going.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I say it like a statement. I'm saying like a
question to you because I want to know if you're
ready to make the statement.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
With me on the overrated. Yeah, I mean, I guess
I'm willing to kind of do that. Like he's stacked
a couple of years of like he's not quite a
twenty twenty guy kind of is. His average continues to dip,
but I'll say this, I still like he's going to
bounce back. I mean, there might be kind of some
split things. I'm gonna look here as far as first
and second half's go over the last couple of years,
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he was a second half guy last year twenty twenty
three massive second half guy as well, really needs to
get going. His expected batting average currently is forty points higher.
He's striking out less. He's just not making as same
quality of contact. I want to look into some other things.
But maybe you also have Michael Harris starting to accept
to be like a different player. He dramatically dropped his
(21:29):
hard hit rate. And what I mean by that is just,
you know, be more of a contact hitter. We see
a couple of guys like this that they're going to
stop trying to, you know, get the ball in the
air like crazy. You would love to see him do
what C. J. Abrams does and just say, oh, like,
I'm not a great barrel guy, but I get the
ball in the.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Air like sixteen handles.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yeah, I mean, I guess, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Contact, give up some power to hit the baseball and
maybe some home runs will come eventually.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Yeah, he's underperforming against every single pitch type right now,
while having the highest poll rate of his career and
expected batting average is better. I think Michael Harris is
going to bounce back. Actually might be a pretty sweet
really by low. When you get the jokes of the
world out there that hate hate hate.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I just call it like I see it. To me,
he's a very overrated player, and he is a nice player.
His ADP was incredibly overblown going into this season.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Again that I agree with his looks pretty stupid right now.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Oh, it's ridiculous. Right now, here's a ridiculous question from
life or Death. Who's an ideal picture that could trade
Strider for No, you don't don't trade Strider. This is
the worst time. You know, he has bad record against
the NATS. I don't want to trade Spencer Strider. I
just don't want to do it. Well, sh I don't
bet that.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I actually I just saw the name that I would
maybe look at. I think trading like picture for picture
is really tough because you know that person like you
both have to pretend you're not convincing yourselves that you're
selling off of this picture and that this guy is
trying to find it.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Seems like a really toxic relationship.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I think trade, I think specifically pitcher for pitcher is
a very toxic way to trade. What I would say,
like Christopher Sanchez is someone that jumped to my mind.
I would want Sanchez plus for Strider. Yeah, mos Sanchez
a lot, but I wouldn't I wouldn't really look to
trade Strider.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Okay, here's a question. Would you trade? We got fun
fun stats here, Hazus Lozardo, who's pitched incredible baseball this year?
Would you who do you want rest of season? Strider
or Lozardo?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'll take Strider.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Okay, here's fun facts. Since Era become an official stat
in both leagues. In nineteen thirteen, two major League baseball
left handed pitchers have gone undefeated with a sub to
Era ten plus k per nine over the first ten
starts of a season. One is Jesu's Lozardo this year.
The other one Randy Johnson in nineteen ninety five. That's it.
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Lozardo's out of his mind right now. Another fun fact,
because again researching I gains a fun facts here. Logan
Henderson of the Brewers is the only major League baseball
pitcher in the modern era to strike out seven plus
batters and earn the win in each of his first
three career appearances. That guy's not going anywhere, folks, He's
going no place. Transactions. Jean Segura announced his retirement. Boy,
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people are just retiring left and right. Colton Wong, Jean Sigura,
middle infielders of the past.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Just could Tucker by the way. I don't know if
anyone saw this. Cole Tucker, who is married to Vanessa Hutchins.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, he's been doing radio for a while.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah it with big beautiful hair. He's one of the
local guy out here. I had a friend who's in
a band with him, Like he's great Cold Tucker is
one of the best human beings on the planet, and
he's retiring from baseball, but he wants to try to
continue in being coaching or you know, I mean, I
guess he's already doing some media, but I think it's
like some version of coaching or working at some hitting
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complex or something like that.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
So we'll we'll see, we should get him on the show.
Let's get him on the show next year.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Probably obtainable, to be honest with you. Jean Sagira, by
the way, one the Dinebacks don't pull off a lot
of great trades. Usually they are, you know, selling Paul
Goldchmith for nothing, but boy, what a coop, just trading
the epitome of selling high like a fantasy wood off
of Jean Segura is in incredible season with the Diamondbacks.
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That's his career marker. They got could tell Marty for him,
and they just shipped him right out. Got to tell Marte.
But I kind of like Geene Cigarett at least for
that one year with the Diamondbacks, which was otherworldly. But
it was sad to see him go.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Okay, looky, Tom Kate Horton one run five and a
third innings only three strikeouts, though any input here on
the Kate Horton start from yesterday. Walsh, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Think it's I think things are moving in a positive
direction for him. I want the strikeouts to tick back up,
but this is why we wanted them.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It was almost a very like corporate answer. Things are
moving right now in directions we're we're looking at the
headwinds and the tailwinds. We're trying to.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
It definitely was like I was still like I was
looking at something. I was still in a thing. And
then he threw it, and I was like, wait, who
are we talking about? Yes, moving great, projections are looking solid,
and I think we're going to hit our monthly our
monthly quota. We're good.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Andrew Painter seven strikeouts, two runs, one four innings for
Triple A Lehigh Valley, also running Mauricio two for two
with another home run to run Homer for him and
his steel. I gotta say this, Wesh. Brett Batty looked
really sharp yesterday. He looked like he's starting to settle
in a little bit and play like Brett Batty in
the minor leagues. That's the first time last night I'd
seen that version of Batty. It's only one game. I
don't want to take too much out of it. But
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Vanto's better get his craft together because Mauricio is hitting
Baty's starting to look comfortable. Louis Angelekunya is not going anywhere,
like I said, because he's a fiery guy. He's a
good guy to have on a team. He's out, he's
in like Juan Soto's face, like firing him up and
like he's just that kind of guy. You need those
guys on teams, you do. Vando's better figured out and
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soon because he's in the weird spot right now. Better
fix it, Better fix it. Well, we're making adjustments. We've
we've looked at the data and we're going to do
our best to move forward here.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
We have a quarterly plan where we are going to
make organizational adjustments where things are going to hit that
ROI per acted number. Yes, I've given presentations, by the way,
like people don't. I used to be in a very
corporate world, and I'm prepared when I am prepared on presentation.
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Welsh is quite impressive.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
It's true. I've seen it. It's very impressive. CJ. Kyphis.
So we just talked about a couple of days ago.
We got to talk about again two before with a
walk of double, two run homer at Triple A. It's
going to be Kyph's time sooner than later. I'm just saying, Welsh,
I'm just saying, let's get to the three up and
three down Dustin May, eight strikeouts and six innings, Corbyn
Burns has been back on track. Remember he had that
skipped start and give him a little bit of a respite.
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Things have been much better since. Three runs over seven innings,
eight strikeouts and Tyler McGill four hits, one run, one walk,
career high ten strikeouts. Tyler was terrific last night. He
was throwing a heavy fast ball yesterday. Man, it was
crazy to watch. Unfortunately, he got into some trouble there
and the defense did not help him out. One of
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the defensive problems was his that he went to go
try to field to go ground balls and to let
the catcher get it, and he threw it to the outfield.
But McGill looked really sharp. And that's been a guy
whose strikeout rate has been higher this year than any
other year. And we're starting to wonder, you know this
mitched pitching factory we talk about and you know, we
keep talking about it because they keep having outings like.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
This pitching factory. Yeah. Man, they've definitely turned out like
some dudes who work scrap pile. I'll give them credit
for that. For Griffin Canning and Tyler McGill at thirty
one percent k percentage. For McGill, he still walks way
too many, but he is more than serviceable to be
at the middle of her rotation. And Gorman Burns I
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had him plus I just want to point out plus
one for five and a half strikeouts yesterday. I played
him att because those changes are real. That rest he
was able to rebounce back. He's got his VLO back.
And interesting thing you know, Ino Sarahs from the Athletic
talk to him and he was very insightful about because
we designated as a cutter the main fastball that he throws.
(28:58):
But he says in this video with you know that
he's just like, listen, I'm actually going more for seam.
I have for sem action. I'm throwing it like a
for seam. There's natural cut to it. And he says,
when I get in trouble is when I start to
force the cut and he's like, I'm trying to not
do that. It's really interesting take really interesting video for
a guy that I said two and a half weeks
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ago i've been actually at the beginning of the season,
said bye because and I had nothing for you. I
had no good reasoning for you, except that I believe
he will bounce back. And then we started seeing some
actionable items and we're seeing some data that proves it
over the last three starts. Hopefully you did very interesting
with the Corbyn burns and he much he very much
(29:41):
looks like the part of that picture, that great version
of that picture from last year.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
A DJ posey subbed with prime thanks for someone with
us wiki scratched the downs yesterday. JP's here is oh
my god, he didn't leave anything down. Everything was up
and it all got hit out of the ball bar.
And you have four homers yes day. Carson Palmquist, which
is I find that name just very uncomfortable. Ten hits,
seven runs, six earned. I don't know, Carson Palmquist. It
(30:09):
sounds like a like a you know when you go
to like a supermarket that's like off brand, like the
Dollar Store or something, and they have food in their
rocket yeah, like Pomquist is like one of those weird
soda brands, and it.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Sounds like the new student at the school, Like everybody,
could you please welcome Carson Palmquist. He's coming from us
from Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yes, he enjoys Minecraft and he's runner. Yeah. Logan Web
six runs. Of course. Of course, this is the one
bad start Logan Web has had because I made it
the bet of the day yesterday. Just awful. He had
an e RA under one in all four of his
home starts before this. Just brutal.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
I didn't even want to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
So the betting has been rough this year. It's just
it just has. But we're up to eleven homers. I
don't know what's what's what do you have to have
to get the board? Well, we'll see, we'll see in this.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Sex fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Let's get to the injuries. Ronald Akoia one for four
with a walk, so getting closer on him. Santander was
removed yesterday. He's been dealing with a hip injury, but
he was removed yesterday later in the game. I think
it was just precautionary because they were up by two
touchdowns in that game. I think by the time he
came out, so not so bad. Aaron Savali, Up, am
I back?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah, you're back. I had silent and then I looked
at the screen and you were like this, You were like.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Got fuzzy. Yeah, okay, Aaron Savali, I almost forgot. He
was in the system for the Brewers Minor League REEP
start for him in Triple A. Cutter Crawford, He's gonna
face hitters today, Tanner Hawk on Friday. He's going to
resume Throe and Rome Gonzalez with that quad is going
to be out longer than anticipated. I guess he had
a setback. Mike Trout is running at eighty percent. I
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don't know how you gauge that, but apparently not eighty one,
not seventy nine eighty percent.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
We I would love this. I'm asking for too much here.
I want what is the game on the prices right
the yodeler where the guy's going up there. I want
that with Mike Trout's face on it, and it's just
I can't remember what that's called, but that's that should
be our injury tracker for Mike Trout getting back in
and he's just his hangers.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Cliff Half hanger.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yeah, exact.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yoda, And it was as a kid, you'd love because
it's it's the building of the drama. As it gets
higher and higher up, the thing is it going to
fall off? And the best he stops right at that peak,
like one or two little notches away.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Dude. Peak growing up in like the late nineties and
early two thousands was being sick, not having to go
to school or faking sick, sitting at home at like
nine in the morning and watching Prices right and watching
planko plank in the yodeler, and it just that was.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Just yeah, that was the best, solid, very solid hat
doubt about that. Next up, we have a Jonah Him
who came out yesterday with a hand injury. They said
it was a nerve issue, So more to come on that.
Tyler Glass now is gonna throw a bullpensession Friday. Tario
Strada has begun his rehab assignment, so look for him
if you need some help at second base. He's probably
floating around waiver wires. We were excited about him going
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into the season and then injury struck that wrist issue. Unfortunately,
Brandon Woodroft four shutout innings in his five hundred and
seventy first rehab start of twenty twenty five, so we'll
see if he's ready for another three hundred more. Dl Hall. Also,
because the Brewsers have all these pictures and re Brewers
have the greatest triple a rotation of all time, dal
Hall three more shoutout innings for him and Verlander headed
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to the il with the pectoral discomfort that we discussed yesterday.
So Welsh, any of these injuries stick out more than
another one to you.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
The jonah Haeimwan I was watching live and the announcer
immediately I want to say, maybe he didn't have his
glove on or something, And as soon as it hit
he was like, Ooh, that's gonna be really bad. The
vibration you get on the hand, he's gonna be feeling that.
And then for the next like five minutes they kept
kind of going back. They're like, yeah, he's favoring he's
favoring it, and then they took him out. So there
might be something more beyond that. I'd be a little
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bit worried about, but thyro Estrado would be someone I
would go and pick up right now if he's available.
And then got just kicked to the wire. Just remember
from that, you know, there's the ballpark perspective, but also
there's some loud potential counting stats out of him batting
averages there, and they've been talking about moving off of
guys like Ryan McMahon trades and stuff. Either way, there's
gonna be playing time for Thyrostrata. So I would go
(34:23):
and pick him up, especially with that rehab assignment, assuming
you might need a little bit longer, which I don't
think they should do, but I would pick him up
assuming that like midnext week is a possibility, if not
the following week.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
The other thing, when I was homesick after a price
is right, I used to have a VHS tape They
did like a marathon of like the Baseball Bunch, And
again I don't know if you know what this show is,
Johnny Bench, the Baseball Bunch. It was these kids and
Johnny Bench. It was like the early eighties, and every
show it was like a half hour little baseball show.
And they would it was the San Diego Chicken, Johnny
(34:56):
Bench and these Rando kids and they every the top
receiver and Pete Rose like all these like stars would
be on there and they would come on and do
baseball stuff with them. It was like a little baseball
comedy instruction show. The Baseball bunch.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Was do that with max velocity, Max Max max velocity
and friends. I'll do a modern version of that, all right.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
So let's get this one from a DJ. I picked
up Narvares and Baldwin when we found out the controls
at a fracture. Finger don't have room to keep them both,
so Navarrees or Baldwin. Rest of season.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Picked up Baldwin. I'll go with Baldwin.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yeah, Baldwin's been hot. It's kind of hard not to
go with Baldwin at this point in time. All right, Welsh,
it's that time again. It's time for the Best Bets
of Thursday with Joey P and Welsh.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Frozen Joe, what a beautiful Your bets were a little
frozen yesterday, Joe. I believe mine were pretty solid. I
was two and zero with one push, so I will
take that Joe's back. Let's hear what you got. Oh,
you're living on the dangerous side.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah, I don't know why Ranger Suarez over a five
and a half strikeouts. He's not a big strikeout as
they won as one eight team, but it's the Rockies
and they make everybody look like Sandy Kofax Raphfield Devers.
Let's go for the RBI plus one fifty five. He's
springing a good bat right now. And Marcelo Zuna in
a good matchup tonight for the Atlanta Braves. Let's go
for RBI for him as well, plus one point twenty Welsh,
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what do you have for the people?
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I got a total base fest that we're going to
rock in today. We got some early games, we got
some really tight lines, some really tight first fives that
we're going to jump into the total base market with
some win pushing some of these games out there. We're
going to start it off with Kerry Carpenter over one
and a half total bases plus one fifteen against Ridings.
He's always money, I believe you know. It's really low
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home run markers as well, so I love Kerry Carpenter.
This is probably one of the best. This reminds me
of yesterday's Corbyn Burns where I played it at plus
one forty or one fifty for five and a half
strikeouts and it hit James Wood over one point five
total bases at plus one fifty. I very much like
this matchup, really really good marker for him. And we're
(37:00):
gonna go back to Gunner who Gunner didn't give me
the homer the other day, but he did give me
the actual bases, So we are gonna rock over one
and a half total bases on Gunner Henderson, every single
one of these app plus money. Let's play them ount
and let's get on base with Carpenter, Wood and Gunner.
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Where are we with the home run board? Ooh, so fourteen?
I need three more ish, probably more like four.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Yeah, you need to get to fifteen. By the time
you're up there, it's gonna push. But honestly, the machine
might be the number. I'm on thin ice right now,
like I'm barely holding on so and I have not
had a homer and I don't know what the account
is currently. It has to be at least ten days.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
I have like one Soto cold right now. That's how
cold you are. Oh, you're Christian Yelich cold. Mary's still
at the top of twenty one, with George tied far
out at twenty, DJ Osbourne at twenty. Wonkee's moved all
the way down to seventh spot here with eighteen, so
Welsh's still hanging in there, still on the board. You've
been on board for a long time. You should be
very proud of yourself. I am going to go with
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Philadelphia Philly today for my home run this afternoon. Kyle
Schwarber was also on fire plus two thirty five. He's
got good career numbers against the Colorado Pictchers going against today,
and I'm just gonna keep pounding on that Philadelphia Philly
line up as much as I possibly can. I almost
a Castighanos today too, So going back and forth. But
let's go with Schwarber. Where are you going Welsh for
your home run call?
Speaker 2 (38:56):
I'm joining you on that one. I'm taking a Schwarberfest.
So we're gonna okay, this is gonna be one of
those block situations where if we're going up, we're going
up together. Schwarberfest is upon us. It's in Colorado. Her
Man Marquez got an eight e RA. I could have
maybe picked Harper, but we might go two for with
Kyle Schwarber's So Schwarberfest for the leading off combo home
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run play.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
The two more will put me at thirteen before the weekend.
I like the sound sall base bet.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
By the way, you have to bet three they want.
If you want plus money, you've got to go to
three to, which is what saw that.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
It was like minus money for RBI two, which is
never Yeah, you never get for RBI. It's Vegas telling
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night for home runs. Two guys went yard twice yesterday
and both made me smile very very much, but for
different reasons. Okay, I guess, okay, I guess it's Kurtz.
It's well Nick Kurtz, first of all, because okay, not
only did it go yard twice, there was some moonshot
one Like, he is hitting the ball hard. He looks
(01:11):
like the guy that I kept watching at Triple A.
I don't know if you saw the home runs last
night or just saw the box score, but I saw
the homers and they were spectacular. They were mammoth Nick Kurtz,
big time power. Now is he gonna play today against
the lefty? That's the question, Like we're gonna give him
a rest. I hate when guys do that. You know,
a guy gets hot and all of a sudden you
sit him. But Nick Kurtz hitting those home runs, starting
(01:34):
to rack up a few more. He's starting to look
like he's settling in and patience is being rewarded.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
So the game works with a lot of these rookies.
He doesn't have a hit versus lefties yet. By the way,
he has had some at bats, but he does not
registered to hit. It'd be probably behoove them, especially if
they're committed to not having him in a platoon, like
they said that they would let him get some at
bats versus lefties. But no, this is the game with prospects.
(01:59):
I think there's a bigger question about the ROI where
you get this, you know, great young guy and then
they're awesome and then they kind of pair back down
and they come back like, what's the level of roy
you need really for investment? But Kurtz wasn't a pre
drafted guy. He was a player that you did spend
some fab on and things are starting to click. That's
all that you've been looking for, and the underlying stuff
(02:22):
is pretty phenomenal. The strikeouts are still the problem, but
that thing is cut from you know, into the forties
down to it's still thirty five percent. It still sucks,
but you know he's getting there. He's getting acclimated. It's
an incredible ballpark for him to be in. Nick Kurtz.
My pushback for weeks against all of you, all of you,
Joe and all of you has been that we hold
(02:43):
on and Nick Kurtz is starting to click a little bit.
So it's nice.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Also, two home runs, but this isn't the other one
I'm referencing is logo o hoppy four seventy. Yeah, that
was a far shot too. Sears was throwing BP yesterday
in that ballpark. It was a crazy town. Shout out
to Iron Mike, who just subscribed here on our twitch.
But yeah, logan o'happy two homers. The Angels won ten five.
Also in that game, Lawrence Butler hitting a home run,
So maybe, just maybe, you know, getting a little hot here.
(03:08):
Hopefully that'll work out too. Also, when I was watching
a Mets game yesterday, Mets red Sox, which was entertaining
the time, stressful at others. The Juan Soto at bats,
Everyone's gonna make a big deal out of it, because,
oh mon Soto never strikes out three times. And again
it's Garrett Crochet. He's one of the best left handed
pitchers in baseball. Give him a break. And then when
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they went to the bullpend, he hit a ball that
all night the wind was blowing in, and he hit
a ball that probably would have been out in a
lot of places, but it went all the way to
dead center in Boston. And Duran hit a ball too
that just died. It should have been a Grand Slam.
I couldn't believe it didn't get out of that ballpark.
It died the way the wind was blowing in yesterday.
So take things with a grain of salt. Jason Dominguez,
(03:50):
he took your salt and he threw it over the fence.
Solo Homer for him wins the game. Ryan Yarborough also
really good. I did watch some of that game last
night too, flipping around one run, eight strikeouts. I don't
know what version of Ryan Yarborough all of a sudden
has just dropped into the Yankees lap, but it's been
pretty decent. And I've been, you know, trying to get
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him bounce from this rotation. I still think he's going
to get bounced from this rotation eventually. But Yarborough, is
this a guy potentially you want to stream just simply
based on the fact that he's a Yankee.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I think if you're in a spot where you know
it's a really good matchup, I would consider it. But
my interest in Yarborough's kind of minimal. My interest in
Dimingez continues to roll. I think back in a very
I Told you So a moment preseason where I was
doing this big industry prospect draft and I had taken
Dimenez at the top. I still doesn't look like phenomenal,
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but it was this Rokie versus Jason Dimingaz situation and
just haven't had people in the camp with me about
Jason Dimingez. And you know what, again, things are clicking.
You Sometimes you bank on that talent skill set and
you just hope that the player has enough to be
able to know bounce back and show progression. And that's
what he's done. Jason Diminga still has an elite fifty
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four percent hard hit rate so far this year. Barrel's
dipped a little bit, but he's getting the ball in
the air. He's tripled his lawnch angle, he's hitting the
ball on that sweet spot better. He's walking more. You
love to see it, and he's diversifying his ability of
different pitches to hit and he smacks the crap out
of the ball. He can run some Jason Dimingez. You know,
we've been a little wishy washy about that. I feel
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like the questions we've got on Dimingez where it's always
like Domingez or you know, like even Chandler Simpson, Diminga
has been a little bit dicey. But it's really starting
to click and you're seeing some of those loud stats
and Mike quietly walk into like a twenty twenty season
when it's all done.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Also yesterday, walking into not one but two home runs.
My pick from yesterday, Jake Berger.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Oh, I didn't realize that.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Smash Burger yesterday. That's right, smash Burger is everywhere. I
got two of them, so I don't know my I
up at dipple digits yet. Can we get a get
a verification now?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I think was I had eight or seven?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I don't know if I was at seven or eight.
If I was at eight, I'm at ten now and
I'm coming for you ambout eleven.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Oh oh, well, surely a couple away from me. I
cold Stone, cold cold Stone.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Oh I'm Smashburger right now. All those two home runs
were so good. Yesterday also so good. Jacob de Gram
three hits, two runs, one walk, nine strikeouts, and seven innings.
He got no decision. Unfortunately, the Rangers could not handle
their business against the Yankees. We talked about the Dominguez
walk off, but this was exactly what I expected yesterday.
This is the only one of my couple bets. Unfortunately,
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besides the home run and the d Gram strikeout total
they'd hit. But this is what you want to see
out of Jaob Gram. The last couple of starts he's
really settled in and I'm gonna take the l on
this one. I was very afraid. I'm still very afraid.
Every time he goes out and has a start like
this and looks really good pitching deep into games. That's
the thing that I think you look for with Jacob deGrom.
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I hope it holds. That's all I hope, because he
is one of, if not the best bitcher and baseball
and it's been so unfortunate that we haven't had him
for about four years now, maybe even five, when you
really can think twenty nineteen was the last really good
Jacob de Gram moments, but it's been so difficult to
think that a guy can miss that much time with
all the injuries and all the surgeries and all the issues.
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To come back and even find some remnants of himself
is very encouraging. I'm not holding my breath that it's
going to last all year, but you have to be
really impressed with Jacob de Gram has done so far
in the last couple starts especially.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, I think maybe you can hold your breath a
little bit, like you do know the injury lingers out there,
but you know, I've been speculating on this for a
couple of weeks, and you just you continue to see
it kind of playing out that. You know, he he
down ticked everything for about the first month of the season,
and maybe that was strictly a health situation, you know,
and his velo is down a little bit. Results were
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a little bit different. We've also seen a very concerted
change in how he uses a change up. Last year
he threw it only five percent of the time, you know, sample's,
of course, but this year he's throwing at nine percent
of the time, almost ten percent. Let me look if
there any other years of high usage, Yeah, eight percent,
eight percent. In twenty twenty we saw sixteen percent. So
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it's kind of getting back to those roots. Vilo is
up as of recent starts. Change up. It's starting to
get going, and you know, he's he's lowering barrel rates
pitched against and he's just not trying to be the
fifteen strikeout guy every single game.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I really do think that this version of him is
a sustainable version. Now, I don't know if I'm going
to pay top five sp or anything like that. There's
an argument that maybe you can sell high on him,
but I also think there's you know if someone were worried,
like I would be comfortable maybe buying in on him
for the rest of this season that he can he
actually legitimately might put up like one hundred and fifty
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innings at this point. With how how this is working?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well, remember they talked about an Ils did for him
some point in a year, just to give him a breather. Yeah.
I recall Pedro Martinez towards the end too, when he
wasn't the guy finding a different version of himself as
a pitcher. I don't think with the velocity this all
last night that that's quite where we're at. But Pedro
had some really successful years towards the end there with
the Mets, when he wasn't quite the dominant guy of
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nineteen ninety nine anymore. Lucissero's I want to shout out
because they graduated today with a master So congratulations. That
is how you could get a master's degree and still
be here every single day watching this show and it
not make you dumber. I don't know, I don't know
how that works, but congratulations. That is really something FORGID.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
It's like graduation any time, So congratulations, Yes, everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I'm going to a graduation right after this show. I'm
going to one. But so everybody congratulate Lucissero's in the
chat though, that's a great thing. Picked too, Augustin, Jason,
josh Lo, Nick Kurtz. I guess, just in a vacuum,
who do you want rest of season? I don't want
to let go of Kurtz. I think it's Kurtz and
Domingez or the guys that I want. How about you?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I think it's low and Dimingez, but like I don't
know how I have catchers might make it important? About Agostin,
I think those are all really close. Unfortunately at that list,
Kurtz might actually be at the bottom for me, or
he is not might but he.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Is game OVA. Who do I drop when Akooney is activated?
Viento's Doyle or Augustin? I think Doyle boy, He's he
dropped off. What an incredible drop off year over year.
Doyle was so solid last year, and I know people
were saying was gonna regress, but man, Welsh, that guy's
just falling off a map compared to what he did
last year. And last year people were saying, oh, it's
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not gonna last, not gonna last, and he kept going
in the second half. This year has been nothing close.
I think it's Doyle.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I want to look to Uh. By the way, I'll
be very self deprecating. I'm doing a little too much
of like I was right. So well, we'll knock myself
never enough pages. I definitely will knock myself down a
couple pages. But I have to have been one of
the lowest on Brenton Doyle. Yeah, he was absolutely straight
fade for me into the season. He had huge uh
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he was hit like two hundred on the road, I
think three hundred at home. He had HUGEZ didn't buy
the crazy big counting stats. I say all of this
in that like putting him at high high points of
the lineup. He's got four homers, five stolen bases. He
could still be a twenty twenty guy this year and
be relatively ish successful. But it's pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It is.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
The results are bad. The stuff though, I will throw
out he might borderline by right now because he's got
a two fifty four expected batting average, thirteen percent barrel rate.
He's not striking out anymore. The profile looks this just
looks very similar and guess what, shocker, he's underperforming against
four seam fastballs. That is something that tends to bounce
back for hitters that have any real juice to them.
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So maybe he's a little bit of a buy. But
on that list, I think he would be the guy
I would cut.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Angel theory has a question, who could I get for Eavaldi?
Sell high head to head? Well, I don't think you're
so on high. I've ald he's been really good the
last couple of years. I would think the return for
him you're not gonna get like super elite. Could you
get a James Wood for him? Who is like kind
of that tiered in that next grouping? Like I'm just
looking at names like Saya, Suzuki, James Wood.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I think I think player is too low. I think
James Wood might be too high.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
So it's Goldilocks.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, we need to find that just perfectly.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I want to play it just right back in my trade.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Like I actually am. I'm kind of with the Selish
thing on selling Evaldi high, but I don't know like
it should get you.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
What about Bregman? How about Bregman? Is that the one
I can give you?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I would smash take?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Okay, all right, I have always really good.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
He's been amazing, But like, I don't know if I
buy the k percentage increase, sticking three percent walk rate,
that's I mean, I guess he has had some four percent.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I don't I had last year in a lot of leagues. Man,
he is just he's quietly really good and just nobody
seems to care because all the hype is always around
the other bigger names in that rotation. It was Sureser
for a while, and now as the GRAM everyone's talking
about nobody talks about Evaldi. Kevin Gossman, let's talk about him.
I've been waiting for this. I've been laying in the weeds.
No runs, nine strikeouts, no walk seven innings. Let's go
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against the Padres too. Take that, Michael Kelly. Uh, how
about that performance from Kevin Gossman. Tommy Edmund I even
seen him in a long time. I know he's been hurt,
so hopefully he comes back, because right now, Kevin Gosman,
I think with this performance, it's kind of leapt back
into the lead in that big one.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah maybe, I mean, I don't remember, like how we
judge it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
By the way, I know it's hard because Edmond's not
playing so I.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Gotta go backwards for just one second. Todd and the
chat mentioned Eovaldi as far as first halves go, and
this is interesting. He has been a first half guy
for years two nine to seven pre All Star era
last year four eight one in the second half first
half two eight three. In twenty twenty three second half
seven point one eight oh twenty twenty two three point
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three four in the first half second half four point
nine to one. So that is years upon years of
over a run differentials first and second half. Sometimes you
have first and second half players. But yes, oh Joe,
it was all right, Gosman, Tommy had.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
That was pretty good last night. Padres would say, Kevin
Gosman was pretty good. I just I just want the
starting pitcher, not the utility infielder that had a good
month against the team that he always crushes, which was
the Cubs. Fabby Davis Junior says more Goldilocks or Joe
Jodlock's voice, Do we approve that message? Or now one voice,
the one that I just did like this? Oh goodness, gracious.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It's a grave voice.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
So you like that, all right? Videos, Yeah you think so?
Six innings struck out six for Gavin Williams yesterday. Good
to see him starting to get right. Hunter Brown got
wrong though. Five runs, seven hits, five innings. It's funny.
The last time he struggled was also in a day game.
I know because I was on TV hosting In Game
Live at the time for Sports Grid and we were
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watching a Hunter Brown game and he kind of rallied
that first inning. He was really rough against the White Sox.
Maybe Hunter Brown's just not a day game pitcher. I
don't know, but we can look those are the only
I'd love to see the splits on that because this
was very Hunter Brown. Like, I am not concerned in
the least about this performance. It was against the Rays,
not a great offense. So I understand why people are
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puzzled right now. We're all puzzled, but I will say,
like that's, you know, it's it's not something I'm gonna
get concerned about necessarily.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
There is a big differential. But the day games he's
still a great pitcher. So he has a point eight
three ERA in night games right now, so there's five
starts at night ridiculous, point seven to seven whip point
eight three ERA day games, he's got a point or
he's got a one point zero seven whip three and
one record but a three four one ERA, so it's
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over two runs differential. But that's still a pretty great
pitcher that he is in the day. So I'm not
sure if there's a I mean, there's kind of a
correlation there for sure, But you know that that was
a I don't know if that was like the tough,
tough matchup that you're staring at. But he's gonna regress
a little bit, like he's expected. He already told us
that story. He's still pretty a lead across the board. Well,
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you're more worried about is if they start to stack
and he starts to look average, and you know he's
not getting away with maybe some of the stuff he
was getting away with earlier in the year. That would
be what we're watching. He's also he I don't think
I realized this. He's a pretty high percentage with fastball guy,
and you don't see I mean, I guess you got
to look at k percentage, but yeah, she's for k
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percentage from his forcing fastball. That's not something we see
a ton of. You usually see forcing set up a
lot of other stuff. So that's all.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
A guy who knows how to locate a fastball.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Do it feels sticky, but he's done.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Sticky if you know how to locate it. I think
that's the problem. Everybody throws a hundred. They just throw
it straight. They can't locate it. They can't change the
eye angle of the of the hitter. Todd also says
that my Jodylock's voice is across between Jackson Holiday with
a bad British accent. I would agree. I think that's
exactly what I was going for. Nailed it. Also a
Christian Yelich. We talked about him yesterday in the Q
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and A. We have big discussions, so I don't want
to go too much into it. Go back and watch
a Q and A. It's on the YouTube channel Fantasy
Rose MLB. So Yelich was somebody we talked about off
air yesterday after we recorded the Waiver Wire show, also
available on demand on the YouTube channel. Coincidentally, I think not,
and then we got into a bigger discussion about Yelich.
The counting stats are still there, the home runs, the
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stolen bases, the batting average hasn't been He grounded out
four times and struck out yesterday against the Orioles. He
has a sixty four percent ground ball rate. Well just
thought that was a little high of a number there,
twenty eight percent strikeout rate, and it's just not been
good for Yelich. My concern with Yelich and people say,
well do you buy what do you do a player
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who was chronic back issues is just not when I
want to make investments in. That's it. It's as simple
as that for me.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, I saw somebody put I'd mentioned this on the
live stream, and then I think it was this morning
someone mentioned a it's one of the worst ground ball rates.
But he also the new stat on a baseball savant
with attack angle, because like you'll see, some of these
players like Jacob Wilson and stuff have these really really
low attack angles, which is just letting the ball travel
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more and more and more and not not being afraid
to put it in the ground. But Yelich isn't doing that.
Yeliwi has like league prototypical attack angle of like a
ten degree, So that means he's getting on the ball
at the proper time, which in theory would not increase
ground balls like crazy. That would be as if he
lost his attack angle. So it's really odd, and to me,
I'm not sure if that's something that continue. I mean,
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maybe you just become bad and it doesn't matter. But
there's still and that would be like his barrel rate
really sucks and stuff like that. But there's some stuff
that I look at that don't seem like they can stick, Like,
you know, a negative launch angle. He has a negative
launch angle right now. That's crazy. So I'm not really
sure where it's coming from, you know, seems to be
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in his head or something like that. I'd love to
just see some data that's like, oh, hey, look, his
attack angle is usually like ten degrees. It's down at four,
so he's super behind and that's why he's just beating
everything into the ground. Kind of don't know, he's just
hitting a bunch of ground balls, making bad decisions. Maybe
it's his back, who knows. I tend to slightly be
a bye on him still, but I understand why people
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are just getting out of the business because you can't
be successful with that many ground balls.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Now, I buy Cheerio, but I'm not going to buy Yellish.
That's where I'm at with those guys. By the way,
attack angle, you can find this fall on CBS nine
pm Eastern, followed by max Velocity at ten. Definitely part
of our extreme Tuesday nights.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
That's my new name. By the way, Joe people weren't
here yesterday. I'm all max Velocity.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
There you go. Shout out to Jeff two. We'll see
if we can get on the show tomorrow. He had
a graphic MAUP for max Velocity. He tried to get
it to look like an adult film star, but AI
has restrictions on it, which is a shame. But at
least we know you're adult film star. Name now Joster
Damas everybody's favorite now Sunday on Sports Career, were during
a two hour look back at the first fifty games
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of the season Sunday morning. So go find sports Grid
watch me on there eight to ten because there's a
really fun thing. And as I was going through all
the stats, trying to pull up the you know, first fifty,
you know, trying to look back at what's going on,
look ahead a little bit, I found one of our friends,
Michael Harris first fifty game stats, and I just figured
I would throw him out here to twenty four batting average.
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He has three whole runs, all three of them really exciting.
I scored twelve whole runs twenty four RBI Michael Harris overrated.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
You said that I thought there was more that you're
gonna get going.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I say it like a statement. I'm saying like a
question to you because I want to know if you're
ready to make the statement.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
With me on the overrated. Yeah, I mean, I guess
I'm willing to kind of do that. Like he's stacked
a couple of years of like he's not quite a
twenty twenty guy kind of is. His average continues to dip,
but I'll say this, I still like he's going to
bounce back. I mean, there might be kind of some
split things. I'm gonna look here as far as first
and second half's go over the last couple of years,
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he was a second half guy last year twenty twenty
three massive second half guy as well, really needs to
get going. His expected batting average currently is forty points higher.
He's striking out less. He's just not making as same
quality of contact. I want to look into some other things.
But maybe you also have Michael Harris starting to accept
to be like a different player. He dramatically dropped his
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hard hit rate. And what I mean by that is just,
you know, be more of a contact hitter. We see
a couple of guys like this that they're going to
stop trying to, you know, get the ball in the
air like crazy. You would love to see him do
what C. J. Abrams does and just say, oh, like,
I'm not a great barrel guy, but I get the
ball in the.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Air like sixteen handles.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yeah, I mean, I guess, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Contact, give up some power to hit the baseball and
maybe some home runs will come eventually.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Yeah, he's underperforming against every single pitch type right now,
while having the highest poll rate of his career and
expected batting average is better. I think Michael Harris is
going to bounce back. Actually might be a pretty sweet
really by low. When you get the jokes of the
world out there that hate hate hate.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I just call it like I see it. To me,
he's a very overrated player, and he is a nice player.
His ADP was incredibly overblown going into this season.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Again that I agree with his looks pretty stupid right now.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Oh, it's ridiculous. Right now, here's a ridiculous question from
life or Death. Who's an ideal picture that could trade
Strider for No, you don't don't trade Strider. This is
the worst time. You know, he has bad record against
the NATS. I don't want to trade Spencer Strider. I
just don't want to do it. Well, sh I don't
bet that.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I actually I just saw the name that I would
maybe look at. I think trading like picture for picture
is really tough because you know that person like you
both have to pretend you're not convincing yourselves that you're
selling off of this picture and that this guy is
trying to find it.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Seems like a really toxic relationship.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I think trade, I think specifically pitcher for pitcher is
a very toxic way to trade. What I would say,
like Christopher Sanchez is someone that jumped to my mind.
I would want Sanchez plus for Strider. Yeah, mos Sanchez
a lot, but I wouldn't I wouldn't really look to
trade Strider.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Okay, here's a question. Would you trade? We got fun
fun stats here, Hazus Lozardo, who's pitched incredible baseball this year?
Would you who do you want rest of season? Strider
or Lozardo?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'll take Strider.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Okay, here's fun facts. Since Era become an official stat
in both leagues. In nineteen thirteen, two major League baseball
left handed pitchers have gone undefeated with a sub to
Era ten plus k per nine over the first ten
starts of a season. One is Jesu's Lozardo this year.
The other one Randy Johnson in nineteen ninety five. That's it.
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Lozardo's out of his mind right now. Another fun fact,
because again researching I gains a fun facts here. Logan
Henderson of the Brewers is the only major League baseball
pitcher in the modern era to strike out seven plus
batters and earn the win in each of his first
three career appearances. That guy's not going anywhere, folks, He's
going no place. Transactions. Jean Segura announced his retirement. Boy,
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people are just retiring left and right. Colton Wong, Jean Sigura,
middle infielders of the past.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Just could Tucker by the way. I don't know if
anyone saw this. Cole Tucker, who is married to Vanessa Hutchins.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, he's been doing radio for a while.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah it with big beautiful hair. He's one of the
local guy out here. I had a friend who's in
a band with him, Like he's great Cold Tucker is
one of the best human beings on the planet, and
he's retiring from baseball, but he wants to try to
continue in being coaching or you know, I mean, I
guess he's already doing some media, but I think it's
like some version of coaching or working at some hitting
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complex or something like that.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
So we'll we'll see, we should get him on the show.
Let's get him on the show next year.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Probably obtainable, to be honest with you. Jean Sagira, by
the way, one the Dinebacks don't pull off a lot
of great trades. Usually they are, you know, selling Paul
Goldchmith for nothing, but boy, what a coop, just trading
the epitome of selling high like a fantasy wood off
of Jean Segura is in incredible season with the Diamondbacks.
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That's his career marker. They got could tell Marty for him,
and they just shipped him right out. Got to tell Marte.
But I kind of like Geene Cigarett at least for
that one year with the Diamondbacks, which was otherworldly. But
it was sad to see him go.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Okay, looky, Tom Kate Horton one run five and a
third innings only three strikeouts, though any input here on
the Kate Horton start from yesterday. Walsh, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Think it's I think things are moving in a positive
direction for him. I want the strikeouts to tick back up,
but this is why we wanted them.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It was almost a very like corporate answer. Things are
moving right now in directions we're we're looking at the
headwinds and the tailwinds. We're trying to.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
It definitely was like I was still like I was
looking at something. I was still in a thing. And
then he threw it, and I was like, wait, who
are we talking about? Yes, moving great, projections are looking solid,
and I think we're going to hit our monthly our
monthly quota. We're good.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Andrew Painter seven strikeouts, two runs, one four innings for
Triple A Lehigh Valley, also running Mauricio two for two
with another home run to run Homer for him and
his steel. I gotta say this, Wesh. Brett Batty looked
really sharp yesterday. He looked like he's starting to settle
in a little bit and play like Brett Batty in
the minor leagues. That's the first time last night I'd
seen that version of Batty. It's only one game. I
don't want to take too much out of it. But
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Vanto's better get his craft together because Mauricio is hitting
Baty's starting to look comfortable. Louis Angelekunya is not going anywhere,
like I said, because he's a fiery guy. He's a
good guy to have on a team. He's out, he's
in like Juan Soto's face, like firing him up and
like he's just that kind of guy. You need those
guys on teams, you do. Vando's better figured out and
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soon because he's in the weird spot right now. Better
fix it, Better fix it. Well, we're making adjustments. We've
we've looked at the data and we're going to do
our best to move forward here.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
We have a quarterly plan where we are going to
make organizational adjustments where things are going to hit that
ROI per acted number. Yes, I've given presentations, by the way,
like people don't. I used to be in a very
corporate world, and I'm prepared when I am prepared on presentation.
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Welsh is quite impressive.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
It's true. I've seen it. It's very impressive. CJ. Kyphis.
So we just talked about a couple of days ago.
We got to talk about again two before with a
walk of double, two run homer at Triple A. It's
going to be Kyph's time sooner than later. I'm just saying, Welsh,
I'm just saying, let's get to the three up and
three down Dustin May, eight strikeouts and six innings, Corbyn
Burns has been back on track. Remember he had that
skipped start and give him a little bit of a respite.
(27:36):
Things have been much better since. Three runs over seven innings,
eight strikeouts and Tyler McGill four hits, one run, one walk,
career high ten strikeouts. Tyler was terrific last night. He
was throwing a heavy fast ball yesterday. Man, it was
crazy to watch. Unfortunately, he got into some trouble there
and the defense did not help him out. One of
(27:57):
the defensive problems was his that he went to go
try to field to go ground balls and to let
the catcher get it, and he threw it to the outfield.
But McGill looked really sharp. And that's been a guy
whose strikeout rate has been higher this year than any
other year. And we're starting to wonder, you know this
mitched pitching factory we talk about and you know, we
keep talking about it because they keep having outings like.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
This pitching factory. Yeah. Man, they've definitely turned out like
some dudes who work scrap pile. I'll give them credit
for that. For Griffin Canning and Tyler McGill at thirty
one percent k percentage. For McGill, he still walks way
too many, but he is more than serviceable to be
at the middle of her rotation. And Gorman Burns I
(28:34):
had him plus I just want to point out plus
one for five and a half strikeouts yesterday. I played
him att because those changes are real. That rest he
was able to rebounce back. He's got his VLO back.
And interesting thing you know, Ino Sarahs from the Athletic
talk to him and he was very insightful about because
we designated as a cutter the main fastball that he throws.
(28:58):
But he says in this video with you know that
he's just like, listen, I'm actually going more for seam.
I have for sem action. I'm throwing it like a
for seam. There's natural cut to it. And he says,
when I get in trouble is when I start to
force the cut and he's like, I'm trying to not
do that. It's really interesting take really interesting video for
a guy that I said two and a half weeks
(29:20):
ago i've been actually at the beginning of the season,
said bye because and I had nothing for you. I
had no good reasoning for you, except that I believe
he will bounce back. And then we started seeing some
actionable items and we're seeing some data that proves it
over the last three starts. Hopefully you did very interesting
with the Corbyn burns and he much he very much
(29:41):
looks like the part of that picture, that great version
of that picture from last year.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
A DJ posey subbed with prime thanks for someone with
us wiki scratched the downs yesterday. JP's here is oh
my god, he didn't leave anything down. Everything was up
and it all got hit out of the ball bar.
And you have four homers yes day. Carson Palmquist, which
is I find that name just very uncomfortable. Ten hits,
seven runs, six earned. I don't know, Carson Palmquist. It
(30:09):
sounds like a like a you know when you go
to like a supermarket that's like off brand, like the
Dollar Store or something, and they have food in their
rocket yeah, like Pomquist is like one of those weird
soda brands, and it.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Sounds like the new student at the school, Like everybody,
could you please welcome Carson Palmquist. He's coming from us
from Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yes, he enjoys Minecraft and he's runner. Yeah. Logan Web
six runs. Of course. Of course, this is the one
bad start Logan Web has had because I made it
the bet of the day yesterday. Just awful. He had
an e RA under one in all four of his
home starts before this. Just brutal.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
I didn't even want to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
So the betting has been rough this year. It's just
it just has. But we're up to eleven homers. I
don't know what's what's what do you have to have
to get the board? Well, we'll see, we'll see in this.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Sex fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Let's get to the injuries. Ronald Akoia one for four
with a walk, so getting closer on him. Santander was
removed yesterday. He's been dealing with a hip injury, but
he was removed yesterday later in the game. I think
it was just precautionary because they were up by two
touchdowns in that game. I think by the time he
came out, so not so bad. Aaron Savali, Up, am
I back?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah, you're back. I had silent and then I looked
at the screen and you were like this, You were like.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Got fuzzy. Yeah, okay, Aaron Savali, I almost forgot. He
was in the system for the Brewers Minor League REEP
start for him in Triple A. Cutter Crawford, He's gonna
face hitters today, Tanner Hawk on Friday. He's going to
resume Throe and Rome Gonzalez with that quad is going
to be out longer than anticipated. I guess he had
a setback. Mike Trout is running at eighty percent. I
(31:48):
don't know how you gauge that, but apparently not eighty one,
not seventy nine eighty percent.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
We I would love this. I'm asking for too much here.
I want what is the game on the prices right
the yodeler where the guy's going up there. I want
that with Mike Trout's face on it, and it's just
I can't remember what that's called, but that's that should
be our injury tracker for Mike Trout getting back in
and he's just his hangers.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Cliff Half hanger.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yeah, exact.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yoda, And it was as a kid, you'd love because
it's it's the building of the drama. As it gets
higher and higher up, the thing is it going to
fall off? And the best he stops right at that peak,
like one or two little notches away.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Dude. Peak growing up in like the late nineties and
early two thousands was being sick, not having to go
to school or faking sick, sitting at home at like
nine in the morning and watching Prices right and watching
planko plank in the yodeler, and it just that was.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Just yeah, that was the best, solid, very solid hat
doubt about that. Next up, we have a Jonah Him
who came out yesterday with a hand injury. They said
it was a nerve issue, So more to come on that.
Tyler Glass now is gonna throw a bullpensession Friday. Tario
Strada has begun his rehab assignment, so look for him
if you need some help at second base. He's probably
floating around waiver wires. We were excited about him going
(33:10):
into the season and then injury struck that wrist issue. Unfortunately,
Brandon Woodroft four shutout innings in his five hundred and
seventy first rehab start of twenty twenty five, so we'll
see if he's ready for another three hundred more. Dl Hall. Also,
because the Brewsers have all these pictures and re Brewers
have the greatest triple a rotation of all time, dal
Hall three more shoutout innings for him and Verlander headed
(33:32):
to the il with the pectoral discomfort that we discussed yesterday.
So Welsh, any of these injuries stick out more than
another one to you.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
The jonah Haeimwan I was watching live and the announcer
immediately I want to say, maybe he didn't have his
glove on or something, And as soon as it hit
he was like, Ooh, that's gonna be really bad. The
vibration you get on the hand, he's gonna be feeling that.
And then for the next like five minutes they kept
kind of going back. They're like, yeah, he's favoring he's
favoring it, and then they took him out. So there
might be something more beyond that. I'd be a little
(34:02):
bit worried about, but thyro Estrado would be someone I
would go and pick up right now if he's available.
And then got just kicked to the wire. Just remember
from that, you know, there's the ballpark perspective, but also
there's some loud potential counting stats out of him batting
averages there, and they've been talking about moving off of
guys like Ryan McMahon trades and stuff. Either way, there's
gonna be playing time for Thyrostrata. So I would go
(34:23):
and pick him up, especially with that rehab assignment, assuming
you might need a little bit longer, which I don't
think they should do, but I would pick him up
assuming that like midnext week is a possibility, if not
the following week.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
The other thing, when I was homesick after a price
is right, I used to have a VHS tape They
did like a marathon of like the Baseball Bunch, And
again I don't know if you know what this show is,
Johnny Bench, the Baseball Bunch. It was these kids and
Johnny Bench. It was like the early eighties, and every
show it was like a half hour little baseball show.
And they would it was the San Diego Chicken, Johnny
(34:56):
Bench and these Rando kids and they every the top
receiver and Pete Rose like all these like stars would
be on there and they would come on and do
baseball stuff with them. It was like a little baseball
comedy instruction show. The Baseball bunch.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Was do that with max velocity, Max Max max velocity
and friends. I'll do a modern version of that, all right.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
So let's get this one from a DJ. I picked
up Narvares and Baldwin when we found out the controls
at a fracture. Finger don't have room to keep them both,
so Navarrees or Baldwin. Rest of season.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Picked up Baldwin. I'll go with Baldwin.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yeah, Baldwin's been hot. It's kind of hard not to
go with Baldwin at this point in time. All right, Welsh,
it's that time again. It's time for the Best Bets
of Thursday with Joey P and Welsh.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Frozen Joe, what a beautiful Your bets were a little
frozen yesterday, Joe. I believe mine were pretty solid. I
was two and zero with one push, so I will
take that Joe's back. Let's hear what you got. Oh,
you're living on the dangerous side.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah, I don't know why Ranger Suarez over a five
and a half strikeouts. He's not a big strikeout as
they won as one eight team, but it's the Rockies
and they make everybody look like Sandy Kofax Raphfield Devers.
Let's go for the RBI plus one fifty five. He's
springing a good bat right now. And Marcelo Zuna in
a good matchup tonight for the Atlanta Braves. Let's go
for RBI for him as well, plus one point twenty Welsh,
(36:17):
what do you have for the people?
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I got a total base fest that we're going to
rock in today. We got some early games, we got
some really tight lines, some really tight first fives that
we're going to jump into the total base market with
some win pushing some of these games out there. We're
going to start it off with Kerry Carpenter over one
and a half total bases plus one fifteen against Ridings.
He's always money, I believe you know. It's really low
(36:40):
home run markers as well, so I love Kerry Carpenter.
This is probably one of the best. This reminds me
of yesterday's Corbyn Burns where I played it at plus
one forty or one fifty for five and a half
strikeouts and it hit James Wood over one point five
total bases at plus one fifty. I very much like
this matchup, really really good marker for him. And we're
(37:00):
gonna go back to Gunner who Gunner didn't give me
the homer the other day, but he did give me
the actual bases, So we are gonna rock over one
and a half total bases on Gunner Henderson, every single
one of these app plus money. Let's play them ount
and let's get on base with Carpenter, Wood and Gunner.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
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Where are we with the home run board? Ooh, so fourteen?
I need three more ish, probably more like four.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Yeah, you need to get to fifteen. By the time
you're up there, it's gonna push. But honestly, the machine
might be the number. I'm on thin ice right now,
like I'm barely holding on so and I have not
had a homer and I don't know what the account
is currently. It has to be at least ten days.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
I have like one Soto cold right now. That's how
cold you are. Oh, you're Christian Yelich cold. Mary's still
at the top of twenty one, with George tied far
out at twenty, DJ Osbourne at twenty. Wonkee's moved all
the way down to seventh spot here with eighteen, so
Welsh's still hanging in there, still on the board. You've
been on board for a long time. You should be
very proud of yourself. I am going to go with
(38:37):
Philadelphia Philly today for my home run this afternoon. Kyle
Schwarber was also on fire plus two thirty five. He's
got good career numbers against the Colorado Pictchers going against today,
and I'm just gonna keep pounding on that Philadelphia Philly
line up as much as I possibly can. I almost
a Castighanos today too, So going back and forth. But
let's go with Schwarber. Where are you going Welsh for
your home run call?
Speaker 2 (38:56):
I'm joining you on that one. I'm taking a Schwarberfest.
So we're gonna okay, this is gonna be one of
those block situations where if we're going up, we're going
up together. Schwarberfest is upon us. It's in Colorado. Her
Man Marquez got an eight e RA. I could have
maybe picked Harper, but we might go two for with
Kyle Schwarber's So Schwarberfest for the leading off combo home
(39:19):
run play.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
The two more will put me at thirteen before the weekend.
I like the sound sall base bet.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
By the way, you have to bet three they want.
If you want plus money, you've got to go to
three to, which is what saw that.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
It was like minus money for RBI two, which is
never Yeah, you never get for RBI. It's Vegas telling
you something. Boys and girls, great show today. Appreciate everyone
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(39:52):
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Speaker 2 (39:53):
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Speaker 1 (39:57):
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Speaker 2 (40:02):
It's not really me either. That's like Ben affle It's.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
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Speaker 2 (40:07):
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Speaker 1 (40:11):
Yes, No, that's it. If Ben Affleck played Welsh in.
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Speaker 1 (40:21):
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