Leading Off June 28th, 2024 (Ep. 851)

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Dreams of gloomy eye. Welcome everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is Leading Off Live, brought to you by Bet three sixty five. Bet five bucks get one hundred and fifty in bonus bets when you use the promo code leading Off only at Bet three sixty five. It's me Joey b That of course is the Welsh. It it's you that peanuts and the cracker Jacks. It's a fun

Well, no, see, July fourth isn't July fourth around these parts because my daughter and my wife's sherry birthday and it's July fifth, So July fourth, my daughter has taken over. It's actually very appropriate for July fourth in America. She has taken over. July fourth is her day, and then July fifth is like pseudo my wife and my daughter still takes that one. So we're coming up to a

I can definitely see.

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Yeah, I've got a whole. Yeah, I'm gonna have one of those one of these rompers is that what they're called. I'm gonna get me one of those.

Like ROMs definitely see maybe face paint like a little Jojo siwa, but jojo piez of pia.

Don't put that evil out there for the piece.

Oh it's out there now, a little jojo, a little jojo piece of pia.

We got a lot to get to. But where else would we start a show this week if not for the Yankee rotation?

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First it was Coal, and it was Heel, and today it's Carlos Rodond who gives up eight runs in five innings. Not that great of a performance for Carls. I don't care about the strikeouts. Eight runs is eight runs, Welsh fun facts, ready for fun facts. Garrett Cole sixer and runs last start. Heel twelve earned runs in his last two starts, and Carls we're done twenty earned runs his

Yeah, I mean all we're waiting for really is going to be who are those pitchers that are going to be, you know, really actually be available, because again you go and look at the you look at the standings, and everybody's pretty close. Everybody's in the general range, So like who are the sellers And it might be more about the buyers being more hyper aggressive. I just don't know.

By the way.

He had a huge variance of over five mile an hour difference between the low and high on his fastball. He had seventeen whiffs in a game where he gave up eight earned runs, and almost everything was kind of up in general on vel. So I think this is a blip in the road for the Yankees. Yankees fans are freaking out and losing it. You have these guys in fantasy. You're absolutely losing your mind. I think it's

It is definitely that also bad in the streets. Rice Harper left hamstring injury, so we're gonna get more. I don't seen an update yet to have been doing football shows all morning and other stuff, so I didn't get to see anything recently, but I have to keep a close eye on this. Hopefully it's just a little cramp issue or something like that and nothing serious. But everyone holding their breath first to lose bets. Now I'm gonna

Unfollow me, unfollow me at fantasys dot com or betting pros dot com slash well unfed.

Why do you do this? You have to learn to take the good in the bad. You have to say, hey, I'm struggling right now, but I'm gonna I'm gonna make a comeback here. You get so down on yourself or you like this as a little kid too, How do you like baseball? Baseball is all this failure in it, and and you you fail a little bit, and you get so down on yourself. I want to pump you up.

I need to We need like an Uno card, like I need a thing to put on my profile that says, oh, you should just fade me. Does fade anything? I say, do the opposite right now. Yeah, failure is if consistent. Failure is rough. I would be a rough starting pitcher in baseball because one bad outing and I'm I'm Jordan Montgomery throwing one blow.

And say, don't let Welsh close games. You know what the P stands for and Joey P positivity, That's what it stands for.

Horse, Come on, Jojo positivity. That's that's your character.

So Chris Sale make a lot of headway in the National League Young race too after this performance yesterday to that numbers move significantly interesting to watch. Also interesting to watch Corbyn burns one run seven innings on the America League side of that, another good star for him against the Rangers and strikeouts. Noel ve Marte uh showed back up three hits yesterday, so he was back against the Cardinals.

The Marte parte if you will. That's what That's what we did out here in Arizona when we had Katel and starling Marte, we had the Marte partey. Yeah, it is good that he is back from being a big, massive cheater and he can go about his non cheating ways now. Of course he's non cheating now and get back to it. Three hits is a great thing. I will tell you this. Noelvie has somebody. I watched him literally before he made his professional debut with the Mariners.

Yeah, well there was a show talking about this for like a month. It was called what was it, Oh, leading off right, leading off with Joey positivity. We warned you pick up no foot But look, it's a no brainer. And and hopefully he can pick up where he left off last year, because last year it was a thirty five game sample. It was a tremendous sample size. He had for average, he had for power, he showed you to speed, he showed you everything. And and carnasciels Strand

To be a top one hundred player. It could be a top one hundred player the restless season. I wouldn't I wouldn't discount that.

One hundred percent for fun, a little bit of fun. Adulas Garcia another guy we were talking about buying low homer yesterday against the Orioles, so that's some signs of life. Louis Robert also showing signs of life. He was my buy low earlier. Still hitting under two hundred on the year, but another home run for him. He's playing his way out. Nolan Gorman, we just talked about this yesterday. Was he gonna be out the lineup? He was Welsh, he was they we're facing a lefty, so Jose Fermen got the

I would say no. I actually want to go back to a doles here in a second, but I would say no because similar to this is like super high end, high level stuff with Ellie. We know, like Ellie could disappear for two weeks and then he can go and become the best player in baseball. That's not Nolan Gorman. But what we do know about Nolan Gorman at this point is he can have two weeks that are great and two solid and two weeks that are bad, or three weeks that are bad and a week that's good.

He just hits a couple of home runs in a week.

Hit the ball. He hits the ball crazy heart.

Yeah.

So that's the thing. I think he's like, I.

Want him to hit it toof guys aren't or hit it pie.

If I just don't think this is the end, because I think this is what he does. I think this is the exact thing that he always does. We need I want to talk about a dollars.

Ye, I don't know what that means, but I don't like it, so.

Real quick, Joe I want to talk about adulties for one second, but our chat is blowing up with something that could make Welsh very very happy. Could maybe you confirm while I talk about adulties real quick, because.

I did want to. There's a good question there too, but I'll have to go down here. Okay, but real quick on adult James Wood actually going to be making his debut on Monday? Is this true? Could this be? I will confirm that in the meantime, I want to get to Matt Hoey's question also, so put Matt one question up here so I don't lose that. Continue on. I'll look for any James Wood stuff here.

Okay, Oh wait, what do we do? I said, I want to talk about adolies, So we're going to the question what.

Do we talk about? You can talk about whatever you want.

Okay, that's great, Thank you so much, Joey, positive welcome, just real quick on the adults front, and then we'll go to that question. He has not actually shown real, real signs of like a massive bounce back because he's hitting one eighty eight this month, but from a profile perspective, a lot of it is still there. It's double digit barrel percentage. He's hitting the ball hard. Those are just small ticks down. He's actually striking out less, which is

I do have a conversation. I do have the confirmation from Graham Paulson, who friend of mine, somebody I trust, done shows within the pass from the DC area. James Wood will be called up to make his debut. He's reporting it on my We have ex'cide entamment against the Mets. Was hitting three forty six with a ten to thirty six ops and triple A this year. So there you go, boys and girls, you did it.

It's freedom. My guarantee you did guarantee it earlier this week. Oh, I guaranteed he come right after the All Star break. He come up right after the All Star break. There you go, you're gonna get him right or wrong. I'm just more right. I just get more extra points.

Right.

So it's July first.

I should look at Welsh's mood has swung. Look how much happier he is now.

I mean, I'm so happy for James Wood. This is the guy. And that's what I said yesterday was you know, he is the guy that you stash, so bang boom.

All right, Matt Howey wants to know Joe and Welsh. Who would you rather have rest of season? Brian Reynolds and Nicko Lodolo or Julio Rodriguez with the Ray Renalds the way Reynolds has played and Lodolo is pitched and it's only a blister issue, It's not an elbow or a shoulder. I want the combo. I want the two players Welsh and I can't believe I'm saying that, but I am. What do you think.

I would not blame anybody to want that duo, because here's one thing you get about Lodolo has been strong, and here's what you it with Brian Reynolds. You get consistency. You're just gonna get it. It's beautiful. But I'm gonna say with Julio, I believe that there's gonna be like a strong second half coming for Julio. He's a top overall player if I need a depth though, this is actually like a classic redraft type of trade where it's like, hey, this big super guy is not doing super great for me.

It's it's elbow. It's not a shoulder. It's a blister issue, Like it's a blister. That's like he's he's not structurally wrong. He's got a blister. Like that's something you know the summertime. It happens with some guys I got.

By the way, am I was I salty today?

Everyone's like sad about your betting losses.

You were, Oh no, I'm just I'm I'm trash, I'm garbage. You know that show?

Are you?

Are you trash?

Oh? Yeah no.

James Wood isn't gonna fix my my betting.

Your mood though, I just want to make you happy going into the week on Friday, you're not having any fun. Rookie, lookie time has Cire's toad two for three with a walk, two run score to homer and three RBI. That's a good thing. David Festa did get a w but he gave up five runs and five innings against the Diamondbacks. So takeaways from the David fest to start against your d Backs. I'm not ready to drop him after one start. I'm still very curious about him. It's his debut. I'm

Yeah? God, I'm trying to think of who it was. It did something. It's out of my brain. But Festa had no hits through three innings. Also, if you look at the line, you wouldn't know that he didn't have any strikeouts. Dimonbacks are very tough to strike out. He walked one. He had three no hit innings, and then I could tell Marte got to him. My boy, that was the guy that I picked on. Diamondbacks are a

Right, Moving on to the three up and three down. Ellie de la Cruz three for five with a homer, a single, triple, a an RBI n a steel Zach Wheeler, two runs and six and two thirds. Are they good start for him? Could get no decision unfortunately. Wow, And as you mentioned, Katel Marte made the ups this Friday, homer and a double and a blowout against the Twinkies.

Oh, I don't know if it's poor I mean, I guess.

I can deal with that issue. And he's been missing starts and getting things bumped around, like dude, I don't know which one it is. I was hoping.

I'll tell you too again not to like be crazy pluggy about this, but it's just because we did, like this very specific show, the ital show we did yesterday, we redrafted the first four rounds, and in the fourth round I was really I'm kind of regretting it now. It sounds stupid, but I was like, all right, guys, I'm going to surprise you with this picker is right

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I bet that would sign it my like I can sign Orlando Cabrera's name too and just pretend it's signed good.

But I think you do like your real signature and then maybe like a Joey like you give it a give it like. I don't think anybody, Oh, do you like a little baby handwriting?

Yeah, a little baby, I hold a pen like this.

You're letting Joe. Wait, it looks like yeah, okay, I the autograph.

Kyle Tucker on the Injury News taking thirty swings off a tee. Yay. So now he's up there with an eight year old. Kyle Schwarber was removed from yesterday's game also, just like Harper, with a left growing tightness. So the only thing for that is a blow. So he's probably going to be out for the weekend. You'd imagine there, but keep an eye on that. The last thing the Phillies want to do here. It's it's funny because you

That one is talking about it. I will point out again, though, this is that thing where people look at teams that are like vying and they're like, oh hey, well we got this depth and they can move from here. No, like teams, teams want depth, teams need depth. The Diamondbacks have been a prime example of what it does za embarrassment. Their rotation has been the Dodgers are experiencing it, and now a Phillies team is experiencing it. That these got you have to pay up, pay more for some of

Well, the hard part is with the expanded playoffs, you also don't get as many teams that are willing to call themselves out of it. Yeah, you know, like that's the other thing. It's it's not what it used to be in that sense, which makes you wonder about, you know, adjustments to the trade deadline or how you want to figure that out.

But we'll finally make it longer.

I don't know. I mean, it's a real question because you want teams to stay competitive, but you also want the competitive teams to get better, you know what I mean. I know that's kind of like a chicken and egg kind of scenario, but you know, I mean, how many teams have are decidedly you know what, Let's do it. Let's have fun. Let's go through the teams that are decidedly out of it or we think are going to be decidedly out.

Of the a's hold hold on, I'm gonna go.

We're gonna go through the each thing. So I'm just a Blue Jays out of it. Let's start in the East. They're six and a I mean out of the wildcard.

No, okay, if you're if you're if you're eight under eight games out of the wildcard, you're not out of it. I'll just that'll be myam.

Oh, so the Tigers aren't out of it then because they're seven.

They're on the cusp. But I'm saying, yeah, they're not out of it.

No, it's a good game more than the Blue Jays.

Yeah, okay, that's one more game, all right.

Because you were trying to trade Jack Fliery two minutes ago. Look at you, You're like give them away. All of a sudden, they're into white Sox or twenty three games out of the Wildcard, they're done.

Yeah.

The Angels nine and a half games out of the wildcard, are they done? Yes? Okay, the Oakland a sixteen games out, they're done. The Nats are certainly not done. The Miami Marlins twelve and a half games out of the Wildcard, they're done. Yes. The entire Central is four or less, so they're in it. And the Rockies, So the Rockies have nobody that you want.

Chris Bryant, I said Olan Jones.

I'll stand by this. They're not trading Nolan Jones. The Marlins had Lozardo. That's it now. Uh the A's Do the A's have anybody you want besides Mason Miller? The Angels, by the.

Way, the Rockies do have. The Rockies do have Dakota Hudson. Yeah. The A's have Paul Blackburn and JP Sears so or no, Blackburn's hurt Sears though series is definitely difference.

JP. Yeah, that's that's the guy who's gonna change the stars of the Major League Playoffs. JP s heres. Uh so, yeah, I mean until teams like the Blue Jay like the blue Jays have assets like Chris Bassett, like that's a that's a picture.

Who Yeah, and we're and by the way, someone was talking about Richard said, like McMahon, we're only talking about pictures here. These guys have obvious offensive but White Sox. That's why you come back to the White Sox. They've got Fetti and they've got crochet. So there's only so much that is available out which why somebody.

Should get a hall for crochet, Like they should get a hall for crochet, just say.

But that's also why a guy like I think fetti on the lower term, but flarity on a high term. Flarity would be if I'm like, you know, we get all these rumors about the Padres, the Padres are super active and blah blah blah, I would be so proactive about trying to get a guy like that who can eat innings, A veteran who you have no worries about, that's going to eat all those innings, who's had a great year strikeouts are up, Like that's a premium buy. That's a premium by flarity.

Oh for a team like the Pottery I don't know, man, I just how many more assets can the Padres trade? I mean they might be looking at tease hurt. You know, if Musgrove comes back healthy, maybe he's a guy that's on the way out. Yeah you got maybe he just count But also tread and water.

Just wrapping this conversation up about playoffs and who would trade hashtag for James would? Yeah, James would Coming up on Monday is also a very positive sign of first off obvious, but also that this team does believe and is going to take a little stab at continuing because if they didn't feel they were in it, you could have maybe manipulated James Wood for next year. But if you're in it, you got to bring him up. Because it's gage.

We're announcing it three days, like is he going to play a triple A this weekend? Because you don't want to.

Get hot, they might have like, you know, a game off or something like that, or I don't know.

That that's odd.

Well, tickets they can, you know, they can like build up ticket prices. People are gonna want to come out like it is smart if you have a top prospect in the game that people pay attention to to preemptively do it so everybody can get all hyped up. Ticket sales can go up. I don't know Larry today.

Did you guys ever figure out what triggered the serie voice during the show yesterday? No? No, it was an amazing moment and I'm very happy.

I really when I was going back and doing something in the edit, I re listened to that thing and I was like, what the hell? It was like, I'm sorry, I didn't hear what you said. It's like what there was, so you shouldn't have been listening.

Stop listening. AI results negative in the X ray for Carls Korea's wrist Lars Newbar. Beginning in minor league rehab assignment. Today in double A, Ricky Titeman struck out five and two and a third. So if he's still available in your league, maybe need some pitching death you pick them up. That was in single A. So those are the guys working their way back from injuries, which is always good,

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Yeah, you know the Philly. This is not my top bet. It's actually my third one on here. But I'm gonna mention I had Philly two and I had the run line. I'm gonna adjust with you. If both Shoarbur and Harper out, I'm I'm out. Yeah, I think Harper's gonna be out. He even said after the game last night like he had not felt something like that before, So I expect Harper to be out. But if also Schwarber's out, I'm gonna nix that. And what I'm so. I'm telling you

Go, well, I mean you should still follow us anyway. Welsh's very good. He's just having a bad couple of weeks, so we're getting down on himself. You know what will make him feel better if you follow him. You follow him and like you said, you bet the opposite until he gets out of it. But that's a way.

Yeah, that's true. You could just say that.

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I say, look at Melware. Oh wait, I'm so far down there. We would have to have we would have to have three more screens. Okay, you'll get a odd box of MLB.

At twenty nine, b trot at twenty eight, PASSI at twenty eight. I'm at twenty two. So still on the board right now. I can't knock me off this board. I'm gonna keep it simple this weekend. Well, I'm gonna go with Yankee. I'm gonna go with Aaron Judge, who hits a lot of home runs, because I just want to get I feel like I just get one. I key pace. Maybe I get to this weekend, things will go in a good direction for me. Where are you going with your home run call today?

I'm gonna go to the braves. I'm not gonna take Matt Olsen because I get yelled at when I take matt Olsen. So I'm going to take Austin Riley. Give me some Austin Riley. Believe that's up against Martin Prez. Got a fourteen percent home run to flyball ratio right now. Some good bets, and I like some of them. In here, Carlos is trying to get me to go. Jose Ramirez. Probably a really good call, Richard said Josh Naylor. I love that, and I did laugh at this bat fout said,

It's a good cop, he's playing bad cop. Come snap out of it, Welsh. It's okay, it's good.

We snap into a slim gym.

How all your expert leagues going by the way, X's horrible.

No, tot was amazing, that's horrible. All my nfbc's they're middling. We were way up top. We've kind of come back down. And see how like in the middle right, it could go either way for the rest of the year. So Welsh was gonna make either a lot of money or we'll be back into don't follow me, don't listen to me, and maybe I'll just start managing some back end stuff here at Fantasy Pros and never come back on air.

Hey gotta manager back end stuff the foremost.

Isn't it great that James would James Wood like that?

That's a reason. That's the way to end the week, and we get to start Monday show talking about James Wood, which will be very exciting little preview. We'll see who's on the mound against are they in Washington? That's my question.

Probably that would be why I'm going to guess right now, Yes, because that's why you would do the three day before thing.

Let's see Monday, Monday, Monday, the Washington Nationals are at home against the New York Mets.

Right.

I did like team ye New York Mets. So there you go. Everything's happening against the Mets. Will Grimace be there? I don't know, but James Wood will be.

Have you ever had a grimace shake?

No?

I haven't either. You remember do you remember the like viral was having like a seizure?

But yes, I remember the grimace it was. Is that what it was? It was a grim shake?

Yeah, it was a grimace shake and then everyone they would like drink it and then they would like all like what an awesome viral thing that is, like, hey, everybody just killed me. But I never had that.

The internet is weird.

But that's where we'll get one. Maybe we should go get one for Monday.

For this James Wood it still exists.

Oh that's a great question. I don't know.

I will. I mean, there doesn't make the it's not far from me. I'm willing to give it.

Can you get a grimace shake at nine am, you think, because that's what it'll be for me, that's the problem.

But you, I don't know. If he could, you put in the freezer and we'll have it the next day. I'm sure it'll stay all right. I'm sure it'll be fine.

All right. Then we'll do the we'll do the viral thing. We'll be like, hey, look everybody, and then we'll just die and I'm sure a.

Lot of people will like that in the chat. All right, Go enjoy your weekend, everybody. We'll be back again Monday to do it all again. For the Welsh, I'm Joey P. We'll see you next time. Kids.

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