MLB: Leading Off April 28th, 2022 (Ep. 499)

The baseball gods giveth and the baseball gods taketh away. Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is leading off. It is me, Joey b Joe Piezapia. That of course, is the Welsh who is under the weather today, Office Officer, Officer Welsh. If you're watching on the YouTube channel, We're brought to you by bet MGM Sports, the king of sports books. And I'm not sure if you're Officer Welsh today or if you are Buddy Ray Welsh, famous blue singer. We'll find out by the end of

Well, I'm a soldier, I don't, Joe. I don't know if you know. I'm a big guy. I could put some in the hospital if I needed to, but except myself. I can put anybody in the hospital except myself. When I feel like this. I'm the officer of the law here for Fantasy Pros, and in no way is it because my eyes are swollen. I know my voice sounds great. Let's do this.

I can only say this that if there is already an emoji of my face, there must be an emoji.

But this has gotta be it, This has gotta be.

Please somebody whoever's in charge of that and make this happen, because I want to use that emoji for everything. Yeah, pretty much. So, bad boys, Bad boys, what you're gonna do? Maybe when they come for you to talk about baseball, Let's start with the headlines. We'll start with the Braves activating Ronald Acunya. And it's still April, so for those of you who got a discount, congratulations, the risk paid off. April twenty eighth. He is now officially back with the team,

Speaking of good frames, I should just shut up about McKenzie Gore. I can't do that right. He looked finished last year, I mean done in the Complex League. The guy has it going. His fastball's commanding at ninety six, he's spinning the ball. He's getting strikeouts at an elite clip. I'm gonna give myself a ticket. I'm gonna give myself a Welsh Fantasy ticket for going in the wrong direction, speeding in the wrong direction on McKenzie Gore because he's heading in the right direction.

Yeah. Look, if you picked up Gory, you're doing very well. There's no doubt about that. Joe Ryan continues to be masterful. I've got one rotation that's so good. He's always on my bench every week. I can't get Joe Ryan in. I might have started him over guys like Freddy Perolta. At this point, I don't know what to do. I have to get Joe Ryan in these lineups because he's been so fantastic. Yesterday there was slander on the show against Paul Blackbird. And understand why I was talking about

Yeah, I mean it's one of those guys though that like when it goes, it's gonna go quick, and it's going to go in one start and you're not gonna want to be holding the bag. So I'm a little indifferent. Where like with Joe Ryan Wonkey in the jokingly in the chat says Joe Ryan over Brenda Woodruff, I think Joe Ryan is a must start every single week. I mean, if you're really choosing between Freddy Prauft and him. Okay, I suppose that's one thing, but he is an absolute

Yeah. Absolutely. In terms of the DFS market too, I mean he was a little cheaper in these first couple of weeks. That's not going to be the case after this last start. There's no doubt about that. Now, going back to Gore for a second, here's a trivia question. This is the simple one. Who holds the Padres record for strikeouts in a game by a rookie pitcher? And I'll say this, it happened in twenty nineteen, so it's pretty recently. If you want to take on that one.

Now, I don't call the station and find this out. This doesn't sound right to me.

Well, I'm just telling it was from MLB dot com. So there you go. Now, our boy, Mike Mayer says, Taylor Ward hit a double a triple home run last night against the Guardians. It was the ninth game in Angel's history where a player fell a single short of the cycle. Who was the last player to do it? And the hint is it was in twenty eleven and twenty twelve and it was a big boy. That's our hint. Now, my guess is, I'm trying to think around that time.

By the way I looked it up, Lamet made his major debut in seventeen. So just putting that out there, I'm not.

Really Maybe I got the year wrong. Maybe that's me. I will look and be sure, but it was Lamette. It was from MLB dot com. Perhaps I remember the year incorrectly. I don't know, Okay, I will.

What was What was the hint on the last question?

The last one was I'm sorry, you know it, says Dean Nelson lam At fourteen ks versus Brewers nine, eighteen nineteen from MLB dot com, who was the Padres record for strikeouts in a game by a rookie pitcher. Perhaps he made his debut, but you have enough innings to.

Yeah, plenty of guys do that like turnover thing where it's like a couple of innings here, a couple innings there, and you can still qualify.

So all right, So the mayor trivia question again, This is an Angels guy in twenty eleven and twenty twelve, a big boy who fell a single short of the cycle, who was the last player to do it. So Mayor I assume has the answer and is in the chat. Eventually he will drop that, Oh my goodness, there was a player that I tried every year to make happen, Like I look at Brandon Wood and be like, I'm gonna add this guy the back of my draft every year.

I think it has to do with the baseball. That's what Bassett insinuated. The baseball seem to be a mess. There's humidor situations. I actually somehow I talked about it on the ind This League Baseball Pod where Scott white Heads brought up the point that all of the Major league parks have the humidor in and that's gonna have adverse effects in some of the parks as well, like right now, and I think that's that's helping the deadening the ball. So I think it has a lot to

Or everywhere? That's the thing I don't understand, like why would you have it? I mean, I understand in certain locations why you have the humid are that we all get that, we're not stupid, But this whole like we're gonna have all the baseball is the same in a humid or situation. That seems ridiculous to me because you're talking about different weather climates all over the country at any given moment.

Well, one of the interesting things, and again I want to give credit to it, because I believe it was Scott White that was alluding to it, is, you know, as we're getting deadening ball right now, think of the opposite effect that's going to happen in the summer with all the parks using a humid ore. You're gonna have, you know, parks that are already in a moisture like a you know, decent human climate. In the summer, you

The answer to the question of the guy who fell short in twenty eleven twenty twelve, Mark Trumbo. There was a black Oh Mark.

I loved Mark Trumbull. That's a good one.

Who doesn't love Mark Trumbo. Wonder what Mark Trumbo is doing right now.

I wonder what he is doing. I bet he's like selling insurance or NFTs.

I probably, I bet Mark Trumbo did. Okay, I just got a Facebook thing that you might know on your friend's list, Matt Stairs, And I was like, I know who Matt Stairs, but I don't think Matt Stairs knows me. So I wonder what those kind of DH guys are doing with their time nowadays. Probably sitting on a pile of money by the pool, That's what I would imagine. All right, let's get to the stat heroes of the day.

Question, but I don't know. I don't think I had thought about it in that context. Is like, is Cease the best? I mean, you still have Garrett Cole there. I still obviously, you know, the better question would it be is he the best pitcher on his team? Because you know how I feel about Giulito. Still, I don't know. I think he's in the discussion. I think he's in

I think you could probably. I mean, Gosmin's pitched very well this year. I mean, look, you could say that obviously, guys like yeah, no, Walks. I mean he's been tremendous. I mean, there's no and I gotta say there's a lot of people that were hesitant about Gosmin too, and I don't think there's any hesitation right now when it comes to Kevin Gosman. There's no doubt about that. He's

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The stat hero hitters Taylor Ward three for four with the Granny. We had Josier Ramirez with his two bombs, Max Kepler two home runs. Uh, we had Kyle Farmer four for five, with two rbi. Eric Cosmer cannot be stopped, Welsh two for two with a dinger, another dinger. Eric Osmer's on fire, Andrew disappears. I know, I know, but man, what a month it is. Uh No and Ernando three for three with three ribbies, and Xander Bogart's had a four for four night two. He's been tremendous. But let's

I mean they need to, but I don't know how they both stay. You know, in story might have been the insurance policy to make sure that you know they do, or that that they can dump one if they need to. Plus their miners are built around to middle endfield guy, at least in Marcella Mayer and Nick York, So I don't know. There's a part of me that feels like Xander does not stay. I think Devers can stay with

Yeah, I look, I'm a Devers guy, but it's it's a really tough decision. I still think Devers is the it's that like a franchise player, MVP caliber guy. And I think Bogarts is like write that notch below. So that's that's where I would have them all. So let's move on to some of the stats Zeros. From the pitchers, we had Carlos Carrasco seven earned runs, like it was abound to happen. You know, he had pitched really well. He had a bad start. Okay, let's not overreact. If

I would, I would gladly drop him. If you have any other viable option out there, you do it. There's no reason to hold on to him.

Yeah. Actually, we had a fun thing here. Our friend Eric Cross had a fun little hold and fold kind of thing. Glaber Torres is one of his folds. Here were the other ones. I want to see if you agree with this. Dylan Carlson, Adam Duval, Trent Grisham, along with Laber tours Those are the guys who was getting rid of. Do you agree with those guys or somebody you'd rather hold on to here in this group.

I might be a little stubborn with Trent Grisham, but I think you could cut them all need be. In ten, ten and twelve man leagues, you could probably cut all of them. But Grisham might be a little.

Weird about Do you think that this is the time to pick up Gorman with the way Carlson struggled.

Yes, didn't I say this as I did last Yeah, I've been saying I've been saying this like someone asked, you know, hey, is Brendan Donovan gonna keep Gorman down?

No, he's not.

I had pulled a stat God, let me see what the glasses see if I can even read it. But I had pulled a stat on Rodo Wires batted Baldad and the miners, and I sorted it by twenty two year olds with a hard hit over thirty and they were like eight guys, nine guys that showed up. Only one player at twenty two years or younger was in Triple A with a three hundred batting average and over forty hard hit forty hard hit and had like a seven hundred slugging It was Gorman. Gorman's the only one.

All right, before we get to some of the other guys that Cross was holding. I saw the pants and Crackerjacks talking about this, but I wanted to verify it, not that you know, I'm gonna.

Be writing a ticket here, Joe for speeding and tearing your ACL that's to Mondacy. And then I'm writing a ticket to you for drafting aliberto mondsee at all in your fantasy drafts. That's a ticket to me, that's a ticket, and that's.

As appearance is. I will fight those court appearances. And this is Welsh's commitment to a bit because if you're watching on the YouTube channel, you know post it notes are expensive like those He just wasted three on a.

Bit twenty five cents that I just killed.

But Alec Lewis it looks like confirms here Royals President of Baseball Operations Dayton Morse at Alberto mound As an acl tair and his left knee. So he is now gone for the rest of the sea. And so for those of you who went back into this, well, uh, it was a dangerous one. You had to know that you knew the risk you were getting into. So now

Nicky Lopez would be available out there. I just want to say, Nicki Lopez, you know, not a great viable option, but they're going to need to be more aggressive on the base paths. That might be a guy if you're trying to make up those stolen bases, if you're looking.

At well, look, you're not going to make up modesty stolen bases like that. That's just not going to happen. But looking around here at some names again, you know the roster percentage, I can look somewhere else for that. But you know guys like Jonathan VR floating out there on the waiver wire, that's another guy. Maybe you get some stolen bases out of him. That's kind of the route I would go. I agree that it's tough out there. You know, Joey Wendel type guys might be out there.

Here's one look for Josh Rojas. He might be cut due to the I yell. I mean people might have stashed him. But if he's not, Roasso be coming back very very soon. I would pick up Josh to replace Montesy.

That's another good one here. All right, Let's go back to Eric Cross's a hold and fold. He had holds on the following players. I want to see if you agree, Dansby Swanson, Josh Donaldson, Jared Kelnick, and Julio Rodriguez. Would you hold all four of those guys?

You did not need to hold Kelnick. I love it, Eric, I know what you're doing here. You do not need to hold Jared Kelnick. Not in redraft now, No, not in redraft whatsoever. You easily cut him. You should have cut him probably two weeks ago, to be honest.

All right, fair enough, let's do today in baseball history, because that's always a good time. That'll brighten up those Monthesea owner spirits here today. In the twenty eighth of April and nineteen ninety eight, Texas Rangers right fielder Juan Gonzalez smashes two home runs in the club seven to two win over Minnesota. The round tripper give Gonzales thirty five Ribbies in the month of April, which set an

He was an absolute dude.

All right. I feel I feel like we've you know, it's funny. The baseball gods giveth and taketh away. They take away Montcy, will get Acoonya back. You know this is this is maybe.

Alright, so he gets a trade I'll make with the gods.

I think we'll all make that trade. But you know, look, you had to you had to know the risk you're getting into. And I guess for me, there wasn't enough of a discountant drafts. I have zero shares, but he was not my kind of player anyway. Did you have any shares.

It was unluck. I had one in a keeper league. That doesn't matter. But I actually thought there was enough of a discount. But I never jumped into it because I can get my stolen bases earlier on.

From more reliable straw everywhere. I have a lot of them.

I have way more miles straw. Yeah, actually, to be honest, but also you know, I think I had acunia higher than most other people, and I'm gonna be able to jump right back into that. So yeah, I just didn't have the shares.

Yeah, I can't. Honestly, I'm a little surprised how quick ACTI is back, to be honest with you. Like I thought we would get maybe first week or two of May. I thought that was realistic, But it's the twenty eighth of April. That's pretty stunning.

I want to give a shout out to j Full because it's so funny. I think he had just said great batting stance unless it moved forward Dallas, it was that Brian. I'm sorry, Brian had said great batting stance from Wan Gonzalez. That was something that always stood out to me about Wan Gonzalez.

He had that he had that really high elbow. Yeah there. And I also remember that error card. Do you remember where they reversed the negative of the picture and his number was backwards? Do you remember that non risk card? Yeah, I'm almost positive there was a Wan Gonzales error and I want to say it was like a reverse negative thing, so like you notice his number was backwards and he was hitting right handed or something nonsense like I don't know,

Did I get any love for my Will Smith home run call? When I was on the show Monday?

Nailed that, Yes, yes you did. We actually did give you. What is mayor there? What does Mayor have Mayor's got two. I think I have one, Bogman has one, and you have two. I believe it too. So there you have it there Now. Tonight is because of the NFL Draft. There is there's no DFS to be played but this afternoon, and there's a couple of games in the evening. There are some things we're talking about when it comes to prop bets. So thanks to Bettingpros dot com, we're gonna

Yeah, Actually, it was interesting you said that about Kyle Wright two that I like and I would parlay them together because I mean, you don't have to. Obviously that's not the smartest play, but for juice reasons. Number one, I really like the Tyler Molly over one and a half runs. He's given up more than two in three of his four starts. It's the Reds and they're going up against the Padres, so I absolutely love that one.

J Full giving us a cheat code today. Yahoo has dfs also, and I guess Wonky mentioned earlier, so it's Wonky and j Foll. Everybody's getting involved today. It's a group effort at the Penisa Cracker Jacks Cootie is just seven dollars, so I guess that's extremely cheap there, And Brian Davina says, yes, Don Russ for sure he remembers, the North remembers Yeah. So there you have it. But it's obviously you know, everyone's gonna be fantage to the

I got I'm doing this. I'm doing this really quick.

It is that what I'm getting.

The post its out here. I'm spending money here.

There's gonna be a Staples run in Welsh's future later, Yeah.

It will be all right. This is my right hand. This is my left hand. Pick which home run call? This is the one?

Now you're doing the matrix on me?

I know, take red pillar, blue pill. I had this one, but this one's been calling me? Which one? Let the first? Peanut and C.

I want the one that's been calling you.

I want the one you want the one that's calling me?

All right, the sexy one.

I was going to pick Aaron Judge And I wrote this really fast, so it looks bad. But Joe, do you know who's calling me?

My voice?

Who's Byron Buckston Tonight Byron Buckston.

Goodness that's it, Bra and there you go. There you go. If you want to make a home run call, make sure you go over into our chat fancybros dot Com slash chat and join our discord today. It's free to join. Go check it out, go meet all the peanuts of cracker Jack. And again we got amazing NFL draft coverage going over the next few days. We got stages, we got amas. But again, if you want to get into home run calls and all those extra things, you have to be a premium member of Fantasy Pros. So we

I gotta go back because, as everyone's pointed out, Buckston is not in the lineup today, so we'll go back to Judge.

Very judge, so the whole bit. So you've now wasted many a post it notes.

I wasted a lot of post it notes today, and I apologize to everybody, Like I said, Welsh is barely alive right now, I'm barely alive, trying to game it. Try not to leave anybody hanging here.

I feel any idea of how much cold Medicine Welsh is on currently, because it's a lot.

I tried to take it before. It didn't work. So anybody's super annoyed with me today, I'm with you.

I'm with you well. I know when I was in are On, I'm visiting you a few weeks ago, I saw the lot of dispensaries out there. Maybe that's the Maybe the drive through might be something to hit up. Maybe that'll I if it would help, I would take it.

I'm literally wearing these because my eyes are a disaster right now, and my voice again. I I have very good respect for broadcasting and stuff. This is wild, but I couldn't leave Joe hanging on a big draft day, and I could leave you guys hanging.

So hike a good point. Watch Buckston pinch hit and.

His I get that since I'm so sick and I made the show, I should get that as a subtext. I get Judge with a pinch hit Buxton today.

I you know what I will because you're such a Welshi's hardo today. Because you're such a Joe tough guy, I will allow it. I will allow it. Damn the torpedoes. If Buxton gets up and pinch hits for some reason today and goes yard, I'm gonna let you have that one because you're such a tough guy today, showed up on the show when you were sick and helping us out here. So in the meantime, I'm post it notes.