MLB: Leading Off July 28th, 2023 (Ep. 719)

Welcome and everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is Leading Off Live, brought to you by Prize Pigs. Sign up for Prize Pigs today and use that promo code leading Off. When you do. It's me Joey P. That of course is the Welsh, and what an amazing day here to come here and talk about historic choheo tani stuff. A little bittersweet because, as y'all might know, this is the last Leading Off of July for me, because it turns out that the trade deadline is not just for players,

Our Please read the I don'tuary, but it's like this, it's not individual.

I will read it later because I know live, yeah, live, so we'll read it later. But again, I'm so proud of what we've done here. I want you to continue to support the show with Welsh at the reins because he does a phenomenal job. Welsh'll be doing a lot of football stuff for us too. A lot of things happening here, but Welsh, let's talk about Shoeltani because a

All it had everything we had because and by the way, the Mayor thing was Mayor and I both had single move leagues, and we didn't put him in as a pitcher. We left him in a U. We were both so we were both sitting there in the chat like and then we got the two homers. So it had everything, the offense, the pitching, and then the injury. I mean, because the Massachus in all of us was like, what if he gets hurt after they made the move?

What if it happens?

I asked this question, We'll do it quick I asked this question to the CBS guys last night. This feat complete game, one hit, eight strikeout, plus two homers. When you think about the pantheon of baseball accomplishments, do you think this is bigger? Or I will do it quickly or the cycle.

Oh, this, this is more impressive because the cycle's four at bats where everything goes your way. This is incredible.

This or a no hitter this.

This is harder. Again, this is harder. I think this or perfect or perfect game that is more unlikely, But I think this is harder. It's harder in the sense that you're asking somebody to do something so extraordinary and then to have the stamina to pitch a game and then go out there afterwards and take four at bats and hit two them runs. It's absurd. He is the greatest baseball player that ever lived, and you're all getting

Sure, put up, put up Pedro's comment, Hey, I'm gonna do it in my Alice Jones voy government's in here letting us know that aliens are we watch shown.

Alien good stuff. I like, I like that those And yes, everyone's going to continue to support the Welsh obviously when I'm gone. And by the way, we're moving to a Monday Wednesday Friday schedule, so set yourself accordingly. Tuesday Thursdays. The boys are taking some days off leading off. Will be here Monday, Wednesday Friday, same bad time, same bad channel. We're not going away. We're just restructuring a little bit because it's that time of year where we have to.

Time, and this is on our amazing list because if they if they show out even harder, then you know, there's nothing bigger for next year, or there's no reason. We're not going to be bigger, better for next year. And you know, the more that you're here, the more that I can stay here, it would be great.

I've also been Sy's way, crushing it. Joe as de Lee before the Angels prove him wrong one hundred percent right, Whips has got it.

I'm also going to try to find a way. I have a few things in mind of how to keep Joe like fresh with us, so we can keep him with us a little bit, not just talking about bald heads, looking at Bubba's bald head. But we can keep going.

But yet, well that's a good way. And Bubba's so great, and Bubba's so passionate, and I've done shows with Bubba. We used to do a daily DFS show together for a year and like Bubba's here, he's been part of the Fancy Bros. Family writing for stuff. Welsh has been working with him, so again, great stuff here. We've also got a trade. My Mets traded to the Marlins, so here we go in division. Trades don't matter, So the Mets deal closer David Robertson to the Miami Marlins, of

He might be, He might be, He might be the guy that you want to put a little bit of fab on. I think you have to at this moment, if you're doing it like right now, you got to

Yeah, understandably so, so get in now make these moves. Godai Senga in that same game, by the way, gave up one run over six innings, no decision. Josiah Gray was really good in that game too. Josiah Gray, I think has had a very underappreciated season twenty five years old. Now excuse me, three twenty seventy ra The whip is still a little high at one point four to one, but one hundred and two strikeouts and one hundred and eighteen innings fifty four walks, Like this is a guy.

I think Gray could get it. Greg's a really smart pitcher. I think Gray could end up being like a Mitch Keller, Like you know how we see Mitch Keller who's with the Pirates, and it comes up and down a little bit. Like He's a little bit up and down. Streaky, but very smart pitcher, good spin stuff. I wish he was on another team. I think it would be more exciting if he were almost anywhere else. But he's still a

Interesting pitchers, young enough to make strides, but already pitching at the big leagues on bad teams. Yeah, because those teams won't be bad forever theoretically, although I've said that about the Tigers for a certain five But we'll get to that in a second. Another trade, This one was predicted last week on the show. Well, actually, I think it was pretty good this week by me. When Carlos Santana had that with that Towo home game, whatever he had,

Don't think so, They're just gonna have to move. They're gonna move Kana and and then that leads to Ronnie Maricio coming back up. So again, what is the speculates I'm Runnie Mauricio for time, but yeah, they're there's you know, the the buy sell market is so weird right now, Like I didn't expect the Marlins to be buyers. You know.

Mauricio, by the way, roster In just twenty six percent of leagues right now. Yeah, I mean he's a great twenty percent of them right now are dynasty only. Like that's that's the whole point. Zach Eflin could make his next start off. The MRI on his knee didn't reveal anything, made sure, that's good. Did I tell you this? So the last thing I can I can tell you didn't tell me because you're exited about it, and.

I would I told somebody, but I must have told a bogg couldn't have been me. So the trade video, I did my final trade video doing those all year. I hope you guys enjoyed those. We did waivers and Joe and I did wade.

Because the trade deadlines come to an end. Here this is the end game of baseball season here exactly.

We're still here for you. But this was like guys to target for the end of the year. And I'll tell you guys this because he's not the video. I put Zach Efflin in the video and then as I got finished, I was like, Aha, look at me, I'm all done, done for the year. Here he goes, here go editors. Zach Eflin gets hurt, he got shelled and then got hurt, and I went, we gotta take him out. We gotta take him out. But to the point prior to the injury here, yeah, well, I'm committed to it.

But we're going back, yes, and so everybody knows. I will probably resign again with leading off in January, probably, I think so. I mean, I think it's a pretty good chance. Could you know where else would I want to be? You know? So I'm gonna go be the hired gun for football season. But don't worry everybody, I'll be back.

Let's go want me you gotta stay if you want me back too.

By the way, Barron Buckston's back speaking of people being back too, so now he gives them back and strike out five times today. I can't wait. Can we talk about Tray Cabbage? I could come. I want to talk about Tray Cabbage because Tray Cabage twenty six years old, Triple A this year two eighty seven, batting average, three fifty eight OVP five to seventy six, slugging, twenty three bombs and twenty four steals. Where did Tray Cabbage come from?

Yeah? The cabbage is actually.

Trying to harvest the cabbage. I've been waiting my whole life to say that.

I don't like that.

I want to harvest the cabbage.

I don't like that one a lot.

Oh yeah, love it.

Trey Cabbage to me is very similar to like Christian Walker some years back. If you remember, Christia Walker was like twenty seven, twenty six, twenty seven going into Triple A. This is obviously a much older play who's drafted in twenty fifteen. He had been in the miners for eight years. That would put probably seven full season years.

Huge hard hit, wasn't that Wit mirrorfield too. He was in the miners forever. Some of those guys all the hit, nobody thought he would do ever sustained, and then he was an All Star for a couple of years. I mean, this does happen. It's not. I'm telling you.

This is Christian Walker to me though, because it like but Walker I had better played discipline. But this year, every single night, if you do the Baseball Savant like game feed for minor leaguers, which you can do every single night in the miners, it's one hundred and sixteen, one hundred and fifteen by a cabin. He is absolutely smacking the ball. The problem is he's got a forty K rate in the majors right now. He's a k liability. He's not the best contact hitter. He's just a huge

Agreed.

I And in the long line of food based players, I'm very interested in food based players. Bog and I have been having these discussions about players with food names, and.

He is who comes to mind.

Man, it's it just completely went out my brain because there's David Frye. So there's David Frye.

Who's up with Jeff Frye also too with another fry.

Yep, we have fries and they all escaped me right now. Mia Ham, Okay, well, I'm taking baseball players. If we want to have a very open Thanksgiving here, we can have lots and lots of Julius peppers.

We need, you know, there's a lot of them.

Chat come in the chat with the baseball ones. Buckman and I did this. We had like almost a whole meal.

Oh.

Jake Berger. Jake Berger was one of the biggest reasons behind it. So you've got Jake Berger, we had fry and there's others. So put your food based players in and.

There you go. All right, let's continue on here. Three up and three down. Speaking of Jake Berger too, homers yesterday. He's up to twenty four Welsh. I didn't have twenty four BOMs for Jake Berger on my Bengo guard, but I'm here for it.

It's exciting playing second base. He played second base yesterday. He is the White Sox Max months yees.

After the trade deadline, he's gonna have to go go throw three or four innings because these guys are gonna be gone. Taylor Ward homer twice too, just for my last day. Thanks Taylor Ward, you could suck on it. Hunter Renfell, by the way, with Celco six for nine with a homer and the doubleheader. Good day for all the Angels. And I mean, well, I still can't get over when he was grabbing his side there, I literally I felt so physically. Ut I just felt like, oh my god, I.

Was doing a show with Bagman and he goes Otani just grabbed his whatever, and I'm like, oh my god, this is this is the nightmare. Of nine, it would have been bunny, but it's hilarious, the most chaotic twenty four hours of Like, the team doesn't get rid of him, sells to minor league guys to get more players. He has a historic day and then gets hurt. You couldn't have scripted it would be a black mirror episode for I.

Mean, from for ten seconds, let's live in the moment that that happened. Bill Plashki wrote a great article if you haven't go see it, it's on the La Times, Bill Plaski's great sports writers, about what a disastrous idea this is. Basically, he basically was obviously he's a fan of the show. When he's hurt me basically wrote a giant article of the La Times about why this is such terrible idea, what they're doing, and why this short term, you know, catering to the moment is going to long

But you know, the only thing I meant to ask you yesterday, the only thing we've never discussed in this what if it works, Like this is a hail Mary shot to bring him back. What if it worked they got to the playoffs and they won under O Tawny and they were able to re sign him based off of all that, What if you had a two percent chance to bring him back as the maybe the greatest

Well, this isn't Little Giants, this isn't the sand lot, this isn't Mighty Ducks. This is real life. And yeah, sometimes that stuff happens, but baseball is trickier, the gauntlet of the playoffs of baseball. With a rotation, you need to be really good the three deep and a bullpen that's really reliable and proven. That's been a lot. Look, I want I told you I want it to be because I think it'd be. I want to see Sho hail Tani play in the World Series. I think that

I have an idea. If the Angels make the playoffs, you and I do a live stream during the episode. We'll get we'll figure it out. Oh you're the game of the episode. Yeah, while the game is going on, you're we're a companion broadcast as they've made the playoffs if they make the playoffs, because they'll probably play in like a you know, like what is it the play in game or whatever, like, you and I will do a live stream during what during that game if they make the playoffs? Can you agree to that?

I will absolutely agree to that because I think that would be super fun. Sorry, yes, yes, let's go. Let's do it. Let's also do the downs. Dylan Cease he could be gone to four runs, five and two thirds and lost to the Guardians. Matt Manning we just talked about yesterday. He got his doors, blowing off seven runs in five innings against the Angels, and set your watch to it. Javier by as over four to three. K's

In baseball things must come to an end, And unfortunately that day as a rive. Robert Loved podcast host Joey P as the sun sets out his illustrious career covering MLB on leading Off in twenty twenty three week, can only help but feel a mixture of sadness and excitement for the journey that lies ahead. Today mark's the final show of the season, but fil not baseball fans, as our show must go on with fresh new lineup for

Hearts of his audience. So there you go. You can read more on page three, but again, I'll hopefully.

That's where you mentioned me and you talk about all the great stuff I've done, Joe.

I just asked Ethan to do this thing and shout out to Ethan for doing it on short notice in like an hour, and it looks fantastic and it's hilarious and it's funny because I'm screaming and it's back to football. But it's it's not like I even't stopped doing football, but everybody knows betting Pros were doing amazing stuff there. This year, we're gonna be doing a dedicated NFL show five days a week. Go subscribe to Betting Pros NFL.

All right, God, we have got to go out with a bang with Joe leaving for at least this season here. So I'm going to go with a big strikeout total one. I'm going with the Gossman Lucas g Aledo strikeout combo. I think Lucas Giolito is gonna come out swanging in this one. I also don't hate the strikeout individually, but Gossman angels. That's kind of a match made in strikeout heaven.

I think it would be funny if if Bubba cast a miss a show. Then maybe you do have cousin Donnie on who knows very little about baseball. But if we can keep them clean, maybe as a guest spot, maybe one day could be I don't know, we'll see prize picks for me Brox and Garrett. Five and a half pitcher strikeouts over against the t Grays, Max suers are against his old team, six strikeouts over against the Nats, and Mookie bets all over us today going out with

Was actually available on price picks today.

Funny I know I saw that, and I was like, yeah, let's tick the under before. He doesn't play a lot on Welsh. What do you have betting lives for the good people.

Yeah, he'd have to actually play. So one of my favorite bets. It's already in the betting pros group. I made it last night. I made a couple of these bets to lock them in. Houston Tampa Bay total runs through the first five over, and it's McClanahan and Javier, but both have been given up runs lately. I actually like this one a pretty decent amount to get the over four and a half, so essentially betting on five

I'm getting sentimental now. People are saying nice things in the chat ye again, and you know I love all these people.

Everyone should know. I also kind of fought a little bit to try to convince Joe to but it's out of his sting.

The other thing, too, is what happens in August is this, folks, is that my kids are off from school for another month. Here. July is always very busy doing baseball and football shows and betting shows. I've been doing MMA shows lately. I've been doing soccer shows. I'm doing all kinds of crazy things.

Actually I want to announce it here, but I had there. There might be more off season baseball stuff that you guys haven't had the past because I'm around, So we'll announce that when we get closer. Everything is good, everything's it's all good.

Dash it.

Yeah, it was a good time.

Continuing on here, don't forget also speaking good times. You know it, I know it. So rare MLB. It's fantasy, it's free, it's card. It's fantasypros dot Com slash collect join. Now look at that show, hel Tani. Hurry, get your show, Heltani a card as the Angels before it becomes the Dodgers of the Yankees next year or whatever the heck gets are going to become. The Mets are gonna spend a Steve Cohen after disappointing season and a lot on

How much do you have to pay, by the way, for that penalty, like another five hundred million dollars?

What does he care? Yeah? I get if I was the Mets owner and I had an unlimited money and money was not an object. I haven't seen a World Series since I was eight years old. I mean, why not, I'd be like, okay, I mean I would hire you as general manager. I hire Nick Pollock too. He's a good baseball mind. And maybe EO we get EO in we get a little brain trust. How fun would that be if I was the owner of a team, we get a bunch of Really, You'd be the prospect guy.

Yeah.

O oh of an organization, we'd have all right DFS pitchers. There's a lot of them today, So stay with me. Zach Wheeler is not pitched well, so I'm fading him at ten six. He's pitched well. The Philly let me rephrase the Phillies are struggling offensively. The last week of casting Gatilson, Shoreber, they have slugging percentages under two hundred. It's a horrendous situation right now. Braxic Garrett nine point six. More intriguing. Kevin Gosman in that same game on the

I'm gonna go over for the weekend. I'm gonna rock with Ronald same team. Yeah, there you go, all brave, all razor at the top of that home run boards, at the top thirty eight of all the people want cart there. I'm still not it's lame again.

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