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[Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] what's up friends happy Monday to everybody it is leading off right here on fantasy pros I'm Chris Welsh that is the Joe Oro and it is presumably playoff time Fantasy Baseball playoff time for many people again and sometimes I think a semi- negative to the fantasy baseball structure is it's like last week this week next week There's a little too many different weeks of playoffs but either way it's a home stretch time so we're going to talk to you about all the latest and greatest we will and can answer some of your questions so for all of our peanuts and Cracker Jacks that are out there you can drop drop some questions in the chat whether it's like a streamer or pickup or anything like that we will try to answer that we got some Best Bets and we got a whole lot more Mr Joe Rico how are you my friend welcome back into an almost September good Lord we're getting there man we're getting there I'm good like I said before we started going had a relaxing weekend I was playing some golf almost saw blue jay no hitter so pretty good weekend for me pretty relaxing stuff uh you was as well I think yeah yeah 100% so uh like I said put some questions in the chat if you got them and we'll rock with it so funny story let's talk about that that potential no hitter I'm kind of going about my business and I get a text from CBS and CBS is like hey because I and I I was doing stuff during the day and I I I wasn't even tuned into any of the games at that moment and I get a text hey if Bowden Francis gets this no hitter are you available and I'm like what huh so I get up I get up on my app and I'm like holy crap we got a no hitter going on we got all these strikeouts Joe no kidding they're they're you know in the bottom of the inning bum bu bump get to the next inning first at batter Taylor Ward and he hits the Homer my first batter seeing Bowden Francis in the no hitter because they were going to have me come on TV unfortunately that's part of so it's my fault I'm just trying to tell you all it is my fault but Bowden Francis struck out a career high 12 as he dominated these dudes he had that going into the ninth inning and then it was Taylor Ward just crushing that Homer he ended up walking three he hit a batter which was Taylor Ward career-high pitches I was monitoring those pitches as it was going 117 84 for strikes ridiculous unless you're Taylor Ward who threw a bunch of shade and was just like yeah I don't know maybe other people were getting tough stuff but uh he looked pretty hitable to me and to be fair he did crush him what are your thoughts I was I've been kind of like indifferent on H Bowden Francis but he's one of those guys that he is ending immensely strong talk to me about this performance I had been mostly indifferent myself uh being a blue jay fan in Toronto in case anybody in the chat doesn't realize I am Toronto born and raised I've been a blue jay fan a long time didn't think there was much with about in Francis really over the first you know three four months of the season but these last four starts have just been incredible and the season long stats are actually looking pretty solid now it's not just even if you look at the last four starts like he has a 378 expected ER nearly an 18% strikeout minus walk rate like 374 Sierra these are good numbers for the whole season the barrel rate's a little bit too high still it's still in the double digits and that's somewhat of a concern but he has been really impressive I think that he is somebody that's worth adding pretty much everywhere now I think it's Philadelphia and Boston this week for him so that's a little bit iffy for sure i' think I'd probably lean towards sitting him in the more shallow leagues but he's definitely worth picking up all over the place right now there's something that I'm a little bit worried about especially young pitchers like this coming off of a no hitter or theoretical no hitter like that 117 career I mean you know I'm not sure if there's like any actual analysis of like guys regress 40% to their means after you know uh having career highing pitches or anything like that there there might be some data would be worthwhile for somebody but um not only do I not like that I hate the matchup by the way for um for francis7 pitches he had 10 whiffs off the fast ball always very interesting too because like I think that is speaking to the splitter it was something I said in the offseason which has been completely counter to U Logan Gilbert I think I said I think I said it with Eno where we were talking about you know guys that uh you know have these really good Splitters or are implementing High usage of Splitters and it's like we gotta have like a really good fast ball like that that's something that plays up and they work they coincide together so well and I at that time kind of thought Logan maybe didn't and that is something that at least Francis is putting up though it's not a dominant fastball it's sitting around 92 but he had 10 whiffs and 41 swings on the fast ball that fast ball set 68% in the zone that's like a wild inzone percentage and he only had five other whiffs off of the splitter and the slider combined it's okay so I mean he had an he had a 12 I just want to point this out a 12 strikeout performance with 117 pitches and he only had a 23% whiff rate like that's NE not necessarily ideal that was like he dominated this situation but from an overall perspective I I still don't know if he has like absolutely ridiculously dominant uh you know stuff like swing and Miss stuff so maybe I'm just G to like keep kind of fading until the end of the season but I I absolutely hate those matchups so the matchups are brutal I think it depends on your league size it depends on your situation if your pitchers are stacked or whatever versus if you're in a 15 Team league and you just lost hunter green and you need to pick up a replacement you're just kind of desperate there are going to be different situational aspects to it but I think by and large you got you kind of have to pick him up unless you are just in such a perfect position pitching wise because you might not start him this week but next week I haven't really looked forward to the matchup so much but I feel like he's somebody where you might get a few more quality starts out of him going forward it's a bit dicey it's a bit dicey but I think you gotta give it a chance yeah I mean again like the the the thing that works really well for him is you if you consistently show these guys that you're throwing a fast ball in the zone which he did almost 70% of the time and then you can just kill that splitter off which was 48 45% Zone percentage and it just you know boom goes up that you would actually think the splitter would have a a lot more of a whiff rate on it but I think it's guys trying to like keep up and Chase and stuff like that so you know it's solid and it may keep working and yeah it's probably something to look at by the way this is so interesting so Angelo says we start playoffs next week all seven of his teams made it pretty easy that's in there somebody in the chat said they don't start for uh oh yeah yeah right here Michael says I have two more weeks of regular season before playoffs and then we have other people that are like I'm in the playoffs right now I just still think that's like we got to fix that we got to fix that in fantasy baseball where we have I mean I it's just so large and big like maybe you really can't but it's like in fantasy football it's like oh maybe you go to week 18 you probably in week 17 and that's pretty standard there's just not a standard here there's like a month deviation between it uh but we'll you know we'll never actually get there uh let's talk about Aaron judge two for four walk two homers he is now up to 51 homers 122 RBI he's hitting 333 but here was the thing I wanted to mention he is on Pace to break his single season Al home run record 63 paced homers and I had asked that did I ask you this earlier what was gonna happen 60 homers by judge or 80 stolen bases by Ellie did I ask you that question or was that Bubba or Bogman or in my head might have been might have been me a couple weeks ago it might have been me I can't remember what I said but at this point it might be judge I think judge is more likely like the guy's every day hitting a home run or two I I I don't think I've ever seen anything like this like I was a little bit young to really appreciate Barry Bonds in his prime this is the best power hitter I've ever seen yeah I'm um I'm not I'm not too young for that and Barry Bonds is the best hitter I have watched I mean you know griffy obviously had his moments but like yeah you know I I don't span see like now if Joe were on here old man Joe pie ofia you know he would have the perspective of like you know 7080s guys I really don't Barry Bonds was the single greatest hitter that you ever w i mean every s now judge does have that thing where when you know he's up to it bat you're like oh something's gonna happen you know like not there's not a lot of hitters that have that Otani has that and judge has that where every time up you're like oh some wreckage is gonna happen like you don't expect a negative outcome and that that's what bonds was every time he was up it was like oh you know they're either going to just try to walk him because they're terrified of him or he's gonna to have absolute damage so um then wonky said bond is the best hitter and I don't understand why anyone argues it aside from killing time well we you know why they argue it yeah because of steroids but like at the end of the day the problem that you kind of have is like the steroids didn't like change the eye and the type of hitter he was it just maybe changed the impact of it but Barry Bonds was the greatest hitter I've ever seen and and judge exemplifies some of that that stuff it's not the same it's not the same but he's the most dangerous hitter in baseball right now oh yeah like I mean we were talking a couple weeks ago I think it was on this show about like could it still be Bobby wit Jr or whatever but like he has just separated himself so much even from Otani like I feel I still think about ton when he's pitching is probably the best player in baseball but just on a pure hitting standpoint like judges WRC plus is 226 there's been like five seasons of That level in history like I grew up idolizing Albert pool's Miguel Cabrera but I don't think they were ever at this level like I think that over a prolonged period of time pool's career Cab's career at this point are still more impressed specifically Pooles but on like a per at bad basis I don't think they were ever as scary as judges right now no you know and a funny thing I just want to point out not to keep harping this where did it go this was one of my favorite videos I don't know if you've seen it online there's this video uh what is it from someone tell me what it's from it's bonds and Maddox breaking down and bat and it's like it goes to what Bond thinks is g to happen and then Maddox says here's what I'm gonna do and bonds by the way perfectly called he's like you know he thinks I'm I'm looking for this but I'm now gonna look for this and it it keeps going back and back and back on the advat of what they're going to do Maddox versus him and then it ends with Barry Bonds absolutely just murdering the ball into right field uh it's it's a really cool video you could probably just look it up um it's from the MLB Network work madx special okay cool thank you Fred that definitely go check out that video at least it's an awesome one but judges on another historic Pace on the Home Run side and um this is another year of me being on this show realizing had you just pick Aaron judge every single day you would be winning the Home Run contest that's just how it is right now we'll do the Home Run board here in a little bit uh we got this is like a version of a rookie lookie we got a bunch of rookie stuff going out here this happened after the show on Friday but it was announced that Dylan Cruz top prospect with the Nationals Dylan Cruz was being called up for today so he is going to be in the lineup today uh he was one of my favorites brother my favorite from that draft class we had a year and a half ago uh 272 average so far this year 21 doubles 13 homers 25 stolen bases between double A and Triple A it's been a pretty good season has not been historic unfortunately it's been very similar to a lot of these prospects that are out there right now it's actually been this ongoing discussion I've been having in the prospect world of when you lose Kim mono you lose Dominguez you lose all these dudes you know Jackson holiday that like what does the top look like anymore and it kind of defaults to all these guys that are good but not great these two70 hitters the Roman anony of the world the Walker Jenkins who's really far away the Dylan Cruzes there's nobody it feels that's special I have always personally loved Dylan Cruz his Chase rate has been a little bit of a worry as far as what the strikeouts are but he's got all Fields power put up really great all Fields exit velocities uh I think he's a super smart hitter he's stealing more bases than we've seen and we're g to get a cup of coffee for him to start next year so I think this is great for next year I would in a five outfielder League he's a must pickup if he is out there right now I think he's going to get significant playing time and I don't know what the production's going to be like but I think this is a great sign for next year is there any hesitation with the lack of success from the on picking up cruise at all yeah a little bit like if you're in those really shallow like an ESPN League where there's just like no breathing room on your roster I don't think you can really take a chance here like as solid of a prospect as he's been he has a 105 WRC Plus in Triple A you know batting 265 he's not light in the world on fire like I'd kind of want to see before calling a a newly recalled Prospect like a must roster type of player everywhere I think he's fine in like those deeper twelves like you mentioned 15 team leagues but yeah yeah prospects as a whole just have kind of sucked and it's kind of taken the fun out of their their recalls this season to some extent so yeah deeper leagues I would take a chance shallow formats not really we're at the point though now I think wellsh you're much more Prospect inclined than I am guys can just play every day at this point and not exceed the threshold right are we yeah 100% that that's why they did this with Cruz so you know they announced it like three days before not that even if they had called him up before I think it would have have an effect but there just like Hey listen we're not going to go up against any they probably did the math on whatever bats could happen but yeah at this point you're not going to cross the 45 day marker which hand up I was wrong we said this I don't even know if I like corrected it from a couple weeks back that the collective bargaining agreement added that September now does count for service time so whatever I said some weeks back was incorrect about the cam andero thing which I still I still don't understand you know it's like we're not going to bring him up all season we're going to bring them up just in time so he can lose his eligibility and us really not get anything outside of you know him getting some games in but uh you know he he'll Lo none of these guys will lose any service time they'll be eligible and Dylan Cruz is like the first of the guys that you should put on the list for like oh he's gonna break Camp next year and he will be a rookie of the year candidate and that that should be the the piece that you go in like I think Jason Dominguez will have that next year and presumably depending what that roster looks like but you would think he would and Dylan Cruz would be the guy as well uh speaking of just want to throw this out because Anthony's in here Anthony was famous for the Camero questions where is he where is he where is he I don't know I don't know now he's finally here cero is having a really good run so far two Homer two stolen bases hitting over 300 um the hard hit ratees over 50% he's barreling great he does have a negative launch angle and I don't know if you know this he had a negative launch angle last year as well classic like rookie thing from readjusting but Camero has been doing really well and I think in a short sample size that's why I would be comfortable picking up Cruz and you know at the end of the day for next season I actually think the lack of success from a lot of rookies is not the worst thing in the world it's going to depreciate a lot of the value uh as far as like or the equity of what you have to pay for them next year and that's good a guy like Dylan Cruz I think I'll just say it right now I think it's a sneaky guy to invest in next year especially if we see some of that strike rate come down a little bit or is manageable in this early part of the season but now they won't cost you know top 50 top 40 or anything like that except Camero if he's really hot he'll be an interesting one to talk about through the back half of the year because I don't know where that'll go he could for sure like look at wood and Jackson chero I know like you and Bubba talked about it last week I think there was that early draft for 2025 and though cherio and wood were both third round picks if if cero hits another five or seven home run steals another five or six bases like he's going in the top 70 picks probably at least yeah and it's not and and like the the guys from this year to last year they're the ones that are going to be the EXP so that's like that's going to be the irony is it was like before it was the you know the the Corbin carrols and even in the Bobby witch to those degrees those players were really pushed up as rookies now it's going to be the you know the rookie performers are going to probably come at a historically high cost as you mentioned Trio is going to be massively expensive Jackson Marill massively expensive cero in a short sample size with success will be expensive the rookies everyone will be very timid about understandably so because we're really understanding like how dramatic the change is in the adjustment from triaa to doua unless you're a pitcher unless you're Paul skes who went in the first round of Bubba's draft which we talked about last year or last episode so wild a couple other rookies that are coming up here um Craig Mish reported that uh the Marlins are bringing up Griffin conin from Triple A Jeff Conan's kid 27 years old not really a rookie but he'll be coming up I don't have high expectations a little bit of power and the Royals uh Tyler Gentry is starting in right field and batting ninth for game one today which I think is coming up here in just a couple minutes Gentry is kind of a i' I've seen him a ton between AFL and the back fields he's been with the Royals for sometime pretty you know solid power guy I don't know if the contact and the hit ability is going to be there but like he seems like he could be a above average like fourth outfielder in in baseball maybe someone to look out for and Tai Madden with the Tigers is going to be starting really rough go over six plus ER in the miners I'm not it's a really bad matchup so he might stack up some strikeouts because he had some big Minor League strikeout performances but no thanks no thank you that's what I say uh let's keep going here Jackson Merill speaking of Jackson Merill uh had a walk-off Homer against Edwin Diaz he keeps holding down this rookie of the year he is the unanimous Rookie of the Year favorite right now even after Paul sk's dominant performance we're only tracking that because I have my bet and I'm very selfish about that Joe and you you said it like before we even started off there you're like hey did you see Jackson Merill I still think it's one of the wildest Things but I'm I don't recall and this is why I think Jackson Merill is going to be so special going into next year I don't recall a rookie that has been this consistent throughout the year like he's had points where he's been not like special but he hasn't had the Jackson Cheo I hit a buck 91 month he is just he has gotten better he's a he's like a fine wine Jackson Merill is he's just aging perfectly and he's getting better and better and better and that's why I think the debate between Merill and cherio is going to be really fascinating to next year though I think cherio for upside is going to win that and I think Merill is the safer bet the safer Roto bet yeah I think Cho there is definitely more potential there I've heard it said before and you can kind of if you look at Merrill's profile it feels like he might be maxing out to some extent like I don't know if there's another step with Merill where he's going to go 252 next year maybe he will maybe he will um but it doesn't seem like the power is super super legit I don't really trust the speed so much like I don't know there's something that doesn't feel as legit about Merill as I feel about wood and chrio I don't think that he is gonna I might just be a hater I could very well just be a hater I just don't view him in as positive a light as I do would and and sherio I would take those guys maybe it is just the upside chasing the upside but I think they're gonna be more attractive assets next season am I am I just pooping on Merill for no reason uh I think you're yeah you're kind of pooping on Merill for no reason but like Woods is a more Dynamic like you can see the upside of like you know 3030 um I don't know if cherio is that much different you know the thing that I think to think about with Marilyn and I'm going to do some offseason looking so I feel like there was a similar conversation around wit after his rookie year where you were like whoa cool dude you hit for good average 2030 this seems about it and then he got better and then he gets better and I feel like I'm not saying that Jackson Mero will become Bobby Wht Jr but I think there's a similar path in that like every you looked at him and you were like oh he's capped and I'm not sure that he is because comparing those three players you just did Merrill's the more consistent and the better contact hitter I don't know and he is stealing and he's showing off power while playing in San Diego I don't know I think I think he's gonna be underrated and this might be one of those things where it's like if you stack those three up to me and you say oh well chiel's gonna cost a third wood will C cost a third a Merl will cost a fourth Merill all day give me the discount give me the discount on those three guys um it's a like an RB type of situation in fantasy football it's like yeah it's a tier or an SP like we talk about starting pitchers just give me the lowest of the tier of those players uh last on the big news notes this is just that wild one I wanted to mention that Danny Jansen is starting uh behind the plate today against the Blue Jays and as noted everywhere the the craziness behind this is because this was a suspended game between the Red Sox and blue jays and Danny Jansen was a blue jay is now a Red Sox so now he will become the first player in MLB history to appear for two teams in the same game and this note on here it says in fact Jansen is actually set to hit for the Blue Jays when the game resumes which means for a moment Jansen will be both hitting and catching at the same time on the scoreboard we I mean I guess they'll alter that like that's going to be changing the play byplay but he will be the first player ever to play for uh two teams in the same game and I for some reason I kind of thought that might have happened like in the 20s or something someone got sold for a you know pack of cigarettes and a um and a half you know a half eaten uh chicken leg and then the player would have been traded over like I don't know like in the 20s I I felt like players could be sold for $7 and they could have moved over but I guess I'm wrong so he's gonna throw the Jay's Jersey back on and take an as bad as a blue jay is that what is that what I'm understanding here no no he is going to be a Red Sox but you said he's he's like he's at the dish so they'll just have to pinch hit for him I guess is that what's going to happen no he'll be able to it's the note about the last thing was just a um all it is was like a clerical thing like he was behind the dish and then he will now come up to bat they're gonna have a different catcher up there they're gonna have like a different catcher that's gonna you know defensively change over so that one's not really the actual thing the actual thing is in the book it will show that he was a catcher for the Blue Jays and then he was a catcher for Red Sox and I guess perceivably he's going to hit so um I don't know that's wild it's it's bizarre I I don't know I consider myself to be a fairly smart person most days I still don't really understand the whole ins and outs of of this whole thing I don't understand delaying a game for two months like can they not just figure out a way to get a couple innings in before the team hits the road again does this make sense to anybody I don't know I just play the games just how about just put them all indoors but that would probably be unpopular by the way Angelo said a Pineo wind I'm I'm shocked that there isn't like some you know Willie McGee Willie McGee was treated for uh you know seven seven baseballs one seam out and a pint of whiskey like that seems 100% like something that would have happened has there ever been a player that's been traded for something that wasn't a player or money I feel like that happened Babe Ruth was traded for a play right it was traded for a play I guess it was money for a play it was money that paid for a play you're right about that but has there ever been another object like food because wasn't there like a player that was traded for like a a pitching machine or something like that chat help me out I feel like there was a player that was traded for not money or a player or you know a you know player to be named later that ended up being nothing or something like that uh speaking of Babe Ruth by the way uh in the kind of just for fun category I don't know what I'm forgetting what auction was might have been golden auctions but over the weekend babe ruths called shot Jersey you know pointing out calling my shot jersey sold for a record 24 million that singular jersey sold for $24 million so the question is Joe would you if you had that type of money you had that Elon type of money where you could just be like I'm getting it for whatever would you put it on after paying that money oh would I put it on n if I was like that kind of rich like richest person in the world maybe but I feel like i' I feel like I'd want to have more respect for something like that than to just throw it on and wear it out to softball or for beer league or something like I feel like you got to put that on the wall you spending $24 million you want to preserve it imagine you just wear it and then you're just drinking a Coke or something and you just spill Coke down the front of it I don't think if you were to like wear it you wouldn't be like hey let's have a Pepsi and some wings I think you would like you would just have this moment where you're like sitting there and you're like slowly putting it on and you're just like um but you know like I don't know you have that type of moment I mean I wouldn't but I'm just I don't know like people are weird about memorabilia but that is uh I believe the most expens 24 m i mean this is record $24 million called shot Jersey is absolutely wild uh the chat by the way wonky says back in 2013 Mike Cisco was traded for nothing not rent not C fish not a 25 pound turkey absolutely nothing uh con k said thought there was a manager was traded for like a bucket of balls yeah maybe I do like that Dallas Kao was traded for a dollar that's amazing I remember that but I'm telling you there is somebody out there that was traded for like a thing I I I Feel It In My Bones that there was a player that was traded for a thing so if you know what that thing is or you're really good at Google which most likely the answer will come from uh even if it's not live put it in the chat uh later or put it into the comments section because I want to know I feel like there was someone that was traded for like you know six horses or something like that like in the 1910s so there was a double a player named Tim fortugno who became known as the guy traded for a bag of balls went from a ball to double a and all the way to Triple A with the Brewers um I'm not gonna read it off thing on air but um Tim fortugno apparently was traded for a bucket of balls Tim foros Jersey just sold the golden auctions for $3 $3 for the guy that was bucket of balls yeah but see there's lots of these like Angela said Lefty Grove um he was sold to the Orioles for $3,500 which was the price to replace the fence uh an outfield fence but that's like the same thing that was with um bab Ruth you know was like to cover that play he was traded for the price of like I want I want like you say this Dave Winfield was for dinner I want to see the two parties I want a plate of mashed potatoes given to the other party and Dave Winfield walking over I want proof not money that was like perceivably pushed over but that's me all right uh three up and three down goo Suarez uino four for four with a homer and three rbi's has absolutely been the most ridiculous player over the last like 40 days least month he has been on an absolute freaking tear three RBI a homer four for four I didn't write the player's name but I do know this was Kevin Gosman seven Innings 10 strikeouts an earn run I think he was very motivated after the uh Bowen Francis start all those guys were all those pitchers I think were really locked in and DJ hers continues to be a streamable option guys especially for strikeouts five innings eight K this weekend so if he's got a half decent matchup out there you got to put him out because the strikeouts are going to be going on the down Tanner ha has completely Fallen apart this is someone I was ready to just raise the roof for as far as ranks go but that ain't going to happen now uh six Innings six earned runs four four walks hopefully he can find it into next year uh Dylan dingler 0 for five with four strikeouts not the Mark Wahlberg version and Merl Kelly Merl has not been good six Innings four earned runs three walks he has not been good no bueno uh let's see Michael info Joe Joe is traded for a hand puppet and you put a z on his name I like that was there any others I thought there was another oh wonky said Dodgers catcher Cliff Dapper was traded for Ernie hallwell the broadcaster okay so well it's still a human those are still humans but I I do think that's that's a little bit more fun they trade it for a broadcaster there was when John frell was the Blue Jays manager in 2012 or 2013 I think we traded him to the Red Sox I think we traded John Ferrell to be their manager in exchange for something it's just as we're thinking about this in brainstorming it's not like for a for a ham sandwich or something but it was just a weird one where a manager gets traded and I think you see it in football sometimes too yeah yeah John John guden was Tred for like a pick and that does those are always kind of interesting in there so I don't know I I I'm maybe I'm more fascinated than I need to be on the injury front it was reported that the Astros are optimistic that Kyle Tucker will still return during the first week in September except uh Chandler Rome from the athletic reported he's still not sprinting at full speed nor has he even tested on the base path himself on the base path not plural so I don't know how he returns in the first week in September but they're still saying he is though he's still not even running uh Dodgers manager Dave Roberts announced that precautionary x-rays on the Forum of sh Otani came back negative of any fractures so that's why we didn't lead it at the tippy top because there's nothing really too crazy there uh Robbie Ray was removed from Sunday start against the Mariners in the fourth inning due to left hamstring tightness Michael Harris is considered day-to-day after x-rays on his uh left hand came back negative and yosoo Yamamoto is going to make a rehab start uh from Triple A on Thursday by the way also on the injury report Welsh yesterday midun leg just went out and I think it's either it's a calf or an Achilles thing so uh we woke up feeling better we're currently dayto day we have not gone for x-rays but we're hoping to get back out there on the Run soon but uh Welsh dayto day with the Achilles injury so got a stretch I you know what it was my most stretched day I have not been doing a very good job of stretching I stretch more than I had ever done and then my last mile boom leg and I had to walk it out so I don't know I think stretching did me bad all right friends uh let's get some bets in here Joe's been pretty good on those prop bets so you know we got more it's time for Monday's Best Bets of the day we go with not Joey P Joe Oro Joey o and the Welsh Joe what do we got here for your Best Bets of the day I know we're going to get some player props in yeah it's usually my specialty is the player props we're starting off bayy over over five and a half strikeout against the Braves today the Braves just aren't scary anymore if you look at their strikeout rate as a team it's nearly 25% in the top um bottom 10 I should say in all of baseball bayy obber hits this number fairly consistently over five and a half he's been Nails really most of the season I think that's a pretty easy one to hit and then I'm going Mitchell Parker over two and a half earned runs I've been liking the the over earned run bets those have been very kind and with Mitchell Parker he does very well generally against the poor opponents when he's facing a good team like the Yankees like he is today things generally don't go too well Philadelphia destroyed him a few weeks ago um San Diego Milwaukee the Mets whenever he faces even a competent offense he doesn't do terribly well so over two and a half earned runs judge and stto can get that taken care of in the first inning with the way things have been going recently and then I'm going with a little bit of a a different one than what I usually do I'm going for a hitter strikeout prop Cal Raley over one and a half strikeouts a plus 150 in Seattle where everybody strikes out a historic rate how Ry has a 30% strikeout rate to begin with and then you get Ryan pepio coming in who's looked very good very strong strikeout pitcher I think we'll see him strike out KY Ry a couple times today that one is the fun one at plus 150 the others at minus 140 minus 145 and of course all at bet 365 all right well my Best Bets of the day brought to you by bet 365 I'm going with the nerfy Chicago Pittsburgh no run first inning going back to tyion he screwed me last time but Keller and Ty actually got a lower number especially on the uh underlying projected side so minus 115 is telling you that they want you to take that but both of these teams are in the bottom 15 the bottom half of the league and and run scored through the first inning and Pittsburgh is one of the worst they're actually I believe third worst on this so uh I really like that one it's the only nerfy that I like going with Seattle Mariners on the money line through the first five innings so first five money line it is minus 135 but Bryce Miller has been uh on dude alert throughout the beginning of the or this back half of the year so give me Bryce Miller back in him essentially through the first five and then I kind of went with a wacky one as well I took two hit run and RBI totals and I'm playing under so I'm parlaying two guys to go under their hit run RBI total number one I'm taking Jesus Sanchez who is propped up because Colorado and to be fair he has I think he has hit this two and a half number like twice in his last four games and he is up against Colorado but I'm going to play against it so I'm going under two and a half hit run RBI for jzo Sanchez and I'm pairing that with Dominic Fletcher with the white socks under one and a half hit run RBI both of those combined plus 155 so I'm G to give that a shot that should be fun playing the under on the hit run RBI totals so I got the nerfy in Chicago uh Seattle first five money line and then that under hit run RBI Dominic Fletcher and Jesu Sanchez Rico's got bayy over over strikeouts Mitch uh Mitchell Parker over earned runs and cow righ over strikeouts there you go friends on the Best Bets of the day brought to you by bet 365 where you can use promo code leading off bet $5 get 150 in bonus bets do it today promo code leading off in the gambling problem call 1-800 bets off or 1 1800 Gambler we do have a betting uh a board here did I post it up here oh yes I do home run board friends but up we have not me on the board I just want to point out I think I'm at 33 and kevman is at the bottom here tied with I think one other person at 34 Fred Dinger can maybe confirm I think I'm one away from the board still wonky is in 15th Place with 37 in a row homers Joey P has moved up to 13th with 39 he's about to cross the 40 marker uh South African G has a commanding lead for this game 51 the only one with 50 homers bet trots at 48 Larry's at 45 there is a race at the top and South African G has got that covered right now oh baby it's getting nutty Fred Dinger did you I yep I'm Larry birding it I'm at 33 so I'm one off if I can get a two Homer day let's go let's go let's go by the way Lee yes I should have mentioned that nerfy and unders I this is the hate hate hate day I'm being a hater today as far as what I'm doing but Joe uh what do you got for your home run call I went with Michael togle I I know I've been kind of going pretty chalky recently with the Bobby wits and the Aaron judges but Michael toggle is gonna face Edward Cabrera who H you never really know on a given day in course field specifically I will take Michael toglia here to hit one out all right I'm gonna go with Alec bone give me Alec bone going up against ronell Blanco uh bomes actually hit run RBI total is more uh is more juic than Bryce Harper's at this point so I'm going to go with Alec B uh to get me on the board today maybe even give me a twofer and get me on that home run board friends that is it thank you guys so much for hanging with us you guys got more you can put it into the comments section we will be back again on Wednesday Casey Bubba is here as we rock you through all of your playoff stuff and all the latest around the baseball world for Joe Rico I'm Chris wel we'll talk to you next time right here on leading off Peace Out friends bye-bye