 Hey, what's going on? I am Greg Sussman joined today by Tom Vecchio of FanDuel. We're going over some home run leaders. At least we hope. What's up, Tom? I'm doing good. You know, we spoke about pitchers last week, move on to some hitters. This week, we got the season starting in just a few days. It's a good time to be a baseball fan. It is, man. It's a good time to be a sports fan, baseball back in just two days. So we wanted to take a look today at who may be the regular season home run leader. So we'll start with the man that has the second best odds overall. And that is the ranger, Joey Gallo. You can bet him over FanDuel Sportsbook at plus 1,100. Yeah, so if we look back to last season, we only can take so much from it because he only played 70 games, dealing with a few different injuries. But second best odds, and that should tell you something, considering he only hit 22 home runs. We actually look back to 2017 and 2018 when he played the full year. He's up at 43 home runs in those years. And really, Joey Gallo is like the old school home run hitter. He doesn't hit for average. He strikes out a ton, but he has all the power he could possibly want. Home run to fly ball rates, sitting up at 27% or higher in those years. Hard hit rate up at 37% in those years. He's right there behind Piedlanza with the second best odds. And in what should be a good hitters' park, it's a brand new stadium for the Rangers. He has awesome odds and I love the upside he brings. Usually we're waiting for players to heat up while they're starting in the middle of July. So there's no heating up necessary, especially in Texas. Joey Gallo at plus 1,100, as we said, the second best odds to do it all. Well, you gotta like it there. Up next, we move on to Giancarlo Stanton. He's plus 1,400 to lead the league in home runs. It's the fourth best odds. And the problem with Stanton has never been the power, obviously. He's been his ability to stay healthy here with the New York Yankees. Although it was just two years ago where I believe he played 160 games. Nobody remembers that. They only remember the injury plague season from last year and then earlier this spring. Giancarlo Stanton at plus 1,400. You're in, Tom. How come? Absolutely. The injury plague season, he played 18 games last year. We just gotta throw that completely out. We can't take anything from that. In 2017, he was the home run leader. In 2018, he had a ton of home runs as well. And if you look around him, we have Mike Trout at 1,100 odds tied with Gallo. There's a chance Mike Trout misses a few games. He's expecting a child. So if we can get a little bit better odds on a player that has already been the home run leader, we wanna be taking Stanton. And if we look back at these massive, massive numbers he had from 2017, you know, when I saw up at 350 in those years, you know, great ballpark is gonna be hitting in some really weak pitching staff, specifically with the Orioles and the Red Sox is gonna get the face a ton. There's really nothing to not like about Stanton at plus 1,400 if he stays healthy. Just keep him in there for 55 games and he could easily be the home run leader. It's all about health for Giancarlo Stanton. We've seen him be the home run leader before. He's not that much older. It wasn't that long ago. Did they get him at these odds in Yankee stadium at plus 1,400? Well, there's a lot to like. Let's move on to Nolan Aranada. This one's crazy, Tom. It's probably my favorite one on this list because you're getting him at plus 1,800 and he's playing at Coors Field and there's no chance of snow anymore here in Denver because it's the middle of July. It's the seventh best odds for the best hitter in Colorado or the best players in baseball plus 1,800 to lead the league in home runs. Yeah, we'll take that. Absolutely with you. 1,800 for one of the best hitters in the league. And like you said, we don't have to deal with late March, early April in Colorado. We're dealing with optimal weather. He's gonna play half his games at Coors Field which is absolutely a boost for him or any player there. We look back with past five seasons. He has 37 home runs or more in five straight seasons. He's been in the top 12 ending four home runs in each of these past five seasons. The ballparks when he's on the road aren't amazing but we're getting the best hitter in half of his games in the best ballpark at amazing odds at plus 1,800. So I'm taking Aeronado to have, I would say 19 home runs this year, hopefully lead the league. The juice ball man, it may be over 19 home runs this year. We'll take that over. We'll take Nolan Aeronado at these odds. The best hitters in baseball, half his games in Colorado. We'll just ignore the games he has to play in San Francisco as well. Elizabeth Ballant and Gleebert Torres are second Yankee on the list. He's plus 3,000 of the 18th best odds to lead the league in home runs. And the good news for Gleebert is he still plays a lot of games against the Orioles. That's the key. Absolutely the key. Last year he had 13 of his 38 home runs against the Orioles. He finished tied for 12 most home runs in the league. But interestingly enough, he had one home run the entire month of July last year and he finished tied for 12. Now with the other months he's up at 13, he's up at nine, he's up at six. So if he had a normal month for him last year, he would be pushing the top 10, maybe even the top five if he was up there at nine or 10 home runs. Plus 3,000 odds, he gets to face the Orioles. I think it's 10 or 12 times this year, combined with the great ballparks he gets to hit in as is the same for Stanton against the Orioles, against the Red Sox, et cetera, et cetera. Plus 3,000 for a player that goes through these hot stretches of 13 and nine home runs in two months last year, plus 3,000. You could bank on that and ride him to the home run leader. Well, people will forget about Glen Retourer, just how young he still is. He's still an improving player. As Tom mentioned, just one home run in July, hoping for more home runs this July and a lot of home runs in August and September as well. So you get plus 3,000, an emerging player, 18 best odds, really, really good number over the FanDuel Sportsbook. Mike Moustak is someone that hits a lot of home runs every year. He's plus 3,600 over at the FanDuel Sportsbook right now. It's a new ballpark for him, but a good one because it's the great American small park where he'll play half his games. Mike Moustak also gets to travel back to Milwaukee for a few games. A lot to like here in the NL Central. But Mike Moustak has pretty good odds to be the home run leader. Yeah, Mike Moustak, as I wanna say, he's like a player that is really good at hitting home runs, but he's almost like sneaky good. He doesn't get the recognition, in terms of being an elite home run hitter, but 35 plus home runs in two of his past three seasons. He's pretty solid against lefties. He's not amazing against them. He's phenomenal against righties, of course, bringing in those splits. Great American small park, like you said, in Cincinnati is an awesome boost. I think their lineup overall should give him some relative safety that the pitchers actually have to pitch to him. They can't pitch around him. At plus 3,600, we're getting a player that can actually drive the ball pretty deep in most circumstances, most ballparks. I kind of like him as a long shot, but our next long shot is probably someone I wanna bang on even more. A political home run leader, that's not thought of as a political home run leader. That's what Mike Moostock is in the fantasy baseball. Always a guy you're getting later on that's gonna hit your 30 home runs. You're like, all right, cool. Get a couple more. You can lead the lead. Get him a good number here. One final player that's also in the NL Central, you're gonna stick with that, you're all over. It's Josh Bell, he's plus 5,000 over the fan dual sports book to lead the league in home runs. That is the 30th or tied for 30th best odds. Josh Bell over Pittsburgh Pirates just had a monstrosity over a year last year. Can you do it again? Well, I would hope he would repeat the first half of what he did last year. He finished with 37 total home runs, 27 of which came in the first half, really fell off a cliff kind of in the second half of the year with only 10 home runs. But that's kind of okay at plus 5,000 when we just need him to repeat the first half of what he did last year. You know, this isn't some, you know, marathons. This is a sprint, as we're gonna say, for all the fantasy baseball of betting everything this year. 27 home runs in the first half is kind of what we wanna see from him. He has that ceiling to get it done in a condensed timeframe at plus 5,000. Now we have to deal with the fact Pittsburgh isn't the best park. The lineup isn't the best overall that can kind of pitch around him. St. Louis isn't the best park. We kind of have to work with all these things. But he didn't last year for at least half the season. And that's what we want this year. Half of an amazing season. 27 home runs in the first half of last year. Plus 5,000, it's a bet worth making. As he talks about last week with the pitchers, you don't need a full season. It's a little out of nowhere. It's gonna come on and just have one heck of a 60 game year. Last year, what was Josh Bell for those first 60 games? Can he do it again for the B60? Well, we hope so. If not him, it'll probably be somebody else much lower on this list than the John Carlin standings of the world. That's it for us here on the Vandal Hurriam. Tom Becchi, we appreciate your time. Good luck this season. Same to you, have a good one. Absolutely. Tom and I will be back all fantasy baseball season long, giving you the plays of the day, which begins on Thursday. I cannot wait. Tom Becchi, I'm your exhaust man. Have a wonderful night and stay safe everybody.