WEBVTT - Top 5 Trade Targets: Week 2 Buy Low, Sell High

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<v Speaker 1>Hello, friendos, I'm Chris Welsh and welcome into Fantasy Pros

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<v Speaker 1>today on the YouTube channel. I've got our first edition

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<v Speaker 1>of trade Targets. We're gonna be discussing five players to

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<v Speaker 1>trade four or trade away, and this very very early

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<v Speaker 1>point of the season, but that does not mean there

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<v Speaker 1>are not opportunities for you. Before we do, though, I

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<v Speaker 1>up because I want you to win. But I also

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<v Speaker 1>want to talk about some trade targets. I've got five

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<v Speaker 1>for you here, and first up is a trade four.

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<v Speaker 1>It's San Diego Padres starting pitcher Blake Snell. Now Blake

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<v Speaker 1>Snell went four and one third. Not great, especially for

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<v Speaker 1>the quality starts crew. He also gave up three earned runs,

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<v Speaker 1>really not good in under five. He also took him

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<v Speaker 1>ninety three pitches, which is less than optimal, but he

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<v Speaker 1>had nine strikeouts with twenty whiffs on swings in that game.

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<v Speaker 1>The change up, which we all hate for him to throw,

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<v Speaker 1>was about ten percent usage, but it had an eighty

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<v Speaker 1>six percent whiff rate, which is crazy. His curve also

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<v Speaker 1>an eighty percent whiff rate. Both had fifty plus csw percentages,

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<v Speaker 1>which is very very good. He was a little too

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<v Speaker 1>heavy on the fastball. It was cold, kind of rainy,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think that's going to obviously have effects across

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<v Speaker 1>the board. But Blake Snell has big stuff and he

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<v Speaker 1>shows it. Twenty whiffs on swings early on, it's whatever

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<v Speaker 1>point on. That is a phenomenal number. And he did

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<v Speaker 1>it in four and one third. So if he can

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<v Speaker 1>get together, obviously we can also get out of the

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<v Speaker 1>cold weather, good things are gonna come. Blake Snell is

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<v Speaker 1>a guy that is not cheap necessarily, but that going

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<v Speaker 1>under five is really going to trigger people, and he

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<v Speaker 1>might be more acquireable than you think. I think it's

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<v Speaker 1>a good time to jump on it because the big

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<v Speaker 1>strikeouts are there, and I still think he has the

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<v Speaker 1>opportunity to be the number one pitcher out of this

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<v Speaker 1>rotation that's including you, Darvish. So go and poke around

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<v Speaker 1>and see if you can get yourself some cheap blakes.

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<v Speaker 1>Now know what I'm saying, you can do that. Coming

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<v Speaker 1>in at number four is New York Mets starting pitcher

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<v Speaker 1>code I sanga. Now, I'm not gonna mask the good

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<v Speaker 1>results when I say trade away. He had eight strikeouts,

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<v Speaker 1>which was good. He had his first win, which is great,

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<v Speaker 1>and he only gave up one and run. My concern

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<v Speaker 1>is what happens when the league catches up to Senka.

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<v Speaker 1>His fastball command was pretty spotty early on. He caught

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<v Speaker 1>it a little bit later. That can, of course be fixed,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's gonna be It's gonna be a table center

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<v Speaker 1>for him, especially with these other pitches, especially the ghost fork,

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<v Speaker 1>because the ghost fork did everything. Eight of his nine

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<v Speaker 1>total whiffs came off the ghost fork. So here's the

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<v Speaker 1>number for you. Fifty eight of his eighty eight non

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<v Speaker 1>ghost fork or fork pitches, if you will, he douced

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<v Speaker 1>only one swing and miss. That's not good. The concern

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<v Speaker 1>is when the league catches up to the ghost fork

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<v Speaker 1>and stops offering it up at it as much. What's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna happen? How is he going to adjust? And with

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<v Speaker 1>body fastball command, it makes me a little bit more concerned.

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<v Speaker 1>Though it is a big, big fastball, it might be

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<v Speaker 1>at a big level of adjustment overall. But it's worth

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<v Speaker 1>gauging the temperature in your league after an eight strikeout

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<v Speaker 1>performance on a very very hot name pitcher, and some

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<v Speaker 1>might not look as deep after that eight strike up performance,

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<v Speaker 1>and you might be able to take advantage if you're

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<v Speaker 1>like me and you're a little bit concerned what the

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<v Speaker 1>numbers are going to look like when the league adjusts.

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<v Speaker 1>And here's one thing I can promise you, the league

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<v Speaker 1>always adjusts. Coming in at number three, we're going back

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<v Speaker 1>to a trade four. We're going to Philadelphia, Philadelphia Phillies

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<v Speaker 1>third baseman, maybe sometimes even first baseman, Alec Bohm. Bom

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<v Speaker 1>has been hitting the ball hard while finding good early results,

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<v Speaker 1>which you love to see. Through Monday, as we're recording this,

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<v Speaker 1>Bom had a sixty six percent hard hit rate with

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<v Speaker 1>a four to sixty seven batting average, also had a homer,

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<v Speaker 1>and on Monday had a three hit game, which you

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<v Speaker 1>love to see he had a four ninety two WHOBA,

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<v Speaker 1>which is holding up the batting average. Even though things

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<v Speaker 1>are early, things are trending in the right direction for

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<v Speaker 1>a big year, especially that you're seeing that ball get

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<v Speaker 1>hit hard. Fun fact too, going into Monday, Alec Bohm

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<v Speaker 1>had one hundred percent hard hit rate and he had

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<v Speaker 1>an average exit velocity of ninety nine. That's absurd. That

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<v Speaker 1>came way down obviously when he started topping a few

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<v Speaker 1>more balls, but even when he wasn't hitting the ball

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<v Speaker 1>hard on Monday, he had three hits out of it.

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<v Speaker 1>That's got to make you feel pretty good. His comfortability

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<v Speaker 1>is also showing, as he has a seventeen percent first

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<v Speaker 1>swing first strike you first pitch swing percentage, where usually

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<v Speaker 1>he sits in like the thirties, and he's done that

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<v Speaker 1>throughout his career. So he's getting a little bit more patient,

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<v Speaker 1>getting deeper into accounts as he becomes more comfortable. Alec

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<v Speaker 1>Bahum has the upside of a top one hundred player

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<v Speaker 1>right now, but I think he can still easily be

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<v Speaker 1>had outside the top one fifty. Have not caught up,

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<v Speaker 1>but I think you should and you should poke around,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think you can get him for pretty cheap.

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<v Speaker 1>Go try to get yourself some malec bom. Why not.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not gonna hurt you and it's not going to

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<v Speaker 1>cost too much. Coming in at number two is San

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<v Speaker 1>Diego Padres shortstop Xander Bogart's Xander someone actually kind of

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<v Speaker 1>liked in the preseason that offense is so powerful, as

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<v Speaker 1>you know, and we don't even have Fernando Tatis Junior

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<v Speaker 1>back yet. There's also been good early on as well.

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<v Speaker 1>Two early homers while he's hitting over four hundred. Xander's

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<v Speaker 1>XBA and x LUG are both about one hundred points

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<v Speaker 1>lower than his current average. But again, you know, like

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<v Speaker 1>we acknowledge, those batting average numbers are really huge. His

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<v Speaker 1>hard hit percentage, though, is the lowest it's been over

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<v Speaker 1>the last three years. Xander has only hit more than

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<v Speaker 1>twenty five homers once in his career. He's also showing

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<v Speaker 1>no signs of running. Take all those things together, low

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<v Speaker 1>hard hit percentage and the fact of what the trajectory

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<v Speaker 1>of what he's always been in the homers and maybe

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<v Speaker 1>the stolen based department, especially with all the stolen based

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<v Speaker 1>numbers up, it doesn't give me crazy optimism that he's

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<v Speaker 1>going to break the mold be a top five catcher.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's why I want to check in with the

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<v Speaker 1>league and see if someone's willing to pay kind of

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<v Speaker 1>a premium shortstop price on him, because shortstop hasn't been

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<v Speaker 1>as fluid as everybody thought it was in draft season.

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<v Speaker 1>It's one of the best offenses out there, so you

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<v Speaker 1>should check in and maybe you can bolster your lineup

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<v Speaker 1>with another position, or maybe you can snag a two

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<v Speaker 1>for Masataka Yoshida and maybe a relief pitcher. I think

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<v Speaker 1>that's more than fair. If you can pull it for

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<v Speaker 1>Xander Bogart's I would give it a shot and go

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<v Speaker 1>and check in right now and coming in at number one.

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<v Speaker 1>My favorite trade target is Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Pablo Lopez.

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<v Speaker 1>A lot can be made about small sample sizes. My friends,

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<v Speaker 1>we've got to be careful for the good or the bad,

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<v Speaker 1>whichever direction they end up leaning. But we've also got

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<v Speaker 1>it at some point end up taking our shots with

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<v Speaker 1>these players, and Pablo is the one I want to

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<v Speaker 1>do that with. Early in his first start, he was

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<v Speaker 1>able to strike out eight in five and one thirds.

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<v Speaker 1>What was the most impressive thing about that was the fastball.

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<v Speaker 1>Velo had an increase of around a mile and a half,

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<v Speaker 1>so ninety three and a half last year over ninety

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<v Speaker 1>five in this start. The other added edition was his sweeper.

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<v Speaker 1>He's throwing a new pitch. This sweeper accounted for twenty

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<v Speaker 1>two percent of the pitches he threw and it had

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<v Speaker 1>a seventy two percent with rate, which is really really great.

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<v Speaker 1>Now the book is going to get out, the league

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<v Speaker 1>is going to catch up, they're going to understand the shape,

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<v Speaker 1>they're going to know what this is all about. But

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<v Speaker 1>he had the confidence. The results were there, and what

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<v Speaker 1>we really really wanted were the changes. Those were there

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<v Speaker 1>as well. Pablo was a really late pitcher added to

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<v Speaker 1>most rotations. So I don't think the cost is going

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<v Speaker 1>to be something where people are holding on. It's not

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<v Speaker 1>like Redebt Meers, who wasn't the best in his first start,

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<v Speaker 1>but you know, Redebt Meers had all the buzz. Jeffrey

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<v Speaker 1>Springs had all the buzz. Papa Lopez did not have

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<v Speaker 1>all of the buzz. In fact, there's a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>people that are just not in on the Twins in general.

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<v Speaker 1>So I think he can come at even fair market value,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think that's still a discount. I think there's

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of upsides still. I'm going to go poke around,

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<v Speaker 1>try to get Pablo Lopez, whether he's an additional added

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<v Speaker 1>piece or I can just get him on the cheat

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<v Speaker 1>maybe moving some other depth, because I think what he's

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<v Speaker 1>showing is the potential to get back into that Pablo

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<v Speaker 1>Lopez we remember in the past, which could be a

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<v Speaker 1>top twenty five sp So go and poke around, my friends.

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<v Speaker 1>It ain't gonna hurt you. And there you have it.

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<v Speaker 1>Five trade targets for you to trade four or trade away,

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<v Speaker 1>whatever you want to do or whatever situation that you're in.

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<v Speaker 1>Who do you think we should be looking at trading?

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<v Speaker 1>I know you guys have got names, so let's hear

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<v Speaker 1>them below. Comment in the comments section. You'll even have

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<v Speaker 1>as Joe Pisapias Waiver Wire ads video, which is going

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<v Speaker 1>not want to miss any of those? You don't want

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<v Speaker 1>to miss any of those. That's why, That's exactly why

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<v Speaker 1>you can find me the Welsh on Twitter at is

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<v Speaker 1>it the Welsh And if I don't see you on

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<v Speaker 1>leading off, I'll see you're right here on the Fantasy

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<v Speaker 1>Pros YouTube channel. Until next time, my friends, go make

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<v Speaker 1>some trades and may your trades be fountiful. Goodbye. Thanks

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