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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into the cycle, a weekly Fantasy Pros

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Speaker 1: Baseball podcast. I am Ryan, want to join as always

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Speaker 1: by Mike Mayer and as sometimes by Kelly Kirby, our

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Speaker 1: very own wonky penguin here at Fantasy Pros.

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Speaker 2: Kelly, thank you so much for making the time to

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Speaker 2: join us for today's show.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for making the time to have me.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it was a huge inconvenience to fit you

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Speaker 3: So that's how Mayor always makes it sound.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't doubt that at all.

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Speaker 1: answer it. In the following week's episode. Guys, we will

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Speaker 1: start as we always do with rounding the bases, and

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Speaker 1: we will start with Mayor really wanted us to grade

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Speaker 1: his trade that he made.

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Speaker 2: He put it out on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: He put it as the very first topic in today's show,

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Speaker 1: so we will appease him and talk about it. It

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Speaker 1: was Corba Carroll valued at eighteen dollars in his league.

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Speaker 1: And I'll let him get into the details because there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of them, but it is Corbin Carroll eighteen

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Speaker 1: dollars and Charlie Morton for Matt Olsen at thirty eight dollars. Mayor,

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Speaker 1: do you want to explain more about kind of the

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Speaker 1: rules of this league and why you made this trade.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's a keeper league that you know, the

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Speaker 4: real important part of the deal is really the I

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Speaker 4: traded away and affordable Corbyn Carroll for medals and so

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Speaker 4: that's really the trade is Corbyn Carroll for medals. And

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Speaker 4: we're talking to Redraft. We can just talk about that

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Speaker 4: part of the trade, the keeper aspect of it. You

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Speaker 4: draft someone at a certain price and you can have

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Speaker 4: them for up to three years, but in their third

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Speaker 4: more more money. So I have Corban Carroll at eighteen

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Speaker 4: years in his second year traded in for Matt Olsen

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Speaker 4: for thirty eight dollars in his a year. But for me,

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Speaker 4: this is really just about this this year. If I

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Speaker 4: wanted to, I could keep Corban Carroll for one more

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Speaker 4: you know, around what Mattle is going for right now.

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Speaker 4: But I'm not even sure if I'm going to keep

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Speaker 4: Medlson at thirty eight dollars. This is really just about

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Speaker 4: this year and being worried about Corbyan Carroll. You know,

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Speaker 4: he's someone we've talked about on the show before, someone

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Speaker 4: Welsh has talked about a lot. I think Walsh is

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Speaker 4: probably a little bit more optimistic than I am about

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Speaker 4: Corbyn Carroll. So the flip side of this is I

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Speaker 4: also needed power in this league, so for me, the

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Speaker 4: concerned about Corban Carroll despite his home run yesterday, which

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Speaker 4: if you haven't seen, it was probably one of the

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Speaker 4: most unimpressive home runs I've ever seen that didn't take

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Speaker 4: place in Yankee Stadium. But yeah, I put the poll

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Speaker 4: was really close. It said forty five percent Carol, forty

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Speaker 4: eleven point five percent said it was about even. So

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Speaker 4: I think that means it was a fair trade. I'm

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Speaker 4: happy with it even if I sold. I don't know

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Speaker 4: if you'd call it selling low, but you know, I

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Speaker 4: gave up a potentially affordable superstar because I'm very worried

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Speaker 2: I think they're worry about Carol.

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Speaker 1: A is reasonable and B It's something that we have

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Speaker 1: We talked about Acunya like a couple weeks in, just

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Speaker 1: know how you would kind of frame this trade. On

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Speaker 1: the one hand, you think about, you know, selling low

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I'm in that league with Mayor so and

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Speaker 3: about five minutes before that one went through, he had

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Speaker 3: there are no first basemen worth acquiring. Thought I voted

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Speaker 3: of exactly everything, and we just talked about where Carol.

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Speaker 3: I have concerns about him. I think that shoulder is

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Speaker 3: that's a little bit deeper than that, and having to

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Speaker 3: which could provide Mayor with enough power like kind of

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Speaker 1: It's definitely worth noting too, like if you look at

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Speaker 1: more positive on Matt Olsen than cornmc carroll, even though

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Speaker 1: the numbers haven't been there for either of them, Like

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Speaker 1: fantasy baseball have been bad for both, but the data

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Speaker 1: Possibly Olsen has been hitting the ball much much better,

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Speaker 1: mayor did that play into your calculation at all?

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Speaker 4: One million percent? That played into it. The concerns about

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Speaker 4: Carol played a big part. But then also the underlying

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Speaker 4: data for Olsen played played a big part. Thinking I

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Speaker 4: I figured I could probably swing this trade. The other

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Speaker 4: thing I thought was really interesting. I was watching I

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Speaker 4: that morning show that they do, and Mark de Rosa

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Speaker 4: broke down Corbyn Carrol's his kind of like stance and

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Speaker 4: But I also I'm just really worried about that shoulder,

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Speaker 4: and I you know, it's it's kind of a panic

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Speaker 2: Uh correct me if i'm I don't know limb here.

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Speaker 1: I so coming up in rounding the bases, we're going

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Speaker 4: Yes, I did zero prep, so I don't know. We'll

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Speaker 4: We'll find out together, I would say. No.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, last question before we move on on this topic, Kelly,

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Speaker 1: who is ahead in the standings of Metley?

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Speaker 2: You were mayor.

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Speaker 3: I actually just looked I jumped him, so that trade

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been I've been fading. I was in first

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Speaker 1: this one in like the way we we phrased this

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Speaker 1: pretty much been a resounding yes. His stat cast page

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Speaker 1: is ludicrous, and you don't need a static cast page

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Speaker 1: to see that Otani's doing well, Like just as you

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Speaker 1: know his you know, regular numbers eleven home runs, nine

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Speaker 1: He is one hundred percentile in five different stats on

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Speaker 1: stack cast, and then two others he's ninety ninth and

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Speaker 1: you know, the best in so he's just been like

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Speaker 1: ludicrously good this year, And there was a tweet that

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Speaker 1: of wondered, like what if show Atani only focused on

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Speaker 1: one part of this thing, and we're seeing it and

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Speaker 1: he's really, really, really freaking good. So Kelly like, I,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's almost like there's not even that

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Speaker 2: It's just like, Wow, look how good he is.

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Speaker 1: But like I just wanted to take the chance to

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Speaker 1: kind of like praise him and be like, Wow, look

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Speaker 1: how good he is. So like, what is your takeaway

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Speaker 1: to seeing this monsters start to the season from him?

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Speaker 3: Well, because I'm a professional, I did prep for this,

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Speaker 3: and when I saw the question, I actually thought a

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Speaker 3: better question, is is Otani the hitter worth the contract

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Speaker 3: that he got? Because it's so good that I'm I'm

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Speaker 3: kind of I thought about it a couple of minutes

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Speaker 3: and and I have no trouble justifying that he's worth

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Speaker 3: He's worth what he got based solely on this, Like

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Speaker 3: the amount that he can hit is insane. So yeah, no,

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'm not complaining, So don't don't take that the wrong way. Kelly,

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Speaker 2: Slash? Like? What do you think about this argument?

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Speaker 4: It's especially good with your with your accent too, Thanks.

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Speaker 3: Thanks. No. I just think that for a lot of people,

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Speaker 1: we were trying to play in the show, he was like, well,

436
00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,560
Speaker 1: Kelly is a expert on catchers, so we should definitely

437
00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:06,840
Speaker 1: get her opinion on replacement options. Here.

438
00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:10,919
Speaker 3: He lies, He lies so hard.

439
00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,679
Speaker 4: No love catchers, come on, I do.

440
00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:16,239
Speaker 3: I do call a lot of catchers for the home

441
00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:18,800
Speaker 3: run call contest. I feel like they deserve respect. I

442
00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:20,600
Speaker 3: also love kickers in football, so you know, we can

443
00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:22,480
Speaker 3: do this. However, we want to they're like basically the

444
00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:27,040
Speaker 3: same position anyway in fantasy. I mean, I think that

445
00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,440
Speaker 3: I loved him, and I told you before this started

446
00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:32,680
Speaker 3: that during drafts, I was like, if you look at

447
00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,400
Speaker 3: Wilson and William Contreras's numbers for the last few years,

448
00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:38,159
Speaker 3: they were so close together that I was kind of like, well,

449
00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:39,800
Speaker 3: why am I going to draft one of them six

450
00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:42,560
Speaker 3: rounds ahead of the other one? Like that just felt

451
00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,359
Speaker 3: like a really big waste of draft capital. And now

452
00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,240
Speaker 3: I'm eating that all over the place, because yeah, no,

453
00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:50,680
Speaker 3: it was. It was awful, And of course I'm a

454
00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,840
Speaker 3: Cubs fan, so and I love Wilson Contras. I don't

455
00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:55,800
Speaker 3: care that he went to the enemy, so I feel

456
00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:57,680
Speaker 3: terrible for him because he was having a good year.

457
00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:02,840
Speaker 3: If Ryan Efforts is out there, he has been doing phenomenal.

458
00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,720
Speaker 3: I still like Campusano for San Diego. I think it's

459
00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:08,760
Speaker 3: just kind of a matter of I mean, and her

460
00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:10,959
Speaker 3: Ara now is for sure going to get at bets

461
00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,920
Speaker 3: like no matter what. So if he's out there, he's

462
00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,480
Speaker 3: obviously a decent replacement for Controllers because you just stay

463
00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:20,040
Speaker 3: on the same team. But yeah, no, I thought it

464
00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:21,560
Speaker 3: was terrible and I hated watching it.

465
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Speaker 1: By the way, I just to give the stat line

466
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Speaker 1: for Contrarast in case you know, anybody listening doesn't have

467
00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,280
Speaker 1: him rostered. But once and now, while he was doing

468
00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,000
Speaker 1: six some runs on the season, twelve RBI, two solen bases,

469
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Speaker 1: batting two eighty, his ops was nine to fifty. So

470
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Speaker 1: having a really good year, you know, at a position

471
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Speaker 1: that could sometimes be tough to fill. Mayor do you

472
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Speaker 1: have any anybody that sticks out to you as like

473
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Speaker 1: a viable replacement option that might be out there?

474
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Speaker 2: And then also kind of what was your reaction to

475
00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:46,159
Speaker 2: seeing it?

476
00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:46,800
Speaker 3: Uh?

477
00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was brutal to see and he was just

478
00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:53,359
Speaker 4: in so much pain immediately, and it was just it

479
00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,760
Speaker 4: wasn't even a back swing he was. He was hitting

480
00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,399
Speaker 4: right on the regular swing. And to hear that it

481
00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,080
Speaker 4: was because the Cardinals like him move up for like

482
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:05,800
Speaker 4: pitch framing. Like what an absurd like position to put

483
00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:09,399
Speaker 4: your catcher in to, you know, to try and like

484
00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,280
Speaker 4: steal a few strikes. It's just this is brutal.

485
00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,760
Speaker 1: It's both it's both like a catcher moving up for

486
00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,400
Speaker 1: pitch framing, but also like just with modern velocity.

487
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:19,520
Speaker 2: I saw somebody else of this on Twitter.

488
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Speaker 1: It's not on an original thought, but I agree with

489
00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:23,400
Speaker 1: it that like batters are stepping further and further back

490
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,040
Speaker 1: in the box in a lot of cases to deal

491
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Speaker 1: with just you're seeing velocity from every picture essentially now,

492
00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:31,719
Speaker 1: So it's just like kind of too on a collision

493
00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,440
Speaker 1: course really like literally.

494
00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,679
Speaker 4: Ye yeah, and you'll see, like the beginning of games,

495
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:38,840
Speaker 4: they used to pay a lot more attention to it,

496
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,800
Speaker 4: like in years ago, and they kind of have decided

497
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:43,840
Speaker 4: it was boring, I guess, but like the first time

498
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,439
Speaker 4: through a lineup, you'll see like every batter step all

499
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:47,719
Speaker 4: the way back in the box and the first thing

500
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 4: you're doing is scratching away that back line of the

501
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,960
Speaker 4: batter's box and just so they can get even further back.

502
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:54,960
Speaker 4: So yeah, he was just in a lot of pain.

503
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,159
Speaker 4: The guy I'm most interested in picking up someone that

504
00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,720
Speaker 4: Kelly said, it's Herrera on the Cardinals. I just think,

505
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,200
Speaker 4: you know, he went into a little slump there when

506
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,679
Speaker 4: Conterrera's came, you know, because he already kind of got

507
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:07,400
Speaker 4: a full run and looked really good, and then Contrez

508
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,119
Speaker 4: came back and he was still playing often and not

509
00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,119
Speaker 4: every day, and he kind of fell off. But I

510
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:16,200
Speaker 4: think going back to full like playing time. He's available

511
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,199
Speaker 4: all over the place, and he's the most interesting to me.

512
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Speaker 1: Let's do our final topic here. I thought it would

513
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 1: be fun to do a redraft of the first round

514
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 1: as we sit here over a month end of the

515
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 1: season where I'm calling it the one month, and we're

516
00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,040
Speaker 1: obviously more than just one month in here's was here

517
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:35,920
Speaker 1: on May eighth, but just kind of what we've seen

518
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 1: so far, you know, reevaluating Yahoo does this where they

519
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 1: actually do a league draft, you know, at the end

520
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,560
Speaker 1: of April, with a lot of experts in the industry.

521
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 2: I think it's an interesting idea.

522
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,200
Speaker 1: And since we had Kelly on for rounding the bases,

523
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 1: and it wouldn't just be me and Meeric going back

524
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:49,879
Speaker 1: and forth, I thought it would be fun to do

525
00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,919
Speaker 1: a draft here. So we will go. We'll each make

526
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,720
Speaker 1: four picks. Obviously it'll be twelve round. I didn't actually

527
00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 1: put together an order year, so let me very quickly

528
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 1: go to a site that who didn't prepare. Now I

529
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,080
Speaker 1: didn't say anything. Kelly was one who called you out

530
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 1: on that, all right, so we're gonna say that. Excuse

531
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 1: a random number generator, and then I'm designated as one

532
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:17,760
Speaker 1: Kelly two, and Mayor three, because that's the order we're

533
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 1: sitting in. Let's generate the order here, all right, Mayor

534
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,440
Speaker 1: will go first, Kelly will go second, and I'll go third.

535
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so.

536
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 1: Mayor, you are on the clock with the one oh

537
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 1: one here in our theoretical redraft.

538
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 2: Who are you taking?

539
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 4: So when we decided this was a topic, the one

540
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 4: pick I didn't want was first overall because I feel

541
00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,119
Speaker 4: like the answer is still a kunya. But I'm also

542
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 4: not sure the answer is still a kunya, and that

543
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 4: was I was hoping someone else would have to make

544
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:47,640
Speaker 4: that decision.

545
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie.

546
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 1: I'm I'm also pretty pleased I didn't have the first pick.

547
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 4: So we're considering kind of everything in this and you know,

548
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 4: the slow stars of the season and you know, projected

549
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 4: the rest of the way. I feel like it's still akunya.

550
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 4: But also like we were just talking about Atani and

551
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 4: if we're just talking about production, and like, I know

552
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 4: I can lock that in. I'll go Otani. Let's do it.

553
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,360
Speaker 4: I'll just I'll take Otani first of all.

554
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 2: Okay.

555
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 1: So I was gonna kind of ask uh and I

556
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:21,160
Speaker 1: wanted to save it for here, because like I said,

557
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 1: this is a bit of a preview, like I, like

558
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,159
Speaker 1: I said, I kind of asked about, you know, what

559
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,359
Speaker 1: next year's drafts might look like. As me keeps it up,

560
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:29,959
Speaker 1: I think I do think it's really interesting that just

561
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,479
Speaker 1: kind of one month into this again, Akunya was like

562
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 1: breaking records in leagues for like how much money he

563
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 1: was going for, and one month in we're we're already

564
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 1: saying he's not at one on one. I'm not saying

565
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 1: you're wrong. I might have done the same thing, but

566
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,159
Speaker 1: I just think it's an interesting thought. Kelly, you're on

567
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 1: the clock. Would you have taken Atani if you had

568
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:49,400
Speaker 1: the number one pick?

569
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,880
Speaker 3: Yes, that would not I wouldn't have really stressed about it.

570
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 3: I would have taken him, no problem. And I might

571
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 3: even blow your mind on this one, because I think

572
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 3: i'd take Muki second. So that's what I'm drafting.

573
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 2: I think that's really reasonable.

574
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 1: And I will tell you that I had Muki on

575
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 1: my board ahead of Akunya. I just I mean obviously,

576
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: because it's not like he's kind of come out of nowhere,

577
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:13,919
Speaker 1: like there are some younger guys who maybe I'm going

578
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,200
Speaker 1: to be considering in the back half of this first

579
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,160
Speaker 1: round redraft who are doing it for the first time.

580
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 1: Muki has done it before, He's done it consistently right,

581
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,200
Speaker 1: and now he's like as good as he's ever been.

582
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: And again that line up like is going to help

583
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:32,480
Speaker 1: him immensely throughout the year, Like he's got the positional versatility.

584
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 2: I think that's the right decision. May or what do

585
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 2: you think is is Muki? Who would you have just

586
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 2: gone Akunya given everything at two?

587
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: Or would you have considered somebody beyond Otani even ahead

588
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 1: of Akunya.

589
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 4: I like the Mooki pick. I've still I still struggle

590
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 4: with like not picking a Kunya, but like it's also

591
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 4: you can't just ignore like how this first month has

592
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,639
Speaker 4: gone and there are some you know, we did just

593
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 4: see the historic season, but there are some morning signs there,

594
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 4: and like Muki is just so locked in loaded, and

595
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 4: also you get that great eligibility along with the great production,

596
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 4: and it's hard to argue that with that pick.

597
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,199
Speaker 1: So I'm up now, and I I will tell you

598
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 1: I basically had a top four and I could have

599
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,639
Speaker 1: got in any direction, like on any given day, like

600
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 1: I might have picked him in a different order, I

601
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 1: very strongly want to consider somebody else also ahead of

602
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: a Cunya, and but at the same time, it's like,

603
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: if you're getting a guy who again was this consensus

604
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 1: of a number one pick just one month into the season,

605
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 1: it seems silly to pass on him. So I will

606
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: be a coward and stop the slide and take a Cunya, even.

607
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 2: Though on my board as I wrote it.

608
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 1: Out last night, I had another player ahead of Acuna

609
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: on the list.

610
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 2: So I will.

611
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 1: And I don't know why I'm being cagy because there's

612
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: no way he gets to me. We're not sneaking, by

613
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 1: the way, we're just going one, two three. I was

614
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 1: going to ask, no, no, no, we're because we're not

615
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 1: actually building tas where these are twelve different theoretical managers

616
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:02,919
Speaker 1: we're picking for.

617
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 2: So we'll just go one you three, one two three,

618
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 2: one two three.

619
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: So Kelly, orsue Me Mayor is now on the clock

620
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: at the fourth pick, Otani, Bets and Akunya are off

621
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: the board.

622
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 4: So I really want to go with one player, but

623
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 4: I'll go with a different one, just not that he

624
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 4: has a long track record, but he has a very

625
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 4: good recent track record. I'll go with Bobby Wit Junior here.

626
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 2: So Bobby Wit for me was in that top four.

627
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 4: He was.

628
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 1: He was actually the one that I that I had

629
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 1: higher than a Kunya. But I couldn't justify it, like

630
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 1: just based off one month that I would do whatever

631
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,159
Speaker 1: you want, Like I said, I was a coward.

632
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 2: I admit it.

633
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:40,400
Speaker 1: You can call me that as much as you want.

634
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,120
Speaker 1: But yes, that was my top four in whatever order

635
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: you wanted to have it. Otani bets Akunya wit those

636
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: were actually kind of the easy ones for me to

637
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: write down. Kelly, I'll ask you again, do you agree

638
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 1: with that? Was that your top four as well?

639
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 2: Yeah?

640
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 3: Yeah? That again, I feel like it was kind of

641
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 3: the clear choice at that point.

642
00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 1: Would would you, Kelly, where where amongst those four guys

643
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: would you have taken Acuna?

644
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 2: Would he have been third for you? Or what do

645
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 2: he have been for?

646
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I would have put him third, But but

647
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 3: you know that's the question that I would also have.

648
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 3: Like when you kept saying like, well he was the

649
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:11,919
Speaker 3: consensus the number one, he was the consensan's number one,

650
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, well what if he's not? Though, Like

651
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 3: what if what if we're wrong?

652
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 2: And like how we are a lot.

653
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 3: How far into the season before it's like, well he

654
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 3: was the consentstants number one, but he's not.

655
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: That's the perennial question, right. That's why it's an interesting exercise.

656
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 1: Is how far in do you start adjusting? And to

657
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:32,159
Speaker 1: what degree do you adjust? So that's always interesting. You

658
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 1: are on the clock, Kela With the fifth pick.

659
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 3: I'm going to take Kyle Tucker because I feel like

660
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 3: everyone overlooks him to such a degree that it's sad.

661
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna start drafting him. Word he belongs.

662
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 3: He's got like ten homers on the season, he has

663
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 3: five stolen bases. He has an ops of nine to

664
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 3: sixty two. Even though the estros have been terrible, I

665
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 3: feel like that is probably going to correct. But he

666
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 3: has not been terrible. He's been He's been himself, So

667
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 3: I would go with him at five.

668
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: When I first kind of wrote out my big board

669
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: for this exercise, like just kind of right out, you're

670
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: shooting from the hip, And then I went back to

671
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: be like, okay, like do I what do I actually

672
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: think about this? I didn't do that much prep to

673
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: be clear, I don't want to, you know, make it

674
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: seem like.

675
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 2: I care too much.

676
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: But I actually didn't even write down Tucker's name, and

677
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: I was like, well, that was in oversight, and I

678
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: went back.

679
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 2: And put him in in this.

680
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: I had him in that kind of fifth sixth range,

681
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: so to your point, easy to forget about him, especially

682
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: with the slow Astros start. I will take the other

683
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: guy I had in this five six range, which is

684
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 1: Juan Soto taken to New York. Really well, I've always

685
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: loved the hitter, obviously, like everybody else. He's got eight

686
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 1: home runs for soul and bases batting three twenty nine

687
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: ops just under a thousand, He's got the short porch

688
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: and right like I just I hate that he's in

689
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: New York because I love him as a hitter so

690
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: much and just love watching him. But I still think

691
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: he's you know, not obviously I had of Otani anymore,

692
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 1: you know, but like has an argument as one of

693
00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: the best left tended hitters in baseball. So just loved

694
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: love the player, I love watching him hit, and I'm

695
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: happy to take him at six.

696
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 4: Here.

697
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 2: Mayor you are on the clock with the seventh pick.

698
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 4: So this might be it might be out there. Maybe not,

699
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 4: you know, you can't argue with the production, especially if

700
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 4: you're if you're you know, ranking by stats. But I'm

701
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 4: going to take Ellie Dale de la Cruz here, and

702
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 4: I had a feeling, Yeah, it's there's concern that you know,

703
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 4: he's gonna not turn back into a pumpkin, but we're

704
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 4: not going to see like this level of production. But

705
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 4: you can't argue with what he's doing so far, like

706
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 4: he's on pace for an Akunya type like power speed season.

707
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: For more than an acuna. Is he still a pace

708
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: for a forty ninety? Was that that was the last

709
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 1: time I saw him.

710
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 4: Him Yah at home runs in nineteen stolen paces already. Yes,

711
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 4: you know, it's hard to argue with that, and you

712
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 4: know there are some you know, underlying number of things

713
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 4: to you know, worry about. But I mean, it seems

714
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 4: like his floor is a lot higher than we all thought.

715
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 2: I felt to me, like I said, there was a

716
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 2: clear top four, there was also clear.

717
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,479
Speaker 1: Top six, and I really kind of struggled to think

718
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: who I would pick in that seventh spot, but was

719
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: very much like in consideration there So I don't think

720
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: it's out on a limb at all.

721
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 2: Kelly, You know, I assuming you agree.

722
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't have any problem with that one.

723
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, eighth pick you got.

724
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 3: I'm taking Zach Wheeler because he's functioning and is the

725
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 3: best picture in baseball.

726
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 4: So but again I'm the second best picture.

727
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 3: The functioning. The functioning is the more important part there.

728
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 3: He's upright, and so therefore I think but I think

729
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 3: we undervalued pitching so significantly based on the injuries and

730
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 3: how this has all gone down. So I he cracked

731
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 3: my top twelve in rankings for the first time this

732
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 3: week because I'm just like, when you have a picture

733
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 3: that can do it, then that's where he belongs to me.

734
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that's totally valid, especially at this

735
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: point in the draft when you can kind of make

736
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: the case for a number of different hitters. If this

737
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: was a real, like full draft that we were playing out,

738
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: there are a lot of pictures that I would be

739
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: targeting pretty heavily in the second round. There were really

740
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: two in the first that I would give, you know, consideration,

741
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: two Wheelers. One the other is Corbn Burns, who I'm

742
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: gonna take here just because I did want to take

743
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 1: an ace and like I think, to me, there's like

744
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: you can make a case for other pictures in terms

745
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: of what they'll do the rest of the season. But

746
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: if I'm sitting down and ranking out starting pictures, that's

747
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: one and two right now in terms of who's healthy

748
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: and the situation.

749
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 2: They both play on really good teams.

750
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: You know, corn Burns hasn't gotten a lot of run

751
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: support lately, but like you would imagine what that lineup

752
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: that he will throughout the season. Obviously, like both really

753
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: really good pictures you know, have been good, are healthy.

754
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: Like I to me, like it's really a coin flip

755
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: between the two, and I'm happy with either. And there's

756
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: no other picture that I'm really considering as a first

757
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: round guy, but there would be a lot in the

758
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: early second round.

759
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 2: Mayor are you.

760
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: Gonna be taking a picture at any point in the

761
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: first round or are those kind of the only two

762
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: for you?

763
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 4: Well, I was debating if it was too early for

764
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 4: Ranger Suarez or not, So I was really going back

765
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 4: and forth about whether I wanted to do that. The

766
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 4: other picture to consider would be Tyler Class. Now, the

767
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 4: only thing is there, you're kind of building in some

768
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 4: injury concern. So if we're talking about drafting for rest

769
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 4: of season, you have to kind of take that into account. Yeah,

770
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 4: am I up now? Is it my turn?

771
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 2: Yes?

772
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 4: Is that why he tossed it to me? All right,

773
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 4: that's good job about you. Another name I would have considered,

774
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 4: like before he got her, it was probably Trey Turner,

775
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 4: But now that we know he's going to miss the

776
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 4: next month and a half, you probably want to avoid

777
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 4: him if you're going just on production. Marcela Zuna is

778
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 4: up there. But I don't know that I can take

779
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 4: Marcela Zuna in the first round just because of what

780
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 4: he's done recently and.

781
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 2: Is already clayed exactly.

782
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 4: That's true. That's a good point. So yeah, I think,

783
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 4: just because I'm a believer in you know, in the

784
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 4: bat and everything, I think I'll go your Don Alvarez.

785
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 4: Even though the Astros have been terrible, I just think

786
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 4: he might be one of the best pure hitters in

787
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 4: the game, you know, and one of the better ones

788
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 4: since like or tease.

789
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 1: Two Astros going in the top ten despite their start

790
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: to the season. They're good, They're good players. Kelly, you're

791
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: up with the eleventh pick.

792
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 3: All right, So just a real quick story while I look,

793
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 3: I when I was drafting in my home league, I somehow,

794
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 3: some way kind of turned on pocket aces in the

795
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 3: Draft Wizard and didn't realize that I had done it.

796
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 3: Like I and I was like, why is it recommending

797
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 3: these two guys to me? Like I don't, I don't know.

798
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 3: It was giving me four pictures. I'm like, why am

799
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 3: I doing this? But I followed because I'm just a

800
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 3: sheep to the Draft Wizard. I don't know. But anyway,

801
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,760
Speaker 3: I picked up Burns and Kirby with my first two picks,

802
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 3: and I am in first place in that league by

803
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 3: a wide margin.

804
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:43,240
Speaker 4: So it's a great plug for the Draft Wizard. Good job. Everyone.

805
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 4: Go check out the draft.

806
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 2: The show.

807
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 3: It's magical. Really, I oh, I don't know. This is

808
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 3: where it gets kind of weird, isn't it. I'll take

809
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:53,240
Speaker 3: gunder Henderson.

810
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 4: That's great because you also stole them from worms.

811
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: It was a slack I think, oh, he's actually been

812
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: really cold the last week. But like as of a

813
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: week ago, it was like this dude, can no doubt

814
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: number one, like like like first round guy home runs,

815
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: you run like he'll he'll hit, he hits dingers, he

816
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: will steel bases. He is my favorite player on my

817
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: favorite team.

818
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was thinking he would.

819
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 1: I was thinking he might not go in this first round,

820
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: and I was going to be like, oh, I'll be

821
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: the Orioles fan and say like he's done enough to

822
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: earn it here, But clearly I'm not a homer, and

823
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: I now have evidence of that that he went before

824
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: I was going to take him mayor what do you

825
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: think about that pick?

826
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,399
Speaker 4: I like it because it kept it from you. But yeah,

827
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 4: he's you know, if you just look at like, you know,

828
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 4: you go to like the Fantasy Pros stats page and

829
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 4: look at VBR, which kind of takes all this into account,

830
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 4: he's number seven. So if you're just looking at you know, production,

831
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 4: he's number seven, and there's no reason really given you know,

832
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 4: his age and his assent that you you it can't

833
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 4: be a mix of production and projection. So I like it.

834
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 4: And he's still eligible at third and short in most leagues.

835
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: Yep. This is a tricky spot for me for the

836
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: final pick here because it's it's basically weighing the guys

837
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: who were obvious first rounders before the season started, who

838
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: have underperformed to varying degrees. For each of them, you know,

839
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman and Julio the guys who have taken the

840
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: next step and have been first round players this year,

841
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: But does that mean I think they'll be that the

842
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 1: rest of the way like a C. J.

843
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 2: Abrams. I also think you mentioned Glass now I think I.

844
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: Think Scoogle is also very worth considering in sort of

845
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: that SP three conversation tatists obviously, as well as an option.

846
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: So I like, I kind of see all these names

847
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 1: is really really past the top nine or so. I

848
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: kind of see them all as like just throwing them

849
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: in and like, you know, it could go however, whatever direction,

850
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't argue with you.

851
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 2: I'm inclined to.

852
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: Lean towards Freddy Freeman just because first base is hard

853
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 1: to fill and there's such a track record. I know,

854
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: he's the oldest of the names I just listed, but

855
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: he's also in such a good, you know lineup that

856
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,359
Speaker 1: you know the counting stats are going to be there

857
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 1: long term. I have a lot of faith in him,

858
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: just like as a pure hitter. You know, maybe the

859
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: power isn't what it once was or whatever, but like

860
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: I just it's hard to imagine that he is the

861
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: guy we saw in April throughout the entire season, so

862
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: I'm going to take him, but really could have easily

863
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: justified like I said, like Julio, Tatis, Abrams, Glass, now.

864
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 2: Scooble, Are they so far? Would you ye?

865
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 1: Would you guys have taken any of those names that

866
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: I mentioned, or any other names that you know I

867
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: didn't mention that you think are worth considering?

868
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 3: Kelly Well, I was just gonna say on Freeman when

869
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 3: we're talking about, oh, you know, it's been such a

870
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 3: down year, I mean, he's still slashing two ninety three,

871
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 3: four nine, three eight. It's his down year. Is still

872
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 3: it's going to turn into better accounting numbers. But yeah, no,

873
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 3: otherwise I think, yeah, I did the same thing with Tatis, Julio,

874
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:02,240
Speaker 3: Rodriguez that group, and I did consider it was gonna

875
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 3: just if we're redrafting what's already happened. I feel like

876
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 3: he could be in the conversation.

877
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: But recap here Otani first, Mookie second, Akunya third, Went fourth,

878
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: Tucker fifth, Soto sixth, Ellie seventh, Wheeler eighth, Burns ninth,

879
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: Jordan tenth, Gunner eleventh, and Freddy twelfth. What sticks out

880
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: to you about that mayor.

881
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 4: It sticks out that you didn't get Gunner Henderson. So

882
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 4: I liked that only two pictures and they went eight nine,

883
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 4: you know, and no Spencer Strider of course for obvious reasons. Yeah,

884
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 4: and there weren't really like we talked about the pictures,

885
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 4: but there weren't really any other pictures that other than

886
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 4: Ranger Suarez that you could justify putting in the top twelve.

887
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, like I said, if this went like

888
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: another two not two rounds, but like another two times

889
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 1: for the order, if we did like another six picks,

890
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: like I certainly would have probably taken Glass now and

891
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 1: Scoogle off the board there. So like I do think

892
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: those guys are like second round picks. I just I

893
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: can't justify them. Well, I think you can justify them

894
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: the first so we just chose not to. I think

895
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: I like these other options better.

896
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 4: This is Abram c. J. Abrams, I think is the

897
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 4: most interesting omission, just because he was someone I was

898
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 4: staring at the entire draft and like wondering, and I

899
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 4: was glad you brought him up because he's a really

900
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 4: interesting and fun player who's taking a big leap right now.

901
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 2: Yeah. I love the player. I loved him as a prospect.

902
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: I loved him in the twenty nineteen draft, Like I

903
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 1: really I think, like really talented guy. I love seeing

904
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: that he's you know, putting it all together. But I

905
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 1: mean that's the question, right that we talked about, how

906
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: much do you weigh what we've already seen in the

907
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: past versus what we've seen in the first month, which

908
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 1: is we should I think what makes it fun? Any

909
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: other final thoughts on that, Kelly.

910
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,919
Speaker 3: No, I actually agree with mayor for once it works.

911
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: That's the biggest upset of them all. Let's get to

912
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: sort of our big guest segment here with Kelly. She

913
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,879
Speaker 1: is the one who does the absolute worst job at

914
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 1: Fantasy Pros, which is updates the Closer Depth charts constantly.

915
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 2: So we wanted to do May and I have talked

916
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 2: for a couple weeks.

917
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 1: Now about doing kind of a closer report check in

918
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: on bullpens around around the league, interesting situations. Just it's

919
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: not a position that anybody really enjoys dealing with in

920
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:17,760
Speaker 1: Fantasy baseball.

921
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 2: It's like eating your.

922
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 1: Vegetables, like you have to do it and just like

923
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 1: grit your teeth and grin and Barrett. So I wanted to,

924
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: you know, bring on Kelly because she is updating these

925
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: depth charts and just kind of talk about situations that interest.

926
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 2: Us and stuff to keep an eye on.

927
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: Mayor was sure to put down in the notes to

928
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 1: bring up James MacArthur, which is a tough look for

929
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 1: your boy, because I recommended him as a waiver pick

930
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: up last week and to be fair, based on the

931
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: previous month, I thought that was pretty valid. And then

932
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 1: he said these two worst outings of the year in

933
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: succession ever since I recommended him. So the Royals bullpen

934
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 1: is one to monitor, I guess, but really, Kelly, just

935
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,359
Speaker 1: to start, I want to ask, like, is there a

936
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: bullpen situation right now that stands out most to.

937
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 2: You as this is the most.

938
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: Frustrated, the most confusing, the one where maybe if you

939
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 1: make a smart play you can take the most advantage

940
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 1: of what's kind of the shakiest slash most chaotic situation

941
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: for you to be constantly updating right now.

942
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 3: Well, allow me to introduce myself. I'm a Cubs fan,

943
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 3: so we'll just we can start with them. Elsa looks

944
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 3: like he can't get anyone out ever, so I don't

945
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 3: even like having him on the depth chart. I don't

946
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:27,839
Speaker 3: know if he would if he'll ever get back to it.

947
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 3: I mean, he has three saves and he has five

948
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 3: blown ones, so Hector Nars is picking up the saves.

949
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 3: They really haven't put Mark Lighter Junior in that situation yet.

950
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 3: But if I wanted to have two Cubs relievers, which

951
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,919
Speaker 3: I don't really know you would, but if you did,

952
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 3: I Lighter would be one that I would I would

953
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:50,879
Speaker 3: kind of stash because I think Nearest can probably hold

954
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 3: it down and he's he's six and zero or six

955
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 3: and one. Sorry in save opportunities, but I feel like

956
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 3: Lighter is probably the better option long term if they

957
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 3: choose to go that way. So that's been fun for us.

958
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 3: And then yeah, whatever Detroit was doing. Uh, Jason Foley

959
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 3: came in in the seventh today. I didn't actually see

960
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 3: who got the save there. Let me check that one second. Yeah,

961
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 3: so Laying came in, but they were down, so it

962
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 3: wouldn't have mattered anyway anyway, So anywhoy I thought they

963
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:26,800
Speaker 3: were up? I went, but were they? Oh? Yeah, okay,

964
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 3: so who blew it? Sorry? I know this is like

965
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 3: scintilating podcasting. I'm just trying to figure out who gave

966
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 3: it up? Did they bring chafin in. Someone should look

967
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 3: that up for me at the closing specialist anyway. So yeah,

968
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 3: that's another one that that bullpen. I'm staying away from it.

969
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 3: Just in general, I don't like any of them. I

970
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 3: wh his whip on the years will pay five with

971
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 3: in the last thirty days like nine to three, so

972
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 3: it's not helping you. I have had voices if I

973
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 3: could sell him off, like if I decided saves, I

974
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 3: would loved for him to go on a little role,

975
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 3: maybe get like two or three terrible and then I

976
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 3: would just I would clock him out of there because

977
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 3: I don't he looks terrible and also has bad ratios.

978
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:12,800
Speaker 3: So Houston, just in general, is a weird mess. Evan

979
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 3: Phillips going down. I think Daniel Hudson is the one

980
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 3: to have. I could all the SAVE opportunities. Blake Training

981
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 3: could probably get some sparing shots on it, like depending

982
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:26,919
Speaker 3: on how Hudson has been used. So but I would

983
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 3: want Hudson over Training in that situation.

984
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 1: And then yeah, Mayor, I want to ask you, you

985
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 1: know when kind of looking at our closer depth charts

986
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: page on the site, you know we have it kind

987
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: of listed their security level. It's strong, medium or weak.

988
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: I think I was counting and there was around a

989
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: third of them were listed as strong. H you know,

990
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 1: strongholds on the job? Is that do you think a

991
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 1: typical number early in a Fantasy Baseball season, you know,

992
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: ten ish out of out of the third teams, or

993
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 1: do you think it's typically more or less secure for

994
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys who are kind of incumbent

995
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: in the roles.

996
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 4: I think it seems pretty low, but I also feel

997
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 4: like we've been kind of be trending in that direction

998
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 4: more and more of the last few years. So it's

999
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 4: it seems low, but it's probably more typical then. It's

1000
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,360
Speaker 4: going to be more typical now going forward than it

1001
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 4: has been in the past, just as teams kind of

1002
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 4: deploy their bullpens in different ways. We obviously saw lang

1003
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 4: Grout or Foley come in in the seventh inning. It

1004
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 4: was actually looks like it was Chafin who blew that save,

1005
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 4: and with help of from Wentz what we see, you know,

1006
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 4: even even the closers that have like, you know, the

1007
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,799
Speaker 4: lockdown jobs. We saw this a bunch with with Hater

1008
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 4: a few years ago, where they bring their you know,

1009
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 4: best reliever into like the most high leverage situations if

1010
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 4: it's in the seventh or eighth inning to face the

1011
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 4: meat of the order. And so I think as we

1012
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 4: see more and more of that, we're going to see

1013
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:01,439
Speaker 4: just teams approach their bullpens differently, and even situations where

1014
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 4: it looks like you have a strong closer, you still

1015
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 4: get like a you know, setup guy who gets eight saves.

1016
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, so, my question here is if

1017
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:10,359
Speaker 3: you know, if you look at the one that really

1018
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 3: stood out was, I mean Kyle Finnegan. The guys everyone

1019
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,399
Speaker 3: was like, no, no pick up, Harvey Finnegan will lose it,

1020
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 3: you know, I mean he he has twelve saves and

1021
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 3: a whip under one. Aside from Mason Miller, who's just

1022
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 3: a freak show in terms of awesomeness, Finnegan is like

1023
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 3: what the second best guy? I mean, it's just this

1024
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:34,959
Speaker 3: closer situation this year is weird.

1025
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 4: Do you know?

1026
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 2: Go ahead?

1027
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 4: Sorry? Do you know off the top of your head

1028
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 4: which team has the fewest saves team? Which I do not.

1029
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 4: You know, we always talk about avoiding like the worst

1030
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,720
Speaker 4: teams because you know, they don't get a ton of saves.

1031
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 4: Potentially depending on how bad they are.

1032
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 2: But when they win games, it's usually close.

1033
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you know, you obviously don't you know. We

1034
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 4: talk about the Marlins and the White Sox, but they

1035
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 4: are near the bottom, but they are not the team

1036
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 4: with the fewest saves right now.

1037
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: It's I don't know. I was like, I don't actually know. Yeah,

1038
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 1: I don't have a good guess. I almost want to say,

1039
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:11,879
Speaker 1: like the Red Sox, just because that's how you would

1040
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: know it.

1041
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 4: No, I looked it up, Kelly was talking. I actually

1042
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 4: looked it up at the beginning of the segment, and

1043
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 4: it's it's ironic because it's a team whose closer was

1044
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 4: probably one of, if not the first closer off the board,

1045
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 4: and it's the Astros. The Astros only have three saves

1046
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 4: with Josh Hader right now.

1047
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 2: That makes sense, I believe that for sure.

1048
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 3: Well, and he's blown and he only has one blown save,

1049
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:38,720
Speaker 3: but a brad You and Pressley both have two blown saves.

1050
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 3: So it's just yeah, Bessie, all around for them, everything

1051
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 3: in Houston just feels messy.

1052
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:45,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really does, Kelly.

1053
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 1: Is there is there one of these situations that's identified

1054
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: as a strong you know, security hold on on the

1055
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: role that you would be most looking to say, like

1056
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 1: you know, like maybe try and trade away if you

1057
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 1: have the depth to do so, And like I could

1058
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: see this. He's listed as strong, but I could see

1059
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:04,440
Speaker 1: that changing throughout the summer.

1060
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 3: Well. Last week in the by low Cell High, I

1061
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 3: suggested trading Mason Miller if you could get a top

1062
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 3: tier hitter. That I mean, because everyone's in love with him.

1063
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 3: He is untouchable. Let's say you have a fin again

1064
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 3: and you have someone else that is kind of holding

1065
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 3: that down for you. I would see what I could

1066
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 3: get for him, because his job security might be the

1067
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 3: highest in all of baseball and prior to the prior

1068
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,800
Speaker 3: to the Phillips injury, I would have said him. But otherwise,

1069
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 3: there's not a lot of really strong closers. I feel

1070
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,439
Speaker 3: like everyone lists on that page that's strong, I feel

1071
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 3: like is actually strong.

1072
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 1: In the last thirty days, Mason Miller has twenty one

1073
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 1: strikeouts in nine and a third innings. Yep, he's what

1074
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: is that twenty eight outs he's recorded in twenty one

1075
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 1: of them have been striking out.

1076
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 3: He had an appearance like last week that he only

1077
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 3: struck out one and I literally looked up to see

1078
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 3: if he was injured.

1079
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's very reasonable. What about the reverse, Kelly, Is

1080
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: there somebody who their job security is weak, but like I,

1081
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: like I said kind of before, or maybe even just

1082
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 1: a setup man like that you are targeting in a

1083
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: trade if you can get them more for the setup man,

1084
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 1: maybe picking them up proactively off waivers.

1085
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 3: I have picked up Jeff Hoffman from the Phillies everywhere,

1086
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:27,359
Speaker 3: and part of that is the leagues I play in

1087
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,439
Speaker 3: and how things are counted and holds and the rest

1088
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:32,760
Speaker 3: of it. But I have not been impressed with Alvardo.

1089
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 3: I feel like and I feel like they're a good

1090
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 3: team that eventually might make that shift. The only downside

1091
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 3: to Hoffman is he has two saves, but he also

1092
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 3: has two blown saves, so he may not be cut

1093
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 3: out to be a closer. But in terms of setup

1094
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 3: man that I think could handle it, but also just

1095
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 3: as worth having on your roster even if he's not.

1096
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 3: I like Hoffman at this moment.

1097
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 1: Definitely fits the bill of you know, looking at the

1098
00:48:57,239 --> 00:48:59,880
Speaker 1: strikeout numbers of a setup man twenty four and sixteen

1099
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: and just in the last thirty days eighteen in eleven

1100
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:06,879
Speaker 1: and two thirds innings, so definitely has got some really

1101
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 1: good stuff. Mayor any any sort of Closer related thoughts

1102
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: or just with Bullpens that you want to share or

1103
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: ask Kelly about.

1104
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 4: I just think we would be remiss if we ended

1105
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 4: this segment without talking about the Brewers closer situation and

1106
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:22,760
Speaker 4: how we've all tried to teast that together all season

1107
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 4: without Devin Williams and we've all been wrong all season

1108
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 4: and who does now it looks like maybe it's Trevor McGill.

1109
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: Is that is the Brewers the only one we officially

1110
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 1: have listed as a closer by committee.

1111
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:34,440
Speaker 2: I think so, I've.

1112
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 3: Got the White Sox right now, but they never win,

1113
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 3: so I don't. I mean it should be.

1114
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:44,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you think about the Brewers situation?

1115
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 3: I don't. I'm staying away from them entirely too. But

1116
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 3: I have pimps. Is it piomps a different place? Yeah?

1117
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 3: But yeah, then McGill comes in there. I feel like

1118
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 3: they're really using the matchup game, so saves are not

1119
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 3: going to be a consistent thing for them.

1120
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,320
Speaker 1: Has there been any sort of update on a timeline

1121
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: for Devin Williams since it all first went down.

1122
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 2: I haven't seen anything. I don't know if if I.

1123
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:10,320
Speaker 3: Have not seen anything. I think what was it like

1124
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 3: end of July at the earliest.

1125
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:15,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, One last question I want to ask you, Kelly

1126
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 1: about the closers. Is there one of these guys that

1127
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:20,320
Speaker 1: you think is you kind of allude to this already

1128
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 1: one of your earlier answers, But is there like a

1129
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: guy that you're most thinking like, he's probably getting traded

1130
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 1: and you know because because closers on bad teams are

1131
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: like such obvious trade candidates to go to a contender,

1132
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 1: and maybe that means they step into the closer role.

1133
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 1: Like if you're trade for Mason Miller, then he's probably

1134
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:36,919
Speaker 1: gonna be your closer because he's that good. But if

1135
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:39,439
Speaker 1: you're traded for some of these guys, it might likely

1136
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:40,359
Speaker 1: be to be a setup man.

1137
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:42,440
Speaker 2: So is anybody that stands out to you in that respect?

1138
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 3: Well, I saw that Mayor wrote down Tanner Scott on there,

1139
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 3: which I don't know who would want him necessarily in

1140
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:53,320
Speaker 3: a trade, but he could lose it. And then behind

1141
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 3: him is depending on what they do with aj Puck

1142
00:50:56,680 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 3: and Andrew NRDI. I don't know, twins are too far

1143
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 3: in and otherwise I would say Griffin Jacks, but no,

1144
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 3: just looking at it and on the pirates with Benner,

1145
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 3: he's always a trade option, but he's been terrible this year,

1146
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,840
Speaker 3: so I don't know. But behind him, I would prefer

1147
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 3: Colin Holderman to or role as Chapman because I think

1148
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 3: Chapman could also get moved, because that's what happens to Chapman,

1149
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 3: he gets moved every trade inn there.

1150
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: All right, that is our closer report here a little

1151
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 1: over one month into the season. Hopefully we don't have

1152
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: to mention any bullpens again for at least another month.

1153
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 1: Let's get to our favorite waivers pickups of the week here.

1154
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 1: Kelly will start with you, who's your favorite waivers hitter

1155
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 1: to pick up?

1156
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 3: My favorite waivers hitter at this point is Brent Rooker,

1157
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 3: outfielder for Oakland. I think I'm a secret Oakland fan

1158
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:49,240
Speaker 3: because I've been riding along with all of their misery

1159
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 3: and he homerd twice in one inning last week. But

1160
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 3: I just like his I like his numbers. I feel

1161
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 3: like they are sustainable, which is something that I'm looking for,

1162
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:02,720
Speaker 3: and he projected to get another like eighteen to twenty

1163
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 3: homers on the season. So if you're looking for an

1164
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 3: outfielder if you're looking for somebody that maybe has just

1165
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 3: a little bit more consistent power, I feel like he's

1166
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 3: a he's a good option. I also, however, though, thought

1167
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 3: he was left handed until yesterday, and then I realized

1168
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:17,919
Speaker 3: he was right handed. So that's fine too.

1169
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 1: That's the nature of baseball. There's too many games, too

1170
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 1: many players. It's easy to just be like, just assume.

1171
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, the guys left right, and then just you know, you.

1172
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: Assume it for the rest of time. Mayor, who's your

1173
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 1: favorite hitter? Off Waivers?

1174
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 4: My favorite hitter is a lefty. I think common Zarta

1175
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 4: recently called up by the Guardians.

1176
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:40,839
Speaker 1: He actually has to say it for sure. I'm like, yeah,

1177
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 1: he's actually right.

1178
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 4: He's someone who bats lefty but throws right. He so

1179
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 4: he's one of those amphibious people.

1180
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, amphibious.

1181
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like ambidexterous. But you're the opposite, you know,

1182
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 4: you know, you throw with one hit with the other,

1183
00:52:54,320 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 4: you're amphibious. That's no, yes, it is, that's what I mean.

1184
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 4: Brent Rooker, by the way, also very quietly hit thirty

1185
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:07,760
Speaker 4: home runs last season. When did it happen? Brent Rooker

1186
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 4: or Brett Ricker? Common Zarto. My the person I'm talking

1187
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:14,360
Speaker 4: about not got this person. He got up to a

1188
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 4: real he's you know, traded from the Race to the

1189
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 4: Guardians last season. He's just kind of you know, he

1190
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 4: didn't hit for a high batting average in in Triple

1191
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:24,479
Speaker 4: A last season, but you know, the power has always

1192
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 4: been there. He's always had a good you know, low

1193
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 4: strikeout rate, high walk rate, and at the beginning of

1194
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 4: this season just has been mashing nine nine runs in

1195
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 4: twenty nine games with you know, three or three batting

1196
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 4: average and has not gone great. In his first two

1197
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 4: games since he got called up, he went he's over

1198
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:42,480
Speaker 4: seven with five strikeouts and on the bench today.

1199
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 1: His career ops plus is negative one hundred.

1200
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 4: His current strikeout rate is seventy one point four percent,

1201
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:53,400
Speaker 4: So small sample size, everybody relaxed, he's gonna be okay,

1202
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 4: But he's he's one of those he's not even really

1203
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,360
Speaker 4: a dart throw because he has some some prospect pedigree.

1204
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 4: But like when someone like this gets called up, and

1205
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 4: he was called up on Monday, so he may be

1206
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:06,600
Speaker 4: available still in a lot of leagues because you know,

1207
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:10,240
Speaker 4: lineups may have already been already locked or waivers already

1208
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:11,839
Speaker 4: ran in your league, so you might have to wait

1209
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 4: for this weekend for waivers. So he's available still, I

1210
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 4: think in over fifty percent of leagues, and he just

1211
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,479
Speaker 4: he's the kind of bat who is a potential game changer.

1212
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 4: So when someone like that becomes available, I always just

1213
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:25,720
Speaker 4: pick a flyer and see what happens.

1214
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 1: I thought I saw, Yeah, he pinch hit in today's

1215
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 1: game and got his first hit.

1216
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:33,839
Speaker 2: So beautiful. Nice he is on the board. He went

1217
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:34,399
Speaker 2: one for one.

1218
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,760
Speaker 1: He's his average jumped up one hundred and twenty five spots.

1219
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 4: Open the floodgates.

1220
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 1: That's that's nice to see. Kelly, do you have any

1221
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 1: quick thoughts on Mensarda.

1222
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:45,839
Speaker 3: I have him in a couple different dynasty leagues, so

1223
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 3: I'm excited. I did start him right away. He can

1224
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:51,279
Speaker 3: sit on my bench for just a little bit till

1225
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:52,399
Speaker 3: he gets the feel for things.

1226
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:55,280
Speaker 2: I think let's go to the pitchers here, Kelly.

1227
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 1: If your favorite hitter is a representation of you being

1228
00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:00,799
Speaker 1: a secret as fan, I hope the same is true

1229
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:01,320
Speaker 1: of your picture.

1230
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 3: I am. I am choosing John Means. I have always

1231
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 3: liked him. I loved what I saw in the first

1232
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 3: his first game back I don't expect his first game

1233
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 3: back to be the norm, but I think that he

1234
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:20,279
Speaker 3: has potential to. Again, when we're talking about you know,

1235
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 3: fourth fifth starters on your team, on your fantasy team,

1236
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 3: he should provide at solid numbers for a good team,

1237
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 3: and so then you start talking about a little bit

1238
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 3: of win equity. So that's where I'm at with him.

1239
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:35,440
Speaker 3: But I was also going to mention that, yeah, I

1240
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:38,960
Speaker 3: am a secret Orioles fan as well. And a couple

1241
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:41,400
Speaker 3: about a month ago, I was at a hospital with

1242
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 3: a friend of mine. I was in the elevator and

1243
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 3: I was wearing an O's hat. But I own all

1244
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 3: of the hats, right, and so this guy looked at

1245
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 3: me and he was like, he was like, oh, He's like, man,

1246
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,359
Speaker 3: they're pretty good this year. And I was like, what

1247
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:54,279
Speaker 3: hat do I have on? And he's like, no, I'm

1248
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 3: from Baltimore. And I just thought that was hilarious that

1249
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 3: I had an O's hat in Minnesota. I'm wearing o

1250
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 3: His hat and a guy from Baltimore was second.

1251
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:02,719
Speaker 1: Nice, Oh, I love to hear it. We're everywhere you

1252
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:06,279
Speaker 1: know here Denver. I went to there's a brewery. I

1253
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:08,560
Speaker 1: went to a couple of months ago that they have

1254
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 1: one of these, Like it's like a board and you

1255
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 1: can basically pay for a drink for someone who fits

1256
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:15,200
Speaker 1: the descriptions. He could be like, I want to pay

1257
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: for a drink for if a firefighter comes in or

1258
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:19,240
Speaker 1: a teacher comes in or whatever. But you can do anything.

1259
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:21,719
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be like some actual noble profession.

1260
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:23,719
Speaker 1: And one of them was for an oriole Span and

1261
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 1: I walked up to the guy. I was like, heck, yeah, brother,

1262
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 1: I'm an O's fan. And it's like, you like, there's

1263
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 1: no really way to prove it, but obviously I wasn't

1264
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:31,439
Speaker 1: lying I have an O's fan. And I was like, yeah,

1265
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:32,800
Speaker 1: I'll take that, but then I'll buy one for like

1266
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: a Maryland terrapinsparents. Like I wanted to still pay it forward,

1267
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:37,240
Speaker 1: but I thought that was cool. I was like somebody

1268
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: out here was thinking, if anybody in Denver is an

1269
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 1: Oriols fan, they deserve a drink. And I appreciated that.

1270
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 1: I do like John means also a lot. I yeah,

1271
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 1: I would not expect the you know, crazy good outing

1272
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:52,839
Speaker 1: that he had and the first time out, every single

1273
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 1: time out obviously, but yeah, place where good team is

1274
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:58,799
Speaker 1: gonna get you wins. He'll be reliable if you have

1275
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 1: a bunch of injuries. I like them lot as well. Mayor,

1276
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 1: who's your favorite picture?

1277
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:06,400
Speaker 4: My favorite picture is Taj Bradley. And first we have

1278
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:08,840
Speaker 4: to make sure we tell Kelly that we are not

1279
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 4: allowed to talk about the Orioles on this podcast because

1280
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 4: worm really fills up our orioles quota. So like anyone

1281
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:17,959
Speaker 4: else on the podcast, cannot bring up the Orioles because

1282
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 4: then we really overflow with Orioles talk and we really

1283
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 4: get him going. So we want to one limit the

1284
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 4: Ools talk and to keep him humble. So no Orioles

1285
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 4: talk when you come on the show. Just something to

1286
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:29,080
Speaker 4: remember for the future.

1287
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 2: Shocker hearing that from a Red Sox fan.

1288
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 3: Notice how I haven't brought up the Red Sox in any.

1289
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 4: It's okay, look at that started pitching. We'll talk about it.

1290
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: Don't worry about when when Jackson Holiday gets called up again,

1291
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 1: We're going to bring well Seawan again and do a

1292
00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 1: deep dive on him again, so be.

1293
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 2: Prepared for that.

1294
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 4: Hopefully it goes better this time.

1295
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 2: Right, that's fair?

1296
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:52,480
Speaker 4: RIGHTA Bradley not an Oriole, not a red Sock, but

1297
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 4: still in the al least, it seems like he you know,

1298
00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:57,920
Speaker 4: he finishes. We have a sign, and he's going to

1299
00:57:57,960 --> 00:57:59,919
Speaker 4: be coming up pitching this week. We have a sign.

1300
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 4: It went really well. Eleven innings, fifteen strikeouts, zero point

1301
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 4: eight two ERA. His season last season wasn't great, but

1302
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 4: there were some encouraging signs one hundred nine strikeouts and

1303
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:12,480
Speaker 4: a little over one hundred and four innings, and even

1304
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 4: though it came with a five point five to nine ERA,

1305
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 4: he was still only twenty two years old, and there

1306
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:19,520
Speaker 4: were some encouraging underlying numbers. XEP three point eight three,

1307
00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:22,960
Speaker 4: Sierra's three point eight two, So some room for some

1308
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:26,080
Speaker 4: positive regression there. I know people hate that phrase positive aggression.

1309
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 4: I don't care, but yeah, he's an intriguing picture, especially

1310
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 4: someone for the Rays. We've seen what they do with pictures,

1311
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 4: and he's someone we've kind of seen come up through

1312
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 4: through the minor leagues with some you know, some fanfare

1313
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:41,840
Speaker 4: and some excitement, and so he's he's someone who's coming up.

1314
00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:44,280
Speaker 4: He's available in a lot of leagues, and I'm very

1315
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 4: interested in taking the fly.

1316
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:49,320
Speaker 2: Kelly, are you pro or con the phrase positive regression?

1317
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 3: It doesn't bother me. I don't know what a better

1318
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:57,400
Speaker 3: term would be. Like I've been saying correction, like positive.

1319
00:58:57,560 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 4: I think they just said they prefer you just say regression.

1320
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, regression isn't inherently negative regression.

1321
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:06,880
Speaker 3: Right, but if I always think of it as a

1322
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 3: back it's going backwards. So I'm like, I get how

1323
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:12,400
Speaker 3: it's used statistically, but in my brain it's like, oh no,

1324
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 3: you're just gonna keep going backwards and my favors.

1325
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: When people say, like, you don't say positive regressions progression,

1326
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:19,919
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, that's not that's not it at all.

1327
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 3: You are.

1328
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:25,439
Speaker 1: All right, next segment here, and we'll go quickly through these.

1329
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:28,240
Speaker 1: But drop or Hold. Mayor didn't want to do buy

1330
00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:30,080
Speaker 1: Herself for some reason. He wanted to do drop her Hold.

1331
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 1: So that's what we'll do. Uh, And since Mayor wanted

1332
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: to do this topic, we'll start with him. Mayor, who

1333
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 1: is your favorite drop right now? Although favorite is kind

1334
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: of a weird way to put it.

1335
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 4: My favorite you always tells that to me. My favorite drop? Yeah,

1336
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 4: I wanted to do drop her Hold because we do

1337
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 4: a lot of buyer you know, Builo sell High, and

1338
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:48,720
Speaker 4: especially with featured pros. I wanted to mix it up

1339
00:59:48,720 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 4: a little bit this week, especially, you know, we do

1340
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 4: a lot of trade cond you know, trade talk on

1341
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:54,680
Speaker 4: the site, but I feel I felt like, you know,

1342
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:57,280
Speaker 4: five or six weeks or so into the season, it

1343
00:59:57,360 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 4: was a good time to now that we're seeing some

1344
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 4: larger ample sizes, let's, you know, do we want to

1345
01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:05,360
Speaker 4: drop these guys And by drop, I mean either like

1346
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 4: cut them or sell low and just kind of kind

1347
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 4: of eat it. And I'm gonna be mentioned on the

1348
01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 4: show in the past that I've tried to hold on

1349
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 4: to and I'm finally cutting loose his kent to Mata

1350
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:17,080
Speaker 4: And it's just I wrote up in the you know,

1351
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:19,080
Speaker 4: in today's featured Pros articles you can see on a

1352
01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:21,880
Speaker 4: fantaspros dot com in the MLB section that it really

1353
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:23,800
Speaker 4: pains me to say it that it's can catch to

1354
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 4: myta and not just because I, you know, had to

1355
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 4: outbid Dan for him in our league, but he's just

1356
01:00:29,640 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 4: someone I was just grabbing in a lot of leagues

1357
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 4: this season, like you know, mid to late rounds with

1358
01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:37,440
Speaker 4: someone who I saw, you know, had a lot of

1359
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:40,480
Speaker 4: upside and he just doesn't look right, you know. I

1360
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 4: remember his first start of the season. I was like

1361
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:45,720
Speaker 4: oh that looks gross. And I was like, all right,

1362
01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:47,480
Speaker 4: it's just the first start. He's gonna bounce back. But

1363
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 4: there's it's not looking good. And you know, he already

1364
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 4: didn't have a great fastball, and it's slower now, and

1365
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:58,280
Speaker 4: some of his other you know, pitches as cutters are

1366
01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:02,440
Speaker 4: not looking good and he's growing his pitch that's like

1367
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 4: doing the best. It's his splitter, and even that has

1368
01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 4: like really like troubling expected numbers, and so like if

1369
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 4: his numbers are bad and his best pitch has bad,

1370
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:16,320
Speaker 4: you know, it's like overperforming. Then I'm really worried. And

1371
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 4: so it's just time. His strikeout numbers are down, and

1372
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 4: numbers are just down across the board, and I'm just

1373
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:22,160
Speaker 4: you know, I gotta move on.

1374
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:23,600
Speaker 2: Kelly, who are you dropping?

1375
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:26,960
Speaker 3: I can make my analysis really fast on this one.

1376
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:30,600
Speaker 3: I'm dropping Glabor Torres pretty much outright at this point.

1377
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:33,880
Speaker 3: In My entire analysis is that I would everyone would

1378
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 3: have done this if he wasn't a Yankee. So that's

1379
01:01:37,560 --> 01:01:40,640
Speaker 3: he has an ISO of zero point five preach.

1380
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 1: That is my favorite kind of analysis is that the

1381
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:44,640
Speaker 1: Yankees are afraid.

1382
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:47,360
Speaker 2: All right, Mayor, who's you? Who is the guy that

1383
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:48,640
Speaker 2: you are holding right now.

1384
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 4: So the person, the player that I'm holding is George Springer.

1385
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 4: And I don't think anyone's really close to dropping George Springer.

1386
01:01:55,640 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 4: But I think people are panicking and you know, ready

1387
01:01:57,640 --> 01:02:00,520
Speaker 4: to trade George Springer. And you know he's I see

1388
01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 4: him as someone who's not similar to Paul Golchmith's when

1389
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:06,240
Speaker 4: we talked about recently where it looks like maybe he

1390
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:08,640
Speaker 4: just hit the age cliff and we're really worried about

1391
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:11,560
Speaker 4: what we're seeing from from Paul Golchmith. I'm not that

1392
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 4: worried about George Springer. I just think he does this.

1393
01:02:14,960 --> 01:02:17,680
Speaker 4: You know, he starts slow. April historically has been his

1394
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:19,880
Speaker 4: worst month, and so he's kind of always been a

1395
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:22,800
Speaker 4: slow starter, even when it's not the beginning of the season.

1396
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 4: We've seen him do go a a few weeks like

1397
01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 4: this where he just kind of gets off to a

1398
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:28,960
Speaker 4: slow you know, just gets in a rut and has

1399
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:31,160
Speaker 4: to you know, kind of turn things around. The other

1400
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:33,320
Speaker 4: concern there is injuries, but you know, we can't worry

1401
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:36,920
Speaker 4: about that right now. But I just think he's not

1402
01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:38,680
Speaker 4: geting about two a sixth off season. He's going about

1403
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:40,640
Speaker 4: three hundred he'srobably gonna about two fifty and hit twenty

1404
01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 4: home runs, steal twenty bases, and that's exactly what I wanted.

1405
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 4: And so if I can buy low on him, I will,

1406
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:48,320
Speaker 4: and if I have him, I'm definitely holding and not

1407
01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:49,120
Speaker 4: not selling.

1408
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 1: Or cutting man quick quick aside. I was just looking

1409
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: at the gameship going on this afternoon.

1410
01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:55,560
Speaker 4: I could tell you weren't paying attention to me while

1411
01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:57,360
Speaker 4: I was talking. Yeah, so you were looking at.

1412
01:02:57,240 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 2: Something, not even a little bit.

1413
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:00,680
Speaker 1: I was looking at Bobby Witt. Another home run in

1414
01:03:00,720 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 1: a double today. I guess his first home run in May,

1415
01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 1: but he had a home run in double today, and

1416
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 1: I'm feeling bad about being a coward and not taking

1417
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 1: him over at Cunya. Actually, the reason I put up

1418
01:03:10,040 --> 01:03:11,120
Speaker 1: my team to look at it is because I have

1419
01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:13,640
Speaker 1: George Springer, and I was like, he hasn't turned it

1420
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:15,960
Speaker 1: around yet, and I want to just check and see

1421
01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 1: what some of those recent numbers were.

1422
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:20,640
Speaker 2: But yeah, from what I heard of the case, you

1423
01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 2: made great job, just top notch stuff.

1424
01:03:23,080 --> 01:03:25,880
Speaker 4: By appreciate it. Wait till we're on YouTube and everyone

1425
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:26,560
Speaker 4: can see.

1426
01:03:27,160 --> 01:03:29,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, That's why I'm like happy to be audio only

1427
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:32,040
Speaker 1: so I can like clearly not care about what Mayor

1428
01:03:32,040 --> 01:03:32,560
Speaker 1: has to say.

1429
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:34,680
Speaker 2: Kelly, who are you holding?

1430
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:38,040
Speaker 3: I am holding bobushit, even though part of me really

1431
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:41,360
Speaker 3: really doesn't want to. The thing that stood out the most,

1432
01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess in my brain it's just very

1433
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:45,360
Speaker 3: hard for me to wrap my mind around the idea

1434
01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:47,880
Speaker 3: that a career two ninety three hitter is going to

1435
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:52,160
Speaker 3: hit one eighty nine and not improve. It's possible, but

1436
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:55,880
Speaker 3: it just feels like it's not actual. But his babbitb

1437
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 3: is is two nineteen. His career babbit is three forty one.

1438
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:03,400
Speaker 3: A little bit of positive regression would be really great

1439
01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:06,320
Speaker 3: in that regard. Sorry, I just wanted to work it in.

1440
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:09,440
Speaker 3: You know, maybe he's amphibious, we don't know, but I

1441
01:04:09,480 --> 01:04:12,160
Speaker 3: just think that, like I keep waiting for the Blue

1442
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 3: Jays to to turn around a little bit. So I

1443
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 3: called him a hold in hope player. So that's where

1444
01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:19,040
Speaker 3: I met with Bishad.

1445
01:04:19,160 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's specific because it's written in the show sheets.

1446
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:26,160
Speaker 1: Favorite hold in your really favorite is loose, very loose. Yeah,

1447
01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:30,080
Speaker 1: all right, let's go to our weekend excitement. I didn't

1448
01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:31,800
Speaker 1: put any in here because I wasn't sure how much

1449
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:33,320
Speaker 1: time we'd have to go through every once, but I

1450
01:04:33,320 --> 01:04:35,919
Speaker 1: will just say that if I were to have done it,

1451
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:38,840
Speaker 1: it would have been one of Mayer's. So I'm, for

1452
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:41,120
Speaker 1: the first time ever in doing the show letting him

1453
01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:43,360
Speaker 1: go and not me. And I'm not stealing all the

1454
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:45,320
Speaker 1: good ones here, That's true.

1455
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 4: I was shocked to get to it because I, you know,

1456
01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 4: I usually fill out the sheet pretty late before we're recording, sometimes,

1457
01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:54,400
Speaker 4: you know, when we're already in the room, so I

1458
01:04:54,440 --> 01:04:56,400
Speaker 4: was surprised to see you didn't have anything on the sheet.

1459
01:04:56,720 --> 01:04:59,480
Speaker 4: The first thing is something I'm not really looking forward to.

1460
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:02,760
Speaker 4: But I have friends coming into town this weekend that

1461
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:04,640
Speaker 4: I'm very excited about. Now that I'm you know, down

1462
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:06,200
Speaker 4: in Georgia, I haven't really had the time people visit

1463
01:05:06,280 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 4: me down here yet. And the Red Sox are in

1464
01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:11,480
Speaker 4: town playing the Braves, and I'm missing them by one

1465
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:15,080
Speaker 4: day because they played yesterday and today. My friends are

1466
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 4: coming in tomorrow. I would have loved I only lived

1467
01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 4: thirty minutes from where the Braves play. I would love

1468
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 4: to go see a ball game. So I'm missing the

1469
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:23,360
Speaker 4: Red Sox in you know, Atlanta. It's not in Atlanta,

1470
01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:24,840
Speaker 4: but it's near Atlanta by one day.

1471
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:26,840
Speaker 2: Couldn't you just go without your friends?

1472
01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:29,000
Speaker 4: I could, but it's hard, you know, I got kids.

1473
01:05:29,040 --> 01:05:30,560
Speaker 4: It's the middle of the week. I would hope will

1474
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:32,240
Speaker 4: prefer it was like a weekend or kind of thing,

1475
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:36,320
Speaker 4: a babysitter or something. You know, it's hard, you know,

1476
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:38,480
Speaker 4: it's hard when you get to be my age getting

1477
01:05:38,520 --> 01:05:43,400
Speaker 4: out that late. So that is something I am slash

1478
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:45,240
Speaker 4: I'm not looking forward to. I also want to see

1479
01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:48,640
Speaker 4: Christian Scott against the Braves, and I want to see

1480
01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:51,120
Speaker 4: Walker rebuelers that could start back and see you know,

1481
01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:53,200
Speaker 4: the first start, I was like, okay, but it's kind

1482
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:55,000
Speaker 4: of to be expected after his long left. So I'm

1483
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:57,640
Speaker 4: looking forward to seeing, you know, does he continue to

1484
01:05:57,640 --> 01:05:58,960
Speaker 4: look the way he used to.

1485
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:01,479
Speaker 1: Look that I was going to do that you used?

1486
01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:04,000
Speaker 1: Was not you missing the Red Sox in Atlanta by

1487
01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:04,320
Speaker 1: a day?

1488
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:05,520
Speaker 4: I was going to that one?

1489
01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:05,960
Speaker 2: It was.

1490
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:09,160
Speaker 1: It was Christian Scott. I Tuma made me a complete

1491
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:11,640
Speaker 1: believer early this season. I picked him up, you know,

1492
01:06:11,720 --> 01:06:13,920
Speaker 1: before he's caught up, and I'm happy to be reaping

1493
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:17,880
Speaker 1: those rewards now. And I'm really I had people ask me,

1494
01:06:18,080 --> 01:06:20,480
Speaker 1: you know, should should I start Christian Scott this week?

1495
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:23,560
Speaker 1: And I didn't have a good and the answer is,

1496
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:25,480
Speaker 1: as always, it depends on who else you have. But

1497
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:29,320
Speaker 1: I'm really curious to see how he does in this

1498
01:06:29,440 --> 01:06:31,960
Speaker 1: second matchup here, Kelly, what are you most excited for

1499
01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:32,400
Speaker 1: this weekend?

1500
01:06:33,080 --> 01:06:35,880
Speaker 3: Well, I too, am very excited about Christian Scott. I

1501
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:38,920
Speaker 3: think is that game tomorrow or Friday?

1502
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:41,280
Speaker 2: I think it's Friday, But don't quote me on that.

1503
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:45,120
Speaker 3: Okay, So no, I'm I'm excited about that. My parents.

1504
01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:48,000
Speaker 3: I'm actually going on a baseball road trip vacation next week.

1505
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Speaker 3: My mom wants to leave the country, but she doesn't

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Speaker 3: fly and doesn't want to go to Mexico, so we're

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01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 3: very very limited into one country specifically. So we're actually

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01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:01,080
Speaker 3: going to go to Cleveland and catch Guardians Twins game

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01:07:01,120 --> 01:07:04,280
Speaker 3: and the Marine gosh Toronto and catch a brilliant Blue

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01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:06,520
Speaker 3: Jay's White Sox game that can only be awesome.

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Speaker 2: What are those tickets?

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01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:07,960
Speaker 4: Like?

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01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:08,560
Speaker 2: Six bucks?

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01:07:09,560 --> 01:07:11,960
Speaker 3: We weren't even bothering to purchase them ahead of time.

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01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:14,960
Speaker 3: And then and then we're gonna stop by Detroit and

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01:07:15,560 --> 01:07:19,480
Speaker 3: ironically get to see Detroit play Toronto. So it's not

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01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:22,440
Speaker 3: like I'm seeing some really great baseball, but yeah, we

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01:07:22,600 --> 01:07:24,760
Speaker 3: get to We're not we don't have one of those,

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01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:26,960
Speaker 3: Like I want to see every stadium, but my family

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01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:29,640
Speaker 3: loves baseball, so this is it's just fun for us,

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01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:33,520
Speaker 3: and my parents are paying for everything, so like, absolutely,

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01:07:33,560 --> 01:07:34,840
Speaker 3: let's sit right behind home plate.

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01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:37,840
Speaker 2: Absolutely, sign you know, sign me up for that. That's great.

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01:07:38,040 --> 01:07:41,080
Speaker 1: I've done too sort of baseball stadium road trips in

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01:07:41,120 --> 01:07:44,200
Speaker 1: my life with my really good friend who's a baseball fan.

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Speaker 2: We did.

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01:07:45,560 --> 01:07:48,520
Speaker 1: The second one we did was Northeast. We did Boston,

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01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:51,560
Speaker 1: New York, New York, Philly, and growing up in the

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01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:54,000
Speaker 1: mid Atlantic, like I had already done Baltimore and Pittsburgh,

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01:07:54,040 --> 01:07:55,600
Speaker 1: so you know, those are the four that we hadn't

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01:07:55,640 --> 01:07:57,240
Speaker 1: done in that area. But then the first one we

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01:07:57,280 --> 01:08:00,720
Speaker 1: did and I turned twenty one during this trip was

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01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:04,680
Speaker 1: more of a Midwest one. We did Pittsburgh, Detroit, Milwaukee,

1534
01:08:05,360 --> 01:08:09,440
Speaker 1: Chicago for the Cubs, the White Sox were in town Cincy,

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01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:12,840
Speaker 1: and then and then drove home and I turned twenty one.

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01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 1: In Milwaukee, we went to the Brewers game and they

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01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 1: did not id me at the Brewers game, so that

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01:08:19,479 --> 01:08:21,559
Speaker 1: one concessions worker really ruined my night.

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01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:27,000
Speaker 3: By night, it's Wisconsin, Yeah, they just.

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01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:28,840
Speaker 1: All right, So that's what we're excited for this weekend.

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01:08:28,880 --> 01:08:30,160
Speaker 1: That sounds really fun, Kelly. I hope you have a

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01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:33,439
Speaker 1: good time with that. Let's wrap up with our season

1543
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:36,839
Speaker 1: long two start picture competition last week.

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01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:37,840
Speaker 2: Very close.

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01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:41,439
Speaker 1: Actually, I'm actually like sometimes when I say, oh, I

1546
01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:43,360
Speaker 1: wasn't sure which way to go, it's because like I

1547
01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:44,920
Speaker 1: think Mayor kind of won, but I want to make

1548
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:46,840
Speaker 1: the case, like I actually think this is just like

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01:08:46,880 --> 01:08:49,519
Speaker 1: really a toss up Mayor and Freddy Peralta. He went

1550
01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:52,280
Speaker 1: one and won ten and a third innings, four hits,

1551
01:08:52,320 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 1: five earned runs, one home run, six walks, twelve strikeouts.

1552
01:08:56,439 --> 01:08:58,760
Speaker 2: Joe Ryan went oh and won twelve.

1553
01:08:58,400 --> 01:09:02,040
Speaker 1: Innings, ten hits, five runs, one home run, two walks,

1554
01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:06,599
Speaker 1: eight strikeouts. So Mayor's guy had more strikeouts and fewer hits.

1555
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:10,719
Speaker 1: My guy went the winnings and had fewer walks.

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01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:11,559
Speaker 2: What did you say?

1557
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:12,640
Speaker 4: Win?

1558
01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:15,200
Speaker 1: And the what the win is just I put it

1559
01:09:15,240 --> 01:09:18,519
Speaker 1: in there, but like that's run, it matters, it matters.

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01:09:19,520 --> 01:09:22,400
Speaker 2: So it's really really close, Kelly. Do you have any

1561
01:09:22,400 --> 01:09:25,680
Speaker 2: opinion on who was better? Uh, you know, the guy

1562
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:30,040
Speaker 2: with the lower e R and the fewer walks or

1563
01:09:31,040 --> 01:09:33,080
Speaker 2: the guy who gave up fewer hits and had more

1564
01:09:33,080 --> 01:09:35,799
Speaker 2: strikeouts than the win.

1565
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:38,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, because wins are what we should count everything on.

1566
01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:42,559
Speaker 3: I actually have both of these players in our insiders league,

1567
01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:44,559
Speaker 3: like on the same team.

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01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:48,240
Speaker 1: I don't know, Joe, Ryan had two quality starts if

1569
01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:50,200
Speaker 1: we want to count that ahead of wins, and par

1570
01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:51,000
Speaker 1: Alta had none.

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01:09:51,920 --> 01:09:54,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I would give it to Ryan, mostly

1572
01:09:54,240 --> 01:09:58,920
Speaker 3: because why is Peralta walking so many guys? But but also,

1573
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:01,919
Speaker 3: I mean, Mayor's my boss, so I don't know you guys.

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01:10:01,680 --> 01:10:04,040
Speaker 1: Well, you go with your first instinct that sounds like

1575
01:10:04,040 --> 01:10:07,519
Speaker 1: an eyebreaker to me, the wind goes to me, which

1576
01:10:07,840 --> 01:10:09,439
Speaker 1: which if I do get the win here, then we

1577
01:10:09,479 --> 01:10:11,080
Speaker 1: are two and two on this.

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01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:12,840
Speaker 3: Son, for sure, let's give it to you so we

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01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:13,599
Speaker 3: can just start over.

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01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:19,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna officially do that my pick in I'm

1581
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:22,439
Speaker 1: also gonna lose this week's because I picked Emerson Hancock

1582
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:24,200
Speaker 1: just because I didn't like anybody and I was trying

1583
01:10:24,240 --> 01:10:27,120
Speaker 1: to take a shot on somebody that you wouldn't have

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01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:29,080
Speaker 1: thought of. And he didn't have a very good start

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01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:31,519
Speaker 1: this week. So I Mayor will probably be back on

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01:10:31,520 --> 01:10:34,040
Speaker 1: top next week. But for this week, in terms of

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01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:37,040
Speaker 1: what we're picking for, you know, the upcoming week here, Mary,

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01:10:37,120 --> 01:10:38,120
Speaker 1: you can go first.

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01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:43,160
Speaker 4: Real quick before I jump into mine. Another option for

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01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:46,880
Speaker 4: Kelly's mom to go to another country without flying is

1591
01:10:46,920 --> 01:10:50,360
Speaker 4: you can drive to South Florida Fort Lauderdale and take

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01:10:50,360 --> 01:10:52,519
Speaker 4: a ferry to the Bahamas. It's only two hour ferry,

1593
01:10:53,160 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 4: So there you go. There's another option that's not Canada

1594
01:10:55,400 --> 01:10:57,320
Speaker 4: or Mexico. You don't have to you know, it's a

1595
01:10:57,400 --> 01:10:59,400
Speaker 4: little bit of a long drive to South Florida from

1596
01:10:59,400 --> 01:11:02,320
Speaker 4: where you are a little, just a little.

1597
01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:04,519
Speaker 3: I'll give you her number and you can call and

1598
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:06,880
Speaker 3: sell her on a ferry ride. Go for it.

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01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:10,040
Speaker 4: Sure, well, I mean it's like a little mini Mini Crews.

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01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:12,000
Speaker 4: But you know, they do. I remember when I was

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01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:14,720
Speaker 4: living down there, they did like day trips and I

1602
01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:16,519
Speaker 4: didn't realize just how close it was. You could just

1603
01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 4: like take a ferry there back in the same day.

1604
01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:20,680
Speaker 4: It's pretty interesting. Never actually did it, but it was

1605
01:11:20,680 --> 01:11:24,320
Speaker 4: always intriguing to me. So anyway, for my two star

1606
01:11:24,360 --> 01:11:26,880
Speaker 4: pitcher for the week, I'm going with Renelle Blanco, who

1607
01:11:26,920 --> 01:11:29,960
Speaker 4: is home versus the A's and then home versus the Brewers,

1608
01:11:30,479 --> 01:11:33,200
Speaker 4: and trying to cash in on Ronel Blanco now just

1609
01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:35,760
Speaker 4: in case he turns into a punkin that's reasonable.

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01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 1: I went with Courtman Burns obviously, we talked about him

1611
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:42,519
Speaker 1: earlier one of the obvious reasons in fantasy. And if

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01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:44,479
Speaker 1: you're you know, I know, you can only use these

1613
01:11:44,479 --> 01:11:46,439
Speaker 1: guys once, but you might as well use him when

1614
01:11:46,479 --> 01:11:48,680
Speaker 1: they have a two start week, and his starts are

1615
01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:51,480
Speaker 1: against Toronto and Seattle, so it's not like some imposing

1616
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:55,040
Speaker 1: matchups there. So after this week, though, I will have

1617
01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:58,800
Speaker 1: used both Wheeler and Burns, so I really need him

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01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:04,760
Speaker 1: to get a win. So I haven't wasted those guys, but.

1619
01:12:03,320 --> 01:12:05,639
Speaker 4: They have been bad, and there's already talk about them

1620
01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:08,639
Speaker 4: like selling. I've already seen some rumors liked should they

1621
01:12:08,960 --> 01:12:12,559
Speaker 4: should they trade Vlad Now at this point of its contract,

1622
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:15,400
Speaker 4: I've already seen some not like rumors, but like people

1623
01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:16,920
Speaker 4: speculating about is it time?

1624
01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:19,160
Speaker 2: It's been rough? Yeah, all right, we'll get out of

1625
01:12:19,160 --> 01:12:19,559
Speaker 2: there on that.

1626
01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:21,000
Speaker 1: A little bit of a long episode, but thank you

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01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:22,960
Speaker 1: everybody for sticking with us throughout.

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01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:24,719
Speaker 2: Thank you again to Kelly for joining us.

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01:12:24,600 --> 01:12:27,559
Speaker 1: For the entire episode, the only guests to do that

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01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:30,360
Speaker 1: so far in the history of this show, so we appreciate.

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01:12:29,880 --> 01:12:32,760
Speaker 2: Her making the time for Mayor and Kelly. I'm Ryan

1632
01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:34,360
Speaker 2: Warmley and we will see again next week.

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1634
01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:41,960
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