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Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is the

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Baseball Podcast. It is me Joey P. That of

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Speaker 1: course is the Welsh. And before you hit those last drafts,

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Speaker 1: we wanted to throw out some guys you might want

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Speaker 1: to avoid the very last minute. We have our reasons.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about them here. Make sure you subscribe

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Speaker 1: And we had some really good suggestions, by the way, Welsh,

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Speaker 1: of what we should do for the thirty thousand celebration. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so some good was the dumb and Dumber, the hats

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Speaker 1: from the event, the big fundraiser event. I'm good with

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Speaker 1: that one. The Blues Brothers possibly. I also think we

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Speaker 1: fit that you are tall. I'm sure it's perfect. So

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Speaker 1: keep them coming there. You've got suggestions for the thirty

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Speaker 1: k but today these are suggestions that you should stay

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Speaker 1: away from them. And Welsh, who was the first guy

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Speaker 1: on that list for you, it's a bust that people

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Speaker 1: may want to avoid in these last minute drafts here

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Speaker 1: leading up in twenty twenty six MLB.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, one thing too. Is the titling of

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Speaker 2: the episode that we were given and it should be

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Speaker 2: used on here is overvalue draft day landmine. So I

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Speaker 2: want to throw this out here because I get a

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Speaker 2: little bit weird about like bus and never drafting players

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Speaker 2: and whatever, but that landmine idea really stuck out to me.

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Speaker 2: So players that can kind of blow up your team

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Speaker 2: based on the construction and the number one guy that

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Speaker 2: jumped out this is a huge name player. And I'm

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Speaker 2: giving you this caveat because, like I think there are

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Speaker 2: elements of like you could still be into this guy,

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Speaker 2: but if you take last year's cal Raley and you

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Speaker 2: look at the projected stuff for this year, it's hard

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Speaker 2: to not deny that he could be a potential land

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Speaker 2: mine for your team. Why a land mind, Well, if

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Speaker 2: you're in a two catcher league, this is a different discussion.

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Speaker 2: But in single catcher leagues, the value of the catching

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Speaker 2: position it's pretty robust. Obviously, this is the number one guy,

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Speaker 2: but if he takes the downtick, the projections are predicting

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Speaker 2: where he is a sub two thirty batting average, where

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Speaker 2: in some cases he's not hitting forty homers, it doesn't

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Speaker 2: mean he's not valuable, but you've now tanked your batting average.

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Speaker 2: He's at two oh seven in spring. He's stunk in

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Speaker 2: the WBC, He's stunk in the second half, hitting like

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Speaker 2: under two twenty. He has had a good little run

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Speaker 2: of not being the dumper that everybody loves. There's still

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Speaker 2: gonna be some valuable stats. I could see him hitting

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Speaker 2: forty homers in his sleep. But if that does go

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Speaker 2: below forty, and that average is below two thirty and

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Speaker 2: those numbers are tanking, that is a potential land mine

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Speaker 2: based on the price, the equity of what you put

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Speaker 2: in of what you passed up. In the second round,

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Speaker 2: guys like Nick Kurtz were floating out there, maybe Junior Camenaro,

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Speaker 2: maybe Corman Carroll fell out in a host of other

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Speaker 2: players that you might have been better served taking that big,

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Speaker 2: you know, thirty thirty upside on players and taking a

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Speaker 2: catcher later that brings some pretty good value. Then you

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Speaker 2: would a player that has got some worrisome strikeout numbers,

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Speaker 2: a really bad second half that is carried through the

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Speaker 2: WBC in spring. Who's a landmine? I think it could

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Speaker 2: be Cal Rawley.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't disagree. I was in a draft actually,

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Speaker 1: on Sunday morning, and it's a It was a sixteen

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, wow, that's a huge advantage a catcher

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Speaker 1: single catcher league was still sixteen teams. I was like, eh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm just gonna play it. Say if we'll

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Speaker 1: go with the vladdie here at the top, and then

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Speaker 1: he almost made it back to me, and he made

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Speaker 1: it back to me in the second round in the

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Speaker 1: sixteen team later guy would have said, all right, even

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Speaker 1: if he reversed the thirty five home runs or forty

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Speaker 1: home runs, okay, I'll still take that whenever the lumps

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Speaker 1: come with it. But if he ends up being a

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Speaker 1: thirty home run guy again, like there's Hunter Goodman later on,

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Speaker 1: as all these other guys in that same catcher vein that,

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Speaker 1: I think you can find twenty five to thirty bombs.

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Speaker 1: And like you said, there's so much premium talent.

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Speaker 2: By the way, forty fifty sixty picks later could be

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Speaker 2: what the the baseline fans could be.

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Speaker 1: A guy could at thirty home runs this year catcher,

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Speaker 1: if things break right for him. So I'm with you,

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Speaker 1: that's a potential landmine. For me, it's Pete Crol Armstrong

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Speaker 1: still going around the top thirty guys. I get a

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Speaker 1: power speed in season long Rod, I'm more okay with him,

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Speaker 1: but in any head to head he really bothers me.

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Speaker 1: And I keep going back to the same things that

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Speaker 1: I've been going back to all off seasons. Not at

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Speaker 1: left ind and pitching. His whole career fell off a

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Speaker 1: off of everything pretty much. The power slowed down. I

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Speaker 1: struggle against lefties again where he has just a bad

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Speaker 1: end of last year, it really kind of kills your

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Speaker 1: playoff run. So peak Kor Armstrong to me has always

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Speaker 1: been a work in progress, great defender, fun player. But

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Speaker 1: when you can get Roman Anthony at the fiftieth pick

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Speaker 1: or Wyatt Langford's right around there too, I'd much rather

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Speaker 1: wait another round or two and get those guys than

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Speaker 1: have to invest in Pete Crow because I think when

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Speaker 1: all said and done, they're gonna be very close statistically,

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Speaker 1: and I think the batting average of Wyatt Langford and

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Speaker 1: the batting average of Roman Anthony. I would put my

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Speaker 1: money on being higher than Pek or Armstrong. So it's

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Speaker 1: not that I hate the player as much as I

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Speaker 1: really just hate the ADP and I think there's a

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Speaker 1: gap between so these other guys I really like in

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Speaker 1: the outfield as opposed to where Pete Crow's being taken,

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Speaker 1: which is a little bit too aggressively, which brings us

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Speaker 1: to an outfielder on your list of guys that could

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Speaker 1: be land Mayes in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: Six, Hey, Rinse and repeat to this Landmine to what

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Speaker 2: you just said. And I couldn't have said it better

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Speaker 2: because one of my big arguments is when I see

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Speaker 2: James Wood going above Whitet Langford, I just can't have it.

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Speaker 2: I think Whyitet Langford is one of my big major targets,

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Speaker 2: and like, James Wood has all the skill sets in

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Speaker 2: the world that you love. It's an incredible elite barrel,

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Speaker 2: incredible elite heart hit average, exon velocity is up there.

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Speaker 2: He can hit righty's and lefties. So like, there's a

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Speaker 2: lot that I like about him, but I have passed

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Speaker 2: him up every opportunity I can this entire season because

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Speaker 2: he's coming at no discount after last year. He was

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Speaker 2: amazing in the first half, he was literally one of

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Speaker 2: the worst players in the second half of the season.

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Speaker 2: His strikeout numbers were abysmal. He didn't get the ball

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Speaker 2: in the air. He doesn't pull the ball in the

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Speaker 2: air a lot. Now during spring lifted the ball a

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Speaker 2: little bit. It is pulling, but he's hitting one thirty six.

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Speaker 2: I know it's spring numbers, you don't care, but like

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Speaker 2: he's not hitting. His strikeouts are worse. He's got a

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Speaker 2: thirty four percent strikeout rate in spring, and those are

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Speaker 2: the things that you worry about, kind of like what

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Speaker 2: we talked with Cal It's like, you know, this horrifically

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Speaker 2: bad second half you've carried into you're bad again, and

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Speaker 2: you're going inside like the top thirty when there's a

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Speaker 2: floor player in Wyatt Langford that I would take Roman

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Speaker 2: Anthony doesn't have as loud of counting stats. But I'm

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Speaker 2: a little bit worried that the strikeouts can kind of

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Speaker 2: take over for James Wood. He doesn't have any protection

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Speaker 2: where he gets the ball in the air. And I think,

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Speaker 2: again the land mind focus here, I think you can

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Speaker 2: be a landmine to your team of what the outfielders

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Speaker 2: you can get later by investing in him. That could

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Speaker 2: hurt you from a batting average standpoint, from a strikeout standpoint.

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Speaker 2: But if things do work right, this is a league winner.

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Speaker 2: But gonna I'm gonna label him more of than land

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Speaker 2: mine based on the price for this year. So he's

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Speaker 2: my second one.

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Speaker 1: not just the draft tools. Next guy up for me

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Speaker 1: is Bubba Chandler, and he's a landmine because he's a

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Speaker 1: very trendy pick. But the one thing Bubba Chandler really

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Speaker 1: struggled with last year after he didn't get that call

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Speaker 1: this spring and eleven innings, he has eleven walks and

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Speaker 1: to me, that's a big giant red flag that he's

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Speaker 1: for the guys that it matters for, and for me,

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Speaker 1: Bubba Chandler was a guy that it mattered for. I

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Speaker 1: I have concerns about the efficiency. I've concerned about the

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Speaker 1: control of Bubba Chandler because if he's working four and

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Speaker 1: and that matters. And he's not gonna get quality starts,

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Speaker 1: and that matters. And even if he pitches pretty well

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Speaker 1: he's inefficient, the era, the whip will all be artificially

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Speaker 1: So we already know he's going to be limited in

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Speaker 1: stay away from. It's bad cooking. I don't want it.

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Speaker 1: So Bubba Chandler I'm rooting for, but I'm not drafting

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Speaker 1: him this year. And I think he's just way too

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Speaker 1: big of a sleeper. And I know Welsh, you know,

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Speaker 1: loves him this year. I know he thinks he's a

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Speaker 1: giving you the reasons against right now so you can

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Speaker 1: make that decision for yourself. Welsh. Let's get to the

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Speaker 1: last guy on your list of land mines here for

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Who's on it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a theme. I guess I didn't even realize

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Speaker 2: I've got this theme of these like really high strikeout

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Speaker 2: here's the difference. ONEO Cruz as bad as he was

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Speaker 2: by the way, he only had two twelve in the front.

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Speaker 2: He's had a great spring. He's hit four seventeen. He's

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Speaker 2: stolen a ton of bases. He has twenty nine played

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Speaker 2: You know, we know who on Yo Cruz is. But

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Speaker 1: Josel Tuve made my list. Josel Tuove makes you feel

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