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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, Welcome to the Fantasy Pros Baseball podcast. This

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Speaker 1: is the cycle. I am Ryan Warmley, joined as I

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Speaker 1: am every week by Mike Mahyor Mayor. We had two

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Speaker 1: guests last week. This week it's just the two of

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Speaker 1: How'd you feel about our first episode and, more importantly,

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Speaker 1: the first week of the twenty twenty four Fantasy Baseball season.

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Speaker 3: I felt good about both. I'm in a bunch of leagues,

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Speaker 3: But so far, feeling good about everything, except for the

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Speaker 3: first news item we're going to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I was gonna say, really, all you can hope

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Speaker 1: But for rounding the bases this week. Up first, it

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Speaker 1: is Urie Perez. This news broke just a couple hours

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Speaker 1: ago go as we see here recording on Thursday. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of uncertainty with his arm, you know,

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Speaker 1: people were very excited about, as you know, a breakout pitcher,

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Speaker 1: very young, very very talented, one of the most exciting

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Speaker 1: tough news about you know, the elbow issues and whatnot,

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Speaker 1: twenty four season. Mayor what was your initial takeaway besides

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Speaker 3: My initial takeaway was obviously feeling very disappointed for him,

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Speaker 3: also very happy that I didn't actually draft him anywhere.

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Speaker 3: I don't have him in dynasty leagues, which you know

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Speaker 3: I just had him buried in my rankings. I actually

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Speaker 3: do the accuracy rankings contest of Fantasy Pros, and I,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be hard for to imagine him being

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Speaker 2: Really.

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Speaker 1: out Chris Welsh, our colleague and friend who I asked

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Speaker 3: I thought you were going to, like actually thank him

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Speaker 3: at the beginning of that. I didn't realize the whole

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Speaker 2: I appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: I do speaking of Welsh, just from the dynasty perspective

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Speaker 1: on Uri, do you see this as like a Bilo opportunity?

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Speaker 1: Are you nerv I mean, we've seen plenty of pictures

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Speaker 1: come back from Tommy John at this point right in

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Speaker 1: It's still a long time till he will be theoretically

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Speaker 2: But the arm was so exciting. He's so young.

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Speaker 1: Is this a guy that you're maybe targeting a dynasty trades?

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Speaker 1: what are you doing with him long term?

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Speaker 3: I'm definitely not selling him if I'm already rostering him. Ideally,

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Speaker 3: you don't want to sell low on him, and you

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Speaker 3: It depends on obviously roster space and what you want

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Speaker 1: And I would say too, like, keep it in mind

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Speaker 1: You don't have to do it right this second. Let's

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Speaker 3: So the Red Sox pitching staff we've seen, we heard

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Speaker 3: the high and Bloom era was remarkably over after so

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Speaker 3: I think he sent His name is Body, Kyle Body.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully I'm pronouncing that, no body. I think it's Kyle Body,

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Speaker 3: who's like the founder of drive Line, and we heard

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Speaker 3: all off season they just overhauled their not only their

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Speaker 3: And from what we've seen through the first week of

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Speaker 3: the results have been fantastic. And I don't want this

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Speaker 3: heard me on leading off more who have listened to

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Speaker 3: me on Leading Off, No, no one hates the Red

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Speaker 3: But what we are seeing is some pretty remarkable stuff

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Speaker 3: And they don't have like the biggest names. Obviously they

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Speaker 1: Now, if you had to, let's make this actionable, if

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Speaker 1: if you had to pick one player in the staff

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Speaker 1: to see this continue on throughout the year. This is

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Speaker 2: Do you have a name for either of those?

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's a good question. So looking at it as

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Speaker 3: a staff, Brian Beao has the highest ceiling just because

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Speaker 1: I think I tend to think that at Fantasy Baseball,

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Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh Pirates. Are they a feared lineup? I wrote

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Speaker 1: but it's Michael A. Taylor, So uh yeah, I just

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Speaker 1: would have meant you to point out that the stats

435
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Speaker 1: have been quite impressive during their hot start to the season.

436
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Speaker 1: The other guy who we didn't end up talking about,

437
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Speaker 1: but I sort of wrote tongue in cheek in the outline,

438
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Speaker 1: was is Mookie Bets better than Ronald o'cunya now, and

439
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Speaker 1: you know, talk about a hot start?

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Speaker 2: So just we didn't. We didn't.

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna like dive deep in him or anything,

442
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Speaker 1: but I want to ask you, if you were redrafted today,

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Speaker 1: would you consider drafting Mooki Bets ahead of Ronald a'kunya.

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Speaker 3: I'm really just happy that people are not going to

445
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Speaker 3: doubt Mooki Bets anymore.

446
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Speaker 2: Yeah, per per the athletic or the.

447
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Speaker 3: Athletic, all the doubters out there, he's just proven them

448
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Speaker 3: all wrong every day. No, I would not, but I'm

449
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Speaker 3: a huge Mookie Bets fan, and I you know, there are.

450
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Speaker 3: I don't think you can just because of what Acunya

451
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Speaker 3: did and what Acunya's ceiling is. But key bats is

452
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Speaker 3: obviously phenomenal, and the fact that he's going to be

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Speaker 3: second shortstop outfield eligible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not without value. It's pretty insane. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's move to the next section here. Normally this will

456
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Speaker 1: be we're kind of kind of pick our favorite Bilos

457
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Speaker 1: and sell highs. It's still early enough in the season

458
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Speaker 1: that we thought it didn't quite warrant that conversation yet,

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Speaker 1: so we're going to do instead Fluke or for Real.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw out a couple of players. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: decide if they're hot starts, and we specifically picked players

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Speaker 1: who are off to hot starts. We didn't, you know,

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Speaker 1: talk about any of the guys who are off to

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Speaker 1: you know, slumps like Lindor is not on here or

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Speaker 1: anything that he's been brutal. Yeah, Fluke or for Real.

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Speaker 1: For these six players, we'll start with a guy that

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Speaker 1: you really wanted to talk about, and that's Garrett Crochet.

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Speaker 2: Fluke or for Real.

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Speaker 3: So Garrett Cruchet. Crochet is someone that I felt was

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Speaker 3: hard to fit into this category. I initially had him

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Speaker 3: as a sell high because I think he's a cell high.

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Speaker 3: So I think he's kind of a fluke end of

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Speaker 3: for real, which is cheating, but I think the talent

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Speaker 3: is real. What I wonder is how long we're going

475
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Speaker 3: to get this for? And also I mean that's that's

476
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Speaker 3: the main thing. So like, let's go through his profile.

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Speaker 3: He's a former first round pick, twenty twenty, first round pick.

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Speaker 3: He they want to make him starter. He's been a reliever,

479
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Speaker 3: he had Tommy John surgery in twenty twenty two. He's

480
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Speaker 3: barely pitched since being drafted. So last season twenty twenty three,

481
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Speaker 3: twenty five innings pitched, twenty twenty two, zero innings pitched

482
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Speaker 3: because he had Tommy John surgery. Twenty twenty one, fifty

483
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Speaker 3: four in the third innings pitch, and then twenty twenty

484
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Speaker 3: six innings pitched. So over the last four full seasons

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Speaker 3: or you know, yeah, four full years coming into this year,

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Speaker 3: it is not four seasons because he missed an entire one,

487
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Speaker 3: but four years coming into this year, eighty five total

488
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Speaker 3: innings pitched. So even if we are right about garat

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Speaker 3: Crochet and he's breaking out in a big way, how

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Speaker 3: many are you getting out of him this year as

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Speaker 3: a guy who's still word you know, less than a

492
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Speaker 3: year or so removed from Tommy John Surgery who threw

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Speaker 3: twenty five innings last year, Like, are you even going

494
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Speaker 3: to get And there were even some rumblings in the

495
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Speaker 3: past that like they were going to send him the

496
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Speaker 3: Michael Kopak route where he was going to do some

497
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Speaker 3: bulk relief for a while, to kind of like move

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Speaker 3: him back into a starting to transition in from the

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Speaker 3: bullpen back into like a starting role. That the plan

500
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Speaker 3: was going to be maybe some bulk relief. Obviously they

501
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Speaker 3: wanted to get him into the starting rotation, but there's

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Speaker 3: there's zero chance that he is in this starting rotation

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Speaker 3: the entire season and throws more than one hundred and

504
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Speaker 3: fifty innings. There's a very low chance he throws more

505
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Speaker 3: than one hundred innings. I think we're probably going to

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Speaker 3: see him as a starter close to the All Star break,

507
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Speaker 3: and then he's going to be in the bullpen. And

508
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Speaker 3: that's not to say if we're right about this breakout,

509
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Speaker 3: that's not to say that's not valuable, because one half

510
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Speaker 3: of a really good pitcher is really valuable. Less valuable

511
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Speaker 3: in head to head because it would really hurt to

512
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Speaker 3: not have him for the playoff. But if you can

513
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Speaker 3: get that first half in a roto league and build

514
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Speaker 3: up those numbers, that's really valuable. Then there is the

515
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Speaker 3: question like is this legit. It looks legit, the fastball

516
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 3: is legit, the numbers look legit. Very small sample size,

517
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Speaker 3: but we'll see. So I think the talent is for real,

518
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Speaker 3: that the pedigree is there. I don't know that we're

519
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Speaker 3: going to see a sixteen to wayne to one strikeout

520
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Speaker 3: to walk ratio going forward given what we've you know,

521
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Speaker 3: not that we've seen a ton of him in the past,

522
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Speaker 3: but you know, this is a guy last year that

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Speaker 3: walked in you know, again, very small sample size, twelve

524
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Speaker 3: to two thirds innings, walked thirteen guys and strike out twelve.

525
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Speaker 3: Walked more than he struck out. So it's hard to

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Speaker 3: kind of like not get excited when you see this

527
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Speaker 3: hot start. But also he's just so high.

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Speaker 1: For me, I think I think it's worth reading the

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Speaker 1: stat lines and I'll frame it like this. You go

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Speaker 1: six innings, five hits, one run, no walks, eight straight out,

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Speaker 1: eight strikeouts against the Tigers.

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Speaker 2: You have my curiosity.

533
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Speaker 1: You go seven innings, three hits, one run, one walk,

534
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Speaker 1: eight strikeouts against the Braves, You have my attention, and I.

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Speaker 3: Now do it against the Pirates and really really impressive.

536
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Imagine how good he'd be if he was

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Speaker 1: in the Red Sox rotation.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.

539
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Speaker 1: He By the way, it's funny, I love how baseball

540
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Speaker 1: reference when you're looking at like day's rest for the

541
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Speaker 1: first game of the season, that just is ninety nine

542
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Speaker 1: because that's what they do for anything at the start.

543
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 1: Just makes me laugh, like, oh, he's been really well

544
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Speaker 1: rested before this one. Yeah, I would say I think

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Speaker 1: I think your assessment is quite fair. We've talked about before,

546
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Speaker 1: you and me behind the scenes, about how there's a

547
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Speaker 1: difference between a sell and to sell high. You know,

548
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Speaker 1: you're not saying get rid of this guy at any cost,

549
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Speaker 1: but you're saying, if you can sell him for a

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Speaker 1: proven asset that will last you the whole year that

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Speaker 1: you are a stronger believer in because of his hot start,

552
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Speaker 1: then that might be prudent. So I'm with you there.

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Speaker 1: I think he's I think he's talented guy. Obviously, I'm

554
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Speaker 1: not going on a limb saying that and again, like see,

555
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 1: I had you know, people reaching out to me. It

556
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Speaker 1: is actually the second week in Arrow I've referenced to this.

557
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Speaker 1: One listener of the show, you know, reached out to

558
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Speaker 1: be Are you in the league where he picked up

559
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Speaker 1: Garrett Kroscher?

560
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Speaker 2: Are you starting him against the Braves?

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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's that kind of like opponent where

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Speaker 1: you have to actually question even if it's a guy

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Speaker 1: that you really believe in, and when he when he

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Speaker 1: has an adding like he did against them, I'm going

565
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Speaker 1: to call that for real, even if we're going to

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Speaker 1: say it's maybe not the most sustainable, if we can

567
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Speaker 1: make that distinction. The other guy you really wanted to

568
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Speaker 1: include in this segment is Bryce Terrang.

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Speaker 3: Bryce Terrang, Yes, and he's someone that I was tweeting

570
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Speaker 3: about the other day and got to pushback about. So

571
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Speaker 3: I definitely wanted to include him and talk about him

572
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Speaker 3: more on the show. But I do think you're absolutely right.

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Speaker 3: There's a there's a and And I got into this

574
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Speaker 3: a little bit when I tweeted about Bryce Terrang because

575
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Speaker 3: he had two more stolen bases the other day, giving

576
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Speaker 3: him six on the season. And there's a big difference

577
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Speaker 3: between like saying you need to sell this guy, and

578
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Speaker 3: you should sell high. Because when you're saying sell hi,

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying the guy stinks. We're just saying the

580
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Speaker 3: personived value out there is higher than what I or

581
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 3: we or what you should think is the actual value.

582
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Speaker 3: And so that's why, like Garrett Crochet is a must

583
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 3: add right now. Like I'm not saying, like this guy stinks,

584
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:14,640
Speaker 3: you need to sell him. Like if you you know,

585
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 3: you probably didn't draft him, or if you did, you

586
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 3: drafted a very late as a flyer, and kudos to

587
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 3: you you are being proven correct. Or you picked him

588
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Speaker 3: up at the first start, and kudos to you. You have

589
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Speaker 3: him on your roster and you have the decision, do

590
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Speaker 3: I want to ride him for as long as he's

591
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Speaker 3: going to you know, dominate or you know, hope the

592
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 3: wheels don't fall off, or can I now sell him

593
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Speaker 3: to someone who really is desperate for pitching and is

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Speaker 3: seeing the same performances that I'm seeing for more than

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00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,199
Speaker 3: what he's worth. And that's why I would sell. And

596
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 3: the same thing for Bryce Terrang. Bryce terrang two more

597
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 3: stone bases the other day, giving him six on the season.

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Speaker 3: Another former first round pick he's got no power. You're

599
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 3: not going to get any power out of Bryce terrang

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Speaker 3: and he's another guy who he's a mustage just because

601
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Speaker 3: And someone like responded to me on Twitter saying that

602
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 3: he has like fifty stolen base upside. I think that

603
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:10,120
Speaker 3: was a little out there, you know, based on just reality.

604
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Speaker 3: But he is a guy who can run. It seems

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00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 3: like they're going to let him run, but he struggles

606
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 3: to hit lefties. He is probably going to platoon and

607
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 3: could lose his job. Like, there's no guarantee he's even

608
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 3: in the lineup in three weeks from now. And so

609
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 3: do you want to gamble on thirty to forty stolen

610
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 3: base upside on a guy who hit two eighteen last

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Speaker 3: year and might sit against lefties, or do you want

612
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 3: to see if you can sell him. I don't know

613
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 3: if you're gonna be able to sell him very high,

614
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 3: because unless someone's really desperate for stolen bases, which look,

615
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 3: I see a lot of different leagues out there and

616
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Speaker 3: a lot of different fantasy managers doing really strange things.

617
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 3: There's someone in many leagues looking to trade for someone

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00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 3: like Bryce to rank.

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Speaker 1: I guarantee there is a manager out there who drafted

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Speaker 1: a sterior we saying he will solve my stolen bases

621
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Speaker 1: for the season, and now is panic and would be

622
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: happy to add to I guarantee it absolutely.

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Speaker 3: I also watched that game the other day with those

624
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 3: two stolen bases, and they were not that he's not

625
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 3: going to run. And I believe he's a stolen base threat.

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00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 3: You know, he has shown in the past. He's stole

627
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 3: twenty six bases last year twenty twenty two, triple A

628
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 3: still thirty four. He can run and he will run.

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Speaker 3: That being said the other day, people were going nuts

630
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 3: because they were like, oh, Bryce Rangs told two more paces.

631
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Speaker 3: Today has six stolen bases in five games. The first

632
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 3: stolen base was a pass ball, like he was running,

633
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 3: but it was a passball. And the second stolen base

634
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 3: he stole, he stole third on a pitch that the

635
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 3: Christian Vasquez tried to frame the third strike and it

636
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 3: was essentially catcher's indifference. So he stole two bases without

637
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 3: a throw. And I was like, all right, he's going

638
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 3: to get credit for those stolen bases, but they're not

639
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 3: the most impressive stolen bases. Now they still coun't I

640
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,239
Speaker 3: can't take it away from him. But yeah, there are

641
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 3: some things to be concerned about Bryce Trang And look,

642
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 3: if you need stelling bases, stream him for a while,

643
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 3: keep them on your roster. If someone wants to offer

644
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Speaker 3: me a decent starting pitcher for price Rang and I

645
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 3: need to starting pitching or even a reliever, I'll you know,

646
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Speaker 3: I'll gladly trade.

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00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 2: He's he's an intriguing ad.

648
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Speaker 1: But at the core of the question, fluck Er for real,

649
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: I think likely Fluke. I don't think he's gonna have

650
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: an opis over one thousand this season. Yeah, particularly given

651
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 1: the lack of power. I obviously you know the batting

652
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: average is gonna come way down, we would think. And

653
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 1: again the soil bases I think will be there to

654
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: a degree.

655
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 2: I don't.

656
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I don't think he's gonna get fifty.

657
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: It would be awesome if he did. You have credit

658
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 1: to him. But I think if you're asking.

659
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 2: Me Fluker for real, I'm gonna go with Fluke. We'll

660
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 2: go a little quicker on the next few Oswaldo Cabrera.

661
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 3: I would lean, do you want to just do Fluke

662
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 3: or for real on these rapid fire or you want

663
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 3: to you want to keep diving into into why I

664
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,719
Speaker 3: would lean fluke for Osmabo Cabrera.

665
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 1: Let's go rapid fire, I will go fluke. Michael CONFORDO,

666
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: I will go fluke. I will also go fluke.

667
00:30:55,640 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 2: This is I.

668
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: He's the one I'm most potentially interested in saying for

669
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: real of this rapid fire segment, JJ Bleda, I will

670
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: say he is a fluke.

671
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 3: For me, I will say he's a fluke as well.

672
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: Former high draft pick pedigree, but the bad of ball

673
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: data is not actually that encouraging despite the decent status

674
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: start the year. Andre Simenez, I actually, you know what,

675
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: this is the one I would say I would be

676
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 1: most inclined to say is for real.

677
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 3: I would say that as well. I have a lot

678
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 3: of concerns about Andre Simenez, and I kind of always have.

679
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 3: I've I've always been a fan. But as you just mentioned,

680
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 3: I think it was for Bladet. The batted ball data

681
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 3: not great, kind of never has been great for Andre Semenez,

682
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 3: but he just kind of outperforms it anyway, until you know,

683
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 3: last year fifty home runs thirty stone basis two fifty.

684
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 3: If you can get that again, I sign up for that,

685
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 3: no problem. It's gonna be hard to get that consistent

686
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 3: power based on his bad at ball numbers. But he

687
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 3: also hit seventy num runs the year before, so maybe

688
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 3: a shame on me for doubting his contact numbers. Maybe

689
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 3: he just figured out how to beat the data.

690
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: And I'm always a fan of a guy who brings

691
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: a lot of like defensive value and base running value

692
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: because I know it's going to keep them in the

693
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: line up through the ups and downs of a season

694
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: that every non superstar.

695
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 2: Is going to have. I'm a fan.

696
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: He's only twenty five, Like, I think that he could

697
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: absolutely be, you know, just kind of leveling up his

698
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: game to degree, and he's not gonna be like a

699
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: super duper megastar. But I do like Anderson that is,

700
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: and he's the guy I would mostly in towards for real.

701
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: In that segment, let's head to Waivers Central. We'll start

702
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: with the hitters. And you actually picked a hitter that

703
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 1: I originally had in Fluke or for Real, So I

704
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: guess to a degree you must think he's for real.

705
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 3: Yes, and no, I stole Taylor Ward from Plucker for

706
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 3: Reil because I needed a Waiver wire hitter, and I

707
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 3: really couldn't decide on anyone, and I was looking at

708
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:55,719
Speaker 3: the Fantasy to Pro stats page, filtering it by VBR

709
00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 3: and consensus roster percent is trying to find someone who

710
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 3: fit the bill of someone I would want to add

711
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 3: in one of my many leagues. And I got to say,

712
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 3: it's gross out there. I really hate the hitters on

713
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 3: the open market, and I kept coming back to Taylor

714
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 3: Ward and his three home runs, and I feel like

715
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 3: I can take a flyer on Taylor Ward. Obviously, there

716
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 3: are some concerns there, I think, especially if you're in

717
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 3: a you know, in a deeper league or a five

718
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 3: outfielder league where you need, you know, several outfielders. Definitely

719
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 3: someone you can pick up. In twenty twenty two one

720
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 3: hundred thirty five games to twenty three home runs in

721
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, ninety seven games, fourteen home runs. Seeing

722
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 3: a bit of a pattern here that he doesn't play

723
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 3: full seasons. If he could stay healthy, he already has

724
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 3: three home runs and six games. He's batting clean up

725
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 3: behind Mike Trout, who also looks fantastic right now, you know,

726
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 3: while he's on the field. Hopefully he stays on the field.

727
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 3: It seems he's not going to steal a ton of bases,

728
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 3: but it does seem like Ron Washington with the Angels,

729
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 3: he's gonna let them run a little bit more so.

730
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 3: He's never stolen more than five bases in a season,

731
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 3: but he maybe you can get twenty five home runs,

732
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 3: a decent batting average, you know, decent two above average,

733
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 3: not three hundred, but like to sixty to seventy batting average,

734
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 3: and like maybe he'll give you eight stolen bases on

735
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 3: top of that. And in a lot of leagues, that's valuable.

736
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 3: And he's available a lot in a lot of leagues.

737
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 3: So he's someone I'm I'm interested in, definitely more interested

738
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 3: in than the name you're going to say.

739
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, if you want a guy who's

740
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,359
Speaker 1: available in a lot of leagues, boy, do I have

741
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: a name for you. I literally wrote in the outline

742
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: Charlie Blackman parentheses. I know, listen, you kind of explained

743
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:56,840
Speaker 1: to this decision already in that it's ugly out there.

744
00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: They're like, there's not a lot of available hitters that

745
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: I'm particularly excited about, but I think it's worth noting

746
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: that Blackman, I think can be a boring veteran type

747
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: that if you are, particularly in a league that you

748
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: need to start four or five outfielders. I know, he's

749
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: thirty seven, I know the lineup stinks, but he's been

750
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 1: hitting really well to.

751
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 2: Start the year. It's I don't know.

752
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't care that much about bad of

753
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: ball data this early, necessarily, but it has looked really

754
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,240
Speaker 1: good compared to recent years.

755
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 2: He's also done this all on the road.

756
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: The Rockies don't have their home opener until tomorrow, so

757
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,399
Speaker 1: it's not like it's just a pure Cores effect. He's

758
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 1: still bad in lead off, so he's gonna get you know,

759
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: whatever runs they do score, he'll have the opportunity to

760
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 1: score them. And yeah, I think you can get good

761
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 1: batting average from him.

762
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 2: Again, this is.

763
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: Not somebody that's gonna like win you your league, and

764
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 1: it's it's more of like a hey, like if you

765
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 1: went heavy on infield in your draft and kind of

766
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 1: you know, let outfield fall by the wayside.

767
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:03,720
Speaker 2: He's a guy that I think can give you some.

768
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: Very cheap, very cheap Nobody is going to be trying

769
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 1: to beat you to the waiver wire for him stats.

770
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 1: You know, in really any format, especially when they started

771
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: playing at course Field again, so I keep like kind

772
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 1: of couching it because it feels so gross to say.

773
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: You know, I'm recommending Charlie Blackman as my waiver ad

774
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 1: but like I said, to your point, not the most appealing.

775
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,399
Speaker 2: Group of hitters on the waiver wire.

776
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: And I think he's somebody that is probably being overlooked

777
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: for what the actual stat line will be by the

778
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 1: end of the season, just because he's old and people

779
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: are kind of done with him.

780
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 3: Did I make the case, No, But I will say

781
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 3: I drafted him last year in TGFBI, which is a

782
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 3: fifteen team, five outfitter league, so deep league. You need

783
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 3: a lot of outfielders. And what you just said is

784
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 3: why I drafted him. I was thinking, he's going to

785
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 3: give me solid average. I'll get home runs in the teens.

786
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 3: I'll get him super late, and he'll help me with

787
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 3: batting average. He's not going to kill me anywhere else.

788
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 3: I should get a ton of runs scored because he's

789
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 3: gonna hit the top of that lineup. And man, was

790
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 3: it a grossier he just I mean, he was fine.

791
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 3: He got hurt though, so it kind of killed me.

792
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 3: He didn't even play one hundred games. I think I

793
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,399
Speaker 3: got like six or seven home runs out of him

794
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,320
Speaker 3: eight looking at it now, eight home runs, two seventy

795
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:29,320
Speaker 3: nine batting average. I'll still hit him for that average.

796
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 3: So yeah, I you know, he's just so old. He's

797
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 3: just so old.

798
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:38,359
Speaker 1: I will admit I recognize that his bapup is four

799
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: seventeen right now.

800
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 2: He has one walk on the season.

801
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: But you know what he also has is the most

802
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: at bats in baseball without a strikeout so far this year.

803
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,919
Speaker 1: So that's something maybe even depending on your league, maybe

804
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: that's really valuable. Of strikeouts really particularly hurt you. I listen,

805
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: I get it. I'm not going to waste any more

806
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: time trying to make the case.

807
00:37:58,160 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 2: It was.

808
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: I wanted to pick somebody that was really cheap that

809
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: I was sure would be available everywhere, and boy did I.

810
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 2: Let's go to your favorite pitcher.

811
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 3: So my favorite pitcher some we talked about a little

812
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 3: bit earlier, and it's Tanner Hawk, and I could have

813
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 3: you know, I don't want to make this whole episode

814
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 3: of me talking about the Red Sox pitching, but too late,

815
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 3: here we are. But I could have kind of gone

816
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 3: with Garrett Whitlock because he's similarly rostered. I think he's

817
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 3: slightly more rostered than Tanner Hawk because people have kind

818
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 3: of seen that Garrett wit lock upside before. So I

819
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 3: went with Hawck because he's available in seventy percent of

820
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 3: Yahoo leagues and more than eighty percent of ESPN leagues,

821
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 3: and we kind of already talked about it. The Red

822
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 3: Sox have overhauled their entire pitching staff. The early returns

823
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 3: have been phenomenal. Tanner Howck in his first start, six innings,

824
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 3: ten strikeouts, no walks. I've never seen this before. His

825
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 3: era is zero, his FIP is negative. It's zero, it's

826
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 3: negative zero point zero two. I don't know that I've

827
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 3: ever seen a negative fit before. Maybe I have, but

828
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 3: I don't remember it. Obviously, again, really small sample size

829
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 3: because we're just talking about one start, six innings, but

830
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 3: we're already seeing a bunch of pitchers injured. The early

831
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 3: returns in this Red Sox rotation and Red Sox pitching

832
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 3: staff overall, which could be beneficial if you know the

833
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 3: bullpen is pitching well too. You know, if you're in

834
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,879
Speaker 3: a league that counts wins, that can matter, or even

835
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 3: you know a bullpen that can come and get you

836
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 3: out of jams that can matter for your overall numbers

837
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 3: going forward. And so yeah, I just think he's free.

838
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 3: He's out there and a lot of waiver wires. I

839
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,320
Speaker 3: would I'm picking Tanner Hawk, but I really you should

840
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 3: be taking the fire and anyone on the Red Sox staff,

841
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,359
Speaker 3: because who knows if any or all of them are

842
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 3: going to have like staying power. But it's hard to

843
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 3: argue with the early results. And I just you know,

844
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 3: I think you have to keep taking a fire on

845
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 3: those guys.

846
00:39:58,480 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 2: I think that's fair.

847
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,399
Speaker 1: We already talked about the Red Sox staff, So I'll

848
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,479
Speaker 1: move to my favorite pitcher on waivers, another guy who's

849
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: available everywhere, Alec Marsh. He looked really good against the

850
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,439
Speaker 1: Orioles and that, as we talked about, they're a top

851
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: five run.

852
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 2: Scoring team so far the season.

853
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: They're expected to be one of those elite offenses this season,

854
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,360
Speaker 1: and he like pretty much dominated them. Seven innings, two hits,

855
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 1: one run, one walk, five strikeouts. He did it by like.

856
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: I was really impressed with how he mixed up his pitches.

857
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 1: Obviously as an Oriols fan, I watched that game very closely.

858
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: He threw per stat Cast five different pitches in that game,

859
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: forcing fastball, change up, sweeper, slider, sinker. None of those

860
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: pitches he threw fewer than ten times, and none of

861
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: those pitches he threw more than nineteen times. He mixed

862
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: them all up incredibly well. He had the Orioles hitters,

863
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: who are very good at being patient and finding hard contact,

864
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: just really off balance the entire game. I know Marsh

865
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 1: was like not good last year. He's only twenty five. Again,

866
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 1: it's one start, right, so who's to say what's going

867
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,839
Speaker 1: to happen going forward? And I you know, another type

868
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:09,919
Speaker 1: of guy that if he's bad in the next two

869
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:11,399
Speaker 1: starts like okay, sure drop him.

870
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 2: And it was a nice fun fluke in the pan.

871
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: But it's the type of guy that early on, if

872
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 1: I'm looking for somebody who maybe can take a step

873
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 1: forward out of nowhere as a pitcher, because it does

874
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: happen every year, I'm willing to again totally free. Nobody

875
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: is going to try and you know, fight with you

876
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: over getting Alec Marsh off the waiver wire. And this

877
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: start was a couple of days ago, so you know,

878
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: if he's still there, he's not, it's like he's gonna

879
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 1: be picked up tonight or anything. But if you have

880
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: the room and need pitching, he's also a relief picture eligible,

881
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: which for some leagues that is actually super valuable. So

882
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,359
Speaker 1: he is somebody that I would at least be willing

883
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,240
Speaker 1: to say, like it is the most lottery of lottery tickets.

884
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: But if I'm looking at a guy that's available everywhere

885
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: again who unlike Blackman, there's some built in upside here.

886
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:56,959
Speaker 2: I think theoretically.

887
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 1: I was really impressed with what I saw, Uh you

888
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: know in that in that first outing, what do you

889
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:03,800
Speaker 1: think about Marsh?

890
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 3: So the funny thing here, and I intentionally didn't tell

891
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 3: you this before the show. I wanted to tell you

892
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 3: on the air. But we were talking about the show

893
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 3: last night and we're building out the show sheet, talking

894
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 3: about the segments and stuff, and the one thing I

895
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 3: said was, you know, I don't really like to be surprised.

896
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 3: I'd like to have like a bunch of the names

897
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 3: in the in the sheet so I can prep and

898
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 3: be prepared, and you know, I like to look at

899
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 3: the numbers and stuff. When I said that to you,

900
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 3: the player I was picturing in my mind was Alec Marsh,

901
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 3: and it was just like I don't know why that's

902
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 3: who I was picturing. I just like, I just you know,

903
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 3: seen like you know, the recap of his starts and stuff,

904
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 3: and I was like, wow, I know nothing about this guy.

905
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 3: And so when I was telling you, I was like, well,

906
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 3: I don't really like to be surprised. I wanted to

907
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 3: see the names beforehand. And then boom Alec Marsh. I

908
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 3: was like, Wow, I'm so glad that name was in

909
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 3: there beforehand so I could look it up.

910
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,879
Speaker 2: But yeah, I I You're welcome for putting that in early.

911
00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, because you know, I pull up the

912
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 3: stats anyway, but I would have had to like been

913
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 3: really reading while you were talking. Yeah, so last year

914
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 3: numbers were not great. Did strike out more than a

915
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,280
Speaker 3: batter branding, which is, you know, something that always catches

916
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 3: my eye. Didn't do it in his first start against

917
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 3: the Orioles. But again we're talking about a really small

918
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:18,320
Speaker 3: sample size. Results matter a little bit more than the numbers. There.

919
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 3: Swinging strike numbers not not huge, but also not terrible,

920
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 3: and you know, have been better at different levels in

921
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 3: the past. He's another guy where like at different levels

922
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 3: of the minor leagues and numbers are kind of like

923
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:35,959
Speaker 3: all over the place. You kind of want to see

924
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,359
Speaker 3: better numbers in that is Triple I numbers and twenty

925
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 3: twenty three before getting called up were good only you know,

926
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 3: only fifteen innings, so again really small sample size, but

927
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 3: fifteen innings, two point four ERA nineteen strikeouts. You like

928
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 3: to see that did walk seven in fifteen innings. It

929
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 3: does seem like there's some control stuff there. I don't

930
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 3: know that he's going to be a league winner, but

931
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 3: you know, we're talking about people to pick off up

932
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 3: the waiver wire. See what the matchups are. It's not

933
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 3: like he took down the Marlins. You know, the the

934
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,240
Speaker 3: Orioles are, you know, maybe one of the best lineups

935
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 3: in the league, maybe the best lineup in league, even

936
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 3: without you know, all of the the mashers they have

937
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 3: at Triple A putting up there.

938
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 2: We'll get to that.

939
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:21,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, not overly excited about him, really small sampltizing.

940
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 1: Well, again, my attention was not to pick a guy

941
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 1: that everybody's already all gung ho about, right. I wanted

942
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,919
Speaker 1: to pick somebody that you can get and that there

943
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 1: I think there is some upside. You know, he he

944
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,280
Speaker 1: didn't throw his curveball in this start per stat cast,

945
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 1: which he had thrown a decent amount last year fifteen

946
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:39,879
Speaker 1: percent of the time last year.

947
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 2: But he's so not like a ton.

948
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: But he threw his four seamer way less in the

949
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: start compared to what he did last year.

950
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 2: Maybe it was a scouting thing.

951
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: Maybe it was just they you know, something that they

952
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: had kind of determined against the Oriols and it worked

953
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 1: really well. I want to see what else he does.

954
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: But his next start comes against the White Sox, so

955
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,839
Speaker 1: I think there's a chance that he looks really good

956
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: against them. If he could be looking at against the Oriels,

957
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 1: I think he can look good against the White Sox,

958
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: and then maybe there does start to get some more

959
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 1: attention on him and there's some more interest, and maybe

960
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 1: he's all of a sudden rostered in more than like

961
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: zero point five percent of leagues.

962
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 2: I don't know what the actual number is, but it's

963
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 2: very low. It becomes so hot. Yeah, exactly.

964
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:20,240
Speaker 1: So again early in the season, I want to find

965
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:23,800
Speaker 1: somebody that I think like could be a surprise breakout.

966
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,359
Speaker 1: Chances are good he is not that, but I think

967
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: it's it's worth taking a risk on. If you're looking

968
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: for a picture on Waivers. So I know Charlie Blackman

969
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 1: and Alec Marsh. I don't know how many people are

970
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,399
Speaker 1: going to be listening to me this week League When

971
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: I want to take my shot here, let's go to

972
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:40,240
Speaker 1: prospect corner.

973
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 2: This will often be with Welsh.

974
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: We do not have him on today, so we each

975
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 1: kind of have one prospect related thing we wanted to

976
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 1: hit on and mayor yours is the call up of

977
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 1: a top hitting prospect.

978
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, And speaking of Welsh and speaking of calling out Welsh,

979
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 3: are we gonna call out Welsh and Joe for having

980
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:00,879
Speaker 3: a prospect segment on today's leading off? When we talked

981
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 3: about that being a weekly segment on the cycle, and

982
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 3: they went.

983
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: Thought it was such a good idea that they were like,

984
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: we just need to be mimicking Worman Mayer. They're the

985
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 1: established brain trust of this this organization.

986
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's some good ideas. And so Welsh, I

987
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 3: know you're you're producing this. What the heck man, we're

988
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 3: supposed to be on our show doing that? Yeah? Justin

989
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 3: Bosk you first off, he got called up a couple

990
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 3: of days ago, has yet to play. Would love to

991
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 3: see him play.

992
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,479
Speaker 1: I did. We talked about adding him to the show

993
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: sheet a couple of days ago and he was caught up.

994
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: And then last night I was like, did I miss

995
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 1: any stats from him? Turns out no, I didn't.

996
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 3: Know, and you figured the first day was like, okay, fine,

997
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 3: he got called up that day. A lot of teams

998
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 3: don't want you to like rush to the ballpark and

999
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 3: you know, go right in the lineup. They want you

1000
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 3: to kind of, you know, experience it, get your feet

1001
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 3: under you. And then day two, still not in the lineup.

1002
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 3: Would love to see him in the lineup. I assume

1003
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 3: he's going to be, because why are you calling him

1004
00:46:58,160 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 3: up if he's not going to be in the lineup.

1005
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 3: And it's not like, you know, like they're a really

1006
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 3: good team. They want to win, and it seems like

1007
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 3: they're just going to have a rotating and maybe they

1008
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 3: wanted to give him two days to get settled. Maybe

1009
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 3: he got there late the first day. But yeah, first

1010
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 3: and foremost want to see him in the lineup. But

1011
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 3: he's a power speed, combo guy. He's not going to

1012
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 3: steal a ton of bases. But last year in Triple A,

1013
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 3: eighteen home runs and fourteen stealing bases, one hundred twenty

1014
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 3: two games. The consensus projections for him are not great,

1015
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 3: but that's mostly based on playing time. Most of them

1016
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:31,320
Speaker 3: have him projected for between one hundred and one hundred

1017
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 3: and eighty played appearances. Obviously, if he hits the ground running,

1018
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 3: he's going to earn more played appearances, so you can

1019
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 3: kind of extrapolate those those projections. It's hard hard to

1020
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 3: really look at what he was doing in Triple A

1021
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 3: because we're talking about three games, So you can't really

1022
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 3: worry about the fact that he was batting two thirty

1023
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:51,839
Speaker 3: one because who carries his three games. You can't look

1024
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,320
Speaker 3: at batting average. Last year a bat a two sixty

1025
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 3: six in Triple A. The year before in double A

1026
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,240
Speaker 3: bat at two eighty eight, fifteen home runs, three style bases,

1027
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 3: so didn't run as much, but it was good to

1028
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 3: see him run, you know, significantly more last season. And

1029
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 3: so he's not going to be Wyatt Langford. But this

1030
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 3: is a you know, the theme of the show. Former

1031
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 3: first round pick, twenty twenty first round pick. Another guy

1032
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:17,879
Speaker 3: you know has a lot of pedigree, really good bat.

1033
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 3: He's someone I don't want to say he's must roster

1034
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 3: in all leagues, especially since he's yet to play. But

1035
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:30,319
Speaker 3: I think in most twelve team or more leagues, you know,

1036
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,879
Speaker 3: either twelve team leagues or leagues with larger rosters, he's

1037
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 3: definitely worth someone adding just to see what it is,

1038
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 3: because you know, you never know when one of these

1039
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,879
Speaker 3: prospects is gonna come up, get hot and just keep

1040
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 3: the job all year.

1041
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I top prospects are a currency I'm very willing

1042
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 1: to trade in, right, I'm very happy to I'm probably

1043
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: gotta blow my budget on a guy like Foscue, but

1044
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: I'm very happy to take that chance and get him

1045
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 1: at bench spot and see if he adjusts really quickly.

1046
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: And especially for top prospect we've seen, you know recently,

1047
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: guys kind of take a little, you know, a month

1048
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:06,839
Speaker 1: or so or maybe more to adjust, you know, Gonna

1049
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,280
Speaker 1: Henderson to the start of last year, another Oriel Athley

1050
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: Rushman his first month was not very good and then

1051
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: once they once that, you know, flip has switched. It's

1052
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 1: just you know, they could be lights out the rest

1053
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 1: of the way. So, uh, you know, he's he's the

1054
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:20,840
Speaker 1: type of guy that, again, I need to have the

1055
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: bench spot. I think a lot of people probably do.

1056
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 1: I'm willing to take that swing.

1057
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:28,440
Speaker 3: And worth noting there before we move on that the

1058
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 3: reason he's called up is the Josh Young injury, and

1059
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 3: they just went in to do his surgery and found

1060
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 3: some stuff that didn't like it. And it's not that

1061
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 3: he's gonna be out for even longer. So he's going

1062
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:39,319
Speaker 3: to be out for at least two months. Two months now,

1063
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 3: so there's gonna be a long runway for someone to

1064
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:42,840
Speaker 3: earn playing time in this in this lineup.

1065
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good good to mention.

1066
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: Mine is shockingly Orioles related, because and all I wrote

1067
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: was Holy Norfolk Tides. I know you hadn't seen this

1068
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,280
Speaker 1: until I sent it your way last night on Wednesday

1069
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: night of this week. Let me read you some stats

1070
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:01,760
Speaker 1: from the Norfolk Tides scorer. First of all, they score

1071
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:05,839
Speaker 1: twenty six runs on twenty nine hits. They also had

1072
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 1: seven walks, only struck out eleven times. Jackson Holiday four

1073
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 1: for six, five runs, two rbi, also two walks. He

1074
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 1: got on base six times. Connor Norby two for five,

1075
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 1: three runs, three RBI, another two walks for him, he

1076
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: got on base four times. Pestin Kearstad had a grand

1077
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 1: slam and a three run homer five for seven four runs,

1078
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: ten RBI. Goby Mayo five for seven as well, two runs,

1079
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,319
Speaker 1: just one RBI for him, What a bad game. And

1080
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 1: then Kyle Stowers four for seven, three runs, seven RBI himself.

1081
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: If you look at their box score, the batting average

1082
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:42,839
Speaker 1: for those top five guys, who are the real prospects

1083
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: in this line, if there are other guys playing with

1084
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 1: Peyton Burdick is playing really well, not quite as much

1085
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: as a prospect as those five batting averages four hundred

1086
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 1: four to thirty five, five eighty three, three eighty five,

1087
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,840
Speaker 1: four hundred that's on the season ops on the season

1088
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,879
Speaker 1: for these guys twelve forty eight, thirteen ninety four, seventeen

1089
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 1: eighty five nine fifteen o three. It is ludicrous what

1090
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:06,879
Speaker 1: they are doing to that league's pitching right now. They

1091
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: have the top four players in the league in RBI

1092
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 1: on the leader board are all on the tides. It's

1093
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 1: testin krestat at the eighteen. Kyle Stowers is fourteen, Norby

1094
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:20,319
Speaker 1: with nine, and Jackson Holiday with eight. Obviously, we know

1095
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 1: some of those guys are elite prospects. We know Jackson

1096
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: Holding is the best prospect in baseball. We know that

1097
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: Kobe Meo is not that far behind him. We know

1098
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: Hessein Kuresat has insane power upside if they can just

1099
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: find a spot for them on the roster, right, I

1100
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: think Connor Norby there's no reason for him to be

1101
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 1: in the miners. I talk about this with my Oros

1102
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,439
Speaker 1: fan friends all the time, Like, he is the type

1103
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 1: of guy that gets so overlooked in this organization because

1104
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,719
Speaker 1: there's so much talent elsewhere. But he absolutely should be

1105
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: a starting major league baseball player at this point. And

1106
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: I think he's a really good hitter. He was a good,

1107
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 1: good hitter when he was drafted out of college. And

1108
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: I just he's never done anything but hit in the miners.

1109
00:51:58,680 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 2: I wish he was in the big league.

1110
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: Rostertours now has the most home runs for any Orioles

1111
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 1: minor leaguer ever. Like, I mean, this team is this,

1112
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 1: this Norfolk Tides team, Like I have to find it

1113
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: ridiculous when people say this sort of thing. This is

1114
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: the rare opportunity because of the organizational talent the Orioles

1115
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: have right now, and because of how much the Athletics

1116
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 1: hate their fans, this Tides team would beat the Athletics

1117
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:27,320
Speaker 1: in a seven game series, Like I'm fairly certain of that,

1118
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 1: at least like hitting wise, they would be the more

1119
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:35,799
Speaker 1: impressive lineup. Like this team is absolutely absurd. The actionable

1120
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:39,359
Speaker 1: takeaways from this is stash as many of these guys

1121
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,760
Speaker 1: as you can if you can, because they're hitting so well,

1122
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: and outside of Mayo, who I could see them kind

1123
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: of holding on to for next year's prospect promotion incentive,

1124
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,239
Speaker 1: like trying to make sure he maintains his rookielgability, for

1125
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 1: ex because he is young, he does strike out a lot.

1126
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 1: He's kind of the one guy where I do think

1127
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 1: he'd be capable at the major league level, but I

1128
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:02,399
Speaker 1: most understand why he's not there. The rest, like are

1129
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:05,799
Speaker 1: either old and ready or young and ready in the

1130
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: case of Jackson Holiday. So I'd be stashing as many

1131
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:10,840
Speaker 1: Orioles hitters as you can because if you get an

1132
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,800
Speaker 1: injury or two, or if like Austin Hayes has been awful,

1133
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: Ramona Reus doesn't have a hit yet this season. He's

1134
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 1: like over thirteen, I mean, and this is facing a

1135
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: lot of lefties too, So if the ool starts saying,

1136
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 1: let's get these prospects up, they are hitting so well,

1137
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: they're so much better than triple A pitching right now,

1138
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 1: it's absurd, and that box score was so insane I

1139
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: had to like just wax poetic about it.

1140
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I knew the Orioles were deep at the

1141
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:37,959
Speaker 3: farm season. I didn't in the farm system. I didn't

1142
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 3: realize just how deep. But I was thinking about it,

1143
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 3: like during draft season, when like thinking about especially in

1144
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 3: deeper leagues, like drafting Orioles, like current Orioles players like

1145
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:50,319
Speaker 3: I had no interest in drafting Austin Hayes regardless, but

1146
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:54,760
Speaker 3: even thinking about drafting like Cedric Mullins.

1147
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:56,839
Speaker 2: That great example, I was the same way.

1148
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 3: In the back of my mind, I thought to myself,

1149
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 3: if he's us, he could be traded, or even if

1150
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 3: he doesn't struggle, he's just kind of like middle of

1151
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 3: the road, they could they could move him for pitching

1152
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 3: to or he could just lose his job to you know,

1153
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:14,360
Speaker 3: clear up a spot for one of these young hitters.

1154
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 3: Because they have so many people who are ready to

1155
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:19,680
Speaker 3: contribute that the leash for everyone on their roster is

1156
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 3: you know, not long outside of Ryan Mantcastle, who is

1157
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:22,919
Speaker 3: an endlessly.

1158
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 1: Uh well, I was actually gonna I was gonna bring

1159
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:27,719
Speaker 1: him up. There are five hitters in the Orioles that

1160
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:31,319
Speaker 1: are like they're locked in, they're not going anywhere. It's

1161
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 1: Gunnar Henderson, and it's Adley Rutchman, It's Anthony Santandre, It's

1162
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:37,400
Speaker 1: Ryan mant Castle, and it's Jordan Westburg. Everybody else, like

1163
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,920
Speaker 1: Austin Hayes, who has had really hot streaks before, although

1164
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 1: not since like the first half of last year. Cedric Mullins,

1165
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:44,479
Speaker 1: who has started to deal with injuries more and more,

1166
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: you know, obviously like the Jorge Matteo's and Ramon areuses

1167
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 1: of the world, Like like there's just not a spot

1168
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 1: for these guys long term. It feels like I would

1169
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 1: love like Mullins is the one where it's like if

1170
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,440
Speaker 1: he could still be really good, and I would like

1171
00:54:57,480 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 1: to see that be the case. But like you have

1172
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 1: Colden Kowser, who he was already at the big league

1173
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:03,880
Speaker 1: level and hitting well but not in enough at bats,

1174
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 1: let alone a secure stats twenty five and is a

1175
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 1: top thirty prospect in baseball in a lot of places,

1176
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:14,359
Speaker 1: has proven he can smash triple A. Pitching, Like at

1177
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 1: a certain point, I get you don't want too many

1178
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 1: lefties in the roster, but like there's just no reason

1179
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:20,839
Speaker 1: for Austin Hayes to be getting at bats over him.

1180
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:23,280
Speaker 1: There's no reason for Ramona Reus to beginning at bats

1181
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,839
Speaker 1: over like Connor Norby, let alone Jackson Holiday. So it's

1182
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,360
Speaker 1: it's just at a certain point you think like the

1183
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 1: damn is gonna break and these guys are gonna all

1184
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 1: come up, and the Oils are gonna get even better,

1185
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:36,839
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of the in the lineup at least,

1186
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: But again, that box score was too ludicrous to not

1187
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 1: to not bring up. I will stop the Homer Orioles

1188
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 1: talk there and jump into the weekend excitement, although I'll

1189
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:50,839
Speaker 1: quickly I'll do mine first and give a little more

1190
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:53,359
Speaker 1: Oriols Homer talk Oriols Pirates looks like it actually could

1191
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:55,400
Speaker 1: be a really fun series this weekend. And we get

1192
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:58,840
Speaker 1: Grayson Rodriguez versus Jared Jones on Friday. I believe is

1193
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 1: that one at his Friday That is a really fun

1194
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 1: matchup of young pictures.

1195
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see that one for sure.

1196
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 1: Also, just Grayson going up against the vaunted Pirates lineup.

1197
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:12,360
Speaker 1: Renel Blanco following up is no hitter against He's facing

1198
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:16,320
Speaker 1: the Rangers, obviously an excellent lineup the World Series defending champs,

1199
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:18,840
Speaker 1: you know young not young picture, I guess, but you

1200
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 1: know Journey, the pitcher who just threw a no hitter.

1201
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 1: I'm really curious to see how that pans out. So

1202
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:25,400
Speaker 1: I'm excited about that, And then mostly I want to

1203
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:28,760
Speaker 1: seek schoolball, like can he can he throw a perfect

1204
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 1: game against the A's please? Like he's gonna absolutely be

1205
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:35,360
Speaker 1: so school ball against against soon to be not Oakland,

1206
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 1: the just the Athletics not even having a city name.

1207
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 1: Next year when they play in Sacramento, I think we

1208
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 1: could see like in all time outing, so I hope

1209
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:44,840
Speaker 1: we do.

1210
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 3: Did you see that customer service piece of paper that

1211
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 3: was going around on social media? But the ad, yes, brutal.

1212
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 3: That is a tough look, like don't mention Oakland, like

1213
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 3: if you see any Oakland jerseys, like, get rid of them.

1214
00:56:57,360 --> 00:56:57,760
Speaker 2: Yikes.

1215
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:03,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, well did you see Fisher just was talking about

1216
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:05,799
Speaker 1: the smaller, intimate ballpark that they're going to be playing

1217
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 1: in for the next few years and was like, I

1218
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 1: can't wait to see the Athletics and and Aaron Judge

1219
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:12,000
Speaker 1: hitting home runs here and everybody. You can't wait to

1220
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 1: see an opposing player hit home runs against your team, Like, guy, come.

1221
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 3: On, I did not see that quote. No, that's great.

1222
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 1: It's he's getting ruthlessly made fun of for it.

1223
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 3: So normally you would think a ten thousand seat ballpark

1224
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 3: would be too small. It might still be too big

1225
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:28,600
Speaker 3: for them.

1226
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:33,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think probably it will be. What are you

1227
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 1: most excited for this weekend?

1228
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 3: So we can skip over wanting to see Garrett at

1229
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 3: lock In Tan or Hawk again, but I do want

1230
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:42,919
Speaker 3: to see them second time through, see, you know, see

1231
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 3: if it's legit. You know, I think the three we

1232
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 3: mentioned in the rest of exportation before BeO Pavetta and

1233
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 3: the other guy's name. I'm forgetting Cutter Cutter Crawford. I

1234
00:57:57,120 --> 00:57:59,440
Speaker 3: think they're more like locked in, you know, with Garrett

1235
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 3: with locked Tin how health is always going to be

1236
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 3: a concerned because they've kind of like bounced on and

1237
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:04,720
Speaker 3: off the injured list, in and out of their rotation.

1238
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:07,480
Speaker 3: So I just want to see the continued development. Are

1239
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:09,480
Speaker 3: we going to see more of that? And then also

1240
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 3: I noticed when we were going through this, we all

1241
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 3: we picked all pitching matchups. There's nothing else we're looking

1242
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 3: forward to this weekend and pitching. Yeah, apparently, so I

1243
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 3: picked Gavin Stone and showed at Imanaga his second start,

1244
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 3: because he looked really good in his first. Yeah, I

1245
00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 3: was very excited to see that six innings and nine

1246
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 3: strikeouts for him and nowhere in runs, so interested to

1247
00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 3: see both of You know, I picked four pitchers I'm

1248
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:34,520
Speaker 3: interested in seeing second time through.

1249
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 1: I think it's I think by nature of this, well,

1250
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: it'll probably often be like pitching matchups.

1251
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 2: I would guess, we'll see how the season plays out.

1252
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 1: There might be some other stuff that we get really

1253
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:48,440
Speaker 1: excited to watch each weekend. To wrappings up our season

1254
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 1: long competition, we have decided will be a two start

1255
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 1: pitcher competition. So every week we are going to pick

1256
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 1: two start pitchers and this can be anybody, so it's

1257
00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:58,840
Speaker 1: not just guys that are available in certain amount leagues.

1258
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: It's not necessarily wavered vice. In fact, you know, I've

1259
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:04,600
Speaker 1: certainly picked a pitcher that is rostered everywhere, one of

1260
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 1: the best purchases in baseball for this week. But there

1261
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:08,480
Speaker 1: are no repeats. Once you use a guy, he's up,

1262
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:10,760
Speaker 1: So you want to kind of play the matchups as

1263
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:12,760
Speaker 1: best you can. Who's hot, who's cold. However you want

1264
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:15,840
Speaker 1: to approach it, and we'll see who wins each week,

1265
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 1: picking the better two start pitcher based on their ROTO

1266
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:21,800
Speaker 1: rank with you know, standard categories at the.

1267
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 2: End of the week. So I will go first.

1268
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 1: I picked Zach Wheeler again, not you know, not available

1269
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 1: in any league certainly, but one of the aces in

1270
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 1: Fantasy Baseball has been very good to start the year.

1271
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 1: Does not have a win yet because he's just had

1272
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,280
Speaker 1: really unfortunate luck, but he's been really good to start

1273
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 1: the year. He is at Saint Louis and home against

1274
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 1: I'm taking a risk here the Pittsburgh Pirates. We'll see

1275
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:49,840
Speaker 1: how Wheeler performs in his two starts. That is my

1276
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 1: first pick for our season long competition.

1277
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:53,360
Speaker 2: What about you?

1278
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 3: So I did not pick a pitcher going up against

1279
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 3: the best offense in baseball. For my pick, I picked

1280
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:01,640
Speaker 3: the A to list Charlie Morton going up against the

1281
01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 3: Mets and up against the winless Miami Marlins. And you

1282
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 3: know you want to use Charlie Morton. You know you

1283
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 3: said you can't use pictures, you know, more than once

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Speaker 3: throughout the season. Charlie Morton's forty years old. They don't

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Speaker 3: know how much longer he's going to be around, and

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Speaker 3: so I want to use him in April while I

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Speaker 3: still can. I do like him. This season, he was

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Speaker 3: like free in drafts despite a really good season. Again

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Speaker 3: last season he had you know, almost not almost, but

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Speaker 3: like one hundred and eighty something strikeouts in a mid

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Speaker 3: because he's really old, and so I just got him

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Speaker 3: for free everywhere. I'm just gonna ride him while I can.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm gonna use I'm gonna use my first

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Speaker 3: pick on Charlie Charlie Morton and hope for the best

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Speaker 3: against the Mets and the winless watched with my luck.

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Speaker 3: Their first win will be.

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Speaker 1: Next Saturday, will be against they let out all their eggers.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I'm just now noticing I should have

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Speaker 1: picked and what I was looking forward to for this

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Speaker 1: weekend excitement. We get a Garrett Crochet versus Alec Marsh

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Speaker 1: matchup on some so that will be a very important.

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Speaker 2: Matchup for how this episode will age. We'll get out

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Speaker 2: of there on that.

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Speaker 1: Thank you everybody for tuning in to this episode again,

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Speaker 1: Please to continue to give us feedback. We want again

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Speaker 2: Leave us a review with a question and uh yeah

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