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Speaker 1: Our next guest comes to us from the Athletics. So

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Speaker 1: Derek van Riper. DVR, it's so nice to see you.

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Speaker 1: We were talking how once upon a time you and

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Speaker 1: many years ago. No, I did not have hair then

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Speaker 2: He likewise, thanks for having me, Joe, it's great to talk.

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Speaker 1: Tonight, DVR and I are going to go through some

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Speaker 1: breakouts and bounce backs, and this is one of the

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I think a lot of the value you can

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Speaker 1: Is that what makes Yelwick a little bit harder to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a little bit. And I think the

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about these two guys from a salary cap standpoint, then,

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Speaker 1: So let's say you're going to get one of these guys,

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Speaker 1: it seems like you like Bellinger over Yelich. Would you

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Speaker 1: enough where I'd rather have Yellich or ten? How much

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Speaker 2: having enough in my budget left to go get Bellinger

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Speaker 1: All right, you mentioned Anthony Rendone. I want to get

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Speaker 1: to a couple of these third basemen two that are

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Speaker 1: He's missed significant time in his career. Then there was

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Speaker 1: The last time we saw Justin Verlander going out in

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Speaker 1: Clevenger the best value this year? Clevenger is a player.

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Speaker 2: just think the ceiling those guys showed when they were

434
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Speaker 2: healthy is high end where the risk actually makes sense.

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Speaker 2: A lot of times it doesn't with guys coming off

436
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Speaker 2: Tommy John. But it's the unique group of players coming

437
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Speaker 2: off major injuries that we should actually be interested in.

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Speaker 1: Everyone I've talked to has been touting Patrick Sandwall is

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Speaker 1: one of these breakout guys this year for pitchers. What

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Speaker 1: do you think about that? Is he another guy that's

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Speaker 1: on that list for you?

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Speaker 2: I'm fine with Sandoval, but I think I'm out.

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Speaker 1: I got to take that as a no DVR. You

444
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Speaker 1: are not excited. It didn't seem nearly as much as

445
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Speaker 1: Nick Pollock and some other people have been right.

446
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Speaker 2: I think there's always someone like that in my drafts,

447
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Speaker 2: So there's always someone that likes Patrick Sandoval more than me.

448
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Speaker 2: If he fell around or two off his ADP and

449
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Speaker 2: I needed pitching, it could certainly happen. But I have

450
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Speaker 2: not been targeting him the same way that a lot

451
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Speaker 2: of other people have. I don't think the stuff is overpowering.

452
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Speaker 2: I think it's a little more finesse, a little more

453
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Speaker 2: of a deep arsenal that could obviously work. I actually

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Speaker 2: like the Angels as a team to just be better this

455
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Speaker 2: year for some of the reasons we talked about earlier.

456
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Speaker 2: With Rendon being healthy, you know, healthy, Mic Trout, all

457
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Speaker 2: of those things could be things that pushed them back,

458
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Speaker 2: maybe into the thick of the Al West Race, and

459
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Speaker 2: hopefully for their sake, into the postseason. I think when

460
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Speaker 2: I see Patrick Sandoval, I wonder what are we going

461
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Speaker 2: to get in terms of ratios? Are we really going

462
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Speaker 2: to get the stuff that we got last year a

463
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Speaker 2: three sixty two era in a one to twenty one

464
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Speaker 2: whip or we talk about a guy who's going to

465
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Speaker 2: creep into that Andrew Heaney range of always frustrating us

466
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Speaker 2: because he shows flashes of being a strikeout perinting starter

467
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Speaker 2: with good ratios, it can't stay healthy and then comes

468
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Speaker 2: back and when he finally is healthy, tax a run

469
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Speaker 2: under the era. Like I just I don't have that

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Speaker 2: same level of confidence that Nick and Something they're good

471
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Speaker 2: analysts out there have. So maybe I'm missing something with Sandoval,

472
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Speaker 2: but he has not been a frequent target of mine, and.

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Speaker 1: I can understand. All right, Let's talk about some of

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Speaker 1: the younger players too that have gotten some taste of

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Speaker 1: the big leagues. Joe Adell, Alex kirolof These are players

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Speaker 1: that I feel like have opportunity, at least in twenty

477
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Speaker 1: twenty two to take another step forward. Another guy like

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Speaker 1: Dylan Carlson Cabrian Hayes. I feel like there's a lot

479
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Speaker 1: of guys that people were high on the last couple

480
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Speaker 1: of years, and they haven't quite lived up to the

481
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Speaker 1: hype yet. But I feel like they're all really low

482
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Speaker 1: values right now, and to me, I want to start

483
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Speaker 1: buying in on Carlson, on Alec Bohm, maybe Jared Kalernick too,

484
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Speaker 1: another player that was such a disappointment last year. Any

485
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Speaker 1: of these guys or maybe some other words stick out

486
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Speaker 1: to you that you feel like are ready to take

487
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Speaker 1: that jump this year and maybe have a breakout season.

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Speaker 2: I guess I can't quite understand the difference in price

489
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Speaker 2: between Jared Kelnick and Dylan Carlson. Carlson can do a

490
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Speaker 2: bit of everything. I think the park situation maybe is

491
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Speaker 2: a little worse, but age to level, what Dylan Carlson

492
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Speaker 2: has done is actually very impressive. I think when a

493
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Speaker 2: player comes up and doesn't fall on his face, we

494
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Speaker 2: should be pretty amazed by that. I think Andrew Vaughn

495
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Speaker 2: kind of picks this description too, like what he did

496
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Speaker 2: changing positions, making the lead from high A last year

497
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Speaker 2: is really impressive. So Carlson makes all the sense in

498
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Speaker 2: the world to me, going outside the top one fifty.

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Speaker 2: I don't have any hesitation about drafting Jared Kelnick. I

500
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Speaker 2: feel like that's more of a salary cap situation in

501
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Speaker 2: redraft for me than it is a snake draft situ

502
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Speaker 2: based based on the difference in price. I do think

503
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Speaker 2: we're gonna see Dylan Carlson run a little bit more.

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Speaker 2: This is a Cardinals team that may need to find

505
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Speaker 2: ways to manufacture runs. I don't know if we're ever

506
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,399
Speaker 2: gonna get twenty plus steals, but again, I'm looking for

507
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Speaker 2: guys that get me eight, ten, twelve bags, and I

508
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Speaker 2: think Carlson could actually bring that. Love the plate skills,

509
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Speaker 2: love the developing power, should be fine in the counting

510
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Speaker 2: stats because he's going to play nearly every day as well.

511
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Speaker 2: So he absolutely is on my radar as a young

512
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Speaker 2: player that maybe people have lost a little bit of

513
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Speaker 2: faith in then they probably shouldn't have. I'm pretty curious

514
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Speaker 2: to see what kind of adjustments Trek Scouoble's still making

515
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Speaker 2: when the games begin to count. Everyone loves the strikeouts.

516
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Speaker 2: It's going back to the pitching side is for a minute,

517
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Speaker 2: but there's so much hard contact he's allowed. He can't

518
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Speaker 2: keep attacking hitters the way he was attacking hitters before.

519
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Speaker 2: You can't lead the league in hard contact. That's just

520
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Speaker 2: not a sustainable approach long term. Just encouraged by the

521
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Speaker 2: fact that he's been trying to make some adjustments. There

522
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Speaker 2: was one other young position player that I was just

523
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Speaker 2: looking at the other day that I thought, this is ridiculous.

524
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Speaker 2: How do people not like him more? I do think

525
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Speaker 2: he brought up Joe Adell. If we had more clarity

526
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Speaker 2: in his playing time, I'd be in I think the

527
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Speaker 2: massive improvement in his strikeout right last year is very encouraging.

528
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Speaker 2: I just don't know if they're ready to say goodbye

529
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Speaker 2: to Justin Upton or at least put him in more

530
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Speaker 2: of a clear cut bench roll at this point. The

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Speaker 2: fact that they want to play goodbye to just Hampton, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, and maybe what they did moving on from

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Speaker 2: Pool Hoole's early last season is a sign that they'd

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Speaker 2: be willing to do that with Upton. But playing Mike

535
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Speaker 2: Trout in center field means Brandon marsh and jo Adell

536
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Speaker 2: have to probably share a spot more than we would

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Speaker 2: like them to. So that's my only hesitation with Joe Adell.

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Speaker 2: Early on, I could see him in NIX leagues, being

539
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Speaker 2: someone that gets drafted, dropped at some point in April,

540
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Speaker 2: and then picked up in a lot of twelve team

541
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Speaker 2: leagues in May when they finally make that adjustment and

542
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Speaker 2: then we could finally get that breakout that we've been

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Speaker 2: waiting for.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Brandon Rodgers is another guy to me that sticks

545
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Speaker 1: out like a sore thumb where I look at his ADP.

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Speaker 1: He plays in Colorado. I'm pretty sure right now he's

547
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Speaker 1: going to be locked into an every day I just

548
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Speaker 1: I don't get it. I don't understand why people aren't

549
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Speaker 1: more excited about him. I think I probably have him

550
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Speaker 1: rankediger than anybody else on Fantasy Pros. But that's another

551
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Speaker 1: player to me that I feel like, situation, talent, ballpark factor,

552
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Speaker 1: all those things kind of come together at the same time. DVR,

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Speaker 1: Before I let you go here, who are some of

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Speaker 1: the other guys that you think might be breakout stars

555
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Speaker 1: or ready to make that step forward that maybe you've

556
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Speaker 1: been targeting in drafts or you have some shares of already.

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Speaker 2: Been piling up a lot of Gavin Lux and the

558
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Speaker 2: last week has very kind to me.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what was the thought process behind the Gavin luck

560
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Speaker 1: situation because is before the Freddy Freeman signing and everything

561
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Speaker 1: going down.

562
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Speaker 2: There was at it before Freeman and even before Kevin Pillar.

563
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Speaker 2: I think if you looked at it even after Freeman,

564
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Speaker 2: you could say, well, he's kind of the backup. Gavin

565
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Speaker 2: Lux is basically the backup at any spot other than Catcher,

566
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Speaker 2: even if he doesn't play all those positions, they shuffle

567
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Speaker 2: somebody else into that empty spot and then he picks

568
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Speaker 2: up the vacancy. Maybe there's more going on health wise

569
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Speaker 2: with Max Munsey's elbow and some other factors like that

570
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Speaker 2: that we were not currently aware of. But I think

571
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Speaker 2: part of the appeal for with Lux is actually similar

572
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Speaker 2: to Dylan carlson aged level. The production is encouraging from

573
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Speaker 2: the plate skills perspective, I think he controls the strike

574
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Speaker 2: zone pretty well. I know some of the underlying stack

575
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Speaker 2: cast numbers have been disappointing, but I saw Lux as

576
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Speaker 2: a guy that was actually gonna start stealing some more bases.

577
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Speaker 2: We'd get long tail contributions in that category, and cheap

578
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Speaker 2: speed is so hard to find that if you're getting

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Speaker 2: that with semi regular playing time, that plays in a

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Speaker 2: lot of the deeper mix leagues. That I play in,

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Speaker 2: so maybe I'm still in even as the price continues

582
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Speaker 2: to drop. With all the uncertainty right now, I just

583
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Speaker 2: have to go into it with the mindset of cutting

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Speaker 2: him loose if the playing time is not there to

585
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Speaker 2: begin the season, because on paper, right now he looks

586
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Speaker 2: like a clear cut part time guy.

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Speaker 1: what you're doing here. You're going at Giants games too.

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Speaker 2: Oh Man. Oracle Park is amazing. I got there once

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Speaker 2: the end of last season. After I got here, it

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Speaker 4: No, it wasn't that bad, you know. Yeah, you guys

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Speaker 4: were great. It was fun coming on. Now I'm actually

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Speaker 4: very happy to be here and happy to do this

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Speaker 4: with you and Frank.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm tolerated at best by Chris and now Frank

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Speaker 1: Stamfle once again, the Blue Light Special. I'm gonna call

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Speaker 1: you what it would you like? Did you murder a

655
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: bunch of Smurfs in this room? Why is it always

656
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: so blue? What's going on here?

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Speaker 5: I don't know, man.

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Speaker 6: I think it's like the background just kind of like

659
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Speaker 6: takes over everything.

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Speaker 5: It's just like so strong. But I don't know. I'll

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Speaker 5: figure it out eventually. What's going on?

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Speaker 3: Joey p.

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Frank?

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Speaker 1: If you are a Smurf, what would be your smurf name?

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Speaker 1: You're two for the Smurf? Do you even know who

667
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: the Smurfs are?

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00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Those little blue guys, I have no.

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Speaker 1: They all had names. It was like they weren't clever

671
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: like the angry one was grumpy Smurf, and they're like

672
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: this guy was like the guy who fixed things was

673
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Speaker 1: a handy smurf. What do you are you like? D

674
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Speaker 1: H Smurf? Like, what's your what's your smurf name?

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Speaker 5: I'll go with the Twitter handle. I'll go with roto Smurf.

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00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 5: Why not.

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Speaker 3: Nice? Nice?

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Speaker 1: The Roto Smurf. Frank stamfle You nailed it as always,

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Speaker 1: Frankie boy, I love it all right. So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have a little fun today. I've picked two players at

681
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: each position who are going neck and neck basically in ADP,

682
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Speaker 1: and I want to put these two wonderful guests of

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Speaker 1: ours against each other on the clock to see which

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Speaker 1: one they would rather have and why, because these are

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Speaker 1: kind of the situations we all have to go through

686
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Speaker 1: in our drafts or a mock drafts, or just in life.

687
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Speaker 1: We have to make hard decisions sometimes. So I'm gonna

688
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Speaker 1: put these two at it, and if there's a disagreement

689
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Speaker 1: over the two players, I will try to break the

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Speaker 1: ties best I can and we'll see how it goes. So,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to go ahead and

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Speaker 1: have a little a would.

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Speaker 4: You rather Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Let's do it all right, let's go all right. So

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Speaker 1: let's start at first base. Our first one is number

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Speaker 1: forty six overall, Saint Louis Cardinals first baseman, Paul gold Schmitt,

697
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Speaker 1: coming off a very strong season last year, no doubt

698
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Speaker 1: about that. A lot of people were kind of souring

699
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: on Paul gold Schmidt, not this bald headed moron. That's right.

700
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: Last year I told everybody bye bye bye, and we

701
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Speaker 1: did pretty well on those Paul Goldment shares. And then

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Speaker 1: there's another guy going right after him at forty seven,

703
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Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo, where my heart is the Polar Bear. These

704
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: are two very good first basement in terms of the

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Speaker 1: power you're gonna get out of them. Lauren, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: let you go first. Who would you rather have on

707
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Speaker 1: your fantasy team? Paul Golchmitt or Pete Alonzo. You're on

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Speaker 1: the clock.

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Speaker 4: Ooh, this is tough, but I am going to go

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Speaker 4: with Goldie. I like him. He's coming off of a

711
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Speaker 4: great year. He's just got that really steady, uh you know,

712
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Speaker 4: track record, And what I like about him, I guess

713
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Speaker 4: what kind of seals the deal for me is that

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Speaker 4: he will give you a couple of steels, you know,

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Speaker 4: throw in you know, maybe five to ten steals, which

716
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 4: is something that you don't get a lot of at

717
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Speaker 4: the first base position. So I like the power. Thirty homers,

718
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 4: ten steals, good average.

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Speaker 1: Give me Goldie, all right, Goldie is going one spot above,

720
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: so she has thrown down the gauntlet. Frank Stamfel, I

721
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Speaker 1: know you're a sucker for power. Pee Alonzo might have

722
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: more of a power upside. Would you rather have gold

723
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Speaker 1: Schmidt or Pee Alonzo on your team? Yeah?

724
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Speaker 6: I like both of these guys quite a bit, but

725
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Speaker 6: I'm going to take Paul gold Schmidt as well. Bounced

726
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 6: back last season two ninety four, thirty one homers, one

727
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 6: hundred and two runs, ninety nine RBI. The guy has

728
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 6: hit two eighty six or better every season but one,

729
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,479
Speaker 6: and that was back in twenty nineteen when he hit

730
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Speaker 6: two sixty. So I trust the batting average, stack cast numbers.

731
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Speaker 6: Everything supports what Paul gold Schmid did last year. In fact,

732
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 6: the stack CAAs numbers were better last year than his

733
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 6: entire career. And this is someone who I think is

734
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 6: probably like a borderline Hall of Fame player, right, So,

735
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 6: like you consider just how good he's been in his career,

736
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Speaker 6: and stack cast was better last year than it's ever been.

737
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Speaker 5: So everything supports what he did.

738
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Speaker 6: Strong play, discipline, so whether you play in a points

739
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Speaker 6: league or in a row league, Lauren's right, he's gonna

740
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 6: give you a couple of steals as well. I like both,

741
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Speaker 6: but I'll take Goldie over Pete Alonzo as well.

742
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Speaker 1: Goldschmid has six thirty home run seasons to his credit

743
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: and four one hundred RBI seasons. You're right, Frank, I mean,

744
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: I think Paul Goldschmidt another couple of years like this,

745
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to start to have those kind of conversations.

746
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: And the all round productivity is great. Lauren, what do

747
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: you make of the bounce back in the stolen bases

748
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: because in twenty twenty in the shortened season, he stole

749
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: just one in the fifty eight games. Last year bounced

750
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: back up to twelve. That's the best mark he's had

751
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: since twenty seventeen. Do you think that that, you know,

752
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: somewhere around ten to twelve stolen bases is something you

753
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: can count on from Goldschmit in twenty twenty two.

754
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 4: No, I wouldn't pencil in double digits, you know, I'm thinking,

755
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 4: I think if you kind of pencil in, you know,

756
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 4: five to eight, if you get ten, anything above ten

757
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 4: is going to be gravy. But no, I'm sticking me

758
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 4: in the five to eight range, and a lot of

759
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 4: the projections have him kind of as a seven to

760
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Speaker 4: eight stolen base guy this year.

761
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Speaker 1: What are your expectations for gold Schmith Frank when it

762
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: comes to stolen bases specifically, Yeah, I.

763
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Speaker 5: Think six to eight makes a lot of sense.

764
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Speaker 6: You look at the projection systems again, all between seven

765
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,719
Speaker 6: and eight, So I'm not necessarily trusting the twelve that

766
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 6: we got last year, but out of position steals fantastic.

767
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 5: For rodo head to head categories leagues.

768
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Speaker 6: You know, a lot of first basemen are not going

769
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 6: to provide speeds, so even if he gives you those

770
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Speaker 6: six to eight it really does help make that difference.

771
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Speaker 6: So yeah, I'm expecting right around that range. And if

772
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Speaker 6: he gives you double digits, that is beautiful.

773
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Speaker 1: All right. If you're enjoying the content here, I encourage

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Speaker 1: everybody to hit that like button. Smash the like button.

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Speaker 1: day for all of these podcasts. Without your likes, I

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Speaker 1: just can't do it. And also we want you to

778
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Speaker 1: interact with us here and I see a bunch of comments.

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Speaker 1: Let's pull some of these horns. Fan wants to know.

780
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: Speaking of stolen bases, here, is it a viable strategy

781
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: to punt steals in a ten team head to head

782
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: categories league? So, Lauren, if you're in a head to

783
00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: head ten team league where you might want to category,

784
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: would you consider punting steals? Since stolen bases really have

785
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: dropped off dramatically in the last few years.

786
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Speaker 4: I will say I don't play a lot of head

787
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 4: to head but what I have, what I think I

788
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 4: know about it is that this is that the categories

789
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 4: that you can punt are steals in batting average. But

790
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 4: Frank may be a better person to ask this.

791
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 1: Frank, you know I don't play a lot of head

792
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: head categories. Either I play head head points or rodo

793
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: against my will when someone ties me to a chair. Frank,

794
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: what about you? Do you think that steals is something

795
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 1: in a shallow lea like that that you can punt.

796
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 6: One thousand percent? They are an independent statistic. They don't

797
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 6: count towards anything else. Punt steals target guys that can

798
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,280
Speaker 6: give you batting average, home runs. All those things are intertwined.

799
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 6: Every time someone hits a home run, they help you

800
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 6: in runs, RBI, batting average. So try and get as

801
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 6: many of those four category contributors as you possibly can.

802
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 5: Punt steals.

803
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 1: I'm all about it, all right, Let's go to one

804
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 1: more here, Brian Sawyer asks. First, he says, I just

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Speaker 1: subscribe to the channel. Good for you, Brian. Your life's

806
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Speaker 1: gonna get a whole lot better now. And now you

807
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: might win Ronald Acunya jersey, because not only did you subscribe,

808
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: but you also dropped a little comment and a question

809
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: Joey Vado or Anthony Rizzo. And here's one for thought.

810
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: I mean, in obp leagues, it's hard not to like

811
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Speaker 1: Joey Vado, but losing a lot of guys around him, Frank,

812
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 1: who would you rather have that's a fun win at

813
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: first base Joey Vado or Anthony Rizzo.

814
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd much rather have Joey Vado. I'm buying into

815
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 6: what we saw last year. He kind of made that

816
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,760
Speaker 6: transition in the short and twenty twenty season as well.

817
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,800
Speaker 6: Power looks like it's Legit gives you strong OBP counting

818
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 6: stats you worry about because of the surrounding lineup there

819
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 6: with the Cincinnati Reds. But Joe, I was on.

820
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 5: The Fantasy Pros podcast last week and I mentioned the

821
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 5: profit pocket.

822
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Speaker 6: There are four first basement that I love waiting on

823
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 6: Joey Vado, cj Cron, Reese Hoskins, and I'm forgetting one

824
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 6: of them Josh Bell. If I can wind up with

825
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 6: any of those, if I wait at the position, perfectly

826
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Speaker 6: fine with that.

827
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: Now, Lauren, I have to abstain from this question. As

828
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Speaker 1: an Italian, It's very difficult for me to pick between

829
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Speaker 1: Joey Vado and Anthony Rizzo. So, Lauren, are you with

830
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: for Would you take Vado or you like maybe Anthony

831
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,720
Speaker 1: Rizzo full year in Yankee Stadium now.

832
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 4: One thousand percent with Frank his Joey Vado and I

833
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 4: like that. Frank brought up this kind of value pocket

834
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 4: of the first baseman. I call it kind of the

835
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 4: sweet spot. This is the area those four guys are

836
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 4: who I am targeting, and Joey Vodo is in that mix.

837
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the next position. Here.

838
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Speaker 1: Katel Marte seventy eighth overall, the number nine second basement

839
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: off the board right now on fantasypros dot Com and

840
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 1: the consensus ADP Jorge Polanco. What a season he had

841
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,240
Speaker 1: last year. He is number eighty one overall, the tenth

842
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: second basement off the board. Frank, we'll start with you

843
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: on this one. Who would you rather have? Jorge Polanco

844
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Speaker 1: or katel Marte? They're both on the board for you.

845
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: Who makes it to your roster?

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Speaker 6: All right, Joe, you're good at your job here because

847
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 6: I like both of these names as well, so Hori

848
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 6: Polanco and katel Marte. I will lean with katel Marte.

849
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 6: I trust what Polanco did last year. He leaned into

850
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,399
Speaker 6: this pull heavy approach, lots of fly balls. The Twins

851
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 6: lineup is getting better around him. But I just still

852
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 6: think katel Marte's overall upside is higher. I think this

853
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 6: is someone that can hit well over three hundred, can provide,

854
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,240
Speaker 6: you know, twenty two to twenty five home runs, maybe

855
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 6: double digit steals.

856
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 5: I wish we could get him out of Arizona.

857
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 6: That would be fantastic just for his counting stats overall,

858
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 6: and I think it would help with his power too.

859
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 6: But it's close. Give me the batting average with Katel Marte.

860
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 6: I think the upside is a little bit higher than

861
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 6: Horriy Polanco.

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00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 1: Well, it's a good chance he gets dealt at some

863
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 1: point too. I think del Marte could certainly help. You know,

864
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: that dual eligibility is nice two second and outfield, that

865
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 1: he could help some teams there too, very versatile, and

866
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 1: Horey Polanco has due eligibility too, second and short stop.

867
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: So Lauren would rather have Polanco or Marte Polonco.

868
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 4: Give me Polanco all day. You know, I've been he

869
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 4: is a second basement that I have been targeting this

870
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,320
Speaker 4: draft season. You know, I'm really buying into his twenty

871
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 4: twenty one season where he had thirty three home runs,

872
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:57,240
Speaker 4: eleven stolen bases, and he had a two sixty nine

873
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 4: batting average. You know, and he's also you know, he's

874
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 4: the past two full seasons, he's played at least one

875
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty two games. I like the lineup in Detroit.

876
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 4: I just think that there is a lot of power

877
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 4: upside there. You get the stolen bases. This is a

878
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 4: guy that I would pencil in for about ten stolen bases,

879
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 4: and so I like that power speed combo. These are

880
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 4: guys that when I draft, these are guys that I'm

881
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 4: targeting because you get that, you know, four category contributors.

882
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 4: So I am team Polanco on this one.

883
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: I have to break the tie here. And I got

884
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 1: to tell you, I like both players, but I think

885
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 1: I leaned towards Polanco because you mentioned durability. That's that

886
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,760
Speaker 1: one thing to me, that's like the best ability nowadays

887
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball is durability. The guys are going

888
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: to be out there every single game, one hundred and

889
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: fifty three games you mentioned in twenty nineteen, one hundred

890
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 1: and fifty two last year. He played fifty five of

891
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,280
Speaker 1: the sixty game season the year before. So this guy's

892
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: out there on the field, and I know he had

893
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:52,800
Speaker 1: a little cloud over him with the drug tests and

894
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: all that stuff. We were just talking for the break.

895
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: I missed those days. I miss the steroid era of baseball.

896
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: Cary Cruss, Yeah, come on, let's have some more. I

897
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 1: remember when, remember when twenty five home runs was a

898
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: disappointing power year. We were like, oh, that's wrong with

899
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 1: that guy. I only had twenty five home runs this year.

900
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 1: But anyway, Polanco for me to break the tie, all right,

901
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: let's go to the next one here, Lauren, you're gonna

902
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 1: start with this one. This is third base. We're gonna

903
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: go a little bit further down the ADP trough for

904
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: this one. So at one forty six overall, YOA Mancatta,

905
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 1: the guy who every single year we have high hopes

906
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,879
Speaker 1: for and every single year somehow manages to disappoint us.

907
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: Or at one forty seven overall the fifteenth, third basement

908
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: off the board, Matt Chapman, who fantastic love, but you

909
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: don't get points for that in fantasy. Just signed an

910
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: extension here with the Toronto Blue Jays, so he's doing

911
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: a really nice lineup. He's out of Oakland. Those are

912
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:45,760
Speaker 1: all positives. Chapman has shown you some good offensive seasons,

913
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 1: certainly better than what we saw last year. But who

914
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: would you rather have for twenty twenty two? YOA Mancata

915
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:51,760
Speaker 1: or Matt Chapman, Lauren.

916
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:56,919
Speaker 4: So I am on Rockers being not a Moncatta fan.

917
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 4: So once you started with Moncata, I'm like, Okay, I'm

918
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 4: taking whoever is the other. So I'm gonna make a

919
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 4: case for Matt Chapman. You know, he's he's a power guy.

920
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 4: I think that the question with him. You know, he's

921
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 4: going from Oakland, he's to Toronto. I think that that

922
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 4: ballpark change will help him, you know, and I think

923
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:19,760
Speaker 4: that he's had a little bit of bad luck. Last season.

924
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 4: He had a you know, his babbitt was about twenty

925
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 4: points lower than his career average average. You know, he's

926
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 4: coming off of a and he was coming off of

927
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 4: a I think a hip issue, and so I think

928
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 4: that there were some issues there. But you know, I

929
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 4: look at him as you know, as probably a thirty

930
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 4: homer guy, no steals, I think that, you know, but

931
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 4: being in that Toronto lineup, it's a powerhouse, you know,

932
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 4: so I think that there's gonna be a lot of

933
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 4: run production there. But he's gonna he's gonna deem you

934
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 4: in batting average. So I think that if you do

935
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 4: take Matt Chapman, you're going to have to build your

936
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 4: roster for it, and you're gonna have to make sure

937
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 4: that you know, you you can account for that because

938
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 4: he is you know, his plate approach. You know, he

939
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 4: has over like thirty thirty percent strikeout rates over the

940
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 4: past two years, So you want to be able, you know,

941
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 4: to support that. But yeah, I'll roll with Matt Chapman

942
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 4: on this one.

943
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: All right, Frank, you're up, Mancata or Chapman, who would

944
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: you take?

945
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, very similar approach here to Laurence. Once I heard

946
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 6: you on Mancatta. I'm just hoping that it's someone that

947
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 6: I even relatively like here and it works out alright,

948
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 6: because I do like Matt Chapman. Look, it's a fantastic

949
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:28,320
Speaker 6: park shift going from Oakland to Toronto. It's a fantastic

950
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 6: lineup that he's joining now. Hit a home run the

951
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 6: other day, is first at back with first at bat

952
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 6: with the Toronto Blue Jays. So you don't want to

953
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 6: get too excited about spring training. And speaking of which

954
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 6: you owe Mankatta best shape of his life, says he

955
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 6: wants to steal thirty bases this upcoming season. He's just

956
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 6: it feels like he's a jag at this point, which

957
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,760
Speaker 6: isn't fair to say because he's still young. He's twenty

958
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 6: six years old. But look at what he did last

959
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 6: year two sixty three, fourteen homers, sixty one RBI, three

960
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 6: steals just doesn't really stand out anywhere. He hasn't really

961
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 6: been the same since a couple of years ago.

962
00:41:58,719 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 5: He had Covid.

963
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 6: I think he might have had comed twice and he

964
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 6: hasn't really been the same since to all Mancatta, so

965
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:06,399
Speaker 6: I do worry about that. I like the White Sox

966
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 6: lineup quite a bit as well. But give me Matt Chapman.

967
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 6: Second half last year. His barrel rate, I believe, was

968
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 6: six best in baseball. So the power starting to come

969
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 6: back one year further removed from that hip injury, much

970
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,280
Speaker 6: better in obp leagues than batting average.

971
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,720
Speaker 5: But I will take Matt Chapman over you on Mankatta.

972
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: Moncata made my third base roster spot on my All

973
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 1: Bus team from this week's pod. What is it about

974
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 1: certain guys rank that somehow that prospect upside label no

975
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: matter how many years they disappoint you, people steep buying

976
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:38,399
Speaker 1: in and buying in and buying in. Because I feel

977
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: like Moncatt is one of those guys, and there's other

978
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: people like that we like that were high on the

979
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,720
Speaker 1: They somehow don't live up the expectations and we discard

980
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: them and they end up becoming really good players. But

981
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: some other ones they do the opposite, and we keep

982
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: giving them chance after chance. Why is that? And why

983
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: is Moncatta one of those guys.

984
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:55,879
Speaker 6: I think it's because we saw the elite season out

985
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,720
Speaker 6: of him in twenty nineteen, right, three fifteen batting average,

986
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 6: twenty five homers, tense, and everyone's still grasping at that

987
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 6: and thinks that he has an opportunity to get back

988
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,360
Speaker 6: so that he had a nine to fifteen ops that season,

989
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 6: So you're right, I mean, people like to hold onto

990
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 6: these prospects and you know still hope that, you know,

991
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 6: like in a post hype sleeper kind of way, that

992
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 6: he can bounce back and get back on track and

993
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 6: look based on the lineup around him, I mean, you

994
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 6: want to feel good about it. Right, There's so many

995
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 6: names in that lineup, Jose Bray, Eloy Jimenez that we're

996
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,319
Speaker 6: excited about, Luis Robert, and you know, there could just

997
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 6: be so many opportunities for counting stats here. But for

998
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,760
Speaker 6: whatever reason, you know, outside of that twenty nineteen season

999
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 6: when it was the bouncy ball, the juice ball, by

1000
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 6: the way, he really has not done much for a

1001
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 6: fantasy So as a result at the ADP, I'm currently fading.

1002
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 5: You on Malkatta.

1003
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks.

1004
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 1: Larry Cardozo wants to know Hater or Hendrix, Lauren. They're

1005
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: both on the board. How do you want to start?

1006
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: Which elite closer do you want on your team? Hater

1007
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:50,800
Speaker 1: or Hendrix.

1008
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 4: I've been rolling with with Hendrix. I think that this

1009
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 4: is like splitting hairs, though I think that you're perfectly

1010
00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 4: fine with with either. But I've I've been I'm going

1011
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 4: with Hendrix even though a Hater has been available. I

1012
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 4: just I just I don't know, I can't. I just

1013
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 4: I just like him a little bit more.

1014
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: One of our good friends here at the show, Biza Rizzigizza,

1015
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: who is the seventh member of the Wu Tang clan.

1016
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: Louis Robert or Tioscar Hernandez Frank Who would you rather have?

1017
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,720
Speaker 6: Well, if I'm going with Luis Robert there, I'm pretty

1018
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 6: excited about what we saw from him in the second

1019
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 6: half last season. He returned from that hip injury and

1020
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 6: he was just absolutely fantastic. Would not surprise me one

1021
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 6: bit if we're talking about Louise Robert as a top

1022
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 6: five pick in Fantasy baseball this time next year. Can

1023
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 6: he hit thirty home runs and steal twenty bases? And

1024
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 6: driving one hundred and hit two eighty plus. I think

1025
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 6: that's all within the range of outcomes for him. So very,

1026
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 6: very excited about Louis Robert this season.

1027
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: I'm a little surprised about that answer. I didn't I

1028
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: thought you were gonna go to the ti Oscar Lauren.

1029
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 1: Would you go to Luis Robert Tioscar Hernandez.

1030
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 4: I would go Taoscar Hernandez. I just you know, I

1031
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 4: love him. I think he actually signed a contract today.

1032
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: I think he did. He did the avoid arbitration. I

1033
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 1: also avoid arbitration today, sot to Chris. So that's good

1034
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: here for the rest of the live stream today. So

1035
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: that's very good. All right, let's go back to another one.

1036
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 1: Here we've done first, second, and third. Let's go a

1037
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:09,479
Speaker 1: little shortstop, because short stops so deep, so everybody keeps

1038
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: telling me Wander Franco forty eighth overall, Francisco Lindor forty ninth.

1039
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: Let's start with you here, Frank Stanfold. This is the

1040
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: eighth and ninth respective shortstops off the board on Fantasy

1041
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: Pros Consensus ADP. Who would you rather have Lindor on

1042
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:26,760
Speaker 1: the bounce back or Wander Franco on the growth spurt.

1043
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:29,240
Speaker 6: Oh man, can I give you the cop out answer

1044
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 6: and say it depends on format, because I think, can

1045
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 6: you know what.

1046
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:35,280
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a cop out answer. I always

1047
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: think that's a smart answer because I think what you're

1048
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: trying to say is they I would rather have one

1049
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: in certain spot and one in another spot because it

1050
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 1: makes more sense because of their skill set. So you

1051
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 1: don't think it's a cop out answer at all. All right,

1052
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: it's all cop out.

1053
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 6: I'm gonna take Wander Franco in head to head points

1054
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 6: leagues where on base skills and play discipline just matters

1055
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 6: so much in that format. Remember last year he had

1056
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:58,720
Speaker 6: the whatever it was, thirty thirty five on bay Stream.

1057
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 6: I'm sure where the power and the speed is necessarily

1058
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 6: going to be his first full season with Wander Franco,

1059
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 6: but I know that he's going to make a lot

1060
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 6: of contact. Even if he's not hitting home runs, those

1061
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 6: are going to be doubles. He's going to get on base,

1062
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 6: he's going to score runs, and all of those things

1063
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 6: are going to help him tremendously in a head to

1064
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 6: head points league. So I'll take him in that format

1065
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,240
Speaker 6: in any type of rodo head to head categories League.

1066
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 6: I'll take Francisco Lindor, and I'm actually pretty excited about

1067
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 6: FRANCISCOO Lindor first season in a new location, big city,

1068
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,359
Speaker 6: New York. And we've heard this time and time again.

1069
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 6: We've seen it time and time again. Look at Bryce

1070
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 6: Harper a couple of years ago when he joined the

1071
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 6: Philadelphia Phillies. His first season was not great either, So

1072
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,439
Speaker 6: I'm kind of giving Francis Scool Lindor a pass. Looked

1073
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 6: much much better in September, hit nine home runs, had

1074
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 6: an ops. I believe approaching nine hundred started hitting the

1075
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 6: ball in the air more.

1076
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 5: The barrel rate was up for Franciscool Lindor.

1077
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 6: So I think we can see a kind of like

1078
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,760
Speaker 6: a poor man's version of Jose Ramirez out of Francis

1079
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 6: Scool Inndoor where he hits two sixty twenty five to

1080
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 6: thirty home runs, ten to fifteen steals, something like that,

1081
00:46:57,800 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 6: And in that met's lineup, I think the accounting SATs

1082
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 6: will be really good.

1083
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 3: Good.

1084
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,879
Speaker 6: So roto category is Lindor and a heads head points.

1085
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 6: I'll take Wanderfronco.

1086
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 1: All right, Lauren, how about you? Is it more of a.

1087
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:10,480
Speaker 4: It's the same. Yeah, and I, you know, I agree

1088
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 4: with with Frank, and I also, you know, I also

1089
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:17,720
Speaker 4: give I like guys going coming off of bad years

1090
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 4: because you know, their their value tends to be a

1091
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:22,279
Speaker 4: little bit depressed. And you know, Frank kind of nailed

1092
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,359
Speaker 4: all these these points pretty well. But you know he's going,

1093
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 4: you know, with Lindor, he was going to it's his

1094
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 4: first year with with the Mets. I like the bounce back.

1095
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:33,359
Speaker 4: He also has the track record. And I and I,

1096
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 4: you know, if there's two guys and I don't know,

1097
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 4: you know, which I should go with, I generally picked

1098
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 4: the guy with track record, even though I think Wonder,

1099
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 4: I think you'll see kind of his peak in a

1100
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 4: couple of years, more so than this year. I I

1101
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 4: just don't know exactly what I'm going to be getting

1102
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 4: with Wonder this year. So I'm gonna go with a

1103
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 4: guy with the track record coming off the bad year.

1104
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 4: And that's that's lind Or.

1105
00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:00,360
Speaker 1: All right. Fair enough. I agree with Frank's answer also,

1106
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 1: which is format Lindor, because he's going to give you

1107
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: more overall productivity. But in a points league, I just

1108
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 1: think Wander Franco every single week is going to give

1109
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 1: you that floor that you want, because I think there's

1110
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 1: another plateau coming to that power. It could be this year,

1111
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 1: it could be two years from now, but it's coming.

1112
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 1: Believe me, it's coming. This guy is a strong kid.

1113
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 1: He's only twenty one years old. Give it some time.

1114
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: Let's have some fun here. Now we're gonna really kick

1115
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: things up a notch. As they like to say, Let's

1116
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: go to the outfield. Fifty five overall Byron Buxton. Oh,

1117
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:32,240
Speaker 1: Byron Buxton, what a tease you are every single year.

1118
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: And then fifty six George Springer, another guy, fantastic talent,

1119
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 1: has done it a little bit more than Byron Buxton,

1120
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: but a little older, at a bigger risk, and he's

1121
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: not going to steal your bases. So let's put the

1122
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: category at five y five roto. Let's say that's the

1123
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:50,879
Speaker 1: format to make it even here, So no more cop

1124
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: out answers, quote unquote Lauren Byron Buxton or George Springer,

1125
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 1: which way do you go?

1126
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to go George Springer only because it's

1127
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 4: so much pro Springer. It's just I can never buy

1128
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 4: into Byron Buxton. I just I get the upside. I

1129
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,719
Speaker 4: understand what's there, and it's very alluring, but it's just

1130
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,799
Speaker 4: he just that that injury track record. You know, he

1131
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:18,280
Speaker 4: has one season where he's played over one hundred games

1132
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 4: since twenty fifteen. It's it's just that track record there

1133
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:24,720
Speaker 4: scares me. I tend to be a risk averse drafter,

1134
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 4: so I always steer clear of Byron Buxton, and I

1135
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 4: always let someone else reap the possible benefit and the

1136
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 4: possible upside of Byron Buckson that we have yet to

1137
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:39,240
Speaker 4: fully see.

1138
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 1: Byron Buxton or George Springer, Frank Stamfel, who would rather have.

1139
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is another really close one, and I like

1140
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 6: both of these players quite a bit, but I'm gonna

1141
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:49,240
Speaker 6: go the other way. I'm gonna go with Byron Bucksy

1142
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 6: in the five y five categories league nineteen homers, nine

1143
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 6: steals last year truly broke out. I mean, he made

1144
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 6: serious adjustments. Three h six batting average and ops over

1145
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:02,439
Speaker 6: a thousand. Just absolutely the ball, Buckson, Just stay out

1146
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 6: of your own way. I saw a highlight earlier today

1147
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:07,439
Speaker 6: where he robbed the home run and he banged into

1148
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 6: the wall again, Like how many times do we need

1149
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 6: to see this happen before? He just reins it in

1150
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 6: a little bit. I get that that's the appeal to him.

1151
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 6: He's such a fantastic defender. But already in spring train,

1152
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 6: like we're getting a worry with Byron bucks And not

1153
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 6: that he left the game or anything, but ah man,

1154
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 6: it's like a blessing and a curse the athleticism that

1155
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 6: Byron Buckson has. So I understand there's a lot of

1156
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,480
Speaker 6: injury risk frankly with both of these guys, but the

1157
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 6: overall ceiling I think is higher for Byron bucks and

1158
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 6: so I'll go with him.

1159
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna take a cop out answer you're

1160
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,360
Speaker 1: ready to break the tie. If it's a league for fun,

1161
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 1: I'm taking Byron Buckson because that's fun. If it's a

1162
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 1: league where there's a big money on the line, I'm

1163
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: taking George Springer because I'm not stupid. I want the

1164
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 1: guy who's gonna be on the field. And I know

1165
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: Springer has his problems due but oh, Byron Buxton, I

1166
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:50,840
Speaker 1: hope he is. I hope this year is the Byron

1167
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: Buckson year and he reaches all his potential and then

1168
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 1: next year he's a first round pick or whatever the

1169
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:58,320
Speaker 1: heck people want to make him but if there's money involved,

1170
00:50:58,400 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: I just can't do it.

1171
00:50:59,200 --> 00:50:59,319
Speaker 4: All.

1172
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: Right, let's go to let's go picture one here, Let's

1173
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:06,400
Speaker 1: have some fun here. Freddy Peralta fifty two overall or

1174
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: Kevin Gossman at fifty four. Frank Stanfill. These guys are

1175
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 1: neck and neck, both guys coming off very good years.

1176
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 1: Both guys. A little bit of question because you've got

1177
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 1: Gospin fading a little bit at the end, new environment

1178
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: to American League East, Freddy Peralta to pushing himself a

1179
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,840
Speaker 1: little bit higher the innings limit coming into twenty twenty two.

1180
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:26,799
Speaker 1: So who would you rather have on your team for

1181
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: this season? Paralta or Gospel in your rotation?

1182
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:33,879
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I'll go is absolutely fantastic. So Freddy, Look,

1183
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 6: I'm not downplaying Kevin Gosman. I know a lot of

1184
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 6: people are worried about the part ship going from San

1185
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:41,479
Speaker 6: Francisco to Toronto. San Francisco has done a great job

1186
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:44,320
Speaker 6: with pitchers and really everyone recently Brandon Bell Brand Crawford.

1187
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 6: They're getting the best out of all their players. But

1188
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 6: he's not just gonna forget the things that he learned.

1189
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 6: So I think that Gotsman is still going to be

1190
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,440
Speaker 6: very good. But I think that the overall upside the

1191
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:55,359
Speaker 6: strikeout ability for Freddy Freeman. You worried a little bit

1192
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 6: about the innings. How much does he provide this year?

1193
00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:00,839
Speaker 6: Maybe one sixty one seventy something like that, But if

1194
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 6: he goes that far, I think we could be looking

1195
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 6: at two hundred and fifty strikeouts.

1196
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:05,920
Speaker 5: And it's a great division to play in too.

1197
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 6: Right, gets to face the Pirates to Cubs, So I'll

1198
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:11,279
Speaker 6: use that as like a tiebreaker here, Freddie Perulta for me.

1199
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: All right, Lauren, Freddy Peralta.

1200
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 4: I'm with Freddy Peralta. I Freddy Peralta as well. And

1201
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 4: it's it's a combo of I'm a little bit hesitant

1202
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 4: of Gusman leaving San Francisco, even though he has made

1203
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 4: improvements as a pitcher since he left Baltimore. But yeah,

1204
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 4: going back, I do kind of buy into that new

1205
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 4: team going to the al least. I think it's a

1206
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:40,319
Speaker 4: tough division and so give give me, you know, give

1207
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 4: me Freddy Parolta, which I also really like the pitching

1208
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 4: development kind of crew that they've got over there with

1209
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,720
Speaker 4: the Brewers. So I am all for Freddy Parolta.

1210
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: Great stuff. There from Lauren hour Back and Frank Stanmfle.

1211
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:57,240
Speaker 1: You can follow them on the Twitter machine at Frank Underscore,

1212
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 1: Stamfle An l K hour Back, respectively. Now it's Switch

1213
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: Gears one more time to talk to Eric Cross, the

1214
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 1: prospect Guru from the Fantasy Baseball Black Book twenty twenty

1215
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: two and Fan Tracks, to talk about the prospects that

1216
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: are gonna make impacts in your fantasy seasons. Well, you

1217
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:13,160
Speaker 1: know what you do. At the end of every game,

1218
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:15,319
Speaker 1: you bring in the closer. So I'm going to the

1219
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 1: pen and I'm bringing in our friend, your friend, my friend,

1220
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:21,959
Speaker 1: Eric Cross from Fan Tracks and the Fantasy Baseball Black

1221
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 1: Book twenty twenty two on Amazon. He is the prospect Guru.

1222
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about some of the young players

1223
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:30,800
Speaker 1: here who are going to make an impact in twenty

1224
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 1: twenty two, the top ten prospects where they land, and

1225
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 1: also just get a sense of how guys are starting

1226
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:40,520
Speaker 1: to perform in spring training already. Eric Cross, thanks for

1227
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 1: joining us tonight on the show. I know you're excited

1228
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: that baseball is back, but I love spring training because

1229
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:48,800
Speaker 1: you get to see some of these prospects actually playing

1230
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 1: against some major league talent. This is one of my

1231
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:51,840
Speaker 1: favorite things to see in spring.

1232
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,399
Speaker 3: It absolutely is. I just wish I had a chance

1233
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:56,840
Speaker 3: to get down to Florida a few weeks ago to

1234
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 3: see some of these guys, but you know that trip

1235
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 3: got canceled the you know, the lockout at the time.

1236
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:04,839
Speaker 3: But yes, so glad to have baseball back. A lot

1237
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:07,080
Speaker 3: of fun young players in this game. It's gonna be

1238
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:07,919
Speaker 3: a lot of fun this year.

1239
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: Yes, our producer Chris and I were in Arizona thinking

1240
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,360
Speaker 1: we were gonna see baseball, but that did not happen.

1241
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 1: So instead Chris and I just went out and won

1242
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 1: a flag football championship because you gotta pass the time somehow,

1243
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 1: that's what you gotta do. Let's talk about some of

1244
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,920
Speaker 1: the top ten prospects. Number one on the list on

1245
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 1: pretty much everybody's list is Bobby Witt Junior. What are

1246
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 1: the chances here, Eric Cross, that we're gonna see Bobby

1247
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 1: wit break camp here as a starter for the Kansas

1248
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:35,840
Speaker 1: City Royals here in April?

1249
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 3: Pretty good? And did you see that home run he

1250
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 3: hit earlier today?

1251
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 1: Joe, I did you know you.

1252
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 3: Do you hear the sound off the bat? It was?

1253
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:55,240
Speaker 3: It was glorious, And yeah, definitely. I think fifty plus

1254
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 3: percent chance that they seem like they're going to have

1255
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 3: him probably open as a third baseman. Look like the

1256
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:01,840
Speaker 3: going with MONDESSI again a short we'll see along that

1257
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 3: last so long he can stay healthy, but especially if

1258
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 3: Bobby Wit continues to hit well. Obviously it's still very early.

1259
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 3: It's on in a few spring training games, but looks good.

1260
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:12,439
Speaker 3: Obviously coming off that huge thirty three home or twenty

1261
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 3: nine steel season. He's at the highest upside of any

1262
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 3: prospect in the game right now, even more so than

1263
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 3: Julio Rodriguez. Like, this is the potential guy that you know,

1264
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 3: you fast forward a few years, we can talk about

1265
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:26,759
Speaker 3: him as a first round fantasy player. So very exciting,

1266
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 3: and the ADP hasn't two bad back in top one hundred.

1267
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 3: I don't have really any shares of him, so I

1268
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 3: think he goes goes higher than I'm willing to take him.

1269
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,359
Speaker 3: But there's a legit chance at twenty twenty. This year,

1270
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 3: it's prospects of who knows, but if you're got to

1271
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 3: go all in a one prospect, this might be the

1272
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:42,439
Speaker 3: guy this year.

1273
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the guy for me, and I think in

1274
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 1: redrafts and dynasty startups. You should be aggressive on Bobby

1275
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: with Junior. I keep comping him to David Wright. I

1276
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 1: like the inside out swinging the guy. He's got appo power.

1277
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 1: People forget that David Wright used to steal bases once

1278
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: upon a time. He's a thirty thirty kind of guy, you.

1279
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 3: Know, right right, so good for those few years when

1280
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:02,400
Speaker 3: he was healthy.

1281
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:06,279
Speaker 1: Before the back injuries happened. Eric David Wright was a

1282
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:09,840
Speaker 1: thirty thirty guy, and people completely forget that part of

1283
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 1: his career. But I don't, and I remember it, and

1284
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:14,840
Speaker 1: I think Bobby Witch just has that similar kind of

1285
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,560
Speaker 1: profile and also defensively a good defensive player. He could

1286
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 1: play shorts up if you needed him too, but he

1287
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 1: ended up at third base. I feel like Bobby WIT's

1288
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:22,840
Speaker 1: gonna end up at third base if they have their druthers.

1289
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 1: We'll see if that works out or not. Now, another

1290
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 1: guy who's high up on the list here, he is

1291
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,759
Speaker 1: number two on the MLB Prospect list is Julio Rodriguez

1292
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 1: of the Mariners. Now I want to talk about him,

1293
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 1: and I want to talk about Kellennick because Kellenick came

1294
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 1: up last year and we all know it did not

1295
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: work out Julio Rodriguez. Those have been the two guys

1296
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:43,319
Speaker 1: in the system that we've been waiting for. Are we

1297
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: gonna see Julio get a shot this year in what

1298
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: could be a little bit more of a crowded outfield

1299
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:51,680
Speaker 1: situation now or do you think it might not be?

1300
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:54,360
Speaker 1: I should say maybe it's too late at the end

1301
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 1: to make a big impact on our twenty twenty two season.

1302
00:56:57,160 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 3: Now, I definitely do think he makes a pretty good

1303
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,440
Speaker 3: impact this year. I've been kind of June has been

1304
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 3: in my mind for when he debuts, and that might

1305
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:08,200
Speaker 3: be the tail end of the spectrum from all the

1306
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 3: everything I've heard. Seattle kind of wants him up early. Now.

1307
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 3: He don'tly made the Double A endo last year. He

1308
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 3: has no Triple A experience, and I wonder if kelnick

1309
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 3: struggles make them kind of, you know, play the played

1310
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 3: easy with with Jay Rod and make all right, let's

1311
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 3: not rush jay Rod, even though he's a much better

1312
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 3: pure hitter than kell Nick. He always give him some

1313
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:28,600
Speaker 3: Triple A time and not rush him when it'll come

1314
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 3: up when he's when he's ready to come up. But

1315
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 3: that could be very soon. Like he's shown that he

1316
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 3: is dominated everywhere. The power is elite, the hit tool

1317
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:38,240
Speaker 3: is elite. He's just steal a few bags too. It's

1318
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:40,520
Speaker 3: a very underrated part of his game. But like you said,

1319
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 3: Seattle's outfield is very crowded, especially after adding Jesse Winker

1320
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 3: from Cincinnati a handful of days ago. They also have

1321
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:49,919
Speaker 3: us have kell Nick out there, Mitch Hanniger looks pretty good.

1322
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 3: They'll get Kyle Lewis back at some point, So yeah,

1323
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:54,960
Speaker 3: there's not an open spot. But Rodriguez is a guy

1324
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 3: that when they deem him ready and want to bring

1325
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:00,960
Speaker 3: him up, he'll take someone's spot. You know, it's hopefully

1326
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:02,440
Speaker 3: not Kellen Nick, because we all know that I'm a

1327
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 3: huge Kelen.

1328
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 1: Well, that was my next question. Do you think do

1329
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:07,480
Speaker 1: you think it's gonna be a Kellenick's expense that we

1330
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 1: get juli Arriguez, Because if so, that's something I think

1331
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 1: we all have to take into account when we're approaching

1332
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:17,760
Speaker 1: that situation in Seattle, that if Kellennick fails again, that

1333
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 1: juliard Riga is going to be the guy. So maybe

1334
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:21,960
Speaker 1: you don't draft Kellen Nick. Maybe you take Julian and

1335
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:24,320
Speaker 1: get super late and you stash him instead.

1336
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:28,720
Speaker 3: Dude, that's absolutely possible, especially if if Kellennick's struggling, like

1337
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 3: you know, if it comes to the end of May,

1338
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 3: Jay Rod's tearing it up in Triple A, Kellenicks hitting

1339
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:35,959
Speaker 3: let's say two twenty or something like that, I could

1340
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,320
Speaker 3: definitely see them kind of making that swap and putting

1341
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 3: the Kelnick down Triple A. I don't think that's gonna happen. Personally,

1342
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:44,480
Speaker 3: I don't necessarily have an answer as to who is

1343
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 3: the odd man out. It will probably be who's you know,

1344
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 3: if Hanniger gets hurt, maybe there's an injury, or which

1345
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 3: one of them is not playing well. But I think

1346
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 3: if I do think Kelnick's going to turn it around

1347
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 3: this year. He showed that end of last year, you

1348
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 3: know that September was really good from him, made some adjustments,

1349
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 3: so I don't think he's going to struggle enough to

1350
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,960
Speaker 3: lose a spot. But someone's going to have to when

1351
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 3: when Rodriguez is ready and you know too working themselves out,

1352
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 3: who knows, but yeah, Jay Rudd will take someone's spot

1353
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 3: when he's ready. He's that good.

1354
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:14,720
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the Detroit Tigers. They've

1355
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 1: got two guys in the top five. Spencer Torko said,

1356
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 1: Riley Green. I know you're a huge fan of Riley Green.

1357
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:21,800
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of buzz around Tigers camp though

1358
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:24,920
Speaker 1: that it's possible, Spencer Torko said, might break camp and

1359
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 1: might be a starter at third base for this team. Uh.

1360
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 1: They went out and they spent on Hobby bayas they

1361
00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 1: spent on Edward Rodriguez. They made some moves. They're trying

1362
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 1: to compete again. The Tigers are, so is Torkosen and

1363
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 1: Otherwase guys that right now in twenty twenty two, polished

1364
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 1: hitter got some pop in the bat. Can he contribute

1365
00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 1: right away when he gets the call?

1366
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 3: I think he definitely could. You know, one thing that

1367
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 3: I was really impressed by when I saw him out

1368
00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 3: in Arizona last fall was he was using the entire field.

1369
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:55,439
Speaker 3: I didn't I think he had maybe one extra base

1370
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 3: hit in seven games, but he was using the entire

1371
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 3: field going the other way and that was really encouraging

1372
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 3: to see. And he kept his k right those in

1373
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 3: the twenty one twenty two percent range overall last year,

1374
01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:09,680
Speaker 3: Greens was a bit higher. But Torquolsen has that chance

1375
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 3: to be you know, Pete Alonso maybe a little more average,

1376
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 3: little slightly less power. I think he quite has Alonzo power,

1377
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,439
Speaker 3: but thirty five home er, middle of the older bat.

1378
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:22,640
Speaker 3: And you know, both the ADPs on him and Riley

1379
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 3: Green are pretty decent, like torques around like two fifty

1380
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 3: two sixty Green about thirty to forty picks litter around

1381
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 3: two ninety three hundred. So for what each of these

1382
01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:32,920
Speaker 3: guys can bring to the table, and in fact that

1383
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 3: they're going to be up early. If it's not opening day,

1384
01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 3: it's going to be very early, you know, by middle

1385
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:39,959
Speaker 3: of May, the absolute is for both, I think they're

1386
01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 3: both pretty good, you know, especially with how.

1387
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:43,920
Speaker 1: So you think Riley Green makes it this year too?

1388
01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:44,280
Speaker 4: Oh?

1389
01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I'd say both these guys are up by the

1390
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:48,920
Speaker 3: by Memorial Day of the absolute latest, I think they

1391
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 3: both be pretty good impact fantasy assets this year for sure.

1392
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: Do you have a comp for Riley Green like for

1393
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 1: people in Dynasty? Really maybe haven't seen him play all

1394
01:00:57,520 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 1: that much and you don't really have a beat on

1395
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:01,760
Speaker 1: him yet, How would did you compare him or statistically

1396
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,840
Speaker 1: give a comparison to at the very least.

1397
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:10,120
Speaker 3: I stink at comps, but something like an early career

1398
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 3: Michael Brantley with more category juice is one I've kind

1399
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,240
Speaker 3: of thought of where people don't remember how good Michael

1400
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:17,000
Speaker 3: Branley will.

1401
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 1: Michael Branley was very good in five back in the day.

1402
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, he always got underrated and obviously he's in

1403
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:26,400
Speaker 3: the back half of his career now, but yeah, early

1404
01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:29,040
Speaker 3: career Michael Brandley with yeah, with a bit more category juice.

1405
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 3: I think that could be what Roley Green.

1406
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:33,439
Speaker 1: Is all right. Grayson Rodriguez one of the few bright

1407
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:36,440
Speaker 1: spots in the Oriole system right now that we're looking

1408
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:40,080
Speaker 1: at a right handed pitcher there. I know it's positive

1409
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 1: long term theoretically that they've made the adjustments to the

1410
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:45,400
Speaker 1: ball park, that's for sure. But Grayson Rodriguez obviously, there's

1411
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:48,680
Speaker 1: probably not gonna be much push for Baltimore to be

1412
01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:51,880
Speaker 1: pushing any of their prospects right away. What's the long

1413
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:53,720
Speaker 1: term outlook for a guy like this? Is he your

1414
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 1: number one picture on the board, the way he is

1415
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:56,440
Speaker 1: an MLB's list.

1416
01:01:56,960 --> 01:01:59,240
Speaker 3: He is, It's basically a toss up with him and

1417
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:02,400
Speaker 3: Shane Boz. Obviously that unfortunate little injury there with Boz

1418
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:04,480
Speaker 3: with the with the elbow, but it's.

1419
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 1: Basically with Boz this was just removing fragments, right. This

1420
01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:09,600
Speaker 1: was more of a clean up kind of situation.

1421
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:11,240
Speaker 3: Right, So hopefully that's not a long term issue. Doesn't

1422
01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 3: sound like it should be. But yeah, both him and

1423
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 3: Shane Boas are I think are gonna be absolute studs.

1424
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 3: I had a chance to see Rodriguez live last year

1425
01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:22,480
Speaker 3: in August down in Pennsylvania, and he came as advertised,

1426
01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:25,800
Speaker 3: four pitches above average, the plus change up is really

1427
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 3: good fastball it's been too upper nineties. Command and control

1428
01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:31,320
Speaker 3: very polished as well. All the metrics on him and

1429
01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 3: are just off the charts. So and he has that

1430
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 3: like durable front line frame too, a guy that could

1431
01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:39,080
Speaker 3: go deep in the starts deep, you know, pitch one

1432
01:02:39,120 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty plus innings year after year. So he

1433
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 3: checks off all the boxes you look for in a

1434
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:47,600
Speaker 3: front line guy that can lead a pitching staff. And

1435
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:51,080
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna be a very good arm right away.

1436
01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:53,320
Speaker 3: When that is, I don't know. I've kind of been

1437
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:55,120
Speaker 3: feeling mid season with him. He got up to Double

1438
01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 3: A last year. He probably I could see them starting

1439
01:02:58,200 --> 01:02:59,960
Speaker 3: him at Triple A this year, but I don't think

1440
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,000
Speaker 3: they're going to rush him. They have no reason to. Obviously,

1441
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:05,480
Speaker 3: Baltimore is not going anywhere anytime soon, so maybe you

1442
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:09,080
Speaker 3: see a July August debut enough to make an impact

1443
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 3: later in the season. But you've seen with with pitching prospects,

1444
01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:13,160
Speaker 3: they can take a little bit longer to kind of

1445
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:15,920
Speaker 3: establish themselves and get that footing at the major league level.

1446
01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 3: So he's one that you know if you have super

1447
01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:20,880
Speaker 3: deep benches actually stashing him or try to jump the

1448
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:23,440
Speaker 3: gun and get him a week or two before his

1449
01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 3: call up, because you have to spend a lot in

1450
01:03:25,040 --> 01:03:27,520
Speaker 3: fab to get this guy with with the pedigree and

1451
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:29,000
Speaker 3: the buzz around him.

1452
01:03:29,240 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 1: All right, guys got a lot of buzz and pedigrees.

1453
01:03:31,160 --> 01:03:33,400
Speaker 1: Number nine on the list, it's cj Abrams, shortstop of

1454
01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:37,160
Speaker 1: the padres. Now with the Tatis injury, there's certainly a

1455
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:40,480
Speaker 1: door open for cj Abrams to potentially play. And that's

1456
01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 1: been the whole question is where C. J Abrams is

1457
01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:44,280
Speaker 1: gonna play? Is they have to change positions? What's going

1458
01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 1: to happen now? I like C. J Abrams a lot

1459
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:49,080
Speaker 1: as a player. I've watched him play enough, been watching

1460
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:51,360
Speaker 1: him in the spring. He looks really good to me.

1461
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 1: He looks like he could come and do it. And

1462
01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 1: I feel like the Padres are a team that's in

1463
01:03:56,640 --> 01:03:59,040
Speaker 1: all the way, like they are completely in they're going

1464
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:01,120
Speaker 1: to be super aggressive. It would not shock me if

1465
01:04:01,160 --> 01:04:03,120
Speaker 1: they just said, you know what, the best chance we

1466
01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:04,760
Speaker 1: have to win baseball games out of the gate with

1467
01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:07,520
Speaker 1: Tatis on the shelf is putting C James a check

1468
01:04:07,560 --> 01:04:10,240
Speaker 1: at tortstop. Excuse me, Do you think that that's something

1469
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:12,560
Speaker 1: they're going to strongly consider because it feels like the

1470
01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:15,400
Speaker 1: Padres have been very aggressive these last two years and

1471
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:17,600
Speaker 1: that would certainly kind of stick with a theme.

1472
01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:20,600
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, they definitely have. Remember it was at twenty

1473
01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 3: nineteen when they stuck Tatis and it was Chris Paddock.

1474
01:04:24,200 --> 01:04:26,479
Speaker 3: They both brought them up on the opening they lost her. Yeah,

1475
01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:28,880
Speaker 3: so yeah, they have. They have shown that desire to

1476
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:31,000
Speaker 3: be aggressive in the past. They've always been an aggressive team.

1477
01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 3: So I won one hundred percent rule it out, but

1478
01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:36,520
Speaker 3: I think there'd be a much better chance if Abrams

1479
01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:38,600
Speaker 3: didn't miss so much time last year after his injury.

1480
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:40,720
Speaker 3: I think you already played right around a quarter of

1481
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:42,960
Speaker 3: the season last year. Season kind of ended. I think

1482
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:44,960
Speaker 3: it was in mid May or late May or so

1483
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:48,800
Speaker 3: long term Abrams is going to be a stud like

1484
01:04:49,440 --> 01:04:51,560
Speaker 3: especially if the power develops. If the hit tool was there,

1485
01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:53,560
Speaker 3: he's a hit two eighty plus top of the older guy.

1486
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:56,240
Speaker 3: Good on bass, keeps the case down, speed is elite

1487
01:04:56,320 --> 01:05:00,680
Speaker 3: like this could be thirty five forty steels and if

1488
01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:02,760
Speaker 3: that power comes along like I think it's going to,

1489
01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 3: and a lot of people expect it to. Even if

1490
01:05:05,320 --> 01:05:07,440
Speaker 3: he gets like fifteen to eighteen Homer bat, you know,

1491
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:11,280
Speaker 3: flirting with twenty, that's gonna be a dynamic like early

1492
01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 3: round fantasy player. I don't know where he ends up.

1493
01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:16,400
Speaker 3: I don't know if they keep Tatisa short long term,

1494
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:19,280
Speaker 3: if they move Abram's the second outfield, we'll see, but

1495
01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:22,400
Speaker 3: he's gonna be a damn good fantasy asset winever he's up,

1496
01:05:22,680 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 3: I can see later this year. I think they have

1497
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:28,120
Speaker 3: other options they could plug in, like Hasian Kim for example,

1498
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:30,960
Speaker 3: that can get them by until Tatisa's back. So that's

1499
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:33,800
Speaker 3: why I kind of still lean towards him not debuting

1500
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:36,280
Speaker 3: early this year, maybe for the second half run. If

1501
01:05:36,280 --> 01:05:39,200
Speaker 3: they're post he's a contention, but he's the guy more

1502
01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:42,480
Speaker 3: so twenty twenty three impact him, thinking though, see.

1503
01:05:42,240 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 1: I've seen enough Kim, I'm not impressed. I just I

1504
01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 1: just not either. But I just don't. I think that

1505
01:05:47,960 --> 01:05:50,200
Speaker 1: experiment is done. And I think San Diego feels a

1506
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:53,439
Speaker 1: little bit of panic because Frey Freeman's now a Los

1507
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:56,840
Speaker 1: Angeles Dodger and Clayton Kershaw came back, and I just

1508
01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:59,160
Speaker 1: don't think they want to fall far behind the Dodgers.

1509
01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be a great if. I if

1510
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:03,040
Speaker 1: I had to put a comp statistically, you know that

1511
01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:05,040
Speaker 1: Wit and Meryfield kind of line that he throws up

1512
01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 1: there some years. To me, that's what Abrams can be like.

1513
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:09,720
Speaker 1: He makes that kind of contact. I just think this

1514
01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:13,560
Speaker 1: kid's tremendous talent. What about Anthony Volpy, another shortstop who's

1515
01:06:13,560 --> 01:06:15,880
Speaker 1: in the top ten list of the Yankees. Typically, you know,

1516
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:18,959
Speaker 1: you get these Yankee prospects. They could be grossly overvalued

1517
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:22,280
Speaker 1: sometimes because they're Yankee prospects. Is Volpi one of those guys?

1518
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:23,480
Speaker 1: Or is he the real deal? For you?

1519
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:25,760
Speaker 3: He is the real deal? And I've said it before,

1520
01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:28,520
Speaker 3: I hate how much I love Anthony Boldpi because I'm

1521
01:06:28,520 --> 01:06:32,080
Speaker 3: a Red Sox fan through and through hate the Yankees,

1522
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:35,600
Speaker 3: But I love Anthony Voltpy. He's the real deal. Like

1523
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:38,200
Speaker 3: if you're in a dynasty league, by high on him,

1524
01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:40,320
Speaker 3: by whatever the price tag is, this is probably so

1525
01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:43,840
Speaker 3: gonna go up. Obviously, he was maybe the biggest breakout

1526
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:46,080
Speaker 3: this past year. Obviously, now he's a top ten prospect

1527
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:50,160
Speaker 3: basically everywhere somewhere's top five. He can hit for average,

1528
01:06:50,200 --> 01:06:52,560
Speaker 3: he can hit for power, he has the speed element.

1529
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:55,439
Speaker 3: You know, this could be you know, a Mookie bet.

1530
01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:59,120
Speaker 3: I've heard some Mookie Betts comps thrown on Anthony Volpey.

1531
01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:01,640
Speaker 3: He's a bit smaller of a guy. He's not this big,

1532
01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:04,520
Speaker 3: imposing short stop like we've come to know over the

1533
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:06,600
Speaker 3: last handful of years of all these guys have come up.

1534
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:10,920
Speaker 3: But he he can do everything and do it incredibly well.

1535
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:14,240
Speaker 3: They also have Oswald Perrazza there who's a bit closer

1536
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:18,120
Speaker 3: to being major league ready. But Volpi's a guy that

1537
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:21,920
Speaker 3: he has flown through the system already. He has hit everywhere,

1538
01:07:21,960 --> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 3: He's excelled everywhere where. This could be a second half

1539
01:07:24,880 --> 01:07:28,080
Speaker 3: of the year and if they're if they trade away Torres,

1540
01:07:28,160 --> 01:07:30,520
Speaker 3: or if he's hurt or not performing now, they could

1541
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:33,080
Speaker 3: bring up Volpi and he could be an impact bat

1542
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:35,200
Speaker 3: from day one. He's kind of I think a similar

1543
01:07:35,200 --> 01:07:38,640
Speaker 3: timeline in Eta as Abrams. I'm thinking it's probably more

1544
01:07:38,680 --> 01:07:42,200
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three. But he is one hundred and ten

1545
01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:45,720
Speaker 3: percent legit by high. Get all the Volpi showed you can,

1546
01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:48,160
Speaker 3: because I think this guy's gonna be terrorizing my Red

1547
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:50,800
Speaker 3: Sox for better part of the next decade.

1548
01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:53,720
Speaker 1: Well, a lot of people forget the Mookie Bets started

1549
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:54,640
Speaker 1: out as a second baseman.

1550
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:55,600
Speaker 3: I remember get.

1551
01:07:55,520 --> 01:07:58,920
Speaker 1: Passing on him in a Dynasty league, going in a

1552
01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:01,200
Speaker 1: rookie draft saying, man like this, Mookie Bets gets so much,

1553
01:08:01,240 --> 01:08:03,240
Speaker 1: but he's a second basement and PEDROI is there? Or

1554
01:08:03,240 --> 01:08:07,120
Speaker 1: when's that guy ever gonna leave? Well, always always take

1555
01:08:07,160 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 1: the talent, doesn't matter what position they play. Take the

1556
01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 1: talent every single time. There's a lot of catchers getting

1557
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:16,679
Speaker 1: a lot of buzz. Francisco Alvarez of the Mets, Adlie

1558
01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:19,679
Speaker 1: Rutchman of the Orioles, Gabriel Moreno of the Blue Jays,

1559
01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:23,360
Speaker 1: Joey Bart also young catcher in San Francisco. I know

1560
01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:26,640
Speaker 1: it's very difficult with catchers especially, and kyber Ruiz you

1561
01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:28,680
Speaker 1: gave you throw into that mix to a lot of

1562
01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:31,760
Speaker 1: young catchers. How do you how do you react? To

1563
01:08:31,800 --> 01:08:35,559
Speaker 1: them in dynasty leagues because it's very difficult. Does the young

1564
01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:37,160
Speaker 1: catcher you gotta come up and kind of take over

1565
01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:39,479
Speaker 1: the staff and worry about all that, and sometimes offense

1566
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:41,479
Speaker 1: gets put on the shelf a little bit. They don't

1567
01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:43,400
Speaker 1: worry about it as much. Is there one of these

1568
01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:46,400
Speaker 1: catchers that stands out head and shoulders above the rest

1569
01:08:46,439 --> 01:08:46,640
Speaker 1: to you?

1570
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:49,920
Speaker 3: There is Adlee Richmondie. I think he's gonna be an

1571
01:08:50,040 --> 01:08:54,280
Speaker 3: MVP caliber player, Like he is just as good as

1572
01:08:54,360 --> 01:08:57,599
Speaker 3: Buster Posey was, as good as Joe Malik. He's at

1573
01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:00,000
Speaker 3: that type of upside. And a lot of these catchers

1574
01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:03,479
Speaker 3: are super exciting. I've wrote in a catcher article, not

1575
01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:05,639
Speaker 3: you long Goo, but how this is probably the most

1576
01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:09,920
Speaker 3: exciting like crop of catching process we've seen maybe ever.

1577
01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 3: Like there's so many good catch you named a lot

1578
01:09:12,280 --> 01:09:15,360
Speaker 3: of them. There's a lot more Henry Davis, Harry Ford,

1579
01:09:15,720 --> 01:09:17,920
Speaker 3: Soda Sam. He probably moves off the position, but there's

1580
01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:21,840
Speaker 3: just endless amounts of catching talent there Moreno's a guy

1581
01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:24,559
Speaker 3: saw in double a earlier on in twenty twenty one.

1582
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:28,679
Speaker 3: That dude is an absolute hitting machine. And we'll see

1583
01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:30,680
Speaker 3: what they do in Torontos. They already have Jansen and

1584
01:09:30,760 --> 01:09:33,840
Speaker 3: Kirk there. You gotta think somebody gets traded. You can't

1585
01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:35,200
Speaker 3: have three catchers. I don't know what's in the water

1586
01:09:35,320 --> 01:09:39,080
Speaker 3: up there with catchers in Toronto, but he's a very

1587
01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:41,439
Speaker 3: good offensive player. He could be like a top ten

1588
01:09:41,560 --> 01:09:44,800
Speaker 3: fancy catcher. Same thing with Alvarez. He's a bit more

1589
01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:47,040
Speaker 3: power oriented. He could be a twenty five to thirty

1590
01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:50,559
Speaker 3: homere bat. So yeah, we've kind of shied away from

1591
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:52,680
Speaker 3: catchers in the past that we've all done it. You know,

1592
01:09:52,760 --> 01:09:55,479
Speaker 3: catchers are you know, they are what they are. But

1593
01:09:56,000 --> 01:10:00,639
Speaker 3: we could be entering a new era for f catchers

1594
01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:04,639
Speaker 3: where the talent is so extensive in the minor leagues

1595
01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:06,880
Speaker 3: right now and a lot of them being debuting this

1596
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:09,800
Speaker 3: year that I think I'm okay buying. And I've bought

1597
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 3: into all of these guys in one way or another

1598
01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:15,080
Speaker 3: in Dynasty Keep it Ruiz, even who saw the power

1599
01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:17,559
Speaker 3: tick up this past year. He could be a top five,

1600
01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:21,040
Speaker 3: you know catcher long term. So yeah, definitely by by

1601
01:10:21,080 --> 01:10:23,040
Speaker 3: the hype because all these guys are definitely legit from

1602
01:10:23,080 --> 01:10:23,559
Speaker 3: what I've seen.

1603
01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:26,920
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some young players having some really good springs.

1604
01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:28,640
Speaker 1: Hunter Green looked really good on the mound. You know,

1605
01:10:28,720 --> 01:10:31,120
Speaker 1: that's my dude. You know, I love me some Hunter Green,

1606
01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:33,240
Speaker 1: and the guy throws absolute smoke up there. And with

1607
01:10:33,280 --> 01:10:35,479
Speaker 1: the way the Cincinnati Reds are turning this roster over

1608
01:10:35,520 --> 01:10:38,800
Speaker 1: and now Luis Castillo is hurt, I think there's a

1609
01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:42,200
Speaker 1: small chance he might be with the rotation to start.

1610
01:10:42,320 --> 01:10:44,639
Speaker 1: What do you think about Green's chances, if not at

1611
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:47,799
Speaker 1: the start, at least making let's say, maybe twenty starts

1612
01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:49,160
Speaker 1: at the big league level this year.

1613
01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:52,920
Speaker 3: I was already even before the Castillo injury, and then

1614
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 3: they dealt the way Sony Gray, I was kind of

1615
01:10:55,400 --> 01:10:58,120
Speaker 3: had him pig for like twelve to fifteen. So with

1616
01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:01,080
Speaker 3: that trade plus Castillo is in, ye, I think that

1617
01:11:01,240 --> 01:11:03,760
Speaker 3: twenty is definitely within you know, the round possibility. And

1618
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:06,320
Speaker 3: Lodolo should get some starts as well. I think Green's

1619
01:11:06,360 --> 01:11:10,639
Speaker 3: gonna get more this year. But yeah, Green is absolutely electrical.

1620
01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:13,640
Speaker 3: You mentioned triple digits on the fastball. Sliders come a

1621
01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:15,920
Speaker 3: long way as well, and this could be a potential

1622
01:11:15,960 --> 01:11:18,439
Speaker 3: front line guy there. And I'm kind of glad that

1623
01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:20,439
Speaker 3: they kept at least a couple of their you know,

1624
01:11:20,479 --> 01:11:23,400
Speaker 3: their major league guys at Castillo and Tyler Molly because

1625
01:11:23,439 --> 01:11:26,280
Speaker 3: have those guys anchoring the rotation while all these young

1626
01:11:26,320 --> 01:11:29,080
Speaker 3: guys come up, the two we've mis mentioned, plus Brandon

1627
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:30,760
Speaker 3: Williamson and a few others. They have a lot of good,

1628
01:11:31,040 --> 01:11:34,439
Speaker 3: you know, prospect talent on the mounds in Cincinnati right now.

1629
01:11:34,520 --> 01:11:37,240
Speaker 3: So you know, I'm not, you know, in love of

1630
01:11:37,280 --> 01:11:40,080
Speaker 3: that ballpark, obviously from a fancy protective for Green, but

1631
01:11:40,439 --> 01:11:43,040
Speaker 3: this is a guy that could rack up the strikeouts. Maybe,

1632
01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:44,479
Speaker 3: you know, maybe he's more of like a three five

1633
01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:47,679
Speaker 3: e RA guy because of that ballpark, but he could

1634
01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:48,719
Speaker 3: be like a Jose Berrie.

1635
01:11:48,760 --> 01:11:52,599
Speaker 1: He gives me three five himself all day long, exactly.

1636
01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:55,040
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe there maybe it's a three five era, but

1637
01:11:55,080 --> 01:11:57,240
Speaker 3: he's gonna have a ton of strikeouts like a Jose Burrios.

1638
01:11:57,280 --> 01:11:58,800
Speaker 3: So I think he could be, you know, that guy

1639
01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:01,360
Speaker 3: that we're looking at as a top twenty five, you know,

1640
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:03,519
Speaker 3: starting pitching for Fantasy for a long time. Yeah. I

1641
01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:05,840
Speaker 3: love Green and Lodoloto. He's very underrated as well.

1642
01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:08,640
Speaker 1: I agree, I but I agree, and I still have

1643
01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:13,200
Speaker 1: a tick above Loadolo sometimes, yeah, just a little bit longer.

1644
01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:16,400
Speaker 1: I think in the train for Lodolo, Annio Cruz off

1645
01:12:16,439 --> 01:12:18,000
Speaker 1: to a very hot start and I know this is

1646
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:20,679
Speaker 1: always a very tempting thing, you know, spring home runs,

1647
01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:24,240
Speaker 1: everyone gets excited. Spring ballparks are tiny, wind blows out

1648
01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:26,360
Speaker 1: some days, but still Anio Cruz is a big boy

1649
01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:29,439
Speaker 1: with a big bat. What are your thoughts on Annio

1650
01:12:29,479 --> 01:12:31,639
Speaker 1: Cruz and his value this year, in twenty twenty two

1651
01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:32,559
Speaker 1: and maybe even beyond.

1652
01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:36,320
Speaker 3: I love Oneo Cruz. He is. It's hard not to

1653
01:12:36,360 --> 01:12:40,759
Speaker 3: love Onneo Cruz. He's six seven with elite raw powder.

1654
01:12:41,080 --> 01:12:42,959
Speaker 3: I think he might actually be taller than that. It's

1655
01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:45,040
Speaker 3: funny every year I wrote him up, you know, every

1656
01:12:45,040 --> 01:12:47,439
Speaker 3: off season, it was like he grew another shooting six'

1657
01:12:47,560 --> 01:12:48,519
Speaker 3: three sixty five sixty.

1658
01:12:48,560 --> 01:12:50,559
Speaker 1: Seven but, well you don't see a lot of big

1659
01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:52,840
Speaker 1: SHORT i, mean A rod was a big. Shortstop Cal

1660
01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:55,360
Speaker 1: ripken was a tall, shortstop much taller than people. Realize

1661
01:12:55,360 --> 01:12:58,160
Speaker 1: Cal ripken was much, bigger especially for the. Time but

1662
01:12:58,200 --> 01:12:59,840
Speaker 1: it's not something you see very. Often you don't see

1663
01:12:59,920 --> 01:13:02,840
Speaker 1: very tall shortstops in the major, leagues, Right.

1664
01:13:02,640 --> 01:13:04,639
Speaker 3: AND i think that's led a lot of people to. Big,

1665
01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:06,920
Speaker 3: oh he'll move off to third or. Wherever but they

1666
01:13:06,920 --> 01:13:08,839
Speaker 3: Got Keith Brian hayes at the, third very good. Defensive

1667
01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:11,679
Speaker 3: the third basement And cruz has shown that he's got solid.

1668
01:13:11,760 --> 01:13:14,240
Speaker 3: Range will he'd be A Gold? Glover probably, Not but

1669
01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:17,560
Speaker 3: can he play a decent enough short stop early on

1670
01:13:17,600 --> 01:13:20,080
Speaker 3: in the. Career, sure then maybe you know he moves

1671
01:13:20,120 --> 01:13:23,559
Speaker 3: over TO i don't, know first out corner, outfield who,

1672
01:13:23,600 --> 01:13:25,800
Speaker 3: knows but, YEAH i think he can sick it short

1673
01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:28,760
Speaker 3: and the bat is the power is. Legit obviously the

1674
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:32,600
Speaker 3: big Frame major league arms will exploit that he's a

1675
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:37,360
Speaker 3: bigger strike. Zone he doesn't have necessarily strakeout, issues BUT

1676
01:13:37,439 --> 01:13:38,720
Speaker 3: i think his carrier has been like load of mid

1677
01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:40,439
Speaker 3: twenties for most part of his minor league, career but

1678
01:13:40,479 --> 01:13:44,040
Speaker 3: that'll probably. Exposed so maybe the average isn't great, initially

1679
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:46,400
Speaker 3: but you, know if you're looking for this year's, Jazz

1680
01:13:46,439 --> 01:13:49,040
Speaker 3: chishom isn't quite up the speed of a chishm but

1681
01:13:49,320 --> 01:13:51,679
Speaker 3: you know he gives you give, him you, know full

1682
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:53,960
Speaker 3: season of a, bat you could see twenty five home

1683
01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:56,240
Speaker 3: runs and you, know ten to twelve. Steals maybe the

1684
01:13:56,280 --> 01:13:58,760
Speaker 3: average is two, fifty but that'll, play and he's going

1685
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:01,559
Speaker 3: right AROUND i think pick two hundred five and that general,

1686
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:03,920
Speaker 3: Ballpark so the price tech isn't too, bad and that

1687
01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:06,280
Speaker 3: top of the lineup For. Pittsburgh the bottom of the

1688
01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:08,280
Speaker 3: lineup was gonna, suck but that top of the lineup

1689
01:14:08,320 --> 01:14:11,720
Speaker 3: with him And hayes And Brian reynolds and at the

1690
01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:14,519
Speaker 3: super underrated that could be a decent like one through

1691
01:14:14,520 --> 01:14:17,200
Speaker 3: four in the. Lineup so, Yeah i'm definitely Buying cruise this.

1692
01:14:17,280 --> 01:14:19,559
Speaker 1: Year i'm with you on. That all, right let's talk

1693
01:14:19,560 --> 01:14:22,920
Speaker 1: about one of your, Dudes Jared, duran a young outfielder

1694
01:14:22,960 --> 01:14:26,679
Speaker 1: for The Boston Red, sox got of taste last year mixed.

1695
01:14:26,720 --> 01:14:28,880
Speaker 1: BAG i would, say what are your thoughts On duran

1696
01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:29,200
Speaker 1: for this?

1697
01:14:29,280 --> 01:14:32,559
Speaker 3: Season mixed bag is the perfect way to the Scripe

1698
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:35,000
Speaker 3: jar And duran right, now BECAUSE i saw him a

1699
01:14:35,040 --> 01:14:36,880
Speaker 3: lot when he came through here DOUBLE a twenty. NINETEEN

1700
01:14:36,880 --> 01:14:39,240
Speaker 3: i probably saw him fifteen twenty, times maybe more than,

1701
01:14:39,240 --> 01:14:41,879
Speaker 3: that and it, was you, know a hit and speed

1702
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:44,760
Speaker 3: profile with not a lot of. Power then he made

1703
01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:47,640
Speaker 3: those adjustments with the handslot at the ultimate site in

1704
01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:50,559
Speaker 3: twenty twenty unlocked a lot more, power but the contact

1705
01:14:50,600 --> 01:14:52,519
Speaker 3: rate went, down the k rate went. Up So i'm,

1706
01:14:52,520 --> 01:14:54,400
Speaker 3: like what type of players he could be long? Term

1707
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:57,400
Speaker 3: i'm still trying to figure that, out but the power

1708
01:14:57,400 --> 01:15:00,960
Speaker 3: speed is. THERE i do think F park hurts his

1709
01:15:01,600 --> 01:15:03,720
Speaker 3: power a little, bit, because Like i've, said if you

1710
01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:07,479
Speaker 3: don't Have David ortiz, Power Rafael dever's, Power we've seen

1711
01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:09,960
Speaker 3: Like ben And tende And, verdugo guys that are probably

1712
01:15:10,200 --> 01:15:12,840
Speaker 3: twenty homer bats get kind of suppressed a bit because

1713
01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:16,400
Speaker 3: once you got Past pesky's, poll the it shoots out

1714
01:15:16,400 --> 01:15:19,120
Speaker 3: and the bullpenser three eighty three eighty. Five so it's

1715
01:15:19,160 --> 01:15:21,840
Speaker 3: not as much of a you, know hitters For, park

1716
01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:24,559
Speaker 3: for right handed hitters as people want to, imagine especially for.

1717
01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:27,000
Speaker 3: Power SO i still think he's only like a fifteen homer,

1718
01:15:27,040 --> 01:15:29,680
Speaker 3: guy but he could be fifteen to twenty steals and

1719
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:31,719
Speaker 3: MAYBE i just don't think the average is gonna be quite.

1720
01:15:31,720 --> 01:15:34,679
Speaker 3: There but he could. START i don't. Know they haven't

1721
01:15:34,680 --> 01:15:37,400
Speaker 3: really brought in any other. Outfielder confordo still out, there who,

1722
01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:39,599
Speaker 3: knows but he could get a chance to start. Here

1723
01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:41,719
Speaker 3: if he has a good, spring they could definitely start

1724
01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:44,960
Speaker 3: him Over Jackie Bradley, junior and he. Could he could

1725
01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:47,439
Speaker 3: be a decent late round. Asset But i'm ACTUALLY i

1726
01:15:47,439 --> 01:15:49,720
Speaker 3: think one of the lower people around On. Duran i've

1727
01:15:49,720 --> 01:15:52,759
Speaker 3: just seen a Lot i'm NOT i don't like the profile.

1728
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:54,240
Speaker 3: CHANGE i think he could have been better as a

1729
01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:56,880
Speaker 3: hit speed type of. Guy if he's only hitting two,

1730
01:15:56,920 --> 01:15:59,519
Speaker 3: fifty two, Sixty i'm not quite as intrigued AS i once.

1731
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:02,040
Speaker 3: Was but nice little, power speed blood and those are

1732
01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:04,360
Speaker 3: hard to, find especially, late so he's worth the late

1733
01:16:04,360 --> 01:16:04,960
Speaker 3: one flyer for.

1734
01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:07,800
Speaker 1: Sure is there anybody else who's impressed you so far

1735
01:16:07,840 --> 01:16:10,519
Speaker 1: this spring that you've Seen they really opened up your

1736
01:16:10,520 --> 01:16:12,559
Speaker 1: eyes or maybe you, thought maybe this kid is going

1737
01:16:12,640 --> 01:16:14,000
Speaker 1: to be a little closer to the big, leagues and

1738
01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:16,240
Speaker 1: we thought from what you've, seen maybe in these first

1739
01:16:16,240 --> 01:16:18,719
Speaker 1: few up bats or first few innings that guys have. Thrown.

1740
01:16:19,680 --> 01:16:23,799
Speaker 3: Yeah Max meyer with The Miami marlins has looked, really really. Good,

1741
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:28,400
Speaker 3: Obviously miami has so many arms even without six dough

1742
01:16:29,200 --> 01:16:31,479
Speaker 3: and then who knows when he. Plays maybe it's mid,

1743
01:16:31,479 --> 01:16:33,800
Speaker 3: season maybe it's not at. All they still have so many.

1744
01:16:33,920 --> 01:16:36,360
Speaker 3: Arms they still are trying to find a small For Edward,

1745
01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:39,040
Speaker 3: cabrera who debuted late last. Year But Max, SMEYER i

1746
01:16:39,040 --> 01:16:42,000
Speaker 3: think it's a top five pitching protect in. Baseball really good,

1747
01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:44,479
Speaker 3: fastball really good, slider that's one of the best sliders

1748
01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:46,840
Speaker 3: in the minor leagues right, now solid change, up as,

1749
01:16:46,840 --> 01:16:49,439
Speaker 3: well and he's down pretty good committic control of his entire.

1750
01:16:49,560 --> 01:16:51,400
Speaker 3: ARSENAL i think you could be like a number two

1751
01:16:51,920 --> 01:16:54,639
Speaker 3: starter long, term maybe a top thirty to Forty fantasy

1752
01:16:54,720 --> 01:16:57,040
Speaker 3: arm with a lot of. Strikeouts so maybe he gets

1753
01:16:57,080 --> 01:16:59,559
Speaker 3: a shot probably Starting TRIPLE, a but he might be

1754
01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:01,599
Speaker 3: one of the first ones they call on and they've

1755
01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:05,080
Speaker 3: Seen we've Seen Pablo lopez can't stay healthy for an entire,

1756
01:17:05,120 --> 01:17:08,360
Speaker 3: season so you could see A Max smyer come up

1757
01:17:08,360 --> 01:17:11,559
Speaker 3: at some, point maybe Even May, june and provide solid

1758
01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:13,400
Speaker 3: rat shows and a lot of. Strikeouts and he's looked

1759
01:17:13,439 --> 01:17:15,680
Speaker 3: really good this. Spring so that's just a name to

1760
01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:17,519
Speaker 3: kind of tuck away and just keep an eye on for.

1761
01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:19,439
Speaker 3: Midseason that Was Eric.

1762
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