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Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros MLB. It's time to

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Speaker 1: look ahead to the waiver wire for this week in

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, and Welsh and I are going to

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Speaker 1: begin with Chase the Latter of the Cleveland Guardians. Now

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Speaker 1: the latter continues to just Rake at Triple A since

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Speaker 1: his return from injury. He's now twenty seven games into

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Speaker 1: the season at Triple A, four homers, sixteen RBI, the

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Speaker 1: slash Welsh three oh three, four to twelve, five oh

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Speaker 1: five with a nine to seventeen ops. Clearly things have

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Speaker 1: gotten off to a really good start for him, and

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Speaker 1: clearly the Guardians offense could use some more help. So

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Speaker 1: Welsh I want to add to latter this week. He

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Speaker 1: is still available in seventy percent of leagues currently on CBS.

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Speaker 1: Your thoughts on what you've seen so far from Chase

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Speaker 1: the Latter, once upon a time a very highly thought

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Speaker 1: of prospect. Injuries have slowed that train a little bit,

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Speaker 1: but it looks like all of a sudden we're back

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Speaker 1: on track with Chase.

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Speaker 2: I've got a post All Star game. It's gonna come

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Speaker 2: out right before All Star. But it's like the post

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Speaker 2: All Star prospects to stash article that's going to be

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Speaker 2: on Fantasy Pros. We kind of do a segment every week,

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Speaker 2: but this is an article. Chase de Latter's one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent in the top five of guys to pick up

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Speaker 2: right now because health is always his issue. Guy's always hurt.

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Speaker 2: He's not right now. He has had a full month

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Speaker 2: to finally get going, and he has. He's coming off

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Speaker 2: a tremendous, tremendous ability to make contact. He's got a

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Speaker 2: little Mike Trout and how he doesn't quite finish at

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Speaker 2: the end. Come all the way around. How Trout does.

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Speaker 2: There's big power, big X velocities. He can steal some bases.

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Speaker 2: The walk rate is makes him really really interesting in

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Speaker 2: how he's not going to be a strikeout problem. And

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Speaker 2: you could almost throw him up high in an order

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Speaker 2: that the left handed pull side for the Guardians at

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Speaker 2: Home has been a great spot, and I think he's

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Speaker 2: going to hit some homers there as well, so I

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Speaker 2: think you want an offensive boost. There's no reason they're

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Speaker 2: going to hold down the latter too much longer. I

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Speaker 2: think it's a great time to stash pick him up.

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Speaker 2: He's going to be up there. Hopefully you're not playing

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Speaker 2: in a system where you know the guy has to

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Speaker 2: it's a really good time because I think right after

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Speaker 1: Also a guy available in seventy percent of the league's

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Speaker 1: This one qualifies a catcher as Kyle Teel of the

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Speaker 1: White Sox. Over his last twenty five at bats, he's

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Speaker 1: hitting three sixty with a four to forty eight on

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Speaker 1: base percentage a five to twenty slugging. Now, look, he

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Speaker 1: is not going to light up the home run board necessarily,

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Speaker 1: but I do think there's more power than what we've

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Speaker 1: if you're having trouble at catcher, like Austin Wells is

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Speaker 1: Wells could go on the il. Some other catchers, you

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Speaker 1: I think Kyle Teal is a guy worth adding the

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Speaker 1: crown jewel, as it were, of the Garrick Crochet trade.

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Speaker 2: Teal falls in that range where it's like it's a

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Speaker 2: catcher in fantas? And it kind of might be because

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Speaker 2: I think there's like five homers. Hasn't really had this

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Speaker 2: I think Teal falls into the same range. The only

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Speaker 2: like a Drake Baldwin is that he's just sharing some time.

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Speaker 2: But he's a pretty good investment off of those like

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Speaker 1: And also, I mean, Kyle Teal was working out a

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Speaker 2: He just waiting for him to do it.

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Speaker 1: If he hits, you know, and continues to hit, they're

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Speaker 1: it's the White Sox. Two more guys to talk about here,

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Speaker 1: league teams. Colby Thomas the first one of the Athletics.

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Speaker 1: Let's discuss him. Thirteen percent rostered on CBS currently, he

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Speaker 1: Now those were PCL numbers, but the road PCL numbers.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't just his ballpark there, it was outside as well.

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Speaker 1: He was hitting everywhere he went to and now he

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Speaker 1: The problem is the log jam in the outfield. So

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Speaker 1: how aggressive would you be on Thomas? Considering again, playing

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if I'm going to be like

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Speaker 2: I think they're talking a little bit of platoon right now.

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Speaker 2: He's got really tremendous power. You mentioned three hundred to bats,

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Speaker 1: Moving forward, another prospect who came up, this one with

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Speaker 1: is young Kiel Fernandez. Right now, if you're looking at

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Speaker 1: So what's your assessment of Fernandez and redraft leagues?

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Speaker 2: He was a really big potential power prospect a couple

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Speaker 2: He hasn't really had these big, big homer outputs. He

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Speaker 2: had twelve homers last year in one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: This year. And it's really interesting too because ye know

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Speaker 2: I think he can put up some bigger hard hit numbers.

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Speaker 2: But they have messed with us with all these different

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Speaker 2: like the power potential. He's only twenty two years old.

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Speaker 2: Feels like he's one of those guys that's twenty two

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Speaker 2: But I think him Kolby Thomas, those are guys to

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Speaker 2: offensive home for jan kil Fernandez makes him the most interesting.

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Speaker 1: league mates. Right now, let's start with Trevor Rodgers of

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Speaker 1: the Baltimore Orioles. Thirty eight percent rostered, and he has

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Speaker 1: been terrific so far for the Orioles. Four starts a

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Speaker 2: I think it's the three sample sizes making me feel good.

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Speaker 2: good story that I think. I think he's in stream zone.

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Speaker 2: I think against decent matchups, I'm gonna play Kamar. Now,

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Speaker 1: All right, One more guy here, Grant Taylor of the

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Speaker 2: I love this one. This is probably my favorite of

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Speaker 2: He's not getting traded. They love him. This is the leverage.

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Speaker 2: Dudes pumping ninety nine on his four seam fastball, dropping

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Speaker 1: Especially if you got if you're streaming guys like you

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