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Speaker 3: Yeah? Should we get the super Bowl questions out of
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Speaker 1: last take question on the mailback winning?
Speaker 3: No? No, no, Like who's winning the super Bowl? Peter
Speaker 3: Chiefs Chiefs and Chiefs Big? Who's a big super Bowl? Arem?
Speaker 4: I'm I'm listening to Peter one hundred on this front.
Speaker 4: He's given me all the pitches, all the stuff. I'm
Speaker 4: I'm in on it. He's been Wait, when did you
Speaker 4: place your Chiefs like future? That was like probably week
Speaker 4: ten week now, like something like that.
Speaker 1: Two and a half units on the Chiefs at plus
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Speaker 1: gonna blow them out. I just mean the amount of
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Speaker 2: Oh it's a big play. Yeah, bad play.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I feel like every single time people start
Speaker 4: to doubt Mahomes a little bit, we do the same,
Speaker 4: Like why did you ever doubt Mahomes? So I'm just
Speaker 4: gonna go with the best player on the field, and
Speaker 4: you know, I'll take the coaching edge with the Chiefs.
Speaker 4: I'm not in an NFL expert or anything like that,
Speaker 4: but yeah, I'll just go with the team that doesn't lose.
Speaker 4: That sounds easy to me.
Speaker 3: So Andy Reid good, But I know you're also not
Speaker 3: a Sirianni guy at all.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: I For whatever reason, that guy just pisses me off.
Speaker 4: It was it didn't help when he was going at
Speaker 4: his own fans. But there's something about him. Maybe if
Speaker 4: I ever talked to him, I never will, maybe that'll change.
Speaker 4: Like you know, you have a preconceived notion sometimes like wait,
Speaker 4: actually like that guy way more than I thought.
Speaker 2: I don't think that would happen with Siriani.
Speaker 4: He just bothers me. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 4: So I would love to see them lose. To be honest,
Speaker 4: it's like Rob Riggle and step Brothers. It's like something
Speaker 4: about your face.
Speaker 3: I just want to suck ya.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, man.
Speaker 4: Even the way he like shakes the hand to the
Speaker 4: coaches like after every game, it's something way about the
Speaker 4: way he goes about his business.
Speaker 3: I've got not like us to cap Kendrick's performance. I
Speaker 3: don't have it as the first song I have it
Speaker 3: as the last.
Speaker 2: Song and hopefully the last time we hear it for
Speaker 2: a while.
Speaker 1: See potentially that they, I guess, could get in trouble
Speaker 1: for playing that song like that could create a defamation
Speaker 1: lawsuit on a scale that rig Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Guess he's fine in every angle.
Speaker 3: I think he want a Grammy for it. Like I
Speaker 3: loved that narrative earlier this week. It's like if you've
Speaker 3: ever thought, maybe you're pushing the hate too far, like
Speaker 3: Kendrick won a Grammy for hating something. Yeah, that Grammys
Speaker 3: for being a hater.
Speaker 1: That's while wearing while wearing a Canadian suit. To top
Speaker 1: it all off, just a little bit of note over
Speaker 1: there to Drake. I thought he was going to say something,
Speaker 1: but then I saw what he was wearing, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's as all of that's it?
Speaker 3: Speaking of Canada. Should we talk about pet Alonso hate
Speaker 3: doing that to you guys? I would say we should
Speaker 3: talk about pet Alanso, But that actually was a question
Speaker 3: on the mailbag, So we just made that question one.
Speaker 3: Get it out of the way, all right, Start the mailbag.
Speaker 3: Question one comes to us from Big Nate twenty one
Speaker 3: forty four on X with Pete Alonzo finally being re
Speaker 3: signed by the Mets. Do you think it's possible for
Speaker 3: four teams out of the National League East to make
Speaker 3: the playoffs? I believe the Nationals are a sleeper to
Speaker 3: make the playoffs. Pete Alonso signed a one plus one
Speaker 3: it's what thirty in year one player option and then
Speaker 3: twenty four in year two with the Mets. This is
Speaker 3: an all time bag fumble. Obviously, I'm not breaking any
Speaker 3: news here that Pete was looking at one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty million and ended up getting a max of fifty four,
Speaker 3: but maybe just one year for thirty. Scott Boris again
Speaker 3: falls back on his tried and true one plus one plan.
Speaker 3: Just kind of sucks that it came to this. It's
Speaker 3: the perfect fit. It was the only fit for Pete,
Speaker 3: I think, aside from Toronto. But even then that probably
Speaker 3: meant that, you know, like they weren't confident in their
Speaker 3: in their pursuit of Lottie during the course of the
Speaker 3: season our next year. It was just a little bit
Speaker 3: more convoluted in Toronto that it is in New York,
Speaker 3: where there was just a clear cut okay, insert feedback
Speaker 3: into this lineup. It just makes more sense.
Speaker 4: It worked out nicely for the Mets, too, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: they just kind of sat back, And I don't think
Speaker 4: you can, you know, fully blame this on anybody like
Speaker 4: I think the Mets they knew what they wanted to
Speaker 4: spend and it didn't make too much sense for them
Speaker 4: to go above and beyond. And I think the way
Speaker 4: that we talked about it a few weeks ago, just
Speaker 4: the way that the first base market had settled in
Speaker 4: and with a couple of trades being made for teams
Speaker 4: to address their first base opening, and then a couple
Speaker 4: other signings a couple of other teams going maybe a
Speaker 4: little bit cheaper, all of a sudden that market thinned
Speaker 4: out a lot, and a lot of the leverage swung
Speaker 4: back to the Mets. And I think it just really
Speaker 4: made it hard for a be able to get the
Speaker 4: number that he wanted.
Speaker 2: And I think we also saw the teams are a little.
Speaker 4: Bit wary of a guy that's gonna have to hit,
Speaker 4: you know, forty home runs, which he does a lot
Speaker 4: of years, but hit forty home runs and also, you know,
Speaker 4: have the bat to ball and on base playing a
Speaker 4: little bit better than it did last year for him
Speaker 4: to be you know, worth that thirty million a year.
Speaker 4: That said on the Alonzo side, he's gonna come back
Speaker 4: pissed off next year, and I think you're gonna see
Speaker 4: him have a big year, And I think it's it's
Speaker 4: fine to bet on yourself at a high aav for
Speaker 4: one year. I feel like this is one of those
Speaker 4: one place when were talking about Bellinger and stuff, We're like, oh,
Speaker 4: he's probably gonna opt in. I feel confident about Alonso
Speaker 4: having a monster year and opting out in worst case
Speaker 4: for the Mets. If he has a bad year or
Speaker 4: like a disappointing year and opts in, you still just
Speaker 4: retain one of your fan favorites. And even what's a
Speaker 4: down year for Pete Alonzo at that point anyways, too right.
Speaker 1: I'm totally with arm On Peter Alonzo having a big
Speaker 1: year next year. He needs hit twenty seven home runs
Speaker 1: to tie Darryl Strawberry's Mets record for home runs, and
Speaker 1: I think he's I think you can go that.
Speaker 3: But was by that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was a master class negotiations with Dave Stearns
Speaker 1: and Steve Cohen because.
Speaker 3: One reason that like, Okay, so the price tag says yes,
Speaker 3: but was it because clearly Pete got pissed for a moment,
Speaker 3: and three for ninety was on the table a couple
Speaker 3: of months ago, and then like this felt like a
Speaker 3: last resort. And I guarantee you Pete is not happy
Speaker 3: with how this shook out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's probably not happy with how it shook up,
Speaker 1: but he has to see a thirty million dollar check
Speaker 1: that he's getting this year being more than basically any
Speaker 1: first basement in Major League Baseball, and then he can
Speaker 1: go out on the market and potentially sign a bigger
Speaker 1: deal if he really truly bets on himself and he
Speaker 1: has a forty plus home run year. But the reason
Speaker 1: I call it just such a masterclass is not only
Speaker 1: did they get him on a one plus one deal
Speaker 1: for a powerheater of Pete Alonzo's stature, but the Mets
Speaker 1: needed him a lot more than they let on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the Mets lineup right now. Lindor
Speaker 1: is going to Soto and then who well, you could
Speaker 1: say Mark Fiento's, but that puts a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: on Mark Fiento's. You could say Brandon Imo, but I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say that that's heavy protection for a guy like
Speaker 1: Juan Soto. Now you put in forty home runs back
Speaker 1: in that lineup, elongate it, and we can't forget that
Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo had the biggest home run arguably in Mets
Speaker 1: history off of Devin Williams. So you know that in
Speaker 1: a big moment, you got another big bopper who can
Speaker 1: send all the runners home. So I think that the
Speaker 1: Mets lineup kind of really needed a guy like Pete Alonzo,
Speaker 1: but they pretended like, yeah, we could take him, but
Speaker 1: they really needed him, and they got him for a
Speaker 1: one plus one.
Speaker 4: That's the crazy part is, like I was trying to
Speaker 4: think if they were you know, it was a game
Speaker 4: of chicken or you know, the ultimate leverage is actually
Speaker 4: being okay with with somebody walking right and saying, hey,
Speaker 4: you know, we would definitely be better with you, but
Speaker 4: we don't need you.
Speaker 2: And it almost felt like they believe that they didn't
Speaker 2: need him. I'm with you, Peter.
Speaker 4: They if you look at that lineup, they needed another master,
Speaker 4: especially because of going to see your hoping Fianto's match.
Speaker 4: But there's some you know, yellow flags in the battle
Speaker 4: ball profile. I don't think it would shock anybody if
Speaker 4: there's some you know, adjustment periods through what is technically
Speaker 4: his his sophomore season, and then you know, you look
Speaker 4: at Nemo being banged up, and.
Speaker 2: You know, how is his how his feet going to be?
Speaker 4: Like it could become very top heavy with just a
Speaker 4: couple guys, very easily. And now you add a tried
Speaker 4: and true, proven sucker who, even if it's not again
Speaker 4: an incredible walk here, he's gonna hit you thirty and
Speaker 4: he's going to be productive. And you know, again we've
Speaker 4: seen him perform in big spots. So I was amazed
Speaker 4: at how willing the Mets were to potentially let him walk,
Speaker 4: and I think they actually were.
Speaker 2: I don't know why, but.
Speaker 4: You know, I think this ultimately makes the most sense
Speaker 4: for both parties and and it's a great deal for
Speaker 4: the Mets especially.
Speaker 3: I thought they were operating like he was walking. I
Speaker 3: mean when they stand out with j Minter, like all
Speaker 3: the conversation around Minter was oh, no Alonzo, and then
Speaker 3: they signed somebody else and it's like, oh no Alonso.
Speaker 3: Like they were operating like they were not getting Pete
Speaker 3: Alonzo back. And I think they saw this at that
Speaker 3: price point fall under their lap and say, okay, here
Speaker 3: we go.
Speaker 1: That's why this is a masterclass. I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I think they inherently knew that they need somewhat of
Speaker 1: the stature of Pee Alonzo. I think they knew that
Speaker 1: they had the final say and yes, like, could they
Speaker 1: be a great team without Pete Alonzo?
Speaker 3: Of course, but they are they?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Are they winning the World Series? Are they going up
Speaker 1: against the Dodgers? Are they beating out the Phillies? Are
Speaker 1: they beating out the Braves with Pete Alonzo? Because the
Speaker 1: rotation is good, it's not great, So you're relying on
Speaker 1: this offense and without Pete Alonzo, it's not as good
Speaker 1: as it could be with him. So just a masterclass
Speaker 1: by Cohen and Dave starts. Like, if I'm a Bets
Speaker 1: fan right now, I feel like I'm in such a
Speaker 1: good spot because I have a GM who's smarter than
Speaker 1: basically every GM, and I have an owner who is
Speaker 1: richer than every GM. Just working on a perfect team.
Speaker 1: Obviously it's not perfect yet, but just the future and
Speaker 1: how these go as are operating, I'd be really excited. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, getting back to the question, does the NL East
Speaker 3: give us four postseason teams in twenty twenty five? My
Speaker 3: answer is no, they gave us three. Last year, Philly
Speaker 3: won the division and Atlanta and the Mets were wild cards,
Speaker 3: but you got a factor in Arizona missed the playoffs.
Speaker 3: San Diego was the other wild card team. I'm not
Speaker 3: looking at the Central obviously, the Brewers and Cubs. Like,
Speaker 3: could the Gnats in a world be better than both
Speaker 3: the Brewers and the Cubs, or at least match them
Speaker 3: by win total? I don't know I could. I could
Speaker 3: summersault my way to seeing that a heck of a
Speaker 3: lot easier than I could summrsault my way seeing them
Speaker 3: being better than Arizona. Like, I see no world where
Speaker 3: Washington is better than Arizona. I'm already penciling in Arizona
Speaker 3: that the wildcard. You know, Spot and La wins the
Speaker 3: division and the NL West is at the very least
Speaker 3: giving us two teams.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Giants too, Like the Giants are a lot better,
Speaker 4: yeah than they were last year and the one to
Speaker 4: eighty games last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you look at at I.
Speaker 4: Mean even the Reds like they I think I got
Speaker 4: a little bit more faith in them, especially with the
Speaker 4: movies that they've made too.
Speaker 3: And I want to say I think Washington since now.
Speaker 2: Like Washington, I do, I just and I love.
Speaker 4: I love where the Nationals are going, and I can
Speaker 4: understand why they're this exciting, you know, popular emergent team pick.
Speaker 2: But you also have to look at, you know, what
Speaker 2: the Reds.
Speaker 4: Have in terms of some proven talent, and then you
Speaker 4: look at the national side and like, yes, there was
Speaker 4: a lot of there's a lot of really fun young talent,
Speaker 4: but you know, I still think there's gonna be a
Speaker 4: learning period for Dylan Cruz, who still hasn't fully settled
Speaker 4: in at the big league level. I think Wood could
Speaker 4: end up just making that leap and never have the
Speaker 4: adjustment period. That's fine, but then you look around, I
Speaker 4: just don't know if there's quite as much impact. And
Speaker 4: then on the mound, I think you can look at
Speaker 4: a lot more upside with the Reds as well. And
Speaker 4: then the bullpen. I think that's a big problem with
Speaker 4: the Nationals too. Like it's a good team, it's a
Speaker 4: good young team, but I do see them potentially blowing
Speaker 4: a lot of leads with that bullpen, and it's not
Speaker 4: like the rotation is completely you know, tried and proven.
Speaker 4: So I love where they're headed, but I think these
Speaker 4: other teams are are more built for one sixty two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because one of these teams is going to win
Speaker 1: the division. We're talking about the National League East, right,
Speaker 1: whether it's the Braves of the Phillies, you know, or
Speaker 1: the Mets, and then there's going to be two of
Speaker 1: those teams and then Arizona and then that's it.
Speaker 3: I will say, I do not think the Mets are
Speaker 3: all right. Call me out if you think I'm I'm
Speaker 3: being if I'm exaggerated.
Speaker 1: Friday, It's Friday, it is, give me a take. I'm
Speaker 1: here for it.
Speaker 3: I don't see very many worlds where the Mets can
Speaker 3: win the National League East. I don't even know if
Speaker 3: that's hot or not. But I think Philly is marginally better,
Speaker 3: and I think Atlanta, like with the health that they're
Speaker 3: getting and Strider back after what a month or so
Speaker 3: and Acuna back after what four to six weeks. I
Speaker 3: saw Mark Bowman report, like, I think those teams are
Speaker 3: running circles around what the Mets have right now, even
Speaker 3: with Juan Soto, Like I really can't close my eyes
Speaker 3: and see the New York Mets winning the National League eeest, So.
Speaker 4: You mean like significantly better, significant not Mark, so I
Speaker 4: didn't mean to correct. I don't I didn't want to
Speaker 4: do that on the show, but I just want to
Speaker 4: make sure. I just want to magnificantly better. I agree
Speaker 4: like I, And again, the Mets, could you know, have
Speaker 4: a special year where you have Juan freaking sotof when
Speaker 4: Door's playing at a you know, MVP finalist level, and
Speaker 4: then Pete Alonso has that walk year that we think
Speaker 4: he can have. You can definitely talk your way into
Speaker 4: this team being really good. But I think when you
Speaker 4: compare the pitching situation, you know, it's not quite as
Speaker 4: exciting or impactful. I think they got good arms, but
Speaker 4: I don't think it's nearly the same as especially what
Speaker 4: you got going in Philly, and then even Atlanta if
Speaker 4: they're healthy, and I still don't think Atlanta's done right.
Speaker 4: They traded. Brave fans are freaking out. They traded for
Speaker 4: matt Olsen. I think on March thirteenth or whatever. Anthopoulos
Speaker 4: loves to kind of let things fall into his lap,
Speaker 4: and they did it with Profar. I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 4: if there's another move in there for the Braves to potentially,
Speaker 4: you know, address that staff a little bit more.
Speaker 3: Also even if they're zero, I'm fine with it. Like
Speaker 3: looking at the starting rotation with where it is right
Speaker 3: now and looking at the upper miners, you know, backup
Speaker 3: plans that they that they have like Elder Smith, Shaw
Speaker 3: or Walder, all these guys exist and they're just hanging
Speaker 3: out in triple A right now.
Speaker 2: So yeah, god cool she had cool as well?
Speaker 3: Yeah, cool former pirate love Like I could see a
Speaker 3: move for you know, another another set up adjacent guy,
Speaker 3: like I think they could use another seventh inning guy
Speaker 3: in that bullpen. But frankly, like, I think they're close
Speaker 3: to being a finished product.
Speaker 4: What if they just surprise everybody and go get Cesar
Speaker 4: King or something like that, I could Nothing would shock me, man,
Speaker 4: I'm telling you it's Georgia boy too. I think I
Speaker 4: think so, so that would be interesting. But yeah, I
Speaker 4: think to answer the question though, it'd be pretty shocking.
Speaker 2: If the National League, I could see it maybe two years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it could be the best division in baseball if
Speaker 4: things tracked the right way. But I think we're still
Speaker 4: like definitely a year early there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, just to wrap this question up, answering
Speaker 1: the Phillies Mets versus the Braves, I have something on
Speaker 1: the Braves later that I want to talk about, but
Speaker 1: I think the Mets can be better than the Braves.
Speaker 1: I think that we're expecting so many bouncebacks from them. Again,
Speaker 1: I'll talk about that later, but the one thing that
Speaker 1: I really wanted to mention is I think Philly is
Speaker 1: like the team that's being kind of slept on throughout
Speaker 1: all of these great teams. Like the Phillies were one
Speaker 1: of the best teams in baseball last year and then
Speaker 1: they added hayesus Azarto. I think they should be the
Speaker 1: favorites to win this division. I think Bryce Harper is
Speaker 1: going to have a huge year. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of these players in the Phillies lineup are gonna have
Speaker 1: big years. And then the bullpen is still very good.
Speaker 1: Like I think Philly should be the favorite here, and
Speaker 1: I think the Mets have a higher floor, I do
Speaker 1: think than the Braves after getting Pete Alonso, but I
Speaker 1: think the Braves have a higher ceiling.
Speaker 3: Well, and in Philly. To your point, Philly had like
Speaker 3: three or four bats in that lineup that showed us
Speaker 3: the floor in twenty four and they still won the division.
Speaker 3: Like J. Treal Muto pretty much showed us the floor.
Speaker 3: Castianos showed us the floor. I think Scott showed us
Speaker 3: his floor. Jovann Rojas showed us the floor. In fact,
Speaker 3: that half their lineup was like that. Alec Bohm was
Speaker 3: amazing in April after that he kind of showed us
Speaker 3: the floor of Alec Bohm for the final five months
Speaker 3: of the season. So we're talking about half the lineup
Speaker 3: being nowhere near the median expectation that you can set
Speaker 3: for those individuals, and they still win the division.
Speaker 1: I think that rotation is better than the Mariners. I
Speaker 1: think it's the best in baseball. I mean, like, of
Speaker 1: course they have like thirty guys. Yeah, they're all awesome.
Speaker 2: But it depends who's healthy exactly.
Speaker 1: It's like if I'm going Wheeler, Nola, Sanchez, Suarez, Lozardo.
Speaker 2: Are you kidding? Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean that's and Andrew Paynter coming up, Like that's
Speaker 1: a potential ace talent every day. Yeah, not saying they're
Speaker 1: not going to perform like aces, but them at their
Speaker 1: best can all perform like aces. And now you could
Speaker 1: say that about the Mariners, but you could also point
Speaker 1: to some home road splits with the Mariners like their
Speaker 1: true talent. Are they better than the Phillies? I don't
Speaker 1: think so. I think I'm going with the Phillies is
Speaker 1: the best rotation in baseball.
Speaker 4: I don't hate that. And then also I think a
Speaker 4: really underrated addition is Kepler. Is he gonna move mountains
Speaker 4: for them?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: But I just think a pretty consistent.
Speaker 4: Bat you know, in the back half of that lineup
Speaker 4: that I do think is gonna just be benefit from
Speaker 4: a change of scenery getting out of Minnesota. But also
Speaker 4: that ballpark, I think the power is gonna tick up.
Speaker 4: They're in a pretty damn good.
Speaker 3: Spot, great spot, I think so. All right, let's get
Speaker 3: to question two here. Question two comes from us also
Speaker 3: from X. This is at four m opinions, which team
Speaker 3: do you think is the most volatile heading into the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five season? Parenth this these biggest variants from
Speaker 3: their floor and ceiling as a team. I can throw
Speaker 3: you a bunch of team names that came to my mind,
Speaker 3: and you can validate or invalidate. But arm it looks
Speaker 3: like you want to hop in.
Speaker 4: I have two obvious answers, and I know either I
Speaker 4: think has the exact too as well.
Speaker 2: I might be wrong. But I just with the conversations
Speaker 2: we've had on the show the last few months. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've got two and I'm curious, but the Braves, let's
Speaker 2: go on.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Okay, so we do have the same too,
Speaker 1: because I assume the American League team that we're all
Speaker 1: talking about is the Texas Rangers. Yeah, I mean they
Speaker 1: could win one hundred games or like win seventy games
Speaker 1: to grohm if why at length? Ord, We've talked about
Speaker 1: it like four hundred times, So I yeah.
Speaker 2: You're goal Rangers for me. I knew. I knew you'd
Speaker 2: have the same too. I knew it. Wow, Okay, so
Speaker 2: I was playing the Braves or do you? You can
Speaker 2: run with it?
Speaker 4: You you teased it already, and then I can try
Speaker 4: to fill in any any blanks.
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at this team, and what really spawned
Speaker 1: this was the conversation about Ronald Acunu junior coming off
Speaker 1: the torn acl And then I really start to look
Speaker 1: and I'm like, Okay, I love Michael Harris. I love
Speaker 1: Michael Harris, but is he gonna stay healthy all year?
Speaker 1: Like we could just go through each one of their
Speaker 1: team's arm You could go through the rotation all go
Speaker 1: through the lineup. Yeah, Jerkson, Profar, you talked about the
Speaker 1: swing changes. I believe excellent. I believe in him too,
Speaker 1: But just because we believe in him doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: it's necessarily going to happen. Right, It's still up in
Speaker 1: the air. What Jerks and Profar is going to do.
Speaker 1: We love Austin Riley. I think Austin Riley is going
Speaker 1: to be very good. I don't really have any questions
Speaker 1: about him. I don't really have any questions about matt
Speaker 1: Olsen staying on the field. But matt Olsen took a
Speaker 1: dive last year and he was better in the second half.
Speaker 1: I expect maybe better, but it's still up in the air.
Speaker 1: Marcelo Zuna is thirty four years old. Ozzie Albi's has
Speaker 1: dealt with injury. Sean Murphy is now thirty years old
Speaker 1: and coming off a down year. Kelnick and Arcia, what
Speaker 1: are they going to give us? And then you could
Speaker 1: go through the rotation and we can talk about an
Speaker 1: old Chris Sale. But I'll hand it off to you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now, say if you hit the parlay of like
Speaker 4: all these guys playing to to you know, not even
Speaker 4: the best of their ability, the eightieth percentile ability.
Speaker 2: This is one of the best teams in baseball, without
Speaker 2: a doubt.
Speaker 4: But that the question, you know, highlighted the word volatility,
Speaker 4: and I don't know if there's a team that embodies
Speaker 4: volatility more than the Atlanta Braves. Right, you either have
Speaker 4: one of the best talents in Major League Baseball available
Speaker 4: in a Ronald A Countia junior or you don't. And
Speaker 4: it's been kind of a coin flip, you know, with
Speaker 4: with that over the last few years, and you alluded
Speaker 4: to I think like Mike Harris is a safer bet
Speaker 4: because you're always gonna get the great defense.
Speaker 2: And you know, I think with.
Speaker 4: Riley, even when he's down, you have a decent year
Speaker 4: from him, right, And same with Matt Olsen. But I
Speaker 4: agree it can thin out quickly, Like you're hoping that
Speaker 4: Murphy's oblique was the reason why he wasn't performing, and
Speaker 4: I believe that.
Speaker 2: But we say that about six guys.
Speaker 4: You want them all to have it go right next year,
Speaker 4: but that's like hitting the parlay right, And and then
Speaker 4: on the pitching side, like I plenty of talent there,
Speaker 4: I still think they need to address with another arm.
Speaker 4: Chris Sale we saw kind of run out of gas
Speaker 4: at the end of the year. You really hope that
Speaker 4: that was just him running out of gas and not
Speaker 4: something that carries over into his age thirty six season.
Speaker 4: But with that shock, you given his history and how
Speaker 4: many innings he threw Raynaldo Lopez, every expected stat has him,
Speaker 4: you know, by upping his ra by at least a run.
Speaker 4: And even if you don't subscribe to that, he was.
Speaker 2: Banged up a little bit too.
Speaker 4: Schwellenbach, I got no concerns about it, and I think
Speaker 4: that guy takes a leap and really helps them. But
Speaker 4: then the four or five spots in the rotation too,
Speaker 4: are kind of a question as well.
Speaker 2: So no questions about the bullpen. That helps a lot.
Speaker 4: But you also have Strider as well, like what does
Speaker 4: he look like when he comes back?
Speaker 2: When exactly is he going to come back?
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's been announced necessarily yet.
Speaker 2: That helps.
Speaker 3: Sorry, what was that He's gonna miss about a month?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so and then they're gonna be careful, So that helps.
Speaker 4: Like I love the idea of sale Rainaldo Schwelling back
Speaker 4: and Strider, but you know, if if Strider's taking some
Speaker 4: time to get back, Sale doesn't look like he's one
Speaker 4: hundred percent. Like there's a lot of things that can
Speaker 4: go either way, and I think more things are going
Speaker 4: to go right than wrong based on the age of
Speaker 4: a lot of the guys that we're talking about, injuries with,
Speaker 4: especially on the hitting side, and and just the fact
Speaker 4: that Spencer Strider's a freaking probably will be fine and
Speaker 4: come back. But there's a lot of ifs with this team,
Speaker 4: and and I'm more than you know you generally like
Speaker 4: to see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we could even go keep going into their bullpen.
Speaker 1: Russell Glaciers is going to be thirty five years old,
Speaker 1: and we saw him slow down a little bit at
Speaker 1: the end. Right, Joejamenez, who has been so big for them,
Speaker 1: is coming off knee surgery. Aj Minterter is gone, and
Speaker 1: then it's Pierce Johnson who's thirty four years old. Right,
Speaker 1: they have other good arms. I'm sure they'll you know,
Speaker 1: form a good bullpen, but there are also still question
Speaker 1: marks throughout their entire roster, their offense, they're starting pitching staff,
Speaker 1: and their bullpen. So yeah, they were a name that
Speaker 1: I wrote down is probably the most all tile team
Speaker 1: in the National League. But we're also talking about the
Speaker 1: downside of the Atlanta Braves, Like if these things.
Speaker 3: All go, well, yeah, we know what the upside of
Speaker 3: the Atlanta Braves looks like. We should see it on paper,
Speaker 3: like a long paper is for us to dream, and
Speaker 3: that's what the braves are. Give me the Texas pitch.
Speaker 1: Now, the Texas pitch, it's it's I mean, yeah, we
Speaker 1: could give you the Texas pitch pretty easily. Like you
Speaker 1: look at their rotation and you see a Jacob de Grom.
Speaker 1: Is he giving you twenty five starts? Is he giving
Speaker 1: you thirty starts? Or is he giving you seven? Like
Speaker 1: Tyler Mallley? Is he giving you twenty five starts or
Speaker 1: is he giving you seven? Right? Nathanyyvaldi has been great
Speaker 1: to TJ. Guy. One of those stories that you know,
Speaker 1: people talk about, well, if Nathany Evaldi could do it,
Speaker 1: then other pitchers could do it. But is Nathany Evaldi
Speaker 1: gonna do it again? So those are there three pitchers
Speaker 1: that I'm looking at. And then in a bullpen they
Speaker 1: just lost Kirby Eight's go look at that bullpen right now.
Speaker 1: It's good, not great. And then the offense, it's like
Speaker 1: White Langford could be the MVP or he could be
Speaker 1: pretty good. Right that there's so many hitters.
Speaker 3: Throughout is always hurt as of course, Yeah, Demians coming
Speaker 3: off a down year.
Speaker 4: Burger is you know he's been available, you know, the
Speaker 4: last couple of years, but you know he comes with
Speaker 4: with a little volatility too, right where even when he's
Speaker 4: available that the first half was really rough from him.
Speaker 4: The second half he's like the best power hitter in
Speaker 4: the world. But that is volatility by definition. A dulais
Speaker 4: Garcil like a completely different hitter.
Speaker 3: Last year. I have no idea who Adoleys Garcia is
Speaker 3: going into twenty five.
Speaker 4: Jonah Heim like it was a disappointing year from him,
Speaker 4: and I know they got Gashioka, but that also was
Speaker 4: a kind of best stretch of higashi Yoka's career. Josh
Speaker 4: Smith really good in the first half, slowed down, Ezekiel
Speaker 4: Duran like what is he? There's a lot of I think,
Speaker 4: you know, what are you getting here in this in
Speaker 4: this lineup for sure, And again I think you can
Speaker 4: talk yourself into the positive side very easily, semi and
Speaker 4: is the opposite of all as also, it's nice to
Speaker 4: have that. I feel very confident that Langford takes that leap,
Speaker 4: but you know, Corey Seeger again is its just continue
Speaker 4: to miss some time. And I think Josh Young is
Speaker 4: another big concern there too from a health perspective and
Speaker 4: Carter with a back thing like it's it could go
Speaker 4: either way. But then on the positive end, we've seen
Speaker 4: flashes of Josh Young looking like a very very good
Speaker 4: third basement, borderline all star caliber third baseman. We've seen
Speaker 4: Evan Carter look like one of the more exciting young
Speaker 4: players in the game, and that aspect if those guys
Speaker 4: are right, like, you're also really feeling good about your lineup.
Speaker 4: But if you get one fifty out of Corey's seager,
Speaker 4: he could be an MVP candidate. So yeah, I love
Speaker 4: the addition to Jock. That helps a lot too, and
Speaker 4: I think that did help trim some of the volatility there.
Speaker 4: But the pitching, for sure, when you have mister volatile
Speaker 4: and Jacob deGrom where if he's available, he's the best
Speaker 4: pitcher in the game. Potentially, if he's not available, he's
Speaker 4: not available. That's a big aspect of it. But there's
Speaker 4: also when you look at the rotation right now, there's
Speaker 4: a lot of reliance still on paper, at least for
Speaker 4: de Gram to be available and good. Sure if he's
Speaker 4: not available and good even if the other guys are,
Speaker 4: I don't know how I feel about that rotation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cody Bradford might just have to take over the
Speaker 1: whole thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe according to Peter Cody, which I believe
Speaker 3: he can, which I want to be clear, he's your
Speaker 3: new Quantrill, like I mean, Quantrell's still Quantrill, but like
Speaker 3: Cody Bradford is approaching quant territory for you.
Speaker 1: I just fall in love with these guys who throw
Speaker 1: like ninety two, who the books price HM at like
Speaker 1: plus one forty to do anything, And then they hit
Speaker 1: and I watched them pitch and I'm like, these getting outs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why Cody Bradford got you. I have two
Speaker 3: other teams that jump to mind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh no, you can continue out of this question.
Speaker 1: I have a quick side question off this question, so
Speaker 1: I'll save that.
Speaker 2: For the end.
Speaker 3: Okay, the two teams that came to mind for me
Speaker 3: National League with San Diego, we talk about how top
Speaker 3: heavy they are, and I feel like we've spent a
Speaker 3: lot of time talking about the negative of San Diego
Speaker 3: so far this year. We also have to remember that
Speaker 3: they still have Manny Machado and Xander Bogarts and Fernando
Speaker 3: Tatis junior, and they still have Darvish and Cease and
Speaker 3: King as it stands right now, Merril Jackson, Merril, like,
Speaker 3: we're also a Tatis injury or a King injury away
Speaker 3: from Like what is this team? They're bare bones, They've
Speaker 3: got nothing going on here.
Speaker 1: I mean, Luis Riace could hit three point fifty and
Speaker 1: be value, or you could get three fourteen and put
Speaker 1: up one win. That's also something I need.
Speaker 2: To do that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: My team in the American League was Kansas City. Kansas
Speaker 3: City is a Bobby Witt junior injury or slump away
Speaker 3: from like seventy two wins the audience, right, who is
Speaker 3: Kansas City last year? If Bobby Wit is not a
Speaker 3: ten win player?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what that's It almost makes me feel like
Speaker 4: we talk about War all the time, like how is
Speaker 4: his war not twenty?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: On that team, I feel like there's no better example.
Speaker 4: I'm with you on that. And actually, kind of to
Speaker 4: that point, I was thinking about I'm sorry, Peter, but
Speaker 4: the Yankees I don't think that I followed as some
Speaker 4: of these other teams.
Speaker 2: But if Aaron Judge.
Speaker 4: Goes down, I mean, yeah, dude, it's a lot of names,
Speaker 4: but like, it's not a lot of guys, Like, I
Speaker 4: don't know if I could confidently pick who the best
Speaker 4: hitter would be in that line of Aaron Judge goes down.
Speaker 3: Is it like who you circling jazz as?
Speaker 4: Is it is it goldschmid On a bounce back at
Speaker 4: thirty seven?
Speaker 3: Is it Bellinger?
Speaker 2: John Carlos, Stantonburtending, it's the playoffs? I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 2: And then on the pitching side, like Cole, I still
Speaker 2: all believe in him until he's not on the bound anymore.
Speaker 4: And he looked great in the postseason, but you know,
Speaker 4: it's coming off of a little bit of a thing
Speaker 4: and if you look at the stuff like it wasn't
Speaker 4: quite what it used to be. That guy will just
Speaker 4: execute his way to success forever. But Rodin is also
Speaker 4: the definition of volatility. Luis heel will see, like I
Speaker 4: do think there's some interesting wrinkles with them. I think
Speaker 4: the Yankees hadge it with a ridiculous bullpen, as they
Speaker 4: typically do, and I think the lineup is more.
Speaker 2: Balanced than you know. We've seen maybe even.
Speaker 4: In recent years, but Jazz has heard all the time.
Speaker 4: There's some older guys and it's it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 4: What do you get from Domingos. I think there's a
Speaker 4: lot of questions still to be answered there with the Yankees,
Speaker 4: so I think they're a sneaky, volatile team as well.
Speaker 1: You're one hundred percent correct, And I was after Jack
Speaker 1: and I finished an episode. I was trying to convince
Speaker 1: him why I should take the Yankees under ninety in
Speaker 1: half wis I'm like, I see this like we're a
Speaker 1: one Aaron Judge injury away from this offense being not great.
Speaker 1: I love Luise Heels so much fun watching him pitch
Speaker 1: last year, but I kind of came out of the
Speaker 1: I came out of nowhere. I mean, he's always had
Speaker 1: good stuff, but we still watch four point.
Speaker 3: He can also make you go gray this year. That's
Speaker 3: also in his game.
Speaker 1: And Clark Schmidt, like we're watching him face good teams
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and it's like, please get him off
Speaker 1: the mound, Like is that your five? And then you
Speaker 1: know I still love Freed, but Cole is also thirty
Speaker 1: four to thirty five years old. I couldn't agree with
Speaker 1: you guys more when we talk about win totals in
Speaker 1: the betting previews, Like I'll have a pitch about the Yankees,
Speaker 1: so I'll say that for them, but I agree with you.
Speaker 1: What was your question off of the question, who is
Speaker 1: the team that you know is going to win the
Speaker 1: amount of games? Like who's the team that you know
Speaker 1: the best? And I'll give you an example, like I
Speaker 1: know the Mariners are gonna win eighty four games, Yes,
Speaker 1: for sure, like the team so it's like there's so volatile.
Speaker 1: I know they're gonna do that. They're not gonna win
Speaker 1: more than eighty six, and they're not gonna lose more
Speaker 1: than eighty two. They're just gonna win eighty four. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I know the Rockies are gonna win sixty three.
Speaker 3: That's good. Look, I know the Cubs are gonna win
Speaker 3: eighty five. Really like they've built a roster.
Speaker 2: That I think they've got a little bit more upside now,
Speaker 2: don't think so?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I downside too.
Speaker 3: I look at that rotation, man, Like okay, say showed
Speaker 3: a second half looks like that, you know, show a
Speaker 3: second half turns into show does twenty five? Okay, you
Speaker 3: know steal like, at the end of the day, it
Speaker 3: is ninety one ninety two, and I understand it's got
Speaker 3: incredibly unique characteristics, but they don't have that guy every
Speaker 3: fifth day that I look at and I'm gonna say,
Speaker 3: you're gonna give me seven innings a two run ball
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna survive. Like, I just don't think they
Speaker 3: have that in their rotation right now. And Tyne, Like
Speaker 3: I cannot convince myself that tyone is gonna be as
Speaker 3: reliable as he was in twenty four. Like there's a
Speaker 3: lot that needs to go right for them to exceed
Speaker 3: my expectations. But I also think they've built out such
Speaker 3: a high floor for themselves with so much AMMO in
Speaker 3: that lineup, Like they're deep. I know they can be
Speaker 3: productive every night. I just don't know if they can
Speaker 3: be like ninety two win team.
Speaker 1: Good. No, you you kind of convinced me, because you're right,
Speaker 1: They're gonna be between eighty one to eighty seven. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure. And like that's there's there's teams who.
Speaker 3: Have this season as a ninety win team. I just
Speaker 3: I don't know, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't see a team I think with
Speaker 1: a huge delta of like they could be really really
Speaker 1: good or really really bad. Imagine if the twins stay healthy.
Speaker 1: Imagine if that twins line up, all of them stay
Speaker 1: healthy and I'm done crazing out.
Speaker 3: I'm opting out of the Twins conversation.
Speaker 1: Guys, is at the time of the year where we
Speaker 1: start to say, angels aren't that bad?
Speaker 3: Angels? I look okay on paper.
Speaker 4: You know what the craziest part about the twins are
Speaker 4: twins is I think their best like internal reinforcement Emmanuel Rodriguez,
Speaker 4: who could help catapult them, And I'm gonna talk about him.
Speaker 4: Actually another question, also hurt all the time, like that
Speaker 4: Walker Jenkins, It's been hurt through a lot of his
Speaker 4: Minori career already. Like their reinforcements that are on the
Speaker 4: way are also guys that are hurt. And then like
Speaker 4: in and out of the lineup, It's like, I don't
Speaker 4: understand they're gonna be like thirty five deep on the
Speaker 4: active roster, just like funneling guys in and out, in
Speaker 4: and out.
Speaker 1: Imagine if they're healthy, yeah, it's great, but who's the
Speaker 1: team that you just know is gonna do what you
Speaker 1: think I was.
Speaker 4: Gonna says Wins win eighty two. But no Ah, man,
Speaker 4: I feel really confident about the Phillies being in the
Speaker 4: in the ninety range. But to say, you know, any
Speaker 4: team's gonna win ninety plus games, it is crazy. But
Speaker 4: I feel really, really confident that the d Backs are
Speaker 4: going to be at least in the upper eighties pushing
Speaker 4: to ninety.
Speaker 2: I think they might be better than that.
Speaker 4: But like you saw what they did, you know, two
Speaker 4: years ago when they got to the World Series and
Speaker 4: one I think it was eighty six or eighty seven then,
Speaker 4: but then they win eighty nine this past year and
Speaker 4: it was like not even their best year, especially with
Speaker 4: the first half struggles. I just feel so confident that
Speaker 4: team at least winning eighty eight eighty nine, and I
Speaker 4: think they're gonna push further than that. But that's one
Speaker 4: that I just the team only got better, and it's
Speaker 4: just too balance across the board. The pitching is deep. Now,
Speaker 4: I think that's a team you just look at it
Speaker 4: like that. Even if they're frustrating, which I thought they
Speaker 4: were at points last year, they're gonna still somehow win
Speaker 4: eighty seven eighty eight games at least.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, I agree with you, all right, We're gonna
Speaker 3: jump to the next question in a moment. Before that,
Speaker 3: we will take a quick break Instagram question. Now, this
Speaker 3: one from at B Gianna Scoley on Instagram. Got Italian name.
Speaker 3: Which young player do you see taking the biggest jump
Speaker 3: to superstart them this season? My personal pick would be
Speaker 3: James Wood. Would love your guys's thoughts. I'm sure Arham
Speaker 3: agrees with the James would pick because we already saw it.
Speaker 3: The names that jumped to my mind and we've documented
Speaker 3: them this week. Actually, Jack Centorio, I think he's he's
Speaker 3: star already. I think he could make that super star
Speaker 3: jump that we're asking for. Wya at Langford's same deal.
Speaker 3: The other one, Michael Harris hasn't become a superstar yet.
Speaker 3: I think a healthy Michael Harris, if he's a six
Speaker 3: and a half win player, he's playing some of the
Speaker 3: best defense that we've gotten major League Baseball in center field,
Speaker 3: and he's this power threat that's slapping the ball around
Speaker 3: the ballpark at the same time in the Leitos fots
Speaker 3: for you know, maybe the second best team in baseball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's hard not to go with that one.
Speaker 1: I have one army you want to go.
Speaker 2: First, No, you go ahead, and I can fill in wherever.
Speaker 1: So I had White Langford written down, Yeah, Jackson Troyo
Speaker 1: written down, I had James Wood written down. But one
Speaker 1: sneaky one. I think Patrick Bailey is going to take
Speaker 1: a leap to potentially be in the best catcher in
Speaker 1: baseball next year. Yeah, because what does.
Speaker 3: That look like? A one to oh five WRC plus.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the thing is if it's one oh five,
Speaker 4: he's probably getting out from a war perspective.
Speaker 2: Is the best catcher in baseball?
Speaker 1: So let me explain. So through fifty nine games last
Speaker 1: year to start the season, he had a three point
Speaker 1: two f four to start the year, that was eleventh
Speaker 1: and major League Baseball no other catcher had above a
Speaker 1: three point zero. At that point. He had a one
Speaker 1: to twenty one WRC plus. Then in August he goes
Speaker 1: on the il with an oblique issue and just really
Speaker 1: ended the season poorly. But when we look at his
Speaker 1: pre All Star numbers two eighty three, three point fifty four,
Speaker 1: four thirty slash line for a seven eighty four ops.
Speaker 1: He had seven home runs, he only hit one more
Speaker 1: in the second half. Hits the ball really hard. Switch
Speaker 1: hitter keeps the ball off the ground, and then you
Speaker 1: factor in the best defense in the sport. Like I
Speaker 1: think it's one of those years where you know, Yachti
Speaker 1: or Molina is like by far the best defensive catcher
Speaker 1: in baseball, and then he has those years where he's
Speaker 1: a one to ten one fifteen WRC plus guy. I
Speaker 1: think that's what Patrick Bailey is going to do. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna look at the catcher leaderboards after the
Speaker 1: season and say Pat Bailey put up a seven and
Speaker 1: a half win season even though he only had a
Speaker 1: one to twenty WRC plus. Yes, the defense is that good,
Speaker 1: and I think the bat will be ten to twenty
Speaker 1: percent above league average if he's able to play an
Speaker 1: entire season. He's just twenty five years old. I think
Speaker 1: he's going to be a monster.
Speaker 2: It is crazy.
Speaker 4: If you'll get the projections. I think the projections have
Speaker 4: him at a ninety WRC plus and a five to
Speaker 4: one f four, which would put him from that just
Speaker 4: perspective as one of the best catchers in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4: The other interesting aspect is like I've I don't know
Speaker 4: if he said it on our show or if he
Speaker 4: said it in another interview, but I remember him talking
Speaker 4: about it, and I know he had a specific injury
Speaker 4: to circle this past year, but he talked about it
Speaker 4: after his rookie season two where he hit that wall
Speaker 4: in the second half, and I mean, it's a grind
Speaker 4: to catch, and Pat Bailey's a guy that you know,
Speaker 4: to get the value. You want him to be catching
Speaker 4: as much as possible because he's a defensive wizard, and
Speaker 4: it just seems like he has struggled to stay fully,
Speaker 4: fully feeling like himself through the duration of the season.
Speaker 4: I think we talked about it too on the show
Speaker 4: in one of the episodes this offseason, about how insane
Speaker 4: his first and second half splits are in his career
Speaker 4: so far. That's something that you know, again, injuries have
Speaker 4: maybe played a little bit of a part into it,
Speaker 4: and also just conditioning and getting himself into a spot
Speaker 4: where like you just learn how to maintain your body more.
Speaker 2: At the big league level, you have more resources, were
Speaker 2: not how to use them more.
Speaker 4: Maybe that helps him extend into you know, August September,
Speaker 4: first half of the season in his career, he has
Speaker 4: a one to twenty one WRC plus second half of
Speaker 4: the season in his career, he's a thirty.
Speaker 2: Five WRC plus.
Speaker 4: That's the difference in slash line for those who you
Speaker 4: know don't don't love the the plus numbers two eighty six,
Speaker 4: three forty three, four fifty four versus one seventy nine
Speaker 4: thirty eight. So he doesn't even need to be good
Speaker 4: in the second half. You just need to not fully
Speaker 4: fall off a cliff. And to Peter's point, like he
Speaker 4: was a four to four point three four player last year,
Speaker 4: I think could easily push towards six. So it's not
Speaker 4: gonna be a flashy star. But from the value perspective,
Speaker 4: like I actually think that's a good answer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, arm you have anybody else Peter Armstrong.
Speaker 2: For me, it could go any which way because he's.
Speaker 4: Very aggressive, and I think the floor is high because
Speaker 4: of the fact that he's such a good defender. But
Speaker 4: this is a guy that elevates so well and can
Speaker 4: hit twenty to twenty five home runs.
Speaker 2: We saw him settle in more and more.
Speaker 4: With the bat, and the numbers got better and better
Speaker 4: and better as the season progressed. He is a wizard
Speaker 4: defensively as well, and I think he could steal in
Speaker 4: a full season. He got more comfortable and more comfortable.
Speaker 4: He was almost perfect. I think the first time he
Speaker 4: got thrown out was actually like a messed up play
Speaker 4: or smiscommunication.
Speaker 2: He got back picked. Like he could steal fifty.
Speaker 4: Bags and he can hit twenty home runs and he
Speaker 4: could be one of the best center fielders in Major
Speaker 4: League baseball. So I do think that's a guy that
Speaker 4: could end up making that leap and the bad of
Speaker 4: ball data, like he hits the ball hard, so I
Speaker 4: could see him pushing to that twenty five home run range,
Speaker 4: and you know, if he's putting up Jackson Merrill type
Speaker 4: of offensive numbers, which is a very lofty goal with
Speaker 4: his defense as well, Like that's that's a star.
Speaker 2: The other that I.
Speaker 4: Think it's a little bit more of a squint and
Speaker 4: a little bit more offensive driven is a Lawrence Butler,
Speaker 4: and we saw what he did in the second half,
Speaker 4: but his number is like to really dive into it.
Speaker 4: And again that was one of my favorite breakdowns I did.
Speaker 4: To have a tangible swing adjustment and a significant adjustment,
Speaker 4: and then to go from struggling in Triple A against
Speaker 4: fastballs and then to be one of the best hitters
Speaker 4: in Major League baseball over your final seventy plus games.
Speaker 2: I think there's a very real scenario where we see.
Speaker 4: Him just build on that and continue to be just
Speaker 4: one of the better mashers, you know, young masters in
Speaker 4: the game. Again, I think that one requires a little
Speaker 4: bit more squinting and you know, a lot more offensive output,
Speaker 4: but it wouldn't shock me with his talent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got one that requires a lot of squinting,
Speaker 3: and I don't I don't think it's superstar, but I'm
Speaker 3: just thinking, like he could remind everybody that he is
Speaker 3: a star in the making, Like I don't want people
Speaker 3: to forget how good Matt McClain's twenty twenty three was.
Speaker 2: I do like that answer.
Speaker 3: McClain could bounce back in a healthy twenty five and
Speaker 3: if he played all one hundred and forty hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty games, he could be an All Star and a
Speaker 3: five win player, playing a couple of different positions and
Speaker 3: be this multifaceted offensive piece. Who opsd about what eight sixty.
Speaker 3: I think in Cincinnati and his rookie year, maybe.
Speaker 4: Even played good short and played good short and they
Speaker 4: could steal bag. So yeah, I love that answer, and
Speaker 4: I I think, you know, superstar, No but Star Star
Speaker 4: Run Star Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Quick question for both of you, because you're both PCA
Speaker 1: enjoyers and you're both Michael Harris enjoyers. I need you
Speaker 1: to project. I need you to put on a Galaxy
Speaker 1: Brain aluminum foil hat for me for a second. Not
Speaker 1: really conspiracy, just projecting long term. Who has the best
Speaker 1: peak season between PCA and Michael Harris peak?
Speaker 3: Is PCA? Really Harris will be better year over a year.
Speaker 1: So you think like PCA's best year will be better
Speaker 1: than Michael Harris's best year, but Michael Harris will have
Speaker 1: longer and better career. I do, yes, arm are you
Speaker 1: aligned there?
Speaker 4: I think Michael Harris, if everything goes right, can have
Speaker 4: a better season because he hits the ball harder and
Speaker 4: he hits the ball more consistently. So I'd actually go Mike, Dude.
Speaker 4: Mike Harris ran a ninetieth PERCENTILEX of Wlostit You last
Speaker 4: year of one hundred and eight point six miles per hour.
Speaker 4: That puts him in like the thirty to forty home
Speaker 4: run territory type of guys. The problem is he always
Speaker 4: puts the ball on the ground, and I don't know
Speaker 4: if that's something that will end up fully rectifying, but
Speaker 4: he puts the bat on ball a little bit more consistently,
Speaker 4: Like if he's able to convert that raw like that's
Speaker 4: plus plus raw power, which is crazy out of him,
Speaker 4: Like he could end up converting that into you know,
Speaker 4: a monstrous season.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he does it or not.
Speaker 4: I think PCA swing is more grooved to get hot
Speaker 4: and hit thirty if everything that's right.
Speaker 3: That's my point, Like you were saying PCA is so
Speaker 3: geared to lift riggly wind blowing out summer, like he
Speaker 3: could go mon he's twenty five homers across three months
Speaker 3: and jack.
Speaker 1: To further your point, Michael Harris ain'ts stealing fifty backs.
Speaker 1: That's like PCA could right and peak defensive value. Could
Speaker 1: PCA also be the peak.
Speaker 3: It's probably comparable.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, that's an interesting question.
Speaker 4: I'm starting to lose faith and Mike Harris being able
Speaker 4: to elevate, and that's fine, Like if he doesn't elevate,
Speaker 4: he's gonna always hit the ball hard and just be
Speaker 4: a high babbit guy and.
Speaker 2: Get hit enough home runs.
Speaker 4: Maybe there's a little bit more confidence that PCA can
Speaker 4: become a bit more well rounded of a hitter and
Speaker 4: already has again, the angle is to hit a home
Speaker 4: run so or hit a lot of home runs, so that.
Speaker 2: That is tough.
Speaker 4: I all side with the batted ball data of Mike
Speaker 4: Harris and hoping it but I could see either.
Speaker 3: Or gotcha nice? All right, let's jump to you know,
Speaker 3: maybe the picture version of this question. And I love this.
Speaker 3: This is from at Skuyler Clifton on X who is
Speaker 3: on your Mount stuff More? Not best pictures, just favorite
Speaker 3: guys to watch because of their filthy repertoire. And this
Speaker 3: could turn into guys naming dudes, but for the sake
Speaker 3: of you know, like Mount Rushmore, Mount stuff More, I
Speaker 3: picked four. I've got two relievers and I've got two starters.
Speaker 1: Guys, I have a question before we begin. I took
Speaker 1: it as right now, did you guys take it as
Speaker 1: all time? No? Right now, right now? Okay, perfect. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to make sure.
Speaker 2: I got one guy and I like he's been my
Speaker 2: favorite since the.
Speaker 4: Minor leagues to just just dial up video on and
Speaker 4: I don't need any I don't need any more. Huh yeah,
Speaker 4: go ahead, all right, Jeremiah Strata, Like I'm telling you,
Speaker 4: I don't think he gets enough attention for how outrageous
Speaker 4: his stuff is because it's three pitches that are all
Speaker 4: insanely bizarre in how they work off each other. So
Speaker 4: his fastball averages ninety seven miles per hour, but this
Speaker 4: dude gets So I always talking about like cut ride fastballs,
Speaker 4: and that's going to be you know, usually cut ride
Speaker 4: fastball is gonna a guy just naturally cuts it, but
Speaker 4: it stays up and it'll get maybe thirteen fourteen inches
Speaker 4: avert but no horizontal, so that ride plays up. Jeremiahs
Speaker 4: Strada gets nineteen and a half inches of vert and
Speaker 4: only one and a half inches of horizontal, so it's
Speaker 4: like it looks like it's cutting, but it's also riding like.
Speaker 2: A true just like vert fastball. So that already is outrageous.
Speaker 4: And he's throwing in a ninety seven and it's a
Speaker 4: slightly above average extension.
Speaker 2: That fastball, I think is one of the best fastballs
Speaker 2: in Major League baseball.
Speaker 4: And then you have a slider that is ridiculous off
Speaker 4: of that tunnels like a nightmare. And then he has
Speaker 4: a splitter that averages eleven inches or ten inches of
Speaker 4: vertical separation fourteen miles per hour. In velocity separation and
Speaker 4: then another ten inches of horizontal separation.
Speaker 3: That is I.
Speaker 4: Think as disgusting of like a dichotomy between fastball and splitter,
Speaker 4: Like that might be the closest thing to what Sasaki
Speaker 4: is going to be bringing over so and with Sasaki,
Speaker 4: it's more just the splitter being way over here in
Speaker 4: the fastball just being hard. I think the arsenal that
Speaker 4: he brings to the table is up there with just
Speaker 4: about anybody, and that's why opponents hit one eighty eight
Speaker 4: against him last year.
Speaker 3: So you have nobody else. It was just that guy
Speaker 3: and that's it.
Speaker 2: I'll pull a couple others, but that's clear cut.
Speaker 1: For me, Like my favorite cool for me, I have
Speaker 1: a reliever that I think has better stuff than Jerebiah
Speaker 1: shot up. But I mean that was a great pitch.
Speaker 1: I mean the different ways that those balls are moving
Speaker 1: is incredible. But I think Joan Duran is the best
Speaker 1: of of any reliever.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean we're looking at a guy who's averaging one
Speaker 1: hundred and one miles an hour with his fastball and
Speaker 1: then he just throws this ninety seven mile hour splinker.
Speaker 1: I mean, what the hell is even that? And then
Speaker 1: you're getting used to one oh one versus ninety six,
Speaker 1: and then it's an eighty six mine hour curveball that
Speaker 1: opponents hit one fifty one against and whiffed at a
Speaker 1: forty seven percent rate. Like, he's also a three pitch
Speaker 1: guy with one hundred and ninety seven min hour splinker
Speaker 1: eighty six mine hour curveball. Yeah, he's number one for me.
Speaker 1: Sneaky also, and I'm sure you're gonna mention him, but
Speaker 1: Ryan Helsley phenomenal. Fact. The only thing these two pitch
Speaker 1: guys I just tried to stay away from with the relievers.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, Joan Duran could be a two pitch guy,
Speaker 1: but he decides to throw a curveball and he's just disgusting.
Speaker 4: You could probably be a one pitch guy, dude, Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: seeing ninety seven next to splitter, like it's like breaking.
Speaker 2: I'm staring at it right now. It's just like breaking
Speaker 2: my brain.
Speaker 4: But the other crazy part is he like lands that
Speaker 4: pitch for a strike, like pretty consistently it is seventy
Speaker 4: four percent strike right on the splitter the splinker.
Speaker 2: Really, I mean that just outrage your stuff.
Speaker 4: Like obviously Paul Skeens would be the most fun answer
Speaker 4: because of what he can do on the topic of splinkers.
Speaker 2: But like Paul Skeen's is going to be just about
Speaker 2: everybody's answer Duran.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you're doing that, and then you also got
Speaker 4: one oh two, you know in the tank, it's he's
Speaker 4: got to be up there, if not the most ridiculous pitcher.
Speaker 1: Who are your relievers?
Speaker 2: Drek?
Speaker 3: So my two relievers biased, but Ryan Walker just the
Speaker 3: way that everything.
Speaker 1: Dips Walker, I so okay with that answer.
Speaker 3: I like, I watch him and he breaks my brain.
Speaker 3: It's like, how can any hitter deal with this? Because
Speaker 3: he's throwing from left field and then it's like ninety
Speaker 3: five somehow from there, and then it's like this insane
Speaker 3: sweeper off of that. I don't read. My brain doesn't
Speaker 3: compute how hitters can compete with that. And then the
Speaker 3: other guy, you know, the carnival game or like you
Speaker 3: have it in bars sometimes. I think it was at
Speaker 3: Harry's in Syracuse, the punching bag that you just like
Speaker 3: hit as hard as you can and you just like
Speaker 3: you're in awe at the score. Ben Joyce makes that
Speaker 3: list because I feel like every time he throws a
Speaker 3: baseball I'm watching somebody like punch that bag harder than
Speaker 3: I could ever dream of doing it. I'm like, how
Speaker 3: hard are you gonna throw this one? I'm just I'm
Speaker 3: I'm glued to him. Every time he throws a fastball.
Speaker 1: He's like a heavyweight boxer. I mean, one O six
Speaker 1: is one of sex. Like yeah, like could be the
Speaker 1: end of conversation. It's one oh freaking six.
Speaker 3: I understand if he's a one trick pony, I get it,
Speaker 3: but that trick is like you do something nobody else
Speaker 3: in the world can do, and I love watching you
Speaker 3: do that one thing.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. I'm with that one.
Speaker 4: Kirkering as well, that slider, Like I know it's just
Speaker 4: one one pitch specifically there, but I could watch that
Speaker 4: slider all day, Like that's pretty much like an eighty
Speaker 4: grade pitch. And then this is a little bit different
Speaker 4: because it's not really just how the pitches move. But
Speaker 4: I think it's I was talking about this today partly
Speaker 4: because I actually saw him at the park today and
Speaker 4: the holy crap is.
Speaker 2: He's all our oldest Chapman dude.
Speaker 4: Also watching him get his work in, it's all like
Speaker 4: coiling work and like he's on the turf field. Just
Speaker 4: the way his body moves is just ridiculous.
Speaker 2: And it makes sense.
Speaker 3: I he's physically designed to throw one hundred and five
Speaker 3: miles an hour, because like he's all legs and like
Speaker 3: it's insane.
Speaker 4: But to be that long and then be able to
Speaker 4: coil the way that he does and push from there,
Speaker 4: and I see how he can do it now literally
Speaker 4: watching him get his work, and it's it's outrageous the
Speaker 4: stuff that he does. But when we were in Pittsburgh
Speaker 4: for the Stadium tour and he was warming up in
Speaker 4: the bullpen, We're about to look like straight down and
Speaker 4: I'm just watching the way that he loads into that
Speaker 4: back leg and explodes. I was talking about it today.
Speaker 4: I would pay a lot of money to put a
Speaker 4: metal bat in his hand, have him load into that
Speaker 4: back hip and just take the biggest swing he possibly
Speaker 4: could until he goes like perfect perfect. I legitimately think
Speaker 4: he could hit a ball four hundred and eighty feet.
Speaker 2: He's got to be one of the most explosive athletes
Speaker 2: we've ever seen.
Speaker 1: So we've gone over a lot of cool answers. How
Speaker 1: about the obvious answers? Because I had three pretty obvious
Speaker 1: answers on my Mount stuff More. I had Skeens, I
Speaker 1: had Schooble. I think Scoople is disgusting. I know that
Speaker 1: he gets, you know, a lot of praise for his command,
Speaker 1: but still even if he didn't have command, that guy
Speaker 1: would be unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Because Snell and.
Speaker 1: Snell was my third. Like Snell, he gets a lot
Speaker 1: of shit for the walks, but to be that good
Speaker 1: when you're walking that many guys like this stuff is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Dylan Ceesah, stuff is unbelievable. But my official Mount stuff
Speaker 1: More was Paul Skeens, Trek Scouble, Blake Snell, and Joan Durant's.
Speaker 4: So that's just about Yeah what I that's almost undisputable
Speaker 4: And in allways, Glass, now I think you'd be in
Speaker 4: there as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mine tailored to me is Ryan Walker, Ben Joyce
Speaker 3: and the two starters. I had Jared Jones. Watching the
Speaker 3: fastball jump out of his hand is like, you shouldn't
Speaker 3: be able to do that from that frame, but he
Speaker 3: does that.
Speaker 1: He looks like he gets the most vert on his
Speaker 1: fastball in Major League Baseball. Like just watching the Pirates
Speaker 1: broadcast like it. You can see the ride in person.
Speaker 3: Dude, It's it's crazy to watch. And then this is
Speaker 3: the year it all clicks for Mackenzie Gore. I'm I'm
Speaker 3: married to it. I'm married to it. I love watching
Speaker 3: that guy pitch.
Speaker 1: In his Family Sophomore more than school book.
Speaker 3: So it's Jack and no, not more than Schooball and Skiins.
Speaker 3: I was just saying, like, guys that I love watching
Speaker 3: because I'm like, you're freaking.
Speaker 2: Nasty Jack and the Gore family.
Speaker 1: And that's.
Speaker 3: I'm obsessed. Man, this is the year.
Speaker 1: Who So who's your official Mount Sophomore.
Speaker 4: I think Mason Miller for me, just also because the
Speaker 4: story and and that's like a personal just like following
Speaker 4: through the Fall League minor leagues like and then up
Speaker 4: to the show. And just also when talk about vert
Speaker 4: and velocity, those guys that get to that velocity, the
Speaker 4: vert just naturally like cannot carry to that degree and
Speaker 4: he somehow makes that happen. I'm still keeping Jeremiah Strada
Speaker 4: on there, Lake Snell, Paul Skins, you know.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 4: And every time people ask me about Mount Rushmore, I
Speaker 4: forget how many people are on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's four of them.
Speaker 2: There's four so I'm tapped out.
Speaker 3: That's a you're good.
Speaker 1: Sneaky stuffmore guy Bryce Miller and the only reason I
Speaker 1: didn't actually include.
Speaker 2: He's so talented.
Speaker 1: He throws seven pitches and he just picked up a
Speaker 1: splitter last year for fun. Also, and then opponents that
Speaker 1: won forty eight against it.
Speaker 3: If we're playing that game, I think Darvish should be considered.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely he should. Yamamoto is gonna be up there.
Speaker 1: He's got five or six pitches too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, it's all crazy. All right, let's jump to
Speaker 3: the next one. I think this one's gonna be pretty quick.
Speaker 3: This is from at O Geary twenty nine on Instagram.
Speaker 3: Is there any team that made the playoffs last year
Speaker 3: that you guys think will not make it this year? No,
Speaker 3: Peter's pretty adamant with his answer.
Speaker 2: I just remember Valene ba Yozo also on my stuff
Speaker 2: May Joso.
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, I mean you already give my answer.
Speaker 3: I think I know it.
Speaker 1: I'm so out on the Orioles.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I just I'm so disappointed of what
Speaker 1: they've done with this rotation. Zach Efflin, I like Grayson
Speaker 1: Rodriguez could take that next step, but a forty one
Speaker 1: year old Charlie Morton, Dean Kramer, Toma Yuki Sigano, are
Speaker 1: we serious? And then like you went cheaper for Tyler
Speaker 1: O'Neal instead of Anthony Santander, and then Anthony Santander wasn't
Speaker 1: even that much more expensive, So you bet on kind
Speaker 1: of the upside of Tyler O'Neal. And I love Tyler
Speaker 1: O'Neill because I see the upside, but I also see
Speaker 1: the downside here, right, Like I like Colton Kowser, I
Speaker 1: like obviously Gunner, love Gunner. But then it's like, what
Speaker 1: is Adley gonna do? What is this first base tandem?
Speaker 1: Is Ryan O'Hearn gonna be this good again pairing with
Speaker 1: Ryan Mountcastle? Like there have been some injuries? How good
Speaker 1: is Cedric Mullins? Does Jackson Holiday finally take a step?
Speaker 1: So there's question marks in the offense, There's a million
Speaker 1: question marks in the rotation and then the bullpen even
Speaker 1: like Yen your canoe took a step back last year,
Speaker 1: Like Sar Anthony Dominguez is so inconsistent. He's great for
Speaker 1: a stretch and then he's not for another stretch. And
Speaker 1: then like Kitchrich is thirty five, and yeah he can
Speaker 1: lock down the seventh but and then Felix Bautista is
Speaker 1: coming back from TJ. Like, there's so much up in
Speaker 1: the air, and in an American League East where the
Speaker 1: Yankees are going to be very good, the Red Sox
Speaker 1: I think are going to be good. I think the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays are gonna be better, and I think the
Speaker 1: Rays are gonna be better. And with only so many spots,
Speaker 1: like I think the Orioles are gonna end up missing
Speaker 1: the playoffs.
Speaker 3: The only transactions so far this offseason that I look
Speaker 3: at and say, yeah, I objectively like it was Gary Sanchez.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it, just like a nice pick up makes sense,
Speaker 4: you know, until Besillah's ready figure it out. I And
Speaker 4: it's funny because they didn't spend the big deal besides
Speaker 4: Tyler O'Neal. But if you start to add together all
Speaker 4: the small deals, it turns into a pretty big number.
Speaker 4: And I don't like any of them. And I understand
Speaker 4: that you have to feel like you have to spread
Speaker 4: it out a little bit if you have a bunch
Speaker 4: of holes. I didn't think they had a bunch of holes.
Speaker 4: I think they could have went a little bit higher
Speaker 4: quality instead of the quantity thing and been in a
Speaker 4: good spot. I mean, once you combine Chicano and Morton
Speaker 4: and you even gave four million real dollars to Ramo
Speaker 4: and Loreano like that, that's turns into what got thirty
Speaker 4: million dollars something close to that. I just I don't
Speaker 4: really get it from that perspective, and I would have
Speaker 4: rather gone for more quality over over quantity.
Speaker 2: But you know, here we are.
Speaker 4: It's still a very talented team, and I think you know,
Speaker 4: if Tyler O'Neal can match what he did for most
Speaker 4: of last year, that absolutely helps. And the players just
Speaker 4: continuing to hopefully get better and add Lee quote unquote
Speaker 4: bouncing back even though it wasn't a bad year. But
Speaker 4: I mean the pitching staff, I still think it is
Speaker 4: a lot of questions, like it's I get depth wise,
Speaker 4: it's fine, and then that's fine, Like I don't think
Speaker 4: it's gonna be a disaster, But who's gonna be the
Speaker 4: guy when you are going through a tough stretch. I
Speaker 4: always like aces are the like losing streak killers as well,
Speaker 4: right because.
Speaker 2: You can't score a run.
Speaker 4: It's been a you know, the offense has been struggling
Speaker 4: for a week and a half and then you get
Speaker 4: your ace on the mound. Who puts up zeros and
Speaker 4: you're like, Okay, we only need two runs to win today.
Speaker 4: Who is that guy? Maybe it's Grayson. They really need
Speaker 4: Grayson to be that guy next year. And he's battled
Speaker 4: health issues and you know, and some fastball quality concerns.
Speaker 4: Like I can't talk myself into really anybody else being
Speaker 4: that guy in the rotation.
Speaker 1: And they lost that guy. I mean, Corbyn burns one
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety four innings that they're not going to have.
Speaker 1: Like Tyler O'Neal might be a good player, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's hitting forty four jacks like Santander did, especially
Speaker 1: with that left field and in Camdon Yards. Are they
Speaker 1: bringing it in a little bit?
Speaker 2: I saw they brought it in.
Speaker 1: They brought it in. Still, I mean it's still far,
Speaker 1: Like it's still hard for right handed hitter to get
Speaker 1: that many home runs out of the ballpark. And Tyler
Speaker 1: O'Neill's plenty of talent, but there's a reason he was
Speaker 1: cheaper than Santander, right, There's a reason for that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I was so excited for the Orioles this offseason, I
Speaker 1: thought that they could really make some big splashes. I
Speaker 1: thought they could be the team to trade for Crochet,
Speaker 1: and Michaelias has just been operating like a scared little puppy.
Speaker 1: And then what's further pissing me off is I start
Speaker 1: ripping these moves on Twitter and Orioles fans are like, no,
Speaker 1: Charlie Morton is actually a great addition dot com. The
Speaker 1: Yuki Sigano was actually.
Speaker 2: Could be very good.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, what are you people talking about. Shouldn't
Speaker 1: we be going after Michael Lias right now? Shouldn't we
Speaker 1: be mad at him instead of just like, oh no,
Speaker 1: I trust the process, Like what is the process so far?
Speaker 1: Even giving you guys good regular seasons? Bounced early every
Speaker 1: playoff run? Then what so I'm I'm extremely upset and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bet the Oorls to miss the playoffs.
Speaker 2: They're gonna squad.
Speaker 4: They have a chance to squander a very talented young
Speaker 4: core that will get very expensive and probably won't be
Speaker 4: able to be retained across the board. And that's why
Speaker 4: it's like, you have a cheap, you know, star powered offense,
Speaker 4: address it and be aggressive and push the chips forward,
Speaker 4: and it's just not the way Michael Olias operates. I
Speaker 4: think that's become very clear. It seems like he is very,
Speaker 4: very cautious, and I think he should be on on
Speaker 4: on fraud watch going into this year for sure, because
Speaker 4: I I'm not a big Sicano guy either, and I
Speaker 4: don't know how that stuff's gonna play. But the other
Speaker 4: answer for me, and I hope I'm wrong on this
Speaker 4: front because I still think, you know, as Jack mentioned,
Speaker 4: they have plenty of talent is the Padres though, just
Speaker 4: because I do wonder, you know, how morale is there
Speaker 4: as well too. I saw, you know, Manny Machado talking
Speaker 4: about like, yeah, of course we're upset that we didn't.
Speaker 2: Make any additions.
Speaker 4: And you know, I'm not saying that guys are just gonna,
Speaker 4: you know, show up and not try. Of course, they're
Speaker 4: they're gonna, they're gonna try to compete, and they they
Speaker 4: know that. They look around the clubhouse, there's still a
Speaker 4: lot of star power around them. But Luisa Raya has
Speaker 4: been in trade talks all off season. I like that's
Speaker 4: been something he's been dealing with. Dylan sees the same story,
Speaker 4: Michael King the same story and even if they're not moved,
Speaker 4: like I don't know, it's just kind of weird. You
Speaker 4: go into this spring training you're not even sure who's
Speaker 4: gonna still be there, if they are gonna be there,
Speaker 4: if they were even gonna be there by the time
Speaker 4: you got there. I think there's just this and it's
Speaker 4: unfortunate because I think that, you know, the passing of
Speaker 4: Peter Sidewaer obviously impacted this big time as well. But
Speaker 4: you just I feel like there's this weird energy around
Speaker 4: the padres right now, and it's gotta be seeping through
Speaker 4: internally in terms of the financial challenges, uh, the trade
Speaker 4: rumors consistently and just where they're at. The team has
Speaker 4: a talent to absolutely get back to the playoffs, and
Speaker 4: I think the bullpen is gonna be huge for them
Speaker 4: because they have plenty of talent throughout there. But as
Speaker 4: we talked about, like if you Darvish goes down, you're
Speaker 4: looking at a rotation here where it's cees king and
Speaker 4: then you're trying to fill it out, and I think
Speaker 4: there's a case to be made that, you know, converting
Speaker 4: one of their relievers into a starter, and whether it's
Speaker 4: off an injured more Hoone or bryanoing back to the
Speaker 4: rotation could be one of their better options.
Speaker 2: That's when you know it's pretty thin.
Speaker 4: And then offensively, like we're still looking at a situation
Speaker 4: where I mean, based on roster resource, you got Tirso
Speaker 4: Arnells startin in a corner who I don't hate, but
Speaker 4: like we're talking about a playoff team and Eggy Rizzario
Speaker 4: potentially starting, we probably need a little bit more you know, firepower.
Speaker 1: There and arm just too further your point, you were
Speaker 1: talking about the magic there for a little bit, Like
Speaker 1: they are losing Jerkson Profar from last year. And I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that if they had re signed Jerkson Profar
Speaker 1: that they can run it back, but jerks and Profar
Speaker 1: was the best hitter in Major League Baseball last year
Speaker 1: when it came to high leverage and the Padres were
Speaker 1: ten and two in extra inning games, they had magic
Speaker 1: about them right the year before that they were two
Speaker 1: and twelve in xt ra inning games and they went
Speaker 1: eighty two and eighty. Like sometimes that little bit of
Speaker 1: magic that stuff in the clubhouse matters. Ask Mets fans
Speaker 1: with Jose Glacias, like that shit matters, and losing a
Speaker 1: guy like Profart not only in that clubhouse, but the
Speaker 1: magic he brought with the bat last year is sometimes
Speaker 1: just a flash in the pan. So now you lose
Speaker 1: that guy. And also Kims Nooslatch either.
Speaker 3: Exactly you think I was gonna say. They also lost
Speaker 3: their short stop. That's kind of important.
Speaker 1: And now we're looking at a team without a lot
Speaker 1: of magic, right like Fernanda Tachi's junior manaum Chado's Innerbergers.
Speaker 1: These guys are all good players, but like, is there
Speaker 1: a magic to them?
Speaker 3: I don't think that you can project magic in February.
Speaker 1: I'm doing it.
Speaker 3: I think that's impossible to project magic in February. Like
Speaker 3: for yourself. Do you think anybody sat here on February sixth,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four and said, you know what, jose I
Speaker 3: Glasias is gonna be huge for some That was me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that was me.
Speaker 2: No, you don't even predicted the Jillboard top hit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, have you heard of this Sabrina Carpenter, She's gonna
Speaker 3: be on a roll. You'uring like a year.
Speaker 1: No, I just I just wanted to point to like
Speaker 1: the Padres were so much fun because the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three Padres like they were such a bore. There were
Speaker 1: such a bore. They had great players, but it just
Speaker 1: felt when they were up in the game, they'd lay down.
Speaker 1: They might close it out, but they lost some leads,
Speaker 1: and then when they were down in the game, it
Speaker 1: felt like the game was over. Like all I had
Speaker 1: to watch was the first five innings of a Padres
Speaker 1: game to see where the game was gonna go. And
Speaker 1: then you're also taking out Tanner Scott from that bullpen
Speaker 1: on top of it, who's like an incredibly alle reliever.
Speaker 1: I know he wasn't on the team the entire time,
Speaker 1: but for that stretch he was unhittable. So it's like,
Speaker 1: then you're taking away Blake Snell, You're taking away some bats.
Speaker 1: It's just like, yeah, I agree with you, ar they
Speaker 1: would be my team in the National League to miss
Speaker 1: the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, we are alive and on both of those
Speaker 3: so baldly in San Diego. Yeah, those are two that
Speaker 3: I had written down. We got two more questions. Let's
Speaker 3: go to Giovanni P two on Instagram. Who is the
Speaker 3: prospect that no one is talking about that could make
Speaker 3: a serious impact at the MLB level. I think arm
Speaker 3: just mentioned Tyarsore, Neelas and like that is where my
Speaker 3: mind went immediately, and I went for twenty five. I'm
Speaker 3: not talking about a guy that like, oh he's underrated,
Speaker 3: but he's killing in High A and you know he
Speaker 3: could be awesome in twenty twenty seven. I went twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five. Who could be a big piece of the
Speaker 3: major league level that like, really nobody knows of. The
Speaker 3: two names that came to my mind immediately were Tiarsore
Speaker 3: and Alas in San Diego, and then Chase my Draft,
Speaker 3: who was just acquired in the Garrett Crochet deal. My
Speaker 3: draft can play every single day for the White Sox,
Speaker 3: and he may be by ops plus considering how much
Speaker 3: he walks, he may be their best player by ops
Speaker 3: plus on that team.
Speaker 4: Wild Yeah, Like I know, I used her so as
Speaker 4: an example, like, eh, well, you don't know what's going
Speaker 4: on out there, but I do like him, you know,
Speaker 4: I think it's just we're talking about a playoff team
Speaker 4: that goes from profar with a one thirty WRC plus two.
Speaker 2: You know he's a rookie.
Speaker 4: Yeah so but Tierso, dude, like that guy can hit
Speaker 4: and I know you you watched him all the way
Speaker 4: back in Fort Wayne, and I know you liked him then,
Speaker 4: but contact rates wise, exit velocity wise, like that's a
Speaker 4: good that no one's really paying attention to.
Speaker 2: But I mean, he mashed last year.
Speaker 4: He's put together solid numbers consistently, and like, I do
Speaker 4: think this is a guy that could hit twenty to
Speaker 4: twenty five home runs if he makes the transition that
Speaker 4: you know you want to see and and and seems
Speaker 4: to be ready to go, especially with the combination of
Speaker 4: evs and field to hit. I think he hit twenty
Speaker 4: something this past year, and then he's playing right now
Speaker 4: in the Winter League and and just absolutely mashing out
Speaker 4: there too, I think in Mexico, so he just hasn't
Speaker 4: stopped hitting. I do think that's a guy that that
Speaker 4: the Padres actually do have faith, and it's not just
Speaker 4: because of you know, by default I love them major
Speaker 4: my drost shout, But you know, I was thinking about impact,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, so he's gonna he's gonna get them
Speaker 4: from fifty or forty wins to forty four. But I
Speaker 4: do think he's gonna be one of the better young
Speaker 4: hitters in the game if he if he gets an
Speaker 4: early opportunity.
Speaker 1: For wod guy forward guy.
Speaker 4: Like I wonder if it should count that way if
Speaker 4: you're that bad as a team. It's like, no, we
Speaker 4: just we we plugged in my draft for a guy
Speaker 4: that was negative too at four before that. So you know,
Speaker 4: I think people are talking about him, But Emmanuel Rodriguez
Speaker 4: I think deserves a shout because he only played thirty
Speaker 4: something games last year as he dealt with a thumb issue.
Speaker 4: But this is a guy that kind of similar to
Speaker 4: the de laughter conversation, I just think he's he's so close.
Speaker 2: To ready, if not ready, with the approach and the power,
Speaker 2: and he can really.
Speaker 4: Play a good center field that the Twins might just say,
Speaker 4: you know what, fuck it, dude, like, just come up
Speaker 4: here and let's see if you can stay healthy with
Speaker 4: you know, with our big league staffle. I don't know,
Speaker 4: but I got to see if you can stay healthy
Speaker 4: up here, and and you know, I do think that's
Speaker 4: a guy that can play above average defense, center walk
Speaker 4: at a ridiculously high clip, and he's got plus plus
Speaker 4: raw power. A lower end shout, but a guy that,
Speaker 4: like on a team that needs any bat that can
Speaker 4: kind of break through and has the pitching to make
Speaker 4: some noise is the Pirates and I think Nick York
Speaker 4: I'm standing on this one.
Speaker 2: I think York's gonna have a good year.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: He can play all over the diamond. He's I think
Speaker 4: every tool of his has been underrated. He's faster than
Speaker 4: he gets credit for. He has a better arm than
Speaker 4: he gets credit for. He can move all over the
Speaker 4: diamond more than he gets credit for. He gets the
Speaker 4: ball harder than he gets credit for. I think he's
Speaker 4: going to be a super utility type or just end
Speaker 4: up hitting his way into playing regularly in a certain spot.
Speaker 2: But he's going to be I think ten to fifteen
Speaker 2: home runs, a shitload of doubles, dcent obp, swipe some
Speaker 2: bags and and for the Pirates like they need those guys. Yeah.
Speaker 3: In same line of thinking, Andy Rodriguez is going to
Speaker 3: be such a welcome sight in that lineup. I'm excited
Speaker 3: to see Andy back in that lineup, and he's spelling
Speaker 3: bart instead of yes, money groundl. There is one more name.
Speaker 3: Tex has started their bullpen from scratch. I'm looking at
Speaker 3: their depth chart right now and you could argue that
Speaker 3: I think their six leverage arms at this point have
Speaker 3: all been acquired in the last two to three months,
Speaker 3: Chris Martin, Robert Garcia, Jacob Webb, Shawn Armstrong, Hoby Miller,
Speaker 3: Jesse Chavez. Chris Martin is probably the closer of that group,
Speaker 3: but enter Emiliano Toyoto and arm I know we've talked
Speaker 3: about that, Like, if they need a closer and they're
Speaker 3: willing to move Toyoto off of the starter thing, they should.
Speaker 3: He could be the closer for the Texas Rangers and
Speaker 3: they could be contending in that division with the guy
Speaker 3: that has yet to make his debut, and.
Speaker 2: I think they should like.
Speaker 4: And it's not because there's something specifically like wrong with
Speaker 4: him in terms of, oh, he definitely can't start. I
Speaker 4: do think the arsenal points towards the bullpen anyways, but
Speaker 4: you can always move him back to the rotation. I
Speaker 4: just think that's a guy that can help your team tomorrow, yeah,
Speaker 4: out of the bullpen and really make an impact. Then
Speaker 4: you can continue to develop him yea that way. Well,
Speaker 4: another very boring name, but I legitimately think he could
Speaker 4: if they allow him. We just talked about him on
Speaker 4: the call up, like could pitch to one hundred and
Speaker 4: ninety innings at like a three nine is Michael McGreevy,
Speaker 4: and I like it's a different kind of impact, But
Speaker 4: like we talked about how hard it is to pitch
Speaker 4: a lot of innings, McGreevey has been the innings zeter
Speaker 4: in the minor leagues. I love the adjustment stuff wise,
Speaker 4: where he added a cutter, He's getting more depth on
Speaker 4: the sinker, which allowed him to get a lot more
Speaker 4: ground balls, the four seemers playing better, He adjusted his
Speaker 4: slider to be more of a sweeper. I think those
Speaker 4: all played into him having the success that he had
Speaker 4: at the big league level and overall last year. And
Speaker 4: again it's not like, uh, like a star impact, but
Speaker 4: if you get a guy that's pitch into a three
Speaker 4: nine to or four to one and giving you one
Speaker 4: hundred eighty innings, especially with how banged up those older
Speaker 4: guys have been in that rotation, that's a pretty significant
Speaker 4: impact from a rookie.
Speaker 2: And I absolutely think McGreevey can be that.
Speaker 1: You guys really got in your bag for this one.
Speaker 1: For a lot of the deep cuts. I wrote down
Speaker 1: two names that I'm surprised that you guys didn't even mention,
Speaker 1: like Matt Shaw with the Chicago Cubs.
Speaker 2: Well, they said nobody talking about Oh.
Speaker 1: Nobody talked about that. I just didn't even read the question.
Speaker 1: So that's completely on me. So I wrote down Matt
Speaker 1: Shaw off the Chicago Comes, an entrepater of the Phillies,
Speaker 1: and I was like, are we not? Like, what are
Speaker 1: we doing here?
Speaker 3: That was my That was my fatal flaw in standardized tests.
Speaker 3: I think I could have been an Ivy leaguer if
Speaker 3: I just read the question. And I didn't do that.
Speaker 1: My bad. Giavadi p two on Instagram. But I just
Speaker 1: didn't even read the question. I wrote John, I was like,
Speaker 1: are they just gonna leave these guys for me? That
Speaker 1: bring we wanted?
Speaker 2: We wanted to make you look good on the prospect front.
Speaker 3: There have been a couple of mail bag questions where
Speaker 3: Peter has just been like, yeah, I misinterpreted this entirely, and.
Speaker 1: I've just been like, wait, I did National League like
Speaker 1: when it said clearly American League or some sort of prospects.
Speaker 3: My favorite one was is somebody wanted us to put
Speaker 3: together like an all underrated team or something, and you
Speaker 3: know that was just like all underrated team. I was
Speaker 3: assuming active players and you were like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: Stan musial like he should get a lot more credit.
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, no, no doubt, dude, that did happen.
Speaker 1: I can't happen. Yeah, it's the best reader, just a
Speaker 1: ball doer words with either.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we've got one more question here, And this
Speaker 3: is a fun one super Bowl related. Our cat five
Speaker 3: on Instagram asks, because it's Super Bowl week, try and
Speaker 3: make a football team with active MLB guys. Bretas probably
Speaker 3: don't have to do. Lineman. Peter sent us the positional
Speaker 3: breakdown quarterback, running back, two wide outs, tight end, safety, corner, linebacker, edge, rusher,
Speaker 3: d tackle perfect. We can just run through him. I've
Speaker 3: got my team ready to go, Peter, you got yours.
Speaker 1: Let's go position by position and see who we all have.
Speaker 1: All right, So quarterback, I felt like a simp loser
Speaker 1: fan boy, But like, is Sho hal Tani not the
Speaker 1: greatest joy quarterback? I mean, the guy could throw one
Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour off the bout, He's fast as ship,
Speaker 1: and he's clearly smart. But I wanted to go a
Speaker 1: different route for my for my quarterback, besides taking the
Speaker 1: obvious choice, give me Breton Doyle combinational speed with arm
Speaker 1: talent he's pulling down one oh three from the outfield
Speaker 1: while being one of the tops in sprint speed, clearly
Speaker 1: one of the best defenders in baseball. He'd make for
Speaker 1: a great safety. But at quarterback, I want that arm
Speaker 1: and I want that speed. I want that dual threat ability.
Speaker 3: Jack who you got for QB skeins He throws a
Speaker 3: football before every start already, so I'm doing that, And
Speaker 3: I also want six six two thirty five. I feel
Speaker 3: like if he does need to tuck and run, it's
Speaker 3: gonna be really hard to bring him down. But I
Speaker 3: trust the arm talent big time. I would have gone Bubba,
Speaker 3: but Bubba's not a big leaguer right now.
Speaker 2: So I was gonna ask.
Speaker 4: So Tim Tawa was added to the forty man roster
Speaker 4: and is expected to be on the active roster.
Speaker 3: For the count Got Jones it's safety. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: We can't just get all of the guys who also
Speaker 1: played football in college or something like that, Like we
Speaker 1: need like jit MLB player.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be an MLB player this He's gonna be
Speaker 2: on the opening day roster. He will be on the
Speaker 2: opening day roster.
Speaker 1: So take Tim Tala.
Speaker 4: So Tim Tawa, he didn't play in college, but he's
Speaker 4: the all time passing leader for the state of Oregon
Speaker 4: eleven and fifty seven yards, one hundred and forty three touchdowns,
Speaker 4: which is crazy. His coach, Chris Miller, former NFL quarterback,
Speaker 4: called him the best coach or the best quarterback in
Speaker 4: Oregon history. He won the Gatorade Player of the Year
Speaker 4: three times.
Speaker 1: Why didn't play college football, I don't know.
Speaker 2: He was a He was a good baseball player at Stanford, a.
Speaker 3: Quarterback from Oregon. Eric Dungee CS stand up.
Speaker 1: Stand up.
Speaker 4: So Tala was like, my just because he's gonna be
Speaker 4: on the active roster, I thought.
Speaker 3: You should door key pick dude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry, Tim, Tala great poul all right, should
Speaker 1: we go running back? Yeah? I went Bobby with junior.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's top spread speed major League baseball from last year.
Speaker 1: And he's got some size to him. He's not one
Speaker 1: of these you know, little guys who will just you know,
Speaker 1: you could swap him on the outfield for some extra
Speaker 1: defense or as a pinch runner or anything like that. No,
Speaker 1: this is Bobby Wood junior, fastest guy in baseball standing
Speaker 1: at six one, two hundred. We'll take that Bobby with
Speaker 1: Junior my running back.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I want my guy to survive between the tackles.
Speaker 3: M Dick's foot two twenty five, ninety eighth percentile and
Speaker 3: sprint speed. Wyatt Langford was a running back created in
Speaker 3: a lab.
Speaker 2: Give me in another position action.
Speaker 1: I haven't had another position running back. I mean, we
Speaker 1: gotta look at these football builds, and we're.
Speaker 3: Gonna he has a football build. I feel like that
Speaker 3: dude could take twenty to twenty five hits a game
Speaker 3: and be fine.
Speaker 1: Or who's your running back?
Speaker 2: So I went with Justin Twine former Marlin second.
Speaker 3: Now I'm great.
Speaker 2: Running back wise.
Speaker 4: I was trying to think if I want like a skinny, quick,
Speaker 4: shifty guy or or a bigger dude that can that
Speaker 4: can take hits. But I ended up settling on on
Speaker 4: Bobby wit Junior as well, because you have like a
Speaker 4: built dude who also is one of the fastest, if
Speaker 4: not the fastest, in Major League Baseball. I just think
Speaker 4: it's hard to go any other route than that. But
Speaker 4: another one that I was thinking, you could also put
Speaker 4: him in another position, but Jared Duran. Jared Duran is
Speaker 4: one of the fastest players in baseball. I don't have
Speaker 4: to sell you on the physicality there. So I just
Speaker 4: I like him just being able to run between the tackles.
Speaker 4: But also, you know, can can get around the edge
Speaker 4: on the outside, so to be different, I'll say Jared Duran.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was trying to find MLB's version of Maurice
Speaker 1: Jones true, and I couldn't really like al Tuove could
Speaker 1: slip through, yeah, but Altuve has to get one hundred
Speaker 1: to die. Yes, like Reseoch sure. I think it was
Speaker 1: like five eight two thirty all bustled speed. We just
Speaker 1: don't have.
Speaker 3: Kurt doesn't move like that. Alejandro Kirk does not move
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, a great center if we're talking lineman, that's who
Speaker 1: maybe you want to center wide receivers.
Speaker 2: I thought it was easy.
Speaker 1: I thought, so I want the cruises on both ends,
Speaker 1: Ellie on Ellie going deep, and I want Odeal cruise
Speaker 1: running a post so good, I hear you.
Speaker 3: I wanted to I wanted a guy that could go
Speaker 3: up and get it. So O'Neal Cruz was the guy
Speaker 3: that I had in there. But I thought, okay, do
Speaker 3: I go O'Neal and Ellie? I want a slot guy.
Speaker 3: Give me Corbyn Carroll in the slot.
Speaker 2: I was thinking him, he's not even the best slot
Speaker 2: receiver on his team.
Speaker 3: Corbyn Carroll Thomas would be the one.
Speaker 2: Alec Thomas would be the one.
Speaker 3: Alec Thomas would be the one was gonna play wide
Speaker 3: out at tcum Okay, I think.
Speaker 1: I'd rather have tell Martate my slot that Alec Thomas.
Speaker 3: No, I'd rather have Corbyn Carroll because he's just like
Speaker 3: I'm just thinking, like you do the little pop pass,
Speaker 3: you do the touch pass, like you send him in motion.
Speaker 3: He's beating everybody to the edge. He's off to the races.
Speaker 1: I like that arm. Who are your wide receivers?
Speaker 4: I want Ellie because like just straight running a straight line,
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna have Tim Tawa get that thing up
Speaker 4: in the air.
Speaker 2: And we're gonna kid.
Speaker 3: Playing running back. Sorry, who's the Marlins kid playing running back? Oh?
Speaker 4: Justin Twine, former second round pick, did not pan out
Speaker 4: as a baseball player.
Speaker 2: But but he was a great running back. But it
Speaker 2: doesn't count. Never made it to the show.
Speaker 4: The other wide receiver doesn't count because he has MLB time,
Speaker 4: but he's on the triple A roster.
Speaker 2: The obvious answer would be Jordan Adams.
Speaker 3: But get it, I get it that counts.
Speaker 2: He was ranked ahead of Jamar Chase. Yeah, like on
Speaker 2: on two four seven.
Speaker 4: He's a five star receiver, but you know he was
Speaker 4: up at the big leagues last year, back and forth guy.
Speaker 2: So I know that's a little bit of a cop
Speaker 2: out answer.
Speaker 3: Can we still do Monte Harrison?
Speaker 2: No, he's not active anymore, can't do him.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think if there was, because that's why
Speaker 4: I had was Jordan Adams. But I like that Peko
Speaker 4: Armstrong with the way he can run down I mean,
Speaker 4: he'd have to probably be slot, you know, and could
Speaker 4: get hit pretty hard there. But the way he runs
Speaker 4: down balls and how quick and shifty he is, I
Speaker 4: think that's another good answer. And it's not like he's
Speaker 4: five nine, like he's sneaky. I actually don't know what
Speaker 4: the exact height weight is, but he's definitely.
Speaker 1: Not a small I think you guys are overthinking the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position six one. Would you rather have two
Speaker 1: Calvin Johnson's or a Calvin Johnson and a Wes Welker.
Speaker 1: I'll take two Calvin Johnson's, like I'll have Ellie day
Speaker 1: La Cruz my Calvin Johnson with O'Neil Cruz, my Randy
Speaker 1: Moss and we'll just go get it. So I'll take
Speaker 1: more talent rather than oh but maybe he's shifty.
Speaker 2: Is cutting yea.
Speaker 3: I know, I was thinking send O'Neil Cruz on goes
Speaker 3: and then Corbyn Carroll can do all my fancy stuff
Speaker 3: in the middle.
Speaker 1: I think, hell he could do some fancy stuff in
Speaker 1: the middle while o'neel Cruz just send him out.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. Man.
Speaker 1: Tight end easy, so easy. I mean we should all
Speaker 1: around the board. We'll say it on three three two one.
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge Aaron Judge, Yeah, I mean he's the perfect
Speaker 1: tight end. You'd think Stanton, but he can't.
Speaker 2: Run Stanton young Stanton without a doubt.
Speaker 1: Definitely.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But currently Aaron Judge six seven to eighty. I think
Speaker 1: he can legit play some tight end in that peak,
Speaker 1: So totally fine right now. I think of all the
Speaker 1: players on this list, honestly, Langford, yeah, I think Legford
Speaker 1: could legit play. I think Judge could actually be a
Speaker 1: good tight end in the NFL. Yeah, all right, defense, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so safety and corner. We want long guys, want fast
Speaker 1: guys who can cover a lot of ground. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: want the gazelle at my safety position. I want Byron
Speaker 1: Buckston coming down the coming down the pipe and just
Speaker 1: laying people out and just his legs back there in
Speaker 1: center field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that one play will be awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it will be It will be awesome. Give you
Speaker 1: a Byron bucks Out at my safety.
Speaker 3: Okay, uh, Buston is six two one ninety. Guy that
Speaker 3: I chose is six three to two thirty to play safety,
Speaker 3: and he's one of the fastest guys in baseball. Julio
Speaker 3: Rodriguez would be a heck of his safety.
Speaker 1: Oh crazy good safety. I was thinking him too.
Speaker 4: I got Langford at safety. I want im he's fast,
Speaker 4: but also I want him laying dudes out. So that's
Speaker 4: whur I was between linebacker and safety. I was like,
Speaker 4: I like him better at safety, so I went I
Speaker 4: went Wine, Like, why Langford at safety.
Speaker 1: Got you at cornerback? I went with the guy who
Speaker 1: I think I think has the quickest feet, Jacob Young
Speaker 1: Washington Nationals. He's got quick feet. Guys speaking around like
Speaker 1: a road runner out there. You tell me you couldn't
Speaker 1: lock down Justin Jefferson in a pinch on one play,
Speaker 1: I think he's locking him down. Give me Jacob Young.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, where'd you go with a cornerer?
Speaker 2: That's where I ultimately settled with Pete car Armstrong.
Speaker 4: The way that he tracks baseball's and you talk about
Speaker 4: the feet and and and everything, like, I think he
Speaker 4: would be the ball hawk like that, could just make
Speaker 4: a play on the ball every single time, beat beat
Speaker 4: the receiver sometimes of the ball is quickness U the
Speaker 4: shiftiness in general.
Speaker 2: Pc A I think would be a lockdown corner.
Speaker 1: Would he get beat over the top, though I'm worried
Speaker 1: about his size. Jacob Young sneaky six to one taller than.
Speaker 3: I. Actually, I didn't have a pick for corner because
Speaker 3: I had no idea how to judge it. So I
Speaker 3: will side with pc A. I love that because he
Speaker 3: just goes after balls with reckless abandon like I figure
Speaker 3: nothing is going to get in his way. Pursuing a
Speaker 3: ball in the air. Might be a lot of PI,
Speaker 3: but it's okay. I'm fine with it.
Speaker 1: I swore Pa was five nine, That's what I put
Speaker 1: in my head.
Speaker 3: One never mind moves like yeah, quick linebacker like Trout
Speaker 3: still looks like a linebacker. I know he's not going
Speaker 3: to survive. But like Mike Trout's my linebacker.
Speaker 1: Why Langford was my linebacker? I mean we all just
Speaker 1: put like for the different positions or move's your linebacker.
Speaker 2: I like my linebackers fast.
Speaker 4: He might be a little under sized, but Tyron Blanca
Speaker 4: would be the fastest linebacker like ever.
Speaker 3: Does he have the frame to hold up? No?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 4: So I'm actually gonna flip flop edge rusher and linebacker
Speaker 4: here linebacker, I'm going Stone Garrett.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, one yes, run stopping linebacker. Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Just warn dudes over. I love the Stone Garrett linebacker
Speaker 4: position right there.
Speaker 3: This is where I go with This is where I
Speaker 3: go with Astro's fifteenth round pick from a year ago,
Speaker 3: Bryce Betcher, who is delaying a report to spring training
Speaker 3: to play another year of linebacker at Oregon. He was
Speaker 3: the second highest graded linebacker in America by Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 3: and he was the fifteenth round pick of the Astros.
Speaker 1: Making a good decision to stay back and play football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: Uh for my edge rusher. This is where I went
Speaker 1: with Trout because I was like Trout's Trut's a little
Speaker 1: bit bigger than he used to be. I think he
Speaker 1: went for b linebacker to edge rusher. I mean he's
Speaker 1: six to two. I think he's like two thirty five.
Speaker 1: He's still got the though, But yeah, looking at my roster,
Speaker 1: like we gotta stay healthy. I mean I got boxed up,
Speaker 1: I got trot out there, like you know, we're we're
Speaker 1: super talented, but we gotta stay healthy on the field.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking about the menace of jor Don Alvarez coming
Speaker 3: off the edge. I want him as my edge guy.
Speaker 1: Wow, fast enough, But I thought about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know he's not fast enough, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: you are so intimidating physically, where am I gonna put you?
Speaker 3: And the answer was edge.
Speaker 1: Jj Watt was not that fast and he was racking
Speaker 1: up sacks like nobody's business. But again he's an interior
Speaker 1: defensive lineman.
Speaker 2: Yeah I got I got Will Benson coming off the edge.
Speaker 2: Yeah sure, Will Benson.
Speaker 4: Dude, like he's six five, two thirty and was he
Speaker 4: eighty seven percentile on sprint speed. He actually might be
Speaker 4: able to play NFL edge rusher if he had the
Speaker 4: time to to, you know, build up there. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I just freak athlete and like also, fiery guy plays
Speaker 4: plays angry, which I love out of an edge rusher,
Speaker 4: So I'll go Benson.
Speaker 1: For defensive tackle. I just imagine myself as the center
Speaker 1: and before I snap the ball, looking up to who's
Speaker 1: gonna be the noseguard? And I thought the scariest eyes
Speaker 1: to look into when you combine with the sheer mass
Speaker 1: of the player, Felix Bautista. I do not want to
Speaker 1: run into that brick wall of a man fix eight
Speaker 1: to eighty. No, thank you, So Felix Batista will be
Speaker 1: my defensive tackle.
Speaker 3: I love that shout. I'm just thinking I want somebody
Speaker 3: nicknamed the big Bear in the middle of my defensive line.
Speaker 3: Oh Zuna, yeah wow, Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's another good one.
Speaker 4: I had Alec Manoa up the middle a little bit
Speaker 4: worried about the motor, hoping, hoping he can stay you know,
Speaker 4: locked in, but uh yeah, what's the measurables is two
Speaker 4: eighty five.
Speaker 2: He's five.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna rush the passer, but he's gonna be
Speaker 1: a good run blocker. Yeah, he's gonna stay back and
Speaker 1: he's gonna clog some lanes for sure.
Speaker 2: You might need to take some third downs off or for.
Speaker 1: Five. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The other one is is uh Joel Konel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Joel six.
Speaker 2: Really plug up the whole up the middle.
Speaker 3: WHOA, all right, so that's the squat.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So let's go over my team. So at quarterback, I
Speaker 1: got sho Hey running back, I got Bobby Wood Jr.
Speaker 1: My wideouts are Ellie and O'Neil Cruz, tight end Aaron Judge,
Speaker 1: safety Byron Buckston, corner Jacob Young. But since Brenton Doyle,
Speaker 1: Brenton Doyle, even though Shoho Tony can pitch and hit,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have Brett Doyle plagued both ways. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be my backup quarterback and my backup corner. And then
Speaker 1: at linebacker, White Langford, ed rusher Mike Trout, d tackle
Speaker 1: Felix Bottista.
Speaker 3: I'm beating you guys, Okay, I've got schemes. At quarterback,
Speaker 3: Langford is my running back, O'Neil Cruz and Corby and
Speaker 3: Carroll as my wide outs. Judge is my tight end.
Speaker 3: Julio Rodriguez is the best safety in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3: I've got Pca as my corner, Trout as my linebacker,
Speaker 3: you were not as my slow edge. And then Marcelo
Speaker 3: Zune is my defensive tackle.
Speaker 4: Right, I got Tim tawa Q best quarterback in organ history,
Speaker 4: Jared Durant at running back, Elie de Lacruz at receiver,
Speaker 4: Jordan Adams at receiver, better than Jamar Chase tight end?
Speaker 2: Is Aaron Judge safety? Why at Langford corner?
Speaker 4: PCA linebacker Stone Garrett ed rusher will events and detackle
Speaker 4: Alec Manoa and punter Curtis Mead because Australians seemed to
Speaker 4: just be great punters.
Speaker 3: ADLEI Ritchman is my kicker? He was on.
Speaker 1: Didn't even think about kicker. That's a great one. Yep.
Speaker 3: I have a last word real quick for you. How
Speaker 3: far have we strayed from the good old days when
Speaker 3: it comes to the NBA All Star Celebrity game?
Speaker 1: Like I saw that list. That is an abomination.
Speaker 3: It's horrible, man, Like I'm not I'm not intrigued by this. Whatsoever?
Speaker 3: We used to have like people that worked in was.
Speaker 3: We used to have Justin Bieber bawling at Justin Bieber
Speaker 3: was now Kay Sinnott again, Like, I see way too
Speaker 3: much of that guy? What do you do? Like I
Speaker 3: understand that we are kind of influencers at our core,
Speaker 3: but like what is he? He just kind of sits
Speaker 3: there and hangs out like is that?
Speaker 1: But to be fair to Kay Sat hilarious and he
Speaker 1: makes so so much money in his streams get so
Speaker 1: many viewers. I just thought about Kay Sinat. It's about
Speaker 1: the twenty names that they gave us, and I know
Speaker 1: three of them.
Speaker 3: Who is he? Dylan with an H?
Speaker 4: I also can't fucking escape Shaboozi. I have nothing against
Speaker 4: the guy, but that's why I replied you. I'm like,
Speaker 4: he's gotta be running out of gas. This is had
Speaker 4: to be the most exhausting year of his life. He's everywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, other guy that's every week?
Speaker 2: Hate the song now too, Drewski.
Speaker 3: Drewski's everywhere and Drewski's funny, but like.
Speaker 2: Him wearing the Mixroka Jersey is I need? I want
Speaker 2: to know the context of that.
Speaker 1: But at least again, those guys we know of, Yeah,
Speaker 1: those because there are still so many names that I didn't.
Speaker 4: What if we're just old old heads now like I
Speaker 4: got called unk for the first time a few weeks ago,
Speaker 4: or and maybe like those are people we just should
Speaker 4: know and would know if we were Youngunk.
Speaker 2: That one actually poked it up.
Speaker 1: For like a few weeks.
Speaker 4: Someone respond it was on my personal instagram too. It
Speaker 4: was one of the listeners of the show on my
Speaker 4: personal instagram.
Speaker 3: A way, that's so sad. How long did you shut
Speaker 3: down for emotionally?
Speaker 2: I'm still.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going on. I'm going on about twenty six
Speaker 3: years of that. So yeah.
Speaker 1: So I think that'll do it for this episode of
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