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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into the Cycle. I am Ryan Warmley,

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Speaker 1: joined as always by Mike Mayor.

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Speaker 2: Mayor.

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Speaker 1: It is the third straight week of us kind of

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Speaker 1: approaching the show a little differently than our usual format.

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Speaker 1: A couple weeks ago it was the holiday with fourth

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Speaker 1: of July. Last week we had, you know, kind of

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Speaker 1: going into the All Star break. It was a little weird,

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Speaker 1: you know, not having the upcoming week. This week, we

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Speaker 1: don't have the previous week of games right because it

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Speaker 1: was the All Star break. So we will be back

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Speaker 1: to our kind of our normal format of three different

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Speaker 1: parts spread out on both audio and video starting next week.

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Speaker 1: For this week, we're doing one final one episode of

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Speaker 1: the whole week edition of the cycle.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talks to news and.

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Speaker 1: Notes, kind of react to Homer and Derby, All Star Game,

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Speaker 1: MLB Draft at the top of the show, and then

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna do is a way too early twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six baseball mock draft. Probably didn't need to say baseball.

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Speaker 1: Everybody knows that for the show they're listening to, But yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do a twenty twenty six early mock. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna do two rounds to that and just kind of

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Speaker 1: take an early look at who the guys are that

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Speaker 1: we think are going to be at the top next

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Speaker 1: year and see where we go. I actually very specifically

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Speaker 1: did not prep for that. I mean, obviously I have

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Speaker 1: to kind of feel in the moment, like I wanted

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Speaker 1: this to kind of be like a gut check, like

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Speaker 1: numbers say it'll probably be this guy.

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Speaker 2: Does that make sense? Like I wanted to be kind

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Speaker 2: of shooting from the hip.

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Speaker 3: I personally was up all night crafting my strategy, and

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Speaker 3: I have a very clear path going in. No, I

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Speaker 3: don't have any strategy either, but uh yeah, similar I

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Speaker 3: wanted to. I have a bunch of different like resources

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Speaker 3: open that I want to look at, and it's kind

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Speaker 3: of like, what do dynasty rankings look like? What do

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Speaker 3: the stats look like at the halfway point here, what

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Speaker 3: do the rest of season rankings look like? And what

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Speaker 3: did draft rankings look like coming into last season? Because

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Speaker 3: it'll be interesting to see how different those you know,

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Speaker 3: those looks. So I have all those open to kind

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Speaker 3: of review, but kind of the same thing. I wanted

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Speaker 3: to see it, do it in real time and kind

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Speaker 3: of see how things are gonna land.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that'll be fun.

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Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes, and everybody can let us

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Speaker 1: know in the comments who they think, you know, went

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Speaker 1: too high, too low, who who had the better version

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Speaker 1: of our way too early draft. But that will be

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Speaker 1: the second part of the show. We'll start off with

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Speaker 1: the news and notes can kind of go a bunch

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Speaker 1: of different directions with this. I say, let's kind of

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Speaker 1: go in order of how the events took place over

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Speaker 1: the weekend, So that would be starting with the MLB Draft.

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Speaker 1: And I you know, I'm very into dynasty leagues. You

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Speaker 1: and I play in the kind of like a dynasty

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Speaker 1: slash deep keeper format together. It's my favorite form of baseball.

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Speaker 1: I just like prospect stuff. So those are the leagues

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Speaker 1: that I enjoy the most. So I really enjoyed the

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Speaker 1: bet the draft. Also, the Orioles were bad for so

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Speaker 1: used to caring about the draft. This year a little

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Speaker 1: different with I'm not picking till nineteen.

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Speaker 4: You'll be there next year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, probably, What's interesting though, is unlike football and unlike basketball,

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Speaker 1: these guys are not contributing for your fantasy teams anytime soon.

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Speaker 1: By and large, now you have the you know, these

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Speaker 2: Who are moving very quickly.

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Speaker 1: But by and large, these players that are getting drafted

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Speaker 2: So when you watch the MLB draft.

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Speaker 1: Is there a type of player you're looking for when

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Speaker 1: the Mariners have a great track record of, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I'm more interested in Anderson now, or a guy

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Speaker 1: How do you approach thinking about the draft with your

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Speaker 3: So I'm kind of an impatient team manager. I don't

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Speaker 3: But a lot of times I look at the path

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Speaker 3: smarter than me really disagree it didn't feel like last

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Speaker 3: I don't worry about these prospects.

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Speaker 2: But there are a couple that I like, Yeah, there

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Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like, you know, like there was a

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Speaker 1: we've seen some players move very quickly. Guys like Nick

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Speaker 1: I would encourage everybody to check out Welsh, who is

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Speaker 1: an expert on all things draft prospects, did an episode

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Speaker 1: with Joe kind of on their on their end of

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Speaker 1: the feed upbout these prospects and first year player drafts

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Speaker 1: get kind of a deeper dive. Our thoughts just from

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Speaker 1: I are in. They'll be available in our salary cap

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I I don't have it up, but I'm

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Speaker 3: pretty sure in that league I got Chase Burns for

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Speaker 3: Welsh also has an article up on fantasypros dot com

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Speaker 3: on his first year player draft rankings or he kind

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Speaker 4: I agree with a lot of what he wrote.

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Speaker 3: You know, I won't spoil all of it, but he

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Speaker 3: the power profile is there, even if it's not like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, I feel like it's Ethan

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Speaker 1: But I think unless you specifically are eyeing that profile,

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Speaker 1: He's a very different prospect than Jackson too, just in

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Speaker 1: terms of his strengths and weaknesses. So don't don't think

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Speaker 1: you're getting Jackson Holiday if you take Ethan Holiday. But

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Speaker 1: obviously still a high ceiling, like, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: All right, So those are quick MLB draft thoughts. Again,

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Speaker 1: check us out, you know, on fanspros dot com and

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Speaker 1: elsewhere on the feed for more of a deep dive there.

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Speaker 1: The next event from the All Star break the home

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Speaker 1: run Derby, which you didn't think you had won. We

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Speaker 1: and cal Raley was the difference for you, so congratulations

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Speaker 1: on winning that he arguably shouldn't have even advanced.

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Speaker 2: There should have been a swing off in round one.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand why it strictly who hit the ball

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Speaker 1: the furthest I actually didn't even realize that was the

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Speaker 1: tiebreaker in round one, and I despise that, not just

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Speaker 1: because it made lose, Like I hated it even in

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Speaker 1: the moment that I was like, why is there not

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wanted to ask you kind of your opinion

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Speaker 4: You must keep minor league you must keep.

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Speaker 1: At least four minor leaguers, so that's part of this. Basically,

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Speaker 1: Ronald Acunya is seventy dollars is his cost in this league.

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Speaker 2: It's a three hundred dollars budget.

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Speaker 1: to pronounce it, you know, for a dollar in my roster,

438
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Speaker 1: and the Padreas are aggressive with these guys, so maybe

439
00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:00,879
Speaker 1: he moves a little faster than I expect. But fly forever.

440
00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,159
Speaker 1: I am a Tier one team. I am not the

441
00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:04,919
Speaker 1: best team in this league, but I'm clearly in the

442
00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:09,920
Speaker 1: contending top tier. And the other factor here is if

443
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Speaker 1: I do not make this trade, I know for a

444
00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:15,560
Speaker 1: fact that the number one team, who is already clearly

445
00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,760
Speaker 1: the best team in this league, will be getting Acunya.

446
00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,159
Speaker 2: So what I want to ask you is A what

447
00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:21,160
Speaker 2: do you think about that this.

448
00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:26,480
Speaker 1: Trade offer of Devree for for Acunya, given costs and everything,

449
00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:30,639
Speaker 1: and b how much when you're making trades in keeper

450
00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:34,320
Speaker 1: in Dynasty formats, are you thinking about the fact that, oh,

451
00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:37,760
Speaker 1: this other player, this other manager who is who I'm

452
00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:39,919
Speaker 1: directly contending with, is going to get this guy if

453
00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:41,320
Speaker 1: I don't, you know, overspend.

454
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Speaker 3: So that makes it tricky because that obviously context matters

455
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Speaker 3: you when you talk about a trade like this. If

456
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Speaker 3: you're just talking about Acunya for DeVries, which is I

457
00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:56,280
Speaker 3: say his name, it's in Dynasty, You're like, wow, I'd

458
00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,240
Speaker 3: love to have Acunya. But then you consider that it's

459
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Speaker 3: seventy dollars, which in the grands gay things is prohibitive

460
00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:03,480
Speaker 3: to keeping him like that is just too Like.

461
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Speaker 1: Mookie Betts has been caught kept for seventy dollars before,

462
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Speaker 1: but it is like, okay, I'm now missing out on

463
00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:17,920
Speaker 1: the opportunity for other talent elsewhere in the draft. It's capable,

464
00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:22,040
Speaker 1: but it is like a lot and he is I

465
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Speaker 1: believe was just per I believe he was sent back

466
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Speaker 1: like this year, So he is his price isn't going

467
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Speaker 1: up for a couple of years. Let me double check

468
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Speaker 1: on that, or was he kept this year? He actually

469
00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:36,040
Speaker 1: he actually might have been kept. Oh no, it is

470
00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,680
Speaker 1: going up every year. Okay, so he will be seventy

471
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Speaker 1: five dollars next year, which which is like borderline getting

472
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Speaker 1: into not capable and like this is a rental.

473
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's where it gets interesting. And then in

474
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Speaker 3: the context of this league, the best team is like

475
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Speaker 3: by far the best team, he's clearing a head and

476
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Speaker 3: so if he gets a Kunya, it's almost like he's unbeatable.

477
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Speaker 4: And so I don't know.

478
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Speaker 3: I feel like in this instance I would I would

479
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Speaker 3: go for it and just try to take my swing

480
00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:09,600
Speaker 3: and hope that you know, knowing your team, you already

481
00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:12,080
Speaker 3: have a good stockpile of young talent, and so it's

482
00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:16,159
Speaker 3: not like Devrees is your only good prospect, And so

483
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,080
Speaker 3: it's the kind of thing where context really matters. In

484
00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:21,879
Speaker 3: this context, I think you're close enough to go for it,

485
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Speaker 3: and that Acunya could put you over the top. And

486
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Speaker 3: I believe you've already beaten him head to head once,

487
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Speaker 3: Is that right?

488
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Speaker 2: I did earlier this season?

489
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So the team ahead of us in the standings,

490
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Speaker 1: who's really really good?

491
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Speaker 2: He doesn't.

492
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Speaker 1: Actually he doesn't have good prospects and doesn't really have

493
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Speaker 1: good depth either. It's just his starting his starting lineup

494
00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:45,160
Speaker 1: is very loaded. I think he's beatable, and getting Akunya

495
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 1: for him obviously makes that more challenging. I guess what

496
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Speaker 1: I'm curious about from your perspective too, And that's part

497
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Speaker 1: of why I wanted to bring this up on the show,

498
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:56,520
Speaker 1: is because you know, people don't really care about like

499
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Speaker 1: my fantasy team, but I think they care about Acunya.

500
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Speaker 2: Do you see Yakunya as the type.

501
00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 1: Of player going forward, because like in past seasons, this

502
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Speaker 1: is a guy who's been you know, however many points

503
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,240
Speaker 1: per game, likes like six point two points per game

504
00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. If the steals aren't there anymore

505
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 1: to the degree we need them to be, that changes things.

506
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Speaker 1: And you know, last season, in forty nine games, he

507
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,520
Speaker 1: had sixteen steals. This season in forty five games, he

508
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Speaker 1: has four and obviously two knee injuries. You know, the

509
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:31,880
Speaker 1: ops is over a thousand, right, he has twelve home

510
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:33,840
Speaker 1: runs in forty five games, like a lot of it's

511
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Speaker 1: very good. He's not been a bad player, clearly, But

512
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Speaker 1: if he's not, if he's a four point per game

513
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Speaker 1: player instead of a six point two point per game

514
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 1: player and is also a clear rental, you know, does

515
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Speaker 1: that sound worth it? Even setting aside the prospect that

516
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Speaker 1: I'm giving up it, you know, setting aside cost is

517
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Speaker 1: a Kunya somebody like that that you think is the

518
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Speaker 1: type of player right now as he is playing this

519
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Speaker 1: seas in the guy that can you know, put somebody

520
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 1: over the top to win the league. Or do you

521
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 1: just see him as a good player but not an

522
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Speaker 1: elite one right now?

523
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Speaker 4: I think he's still elite. I think you're you're seeing it.

524
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Speaker 3: I just think the stolen bases are going to be

525
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Speaker 3: a little bit lower, which he which he has already said,

526
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Speaker 3: you know, he's probably not going to run as much.

527
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Speaker 3: It's also possible he's the only stolen four bases in

528
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Speaker 3: forty five games. It could just be as he's working

529
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Speaker 3: his way back. He's also four for four on stolle bases.

530
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Speaker 3: It could just be the more he gets comfortable with

531
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 3: this knee, you know, being surgically repaired and not being

532
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 3: nervous to run anymore, he might run a little bit more.

533
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 3: And he in last year in forty nine games, you

534
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,600
Speaker 3: said he stole sixteen bases. This year he's only stolen four.

535
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:40,800
Speaker 3: But also last year in those forty nine games, he

536
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:42,679
Speaker 3: only had four home runs. This year, he's got twelve

537
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 3: and he's patting three twenty three, and we've seen him

538
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,399
Speaker 3: just come back and it wasn't like before when the

539
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 3: power was kind of apped. The powers there. He looks

540
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 3: like the elite hitter again. And so yeah, I you

541
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 3: kind of stole the line I was going to say

542
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Speaker 3: about Flags five forever, which you know, it's hard when

543
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,160
Speaker 3: you're you know, especially in like a dynasty or keeper league,

544
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,399
Speaker 3: when it can it can be so fluid from year

545
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 3: to year and you never know when you're going to

546
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 3: really like be a contender, Like if you're in the

547
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Speaker 3: contending window and you have an opportunity to go for it,

548
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 3: it's hard to not pull the trigger, especially when when

549
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 3: you know, we don't know if Davrez is a sure thing,

550
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 3: like he's a top prospect, but Akunya is basically a

551
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 3: sure thing, even though it's a one it's a one

552
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Speaker 3: year rental.

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Speaker 1: I really like Devrees, which makes it tough, right, Like

554
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Speaker 1: if it was a guy who was ranked highly as

555
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Speaker 1: a prospect but I wasn't like super invested in, I

556
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Speaker 1: might feel a little differently.

557
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Speaker 2: Devrez is a guy that I do like.

558
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Speaker 1: Really believe in, So you know, that makes it like

559
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Speaker 1: if it was just like, oh, you're not willing to

560
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Speaker 1: give up in a vacuum. It's like, Okay, you're going

561
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Speaker 1: to pass on a Kunya as a win now team

562
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Speaker 1: for a guy that's not going to be in the

563
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Speaker 1: big leagues for three years.

564
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Speaker 2: Sounds silly, but.

565
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Speaker 1: If you really believe, I mean, this is how I

566
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 1: have a very cheap Bobby wit Junior in this league

567
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 1: because I held on to him and now I'm reaping

568
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: those bens benefits right like same with Jackson Curio I

569
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:02,639
Speaker 1: got for cheap.

570
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 2: Gunnar Henderson has been a little down this year. Same thing.

571
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: I have him for cheap because you know, I held

572
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,160
Speaker 1: on to them when they when they kind of took

573
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,919
Speaker 1: off as prospects. So because that's been so successful for

574
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 1: me in the past in building this foundation, it's hard

575
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Speaker 1: to give up on that. And I don't know, there's

576
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Speaker 1: a lot to think about. I would love to hear

577
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 1: what the commenters think on a trade like that. Given

578
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,360
Speaker 1: what they've heard, I won't waste their time.

579
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Speaker 2: With that anyway. I vote Aunya, You vote Acunya.

580
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Speaker 1: Well, speaking of Acunya, let's transition into our twenty twenty

581
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 1: six way too early mock draft. We're going to go

582
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Speaker 1: through two rounds here. Acunya will certainly be one of

583
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Speaker 1: the players taken in the first two rounds here, let's say,

584
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Speaker 1: because actually before we dive in, I want to let

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Speaker 1: your prize. I think we should let you go first

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Speaker 1: as sort of a reward for winning the home run

595
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 1: derby draft. But basically we'll just alternate here, so you'll

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Speaker 1: you'll get picks one, three, five, seven, I'll get two, four, six, eight,

597
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Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera, and we'll go through twenty four

598
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Speaker 1: picks here, two different rounds. Does that sound good to you?

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Speaker 3: It sounds good to me, except that I didn't want

600
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Speaker 3: to go first. I was hoping to not have to pick.

601
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Speaker 3: But I will just go with the tried and true

602
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 3: Tony and I'll just take Otani first and just lock

603
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 3: that in and just make sure I can't ever use

604
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 3: my utility spot for an entire season.

605
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Speaker 1: I actually like I would be more inclined to take

606
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 1: Otani if they just said, like, he's not never pitching again,

607
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: Like I almost just like don't want him. It's cool

608
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:55,879
Speaker 1: that he does it, it makes it more valuable in

609
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 1: real life, but I'm like, that is kind of.

610
00:26:58,119 --> 00:26:59,360
Speaker 2: Hanging over your head a little bit.

611
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: And there are other elite players, so yeah, I yeah.

612
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 4: I should have also checked, like, is this a daily

613
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 4: line up league? Can I use him as well?

614
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:07,880
Speaker 3: Yeah?

615
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 4: I mean he will never pitch for me.

616
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's let's let's call this weekly lineup And you know,

617
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 1: do you want to call this roto versus categories?

618
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 2: I don't really care.

619
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll just do standard roto weekly league. Okay, but

620
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 3: that is interesting. I do have Otani in both kinds

621
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 3: of leagues. In a daily league, I will let not

622
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 3: right now because he's only going like two three innings,

623
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 3: but if he's like back to being a traditional starter

624
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 3: in a daily league, I will start him. When he's

625
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 3: a starter in a weekly league, he never leaves my

626
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 3: hitter spot. He's never pitching for me.

627
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't know how you view this. So

628
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: if Otani is the clear number one, how big of

629
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 1: a kind of a next tier do you view? Like, like,

630
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 1: I don't know that he is a clear number Well, well

631
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 1: let me rephrase, because I actually agree that I don't

632
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 1: think he's a clear number one. How many names would

633
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 1: you consider for this for the pick?

634
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 3: I think that's hard to answer in mid July because

635
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 3: I think will depend on how the second half goes.

636
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 4: Because you can see.

637
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 2: That's why this is way too early.

638
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think you have Otani and you have Judge.

639
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 3: But then it starts getting interesting because then obviously, like

640
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 3: Bobby Wit comes into the equation. I don't think Jose.

641
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 3: I think Jose Rimire is going to be locked in.

642
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's going to push for the

643
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 3: top spot of it, but I think he's going to

644
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 3: be locked in.

645
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 4: Like the top five.

646
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 3: But then based on how the second half goes, is

647
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 3: Peek or Armstrong in that conversation, is cal Rawley in

648
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 3: that conversation. So it's very interesting to see how the

649
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 3: top very like tippy top of the draft goes next year.

650
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: I am going to go with the guy that I

651
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: am most confident is going to help me in the

652
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: most categories, and that's Bobby Witch Junior with pick number two.

653
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: And I view this as almost the safest pick here

654
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: just given age and the categories he will help you in.

655
00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 2: I don't know that that's the right pick.

656
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: Actually, I could very is you see myself a year

657
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: from now saying I'd rather have taken you know, Judge

658
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: or one of these other guys. But right now, I

659
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: feel like Bobby with Junior is just the best at

660
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: the most things. Even if like Judge is going to

661
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: hit more homers than him, and you know, cal Roley

662
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: has the catcher eligibility and all that sort of thing.

663
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: Witt has both floor and ceiling and I'm just gonna

664
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 1: be really happy with every league that I start with

665
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: him in it.

666
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fair. So at the third pick, I'm going

667
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 3: to go with the player. I don't usually draft based

668
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 3: on where I'm picking, but it just what almost feels

669
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 3: silly to pass time at this point based on the

670
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 3: season he's having Aaron Judge with the power and the

671
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 3: average and ever all the other counting stats.

672
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 4: You're going to get from him.

673
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 3: I always worry about him and injuries and his you know,

674
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 3: his size, but he's stayed healthy recently, so.

675
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 2: He's he's also thirty three.

676
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: Do you feel like he's the type of player who

677
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: once it goes it's it's going to go fast. I'm

678
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 1: not like, obviously he's been so good this year, you're

679
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: not anticipating a falloff next year. But like you get

680
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: into your mid thirties, I know he's kind of like

681
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: a freak of nature just physically, but at a certain

682
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: point it does go like, like he's not as young

683
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: as you might think for how little he's been in

684
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: the big leagues.

685
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, he and that's some of that is because he

686
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 3: wasn't like this like one oh one draft pick who

687
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 3: came up like he was kind of an un heralded,

688
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 3: unheralded draft pick kind of coming up who just you know,

689
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 3: outperformed his his draft slot and turned into the superstar.

690
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 3: And so he didn't have the same kind of like

691
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 3: really really quick path to the big leagues. I've said

692
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 3: for a long time, I worry about how he's going

693
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 3: to age. I was worried about that, you know, if

694
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 3: I was Yankees I'd be worried about that contract, but

695
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 3: I you know, I understand they had to do what

696
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 3: they had to do.

697
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 4: They couldn't just like let him walk, especially.

698
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 3: With what he meant to that lineup and what he

699
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 3: means to you know, how popular he is in that city.

700
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 3: You know, they just were not in a position that

701
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 3: they could let him go somewhere else. But I do

702
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,959
Speaker 3: think the back half of this contract could could get

703
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 3: pretty ugly. It could be like a mcgul cabera kind

704
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 3: of back half of the contract.

705
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't disagree with that fourth pick.

706
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: A couple of names of considering, I think, you know,

707
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: this is maybe a little ironic, given that I'm not

708
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: even sure if I want to if I'm going to

709
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: be trading for him, But I think Ronald Acunya should

710
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 1: be a top five pick as of right now from

711
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: what we expect him to be, you know, even further

712
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: removed from the injury, so maybe you know, more willingness

713
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: to run, not seventy stolen bases again, but more willingness

714
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: to run. The home runs haven't gone anywhere right in

715
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: his prime. I think he'll be what twenty eight next season?

716
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 1: I think so, assuming that the second half looks really

717
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: good and he looks even healthier and healthier. I think

718
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: the lineup will be better next year in Atlanta too.

719
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: So I got where do you think Acunya should have gone?

720
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: Because I do feel like top five or six is

721
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: like the right place, and maybe even low like me,

722
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: if he looks like the Acunya of old, maybe he'll

723
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: even be like in the conversation for number one.

724
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, it'll be interesting.

725
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 3: I don't know that he's going to go number one

726
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 3: based on what we just talked about about with the speed,

727
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 3: Like if if he only steals six stolen you know,

728
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 3: six six bases the rest of the year and ends

729
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 3: with ten in half a season, it might be pushing

730
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 3: it to to.

731
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 4: Draft him at one.

732
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 3: Overall, I think at that point you'll see people lean

733
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 3: more into like the Otani, the Bobby with the Aaron Judge.

734
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think he's gonna go top five. I

735
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 3: think you're gonna he might be the player next year

736
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 3: who has the biggest like difference in like average ADP

737
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 3: where you know, an average ranking, just kind of the

738
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 3: difference there, because you're going to see people are gonna

739
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 3: be nervous, like there's two injuries here, Like some people

740
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 3: just don't want to draft that at the top of

741
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 3: the draft, and that's fair.

742
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 2: I yeah, I think that's very fair.

743
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: This is me kind of wanting to be aggressive and

744
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: feel like I'm getting a superstar at the top, but

745
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 1: I I will not as of right now. Obviously let's

746
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: see what the second half looks like. But as of

747
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 1: right now, I would not fault anybody.

748
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 2: For thinking this is too high for Acunya.

749
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 4: All right.

750
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 3: I was debating which direction I want to go with

751
00:32:59,600 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 3: this pick.

752
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 4: It's it's possible.

753
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 3: And I also will want to say, like part of

754
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 3: this is like strategy of like going head to head

755
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 3: in a draft, whereas like maybe I shouldn't be doing

756
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 3: it thinking about this way, but like in the fifth

757
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 3: for the fifth pick in the draft, if this was

758
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 3: like my first pick, like one zero five is my

759
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 3: first pick, I don't know that I'm taking this chance

760
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 3: at least at this point of the season. We'll see

761
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 3: how the second half goes. But this person is second

762
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 3: in VBR already and is on pace for a forty

763
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 3: forty season, and so I'm going to go Pik Armstrong,

764
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 3: And some of that is like strategy thinking about what

765
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 3: you're going to do next and how I'm building my roster.

766
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 3: But Piker Armstrong second most valuable player so far and

767
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 3: pushing for number one.

768
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 4: But also, look, it's gonna be tough five. I'm getting

769
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 4: in at fifth.

770
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: I hope this isn't going to throw off picks you've made.

771
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: But I don't say this is building a roster. This

772
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: is like, these are twelve different managers I think that

773
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: are drafting here.

774
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 3: So like it's not like, yeah, that's why I said

775
00:33:58,320 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 3: it's maybe the wrong way to think about it, but

776
00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 3: just also looking at value.

777
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: Like I don't view it as like my team has

778
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: went and a Kunya. It's like just kind of where

779
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: they would go.

780
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,320
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, I'm drafting for the YouTube commenter.

781
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 3: I want them to say that I have the best.

782
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 1: I mean, what PCA has done so far, it's hard

783
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,879
Speaker 1: to argue. It's just a matter of, you know, how

784
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: replicable you think it is for him compared to some

785
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: of these other guys who have done it longer.

786
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 3: I maybe it's an apology pick because we've we've kind

787
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 3: of like downplayed his his season so far.

788
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I'm reverting.

789
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,839
Speaker 1: I'm kind of torn between two players, So I'm just

790
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,479
Speaker 1: going to go with the younger one. I think Ellie

791
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: Dala Cruz should not fall to this pick in a

792
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 1: in a.

793
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 2: In a Roto draft, sorry my computers, not any.

794
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: Type in a you know, Roto format. The steals he

795
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 1: is giving you. He is twenty five already this season,

796
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 1: and eighteen homers and the best batting average of his

797
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: career at two eighty four. I like he's a stud.

798
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: I think it should be a top five pick. And

799
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: there's there's another player that I really like that I

800
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 1: could have taken here, but I will happily take the

801
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,879
Speaker 1: value of the following daily Cruz and get the power

802
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: speed combo. Who's who's now hitting for average too?

803
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that was the player I was thinking about

804
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 3: when talking. When talking just about like you know, if

805
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 3: you if we're assuming this, this is us going to

806
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:24,760
Speaker 3: head to head and kind of like building a building

807
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 3: a roster. Was like, I want to get PCA stolen

808
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 3: bases and potentially the other counting stats there, assuming you

809
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 3: might take Ellie next. I didn't want to miss out

810
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 3: on like both of them kind of a thing. But

811
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 3: now this gets really interesting because there's a player I

812
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 3: really want to take. But a we're also at pick

813
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 3: seven here, and there's a player that should not fall

814
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 3: out a pick seven take who you really are?

815
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 4: All right, well, I'm going to go calt Rally. Nice,

816
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 4: that's I'm going to take count Rally.

817
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: I thought that's who you really wanted, which, by the way,

818
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: it might not be a terrible decision. It's not who

819
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: I would have taken there, because there's a player that

820
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: should not be available anymore, Jse Ramirez, and I'm.

821
00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 2: Just going to take him to exactly that's who I

822
00:35:59,440 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 2: was talking about.

823
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: I'm glad I go toed you into taking the other guy,

824
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: because Ramire is at eight is the best value on

825
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: this whole board. But yeah, I mean Raley is like

826
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 1: Pete crow Armstrong, where you're very much leaning into what's

827
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: happening this season with these last two picks and clearly

828
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: buying into you're gonna be drafting these guys like you're

829
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: gonna get something close to a repeat next year.

830
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you can make the argument Jose Aramir should

831
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,800
Speaker 3: have gone where I took p kromstro total.

832
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 2: You can make the argument Ramirez could have gone.

833
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 4: As high as four. I think, yeah, yeah.

834
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 2: I think you could have gone instead of Acuna four.

835
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 3: So I'm drafting on vibes, baby, I'm trying to clear

836
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,479
Speaker 3: how to build the best, the most fun team.

837
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 4: Here clearly a right who's left? Anybody left?

838
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 2: Well, you're on the clock.

839
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: So I took hose air Ameres again great value at eight,

840
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 1: just like consistently the best third basement and contributes everywhere,

841
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: and it's just like an absolute stud eighteen homers, twenty

842
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: nine stolen bases, two ninety two average like arguably could have,

843
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: like I said, could have easily gone five.

844
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,879
Speaker 2: Spots Hires or four spots Hires. So at pic nine

845
00:36:58,920 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 2: you're on the clock.

846
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 3: So here's an interesting one because I think there's an

847
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 3: obvious pick here, But he's also someone who is going

848
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 3: to be three hundred million dollars richer by the time

849
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 3: you're making this pick next year, and he might not

850
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 3: be on the same team, he might be on a

851
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 3: different team, And those two things can sometimes scare me.

852
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 3: In the first round, you know that you're drafting someone

853
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 3: in potentially a new city with new expectations. We're seeing

854
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 3: it with mon Soda right now, and who just got paid,

855
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 3: and you know, sometimes you know you get paid, maybe

856
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 3: you don't have the best steer it next year. You

857
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,879
Speaker 3: already got your money. But I think the obvious pick

858
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 3: here is Kyle Tucker, and so I'm going to have

859
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,839
Speaker 3: to lock in Kyle Tucker at the ninth pick.

860
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. If you didn't take him, I was

861
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: going to just having a great year in Chicago. Where

862
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,240
Speaker 1: do you think he ends up? Do you think because

863
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: will keep him or I think they should.

864
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 4: I assume they will.

865
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 3: But you know, it's the kind of thing where when

866
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 3: you get to free agency, the kind of money it's

867
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 3: going to get thrown around.

868
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 4: I don't know.

869
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 3: My fear is that he goes to the Yankees as

870
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 3: a baseball on Red Sox fanas that he.

871
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 2: But not not your fear as a fantasy manager.

872
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 4: Nos a fantasy manager, he's not.

873
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: This is a fantasy show, not a baseball show.

874
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:11,439
Speaker 4: Baseball show.

875
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, if he goes to the Yankees, he's not making

876
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 3: it to die. And I can tell you that right now.

877
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I'm going to be the guy to

878
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:20,280
Speaker 1: take the picture.

879
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 2: Schooble is just too good. We take him at ten here.

880
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 2: Do you think that's the right spot for the first picture?

881
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:27,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's fine.

882
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 3: I uh just because of like overall strategy and like

883
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 3: what we've been talking about recently and like how you

884
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 3: value pittures. I was almost not even considering pictures, but

885
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 3: uh yeah, I think it's we've we It also feels

886
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 3: like just looking at the like at the hitters we've

887
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 3: taken and like kind of the tier where we're at

888
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 3: it kind of it feels like the right spot and

889
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 3: that I think Tucker is probably the end of this

890
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,720
Speaker 3: hitter tier, and you know, you're you're kind of picking

891
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 3: between a lower tier hitter or the clear one of

892
00:38:58,280 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 3: the top best pictures.

893
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't know if this is who

894
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: you're gonna take next, But in terms of just thinking

895
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 1: about the hitters like Juan Soto, I think you can

896
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: make a compelling case belongs in that tier.

897
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 4: James Wood slower start.

898
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: To the season for him, obviously, but like this this

899
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 1: quote unquote disappointing start for Mets fans, twenty three homers,

900
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: eleven stone bases two sixty two average. If that's his

901
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:26,439
Speaker 1: floor in New York, like, I'm not I'm expecting big

902
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,280
Speaker 1: things next year when again he's still like entering his prime,

903
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: you know, realistically, or the very least in it. So

904
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,280
Speaker 1: I think you can make a case for him, especially

905
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,320
Speaker 1: with the eleven steels this year, that he does belong

906
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: in that upper tier.

907
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 2: But maybe maybe are you gonna go with him? Are

908
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:42,720
Speaker 2: you going to go in a different direction.

909
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 3: I was thinking about him. I was thinking about James Wood.

910
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 3: Not to spoil my picks here, but I was I

911
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 3: think he's in the tier.

912
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 4: I think you're right.

913
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 3: I think the eleven steels do matter because I think

914
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 3: if we're looking at twenty three home runs two sixty

915
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 3: two average on like two steals, I think there's a

916
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 3: big difference in the value we're talking about here. But

917
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 3: the elevens deals does help Jackson Churio. But again, like

918
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 3: we're we're drafting now in July based on how the

919
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 3: season is gone, and I don't know. I feel like

920
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,359
Speaker 3: I feel like I would want all these players over

921
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 3: Juan Soto. Okay, well you're on the clock, so okay,

922
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 3: so I'm not taking one. So now the question is

923
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 3: do I take one of the pictures or do I

924
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 3: keep going down the hit or rabbit hole? And I

925
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 3: guess I will go with everyone's favorite breakout and.

926
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,720
Speaker 4: I'll go James Wood. I'll take James Wood here.

927
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if Wood had become a first round player.

928
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: I think it's a great pick. I have nothing against it.

929
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:45,439
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if he'd become a first round player,

930
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 1: if he would still be more like kind of top

931
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: of the second. I think I think there will, as

932
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:51,439
Speaker 1: of right now, there will be leagues where he would

933
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 1: get to the second because I don't think you can

934
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,399
Speaker 1: really make a case for him in the top ten.

935
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: So it really just kind of becomes personal preference in

936
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 1: those last two spots, because I feel like, personally the

937
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 1: top ten is pretty set with those nine hitters and

938
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 1: Scooble For me personally, like I just can't like, I

939
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:12,280
Speaker 1: can't imagine taking would sixth be you know, more power

940
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 1: to you if you did. And also I guess I

941
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:19,319
Speaker 1: should limit backtrack and say, if somebody is buying into

942
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 1: significant regression for like cal Raley, then maybe he doesn't

943
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: belong inside that top ten, and you you make the

944
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: case for Wood ahead of him or something like that,

945
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 1: like if you believe in his breakout season more, then

946
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 1: I could see that case being made. So I don't

947
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 1: want to say that Wood doesn't belong in the top ten,

948
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 1: but I was curious if he was going to go

949
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,360
Speaker 1: there or not, you know, inside the first round. But

950
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: I think it's a great pick just everything he's done,

951
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 1: Like you know, I love James would, so I'm not

952
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 1: going to argue with this one. I am going to

953
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take one Sido by the way.

954
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, just for for James Wood. You know, just

955
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 3: everyone was kind of predicting the breakout this year.

956
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 4: We saw it.

957
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:52,959
Speaker 3: You know, I talked preseason about drafting meta ceiling shame

958
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 3: on me because he's currently you talked about him going

959
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 3: in the top ten. He's currently tenth in VBR in

960
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 3: terms of fantasy value on Fantasy Pros, and that's thanks

961
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 3: to twenty four home runs. And we just talked about

962
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 3: Juan Soto's eleven steals. James Wood has twelve, and he's

963
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 3: batting two seventy eight. And so the other thing that

964
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 3: you and I have talked about is his power. It's

965
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 3: to all fields, it's not just the pull power, and

966
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,439
Speaker 3: so you know that I think gives him a higher

967
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 3: floor going forward.

968
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 4: So someone I'm.

969
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 3: Potentially excited about, assuming he has a strong second half

970
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 3: as well.

971
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: So I mean the stolen bases matter to me that

972
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 1: he's getting more of them. I have no doubt about

973
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,320
Speaker 1: the power and batting average long term.

974
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 4: So you think he's gonna keep running.

975
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 1: I don't know, but enough, I think he'll keep running

976
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: it more than you know, previous seasons of like you said,

977
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: you know, really not doing anything. He's already what won

978
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 1: off his career high in steals. Like, I think he'll

979
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: run enough to be in the double digits. May maybe

980
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 1: that's you know, wishful thinking, but I think he'll always

981
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: be in the double digits with what we've seen so far.

982
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 1: And if that, you know, if you give me that

983
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 1: and thirty five to forty homers and a high batting

984
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: average or you know, high enough batting average, I'm happy.

985
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 3: Maybe he just really cares about fantasy managers and he

986
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 3: knows he's not producing enough as a hitter, so he's

987
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 3: running more, and that next year, if the batting stats

988
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:16,839
Speaker 3: come back, he won't run as.

989
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 2: I mean, the bating stats aren't bad.

990
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 1: He has twenty three homers at the All Star break,

991
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,359
Speaker 1: and his batting average is a little down.

992
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 2: It's still too sixty two, And like I.

993
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 4: Three fifteen expected batting average by the way.

994
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I don't feel like the bat's letting us down.

995
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: It's maybe not like mega insane, you know, all time

996
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: batting season, but it's not bad.

997
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 4: By the way, how many picks are we doing?

998
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 2: Two rounds?

999
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 4: Okay?

1000
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 2: We said that already, was.

1001
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 3: Looking at the sheet we had. We had a break,

1002
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,760
Speaker 3: and are we doing ten teams or twelve twelve?

1003
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:48,399
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1004
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: She she got messed up in the formatting we're doing.

1005
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,720
Speaker 1: We're doing twenty four picks to two rounds of twelve.

1006
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:56,760
Speaker 1: So okay, So we are through round one and.

1007
00:43:58,400 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, why don't you recap us real quick?

1008
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1009
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 1: Round one went in this order. Twelve picks, Shoho Tani,

1010
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 1: Bobby Wit, Junior, Aaron Judge, Ronald o'cunya Junior, Pete rah Armstrong,

1011
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: Ellie d La Cruz, cal Raley, Jose Ramirez, Steel, the Draft,

1012
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker, Tarique's Google, James Wood and Juan Soto. Pretty

1013
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: good first.

1014
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 3: Round, not too shabby. So I'm on the clock at thirteen.

1015
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 3: Are we doing just or are we snaking?

1016
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:29,720
Speaker 2: That's a good question.

1017
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: I actually was thinking of just still alternating, but you're right,

1018
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 1: we should snake and keep the kind of the same

1019
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:38,399
Speaker 1: quote unquote managers let's do that for fun. So I'll

1020
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 1: be on the clock then to start round two. I

1021
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: was not thinking about that pairing with Sodo. I think

1022
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 1: there's a couple of names you could pick between. I

1023
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:58,919
Speaker 1: am inclined. In a real draft, I think I would

1024
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 1: make a different pick than the one of my out

1025
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: to me, because I don't think you're going to take

1026
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: the player that I would really take in a real draft.

1027
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 4: So pretend like you know what I'm going to do.

1028
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 2: I just I said, think. I didn't say I know,

1029
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 2: So I think what I will do.

1030
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,439
Speaker 4: Now real quick before you pick.

1031
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 3: So you are sorry, You're sorry, you already said this.

1032
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 3: So you are considering this like the twelve team and

1033
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 3: you're pairing with Juan Sota.

1034
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: I am approaching it that way, yes, like I said, Yes,

1035
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: that is the way I'm approaching it.

1036
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 2: Do you want to not approach it that way?

1037
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 4: No, that's fine. I just.

1038
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 3: I just wanted to, you know, clarify for our wonderful listeners.

1039
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to go with the if Wan

1040
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: Soto is the floor, I'm going to go with this

1041
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: ceiling upside of his former teammate Fernando Tatis Junior. And

1042
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 1: like I said, this is probably not what I would

1043
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,799
Speaker 1: pick if I was not going up against you, but

1044
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: that's what I'm picking here, So pairing up Soto intentions,

1045
00:45:58,400 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 1: But what do.

1046
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 4: You think about that against me? No, that's good.

1047
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 3: He I've been kind of like like I mentioned at

1048
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 3: the top of the show, bouncing around between like you know,

1049
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 3: current stats and the VBR and like previous rankings.

1050
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 4: And so if you just.

1051
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 3: Go by VBR in the first half, he's seventeen, but

1052
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 3: he's also behind players like Juanniel Suarez who are not

1053
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 3: going to go this high.

1054
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,720
Speaker 1: He's in our rest of season consensus rankings on Fantasy

1055
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:23,800
Speaker 1: pros TATIS.

1056
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's unsurprising, even you know, despite the VBR. So,

1057
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 3: I mean that's not a bad pairing either, especially you know,

1058
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 3: high ceiling, high floor for both those players, assuming Tuty

1059
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 3: stays healthy.

1060
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 4: Ye.

1061
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 3: And so so you went twelve thirteen paired Soda with tatists,

1062
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 3: that means I'm pairing James Wood with this pick. So

1063
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 3: to pair with James Wood, I think I'll go back

1064
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:57,280
Speaker 3: into the pitchers bucket and I'll go Garrett Crochet. Okay,

1065
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 3: much the chagrin of Chris Rolls, we caret.

1066
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:07,479
Speaker 1: Crochet all right, Yeah, that that's I think a totally

1067
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: valid pick. Do you think Crochet is is the right

1068
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:11,800
Speaker 1: guy for SP two? Did you consider Skiens or Wheeler?

1069
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 4: I did?

1070
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 3: I maybe, Yeah, I considered Skeens and Wheeler, and then

1071
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 3: it's too early too at this point to make this pick.

1072
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 3: But I do think Hunter Browns can be in that

1073
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:27,720
Speaker 3: conversation too. But just given what Crochet, Wheeler and Skins

1074
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 3: are doing. As much as I like Hunter brown and

1075
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:31,919
Speaker 3: believe in what he's doing, it's going to be hard

1076
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:36,399
Speaker 3: to to overtake them. Barring injury. They look really really

1077
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 3: good right now. But yeah, I'm a big Paul Skins guy.

1078
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 3: I had him this year as coming into the year

1079
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 3: as SP one, but three schoobl is U making a

1080
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:46,359
Speaker 3: mockery event.

1081
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: I think this is an interesting spot with Schooble because

1082
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 1: I think, like I would probably be inclined to take Skiings.

1083
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,719
Speaker 1: I'm not somebody who really goes pocket aces though, so

1084
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: since we are can considering this as pairing them, I

1085
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:03,919
Speaker 1: probably will go away from like I think, I think

1086
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 1: this is a spot where schemes should be off the board.

1087
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 1: But I don't know if it makes sense to pair

1088
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 1: with Google unless unless that is just your strategy of pocketases,

1089
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 1: which is totally valid if that's kind of the way

1090
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:19,879
Speaker 1: you like to do things. There are I think as

1091
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 1: many as one, two, three, four. I think you can

1092
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 1: make a case for seven hitters here. Honestly, I mean,

1093
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,320
Speaker 1: do you see a clear standout hitter or it feels

1094
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: like a real group of Are you buying a bounce

1095
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 1: back for Gunner? Lindor is great but another year older,

1096
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:45,240
Speaker 1: you know, Churio taking another step forward? Maybe Mookie Betts.

1097
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: Is this just a down season? Vla Gerrero best first

1098
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 1: baseman available? Like, I feel like there's a lot of

1099
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:54,440
Speaker 1: different cases you could that you can make here. Do

1100
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 1: you do you see that too? Or do you have

1101
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:56,879
Speaker 1: a clear guy?

1102
00:48:59,040 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 3: No?

1103
00:48:59,280 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 4: I see that too.

1104
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 3: So there is one guy that came to mind first,

1105
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 3: just as not like I don't want to say highest ceiling,

1106
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 3: but like that I'm most excited about.

1107
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, these guys all have high ceilings, right, Like you

1108
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: can paint a picture for any of them as really

1109
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:16,480
Speaker 1: smart picks here.

1110
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 2: I think what I'm gonna do. I'm actually really torn this.

1111
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 1: This is a really fun exercise because it is teaching

1112
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: me that I see a really big group here. And

1113
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 1: I don't know that I would have assumed that going

1114
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 1: in that's the end. This is kind of why I

1115
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: like doing it. Shooting from the hip.

1116
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 4: Do you consider Camanaro in this group?

1117
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 1: I'm probably not taking him yet, but I wouldn't like

1118
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:40,919
Speaker 1: say you're wrong for considering him, es like giving out

1119
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: how difficult third base is. Right, I'm not considering him

1120
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: with this pick, but I think it's reasonable. I think

1121
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna say, you know,

1122
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: this is just a fluke down season for Mookie Bets

1123
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: and and take him. I know he didn't play full

1124
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 1: season last year, so this is now two years in

1125
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: a row where the coounting stats maybe aren't as good,

1126
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: but we know what this guy is at his best,

1127
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 1: and you know the Dodgers, there's always gonna be opportunities

1128
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 1: for runs and RBI. And I'm gonna say that he

1129
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 1: kind of goes in the next season fully healthy and

1130
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:15,839
Speaker 1: we get one last kind of elite season out of him.

1131
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:17,839
Speaker 1: Maybe not one last, but I'm gonna go with Nuoki

1132
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: Bets here. Does that Does that feel too early for him?

1133
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: Given what we've seen this year?

1134
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 4: It makes it?

1135
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 3: I mean yes and no, It feels a little early

1136
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 3: based on the down season we're seeing. We're like, I

1137
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 3: need to see a stronger second half from him in

1138
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 3: order to take him this early. But also like if

1139
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:34,359
Speaker 3: he had a great season to be a first round pick,

1140
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 3: and we're already at pick fifteen, so it does feel fair, but.

1141
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 1: We're we're we're imagining going in the next season, Like again,

1142
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 1: he started off this season weird with the sickness, Like

1143
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,400
Speaker 1: it's just like, it just feels like he has earned

1144
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt of I'm willing to look

1145
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: past this kind of fluke bad year and hope that

1146
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,919
Speaker 1: it is just a fluke and he's a lot lower

1147
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 1: and the rest of the season ranking, so this this

1148
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 1: might actually be a reach. I'm not saying that it's not,

1149
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: but I think all these guys are again justifiable, So

1150
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:03,400
Speaker 1: I want to go with the guy that's been the

1151
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 1: best for the longest and count of this being a

1152
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:06,400
Speaker 1: down season.

1153
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of worry there. He going into

1154
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 3: next season, he will be thirty three, as you mentioned,

1155
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 3: wou judge, and there's also the possibility that we're seeing

1156
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 3: the downturn. So in twenty twenty three, he played one

1157
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:20,359
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty two games, it hit thirty nine home runs.

1158
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 3: Last year he only played one hundred sixteen, but he

1159
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 3: only hit nineteen home runs, so not the same kind

1160
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 3: of pace and so and this year eleven home runs

1161
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 3: in eighty nine games. So it's possible we've seen that power.

1162
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 3: You know, we're not going to see that thirty plus

1163
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 3: home run power anymore, which we only saw it like

1164
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 3: a few times before. Anyway, he kind of has floated

1165
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 3: between that, like, you know, twenties and thirties home runs power.

1166
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 3: I don't think we're seeing thirty nine anymore.

1167
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:46,360
Speaker 1: What I'm more worried about is the risk of he's

1168
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: not going to run any He's only six stolen bases

1169
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 1: this year, so like, if he gets me like twenty

1170
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:56,800
Speaker 1: six homers and fifteen stolen bases and his batting average

1171
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,359
Speaker 1: is back to three hundred, like I'm okay with that.

1172
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 2: But if he's in the single.

1173
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 1: Digit steals total and low twenties homers and the average

1174
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:06,839
Speaker 1: bet like that's where it starts to be. Like, Okay,

1175
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 1: this is like a significant reach, but maybe it's buying

1176
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 1: a little too much into name value. But I have

1177
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 1: made the pick, so it's locked in Yeah.

1178
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't have to spend much more time on him,

1179
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 3: but there is when you just look at like, granted

1180
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 3: it's only half a season, but if you look at

1181
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 3: the numbers, there are some concerns he' about in two

1182
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:22,879
Speaker 3: forty four.

1183
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1184
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not focused on this season's counting stats in

1185
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 1: making this pick. This is a This is me saying

1186
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: it is a weird start to the year, weird year

1187
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 1: in general for him, Like we're counting this as a

1188
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 1: fluke to me, the if you want to paint the

1189
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,919
Speaker 1: case of this being a concern it's last year.

1190
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:43,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, because the county sides are down and his expected

1191
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 3: stats or a lot of them will all be career

1192
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 3: worst as well, and so he's earning it all right,

1193
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 3: But we can move on. I could tell you want

1194
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 3: to move on. You don't want to, you know, just well.

1195
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 2: No, you don't want to. We don't spend ten minutes

1196
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:56,760
Speaker 2: on every pick.

1197
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 3: I know you're regretting the Mookie Bets pick already. So

1198
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 3: you paired Mookie Betts with Scooble, is that right?

1199
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1200
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 3: So now I'm up with the team who picked at

1201
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 3: one on nine and picked Kyle Tucker and so for me,

1202
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 3: I'll make it quick and I just think he shouldn't

1203
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:15,280
Speaker 3: have fallen this this far. And I'll pair a really

1204
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:17,800
Speaker 3: one of the top hitters with one of the top pitchers,

1205
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:19,439
Speaker 3: and I'll take Paul Skins off the board.

1206
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:21,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, Skens would have been my next pick for sure.

1207
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:25,360
Speaker 1: If I didn't take Scooble with the tenth pick, I

1208
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: would have taken Skins. I like gu said, I just

1209
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:29,359
Speaker 1: didn't want to go pocket aces, but like I would

1210
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:30,759
Speaker 1: have taken him a pick before if we were just

1211
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 1: drafting in a vacuum correct pick. I think, I don't

1212
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:41,600
Speaker 1: know that I want to take another picture here in Wheeler,

1213
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 1: like I don't know that I want to take another

1214
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 1: picture this whole mock draft is, is my point, even

1215
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:49,399
Speaker 1: though I do really like Wheeler obviously, just like another

1216
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 1: year older. That's hard, and there's so many good hitters

1217
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 1: that I like. I'm gonna say, I'm going I'm gonna

1218
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 1: kind of a bounce back from Gunner Henderson. Other than

1219
00:53:57,520 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 1: this too far, he was a first rounder like very

1220
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 1: easily a year ago. He's still very young, he's still

1221
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 1: very good. A lot of the bad of ball data

1222
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:06,759
Speaker 1: is very promising. He's sitting the ball hard, he's just

1223
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:08,839
Speaker 1: not lifting it a lot. I think it gets back

1224
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 1: to you remember he also started this season weirdly, getting

1225
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: injured in in spring training and then kind of working

1226
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: his way back. It gets major league pitching. This is

1227
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 1: just buying into the talent what we saw last year.

1228
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: And I'll just take a Gunner Henderson and again, I

1229
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 1: kind of have the floor of Jose Ramirez that I'm

1230
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 1: pairing him with, and now I'm kind of getting I

1231
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 1: think I think the ceiling again with Gunner Henderson.

1232
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 3: All right, so you paired Jose Ramirez and Gunner Henderson.

1233
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 3: I am now up at eighteen with the team that

1234
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:43,319
Speaker 3: one oh seven. I took cal Raley and so I

1235
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 3: could go in a couple different directions here. But I

1236
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:47,359
Speaker 3: also think this player should not still be on board,

1237
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 3: and that's Jacksonio. And so I like the idea of

1238
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 3: pairing the power of cal Rally with the speed and

1239
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 3: power of Jacksonterio.

1240
00:54:56,480 --> 00:55:00,239
Speaker 1: I could have easily taken Cheerio instead of Gunner. You know, again,

1241
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: I think this is kind of a big group of hitters,

1242
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: and I think that's a totally good pick.

1243
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:04,439
Speaker 2: I want to let.

1244
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:06,160
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1245
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:09,760
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1246
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1251
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1252
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm back.

1253
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:33,360
Speaker 1: On the clock and I will take a guy that

1254
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: I considered a couple of picks ago. Really, a lot

1255
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:37,919
Speaker 1: of these guys I've at least considered for a couple

1256
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:41,319
Speaker 1: of picks. I know the batting averages hasn't been very good.

1257
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: Corbyn Carroll is only twenty four years old. I know

1258
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:47,239
Speaker 1: he's got a bit of the wrist injury stuff right now.

1259
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: But this is guy that in general, going into next season,

1260
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:52,799
Speaker 1: barring anything unforeseen this year, I'm going to be expecting

1261
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 1: twenty five homers and thirty five stolen bases and hoping

1262
00:55:57,760 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 1: for a batting average bounce back. Even though this is

1263
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 1: two years in a row of a low batting average.

1264
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: I just think the town's too good. And again in

1265
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: this in a Rodo format with the Steels. I just

1266
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:10,640
Speaker 1: think back half of Route two is a perfectly great

1267
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 1: place to take him.

1268
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:13,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's fair.

1269
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 3: I think it's he's probably he's been on the on

1270
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 3: the uh missing the word here.

1271
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 4: He's been available for too long in this draft.

1272
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:25,239
Speaker 3: As someone who coming into last year he was like

1273
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 3: contensus top five, top three pick. There are some injury

1274
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:32,319
Speaker 3: concerns there. You know, I share those coming into last season.

1275
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 3: I don't have any shares of Corbyn Carrol. But yeah,

1276
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:38,279
Speaker 3: I think nineteenth pick, second round, like mid to late

1277
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 3: second round, is just way too long for him to

1278
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 3: be on the board.

1279
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 4: That's the word I was looking for it.

1280
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's he's on his one hundred and

1281
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 1: sixty two game pace this year is forty two homers

1282
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: and twenty two steals, and I think the steels is

1283
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:53,920
Speaker 1: the one that we're more confident would bounce back in

1284
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 1: the future. So, like again, a twenty five to thirty

1285
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 1: five season is selling him, sure from what the ceiling

1286
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 1: could be. So I think if the floor is you're

1287
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 1: at least getting power speed combo, and the ceiling is

1288
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 1: like a top five player, which is what it is.

1289
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:14,240
Speaker 1: I think this is a good value, and I'm pairing

1290
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: him with Eli Da La Cruz.

1291
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:17,400
Speaker 2: So that's a lot of power speed.

1292
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 3: Yep, yeah, I was going to say that you're you're

1293
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 3: pairing with Eli Data Cruz, so I'm no up. And

1294
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 3: this is pairing with Pik or Armstrong who went at

1295
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 3: one oh five. Maybe a little early, but you know,

1296
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 3: projecting the superstardom. So I did take a little bit

1297
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 3: of a risk with that first pick with Piak or Armstrong.

1298
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 3: And so now do I want to pair it with

1299
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 3: an elite pitcher and kind of build the floor in

1300
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 3: the pitching side, or do I want to further cement

1301
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 3: my offensive floor. I think I'll go offense and I

1302
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 3: will go with.

1303
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 4: I already have some of that speed. Do I want

1304
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 4: to I'll go Lindoor, Francisco, Lindor.

1305
00:57:56,640 --> 00:58:01,720
Speaker 1: Good Claire and a good a good floor picked to

1306
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 1: pair of somebody like pe K Armstrong.

1307
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 3: I'm a little nervous about batting average because there's a

1308
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 3: chance that like I just drafted like two two fifty

1309
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 3: two sixty hitters, which was which was my one hesitation there.

1310
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 3: But I do think you're locking in a lot of

1311
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:18,080
Speaker 3: power speed and like a good enough batting average really

1312
00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:18,520
Speaker 3: early on.

1313
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:20,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think it's a good pick.

1314
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:24,440
Speaker 1: We're starting to get into the territory of feeling like

1315
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 1: you're taking a step down.

1316
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:31,320
Speaker 2: With who's available. Yeah, I'm looking around.

1317
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 1: It's like like we're in the territory of there. There's

1318
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 1: a red flag somewhere. Was Zach Wheeler. It's age, you

1319
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 1: know with I mean, I don't know how far down

1320
00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:45,320
Speaker 1: you're looking. But you know, a guy like you know,

1321
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:47,400
Speaker 1: Ca tel Marte, you're not getting any steals. You know,

1322
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 1: a guy like Trey Turner, you know, the power hasn't

1323
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:52,560
Speaker 1: been there this year, you know, and he's also into

1324
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 1: his thirties now, so how long is the speed going

1325
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 1: to be there? You know, Julio Rodriguez has been like

1326
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:00,360
Speaker 1: a slow starter, you know, for so much of the time.

1327
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:03,360
Speaker 1: But he's you know, fourteen homers, seventeen steals at the

1328
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: All Star break, you know, low batting average. I'm like

1329
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 1: kind of talking it through because again, there's kind of

1330
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 1: like downsides for a lot of these guys. Somebody who's

1331
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 1: having a very you know, a good season is Manny

1332
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:19,320
Speaker 1: Machado and third base is so difficult, you know, seventeen homers,

1333
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 1: eight steals two ninety two average. But he is another

1334
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: guy into his you know, early to mid thirties. Now

1335
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:28,680
Speaker 1: he's thirty three years old right now. Like I said,

1336
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 1: I'm kind of talking it through because I think there's

1337
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:31,960
Speaker 1: a lot of different options. I think what I will

1338
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:36,120
Speaker 1: do in this is pairing with Ronald Acunya is and

1339
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 1: I didn't expect to this. I'm gonna take Zach Wheeler.

1340
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:42,440
Speaker 1: I I'm at the point with Zach Wheeler where it's

1341
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:46,320
Speaker 1: almost like Derrek Henry and fantasy football. I'm not I'm

1342
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 1: just gonna ride this thing until it burns me, right Like,

1343
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the one. I'm not gonna

1344
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: keep predicting when he's gonna fall off. He's been so

1345
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:57,040
Speaker 1: good for so long it does concern me his age,

1346
00:59:57,360 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 1: But I mean, this is several years in a row

1347
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 1: of being a real fantasy ace, one of the five

1348
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:08,240
Speaker 1: best pitchers in fantasy baseball. I'm just gonna let I'm

1349
01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:10,479
Speaker 1: gonna let him burn me one year, and I'm gonna

1350
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:12,600
Speaker 1: keep taking him until he does so. Pairing him with

1351
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: ron On Acunya Cook, that's that's a low ceiling. If

1352
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:17,960
Speaker 1: he does at the age Cliff and Acunya, you know,

1353
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 1: has injury issues.

1354
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 2: But that's a high ceiling. It's it's a low floor.

1355
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,960
Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like you tricked me saying

1356
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:26,480
Speaker 3: you weren't going to take any more pictures. I just

1357
01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 3: you know, filled up my strategy.

1358
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 1: Later I planned to not and then in the moment

1359
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 1: talk again, this is where we're figuring this out. In

1360
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:37,480
Speaker 1: the moment, I kind of realized, actually I do.

1361
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I think it's the right move.

1362
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:42,440
Speaker 3: I do think, especially when you start looking at like

1363
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:45,600
Speaker 3: pitching tears, you need to not need to, but you know,

1364
01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 3: locking like he said, like that ceiling floor of a

1365
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:51,920
Speaker 3: Zach Wheeler, especially pairing up with someone like Acunya, I

1366
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:53,880
Speaker 3: think it makes a lot of sense. So you paired

1367
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:58,440
Speaker 3: Acunya and Wheeler, and now I am up with the

1368
01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 3: team that was one O three, that Aaron Judge, and

1369
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 3: so I have a pretty high floor, high ceiling there,

1370
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:06,840
Speaker 3: and who do I want to pair him with? So

1371
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:09,120
Speaker 3: if I want to go the pitching route, there's Hunter

1372
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:11,439
Speaker 3: Brown and there's Max Freed, and I feel like those

1373
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 3: are probably the only two.

1374
01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:16,320
Speaker 4: In that tier. And you could argue that the Hunter

1375
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 4: Brown is not in that tier yet. I Vlad is.

1376
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 3: Someone I consider, but he's not having the stats I

1377
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:25,919
Speaker 3: would want to take. Take this early, like we're not

1378
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 3: not seeing the powers.

1379
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought about Vlad the last couple of picks,

1380
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:34,760
Speaker 1: but I'm like, it's just not happening, and I don't know. Yeah,

1381
01:01:35,120 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 1: I Lad was a tricky one for me to decide on.

1382
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:45,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to go Junior Camenaro.

1383
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:48,840
Speaker 4: That's you know, I don't know that. I don't know.

1384
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:50,680
Speaker 3: It makes me a little bit nervous, but you know,

1385
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:52,880
Speaker 3: there is a lot of power out of her weak

1386
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:56,440
Speaker 3: position there. I'm taking too long to make the pick here.

1387
01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:04,920
Speaker 3: Uh you know what, Just give me Junior kerin Air.

1388
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 3: I'll take him, Okay, I'll take the Plunge.

1389
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 4: Was not in on them this season.

1390
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:15,640
Speaker 3: I'm I'm correcting the mistake like I did with Pek Armstrong.

1391
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 3: I'm I'm going back.

1392
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 1: My last pick. I have Bobby Wood. Junior is the

1393
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 1: guy I'm pairing this with.

1394
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:26,040
Speaker 2: Ma'am.

1395
01:02:26,240 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 1: I I am torn as it happened for a couple

1396
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 1: of picks in Rowe because there's a lot of guys

1397
01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:33,240
Speaker 1: that I think are pretty close to each other.

1398
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:35,160
Speaker 2: There's guys like Trade Kyle Schwarber.

1399
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:37,000
Speaker 3: Is he someone you would take. I can't take him

1400
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:39,200
Speaker 3: with the next pick because that's the team.

1401
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:42,920
Speaker 1: I am just somebody who typically does not like that strategy.

1402
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:44,600
Speaker 1: As good of a hitter as he is, I mean, dude,

1403
01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:46,160
Speaker 1: his thirty home runs this year, and like, I'm not

1404
01:02:46,160 --> 01:02:49,080
Speaker 1: even saying that I'm correct in that stance. I just

1405
01:02:49,120 --> 01:02:52,200
Speaker 1: don't typically go for guys like Schworber, you know, at

1406
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 1: their cost. But that's just a personal preference.

1407
01:02:56,680 --> 01:02:58,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just wanted to bring it up because I

1408
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:00,280
Speaker 3: actually I cannot take him with the next pick unless

1409
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:01,080
Speaker 3: there's two utilities.

1410
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:05,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, it's valid. I mean I think you

1411
01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:10,560
Speaker 1: could even scroll down and look at like like I'm

1412
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 1: not taking him. But I wouldn't fight too strongly against

1413
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 1: somebody making the case for like Jackson Merrill and just saying, like, listen,

1414
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 1: he said, injury issues this year and that's why everything's

1415
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:22,880
Speaker 1: looking really bad. But as a rookie, as a young

1416
01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:25,560
Speaker 1: rookie twenty one years old, he went he had twenty

1417
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:28,640
Speaker 1: four homers, sixteen soul bases in a two ninety two average,

1418
01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:31,040
Speaker 1: and just kind of thinking a step forward from that

1419
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 1: is the most likely outcome for next year. I I mean,

1420
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:37,560
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm a take it, but I wouldn't

1421
01:03:37,640 --> 01:03:38,360
Speaker 1: fight against it.

1422
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:40,520
Speaker 4: Do you I'll be real quick.

1423
01:03:40,560 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 3: But do you want to see I have like last

1424
01:03:42,600 --> 01:03:44,520
Speaker 3: year's draft rankings up. Do you want to hear some

1425
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:46,920
Speaker 3: of the top names setting into last draft season that

1426
01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:49,800
Speaker 3: are still available. Sure, there's a few of them, So

1427
01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:55,240
Speaker 3: scrolling through the list, Julio Rodriguez, consider God Alvarez, Bryce Harper, I.

1428
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:57,400
Speaker 2: Will not be taking Jared on Alvarez.

1429
01:03:57,680 --> 01:04:01,280
Speaker 3: Jared Duran, Drey Turner, and then you're Jackson Merril, Freddie Freeman,

1430
01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:04,680
Speaker 3: Jazz Chishom could tell Marte Austin, Riley, Logan Gilbert.

1431
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:08,920
Speaker 2: I mean there's good players there, yeah, for sure. I

1432
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:12,840
Speaker 2: mean the highest in our rest of season rankings available

1433
01:04:12,840 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 2: is vlad.

1434
01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:16,880
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think I think he's too high there.

1435
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:18,760
Speaker 1: It's just it's just so hard to take him with

1436
01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:19,920
Speaker 1: what the season has looked like.

1437
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 4: I think I agree.

1438
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:25,640
Speaker 1: I mean, Trey Turner, you're getting steals, but another year. Yeah,

1439
01:04:25,640 --> 01:04:27,400
Speaker 1: I also have Bobby wit Junior on the team, so

1440
01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:30,160
Speaker 1: pairing shortstops, I could do it, right, There'll be there'll

1441
01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:35,880
Speaker 1: be an infielder spot, but I probably won't, you know, Julio,

1442
01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:38,640
Speaker 1: just betting on the talent Pete Alonzo. If I wanted

1443
01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:40,200
Speaker 1: to go a different first baseman.

1444
01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:44,800
Speaker 2: I do.

1445
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:46,640
Speaker 1: I mean again, I can't. I feel like I can't

1446
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:47,880
Speaker 1: take him base on what we've seen. But I do

1447
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:50,680
Speaker 1: really like Jackson Merrill a lot. Tell Marte just like

1448
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:53,200
Speaker 1: getting the best second baseman is appealing.

1449
01:04:53,520 --> 01:04:55,040
Speaker 4: Would you consider Max Freed here?

1450
01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:57,200
Speaker 1: No? If if I was going to take a picture,

1451
01:04:57,200 --> 01:05:00,520
Speaker 1: I would take Connor Brown like unequivally. I I like

1452
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 1: Brown better than Freed for sure. Okay, so I don't

1453
01:05:04,280 --> 01:05:05,800
Speaker 1: think I want to take a picture, but if I

1454
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:08,200
Speaker 1: was to take one, it would be one hundred percent.

1455
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:13,280
Speaker 2: I think I'm going to.

1456
01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 1: Say he's too talented and young enough that there could

1457
01:05:18,840 --> 01:05:21,080
Speaker 1: still be a step forward, and he was a high pick.

1458
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:24,040
Speaker 1: He's had a thirty thirty season on his resume. I'm

1459
01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 1: going to take Julio Rider. You guys, I think he

1460
01:05:26,120 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 1: can't get out of the second round just with the

1461
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:29,440
Speaker 1: talent and age alone.

1462
01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 2: Wow, do you think that's the wrong pick?

1463
01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:34,440
Speaker 4: No?

1464
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:36,360
Speaker 3: I just think you were already talked about it. There's

1465
01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:39,960
Speaker 3: a lot of uncertainty there. He's also a he's been

1466
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:42,280
Speaker 3: you know, it's kind of fluky, but he's been a

1467
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:45,520
Speaker 3: second half player. So there's a world where we're heading

1468
01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:47,720
Speaker 3: into next draft season and his numbers look really good

1469
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:49,440
Speaker 3: and you're like, wow, he had a great season forgetting that,

1470
01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:51,520
Speaker 3: Like the beginning of season was I mean, I mean.

1471
01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:55,880
Speaker 1: His poor first half is still fourteen homer seventeen steals,

1472
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:58,760
Speaker 1: and like the average is twenty points lower. But his

1473
01:05:58,880 --> 01:06:01,480
Speaker 1: average the first three was two eighty four, two seventy five,

1474
01:06:01,520 --> 01:06:03,440
Speaker 1: two seventy three. This year's two fifty two. So that

1475
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:06,640
Speaker 1: looks like the outlier. You know, he's he's been a

1476
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:08,479
Speaker 1: twenty twenty guy every year of his career.

1477
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:09,440
Speaker 2: He's going to be that again.

1478
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:12,480
Speaker 1: He's been a thirty thirty guy once, twenty five to

1479
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:15,480
Speaker 1: twenty five guy twice. So I feel like the floor

1480
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:20,439
Speaker 1: is actually higher overall maybe then you would think with him,

1481
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:23,480
Speaker 1: and the ceiling is very clear and apparent too, So

1482
01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 1: I think like him getting out of the second would

1483
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:27,720
Speaker 1: be crazy, and like pairing him with Bobby Woo Junior,

1484
01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:29,560
Speaker 1: I feel really good about.

1485
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:31,240
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1486
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:33,960
Speaker 3: So I'll be really quick again, but I'll just hit

1487
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:38,320
Speaker 3: some of the before I hit the top draft rankings

1488
01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:40,360
Speaker 3: of a players heading into last year's draft that are

1489
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:43,439
Speaker 3: still available. Now, I'll hit some of the players through

1490
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 3: the first half of the season have been the best

1491
01:06:45,080 --> 01:06:48,680
Speaker 3: statistically that are still available. Number nine Byron Buxton, not

1492
01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:52,320
Speaker 3: taking him here. Number eleven Kylesh forber he already said,

1493
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:53,200
Speaker 3: can't take him.

1494
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:54,200
Speaker 4: With the on the Otani team.

1495
01:06:54,240 --> 01:06:56,160
Speaker 3: This is the one oh one team that is now,

1496
01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 3: you know, pairing whoever this player is without Treya Turner.

1497
01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:03,120
Speaker 4: Riley Green is an interesting one.

1498
01:07:03,160 --> 01:07:04,440
Speaker 3: I don't know that I would take him this high,

1499
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:06,439
Speaker 3: but he's having a very good year. Twenty four home runs,

1500
01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:09,080
Speaker 3: twenty four batting average. You Haino Suarez not taking him here?

1501
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:12,240
Speaker 3: Say Suzuki is an interesting name. Peelansa many him Chatto,

1502
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:15,160
Speaker 3: you already mentioned Kristin Yelli's not doing that. And then

1503
01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:17,919
Speaker 3: I think you kind of get further down into two

1504
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 3: different kind of tears.

1505
01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:20,240
Speaker 4: And so.

1506
01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:24,920
Speaker 3: Assuming this you know this team, I'm making two picks,

1507
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:26,760
Speaker 3: but we're not going to you know, go past this pick.

1508
01:07:26,840 --> 01:07:29,920
Speaker 3: But this, you know, in this, you know turn I

1509
01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 3: would be making two picks, so I think one of

1510
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:35,200
Speaker 3: them would be a pitcher, and so I'll take Hunter Brown.

1511
01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:37,240
Speaker 3: I'll take Hunter Brown as the final pick.

1512
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:39,640
Speaker 1: And that tell us who who would the hitter have been?

1513
01:07:39,720 --> 01:07:41,240
Speaker 1: If you said, okay, Hunter Brown will be the first

1514
01:07:41,240 --> 01:07:43,160
Speaker 1: pick of the third round, just so we'd know who

1515
01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:44,400
Speaker 1: would who would the hitter have been.

1516
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 4: That's where I kind of was struggling. I think I

1517
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:53,480
Speaker 4: think just based on.

1518
01:07:55,360 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 3: The you know, what we've seen so far, and he's

1519
01:07:58,640 --> 01:08:00,640
Speaker 3: having a really good year, though I don't know that

1520
01:08:00,680 --> 01:08:04,280
Speaker 3: I could really trust trust it based on the injury stuff.

1521
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:05,040
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, say.

1522
01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:07,640
Speaker 3: It's Azuki would would have been would have been the pick,

1523
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:10,480
Speaker 3: But I don't know. I'm not a big tell Marte

1524
01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 3: guy is gonna be a year older Price Harper, I'm

1525
01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:13,440
Speaker 3: not going to do.

1526
01:08:14,880 --> 01:08:14,920
Speaker 2: So.

1527
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:19,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like it's kind of a weird area. Yeah,

1528
01:08:20,040 --> 01:08:21,679
Speaker 3: I think it probably would have been saying Azuki.

1529
01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 2: That would not I was not my guess. I I

1530
01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:28,559
Speaker 2: what was your guys gonna make?

1531
01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:30,560
Speaker 1: I don't know that I really had one, But it

1532
01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:35,519
Speaker 1: was not that I was thinking more like a guy

1533
01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:41,040
Speaker 1: that we had ranked in this way coming into the year,

1534
01:08:41,280 --> 01:08:43,880
Speaker 1: like like like the previous list you read like guys

1535
01:08:43,880 --> 01:08:46,680
Speaker 1: that were here a year ago, and we're thinking, oh,

1536
01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:48,000
Speaker 1: they just had a little bit of a down year

1537
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:51,240
Speaker 1: or somebody like not not saying Laddie, but like you

1538
01:08:51,280 --> 01:08:54,519
Speaker 1: know of Laddie or somebody like that that was that

1539
01:08:54,600 --> 01:08:58,080
Speaker 1: we expected to be here would have been my guess, yeah, Duran.

1540
01:08:58,920 --> 01:09:01,479
Speaker 4: But I think the rants haven't down year. He's not good.

1541
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:03,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean all these guys that were in this

1542
01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:05,960
Speaker 1: range of year ago, like in the spring, that we're

1543
01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:09,479
Speaker 1: not taking are having down years to varying degrees, or

1544
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:13,120
Speaker 1: are older and we don't expect to maybe like like

1545
01:09:13,160 --> 01:09:15,000
Speaker 1: Mana Machada was having a good year, but like, is

1546
01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:16,680
Speaker 1: he having this kind of year that you expect him

1547
01:09:16,680 --> 01:09:18,559
Speaker 1: to do this as a thirty three year old next year?

1548
01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:19,200
Speaker 4: Like, I don't know.

1549
01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:21,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the answer could have been or would

1550
01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:25,639
Speaker 3: have been Jackson Merril. But we're not seeing the kind

1551
01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:28,160
Speaker 3: of second year we were hoping for after that breakout

1552
01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:31,640
Speaker 3: rookie season, so it was hard hard to trust him

1553
01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:32,439
Speaker 3: in the second round either.

1554
01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:34,000
Speaker 2: But that's also injury based too.

1555
01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:36,760
Speaker 1: Like I feel like next year, I'm going to be

1556
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:38,800
Speaker 1: really happy in any draft where I get Merrill in

1557
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:42,120
Speaker 1: the third round if that happens, And maybe maybe that

1558
01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:44,559
Speaker 1: won't happen based on how the second half goes. But

1559
01:09:44,640 --> 01:09:46,400
Speaker 1: as of right now, he obviously didn't make our top

1560
01:09:46,400 --> 01:09:48,639
Speaker 1: two rounds here, but I'm going to be I'm gonna

1561
01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:50,800
Speaker 1: be stoked to buy low next year, I think.

1562
01:09:51,160 --> 01:09:54,200
Speaker 3: And he was twenty three consensus going into last year,

1563
01:09:54,200 --> 01:09:55,679
Speaker 3: so he would have gone right around.

1564
01:09:55,520 --> 01:09:58,280
Speaker 2: Here and is going to be twenty three years old

1565
01:09:58,320 --> 01:09:58,880
Speaker 2: next season.

1566
01:09:59,720 --> 01:10:02,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, but also seven home runs in sixty four games,

1567
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:04,519
Speaker 3: but that's after hitting twenty four.

1568
01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:06,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean again, you're buying on it being it down.

1569
01:10:07,240 --> 01:10:08,080
Speaker 2: I think my one.

1570
01:10:07,920 --> 01:10:09,719
Speaker 4: Regret one one stolen base.

1571
01:10:09,880 --> 01:10:12,120
Speaker 1: I think my only regret from this is I actually

1572
01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:13,960
Speaker 1: I do think I reached on Mooki bets as I

1573
01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:16,120
Speaker 1: talked through it. But the rest, I actually I'm really

1574
01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:18,439
Speaker 1: happy with with the values I got. Like I think

1575
01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:23,760
Speaker 1: Jazeramirez eighth, Soto twelfth, you know, you getting Skiens sixteenth,

1576
01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:25,800
Speaker 1: I think was great. I would have taken skiin to

1577
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:27,880
Speaker 1: heead of Crochet, honestly, although I think it's a coin flip,

1578
01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:30,200
Speaker 1: Like I'm not saying you're wrong for that, just the

1579
01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:33,400
Speaker 1: direction I would have gone, like Gunner, like from pick

1580
01:10:33,520 --> 01:10:38,599
Speaker 1: sixteen to nineteen being Skeens, Gunner, Churio and Corbyn Carroll

1581
01:10:38,800 --> 01:10:43,400
Speaker 1: is like, that's really enticing. And then even even after that,

1582
01:10:43,439 --> 01:10:48,519
Speaker 1: Lindor Wheeler, like that range of the mid teens to

1583
01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:49,519
Speaker 1: the early twenties.

1584
01:10:49,640 --> 01:10:51,719
Speaker 2: I think is really strong.

1585
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:56,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I took Pca early knowingly, but he's going

1586
01:10:56,560 --> 01:10:59,240
Speaker 3: to be a fascinating one going into next season seeing

1587
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:00,840
Speaker 3: on the second half go because he could go as

1588
01:11:00,920 --> 01:11:04,160
Speaker 3: high as like top four, top three, or if he

1589
01:11:04,520 --> 01:11:06,320
Speaker 3: falls off in the second half, he could fall to

1590
01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:07,560
Speaker 3: the back end of the first round, maybe out of

1591
01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 3: the first round.

1592
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 1: I think a few of these guys, you could say

1593
01:11:09,680 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 1: there's a chance they could go Like Acunia I think

1594
01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:13,839
Speaker 1: could go higher than four if he has a vintage

1595
01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:17,439
Speaker 1: second half. I think Julio could go a lot higher

1596
01:11:17,439 --> 01:11:19,200
Speaker 1: if he has his what he usually does in the

1597
01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:22,160
Speaker 1: second half. Gunner and Schurio I think could go higher.

1598
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:26,599
Speaker 1: I think I think Camvanaro could fall off. I mean

1599
01:11:26,640 --> 01:11:28,200
Speaker 1: one of my bull predictions last week was that he

1600
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:29,640
Speaker 1: has forty homer So I don't think he will, but

1601
01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 1: I think he could. James would I could see falling

1602
01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:33,559
Speaker 1: out of the first. He's not falling out of the second,

1603
01:11:33,560 --> 01:11:34,920
Speaker 1: but I could see him falling out of the first.

1604
01:11:36,200 --> 01:11:38,760
Speaker 1: Cal Raley if he slows down, I think people he

1605
01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:42,840
Speaker 1: won't be a top seven pick. But but yeah, some

1606
01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:44,320
Speaker 1: of these guys could could move around a bit.

1607
01:11:44,360 --> 01:11:47,000
Speaker 2: I think the top three. Is even if he is

1608
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:48,280
Speaker 2: the easiest part of this whole draft.

1609
01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:51,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, even if cal Raley falls off, think about going

1610
01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:53,519
Speaker 3: into second going into next year, he's going to be

1611
01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:55,880
Speaker 3: a catcher with a good average, forty home rounds and

1612
01:11:55,920 --> 01:11:57,840
Speaker 3: some stolen bases. Like someone's going to take that in

1613
01:11:57,920 --> 01:11:59,800
Speaker 3: the first round just because they want to be done

1614
01:11:59,840 --> 01:12:01,320
Speaker 3: with and don't have to worry about it anymore.

1615
01:12:01,720 --> 01:12:04,240
Speaker 1: And they're you know, maybe not wrong about that. You know,

1616
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:08,160
Speaker 1: it's that's a totally viable thing. Is he's twenty eight

1617
01:12:08,200 --> 01:12:10,160
Speaker 1: this year, so it's not like he's like young young,

1618
01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:11,519
Speaker 1: but he's not old either. He's not one of these

1619
01:12:11,560 --> 01:12:13,840
Speaker 1: guys in his thirties that you would expect to see

1620
01:12:13,880 --> 01:12:16,000
Speaker 1: fall off. But I think we'll just be expecting general

1621
01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:18,280
Speaker 1: statistical regression, right, Like it's just gonna be hard to

1622
01:12:18,280 --> 01:12:20,240
Speaker 1: repeat it. All.

1623
01:12:20,320 --> 01:12:22,280
Speaker 2: Right, let's get into our two start pitcher competition quickly,

1624
01:12:22,280 --> 01:12:25,679
Speaker 2: because we went pretty long on this. It's currently tied.

1625
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:29,200
Speaker 1: That includes the home run derby win for you, so

1626
01:12:29,240 --> 01:12:31,360
Speaker 1: it's six six and then we had one week that

1627
01:12:31,479 --> 01:12:33,640
Speaker 1: was a tie, so we've each won six and then

1628
01:12:33,640 --> 01:12:37,280
Speaker 1: there is the tie in there and that, by the way,

1629
01:12:37,439 --> 01:12:39,920
Speaker 1: I very easily gave myself the win. For the last

1630
01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:42,920
Speaker 1: full week, we had Christopher Sanchez thirty three Fantasy points,

1631
01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:46,519
Speaker 1: Hunter Brown just two for you against Cleveland and Texas.

1632
01:12:47,080 --> 01:12:49,120
Speaker 2: This week's really true second round pick Hunter Brown.

1633
01:12:49,240 --> 01:12:51,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, So what we decided to do for this week

1634
01:12:51,080 --> 01:12:54,680
Speaker 1: because obviously, like rotations aren't totally set yet as of

1635
01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:58,679
Speaker 1: Thursday morning when we're recording this, and it's a weird

1636
01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:00,680
Speaker 1: week where it's we have this weekend subpcoming weeks. So

1637
01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:03,240
Speaker 1: what we're doing is Mayor and I have each picked

1638
01:13:03,280 --> 01:13:07,080
Speaker 1: a each picked a pitcher that is has been announced

1639
01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:10,440
Speaker 1: to be pitching this weekend, so we can be reasonably

1640
01:13:10,439 --> 01:13:14,479
Speaker 1: confident they are getting two starts, including this weekend and

1641
01:13:14,520 --> 01:13:16,760
Speaker 1: then all of next week. So rather than try to

1642
01:13:16,760 --> 01:13:18,960
Speaker 1: play this game where we try to guess because like

1643
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:20,960
Speaker 1: some teams want to give their best pictures like a

1644
01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:22,720
Speaker 1: little bit of extra rest, it's just sorry to tell

1645
01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:25,519
Speaker 1: what direction it's going. So pictures that are announced to

1646
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:27,920
Speaker 1: pitch this weekend, we are assuming we'll get this weekend

1647
01:13:27,920 --> 01:13:29,880
Speaker 1: and then at least one more start in this upcoming week,

1648
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:32,839
Speaker 1: and therefore we will be two starts between now next Sunday.

1649
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:34,680
Speaker 2: That will be our approach with it. There was not.

1650
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:37,519
Speaker 1: A super long list as of the time we're recording this,

1651
01:13:37,520 --> 01:13:39,639
Speaker 1: some guys that have even been confirmed to pitch this weekend,

1652
01:13:40,080 --> 01:13:42,280
Speaker 1: so it might sound like worse pictures than you know,

1653
01:13:42,280 --> 01:13:44,840
Speaker 1: we usually trying. We usually have some aces in here,

1654
01:13:44,920 --> 01:13:47,120
Speaker 1: but the guys that were announced we either had already

1655
01:13:47,200 --> 01:13:48,679
Speaker 1: used or we're not very good.

1656
01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:51,320
Speaker 2: So my pick is Nick Pavetta.

1657
01:13:51,439 --> 01:13:54,639
Speaker 1: He gets Washington and then we think the Mets next week,

1658
01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:57,640
Speaker 1: so one really good matchup in there. Mets have been

1659
01:13:57,720 --> 01:13:59,720
Speaker 1: up and down that has been good this year. I

1660
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:01,720
Speaker 1: remember we had the guy predict he was going to

1661
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:04,240
Speaker 1: lead the league in strikeouts before the season. That was

1662
01:14:04,240 --> 01:14:07,280
Speaker 1: one of our commenters bold predictions. So so yeah, I'll

1663
01:14:07,320 --> 01:14:08,520
Speaker 1: go with Paveta.

1664
01:14:09,840 --> 01:14:11,840
Speaker 3: And I'm going to go and just to you know,

1665
01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:15,519
Speaker 3: further cement your point. Looking at the announced schedule for

1666
01:14:15,560 --> 01:14:18,040
Speaker 3: this weekend, less than fifty percent of pitchers have been announced,

1667
01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:21,200
Speaker 3: so there's a lot of TVD and undecided on the schedule.

1668
01:14:21,760 --> 01:14:25,920
Speaker 3: So I'm going with Nathan Valdi, who is lining up

1669
01:14:25,960 --> 01:14:28,320
Speaker 3: this weekend to pitch against the Tigers, and then he

1670
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:31,040
Speaker 3: should line up to face the Braves in his next start.

1671
01:14:31,120 --> 01:14:34,280
Speaker 3: So not the easiest of matchups. But the Braves are

1672
01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:36,920
Speaker 3: down and they will be without Austin Riley, So I'm

1673
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:37,880
Speaker 3: going with Nathan Ivaldi.

1674
01:14:38,040 --> 01:14:41,880
Speaker 1: All right, Paveta versus Evaldi. I'm on a real winning

1675
01:14:41,880 --> 01:14:44,040
Speaker 1: streak here. By the way, you have not won a

1676
01:14:44,320 --> 01:14:46,080
Speaker 1: outside the home run derby version of it. You have

1677
01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:48,840
Speaker 1: not run a two start pitcher week since Week eight.

1678
01:14:49,080 --> 01:14:51,639
Speaker 1: I won in nine. We didn't have Week ten because

1679
01:14:51,840 --> 01:14:55,759
Speaker 1: both pitchers always started one game. Week eleven was our tie.

1680
01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:58,000
Speaker 1: I won a week twelve. I won a week thirteen.

1681
01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:02,400
Speaker 1: So we were on a little worm run here, but

1682
01:15:02,520 --> 01:15:03,639
Speaker 1: broken up by the Homer derby.

1683
01:15:03,640 --> 01:15:06,080
Speaker 4: Some we'll see I had one four out of five

1684
01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:07,000
Speaker 4: heading into that.

1685
01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:09,960
Speaker 2: It's a game of runs, like like basketball.

1686
01:15:10,080 --> 01:15:12,160
Speaker 1: So all right, we'll go ahead and wrap up there.

1687
01:15:12,479 --> 01:15:15,120
Speaker 1: I appreciate everybody tuning in for the episode. Let us

1688
01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:17,519
Speaker 1: know what picks you would have made in different spots

1689
01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:19,160
Speaker 1: in that two round mock draft. If you would have

1690
01:15:19,160 --> 01:15:20,519
Speaker 1: taken a guy earlier or lower.

1691
01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:22,599
Speaker 2: Let us know who didn't get drafted that should have been.

1692
01:15:22,680 --> 01:15:25,040
Speaker 2: Who we you know, we might have just forgotten. It's

1693
01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:25,759
Speaker 2: totally possible.

1694
01:15:25,960 --> 01:15:28,120
Speaker 1: Like I said, I wanted to do this shooting from

1695
01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:31,599
Speaker 1: the hip rather than strictly, like you know, laying out

1696
01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:33,640
Speaker 1: a big board, so maybe I overlook somebody let us know.

1697
01:15:33,640 --> 01:15:35,840
Speaker 1: If we did be able go ahead and wrap up there.

1698
01:15:35,880 --> 01:15:38,519
Speaker 1: We'll get back to our usual three part episode next week.

1699
01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:41,320
Speaker 1: It would be myself and Mayor through the end of July,

1700
01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:45,519
Speaker 1: and then we'll be having I believe Kelly stepping in

1701
01:15:45,560 --> 01:15:47,880
Speaker 1: for me in August, so a couple more weeks left

1702
01:15:47,920 --> 01:15:51,000
Speaker 1: of the dynamic duo. Here for Mayor, I'm Ryan Warmlan.

1703
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:53,080
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1704
01:15:53,120 --> 01:15:56,040
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