WEBVTT - The Cycle: Too Early 2026 Mock Draft (Ep. 1093) 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.080 Hello, everybody, Welcome into the Cycle. I am Ryan Warmley, 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:10.280 joined as always by Mike Mayor. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:11.240 Mayor. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:13.720 It is the third straight week of us kind of 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.080 approaching the show a little differently than our usual format. 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.079 A couple weeks ago it was the holiday with fourth 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:21.520 of July. Last week we had, you know, kind of 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:23.639 going into the All Star break. It was a little weird, 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.279 you know, not having the upcoming week. This week, we 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:28.479 don't have the previous week of games right because it 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:30.280 was the All Star break. So we will be back 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.080 to our kind of our normal format of three different 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:36.360 parts spread out on both audio and video starting next week. 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.879 For this week, we're doing one final one episode of 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.400 the whole week edition of the cycle. 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:44.040 We're gonna talks to news and. 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.960 Notes, kind of react to Homer and Derby, All Star Game, 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.400 MLB Draft at the top of the show, and then 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.240 what we're gonna do is a way too early twenty 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:55.120 twenty six baseball mock draft. Probably didn't need to say baseball. 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.440 Everybody knows that for the show they're listening to, But yeah, 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.200 we're gonna do a twenty twenty six early mock. We're 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.840 gonna do two rounds to that and just kind of 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.200 take an early look at who the guys are that 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:05.399 we think are going to be at the top next 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.679 year and see where we go. I actually very specifically 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:12.319 did not prep for that. I mean, obviously I have 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:14.720 all the names in mind, but I didn't like sit 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:16.399 down and lay out a big board because I wanted 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.959 to kind of feel in the moment, like I wanted 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:20.560 this to kind of be like a gut check, like 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.520 how are we feeling less so than like, well, the 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.240 numbers say it'll probably be this guy. 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:26.640 Does that make sense? Like I wanted to be kind 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:27.520 of shooting from the hip. 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.679 I personally was up all night crafting my strategy, and 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:33.840 I have a very clear path going in. No, I 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:37.080 don't have any strategy either, but uh yeah, similar I 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.479 wanted to. I have a bunch of different like resources 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:40.959 open that I want to look at, and it's kind 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.920 of like, what do dynasty rankings look like? What do 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.400 the stats look like at the halfway point here, what 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.320 do the rest of season rankings look like? And what 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.080 did draft rankings look like coming into last season? Because 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.320 it'll be interesting to see how different those you know, 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.040 those looks. So I have all those open to kind 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.720 of review, but kind of the same thing. I wanted 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.160 to see it, do it in real time and kind 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.000 of see how things are gonna land. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:02.440 Yeah, so that'll be fun. 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.080 We'll see how it goes, and everybody can let us 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:06.920 know in the comments who they think, you know, went 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.959 too high, too low, who who had the better version 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:11.840 of our way too early draft. But that will be 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:13.920 the second part of the show. We'll start off with 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.919 the news and notes can kind of go a bunch 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.040 of different directions with this. I say, let's kind of 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:23.320 go in order of how the events took place over 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.600 the weekend, So that would be starting with the MLB Draft. 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:30.520 And I you know, I'm very into dynasty leagues. You 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:32.080 and I play in the kind of like a dynasty 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:36.320 slash deep keeper format together. It's my favorite form of baseball. 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.480 I just like prospect stuff. So those are the leagues 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.360 that I enjoy the most. So I really enjoyed the 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.880 bet the draft. Also, the Orioles were bad for so 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.320 many years in a row that you get kind of 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.239 used to caring about the draft. This year a little 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:50.040 different with I'm not picking till nineteen. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:52.160 You'll be there next year. 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:57.040 Yeah, probably, What's interesting though, is unlike football and unlike basketball, 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.760 these guys are not contributing for your fantasy teams anytime soon. 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.440 By and large, now you have the you know, these 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.160 fast moving pictures lately like Chase Burns, Paul skeens Lee, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:07.959 or Pryor. 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:09.320 Who are moving very quickly. 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.560 But by and large, these players that are getting drafted 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.320 are years away from even being in the big leagues, 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.440 let alone being impact fantasy players. 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:21.880 So when you watch the MLB draft. 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.639 Is there a type of player you're looking for when 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.680 you're thinking about long term dynasty stuff? Are you thinking like, oh, 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:32.200 Mikad Anderson, for example, went to the Mariners. Are you thinking, well, 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.840 the Mariners have a great track record of, you know, 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.800 developing pictures, so I'm really happy with that landing spot 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.360 and I'm more interested in Anderson now, or a guy 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:44.560 like Ethan Holliday, big power going to Colorado, like, oh, 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.080 I'm sure he's going to hit well in course field. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.840 Are you thinking down the line that far when you 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.080 are thinking about dynasty stuff? Are you just looking at 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.560 pure talent? Like who did I think the best prospect was? 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:55.960 How do you approach thinking about the draft with your 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:56.960 dynasty formats? 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.880 So I'm kind of an impatient team manager. I don't 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.200 I don't like to wait that long. So ideally I 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.160 want the you know, you know, everyone's going to want 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.000 the Chase Spurns who comes up, you know, quickly and 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.560 contributes right away. But I also, you know, like the 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.920 first pick in this draft is probably not going to 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:13.560 be someone I'm I'm going to take, you know, this 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.719 kind of young high schooler who's a long term project. 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:21.159 That's not really going to be the fantasy target for me, 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.600 unless you know, we're talking you know, uh, generational prospects 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.680 like Bryce Harper and Mike Trout who came up and 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:29.880 we're like in the big leagues at eighteen nineteen years old. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:33.719 But a lot of times I look at the path 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:35.640 to the big leagues like how close are these guys 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:39.080 to being ready? And so for that reason, I would 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.400 probably look at a Kate Anderson because he's probably one 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.560 of the more you know, not MLB ready, But like, 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.440 you know, looking at this class, we can talk about 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.640 the class as a whole next, because it was I 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.200 thought it was an interesting, like kind of a down 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.719 year for the class, unless you know, people who are 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.760 smarter than me really disagree it didn't feel like last 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:58.560 year we had, you know, a bunch of high end 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.359 talent that kind of went this year. You saw just 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.479 how the draft played out, even the way people predicted 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.400 the draft. There were a bunch of surprising picks in 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.039 the top ten, and so it was kind of a 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.840 down year for that. And I don't know, maybe this 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:13.440 is the year I trade my first round pick and 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:14.960 I don't worry about these prospects. 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:16.880 But there are a couple that I like, Yeah, there 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:17.960 are definitely prospects I like. 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.160 It doesn't feel like, you know, like there was a 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.600 couple of years ago where like the top five, I think, 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.840 like you were like Walker Jenkins, Max Clark, those guys 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:29.240 aren't in the big leagues yet. But just look at 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.919 a lot of really high end talented guys, and again 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.280 we've seen some players move very quickly. Guys like Nick 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.039 Kurtz were drafted very recently and are already making an 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.839 impact in the big leagues. This doesn't necessarily feel like 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.400 that kind of class. I mean, Kate Anderson is a 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.320 good example of a guy that I think could move quickly. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.440 But the number one pick, Eli Willits is a high 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.400 school guy. I don't anticipate him moving super fast. Ethan 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:55.920 Holliday a high school guy, so it's an interesting draft. 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.560 I would encourage everybody to check out Welsh, who is 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:04.400 an expert on all things draft prospects, did an episode 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.000 with Joe kind of on their on their end of 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:11.080 the feed upbout these prospects and first year player drafts 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:12.960 and that sort of thing. So I would encourage everybody 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.400 to to go listen in too and watch that and 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.720 get kind of a deeper dive. Our thoughts just from 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.520 kind of the macro level, are maybe not the class 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.719 where you're trying to acquire these high end picks in 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:25.719 your dynasty format or like in the league you and 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.760 I are in. They'll be available in our salary cap 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.880 draft in the spring. You know, I probably won't be 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:34.800 spending a lot, you know, to give you to give 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.599 you a reference point, because it was before you had 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.480 joined the league. Paul Skeens went for like twenty eight 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.919 bucks the year he was available, you know. Jackson Holiday 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:43.360 went for twelve I think the year he was the 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.680 number one overall pick. I'm not the type to really 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.719 spend like that in these on rookies, not rookies on 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.120 prospects in those drafts because I feel like I can 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.480 get guys for cheaper. So I just feel like, if 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.760 Ethan Holiday is going for ten plus, I'm probably not 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:57.760 going to be in on that bidding. 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.760 Yeah, and I I don't have it up, but I'm 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.720 pretty sure in that league I got Chase Burns for 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.440 pretty cheap, like three bucks or something, and you know 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.559 that is that is paid off. I will also say, 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.600 you know, you mentioned the episode that Joe and Welsh did. 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.480 Welsh also has an article up on fantasypros dot com 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.840 on his first year player draft rankings or he kind 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.800 of breaks down the class and how he would rank them. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:20.680 I agree with a lot of what he wrote. 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:22.480 You know, I won't spoil all of it, but he 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.120 kind of had a similar take to what I said 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.600 at the top, that the way it broke down was 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.680 kind of interesting, especially for fantasy, and that maybe this 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:31.840 is you know, I don't know that you know you 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.520 would go for like an Eli Willets at the top 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.760 of your fantasy draft, but you know, maybe you take 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.800 a big swing on an Ethan Holiday because you know, 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.560 the power profile is there, even if it's not like 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.520 a sure thing like we've seen in the past, whether 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:47.080 a Jack Keg Leonner, Nick Kurtz, you know, he has 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.120 the highest upside, you know. For me, it's like Ethan 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.160 Holliday and Kate Anderstond the top of the class would 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:52.400 be my top targets for fantasy. 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.200 Yeah, I was gonna say, I feel like it's Ethan 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:58.840 Holiday unless you are in a position where you really 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.040 want a fast moving, quality pitcher. 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.000 In that case, you just go Kate Anderson. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.560 But I think unless you specifically are eyeing that profile, 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.360 I think Holiday's probably the right pick. 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.000 But he is not a perfect prospect. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.000 He's a very different prospect than Jackson too, just in 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.960 terms of his strengths and weaknesses. So don't don't think 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.320 you're getting Jackson Holiday if you take Ethan Holiday. But 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.520 obviously still a high ceiling, like, no doubt about it. 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:25.600 All right, So those are quick MLB draft thoughts. Again, 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.320 check us out, you know, on fanspros dot com and 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.360 elsewhere on the feed for more of a deep dive there. 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.880 The next event from the All Star break the home 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.520 run Derby, which you didn't think you had won. We 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.679 said we were doing total you know, home runs hit 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.120 and cal Raley was the difference for you, so congratulations 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.920 on winning that he arguably shouldn't have even advanced. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:49.559 There should have been a swing off in round one. 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:50.560 I hate that there wasn't. 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.240 I don't understand why it strictly who hit the ball 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.480 the furthest I actually didn't even realize that was the 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:59.520 tiebreaker in round one, and I despise that, not just 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.240 because it made lose, Like I hated it even in 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.040 the moment that I was like, why is there not 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:04.560 a swing off? That would be so much more fun 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:09.040 alas that's the way it went, And even though the 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.000 thing that was really frustrating me and I was ready 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:15.440 to come on and argue about your victory is junior 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.040 Cameron Aro like left time on the clock in round 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.480 two when he was just on a heater because he 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.719 went second. I actually didn't remember any of these I 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.760 didn't remember that they switched to a bracket in the 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.960 second round, like this whole thing, Like, I don't like 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.280 that they keep changing the rules of this, and I 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.720 don't really like this current setup. I don't mind having 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:39.000 a limited number of pitches to make sure people aren't 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.920 just taking every other pitch, but I don't like the 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.959 time limit because I want to sit back and enjoy 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:49.400 the majesty of these home runs. I don't like, go, go, go, 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.360 you gotta get as many pitches in as possible. 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.160 So you know, that was all kind of a bummer. 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.640 At any rate, I was ready to argue, like Junior 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.880 Camerenarow missed out on home runs that he should have 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.160 had because he, you know, had to go second, and 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.480 then he went second again in the finals. So even 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.880 if he had won and I had picked the winner, 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:10.600 he yet again was going to be able to stop 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:12.880 and not keep hitting homer as out of the total. 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.280 So I was like, that's just him getting punished for 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:16.640 hitting more in the first round. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:18.360 But then he didn't hit enough. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.560 Cal Rally won, so it was a clear victory for you, 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.960 which I, you know what will happily see. 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:25.040 Yeah, I'll take it. 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.800 And you know, as we talk about cal Raley potentially 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.480 winning the MVP, now he's also the home run Derby 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.839 champion and even more importantly, I just saw today that 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.959 he won the Mariners Golden Locker Award for having the 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.280 cleanest and most organized locker. So just an all time 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:43.720 season for cal Raley, just racking up the awards and 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.000 if he's not the MVP. I don't you know we're 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:47.319 talking about an all time season here. 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.840 I have never heard of that for any team at 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.600 any level. But great job for him winning that award. 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.200 Do you like the current iteration of the home run derby? 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.480 No, I want to go back to I don't like 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.400 the current I'm like an old grump. I don't like 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.760 the current iteration of anything. I want to go back 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:09.920 to the outs version. I'm very alone in this take, 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:11.800 but I want to go back to the All Star 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.280 Game meaning something and determining home run or not home field. 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.079 Advantage in the World Series. I love that. 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.280 I love that the game meant something. I hate the 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.080 way it is now. You know, I have it on 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.080 in the background, but it's like not must watch for me. 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:24.800 I just like to watch, like, you know, having all 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:26.920 the obviously all the All Stars in one place. So 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.720 though I could go on to rant about how bad 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:31.840 the rosters were this year, I know you and I 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.800 were slacking about that a little bit, and I was just, 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.040 you know, ranting privately to you about how bad the 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.280 American League roster was this year in terms of All Stars. 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.920 But yeah, I'm an old grump. I don't like the 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:43.760 format of anything. I want the All Star Game to 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.959 determine homefield advantage in the World Series. But I think 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:48.760 I might be the only person on Earth who thinks that. 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.000 I kind of agree. 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:53.640 Like, honestly, the All Star Game, the only thing that 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:55.880 was cool was the swing off, Like I do like that, 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.880 but like the All Star Game swing I have on 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.200 in the background while doing other stuff, like I'm not 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:06.000 I had friends over to watch the Home Run Derby 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.040 even though I don't love the current format, I just 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:09.960 I just love the idea of the Home Run Derby 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.559 and I enjoy watching it with people like that is 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:14.400 an event that I will care about and hope that 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:15.360 it gets kind of back to. 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:16.559 Its glory days. 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:21.040 But the All Star Game is like, yeah, when an 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.120 Orioles hitter is up, I'm looking up at my TV, 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:25.760 which isn't on right now, but like I'd be like, oh, 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:29.920 okay cool, Like Ryan O'Hearn's up when you know, besides that, 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.120 it's like okay cool. But the swing off I did, 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.880 I did, Like, did you enjoy that as a as? 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:37.640 I mean, I certainly would hate it if that was 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.160 like in a real game. But for the All Star Game, 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:40.679 I loved it. 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:45.319 Yeah, I thought it was fine. I don't know that 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:46.600 I hate it. For a real game, I might be 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:48.400 okay with that. You know, it's kind of like the 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.040 hell Hockey. Instead of having ties, they do the shootout 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:53.720 at the end. I don't know that I'm against it. 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:56.920 I might like that more than like the ghost run 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:58.680 around second rule, but I don't know, maybe not. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:04.640 I actually could not more vehemently be opposed to it 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:05.880 in a regular season game. 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:07.560 It's so it's so fun. 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.720 In the All Star Game and an exhibition it's so 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.840 it would be so like baseball is afraid of extra innings, 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.160 and I don't understand why. All my thing I was 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.880 tweeting about this on Tuesday night, all my best memories 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.600 of baseball are extra innings stuff like oh that game 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.760 that went eighteen innings or oh remember like it got 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.120 all the way to twelve. And I'm like, I don't 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.080 like that they're trying to limit extra innings with the 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.079 ghost runner, and well, let's just do a swing off instead, 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.560 Like I want all the extra baseball. And I don't 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.240 understand anybody who doesn't like I get it that, like 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.560 you don't want every game to go six hours, but 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.880 like as a as a random like Tuesday night in 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.440 May and you're like, wow, I'm staying up for that, 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.319 I'm inning fifteen, Like those are fun. 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:53.120 I did that once. 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.120 The Orioles were in Seattle and I was in college, 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.000 so in Maryland on the East Coast, and I had 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.720 an eight am class that I could not skip the 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:05.480 next day. It was the only semester I ever had 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.800 an eight am class, and it was one It was 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:08.600 like twice a weekend. 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:10.040 It was like totally unskippable. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:14.120 And I stayed up for an eighteen inning game with 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:15.400 the Orioles in Seattle. 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:15.880 Go. 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:17.440 So I went to bed at you know, my time 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.000 in the East Coast was like I don't know, five 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.360 or six am, but I didn't care. It was a 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.680 great memory and a fun like this is what makes 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.480 baseball great in my opinion. So I would hate it 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.280 in the regular season, but super cool. And shouts to 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.160 Kyle Schwarber for being a beast in the All Star 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:32.760 Game version. 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:34.000 Yeah. 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.160 Speaking of and going back to the rosters, how was 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.680 Jonathan Rondo one of the American League picks for that 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:39.240 swing off? 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:40.400 Like how did he make the top three? 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.280 I mean, I know a lot of people left, and 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:44.120 that was part of it. 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:47.720 I also think Boone also weird, was probably just like 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:50.800 just picked the first three people who saw he saw 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:52.760 or something like, I don't know genuinely, like it seems 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:54.960 really odd. I don't know who was still like there 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.400 and who he might have asked people and they said, nah, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.360 I'm good, like I'm you know, I've taken off my 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.360 cleats for the day, like you know, yeah, I'm done. 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.920 But I don't know. I agree, it was a weird pick. 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:07.480 We didn't even get to. 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:08.440 See, all right. 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.880 Schwerber goes three for three and as The Cure's Jonathan 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.120 Arondez saved the day, and it's like, shocker. 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.200 He didn't acted all right. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.600 A couple other dudes and notes here you got some 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.480 injury stuff on here for a couple of pictures. 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:20.320 Run us through those. 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.520 Oh yeah, so a big one. Max Free dealing with 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.680 a blister not always a huge deal, but when you 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.280 when you talk about blisters, that's the kind of thing 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.400 that can linger. And so he doubled in his last start. 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.760 He's unsure if he's going to pitch this weekend, but 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.520 it seems like such a minor injury. We've seen blisters 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.920 really like derail pitchers for like several weeks at a 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:40.320 time in the past, and it's the kind of thing 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.920 where you keep thinking that they're back from it, and 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.040 you know it keeps popping up again. I think in 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:47.840 years past there were a lot of issues with the 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.760 balls being changed, and we saw a ton of pictures 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.960 dealing with blisters and it just almost derailed seasons. I 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:54.600 don't want to be an alarmist and say that's going 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.000 on with Max Freed. I think it's more of a 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.480 minor blister, but still something you want to keep an 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.600 eye on, because you know that's always scared. Shane McClanahan 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.800 completed a short rehab start recently and you know, his 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:06.800 arm did not fall off. It seems like he's working 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:08.440 his way back from that nerve issue. He only threw 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.720 thirty six pitches. But the fact that he's on the 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.520 mound throwing after what we saw in you know, before 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:17.040 the season started, when it looked like really really, really 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.520 bad while you were actively drafting him in AR league. 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.000 You know, it's good to see him and he's he's 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.360 the potential someone we've talked to talked about. 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:25.320 We didn't talk to him. 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.560 That would be great someone we talked about recently as 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.000 someone you could pick up in the second half. It 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:34.600 could be a difference maker. And yeah, that was it 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.040 for me. The last note here is about it on 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.880 a trade that you're thinking about making in our league. 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.760 Yeah, I wanted to ask you kind of your opinion 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.680 since you are not you're not in kind of that 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.160 tier one of contenders, so you're not going after this player. 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:51.520 So I felt comfortable kind of talking strategy with you. Basically, 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:56.640 and this is a dynasty discussion, well deep keeper dynasty. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.680 It's kind of a little bit of both, but hybrid 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.200 you can keep up to fourteen players, so it very 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.240 much feels like a dynasty, even though there's technically not 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.480 like a first year player draft and you don't keep 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.400