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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into this cycle. I am Ryan warmly

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Speaker 1: joined today and as I will be all season long

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Speaker 1: by Mike Mayor. It is our first in season episode

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Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty five season. Very exciting. We are

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Speaker 1: transitioning from our off season coverage which was very fun.

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Speaker 1: We're doing every week to kind of a similar pattern

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Speaker 1: to what we were doing last year. Mayor. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: hit on kind of rounding the bases at the top,

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Speaker 1: some of the big topics of the week and news items,

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Speaker 1: maybe some injuries that stand out that are worth hitting

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Speaker 1: on that maybe we want to take a bigger picture

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Speaker 1: view than the guys on leading off we're able to

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Speaker 1: do on their daily show. We'll talk about some waiver

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Speaker 1: pickups we like, We'll talk about some bilos and sell highs,

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Speaker 1: and we of course are going to talk about our

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Speaker 1: two start picture competition and maybe some streaming pictures that

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Speaker 1: we like, and some weekend excitement as well. That's all

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Speaker 1: going to be together on one episode in the audio side.

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Speaker 1: For those on the YouTube side, we are going to

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Speaker 1: be splitting up this show kind of into three hearts

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Speaker 1: throughout the year, so you can check us out on

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Speaker 1: YouTube if you just want to hit that middle section

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Speaker 1: care about the two star pitchers, or you just care

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Speaker 1: about the news and notes, whatever it is. Hopefully you

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Speaker 1: watch all of them. We would love that, but that

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Speaker 1: is going to be split up on video, just so

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Speaker 1: everybody knows what to expect on that. And on the

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Speaker 1: audio side, this will be the exact same as last year.

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Speaker 1: It'll be a similar length show and a similar conversation

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Speaker 1: from us. And by the way, if any of that,

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Speaker 1: know in the comments. We want the show to be

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Speaker 1: a reflection of what you guys want to hear and

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Speaker 1: what you guys want us to be talking about. So

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Speaker 1: we really encourage, you know, any critique or any thoughts

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Speaker 1: on just what you like and what you don't like,

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Speaker 1: what works and what doesn't, and what we can do

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Speaker 1: to make this show better for you, the listeners, because

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Speaker 1: you guys are the reason we're doing this in the

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Speaker 1: first place. Mayor how are you doing. How you feeling

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Speaker 1: a week end of the season.

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Speaker 2: I'm feeling pretty good. I'm excited for the n season

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Speaker 2: version of the show. I'm you know, like you said,

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Speaker 2: the audio is going to be like one full episode.

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Speaker 2: The video is going to be three videos, just because

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Speaker 2: that's what it. You know, the data shows that people

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Speaker 2: The off season's fun, but I like kind of like

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Speaker 2: the repetitive nature of the n season schedule, especially because like,

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Speaker 1: Just so everybody knows, we are taping this a day

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Speaker 1: that you're wondering why we didn't hit on, that is

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Speaker 1: why let's jump right in. And there is no better

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Speaker 1: place mare to start the cycle this year then with

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Speaker 1: a couple of days ago. You immediately slacked me and

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much a fantasy takeaway you can

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and a couple of fun details to hitim hitting

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Speaker 2: but they just stop it. First. He finished with hitting

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Speaker 2: And he said in the interview, like he saw that

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Speaker 2: So I love that he was like thinking about it

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Speaker 1: Gunnar Henderson. Last year, I think it was either last

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Speaker 1: I mean, from a fantasy perspective, is this something that

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Speaker 1: I mean, his roster percentage on Yahoo ESPN's like under

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Speaker 1: Does this change that at all for you? Or no?

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Speaker 2: No, No, it's just unless you're just streaming catchers or

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Speaker 2: it's a fun story for you, Like congrats to you

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Speaker 2: if you were streaming Carson Kelly for the four percent

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Speaker 2: of you out there doing victory laps, like good for you.

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Speaker 1: I'll hit doubles like in softball a lot. I don't

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Speaker 1: Another player who kind of had a standout performance, Nathan Valdi,

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Speaker 1: tosses the first a Mattox of twenty twenty five, just

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Speaker 2: Complete game, shutout and fewer than one hundred pitches? Is it?

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Speaker 1: I thought it was just a complete game, but I

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Speaker 1: I thought it was a complete with under.

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Speaker 2: Huddard, But yeah, I think it's just a complete game.

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Speaker 2: Under but yeah, and his having to be a shoutout.

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Speaker 1: Note in here, is he a new contender for best

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Speaker 1: pitcher of Baseball last year? Of course? The best pitcher

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Speaker 1: Ranger Suarez. Is Nathan Evaldi that guy for this year?

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Speaker 1: I invested a lot in Evaldi, not that I spent

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Speaker 1: Does this make you feel better? But I mean, on

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, it wasn't Maddox, so it sounds

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a second start of the season because

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Speaker 1: It was did he throw he threw a no hitter?

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Speaker 1: it was a shutout. Yeah, that's why that's where that

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Speaker 1: starting stud of the season, Raphael Devers. Will he ever

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Speaker 2: Maher Maybe not.

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Speaker 2: I mean, like it's you know, we could go through

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Speaker 2: to talk about. He is the one I'm by far

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Speaker 2: And there was like a graphic on MLB Network that

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Speaker 2: side by side view of like his batting stanzas from

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Speaker 1: your prize. All right, we have to talk about the

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Speaker 1: torpedo bats. I think, yes, of course we do. We

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Speaker 1: you doing this before? If this was then the rules?

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Speaker 1: And you can We've been in the moneyball era for

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Speaker 1: what twenty plus years and trying to find any small

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Speaker 1: edge we can you know, see why did it take

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Speaker 1: this long to get here? But we'll continue to monitor

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Speaker 1: that and see what happens. I know, you want to

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Speaker 1: hit a little bit on some of the new ballpark

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Speaker 1: stuff just from watching kind of how the ball's flying out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just real quick. The one thing we talked about

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Speaker 2: kind of leading into the season was the new A's

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Speaker 2: ballpark that they're playing in in Sacramento, and just the

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Speaker 2: dimensions are almost identical to what they played in in Oakland,

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Speaker 2: and there was you know a lot of questions, like,

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Speaker 2: you know, is is it going to be kind of

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Speaker 2: like a pitcher's park like Oakland was, even though it's

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Speaker 2: kind of the same dimensions, just not as much foul territory.

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Speaker 2: I watched the first game the other night, and the

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Speaker 2: ball was flying out of that ballpark. And we'll, you know,

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Speaker 2: we'll we'll see if that remains, you know, the case.

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Speaker 2: But like, you know, if it's flying out of the

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Speaker 2: ballpark in March and April, what's going to be happening

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Speaker 2: in July in that ballpark? And so like, you know,

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Speaker 2: maybe that's you know, maybe the balls are in play

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Speaker 2: there too, But the ball was flying out of that

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Speaker 2: ballpark the other night. It was a very high scoring game,

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Speaker 2: and I was just like sitting there working on some

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Speaker 2: things watching that game, be like, oh boy, this might

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Speaker 2: be a fun season in this ballpark.

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Speaker 1: I want to highlight some early surprising standouts and league leaders.

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Speaker 1: Just a couple of names here that I wrote down

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Speaker 1: throughout the week that I thought were worth hitting on.

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Speaker 1: Mackenzie awesome first start, thirteen strikeouts against the Phillies, looked

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Speaker 1: really dominant doing it. Aohennio Suarez home run machine. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna hit on him a little bit later, so we

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Speaker 1: can kind of save that conversation. And then O'Neil Cruz.

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Speaker 1: At the time I wrote this down five stolen bases. Also,

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Speaker 1: I say a kind of filfa four and I kind

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Speaker 1: of highlighted that Pittsburgh leads baseball with seventeen steals this

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Speaker 1: He's no other team above ten. They have at least

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Speaker 1: two more in the game going on as we're recording this,

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Speaker 1: including us sixth by Cruise, So that just really stands

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Speaker 1: out to me. If they're going to be this aggressive,

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Speaker 1: that will be really really exciting for Cruise managers this

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Speaker 1: year in any format where steals are going to be valuable.

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Speaker 2: He also just hit his second home run.

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Speaker 1: Oh he just hit Oh excellent O'Neil Cruz season this year.

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Speaker 1: Any of those stand out to you, like the power

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Speaker 1: speed from Cruise this year, just the Pirates in general

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Speaker 1: going to be really aggressive on the bases, gores, thirteen strikeouts,

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Speaker 1: anything a highlight for you.

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Speaker 2: It is really interesting to see that the again very early,

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Speaker 2: but that the Pirates are being this much more aggressive

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Speaker 2: than anyone else is something you have to take into

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Speaker 2: account because it doesn't even really include Brian Reynolds yet

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Speaker 2: because it sounds like he's dealing with some minor injuries. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: if that's that's something you have to consider in fantasy,

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Speaker 2: if you know, looking for steals on the waiver wire,

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Speaker 2: you know who's playing for the Pirates this week.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, it's not that they're being aggressive or

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Speaker 1: more aggressive than anybody. It's like the gap between Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: and everybody else. And it's and again still early, so

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Speaker 1: that could shrink. But that's that's pretty eyebrow raising. Seeing

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Speaker 1: that you have a bunch of notes written down here

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Speaker 1: kind of for news notes and injuries. I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: let you speed run through this since you were the

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Speaker 1: one who kind of put together all this. So, what

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Speaker 1: are some of the highlights of just in this first

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Speaker 1: week or so, some of the news notes and injuries

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Speaker 1: from around the league.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll go speed around with some news notes and injuries.

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Speaker 2: The Dodgers acquiring more players. They just acquired a stereo

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Speaker 2: or ease today. I don't know that that's going to

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Speaker 2: be the most relevant thing for fantasy. Although he speaking

504
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Speaker 2: of a stolen basis, he's someone who can you know,

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Speaker 2: steal them in bunches. He wasn't really playing for the A's.

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Speaker 2: He kind of fell out of favor there. I just

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Speaker 2: don't know he's gonna play it every day for the Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna, you know, if they don't come in the Miners,

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Speaker 2: he's probably just gonna be on the you know, on

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Speaker 2: the bench for them. But something to monitor if he's

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Speaker 2: if he plays that all for the Dodgers, he's gonna

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Speaker 2: have some value because of that lineup, and because he

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Speaker 2: can run Tobias Myers, you know, the Brewers. You know,

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Speaker 2: fantasy managers probably need pitching. The Brewers definitely need pitching.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like he can go on a rehab assignment

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Speaker 2: next week, so he could be coming back soon.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 2: I have him stashed in a few leagues. Brian Reynolds,

519
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Speaker 2: like I mentioned, dealing with some triceps soreness. It's impacting

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Speaker 2: his ability to play the field, but he isn't the lineup,

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Speaker 2: but he is off to a slow start, So something

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Speaker 2: the monitor there did it for Corey Seeger dealing with

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Speaker 2: a calf issue again in the lineup put off to

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Speaker 2: a slow start. So two nagging injuries there. Zachary Netto

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Speaker 2: begins a rehab assignment. By the time you listen to this,

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Speaker 2: he will be already be on that rehab assignment, not

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Speaker 2: sure if he's gonna play the field or just dh

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Speaker 2: to start. But also it's just a good sign that

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Speaker 2: he's going out there because we weren't sure how early

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Speaker 2: that was going to be and as if things weren't

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Speaker 2: going poorly enough for the Braves, who are winless as

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Speaker 2: of this recording. But pitcher Rinaldo Lopez is going undergoing

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Speaker 2: Arthro's copics shoulder surgery, and it sounds like it's not

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Speaker 2: like season ending shoulder surgery. It was more of like

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Speaker 2: exploratory surgery to relieve something of what he's dealing with.

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Speaker 2: But they still think he's going to miss you know,

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Speaker 2: you know, a couple of months. Whereas if it was

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Speaker 2: like a torn labor him or something, you know, he

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Speaker 2: would be done for the or rotator Croff he would

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Speaker 2: be done for the year. But it sounds like he

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Speaker 2: could be back in several weeks to a couple months

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Speaker 2: or so. But regardless, going to be out for a while.

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Speaker 1: What would you say is more surprising to you that

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Speaker 1: the Braves have zero wins or that the White Sox

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Speaker 1: have two.

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Speaker 2: That's I'm not sure I posed on, you know, in

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Speaker 2: the comments and leading off this morning. What happens first

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Speaker 2: the Braves win a game or Raphael Devers gets a hit.

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Speaker 1: I don't know which side of that I would take,

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Speaker 1: discussing the challenge faced by Raphael Devers to start the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five season. Devers has been unimaginably bad to

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Speaker 1: start the year, going over nineteen with fifteen strikeouts, four walks,

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Speaker 1: and just one RBI. This comes on the heels of

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Speaker 1: How can Devers overcome his disastrous start. For one, He'll

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Speaker 1: For another, he'll need to speed up his bat, which

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Speaker 1: according to Statcast. He'll also need to focus on simply

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Speaker 1: percentile across Major League Baseball in that metric. Again, first

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Speaker 1: for our buy low sell high segment Here on the cycle,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about it. And by the way, we

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Speaker 1: mostly are going to do bylows and sell highs just

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Speaker 1: throughout the course of the year. And I'm going to

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Speaker 1: do this today for one of these were also it's

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Speaker 1: not a cheating. I'm establishing that it's not cheating that

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Speaker 1: we can do by highs and sell lows, because I

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Speaker 1: do think that's an important part. Everybody talks about buylows

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Speaker 1: and sell highs. I think it's really important to talk

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Speaker 1: Those are often the more difficult kind of decisions to

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Speaker 1: come to when you're trying to trade as a fantasy MA,

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Speaker 1: so I think it's worth including those when we feel

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Speaker 1: there's a good place for it, which I do do today.

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Speaker 1: But we'll start with a true bilow from you who

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Speaker 2: So I also cheat it kind of because I'm picking

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Speaker 2: two players, but they are related because I'm going with

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Speaker 2: the Contreras brothers. I'm going with Wilson Contreras and William Contreres,

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Speaker 2: who are both off to really slow starts. And I

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Speaker 2: mentioned earlier how Rafael Devers if we're going by VPR

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Speaker 2: on Fantasy Pro's MLB stats page, Rafael Devers is three

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Speaker 2: ninety two out of three ninety four. Three to ninety

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Speaker 2: four out of three ninety four is Wilson Contreras because

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Speaker 2: he is OH for nineteen with nine strikeouts with zero

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Speaker 2: counting stats to to come with no RBIs, no walks,

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Speaker 2: whereas Devers at least has one RBI and four walks.

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Speaker 2: Wilson Contreras is a absolutely empty OH for nineteen with

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Speaker 2: nine strikeouts and nothing else. William Contreras not quite as bad,

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Speaker 2: but also you had to pay a lot more for

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Speaker 2: him on draft Day, but he's two ninety seven. You know,

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Speaker 2: I didn't have to turn off that top three hundred

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Speaker 2: filter to find William Contreras. He was right at the

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Speaker 2: bottom of the top three hundred, but still well. Two

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Speaker 2: for sixteen batting, one twenty five starts season, but still

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Speaker 2: very early. But I'm already seeing fantasy manager's panic in leagues.

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Speaker 2: I've already seen someone drop JT. Real Muto in the league,

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Speaker 2: which I thought was, you know, insane, you know, not

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Speaker 2: that like he's like the catcher that he once was.

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Speaker 2: But you don't need to be dropping JT. Real Muto

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Speaker 2: on airpril first. And it's one of those things where

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Speaker 2: catcher is a really shallow position and there's not going

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Speaker 2: to be a lot that you're going to find on

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Speaker 2: in a position where you have to stream catcher. But

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Speaker 2: if you know a fantasy manager who spent whatever draft

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Speaker 2: capital it was on William Contreras or Wilson Contreras is

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Speaker 2: already panicking and they're out there. I'm absolutely willing to

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Speaker 2: buy low, and maybe even not like a bye high,

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Speaker 2: but like a fair like bye at his draft costs

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Speaker 2: kind of a thing, just because I'm confident that both

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Speaker 2: have like very good numbers, and they're also, most importantly

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Speaker 2: for catchers, going to be in the lineup almost every day.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a good call. It kind of ties

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Speaker 1: into my by low, which is literally any struggling stud,

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Speaker 1: like even somebody like Devers who we have legitimate concerns about.

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Speaker 1: As a blanket rule, if we are one week end

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Speaker 1: of the season, and you know, five games earlier, I

645
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: thought this guy was a third round pick, and now

646
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: he's been terrible, almost cursed. Now he's really really bad,

647
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: I will buy low. Like as a blanket rule, I

648
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: think you're gonna win that deal more often than you're

649
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: going to lose it in the course of your Fantasy

650
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 1: baseball career. And like I said, it's really just like

651
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 1: a blind faith in I'm not going to trust a

652
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 1: five game If this five game sample size happened in June,

653
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: nobody would be selling these guys. So if they're willing

654
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: to sell them in early April, I want to be

655
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: the guy buying them. What do you think about that

656
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: as a kind of like a general rule before I

657
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 1: get into my buy high.

658
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's pretty similar to what I was saying.

659
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 2: You know, maybe I got on the opposite end, but

660
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 2: you know, you want to be right. But also, you know,

661
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 2: if you can acquire a good player at whatever cost,

662
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 2: there are only so many really good players out there,

663
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 2: and so whether you're buying high or buying low, acquiring them,

664
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,880
Speaker 2: you know, he's usually a good move for your fantasy team.

665
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 2: It's just a matter of what you have to give up,

666
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 2: and it like it depends on what the bye high is,

667
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 2: you know.

668
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:08,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, so what I what I put in as a

669
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 1: bye high because I wanted to give at least one

670
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 1: individual name rather than just saying any struggling stud. So

671
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 1: I like that's why I went in the other direction

672
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 1: instead of doing a by low. Is is Adley Rutchman.

673
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,439
Speaker 1: And he's somebody that I did kind of plant my

674
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: flag on in some of our shows in February and March,

675
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: and he started off well, there's room for him to

676
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: get even better. I mean, his average is two eighty

677
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: six is expected batting average. It's super early for stuff

678
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: like that, but it's three forty fours. That kind of

679
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 1: highlights that maybe even he's had a little bit of

680
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: bad luck through the strong start. He had two home

681
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 1: runs an opening day. He just looks really dialed in.

682
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: I think, like just from the eye test and watching him,

683
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: and that was kind of what they were talking about

684
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: all spring, is he had some injury stuff at the

685
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: second half of last year. It was easy kind of

686
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: just got away from him, and this year he is

687
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: like dialed in. And those some runs he hit in

688
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: Toronto were like Titanic shots, and I think we're gonna

689
00:28:58,080 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: see a lot of that this year. I think this

690
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: is the year he is catcher one in Fantasy throughout

691
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: the season. For the most part, the lineup for the

692
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: Orioles is taking some hits in terms of injuries. Colton

693
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:10,959
Speaker 1: Kowser is going to be out for six to eight weeks,

694
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: but Gunnar Henderson is coming back, I would imagine very soon,

695
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: in just a couple of days. He certainly seems healthy

696
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: with the way he's hitting in the biners. So I

697
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: think Adley is really good. I think he's going to

698
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: outperform his draft spot this year, which is still the

699
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: highs in the fifties, and he is somebody I would

700
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: buy high on. If you want to invest in a

701
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: strong catcher, I think he will be the best catcher

702
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: in fancy this year. I have seen enough to be

703
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 1: a really big believer that the kind of step forward

704
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: I expected in the spring is happening.

705
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 2: Yeah. And according to the fantasy Spress VBR that I

706
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 2: keep looking at while you're talking, he's already number three.

707
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 2: Will Smith is up there number one. I imagine Adlie

708
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 2: will overtake him in the Keebert Ruiz is number two.

709
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 2: I don't think that's gonna stick. And a friend of

710
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 2: the show, Carson Kelly is number four, and number five

711
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 2: is someone named Dylan Dingler.

712
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: I don't think we can legally call it Carson Eli

713
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: a friend at the show, you know, at least at

714
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: least like Justin Steele knows Debro. I don't think we can.

715
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: We can call anybody who hasn't been on the show

716
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: a front of the show, but a favorite.

717
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 2: Know that he isn't a friend of the show.

718
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: He might he might be a listener of the show.

719
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: That would be pretty cool, But I think I think

720
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: we know he's not a friend of the show. Uh yeah,

721
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: uh yeah. So all in on Adley this year, I

722
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: was beforehand, and I'm buying high I don't expect this

723
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: to go away anytime soon. In fact, I expect the

724
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: numbers still keeping better going forward than they already have been.

725
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: Let's get to our cell highs. And this is somebody

726
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: that we already kind of talked about here in terms

727
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 1: of some of those early standouts statistically, and you're looking

728
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: to get out from promoting them.

729
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're buying catchers and you know, one child position,

730
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 2: and apparently I'm selling a third basement despite how shallow

731
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 2: of that position is. And I'm selling you Hanio Suarez

732
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 2: in the article that's coming out on Fantasy Pros, which

733
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 2: will be coming out by the time you listen to this.

734
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 2: It'll be out because I already have marketing messaging me

735
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 2: asking me where it is, and I said, hold on,

736
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 2: like I to record the cycle with worm here first

737
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 2: and then I'll get it out. But you Anio Suarez

738
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 2: really good hitter, really good sorts of power. He already

739
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 2: has five home runs. But also he's the kind of player.

740
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 2: What I kind of rode up with him was pretty simple,

741
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 2: like last year we got a really good year at him.

742
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 2: We got you know, thirty home runs and a decent average,

743
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 2: which is sometimes a problem with him, but also and

744
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 2: right now you've got five home runs already, but also

745
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 2: like his his value is never going to be higher

746
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 2: than it is right now, where where managers are off

747
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 2: to slow starts in their league, especially looking for third basement,

748
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 2: and they know they have locked in power through Anio Suarez,

749
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 2: and you can probably sell him for more than he's worth.

750
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 2: And the other thing that concerns me with him is

751
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 2: that I do think you know, he's going to be

752
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 2: a good source of power, but he's not like this

753
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 2: year in, year out consistent producer that you can like

754
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 2: lock in a certain kind of production because we've seen

755
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 2: his floor and it's lower than most you know, regular

756
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 2: starters or like regular contributors who have the kind of

757
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 2: ceiling that he is, Like he has a very wide

758
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 2: range of outcomes because we've seen him bat below two

759
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 2: hundred pore seeing bat like two o six before, and

760
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 2: so sometimes you know, like that those thirty home runs

761
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 2: are great if it comes to the two fifty patting average.

762
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 2: If it's thirty home runs and he's beat in two ten,

763
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 2: like that's not as helpful for your fantasy team. But

764
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 2: right now, he's batting two seventy eight five home runs

765
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 2: to start. If I'm able to sell high on him

766
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 2: and get something else that I really need, I'm definitely

767
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 2: willing to do it.

768
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: I think that's fair. I don't have anything to add

769
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: to that. I agree with him as a cell high.

770
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: My cell highs Andre Simenez. And I think this one's

771
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: pretty simple. Like he already has three home runs. I

772
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: don't think that is some new found power by him

773
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: that I think that's a flash in the pan early

774
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: in the season. His stackass numbers last year were so horrific.

775
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: I mean they were like pretty much every part of

776
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: his profile was dreadful, like very much on the blue

777
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: side of things. And even this year, like obviously it

778
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: looks better because it's early and that stuff hasn't really

779
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: quite normalized yet, but it's still not like it's like amazing,

780
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 1: Like his barrel rate is still you know, in like

781
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: the twenty fifth percentile range, his bat speed is twenty

782
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: fifth percentile. Stuff like that, and the other thing that

783
00:32:58,040 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: I really want to highlight, and I know he has

784
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: a hot batting averag right now, the stolen bases, he

785
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: only has one. Obviously, this is somebody who changed teams.

786
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 1: He had thirty in each of the last two seasons,

787
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: and so that was a way for him to still

788
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: maintain some value. The Blue Jays only have two steals

789
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: on the season. He obviously has one of them. There's

790
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: only five teams with fewer than the Blue Jays. I

791
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: wonder we just talked about the Pirates being this really

792
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: aggressive team. I wonder if the Blue Jays are not

793
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: going to be that aggressive of a team, and if

794
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: that thirty steals number becomes something that's like really not attainable.

795
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: Last year, just to put it in context, blue Jay

796
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: said the fourth fewest stolen bases, So this is not

797
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: like this is a new thing this year. So if

798
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: he's not able to sniff that thirty stolen base mark

799
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: because of the way the Blue Jays operate, and I

800
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 1: don't think the power is legitimate, and I think the

801
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: batting average is going to come down to those are

802
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: all reasons for me to be very willing to sell

803
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: high if anybody is looking to add a second basement

804
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: in Jimenez.

805
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 2: That's an interesting call. I didn't I was already going

806
00:33:58,080 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 2: to comment one part of that. I did not know

807
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 2: the thing, but the Blue Jays not running as much,

808
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 2: but that is definitely a reason to be concerned, because

809
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 2: I agree, I don't think the power is going to

810
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 2: be there. You mentioned, like the stat cast data is

811
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 2: not very promising last year. It's never been promising for him,

812
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 2: but like if you go back every year, it's bad

813
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 2: all the time. He's he's always managed to be like

814
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 2: a like a fine hitter, you know, like in despite

815
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 2: of the stat cast data, But it's not in a

816
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 2: way that like he's going to have consistent power, like

817
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:25,879
Speaker 2: he can be like a slot hitter. He'll get on base,

818
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,800
Speaker 2: like his average might survive some of what the underlying

819
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:30,800
Speaker 2: numbers are saying, because you know, there are some players

820
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,760
Speaker 2: who just consistently outperform their expected numbers, and he's probably

821
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 2: one of those players, but just not with the consistent

822
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 2: power unless these balls are suproduced again, which then.

823
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: Maybe he will could change things.

824
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, but uh yeah, no, I tend to agree if

825
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays thing about that not running as often

826
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 2: is definitely a cause for concern because if you drafted him,

827
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 2: you drafted him for like a certain kind of floor

828
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 2: and then the stolen based upside at his position, and

829
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 2: if you're not going to get those, then how you

830
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 2: built your team is probably going to be impacted because

831
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 2: you're probably counting on, you know, give or take thirty

832
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 2: steals from him.

833
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: I feel like the best case scenario this year for

834
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 1: him is like a two eighty average with ten home runs,

835
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: a twenty stolen bases, and that is like the absolute

836
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: high water mark. I'm not saying it's even that likely

837
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,760
Speaker 1: that he gets there. I so, I mean, maybe that changes,

838
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 1: like you said, I if the ball really is juiced

839
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: and stuff like that is kind of coming into play,

840
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: maybe it does look differently, But I don't see him

841
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: getting more than twenty stolen bases this year unless the

842
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: Blue Jays really changed their philosophy, which you know we

843
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: can hope for, but we'll see if that actually happens.

844
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: Let's get into our waivers pickups. I went for guys

845
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: who are a lot less roster than you did. I

846
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: saw that, I'll go I'll go ahead and start on

847
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: this one since he started on the Biolos and cell

848
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: Highs favorite hitter Alec Thomas, somebody that I liked to

849
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: bring up last year when he came back from his

850
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 1: injury and was very interested in who has gotten off

851
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 1: to a hot start when playing this year and is

852
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: only two percent roster. And then the other one I

853
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: wanted to mention is Hestonstad, which I only bring up

854
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: he hasn't necessarily gotten off to this great start, but

855
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: because Colton Kowser is now going to miss, you know,

856
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: maybe as much as two months with that fractured thumb

857
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: from sliding headfirst into first base, which I love Colton,

858
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: but man, that drives me nuts, Like it is provably

859
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: not faster. It increases your chance of injury. Like the

860
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 1: only reason to slide to first ever is if to

861
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: throw pulls the first basement off the bag and you're

862
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: trying to avoid a tag like before you get to

863
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: the base. That that is literally the only reason I.

864
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 2: Actually found out about that injury from your tweet about it.

865
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 2: I was like, what is it talking about it? And

866
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, that's what he's talking.

867
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,360
Speaker 1: I can stand it. But heresaid is somebody that we

868
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: have as Orioles fans. I've been begging Brandon Hye to

869
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,720
Speaker 1: give him more opportunity. I think you can hit lefties

870
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: better than Hide thinks he can. Obviously he's got immense,

871
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: immense raw power. And if this injury turns into a

872
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 1: real opportunity for Kerestad to play basically every day for

873
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: the first time in his career. I'm really interested in

874
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: finding out what that looks like. So if you're in

875
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,720
Speaker 1: a deep enough league, again he's only seven percent rostered,

876
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: I would be really intrigued to see see what you

877
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: have there and pick him up on the cheap, and

878
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: maybe you get some really good value out of it.

879
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,320
Speaker 1: So those are my two Alec Thomas and has secure

880
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:09,879
Speaker 1: stat Who you got for your favorite hitter?

881
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 2: Uh, so you mentioned you went much deeper. I didn't.

882
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 2: I did include a few deep league targets we can

883
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 2: talk about at the end. But when you look at

884
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 2: like some of the you know, I go by like

885
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 2: consensus roster percentage, and it can be difficult to kind

886
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:24,879
Speaker 2: of project like who's going to be available in your league.

887
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 2: So I don't want to just ignore players who you

888
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 2: know might be available in your league. So I tried

889
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 2: to kind of like middle it a little bit. So

890
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 2: I went with Auto Lopez, who consensus forty six percent rostered.

891
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,840
Speaker 2: It's likely if you're playing on CBS, he's probably rostered,

892
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 2: but if you're on Yahoo, he might be available. And

893
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 2: if you're on ESPN, he's almost definitely available. But he's

894
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 2: someone else, someone who's gone off to a strong start.

895
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,399
Speaker 2: I've kind of gotten up to a slow start at

896
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 2: my second base short stop position, and he's someone who

897
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 2: I don't expect we're going to see like the power

898
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 2: that we're seeing early on, because I think he already

899
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 2: has a couple of home runs and similar to under

900
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 2: some means, I don't think we're going to see that.

901
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 2: But he's solid average and still on base upside, and

902
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's going to be someone that

903
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 2: you need to roster all season, but I think at

904
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 2: the very least is going to be someone who's on

905
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 2: and off rosters this season based on, you know, if

906
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 2: he's if he's hot at the moment, and he's hot

907
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,359
Speaker 2: at the moment right now. So I'm riding with Otto

908
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 2: Lopez in a few of my leagues where I need

909
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 2: some middling field help.

910
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: On the pitcher side, I thought Casey Mayes, who's fifteen

911
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 1: percent rostered, he had a good first start here the season.

912
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: We had somebody who gave their big bold prediction for

913
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: the year was that he wasn't it that he was

914
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: going to lead the league in strikeouts? Was that him

915
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 1: or no? That was? Or was that he was going

916
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: to Cy Young?

917
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 2: He might be the Cy Young it was.

918
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 1: We had a bold prediction for one of the listeners.

919
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 2: I think he was cy Young and Piveta was striking.

920
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:41,359
Speaker 1: I think you might have been cy Young at any rate.

921
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 1: Former number one overall pick, like a consensus number one

922
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 1: overall pick back in twenty eighteen. So he has the pedigree.

923
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: I like that he's another year removed from the injury

924
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: that cost him all of twenty twenty three. He did

925
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: look good in this first start. It was just a

926
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: first start at six innings, five and two thirds innings pitched.

927
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: You know the win. He again, I've looked at it

928
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: so early on. I tend to feel like a lot

929
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: of the guys that are already largely rostered are I

930
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: don't want to overreact to like a flash in the

931
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: pan or just hey, they had like a hot stretch

932
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: or like one good start to start the season. So

933
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:20,720
Speaker 1: early on, I do like to look at the deeper

934
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 1: guys because I want to look at the guys where

935
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,439
Speaker 1: we didn't see this coming, because like there is something

936
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: different about them. It's too early to really say like, oh,

937
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: he's throwing his four seam or way less often or whatever.

938
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: It's like three percent different, you know, in one start.

939
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna dive too deep into that that sort

940
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 1: of thing with with Casey Miyes. But again, he has

941
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: pedigree and so I think there's real upside there, and

942
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: he's not really rostered, so it should be super cheap

943
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: to get him. He's somebody that I want to take

944
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: a swing on and hope that maybe he's you know,

945
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: switching things up, worked on it a bit. I know

946
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:57,240
Speaker 1: there is like the sweeper you know at it as well,

947
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: which is like, again, it's early enough in the seas.

948
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: I don't want to like put too much weight on

949
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: that as like having fixed it or whatever, but you know,

950
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,760
Speaker 1: it is worth noting the Sweeper, but in general, somebody

951
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 1: that I want to take a risk on. And again

952
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: I think you can get pretty cheap off waivers because

953
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 1: he's barely rostered right now.

954
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's someone i've you know's gotten a lot of

955
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 2: hype after his strong start. I feel like sometimes I

956
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 2: kind of get like prospect fatigue with like a player

957
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 2: like him, because we've been waiting for him to be

958
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 2: really good for so long, and you know, it's the

959
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 2: kind of name that it gets are brought up and

960
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,319
Speaker 2: I don't want to like immediately just like you know,

961
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,839
Speaker 2: put my nose up at it. But like you said,

962
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 2: one of one of my favorite things to do, Like

963
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 2: earlier in the year. It's like if a player gets

964
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 2: off to look a good start, especially a pitcher, is like,

965
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 2: see what's different? Is there anything new? Like is he

966
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 2: throwing harder? Is he throwing like a new pitch, or

967
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,360
Speaker 2: is he like drastically changing his best pitch mix? And

968
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 2: like I was hoping to see more and granted it's

969
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 2: one start, so there's not a whole lot to go

970
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 2: on there. I was hoping to kind of see, like,

971
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 2: you know, like a huge jump in this pitch and

972
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 2: you know, a drop in this pitch, because sometimes you'd

973
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 2: be like, this guy doesn't throw a sinker anymore, and

974
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 2: now he throws this. Yeah, he is throwing a sweeper now.

975
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 2: But he threw four of them. So I like to

976
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 2: see more of that sweeper because it seemed like it

977
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 2: look went okay, and it also looks like he abandoned

978
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 2: his knuckle curve, which is not a pitch. He featured

979
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 2: a ton last year, but it also wasn't super you know,

980
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 2: impactful for him. But you know, sweepers are sweeping the nation,

981
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 2: and if he can be the next guy to throw

982
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 2: a sweeper, you know we'll see what you know, we've

983
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 2: seen before pitchers unlocking something by adding something to their arsenal.

984
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 2: And maybe he's the next one because also he's not

985
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 2: a big strikeout guy, and so if he can add

986
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 2: something that will put you know, batters away like superstend

987
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,359
Speaker 2: to do, maybe we got something here.

988
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 1: Quickly give me your favorite pitchers off waivers and also

989
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: some deep leak targets.

990
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 2: First off, don't tell me to go quickly. I'll go

991
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 2: at my own pace. And you know, I, as you know,

992
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 2: have a very hard out in this recording part OUI

993
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 2: I'll go quick. So I'm going to talk about these

994
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 2: players in an upcoming segment too, but for the sake

995
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 2: of this part, i'll mention them for like, these players

996
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 2: might be roster in your league. Dustin May probably is

997
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 2: after his strong start, but I'm going with Hasius Lozardo

998
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 2: and Dustin May both consensus rostered less than fifty percent

999
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 2: if they are available in your league. Pause this video

1000
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 2: and go or audio and go pick them up now

1001
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 2: because they need to be rostered everywhere. If you're on CBS,

1002
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 2: it's likely they are rostered. If you're on Yahoo or ESPN,

1003
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,320
Speaker 2: they're probably available or they might be available. So definitely

1004
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 2: double check because I think both are really good and

1005
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 2: we've kind of forgotten about them for different reasons. Both

1006
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 2: have had really good first starts, and they're not going

1007
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 2: to be available for very long. So definitely go get

1008
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,760
Speaker 2: them and then deep league targets real quick. Brady Singer

1009
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 2: is someone I've liked for a long time. I do

1010
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 2: have a little bit of prospect fatigue with him as well,

1011
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 2: but again, you know, changing his pitch mix. He looked

1012
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:40,879
Speaker 2: really good the other day. He started throwing a cutter,

1013
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 2: which looked really good, and then he kind of decreased

1014
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 2: his slider and sweeper usage. I think he actually like

1015
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 2: abandoned the sweeper in favor of the cutter and is

1016
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 2: just doing a slider cutter to kind of like tunnel

1017
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:52,919
Speaker 2: them a little bit. Kyle Hart is someone I watched

1018
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 2: pitch the other night and it was very intriguing. I

1019
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 2: hadn't really talked about him or thought about him much

1020
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 2: in the off season, but he's someone who won the

1021
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 2: kbo qivalent of the cy Young last year, and it

1022
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 2: was just out there pitching for the Padres. I'm like,

1023
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,479
Speaker 2: looking pretty good, and he's available everywhere. His consensus Rockster

1024
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 2: percentage is one percent, so he's available everywhere. And like

1025
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:12,439
Speaker 2: I said, he's probably more of like a deeply target

1026
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,479
Speaker 2: if you need pitching. But uh, not the worst start

1027
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 2: for him. I was intrigued by what I saw. And

1028
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:20,840
Speaker 2: then Matthew Liberatore, I'm probably not I'm not Italian, so

1029
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 2: it's not the easiest name for me to pronounce, but

1030
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 2: I believe that's correct. He's two percent rostered. He's got

1031
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,360
Speaker 2: an upcoming two step this week, two start pit this

1032
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:32,280
Speaker 2: two start week, former first round pick. First start was fine,

1033
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 2: but I think he's, you know, upcoming two star pitcher

1034
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,439
Speaker 2: who in deep leagues you can definitely use a pictuer

1035
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:38,359
Speaker 2: like him.

1036
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:42,320
Speaker 1: Great call. I love the Luzardo call is my favorite

1037
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: of these. I really I've always liked his stuff in

1038
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,439
Speaker 1: his upside, so I think that's a great one. Mayor,

1039
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: Let's now dive into our pitching streamers and our two

1040
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 1: start pitcher competition, which is returning for the twenty twenty

1041
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 1: five season. I think we all agreed that due to

1042
00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: some scoring issues, that your win was vacated and I

1043
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: actually came out the victor.

1044
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 2: Last the time.

1045
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 1: It was a tome no no, but you were treating

1046
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: it like a win, and I want to be clear

1047
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: that's not that I did win. We had some confirmation

1048
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: from everybody behind the scenes about that, so we'll remember

1049
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: that that I'm the reigning champion of our two star

1050
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 1: pitcher competition. I do want to remind everybody before we

1051
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 1: get into our pitching streamers that if you're struggling with

1052
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 1: lineup decisions, our lineup assistant recommends optimal lineup suggestions to

1053
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 1: maximize your team's performance each day or week. Just sink

1054
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 1: your league for tailored guidance based on your roster and

1055
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: league settings. Download to Fantasy Baseball My Playbook app or

1056
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: visit fantasypros dot com slash MLB my Playbook to set

1057
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: your winning lineup today. All right, so the way we're

1058
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: going to do the streamers here is, and I pitched

1059
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 1: this to you last night, so hopefully you were on

1060
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: board with it because you already asleep when I pitched

1061
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: it to you. Is you kind of lay out some

1062
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 1: of your favorite pitching streamers for the week, and then

1063
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: I will kind of pick my favorite of the ones

1064
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:56,399
Speaker 1: based on the ones that you laid out and kind

1065
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,800
Speaker 1: of the pitches you made them to me. So you'll

1066
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: have you know, five or six or so that you

1067
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: kind of throw my way, and I'll pick the one

1068
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 1: I like best. How does that sound?

1069
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 2: You're the boss?

1070
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: I am? I? In that case? I definitely one or

1071
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 1: two start pitching competition last year, you know, executive decision, but.

1072
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 2: I am I am a big like pitching streamer, so

1073
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 2: it is kind of my forte. So yeah, I'm totally

1074
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 2: good with that. I was researching a bunch of them

1075
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 2: like this morning, you know, preparing for the show and stuff,

1076
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 2: and I found a bunch of that I'm intrigued by.

1077
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 2: And then I'm also going to include a few that, like,

1078
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 2: I'm not going to a rank because I kind of

1079
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 2: consider them like above the ranking, and so we'll just

1080
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:34,320
Speaker 2: kind of say, like, hey, if these guys are available,

1081
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 2: start your list there, and then we'll worry about how

1082
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 2: we're gonna rank these these streamers after that.

1083
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: Okay, go for it.

1084
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 2: So starting with the those names that I was just

1085
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 2: talking about, who are like if these players, So the

1086
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 2: first two are Haziest Lozardo and Dustin May, and the

1087
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 2: other two I would group in there is Shane boz

1088
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:54,280
Speaker 2: and Drew is it Resmussen or rest Mussen because it's Resmussen.

1089
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 2: I can never remember how you pronounce his name. So

1090
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,360
Speaker 2: so those four I would not consider in this. You know,

1091
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:02,359
Speaker 2: they may be available in your lead because they're all

1092
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,840
Speaker 2: right around that like forty five to fifty percent consensus

1093
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 2: roster percentage. And it's the kind of thing where like

1094
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:09,800
Speaker 2: if you're on CBS, less likely they're available because the

1095
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 2: roster percentage is going to be higher on CBS, But

1096
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 2: if you're on another platform, there's a good chance, you know,

1097
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 2: at least like a fifty percent chance that they are available.

1098
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 2: So I would I didn't want to include them in

1099
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 2: on like the main rankings list because I think they

1100
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 2: would just blow the other ones out of the water.

1101
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 2: Maybe you can disagree with those, but I think they're

1102
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 2: four clearly above the other ones who I'm considered like

1103
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 2: widely available in streaming. And Drew Resmussen. Dres Mussen, however

1104
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 2: you say it, he is a sparp. He is a

1105
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 2: starting pitcher, relief pitcher eligible player who like which is

1106
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 2: more important in points leagues where if you have a

1107
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 2: reliever slot, he can actually start for you in that

1108
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 2: reliever slot and kind of like span me some points

1109
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 2: that way for.

1110
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: The record Baseball Reference, as is Rasmussen.

1111
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 2: So not even what I was saying. I was emphasizing

1112
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:56,720
Speaker 2: the wrong syllable, rest missile.

1113
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 1: You put your empafis on the wrong salable exactly.

1114
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 2: Do you have any thoughts on how he would rank

1115
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 2: those four before I go to the rest of the list.

1116
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: I would probably go Lizardo, boz May Rasmussen would be

1117
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,359
Speaker 1: my gut reaction to that.

1118
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 2: Okay, I think I didn't include the matchups, but I

1119
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 2: feel like those two are kind of or those four

1120
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:21,840
Speaker 2: are kind of like matchup.

1121
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, independently, I think it's fair to include them above

1122
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 1: the streamer rankings. I think that was an accurate decision

1123
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 1: by you.

1124
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then one name I didn't include for the

1125
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 2: other reason I didn't include him. I have six names here.

1126
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:35,879
Speaker 2: The other name I didn't include in my top six

1127
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 2: is Martine Perez, who had a really good first start

1128
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 2: for the White Sox, and I was considering him as

1129
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 2: a streaming option against the Red Sox. I need someone

1130
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 2: to keep an eye on, because if this Red Sox

1131
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 2: lineup continue to just stay really cold, it might be

1132
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:50,880
Speaker 2: worth streaming him against the Red Sox anyway. But the

1133
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 2: only thing I didn't like is that he is currently

1134
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 2: protected a lineup against Kiro Crochet, so you might get

1135
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 2: some empty stats there depending on how you know how

1136
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 2: that matchup goes. If Gyrat Crochet and his revenge game

1137
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 2: against the White Sox might go out and throw jam.

1138
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:07,399
Speaker 2: So the names that I have for my streaming picture

1139
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 2: rankings Matthew Liberatore, and he's a two start pitcher and

1140
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 2: he is a relief picture eligible, so another kind of

1141
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 2: cheat code in points leagues two starts at the Pirates

1142
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:20,280
Speaker 2: and versus the Phillies. Casey Meies your boy also two starts,

1143
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 2: but one of them is against Yankees, but not in

1144
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 2: Yankee Stadium, so important the Tiger Stadium don't have the

1145
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 2: name of that one memorized, but their ballpark is famously

1146
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 2: not as hit or friendly as Yankee Stadium. And then

1147
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 2: at the Twins, who are off to a slow start offensively,

1148
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:39,800
Speaker 2: so not a terrible matchup there. Eric Fetti, someone I

1149
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 2: like who doesn't real it is the.

1150
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 1: Tiger Stadium not k America.

1151
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 2: Anymore may have sold it.

1152
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: I don't know it is it is still Camerica nailed it.

1153
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,400
Speaker 2: There you go, Which one's Kaufman Stadium or is that

1154
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 2: the Royals?

1155
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:50,800
Speaker 1: That's the Royals?

1156
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 2: Yeah or else? Okay, I noticed in a bunch of

1157
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 2: these I'm targeting the Pirates, which wasn't intentional, but you

1158
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 2: know they do have they run a lot. But maybe

1159
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 2: that's why they're running a lot it because offensive numbers

1160
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 2: aren't aren't projected to be great. But Eric Fetty is

1161
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 2: someone that I like. He's another one who came who

1162
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 2: kind of like reinvented himself overseas and came back and

1163
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 2: had a strong year last year. Not a ton of strikeouts,

1164
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 2: but he's a picture that I like as a streamer.

1165
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,800
Speaker 2: Zach Lttel at home against the Angels, Brady Singer I

1166
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:19,120
Speaker 2: mentioned earlier again against the Pirates, and then Mitchell Parker

1167
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 2: who had a really good first start. He is at

1168
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 2: the Marlins, so good matchup and good ball park for

1169
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 2: a pitcher. So what did you say we're gonna do?

1170
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:27,919
Speaker 2: We're gonna that's my list.

1171
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: In my favorite you have your list, you pitch me

1172
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: on them all, I'll pick my pitch pun intended, I.

1173
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 2: Will say my list is not in that's the order

1174
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 2: I did them, not the order that I ranked them,

1175
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 2: so they're not rankings for me. But I did put

1176
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 2: the two star pictures at the top.

1177
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:44,359
Speaker 1: I am somebody who will almost always, I think, lean

1178
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 1: toward the two start pitcher, even if maybe some of

1179
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: the matchups aren't as exciting. So given that I included

1180
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 1: him as a pickup, I think I just have to

1181
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 1: go with Casey Maas as my as my pick following

1182
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: your pitches this week, may case you close your eyes

1183
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 1: for that. I kind of like Fetti too if I'm

1184
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: looking at the one start guys, that's probably what I

1185
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 1: would do, is my as if I'm doing a two

1186
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 1: start or Fetti if I'm doing the one Did you

1187
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 1: have a personal favorite? You said this wasn't an order, it's.

1188
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 2: Not an order. I kind of lean liberatory for maybe

1189
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 2: I'll go Casey Mice. I was gonna say liberatory for

1190
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:21,359
Speaker 2: like the same like two start reason and because he's

1191
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 2: a relief picture eligible, but also I don't love that

1192
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 2: second start against the Phillies. But yeah, I think i'd

1193
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 2: probably go myes with you just because there's a potential there.

1194
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 2: You're picking him up for what we already talked about,

1195
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:34,319
Speaker 2: like you're picking him up for a two start week,

1196
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 2: but he also might be end up being more than

1197
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 2: a streamer. He might be a guy you can keep.

1198
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:39,800
Speaker 2: So if you can kind of like stream a picture,

1199
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 2: see how it goes, and then maybe hold on to him,

1200
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 2: that's probably the most upside that I'd go with there.

1201
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:47,879
Speaker 2: But then I also really like Brady Singer. I think,

1202
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 2: you know, it could just be like me trying to

1203
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 2: like manifest my destiny here because I've always liked Brady

1204
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 2: Singer and I've always wanted him to be good, and

1205
00:50:56,560 --> 00:51:00,400
Speaker 2: so now that he like he's showing something else, maybe

1206
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:03,840
Speaker 2: maybe it's happening, although maybe not in you know, probably

1207
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 2: not the best ballpark to have a great season of

1208
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 2: his home ballpark now that he's with the Reds.

1209
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: Those are our streamers. Normally, I'm not going to rush

1210
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 1: us through this as quickly, but I do have to

1211
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 1: get going here. Today. We'll go through our two start

1212
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: picture competition first of that year. Remember, we can pick anybody,

1213
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 1: but there are no repeats throughout the year. Last year

1214
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:24,320
Speaker 1: I used a lot of my best pictures early. Some

1215
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 1: people are saying it was a brilliant strategy since I

1216
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 1: ended up winning the whole thing this year when no, no, no,

1217
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: you said on the Boss and I won. So we're

1218
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: gonna We're gonna go. You know, we'll see how much

1219
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: I get into some of the studs early. It's always

1220
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 1: tricky to when we record this today early, like on Wednesday,

1221
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: especially early in the season, it's like sometimes a gray

1222
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 1: area of who's going to be a two start pitcher

1223
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,759
Speaker 1: or not this early. I'm gonna go with Michael King

1224
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: coming off of, you know, a very strong start here.

1225
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 1: I think he struck out eleven last night, and he

1226
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 1: gets the Athletics. He's at that stadium, which I know

1227
00:51:57,719 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: you said the ball was flying, which is a little

1228
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 1: but I'm still going to view them as a matchup

1229
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 1: I want to go after for the time being. Maybe

1230
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,400
Speaker 1: I'll change that if the stadium really does kind of

1231
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:09,879
Speaker 1: pan out that way long term and then he gets

1232
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: the Rockies, but not in Colorado. So I'm going on

1233
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:16,720
Speaker 1: somebody who had a very strong start who I always

1234
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: have liked, and who is you know, having two I

1235
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 1: think fairly easy matchups, by the way, just for scoring this.

1236
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 1: Now that you and I are in that same league together,

1237
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,800
Speaker 1: maybe we can just we can have equal access to

1238
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 1: how to track who actually is winning on a week

1239
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:34,399
Speaker 1: two week basis. But Michael King, who you actually roster

1240
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 1: in that league, is my pick to start things off.

1241
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:39,839
Speaker 2: Yeah. I actually thought about that while putting a name,

1242
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:41,440
Speaker 2: and I was like, Oh, if this is the scoring

1243
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 2: that we're using, maybe I might actually be able to

1244
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 2: see what he's talking about it. And I just have

1245
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 2: to like trust that he's like not making up these

1246
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 2: scores if he like wins by two points this week.

1247
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 2: But I went with another picture that you like, and

1248
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:53,440
Speaker 2: that's because we talked about him in draft season. That's

1249
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 2: Hunter Green, who is at the San Francisco Giants, so

1250
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:01,359
Speaker 2: a pretty pitcher friendly ballpark, and and once again at

1251
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 2: home versus the Pittsburgh Pirates, someone I'm apparently targeting all

1252
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 2: over the place right now.

1253
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not a believer in their ability to steal

1254
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 1: bases that you thumb your your nose up at that.

1255
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 2: Apparently not apparently not impressed.

1256
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: Let's get out of here with some weekend excitement. I

1257
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:21,839
Speaker 1: don't know why you put this after the two start

1258
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,319
Speaker 1: pitchers we ended with the two start pitchers last year,

1259
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: but I guess we're shaking things up this year. What

1260
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: are we looking forward to this weekend? Still a few

1261
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: days away. Like I said, we're taping early some of

1262
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:33,799
Speaker 1: the stuff that I added. Goddard Henderson probably making season debut.

1263
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:35,320
Speaker 1: It might be as early as Thursday, but if you

1264
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 1: kind of count that as the weekend. Really excited to

1265
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:39,719
Speaker 1: see him back on the field for my favorite team

1266
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 1: and also for a lot of my fantasy teams. Dodgers

1267
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 1: Philly is just going to be a really fun series

1268
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,279
Speaker 1: in general, two really good teams, two of the best

1269
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 1: teams in the National League. There is a fun Rokie

1270
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 1: s Saki Aaron Nola matchup during that one. We also

1271
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: do get Yamamoto versus Hislzardo, so I'll be really intrigued

1272
00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 1: to see both of those because that'll be a fun series.

1273
00:53:58,080 --> 00:53:59,840
Speaker 1: And then also we get Yankees versus Pirates, which is

1274
00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:02,439
Speaker 1: really fun because we get the home runs galore team

1275
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:04,400
Speaker 1: and the Yankees, and we get the stolen bases galore

1276
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:07,800
Speaker 1: team in the Pirates. So those are my highlights for

1277
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: the weekend. What do you got here?

1278
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:12,279
Speaker 2: Well, a little behind the scenes, you know, I put

1279
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 2: weekend excitement. Last I also put a question mark on

1280
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:16,480
Speaker 2: it because I knew we were gonna have a tight

1281
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:18,760
Speaker 2: schedule today, and I figured if we had to cut anything,

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Speaker 2: we had cut weekend excitement.

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Speaker 1: And that's why you decided to waste time with this

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Speaker 1: little diatribe exactly.

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Speaker 2: So I'm also looking forward to Dodgers Phillies. That was

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Speaker 2: one thing I thought about while coming up with my notes.

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Speaker 2: I'm also one of the reasons we're recording early is

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Speaker 2: I'm interested in seeing Walker Bueller again because his first

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Speaker 2: start was not good. I didn't see a lot of

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Speaker 2: people talking about it, but I was concerned with what

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Speaker 2: I saw. Velocity was down, just really didn't like like

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Speaker 2: He's someone I was really intrigued by in spring training,

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Speaker 2: especially like getting in that new Red Sox pitching program.

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Speaker 2: But his first start was not promising, So I'm I'm

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Speaker 2: very interested to see, like does he bounce back and

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Speaker 2: kind of look better, or you know, are we in

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Speaker 2: trouble here? And then more importantly, I want more baseball,

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Speaker 2: more data, more normalization of large, you know, across like

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Speaker 2: larger numbers, so I can start betting, because I don't

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Speaker 2: really like to bet or make too many moves early

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Speaker 2: in the season because you know, it's all, you know,

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Speaker 2: still brand new. But once we're like a couple of

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Speaker 2: with and I'm excited about that.

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Speaker 1: Awesome we will wrap up there. Hopefully we won't be

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Speaker 1: as rushed in future episodes. Thank everybody for tuning in again.

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Speaker 1: other players you like for pitching streamers or waiver pickups

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Speaker 1: or any of that stuff. We are happy to hear

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Speaker 1: from you for Mayor, I'm Ryan warmly. Thanks everybody for

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