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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody. Welcome into Fantasy Pros. This is

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Speaker 1: the Fantasy Baseball Podcast. I'm your host, Joe Rico, joined

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Speaker 1: today by a very special guest. He is Jeff Ericson,

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Speaker 1: senior editor and co founder of rote O Wire. Jeff,

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Speaker 1: great to talk with you. We usually do a couple

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Speaker 1: of pods in the preseasons. First time we've talked since

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Speaker 1: First Pitch Arizona, I believe. But I hope you've been

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Speaker 1: doing well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, doing well. Happy to do this. Yeah, and it's

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Speaker 2: for time we've done a pod together. I think we

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Speaker 2: it's just this time of year.

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Speaker 3: We're just talking beforehand, just how hectic it is.

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Speaker 3: It's just it's that time of year.

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Speaker 1: to claim your rise. Jeff, let's kick it off with

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Speaker 1: your first bold prediction.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: So I've been drafting Kevin McGonagall everywhere I can. I'm

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Speaker 2: I'm single handly pushing the AADP above two fifty.

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Speaker 3: He will out earn Connor Griffin this year.

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Speaker 2: Connor Griffin goes for half you know, you know twice,

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Speaker 2: McGonagall is better suited to be a pro this year,

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Speaker 2: to be a major leaguer this year. McGonagall might begin

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Speaker 2: so much better. This swing is so compact. Griffin's going

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Speaker 2: I think Griffin's going to struggle a little bit once

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Speaker 1: I could definitely see that happening. And the price has

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Speaker 1: just gotten ridiculous for Connor Griffin. As you mentioned, like,

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Speaker 1: if I'm looking online championships over the last week, Connor

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Speaker 1: Griffin's inside the top one forty main event traps are

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Speaker 1: I saw the price has gotten crazy. Kevin McGonagall, even

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Speaker 1: come into play. I like Connor Griffin, but just the

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Speaker 1: no go ahead.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: It's also this is also an endorsement in McGonagall too.

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Speaker 3: You just look at it is bat.

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Speaker 2: You know just how Hey controls the strike zone, get

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Speaker 3: He's betting leadoff for this team.

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Speaker 2: That shows me they believe in that bat right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I absolutely agree. Kevin McGonagall has been a huge

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Speaker 1: with you there, Jeff. My first prediction, and this one

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Speaker 1: may ruffle some feathers, is about Nick Kurtz. I'm not

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Speaker 1: Vinnie Pasquentino, Tyler Soderstrom, Michael Bush. It's a very very

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Speaker 1: deep position. I didn't even mentioned my guy here in Toronto,

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Speaker 1: Vladimir Guerrero Junior. Nick Kurtz had a phenomenal, phenomenal rookie

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Speaker 1: Nick Kurtz returning his value, and I think in a

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Speaker 1: a top ten value at the position. Jeff, am I

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Speaker 1: crazy here?

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Speaker 1: It is bold.

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Speaker 2: I think that Kurtz's strikeout rate is scaring a lot

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Speaker 2: It still carries there. I think he'll get the power stats.

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Speaker 2: But the takeaway here, though, is if you're uncomfortable with

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Speaker 2: I'm not against taking Blady early. I'm not against taking

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Speaker 1: Move on. Yeah, even in a fifteen team League the

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Speaker 1: fifteenth first baseman by adp Is Wilson Contreras. I'd be

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Speaker 1: perfectly fine hunting the position quote unquote and taking the

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Speaker 1: So yeah, to your point, the position is just really,

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Speaker 1: really deep. Jeff. Number two for you regards the seemingly

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Speaker 1: cursed Atlanta Braves. What do you think is gonna happen

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Speaker 2: They went through that season from hell last year. Surely

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Speaker 2: Don't call me, Shirley. They could very well.

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Speaker 3: Be as unlucky.

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Speaker 2: They've already lost Jerkson Profar to a dumb suspension.

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Speaker 3: What an idiot.

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Speaker 2: You've got three major pitching injuries already, well two major,

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Speaker 2: one minor player, but major injuries, Spencer Swellenbach and Arston Waldrup.

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Speaker 2: Losing both those guys like that, I think that's really

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Speaker 2: tough on this team. They didn't add much from the outside.

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Speaker 2: They just lost Joey Wentz for the season two torn

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Speaker 2: Three guys that are returning from injury in that starting

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Speaker 2: it's a bad recipe year.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I think Ozzi Alby's is a guy that is really risky.

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Speaker 2: I think he could be dealt at the trade deadline

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Speaker 2: this year. They will be sellers at the trade deadline

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Speaker 1: I can absolutely see it. You know, we've been saying

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Speaker 1: it's almost been a running joke for the last couple

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Speaker 1: of years. Surely the Braves will turn it around this season.

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Speaker 1: Austin Riley will have a better year. Michael Harris, Ozzy

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Speaker 1: Alby's and these guys have disappointed for the last several seasons.

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Speaker 1: Injecting Ronald Acunya Junior back on that lineup is fantastic,

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Speaker 1: But how much can he do if there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of disappointment and tons of injuries around him. The Joey

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Speaker 1: Wentz news was brutal for my Draft Champions shares because

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Speaker 1: I did have a couple forty nine to fiftieth round

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Speaker 1: Joey Wentz, So I'm a man short before the season

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Speaker 1: even starts. But I could definitely see this happening in

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Speaker 1: a tough division where I think the Mets are going

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Speaker 1: year either. I could see the Braves starting to sell

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Speaker 1: some pieces off as we approach the trade deadline. This

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Speaker 1: one may not be as bold for my second one.

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Speaker 1: Surely not as bold as the first one. But William

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Speaker 1: Contreras will be the number one catcher in Fantasy baseball now.

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Speaker 1: He's usually the fourth off the board by ADP. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: Hunter Goodman may go ahead of him. Sometimes he might

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Speaker 1: even go as high as number two. He might jump

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Speaker 1: ahead of Ben Rice or by ADP, he is the fourth.

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Speaker 1: William Contreras was playing hurt throughout last season and yet

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Speaker 1: still got six hundred and fifty nine played appearances, gave

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Speaker 1: you seventeen homers, he hit two sixty scored eighty nine runs,

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Speaker 1: and chipped in a few stolen bases. He's just a

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Speaker 1: year removed in twenty twenty four from being that number

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Speaker 1: one catcher giving you five category production. And I think

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Speaker 1: a healthy William Contreres will pretty easily out earn Cal

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Speaker 1: Rawly in every other catcher in twenty twenty six. Jeff,

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Speaker 1: what do you think about that.

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Speaker 2: I've been drafting Contreras ahead of Bengaliers ahead of Ben

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Speaker 2: Rice already. He is my number two. And if you

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Speaker 2: think I still have rally number one. But yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: Slash draft wizard Jeff number three for you regards a

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Speaker 1: Seattle Mariners starting pitcher. Let's hear it about Brian.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is hurtful. I really like Brian Wu. I

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Speaker 2: J's in the ALCS. I don't think he's going to

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Speaker 2: I really hope I'm wrong. But this is like the

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Speaker 2: classic Simpsons meme. He hasn't had surgery yet. Dat No,

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Speaker 3: Even WU deals with that three forty year or a

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Speaker 2: If somehow they t mobiles, specs change somehow, maybe they

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm concerned about the Miners, but I'm concerned about Brian Wu.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's probably correct. Maybe it's more for

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Speaker 1: I think Jack could be a thirty home run guy.

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Speaker 1: In my really really bold prediction that I'll sprinkle in

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Speaker 2: And I will say this about Jack kag every time

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Speaker 2: I'm frustrated. That's the sign of a player you want

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Speaker 2: you know, we get wetted to our projections are ranked

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Speaker 3: Well, maybe you should be changing your rankings a little bit.

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Speaker 1: What would be the highest you'd be willing to go

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Speaker 1: What would be your tap out phase there for draft on.

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Speaker 3: You know, you better.

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Speaker 2: I will say this about uh kag Leoni is is

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Speaker 2: Even you know, even with some of the walk metrics

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Speaker 2: I've got a few, a lot more drafts still coming up,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a few. I'll continue to take them

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Speaker 1: Jeff Let's head to number four and it regards a

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Speaker 1: closing spec that I have actually really liked. And Jason

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Justin Sterner to collect to convert twenty save opportunities

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Speaker 2: for the Athletics now Sacramento, now Las Vegas, not Oakland,

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Speaker 2: just Athletics. They're like a soccer club. But I look

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Speaker 2: Our issue is Mark casse just does not care about

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Speaker 2: You know, a number of different pictures got saves, Sterner

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Speaker 2: But there's high upside and the cost is like pick

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Speaker 2: can't identify which is the alternative. Necessarily, I don't want

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Speaker 2: thrilled with it, even though the overall numbers for Glaciers

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Speaker 2: look okay, chances are a lot of those saves something

437
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Speaker 2: least some of those staves were on your bench and

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Speaker 2: it was a disaster early on.

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Speaker 3: Remember you lost the job for a while.

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Speaker 2: Let's it's just the opportunity cost of taking away either

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Speaker 2: an elite starter an elite bat that early. Doing that twice,

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Speaker 2: I can't do doing one. Yeah, I'll probably still do that.

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Speaker 2: I've been doing that a number of times. I've been

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Speaker 2: getting the top five, which has now really almost become

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Speaker 2: a top eight if you look at like the the

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Speaker 2: first three main events, it's a top eight now. Bed Nar,

447
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Speaker 2: Devin Williams and the world As Chapman are also going

448
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Speaker 2: in the third round now and a fifteen teen main event.

449
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Speaker 2: So hey, buckle up, take one, shake your head, move on,

450
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Speaker 2: say it's not worth it, and then you go ahead

451
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Speaker 2: and do it anyhow.

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Speaker 1: As much as it stinks, if you look at guys

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Speaker 1: you picked up off the waiver wire for saves last year,

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Speaker 1: there weren't many that you could think of off the top

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Speaker 1: of your head that were super profitable. There were a

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Speaker 1: couple of great late round picks or old As Chapman,

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Speaker 1: and maybe you got lucky with Pagan in the first

458
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks, but yeah, there weren't six or seven

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Speaker 1: guys giving you twenty or thirty saves off the wire

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Speaker 1: last year. And if that trend continues, then maybe those

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Speaker 1: early round guys will continue to pay off. Going to

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Speaker 1: number four on my Bold Predictions, Juri Perez is a

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Speaker 1: top five starting pitcher. I think people have kind of

464
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Speaker 1: forgotten about how high he was a few years ago,

465
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Speaker 1: just because we got so excited about Paul Skeens and

466
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Speaker 1: the resurgence of trek Skuble, and we have Crochet, and

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of really exciting young arms at the

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Speaker 1: top of pitching pools, and I don't think eury Perez

469
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Speaker 1: is quite getting their respect he deserves. Still just twenty

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Speaker 1: two years old, which is incredible considering how long he's

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Speaker 1: been around, but comes back from his Tommy John's surgery

472
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Speaker 1: last year, gives you twenty starts that were on the

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Speaker 1: surface maybe disappointing with the four to twenty five era,

474
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Speaker 1: but a lot of the supporting metrics were really good.

475
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Speaker 1: It was a nineteen percent strike up minus walk rate

476
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Speaker 1: one zero five. Whip stuff was really good. Velocity is

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Speaker 1: still there. I think eury Perez is going to be

478
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Speaker 1: the same pitcher that we were expecting a couple of

479
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Speaker 1: years ago, and you can take him as an SP

480
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Speaker 1: two when in reality and maybe this will change over

481
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Speaker 1: the next couple weeks his pitch and gets moved up.

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Speaker 1: But I think ury Perez can be trusted on as

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Speaker 1: an SP one this season. What do you think, Joe, Yeah, prefer.

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Speaker 2: Him as my two, but yeah, he's got the upside

485
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Speaker 2: as an ace as an SP one for sure. Compare

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Speaker 2: that versus the guy goes right above him in recent

487
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Speaker 2: drafts in the NFBC. Is fran Burvaldez good pitcher, Probably

488
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Speaker 2: not a fantasy ace because of the strikeouts Perez could

489
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Speaker 2: get there. You know, he's obviously a lot more volatile,

490
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Speaker 2: and he's on a worst team, but the strikeout upside

491
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Speaker 2: is undeniably higher.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this range, for me, he just screams as my favorite.

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Speaker 1: And I really like Joe Ryan, but now he's moved

494
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Speaker 1: into this range because of the back trouble. You got

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Speaker 1: Kyle Bradish, who we don't really know how many innings

496
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Speaker 1: he's gonna throw. I think he'll be good, but I'm

497
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Speaker 1: not one hundred percent sure. You got Jesus Ozardo a

498
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Speaker 1: little bit earlier, who was great outside of the biblical

499
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Speaker 1: blow ups that he had last year on back to

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Speaker 1: back occasions that kind of ruin the whole line. Uri

501
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Speaker 1: feels like the guy to take if you're looking for

502
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Speaker 1: upside in this range. Maybe you know, people will worry

503
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Speaker 1: about the volume. Potentially twenty starts last year, was nineteen

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Speaker 1: starts in twenty twenty three, But I don't see a

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Speaker 1: reason why the Marlins wouldn't let him get thirty starts

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Speaker 1: this season barring an injury. Of some kind. I think

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Speaker 1: the thirty starts are in the cards. And there is

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Speaker 1: the whole talk about the Tommy John honeymoon that a

509
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Speaker 1: lot of people have researched and there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: studies about it. You usually have about four hundred good

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Speaker 1: innings following Tommy John. And I think Ury Perez is

512
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Speaker 1: still going to be in that really safe, low risk

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Speaker 1: of reinjury phase for the next year or two. And

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Speaker 1: I think we could see, heck if he's the sp

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Speaker 1: one overall at some point over the next few seasons.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody would be surprised by that, would

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Speaker 1: you be, Jeff No, I would not be.

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Speaker 2: The ability is clearly there. It's just can you stay healthy?

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Speaker 2: Is he on the right team for it?

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Speaker 1: There?

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Speaker 2: But I think the Marlins are a little bit more

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Speaker 2: more mature this year. They did overachieve last year. And

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Speaker 2: the one thing I was talking about Marlins a little

524
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Speaker 2: bit on viisent earlier today. And the one thing about

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Speaker 2: them is they were outscored by I think what like

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Speaker 2: eighty six runs or something like that. They finished above

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Speaker 2: the Braves. There could be some regression as far as

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Speaker 2: that goes. As the team they trade away Cabrera, they

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Speaker 2: trade away Weathers, but they also have these young core

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Speaker 2: players that could make this team better as they go

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Speaker 2: along too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what interested me with Yuri is the projections are

533
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Speaker 1: not amazing. They're they're okay, but a lot of them

534
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Speaker 1: are three eight seven, three nine, one four zero nine.

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Speaker 1: The oopsie projections from Jordan Rosenbloom happened with a three

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Speaker 1: five nine ERA and a one to seventeen whip, But

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Speaker 1: some of those EREA projections are not amazing. Maybe that's

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Speaker 1: because of a lack of sample size because he's still

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Speaker 1: so young with so few innings under his belt with

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Speaker 1: the injury mixed in. But I love Yuri Prez. He's

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Speaker 1: going to be on maybe not every one of my teams,

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Speaker 1: All right, Jeff, down to our final bold predictions, and

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Speaker 1: I love this one about Andrew Painter, the young Phillies

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Speaker 1: starting pitcher. What do you got for us?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? How old is Andrew Painter?

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Speaker 2: If you don't, if you already, if you already looked,

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Speaker 2: don't tell it. But you know he's only twenty two.

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Speaker 2: You know, it seems like he's been around forever. Got

575
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Speaker 2: in an argument on Twitter, believe it or not, about

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Speaker 2: Andrew Painter.

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Speaker 3: All, Oh, he's been around forever. Has he done for

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Speaker 3: four years? Well, he missed two years, two full years.

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Speaker 2: He missed not just twenty twenty three, but all of

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four as well. Yeah, he struggled last year.

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Speaker 2: This is a guy that has two hundred plus strikeout upside.

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Speaker 2: I'm only saying one fifty at pick three hundred. My

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Speaker 2: point is I want to get him at pick three hundred.

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Speaker 2: I think the cost is plenty low enough. Plenty of

585
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Speaker 2: twentieth rounders and below in the main event that failed before.

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Speaker 2: This is a guy that could have huge, huge upside.

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Speaker 2: I think he holds the spot in that Phillies rotation

588
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Speaker 2: all season long. I know the fastball needs a little

589
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Speaker 2: bit of work. We've seen that in spring training. He

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Speaker 2: needs a little bit more refinement on that fastball. I

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Speaker 2: think he gets there, and when he does, I think

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Speaker 2: you've got yourself really high upside for a very cheap price.

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Speaker 1: I totally agree. I've taken him a few times. I

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Speaker 1: hope the price doesn't jump up too much now. He

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Speaker 1: hasn't been sparkling in spring training to this point. I'm

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Speaker 1: below the surface anyway. I know he has a zero era,

597
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Speaker 1: not racking up the strikeouts yet, but it's still early.

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping that that keeps the price down on Andrew

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Speaker 1: Painter a little bit. I think his job is secure.

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Speaker 1: You know, people will worry about when Zach Wheeler comes back,

601
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Speaker 1: maybe he'll get sent down. But I don't know how

602
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Speaker 1: much I trust Zach Wheeler at his age, off of

603
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Speaker 1: such a serious injury. I know a lot of people,

604
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Speaker 1: a lot of smart people, are investing in him, but

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Speaker 1: I don't really know what to expect Taiwan Walker. I

606
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Speaker 1: don't think we can ever really know what to expect

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Speaker 1: with him. Usually you can expect the worst, not the better.

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Speaker 1: End of things. So I think that Andrew Painter should

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Speaker 1: be secure in his job and considering where he is going.

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Speaker 1: Even if he does get sent back down at some point,

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Speaker 1: it's a cheap enough cost that it is well worth

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Speaker 1: taking a dart throw on at the end of your draft.

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Speaker 1: Devin Williams is where we will wrap up today. My

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Speaker 1: prediction is that Devin Williams will finish as the number

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Speaker 1: one reliever in fantasy baseball in twenty Twenty twenty five

616
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Speaker 1: was terrible on the surface his first year outside of Milwaukee,

617
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Speaker 1: a four seven nine ERA, just a dreadful year for

618
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Speaker 1: anybody who drafted him. Despite the eighteen saves, it was

619
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Speaker 1: not worth your time whatsoever. But when you look below

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Speaker 1: the surface, it was still a twenty five percent strike

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Speaker 1: up minus walk grate a one point one to three whip,

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Speaker 1: which is still phenomenal. The stuff is still among the

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Speaker 1: best in all of baseball. One fourteen stuff plus one

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Speaker 1: seventeen pitching plus, and he has that job very securely

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Speaker 1: for the Mets. Where the Yankees last year went out

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Speaker 1: and they got Bednar and they got Dovall. Maybe the

627
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Speaker 1: Mets could end up making some moves, but as the

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Speaker 1: roster's currently constructed, he is far and away the best reliever,

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Speaker 1: and you can't just write off those years in Milwaukee

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Speaker 1: where he was a sub to Era for three consecutive years.

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Speaker 1: I think that he bounces back and he is the

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Speaker 1: best reliever in twenty twenty six. What do you think

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Speaker 1: about Devin Williams this year?

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Speaker 2: Jeff, Yeah, I think for him, it's a matter of

635
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Speaker 2: being able to throw strike one. If he can do

636
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 2: that not fall behind so often in the count, it

637
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,160
Speaker 2: makes that change up so much more effective. And if

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Speaker 2: he can do that, I think you're going to see

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00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 2: good times going ahead with him. I know he you know,

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00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 2: he finished the season pretty strongly, you know, finished with

641
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,400
Speaker 2: you know, over the last like nine outings.

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Speaker 3: I think he'll he.

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Speaker 2: Didn't allow and earn run. You know, his kate a

644
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 2: walk was a lot stronger. I know we're not this

645
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 2: is selective endpoints, especially for relief pitchers. That's dangerous. But

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Speaker 2: as long as he has command, then I think good

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Speaker 2: things follow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I just like the price too. Like, as we mentioned,

649
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Speaker 1: closers are stupid expensive this year, and he is also

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Speaker 1: I think Devin Williams a lot of people who were

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Speaker 1: in the casual formats especially, you're going to see a

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Speaker 1: pretty low price on Devin Williams. Jeff, It's been a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun catching up today. Remind everybody where they

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Speaker 1: Jeff is one of the absolute bests in the business.

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Speaker 1: of ours? Are we crazy? Are we on track? Let

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