WEBVTT - The Cycle: Rounding The Bases (Ep. 1029) 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:08.520 Hello, everybody, Welcome into the cycle. I am Ryan Warmley, 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:11.760 joined today, not by Mike Mayor. He is off doing 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:15.240 I think some kind of recovery from some minor whatever thing. 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:17.680 He's fine, he's not here though. He always gives me 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:19.279 a hard time when I'm not here, so I will 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:21.880 return the favor in kind. I am joined as he's 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.040 usually joined when I'm gone, by the one and only 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:24.520 Kelly Kirby. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:25.800 Kelly, thanks for coming on today. 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:27.560 Thank you so much for having me. It's nice to 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:29.840 do this with you instead of him. But we kind 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.519 of are the surgical triplets, aren't We like us and 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:35.080 our procedures are just constantly. 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.239 There's always something, Yes, you know, we're never able to 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.040 avoid whatever. I actually it's not even I'm trying to, 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:42.600 you know, protect his private you know business. I don't 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.120 actually even know what he's got going on. I just 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.800 know he's out for some some minor things. So he'll 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:48.440 be back next week. I will actually be gone next 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.160 week for a family trip, so you will be filling 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:53.800 in again. Back on the other side, you will unfortunately 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:55.760 be stuck with Mayor again next week. But this week 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.960 we get the rare Worm and Kelly show. Really really, 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:00.680 we could call it the zoo. It's it's worm and 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.800 penguin together. So we got we've got some animals going 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:04.280 on here. 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.199 We're by the way, Oh yeah, I mean, who would 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:09.039 go to see a worm? 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.000 I guess like they have like little worm farms at 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.440 some of like the little bug exhibits, Like I think, 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.280 like my nephew might enjoy that, you know, kids like bugs, 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:20.000 but as a general zoo, you know, exhibit that, I 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:22.440 don't think that would be that impressive. But yeah, we're 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.560 gonna be talking kind of, you know, doing what we 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:26.600 usually do here. We're gonna be rounding the bases with 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:30.319 some trending topics. We've got a fun little thing kind 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.240 of at the end of round of the bases. Actually, 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:33.560 I'm hoping it will be kind of the bulk of 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.840 the segment where Kelly will be going through some of 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.920 her lessons learned so far. Two months into the twenty 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:43.640 twenty five Fantasy baseball season, Kelly obviously knows a lot 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.920 more about fantasy baseball than I do, and I would 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.800 say that more than Mayor does too, although that is 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.760 not necessarily reflected in the standings in Dan Harris's league, 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:54.320 which you are also in and I like to bring 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.680 up because Mayor is in last place. There you, Kelly, 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:59.360 are in second to last place, so I get to 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:01.800 kind of hold over both of you guys for the 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.200 time being in my first season in the league. But 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.960 we'll be doing those lessons learned from Kelly. We'll be 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.920 also talking, like I said, some trending topics, some news notes, 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.120 and injuries, all that good stuff. And as always, this 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.679 is part one of three parts of the cycle for 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:16.360 the week, so it'd be sure to check out not 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.239 only this episode if you're watching, this will be the 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.640 first one to drop both on audio and video, but 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.360 also the other couple of segments as well. 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.839 Throughout the weekend. All right, Kelly, let's dive in. 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:28.120 I wanted to kind of just start with this is 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.679 from a couple of days ago, obviously, but Ronald Acunya 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.639 coming back like on Fire, obviously a couple of huge 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.799 home runs in that weekend series, his first time back, 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.520 coming off of you know, yet another long you know 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.080 time being out due to injury. We talked a lot 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.760 Meyer and myself in the preseason about where were ranking 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:47.959 Acuna this year, because once he's back, we're going to 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.360 really want him in our rosters. He was a little 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.440 slower coming back the last time he was coming back 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.760 from Attorney ACL. Obviously it's still early, very small sample 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.240 size in twenty twenty five, but certainly a great start, 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.119 you know, to begin with, for him. So I wanted 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:02.840 to kind of dispose the question to you, like a 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:04.880 initial thoughts and seeing him back in the field. Obviously 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.440 it's fun as fantasy managers to see him back, but 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.120 be now that he is back and looking like pretty 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.480 much his old self, how many players are there in 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.280 fantasy baseball that you would be ranking ahead of him 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:14.880 rest of season? 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.160 Yeah, I mean not many. I think right off the 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.520 top of my head. I thought of Judge, unfortunately, because 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:27.160 I'm usually a pretty big Aaron Judge, Denier Otani, Corbyn Carroll, 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.160 maybe given how he's been doing lately, But that is 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.639 pretty much the list I think at this point, because 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:38.120 if he continues what he's doing that I don't know 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.680 where you put anyone else above him. However, that being said, 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:43.880 if we're going with what do I see as the 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.560 injury risk the rest of season, I would put a 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:48.720 couple more people ahead of him, I think, just to 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.040 like I would I would still rather have Loon Soto 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.160 than Akunya in terms of I think he'll be healthy 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.200 and he's going to have a monster second half, but 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.400 everything else a Kuney brings to the table, and he's 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:03.840 maybe a little fresher than everybody else, like he's third 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:04.680 fourth maybe. 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:05.560 Yeah. 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:07.320 You know, we weren't going to do a segment on Sodo, 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.119 but I'm glad you brought it up because there's been 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.120 you know, headlines recently about like you know, like the 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.000 Mets aren't worried about him and everything, and I'm like, listen, 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:15.920 I get that the average is really low. It's to 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.000 twenty four, and the OBP is low for his standards 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.360 of course at three fifty two right now ops under 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.720 eight hundred. Like it has been maybe worse than you 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:27.040 would have expected. At the same time, like I don't, like, 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:28.919 you know, if we're putting together like we're gonna be 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:30.840 doing our bi lows in a future segment, like it's 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:32.400 like mon Soda is a by low, and I think 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.159 like most people are pretty reasonably confident that he's going 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.040 to be, you know, continuing to be a really valuable player, 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:39.960 and also by the way, he's stolen seven bases in 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.640 his career high as twelve, so he's already over halfway there. 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.480 We're not even you know, through May yet. 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.000 So I think Sodo is a good one to bring 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.240 up because I I mean, I tend to agree with you, like, 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.520 given just the kind of the looming sort of damicles 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.960 of Acuna's injury history looming over his head, like I 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.160 would rather have some of these other guys ahead of him, 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.240 just for no other reason than that. But it sounds 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.159 like what you say, fourth you were it was Judge 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.080 Otani maybe Carol and that was about it. 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:06.880 Yeah, I mean that's just kind of where I start. 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.280 I mean, Bobby Witt is still there, but I'm not 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.559 you know, the Royals lineup is around him isn't doing 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.640 so hot, So I'm not necessarily in on his counting stats. 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.680 But yeah, with Soto, I looked at him as a 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:20.800 bilo because this is probably as low of a bye 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.680 as you can get on him, right if if everything's 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:24.760 relative like this is the only time I can remember 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:28.400 that you can buy losa on Soto. But his expected stats, 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.760 like his expected by average I think is around like 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.799 two to eighty five or something. His slug everything should 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:38.240 come back to normal. It's just waiting that out. And 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.360 if you can find a manager who doesn't want to 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.480 wait that out, jump on it. 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:44.640 Yeah, give it a try. 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:49.440 Yeah, with a Kunya, what would you say he had 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.359 to put a percentage chance to it? Is the percentage 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:56.000 chance that in February of twenty twenty six next year, 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:56.960 he is. 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:58.480 The number one overall pick. 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.240 And I'll say, I'm not going to say that overwhelmingly 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.719 like consensus number one pick, because obviously Tany's amazing and 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.039 Judge is having this awesome season, but that he is, 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.600 I'll say the consensus number one. Like in ECR, he 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.280 is the number one guy. What percentage chance would you 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.120 give Acunya being back there a year from now? 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.760 Yeah, I think it's really hard. I mean, I feel 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.480 like we should always just drop Otani from the whole 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.080 conversation because I feel like I just feel like he'll 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.400 be the number one like ECR, So I would give 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.279 a Kunia like almost zero percent chance to be the 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:28.480 ECR number one. But if we drop him out just 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.320 for you know, posterity's sake, then yeah, I mean I 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:35.960 think I would give it, I don't know, sixty seventy percent. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.040 I mean pretty high. Like I'm not sure. I'm not 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.200 sure who would take over, like the judge, wit Combo, 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:46.760 maybe Carol, depend on how he finishes. Who else are 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.000 you gonna like Kyle Tucker? But like he's in his 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.320 contract year, so I mean, I'm not expecting he's not 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.160 go I'm not expecting his big of things next year 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.440 from him. So yeah, I mean I think it's pretty 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:57.640 high if he stays healthy. 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.440 Last question on Acunya, given some of the injury stuff 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.560 that you alluded to, and you know the fact that 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.600 whoever has him is probably like they probably don't want 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.960 to trade him obviously because they held laund him. You know, 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.880 they got him at this discount and draft day, and 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:14.160 now is the time you get to kind of reap 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:18.160 those benefits if somebody is looking to maybe sell high 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.680 and say, hey he's back, but you never know, you know, 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:21.760 look at this great start. 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.320 You know, this is the Akunya of old. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.000 Would you be willing to trade him for something like 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:29.920 a guy that was going later in the first round 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.600 in drafts or maybe a second rounder as part of 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.680 a package, so something like Churio plus another player or 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.280 Gunnar Henderson who's gotten off to really slow start plus 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.800 another player somebody like that, would you be willing to 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:42.880 move Acunya or would it have to be kind of 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.360 one of these elly, like have him playing like a 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.800 stud type of studs would be the only way you 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:48.400 would move him. 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:50.320 Yeah, I mean I think it is the best time 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.240 to sell high because he's healthy. I mean this is 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.600 these are the rules and if you wanted to the 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.360 first thought that I had is if I could get 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.920 if I could get like a Scoobaal Jackson Merrill combo, 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.559 like I like these are That's where I would start. 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.679 But like, if I could pull a number one starter 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:11.960 out right now, given how pitching looks injury wise, maybe 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:13.800 it's not everyone's pitching. It might just be my pitching 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.480 across eight leagues, but I need help, So yeah, I 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.480 would Actually I'd be okay with that, I think, depending 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.840 on how you need to fill out your team. 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:28.160 We are currently giving away a Jose Ramirez signed Guardians 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.080 jersey courtesy of our friends at Pristine Auction dot Com. 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.160 All you have to do to enter is to subscribe 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.840 to the Fantasy pros MLB YouTube channel right now, drop 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.120 a comment below on any video and that is it. 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.160 We will be announcing one lucky winner right here on 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.480 the channel, So make sure to turn those on, those 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.000 notifications so you can know when new videos are up 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:49.800 and to claim your prize. Jose Ramirez another name that 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.719 could obviously be you know, in that conversation him versus A, 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.360 can you I think I think I'd probably rather take 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.320 a Ramirez in the kind of that category of thinking 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:58.600 about the injury stuff as well. 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:00.560 One guy who might. 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.000 Get to this level one day is our next topic here, 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.720 Roman Anthony, and he's not called up yet, has ever 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.600 recorded this Thursday afternoon, but it just feels like he 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.040 has to be close to call. Jeff Passon actually had 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.319 an article about both him and Jack Caglione in the 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:19.600 Kansas City's Organization. He had the article on ESPN today 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.319 just kind of about like why aren't these guys up yet, 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.640 Like there's some speculation of like Super two related stuff. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.560 There's you know, the fact that, like I mean the 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:30.520 Red Sox. One of the examples that Jeff uses in 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.280 his article is that Christian Campbell has been struggling, so 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.199 you never know that, you know, how a top prospect 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:36.920 is going to come up and make that instant impact. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.200 But at the same time, it just feels so obvious 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:40.840 that Anthony has like nothing else. 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:42.400 To learn at the minor league level. 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.840 You know, he is the number one prospect in baseball, 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.280 and I just I just feel like the kind of 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.920 ground swell of conversation about him is coming to a 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.520 tipping point, and I'm assuming he's going to be up soon. 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.560 So I wanted to kind of just hit on. 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.520 I wanted people to be prepared in case it does happen, 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:01.920 let's say, in the next week, before our next episode. 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.480 I want people to be prepared with what are we 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.280 doing now? He's likely rostered in a lot of leagues, 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.240 just because the top prospect in baseball is going to 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:10.760 be rostered in a lot of leagues. But is he 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:14.520 somebody that you have such high expectations for right off 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.520 the bat that you would be interested in trying to 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.960 trade for now if you didn't roster him, or in 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:20.760 the off chance he is available, Like obviously I think 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:22.120 you should pick him up, But you know, would you 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:23.560 be trying to trade for him now? Would you be 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.400 trying to sell before he comes up and possibly disappoints 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.400 What are your general expectations for Anthony when he does 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:29.960 get the call. 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:31.800 Well. I think one of the things that the Red 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.319 Sox are doing is, you know, they tried to change 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.320 all the rules for like the playing time manipulation situation, 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.640 which once you get into this time of year with 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:44.360 a guy like Anthony, that's your most that's Ockham's razor, right, 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:48.240 Like that's the most logical explanation. But yeah, I mean 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.040 I have pretty high expectations for him. I think he 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:55.319 will jump kind of in and start off hot. I 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.960 also think there's no clear rookie of the year in 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:01.960 the American League, and I feel like that is a 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.959 that's another concern for Boston that if if they bring 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:07.720 him up and he wins, that I think that they 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.800 lose a year on him, I believe, or something along 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:14.160 those lines. So he I feel like that's the issue 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.440 a little bit, is they're just kind of looking for, 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:18.719 you know, how to best do this. But you know, 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.920 I think he's gonna hit. But I also, unfortunately subscribe 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.719 to the Joe piece of Pia rule, which is when 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.320 they come up, that is the highest time to sell. 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.360 Like once he gets to call, if there is something 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:36.480 that you need and it's not a dynasty league, that's 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.320 that's the time to go. And if there's somebody, you know, 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.400 if you play play in a league with a bunch 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:45.720 of East Coast bias, people like you know, target them 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.720 because they're gonna be way probably way more excited than 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.800 you are. So yeah, I if I have him, I'm 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.240 holding when he gets called up. If there's someone that's 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.280 interested and I there's a piece that I need, I 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:01.560 I basically never have trouble flipping rookies in in redraft. 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.079 Especially recently. And again this is something that I talked 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:07.079 about a lot with Mayor Is. I mean, it is 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.240 such a common thing to see play out now that 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.400 these top prospects are taking longer than ever to adjust 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.320 to the big leagues. Because there are exceptions, but by 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.760 and large, it feels like the elite, elite guys are 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.800 not hitting the ground running the way we maybe got 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:23.160 used to. 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:24.960 You know, ten years ago. 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.559 The gap and pitching between the minor leagues, the upper 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:32.360 minor leagues even and major league baseball is as wide 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.720 as it's ever been. And in that article I reference 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:39.160 Passon talks about Jackson Holliday as an example of just 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.079 a year ago was the number one over prospect in 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:45.199 baseball in Ale East organization comes up and wasn't just 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:46.960 like not living up to the light, but was like 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:48.440 so bad he had to get sent down in like 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.839 two weeks, Like was that bad at first? My usual 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.040 takeaway from that is, Okay, well let's get the adjustment 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.000 out of the way sooner rather than later and just 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.880 you know, get through it. But it does mean for 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.320 fantasy managers like that has to be as good of 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.760 a prospect as Roman Anthony is. That has to be 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:08.320 in the back of your mind as a possible outcome 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:09.920 here when you. 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.319 Are looking at when you're looking at. 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.040 Top prospects who are soon to be called up, you 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:16.080 could throw Kagalion in. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:20.080 This conversation if you want to. Also, do you think about. 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.600 All the prospects who have struggled or do you do 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.880 you try and look at each individual guy as this 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.679 feels like the type of profile that maybe won't struggle 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.960 as much because because I think that can be tricky, 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.400 because I probably would have said that with Holiday, for example, 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.120 as this is the type of guy who maybe the 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.080 ceiling isn't going to be crazy high right after the bat, 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.080 but I thought he was a floor type of guy 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:41.560 that wouldn't have that in I thought he was going 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.680 to adjust really well because that's what he'd done his 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:45.840 entire life. He had you know, Dad is an all 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:47.960 star hitter. Like it seems like such an obvious this 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:49.839 guy's going to be a good baseball player right after that, 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.319 and he wasn't. So do you just look at kind 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.720 of the general hole and say this guy probably isn't 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.040 going to be the exception or do you say, like, oh, 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:01.320 based on you know, Kagalian's elite power or Anthony's overall profile, 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.520 you know, these guys seem like exceptions to the rule. 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.559 Yeah. I mean that's a really interesting question because I 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:09.000 don't know how you discern it. Right, Like a couple 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.959 of years ago, there was a giant like every rookie 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.240 that came in like lit the world on fire, and 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.800 it was so much fun for everyone because like, now 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:18.560 you had this young stud doing what he what you 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:22.400 expected him to. But that's just not the norm. So 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.800 in terms of like looking at it, I guess I 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.840 have the way I kind of I think assess it 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:30.960 is what team are they playing on? How long of 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.960 a leash are they going to be given? Because they 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.160 can sometimes hit their way out of it, right, but 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.120 they have to be play, they have to get play 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.800 every day or almost every day. They have to be 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.920 allowed to kind of work through, do the batting practice, 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.920 talk to the veterans, like and I think some organizations 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.480 are just less likely to let that, like let that 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.360 happen Holliday last year. I mean, he was so atrocious 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.160 that there was just no way that. I mean, at 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.320 that point you start to talk about, you know, killing 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.320 his confiden and considering that I thought he was like 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:03.960 twelve years old when he got there, I'm like, well, 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.640 you don't want to kill a twelve year old. It's confidence, 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.240 So send him back down for a minute. But yeah, Anthony, 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.760 I think is just in the unique position because I 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.920 feel like the Red Sox will give him that leash, 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.840 Like I think that they will let him hit his 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.240 way out of it. But as the season goes on 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.680 and depending, I mean, the al YaST is super competitive. 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.240 You know, I don't know if they'll leave if he 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.200 does come up and struggle for a while, Like, will 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.320 they leave that empty spot in the roster is you know, 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.040 I feel like they're less likely, Whereas I think if 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.480 Keaglione gets up, the Royals will let him fly for 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:36.760 pretty much the rest of the year. 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:38.720 I think that's your spot on. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.160 I think Kaglion will, like when he's up, he's gonna 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.200 be getting every day at bats, Like I just don't 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.480 see any anyway around it. Whereas Anthony yet, like it's 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.000 weird because like on the one hand, the Red Sox 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:50.920 are in fourth place, they're below five hundred. But on 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:52.440 the other hand, like you said, like it is a 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.400 really competitive, you know division for the most part, and 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.720 you know, the Oriols aren't as good as expected, and 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:00.640 the Blue Jays are also below five hundred. The Rais 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:02.640 are only a game above five hundred. Like there's room 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.280 to make moves in the division. I wonder if I'm 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:10.320 on Boston's side, it will be more if they would 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.800 be more inclined, like if Campbell was hitting really well, 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.560 for example, and like you know, if Bregman was healthy, 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.200 Like you know, they probably don't want Anthony in a 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.640 position where he needs to be a star right away, 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.080 where he kind of would need to be right now 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.640 given the shape of that lineup. And I really wish 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.120 Mayor was on this episode if we're talking poorly about 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.840 Red Sox as an organization, but sadly he's not here, 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.880 Let's go to Let's go to our next topic here. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:37.400 This is kind of where we usually do our news 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.920 notes and injuries. I didn't have a ton that I 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:41.440 wrote down, just a handful of him. If you have 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.240 any others that you saw, please feel free to join 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:45.120 in with those as well. 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.080 Renel Blanco out for the year with. 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.760 Tommy John obviously that's going to linger into next season 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:52.920 as well. You know somebody who's had some good stretches 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.200 the last couple of years, but not going to be 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.240 available anytime soon. Boba Schett day to day lower back Titans. 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.760 He actually hit a home run yesterday, so clearly doing 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:02.520 you know better in that regard. 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.679 I wrote this down before the homer, but so I 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:05.320 to keep an eye on. 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.639 I actually considered Bischett for by Low when we do 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:12.080 that segment later on. I didn't end up picking him, 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.040 but actually partially because of the injury stuff. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:16.320 I didn't want to pick a guy who was hurt. 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.720 But I've been a Bichette fan for a lot of 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.280 this year at his costs, so it's gonna keep an 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:22.520 eye on. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:23.960 I have a lot of him. 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.560 Stephen Kwan left the game yesterday for the Guardians with 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.520