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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into the cycle.

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Speaker 2: I am Ryan Warmley, joined as always by Mike may Or.

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Speaker 1: It is our weekly fantasy baseball podcast here at Fantasy Pros.

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Speaker 2: to get your question answered on the air. Mayor, how

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Speaker 2: are you doing here? We're barreling towards the end of May,

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Speaker 2: two months into the season.

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Speaker 3: I'm was awesome. If we're being honest, I'm very tired

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Speaker 3: now I'm excited.

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Speaker 4: It's uh, we're getting into, especially now that I live

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Speaker 4: down in Georgia, we're getting into already the heat of

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Speaker 4: the summer down here. It's already in the mid eighties

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Speaker 4: creeping into the nineties. Down here really feels like baseball season.

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Speaker 4: The baseballs are not jumping out of ballparks like they

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Speaker 4: have been in previous years. It's kind of like a

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Speaker 4: weird deadened ball that I'm sure Jor League baseball will

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Speaker 4: just completely change in June or July and then we'll

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Speaker 4: just have record setting home run pace again, because that's

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Speaker 4: what they do. But other than that, it's a mixture

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Speaker 4: of exhaustion and excitement for me.

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Speaker 1: It's getting warm here too.

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Speaker 2: In Denver last night had a little double header playing

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Speaker 2: some softball. It was a beautiful night, except for it

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Speaker 2: was very windy, so that made a little colder than

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Speaker 2: I wanted it to be. But the kind of base

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Speaker 2: temperature was just one of those beautiful summer evenings, and

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Speaker 2: you know those are always really nice.

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Speaker 1: I did not play well in softball.

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Speaker 3: I heard, I heard you were great.

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Speaker 1: I've been on it.

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Speaker 2: I've been on a Raphael Dever's esque heater as of late.

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Speaker 2: And then that came to a crashing halt last night

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Speaker 2: where in game two of the doubleheader, in slow pitch

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Speaker 2: softball with metal bats that are designed to hit the

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Speaker 2: ball a mile and a half, I went over for

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Speaker 2: with most with only one of those hits. Was like

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Speaker 2: only one of those balls and play had a chance

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Speaker 2: of being a hit like and it was just good

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Speaker 2: play by the defense.

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Speaker 1: The others were like horrible pop ups. It was.

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Speaker 2: It was probably my worst before. It's in about two

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Speaker 3: So I'm are you, Are you a pull all the

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Speaker 3: time guy?

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Speaker 2: And no, no, no, And in fact, I used to be

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Speaker 2: when I started. I started playing adult like rec league

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Speaker 2: softball when I was twenty, and I was really fast,

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Speaker 2: so my only goal was just hit it to the

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Speaker 2: left side and I will beat the ball out to first.

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Speaker 2: And as I've gotten older, that's no longer the case,

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Speaker 2: and I've also developed much more of an opo approach.

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm kind of a spray hitter, like I'll hit

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Speaker 2: it anywhere. I'm definitely a contact overpower guy. I'll hit

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Speaker 2: like three home runs a year because it's just not

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Speaker 2: what I'm trying to do. We're also limited in the

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Speaker 2: it doesn't make sense to just try and hit bombs

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Speaker 2: not the case last night. Last night was a very

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Speaker 2: poor performance. So let's talk about some actual good baseball players,

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Speaker 2: not me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's keep going with your softball career.

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Speaker 2: The whole I've been I've been vulnerable enough and talking

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Speaker 1: We're gonna start off.

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Speaker 2: With Paul Skeens, who obviously best pitching prospect of baseball.

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Speaker 2: We talked about him with Welsh recently, you know, just

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Speaker 2: He's made a couple of more starts in the meantime

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Speaker 2: and in his career, in sixteen innings, he has twenty

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Speaker 2: He had seven in his first outing and that was

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Speaker 2: But that's kind of just a recap of what we've

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Speaker 3: So the a couple of things.

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Speaker 4: I wanted to just kind of, you know, we talked

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Speaker 4: And also I wanted to bring him up because we've

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Speaker 4: had Paul Skins ranked highly enough. And I think there's

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Speaker 4: a really interesting argument to be made there. Right now,

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Speaker 4: so I think that's right. I think when that person

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Speaker 4: but I think there's a really interesting argument to be

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Speaker 4: of rest of season rankings mean, because we're not just

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Speaker 4: ranking like the these are the best pitchers right now,

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Speaker 4: we're talking about value rest of season. And the question

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Speaker 4: he throw? YEA, And they've always, you know, the Pirates

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Speaker 4: have already been very careful with Jared Jones. They you know,

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Speaker 4: famously slow played Paul Skins, you know, calling him up

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Speaker 4: at all. Since he's come up, he's had good workloads,

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Speaker 4: he's pitched, He's thrown close to one hundred pitches in

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Speaker 4: So there's no immediate workload concerns there.

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Speaker 3: But also this is a guy who hasn't thrown a

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Speaker 3: this season in professional baseball. He threw like six and

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Speaker 4: And so that's where it kind of becomes debatable, because

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Speaker 4: no one's debating the talent like we've seen, like there

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Speaker 4: I've seen smarter people than me that evaluate a pictures

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Speaker 4: wish that on anyone. But there are legitimate workload concerns here,

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Speaker 4: and so that's where the rest of season ranking kind

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Speaker 4: of comes into play, because you're not just saying I

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Speaker 4: think this guy's the twenty third best pitcher in baseball.

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Speaker 4: You're saying value rest of season. He can't be top

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I get the desire to have him high because

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Speaker 2: it's exciting, he's fun, he's obviously talented.

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Speaker 1: When I look at the rest of season rankings, it's

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Speaker 1: probably about right.

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Speaker 2: I think the innings is a very legitimate question mark,

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Speaker 2: again given the organization he's in, and be given the

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Speaker 2: you laid out, Like when I look at at SP

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Speaker 2: not the same level of strikeouts as Schemes. So if

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Speaker 2: or it's what you're really struggling in or whatever, then sure,

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Speaker 2: you know, maybe you'd rather have Skiens, But like I'm

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Speaker 2: more confident in Grayson pitching the entire season and getting

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Speaker 2: more wins and pitching more innings and everything. Framber Valdez

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Speaker 2: Ranger Suarez, who's been the best pitcher in baseball, is

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Speaker 2: SP twenty eight. Like these are these are all names

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Speaker 2: But that is such a question mark that I think

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Speaker 2: it's very reasonable if he's outside the top twenty five.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't have him outside the top thirty five. I

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Speaker 2: I think probably I would be too much of a

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Speaker 2: fun to watch. But I think in that twenty five

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Speaker 2: because A, you know the questions you laid out and

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Speaker 2: be I do think there are the really good pitchers

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Speaker 2: who are maybe undervalued and I think are worth moving

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Speaker 2: up right now. And a lot of this is league dependent,

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Speaker 2: like particularly with pitching, like you're in a points league,

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Speaker 2: it might be more valuable for the guy that can

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Speaker 2: or whatever the case may be. So I don't want

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Speaker 2: but for me, like twenty three is reasonable and if

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Speaker 2: anything might be a little high in my opinion.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I have him mess be twenty seven. I think

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Speaker 4: I said that already. So I'm right around there, right

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Speaker 4: act of like how excited I am, and then also

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Speaker 4: hedging the innings, and then also like we also have

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Speaker 4: to remember this case twenty two years old and had

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Speaker 4: until you know, like I said, a few innings last year,

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Speaker 4: had never really pitched professionally before. And so it's he

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Speaker 4: he's never really pitched on a regular schedule before. We

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Speaker 4: don't know how he's going to hold up workloadwise, you know,

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Speaker 4: as outside of just like general innings concerns, like he's

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Speaker 3: This is like the first time he's ever.

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Speaker 4: Doing that, And so I think there's gonna be I mean,

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Speaker 4: there's no denying he's a generational talent, but I also

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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, you know, the numbers are are good, Like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, not a ton actionable on him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, some recent injuries, and then we can talk about

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Speaker 3: I was really buying low on him.

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Speaker 4: I think even as recently as last week I wrote

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Speaker 4: You know, the initial talking points are not like he

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Speaker 3: That's never good. Eloy Jimenez is kind of just.

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Speaker 3: Now you know, one comes back there, the one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, for first of all, how many leagues do

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Speaker 1: you have Bogarts in?

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, because you we've mentioned him a few times.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

438
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Speaker 2: You know. The thing with Means is like I in

439
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Speaker 2: messaging my Orioles friends throughout spring training and in the

440
00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:18,960
Speaker 2: early part of the season, kept saying like I want

441
00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,080
Speaker 2: them to add another starting picture, a significant starting picture,

442
00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:26,040
Speaker 2: because anything you get from Means is gravy. Like I

443
00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:30,520
Speaker 2: just don't think given the the history with the arm,

444
00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,480
Speaker 2: given the you know already kind of you know, uh

445
00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:35,840
Speaker 2: slow start to this year, not in terms of performance,

446
00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:37,920
Speaker 2: but in terms of just getting back onto the mound.

447
00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,280
Speaker 2: Like you just can't assume you're gonna get anything out

448
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Speaker 2: of him. And I was actually a little surprised he

449
00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,399
Speaker 2: had he had a good, you know start. Once he

450
00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:47,879
Speaker 2: was actually back out there, he like hadn't walked any

451
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Speaker 2: hitter or any hitters like at all, Like he was

452
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Speaker 2: looking like kind of classic John Means. I was not

453
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Speaker 2: adding him anywhere because I just was like this, I mean,

454
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Speaker 2: it's kind of the same thing with Bradish, and I'm

455
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Speaker 2: hoping I'm wrong, obviously, but like I'm just like I

456
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Speaker 2: can't trust that I'm going to get a season's worth

457
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Speaker 2: of starts out of these guys. And it means Bradish

458
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Speaker 2: it is a little different because he's good enough that

459
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Speaker 2: whatever you get is like actually beneficial. Means I was like,

460
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Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to be good enough that

461
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Speaker 2: it's worth the inevitable kind of injury setback.

462
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Speaker 1: And now this is what we have.

463
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Speaker 2: And uh, they're kind of last I had seen. I

464
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Speaker 2: don't know if there's been an update this morning. The

465
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Speaker 2: last I saw yesterday was kind of still waiting on

466
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Speaker 2: some of those imaging results. He was going back to

467
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Speaker 2: Baltimore while they're on this road trip to get more

468
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Speaker 2: kind of test done and more doctors to look at it.

469
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Speaker 1: And it's just it's the vibes.

470
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Speaker 2: Are pretty bad surrounding it, and it's all the worst

471
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Speaker 2: worst case buzz words too.

472
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Speaker 4: It's yeah, more arm sorts into elbow pain. You know

473
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Speaker 4: that those are all connected Tommy John, which is something

474
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Speaker 4: he's already dealt with and once you've had Tommy John,

475
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Speaker 4: you're more likely to get it again. It's also thrown

476
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Speaker 4: like the same amount of innings this year that he

477
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Speaker 4: threw last year.

478
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's similar to Uri Perez where it's where it

479
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Speaker 2: was like they hadn't announced anything yet, but like everything

480
00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,720
Speaker 2: they every announcement they gave you was like, oh, this

481
00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,440
Speaker 2: is like the biggest red flag possible. And that's like

482
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Speaker 2: kind of what it is with means here, I won't

483
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Speaker 2: dive into the replacement yet because that is who I

484
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Speaker 2: have in our waivers section, So I'll save that for

485
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Speaker 2: that later, as you kind of alluded to. But yeah,

486
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Speaker 2: like I would, I would drop John means I mean,

487
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Speaker 2: if you have room on the aile, sure, like who cares,

488
00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:28,240
Speaker 2: but like, if you need to make room on the aile,

489
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Speaker 2: I would just drop him. I am maybe I'm just

490
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Speaker 2: being an overly pessimistic Orioles fan, but I am operating

491
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Speaker 2: under the assumption that it is more likely than not

492
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Speaker 2: we don't see him pitch again this year, and even

493
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Speaker 2: if he does, it might be something where they're like, hey,

494
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:47,600
Speaker 2: our bullpen kind of stinks, like if you can stay

495
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Speaker 2: on the mound, we're just not gonna have you start

496
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Speaker 2: because we have other options. And I mean, I don't

497
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Speaker 2: expect that to be the case. That's just kind of

498
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Speaker 2: like creative, like hope hoping that could be a possible solution.

499
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Speaker 2: Like I would expect him to be done for the year,

500
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,359
Speaker 2: not everything they're saying. Would love nothing more than to

501
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Speaker 2: be wrong.

502
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Speaker 4: Though, So the question on everyone's mind now is if

503
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Speaker 4: he needs surgery again and it's going to be out

504
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Speaker 4: for another year plus again, do the Orioles move the

505
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Speaker 4: fence back in.

506
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Speaker 3: They moved it back for him.

507
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Speaker 2: They moved it back for the whole rotation, and it

508
00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:26,679
Speaker 2: has really, I think, upgraded the aesthetic of camping yards,

509
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,879
Speaker 2: and they like how much better the park looks and

510
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:33,080
Speaker 2: how natural that cut out and left is and I

511
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Speaker 2: feel like you're being a massive upgrade on an iconic park.

512
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Speaker 1: So what's that is that?

513
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Speaker 3: I feel like you might be being sarcastic?

514
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Speaker 2: No, what would make you think that I'm not a

515
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:46,920
Speaker 2: I'm not a ballpark guy. No, they're not going to

516
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Speaker 2: change it because the whole rotation has been like quite frankly,

517
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Speaker 2: kicking ass, and.

518
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Speaker 1: I think they will. I think they attribute a portion

519
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Speaker 1: of that to the wall.

520
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Speaker 2: Plus it's fun to see how just absolutely insane it

521
00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:05,159
Speaker 2: makes Yankees fans, Like when when Aaron Judge loses the

522
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,160
Speaker 2: home run because of the wall or whatever, they lose

523
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Speaker 2: their freaking minds and ignore the fact that like Ryan

524
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 2: Mountcastle has lost fifteen homers because of the wall, like

525
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 2: it everybody's playing in the same park that night, and

526
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Speaker 2: they they are whiny little cry babies when it comes

527
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Speaker 2: to the wall.

528
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna throw an entire fanbase under the bus.

529
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Speaker 2: There are some Yankees fans I know that I quite

530
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Speaker 2: like in my life, but yeah, they they cry a

531
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Speaker 2: lot about that wall.

532
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Speaker 3: Well, Yankees fans are very used to foul pop ups

533
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Speaker 3: going for home runs, so it's very hard for them.

534
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Speaker 2: To to They they're used to their create a ball pitch.

535
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Speaker 2: Yeah they yeah, I mean wat SODA's very good, but

536
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 2: like you know, that short porch kind of helps.

537
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Speaker 4: The field I played on in high school had bigger

538
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 4: dimensions than Yankee Stadium.

539
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Speaker 2: The field I played on in high school was interesting,

540
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Speaker 2: and it was really deep to center, and it was

541
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Speaker 2: really average to left, and it was really short to right.

542
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Speaker 1: So center was like whatever.

543
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Speaker 3: You know, whatever play is that where you grew up.

544
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Speaker 2: It kind of sounds like it in describing it. Actually

545
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Speaker 2: I played in Vienna, Virginia, So if anybody's listening from

546
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Speaker 2: there shouts to.

547
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Speaker 1: Oakton High School, go Cougar's it was. It was deep

548
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Speaker 1: to center.

549
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Speaker 2: I never once hit a ball like I doubt I

550
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,639
Speaker 2: even won hopped the fence in center ever in my

551
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Speaker 2: career there, I tell it.

552
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Speaker 1: Hit the ball to the fence to left a few times.

553
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Speaker 2: It was, like I said, more average distance for like

554
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Speaker 2: a high school field, right was like two forty because

555
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 2: there was a bunch of woods there so you couldn't

556
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 2: and then neighborhoods behind us you couldn't build into it.

557
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 2: But we didn't really have many lefties. We were a

558
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Speaker 2: pretty righty heavy team while I was there, so unless you,

559
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,920
Speaker 2: as a high school kid, were capable of going OPO.

560
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 1: It was not like we.

561
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:54,119
Speaker 2: Weren't peppering those woods with with homers or anything. But

562
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Speaker 2: it was an interesting part the good old days again.

563
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Speaker 2: I'm sure nobody cares about my playing career, which you've

564
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Speaker 2: now h twice in this episode.

565
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Speaker 3: One more to Go, I hit the hat trick.

566
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

567
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Speaker 2: Show, So you said we kind of needed to save

568
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 2: time for Austin Riley as his own entity.

569
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Speaker 1: I mean, where in the world, what is going on?

570
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Speaker 4: He's now been out for ten days and this is

571
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Speaker 4: another person I have on a bunch of teams, or

572
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:24,360
Speaker 4: at least a couple of teams. He's now been out

573
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Speaker 4: for ten days. When the news first came out that

574
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 4: he had like that intercostal strain, everyone through, okay, like

575
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,400
Speaker 4: he'll be gone for at least two weeks, and they're

576
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,439
Speaker 4: like no, like he'll be okay, Like he'll be day

577
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,640
Speaker 4: to day, And like immediately I was like no way,

578
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,199
Speaker 4: Like that's not a thing you come back from quickly.

579
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Speaker 4: And then he sat for like five or six days,

580
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Speaker 4: and then like on the seventh day, they were like, oh,

581
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 4: I think he's gonna take some swings off off a

582
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Speaker 4: tea and I'm like.

583
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Speaker 3: This guy is not close to returning. What are we

584
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:52,120
Speaker 3: doing here?

585
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,159
Speaker 4: And of course by the time you hear this, he's

586
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,199
Speaker 4: probably gonna be like in the lineup. But I mean,

587
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 4: we're ten days in here. He already they could have

588
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 4: eyelled him and he would be eligible to return now,

589
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,880
Speaker 4: but they're just continuing to play down a man and

590
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:09,640
Speaker 4: doesn't seem like he's that close to returning. I would

591
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,679
Speaker 4: be surprised if he's in the lineup this weekend, but

592
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,639
Speaker 4: I also don't know like how far away he is

593
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 4: from returning at this point. If it's I mean, you

594
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 4: can't like backdate the il like a full ten days.

595
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,480
Speaker 4: I think you're limited to like three three days, So

596
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:27,160
Speaker 4: they can't backdate it that far. And so if they,

597
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 4: if they I l him now, the farthest thing go

598
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 4: back is is I think it's three days. I have

599
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 4: to look up the role, but I think it's three days,

600
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Speaker 4: And so like, you're still gonna be out without a.

601
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Speaker 3: Week for him.

602
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Speaker 4: And more importantly, I'm down to roster spot in my

603
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,919
Speaker 4: leagues where I can't I l him and it's driving

604
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Speaker 4: me nuts.

605
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Speaker 2: That is brutal, That is really I mean, it's similar

606
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 2: to like when teams don't put guys on IL until

607
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 2: like the day before spring training. It's like the same

608
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 2: thing where it's like this guy's not playing, but you

609
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 2: can't like drop a guy like.

610
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Speaker 1: Him, so it's just like what do you do? You

611
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: just stuck with it?

612
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Speaker 4: Or when a team does it weekly lineups, a team

613
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 4: doesn't like play on Monday and they're like, We're gonna

614
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 4: see how he feels on Tuesday, and I'm like that

615
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 4: doesn't help me.

616
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: I have games on Monday the absolute worst. I hate it.

617
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 2: I've been burned by that multiple times. Are you like

618
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 2: whether this is because of this injury question mark or

619
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 2: because he has had a bad start to the season.

620
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 2: I mean he only had three home runs, you know

621
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 2: before going on IL, just batting two forty five. That's

622
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 2: you know, the lowest it's been since twenty twenty. Obp's

623
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 2: lowest has been since twenty twenty. Are you like moving

624
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 2: him down at all? Like what's your concern level even

625
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 2: for wenty returns? Or let me just say, like because

626
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 2: we talked about like he's would kind of maybe be

627
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 2: like the fifth third basement in rankings, similar to that

628
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 2: Dever's question, where does that mean you'd be drafting a

629
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 2: guy like him?

630
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 3: So that's a good question.

631
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 4: So probably, I mean, like we already said, in terms

632
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 4: of like third base, I think there's not a whole

633
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 4: lot behind him that I would be willing to move up.

634
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 4: So I think he's pretty firmly entrenched in the fifth spot.

635
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be comfortable moving him down anymore. So from

636
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 4: third base perspective, I think he's there in redraft, like,

637
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 4: knowing what we know now with the slow start and

638
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,159
Speaker 4: the injury, I think maybe like I think he was

639
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 4: probably going in the second round, maybe like early third

640
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,199
Speaker 4: round preseason. I haven't looked at that number, but I

641
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 4: think probably third round, late second if depending on how

642
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,200
Speaker 4: the draft is going. But also, like we talked about,

643
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,640
Speaker 4: whatever's a lot of that is because of how then

644
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 4: third base is and there's just nothing out there in

645
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 4: third base, and so you have to bank on he's

646
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 4: going to bounce back and we're going to get that

647
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 4: power from him. And when he first got hurt, my

648
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 4: immediate thought was like, oh, this is a bummer, Like

649
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 4: that's not a great injury for like a power hitter

650
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 4: to have. But like my second thought was like maybe

651
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 4: this isn't the worst thing, Like maybe he just sits

652
00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 4: down for two weeks, gets right and comes back and

653
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 4: just you know, sometimes you just need a reset like that.

654
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 3: And so that was, you know, especially once.

655
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 4: He missed a couple of days, I was like, just

656
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 4: put him on the il, like give this guy a break,

657
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 4: let him come back and you know, reset and everything.

658
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 3: And so it's driving me nuts that he's out right now.

659
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 3: But yeah, but I think probably third round.

660
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 4: You know, you can't obviously put him ahead of Devers

661
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 4: right now because of what Dever's doing. But I also

662
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 4: like we've seen him do what he's done for years now,

663
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 4: and it's I have to imagine he's going to get back,

664
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 4: and like we've also seen him like go cold before

665
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 4: and so I'm confident he's just going to you know,

666
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 4: be able to reset.

667
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 2: And I'm sure there will be a week or two

668
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 2: later in the season where he single handedly wins you

669
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 2: a weekly matchup like he's I don't think that is

670
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 2: gone from him obviously. I just I do like the

671
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 2: other four guys better, like even this injury aside, Like

672
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 2: I just think the other four are like, particularly with

673
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 2: the steps that Gunner and Ellie have taken. Like I'm

674
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 2: just I'm very confident in those two being more valuable

675
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 2: the rest of the season than over Riley. And you

676
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 2: know I always like Devers and obviously Ramirez, but yeah,

677
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's not like you can really move

678
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 2: him too much further down.

679
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: Would you be trying to trade for him, like it's

680
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: like a by Loo.

681
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would, depending on the offer. I was just looking.

682
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 4: There's an interesting number just looking at him right now.

683
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 4: Last year against off speed pitches which he didn't see

684
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 4: a ton of only ten percent. He batted three forty

685
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 4: three this year against off speed pitches zero six.

686
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 3: Seven, So.

687
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: Chances.

688
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's that's a that's an interesting interesting point there.

689
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the last topic here for

690
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 2: riding the bases. I want to talk about Kyle Tucker,

691
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 2: another guy who's uh, you know, been absolutely on fire.

692
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 2: And this is also harkening back to our you know,

693
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 2: recent redraft that we did, and when we when we

694
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 2: did that redraft, we were you know, kind of open

695
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 2: to the order of how those top guys would go.

696
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: But it was.

697
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 2: Really it was Otani, it was Mookie, it was Bobby Witt,

698
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 2: and it was who was the other guy we had?

699
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: Why am I planking?

700
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 3: I wasn't listening.

701
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 2: Muki oh and Akunya obviously the one who's who was

702
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 2: number one?

703
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 1: Yeah? Sorry, I was That was bad brain fart. Anyways,

704
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: I was actually listening.

705
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 3: I just didn't know the other name.

706
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 2: Muki Otani, Akunya and Bobby we're kind of the clear

707
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 2: top four. We talked about it in that episode, and

708
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 2: I'm posing the question Shakyle Tucker had been a in

709
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 2: that kind of tier one and b maybe even in

710
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 2: the number one overall pick conversation, because since then he

711
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 2: has not just been good, but stepped up to another

712
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 2: level and has been like you know, in depending on

713
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 2: your scoring formats, maybe even outscoring like Muki and Shoh

714
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 2: so far this year based on this recent hot streak.

715
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 2: Already was an elite player, of course, but it seemingly

716
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 2: elevated his game to another level. I think it's is

717
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 2: yes to this question. By the way, I think I

718
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 2: don't know that I would have taken in one. I

719
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 2: think he's in that tier and I think he we

720
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 2: should have considered him, maybe not like what he had

721
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 2: done at that time, but like if we were doing

722
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 2: one again, today, like I would very strongly consider him

723
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 2: at number one overall.

724
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wouldn't. I still wouldn't take him off for

725
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 4: over show. Hey, And you know that's kind of where

726
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 4: the conversation ends for me. But then you start talking about,

727
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 4: you know, would you take him over MOOKI, would you

728
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,479
Speaker 4: take him over? Would you take him over Acunya? And like,

729
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 4: the longer he looks like this, and the longer Acunya

730
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 4: looks like he looks, it's kind of like maybe he

731
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 4: starts moving up that you know, rest of the season

732
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 4: rankings a little bit more. But like in terms of production,

733
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 4: he's just been like quietly really consistent for any Like

734
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 4: like you said, he's like he's like a first round talent,

735
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 4: but he's kind of like almost like an overlooked first

736
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 4: round talent.

737
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: I think we talked about it on that episode.

738
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 2: How like when I first was building up my big board,

739
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 2: I forgot to even write his name down. And I mean,

740
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 2: once I remember it, I had in like fifth or

741
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 2: sixth or whatever. It wasn't like I left him off

742
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 2: the first round the whole time. But I was like,

743
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 2: he just doesn't like pop to your mind as like

744
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 2: at least prior to this recent hostory.

745
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: For me, it was like kind of the forgot in

746
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: Superstar for me.

747
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 4: In that that league we talk about all the time,

748
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 4: where it's like a keeper league with like contracts and stuff.

749
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 4: The manager who's had him drafted him like years ago

750
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 4: for like a dollar and then wrote it out for

751
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 4: two years and then was able to extend him for

752
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 4: three years at like fifteen dollars. And so he's gotten

753
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 4: like five years of just incredible value out of Kyle Tucker.

754
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 4: And next year, Kyle Tucker is finally going to re

755
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 4: enter the free agent pool for the draft, and he's

756
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 4: probably going to go for like fifty bucks like he's

757
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 4: he's you know, and Akunya in that league set the

758
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 4: record this year, which is, you know, unfortunate timing for them.

759
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 3: I think he went for high sixties, mid to high sixties.

760
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 4: I don't think a player in that draft had ever

761
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 4: gone for over sixty and he went for like sixty eight.

762
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 3: But I think Tucker is going to be like fifty five.

763
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, that's probably right. There's actually a really

764
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 2: good article this morning on MLB dot com about kind

765
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 2: of The article is titled was from David Adler. The

766
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 2: disciplined approach behind Tucker's MVP push talks a lot about

767
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 2: how a he's walking a lot more, which you can

768
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 2: see even just in like the stack cast data, like

769
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 2: his walk rate. His previous career high was last year

770
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 2: was eleven point nine percent. It was the first year

771
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 2: he'd ever been in double digits. This year it's eighteen

772
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 2: point seven percent, So he's being really selective. He's also

773
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 2: swinging at better pitches within the zone. So he's just

774
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 2: become a very much smarter hitter about what pitches he's

775
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 2: trying to attack.

776
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: And I mean, and it's reflected and all.

777
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't need to tell you based on

778
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 2: how good the raw numbers are, how good his bat

779
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 2: at ball data is, but they're all extremely red on

780
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 2: the stat cast page. They're almost all career highs. Not

781
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 2: literally all, but almost all career highs. He's just been

782
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 2: really good. And oh, by the way, like not only

783
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 2: is he on pace for over fifty home runs, he's

784
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 2: leading baseball and home runs, he's also got nine stolen

785
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 2: bases and you know he's batting to eighty eight. His

786
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 2: ops plus is actually higher than Otani. He's like he's

787
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 2: just been unbelievably good. His spray chart is just a

788
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,760
Speaker 2: perfect like it's almost symmetrical on both sides.

789
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: There's maybe more home runs to the right side, but

790
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: it's it's just.

791
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 2: Really wildly impressive with what he's been doing in in

792
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 2: my league, where I know you hate, uh, you know,

793
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 2: using the scoring settings of my league because you never

794
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,760
Speaker 2: know what to do with the with the two start pitchers.

795
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:19,839
Speaker 1: I believe he is.

796
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 3: I don't hate the scoring. You just refuse what they are.

797
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: You hate it?

798
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 2: You said that before the Secret then pull it up

799
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 2: here because I think, yeah, he's uh, he's more points

800
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 2: per game than Show Hey. They're the only two that

801
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 2: are over five points per game. And yeah, he's just

802
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 2: absolutely crushing it. So, uh, I actually think I would

803
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 2: consider him over show Hey. And I know you said

804
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 2: you wouldn't you're just taking Show Hey. I think that's

805
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 2: like fair, Like I might. I might sit down and

806
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,240
Speaker 2: consider it and say, you know what, what am I thinking?

807
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna take show Hey rest of season? But

808
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,359
Speaker 2: I think it's it's a conversation worth having, and I

809
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 2: think this is good enough and I think it's legitimate

810
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 2: enough that like I would take him over a Kunya.

811
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 2: I'll just say that like kind of without hesitation, and

812
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 2: I would take him over with sho Hey would be

813
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 2: tricky and Mooky, I know he's come back to earth

814
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 2: a little. He's still so good and consistent that I

815
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 2: am just in the better lineup that like I might

816
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 2: still take Mookie over him too, But like the conversation

817
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 2: starts right at the top with number one for me

818
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:25,760
Speaker 2: with Kyle Tucker.

819
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 4: So you mentioned in passing the potential to win MVP

820
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:35,839
Speaker 4: when when mentioning that article, So I pulled up betting

821
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 4: pros to see what his consensus odds are to be

822
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 4: the MVP, or at least americanly MVP. So it looks

823
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 4: like he is currently fifth in the voting, not voting,

824
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 4: but in terms of odds at plus seven fifty, can

825
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,359
Speaker 4: you name the four ahead of him?

826
00:36:54,000 --> 00:37:00,080
Speaker 2: Uh? I doubt it, but I'm happy to try.

827
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: Juan Soto.

828
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's number one at plus three hundred. Pan Soto's

829
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 4: number one.

830
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 2: I knew he was one because it's been a conversation

831
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 2: on Orioles Twitter about Gunner's odds not being.

832
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: Because I'm not gonna throw him under the bus.

833
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,319
Speaker 2: But there's a guy who's a part of Orioles Twitter,

834
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 2: who I really don't respect to. I don't think he's

835
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,720
Speaker 2: actually knows anything about what they're talking about, and my goodness.

836
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: Not good at this.

837
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not gonna, like I said, give their name,

838
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 2: but I really don't like this person. And they were

839
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 2: talking about Gunner as like the you know, the the

840
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 2: favorite to win al MVP, and everybody's like, he's definitely not, like, like,

841
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 2: Gunner's really good. And I would personally, of course make

842
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 2: the case for him for MVP because I'm biased, but

843
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 2: I'm like, he's definitely not the favorite. I believe his

844
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 2: odds are better than seven fifty though, so I believe

845
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 2: he's one of them.

846
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:49,720
Speaker 3: He's number four at plus five fifty.

847
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 4: So you go, you have Juan Soto at one at

848
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,240
Speaker 4: plus three hundred, and Gunner Henderson at four at plus

849
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 4: five fifty.

850
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,879
Speaker 1: I feel like, oh, Bobby Witt.

851
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:01,399
Speaker 4: Bobby Waite is number three at four, and there's you're

852
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 4: missing number two.

853
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 2: Okay, So I was. I was pretty confident with Soto one.

854
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 2: I thought Wit was gonna be two, and Gunner I

855
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 2: would have guessed as four even if I was trying

856
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,839
Speaker 2: to place them in where they were whom I knew

857
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 2: I was gonna just forget somebody obvious at two. Don't

858
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 2: don't tell me yet. I'm like kind of quickly running

859
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 2: through all the team. I mean, like just because it's

860
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 2: betting odds and not actually is it Aaron Judge?

861
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,399
Speaker 1: Yep, Okay, okay, It's just.

862
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 2: Like I know Judge has been fine, but like just Yankees,

863
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 2: like of course they're going to give him one, two.

864
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,320
Speaker 3: That was nicely done, zero wrong guesses.

865
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:34,799
Speaker 1: Thank you.

866
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 2: It helps that the Orioles have an MVP candidate, so

867
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 2: I've a least been kind of thinking about it, even

868
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 2: if I haven't been following the consensus odds. But to

869
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 2: be perfectly honest, like outside of Judge, who again, I'm

870
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 2: not like knocking Judge, but like I don't think he's

871
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 2: been as good as the other four guys in that

872
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 2: top five outside of Judge, Like those four are all

873
00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 2: having incredible seasons, and like any of those.

874
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: Four would be very deserving MVPs.

875
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 2: I think, like assuming they none of them like kind

876
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 2: of fall off a cliff, Like I think that's going

877
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 2: to be a really exciting race.

878
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: Honestly, It's like I don't think I think Tucker should

879
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: be fifth.

880
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 2: But like outside of like in that top four, like,

881
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 2: I don't think any of them should be fourth.

882
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: I think they're all really good.

883
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 4: Well, speaking of cliff, there's a cliff right after Kyle

884
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 4: Tucker in terms of.

885
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, I would not be able to

886
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: guess who's sixth is.

887
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have guessed this one either. You probably could

888
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 3: have guessed seven.

889
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 1: I know. I think at one point Adley was kind

890
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: of out there he's seven.

891
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 3: But that's that's the thing.

892
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:38,280
Speaker 4: So Sodo is plus three hundred, and then at fifth overall,

893
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 4: Kyle Tucker is plus seven fifty and then the next

894
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:42,880
Speaker 4: player is plus five thousand.

895
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I thought you were gonna say, like

896
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 2: plus two thousand two A.

897
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 4: And then Adley is plus fifty five hundred. Wow, just

898
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 4: a cliff after that top five. Wow, that's wild.

899
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 2: I almost want to just bet, like, like, I know,

900
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 2: were more of a fantasy show than a betting show.

901
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 2: If it were me, I might just go, what did

902
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 2: you say Witt was at?

903
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: What were his odds?

904
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,720
Speaker 3: Wit is four to twenty of third overall.

905
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 2: I might just go put like a couple units each

906
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 2: on Tucker, Gunner and Wit and just say, as long

907
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 2: as it's not one of the Yankees, Like, I'm gonna

908
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 2: win this and I'm gonna make money because I just

909
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,879
Speaker 2: don't see any world where it's not one of those

910
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 2: top five. And again, I really don't think it'll be Judge.

911
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be one of those four. Now,

912
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,800
Speaker 2: maybe Soto gets it because people like the Yankees, and

913
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 2: they might, you know, have the best record in the

914
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 2: American League at the end of the year, and maybe

915
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 2: that burns you. But I think Tucker and Gunner and

916
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 2: Witt have actually been better players than Soda this year.

917
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 2: And that's not a knock on Soda. SODA's unreal. I

918
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 2: think Soda might be the best peer hitter in baseball.

919
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 4: There's also that that theory that two top players like

920
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 4: Sodo and Judge on the same team can kind of

921
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 4: split voters potentially.

922
00:40:58,440 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: Gunner and Adley.

923
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 2: Took her and Tucker and al tub Yeah, that's really interesting.

924
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 2: All right, let's move on. Let's go to our Bilo

925
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 2: cell High here. No guest this week, obviously, just the

926
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 2: two of us, so we'll just run through our typical

927
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,399
Speaker 2: categories then get out of here. Bilo sell High, who

928
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 2: is your favorite Actually, I know I'm going to go

929
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 2: first because I took the name that you put into

930
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 2: our collaborative article on the site, which is Francisco Lindoor,

931
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 2: because it I wasn't trying to, like, you know, just

932
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 2: steal from you. It genuinely was my favorite selection that

933
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 2: anybody picked outside of Matt Olsen, who we already talked

934
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 2: about in the section on a previous week, So I

935
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 2: didn't want to repeat that you had a good, good

936
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 2: line here in the article. Francisco Lindoor is going to

937
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 2: have to start paying rent if he hangs around in

938
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 2: the Bilo section much longer. He's just somebody like the

939
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 2: track record is too strong. They expected data is encouraging

940
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 2: that better days are ahead, but I think the counting

941
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 2: data is low and that you might be able to

942
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 2: actually buy low on him, and somebody might be just

943
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 2: kind of done waiting on the turnaround. The track records

944
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 2: super strong. Just I think it's a great pick. I

945
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 2: like lindoras a Bylow a lot.

946
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I picked it because obviously I believe in it,

947
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 4: but also I've been seeing more chatter like online and

948
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 4: also you know, I watch Leading Off most days. Twelve

949
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 4: thirty pm Eastern Or live on YouTube, and you know,

950
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 4: there's a very live, active chat for that show, and

951
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:32,320
Speaker 4: I've seen multiple people and they're saying like, you know,

952
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,359
Speaker 4: I'm tired of waiting for Lindor. I'm done, and there

953
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 4: they're you know, some people were talking about like trading them.

954
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 4: One guy was talking about dropping him, and they were like,

955
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 4: is it time to drop Lindor. I was like, absolutely not,

956
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 4: It is not time to drop Fancisco Indor because and

957
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 4: he will be scooped up immediately in your league if

958
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 4: you do, because the counting stats are still there, the

959
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 4: underlying number, you know, it's all in the article and

960
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 4: it's all you know, you're you're already just kind of

961
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 4: talked about it. But it's just like, I'm extremely confident

962
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 4: that you're just gonna get what we always get from

963
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 4: Cisco Lindor when when the dust settles. And that's the

964
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 4: perfect example of someone you should be buying on right now.

965
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: Who's your pick?

966
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 3: So my pick is it kind of goes back.

967
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 4: To what we were talking about earlier with losing Xander Bogarts,

968
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 4: and it's a has young Kim and he's someone who

969
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 4: got off to a slow start, kind of got buried

970
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 4: in that lineup. But he's like, he's heating back up,

971
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 4: and he had been batting that's kind of like earlier

972
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 4: in the year, he was batting fifth and as someone

973
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 4: who you know, drafted him a few places to trying

974
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:31,760
Speaker 4: to catch it on that power speed combo.

975
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 3: That was perfect for me.

976
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 4: But as he kind of went into a slump, they

977
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 4: started to bury him in that lineup, and you know,

978
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 4: they added Louis a Rias and that was even more

979
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 4: reason to drop him further in the lineup. And now

980
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 4: he's been batting like seventh, eighth, ninth for the last

981
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 4: couple of weeks, and but he's heating back up, and

982
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 4: with the Billgart's injury, he's going to have an opportunity

983
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 4: to earn his way back up the lineup. And he

984
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 4: you know, despite only batting two sixteen, he has an

985
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:58,959
Speaker 4: expected batting average of about two fifty.

986
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 3: He got six home runs.

987
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 4: He's already stolen thirteen bases, And that's kind of what

988
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 4: I wanted when I drafted him, is he stole thirty

989
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:08,800
Speaker 4: eight bases last year. In this new stolen base heavy environment,

990
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 4: I wanted a guy like him who could steal thirty

991
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 4: plus bases while still chip in power in the teens.

992
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 4: And he's on pace to do both of those things.

993
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,919
Speaker 4: And so that's exactly what I wanted. His roster ship

994
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 4: has fallen to the point where we actually hasn't fallen.

995
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:29,919
Speaker 4: It's still just south of ninety percent. But he's someone

996
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 4: you can acquire right now at an affordable price. Because

997
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 4: he struggled. I had him in a couple leads. I've

998
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 4: had him on my bench just because he was killing

999
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 4: my batting average. I have him and Bogart's on the

1000
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 4: same team in one league, so I'm going to have

1001
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 4: to put one on the il and put him back

1002
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 4: in the.

1003
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 3: Lineup and hope that he gets hot.

1004
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 4: But he's definitely someone especially as losing, you know, someone

1005
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 4: like Bogart's.

1006
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 3: He's someone I'm looking to acquire for those reasons.

1007
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 2: You and I both went with hitters for our by Low,

1008
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 2: and we both went with pitch for our cell.

1009
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 1: Hi that what I went with.

1010
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 2: And again this is drawing from our Bilo sell High

1011
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 2: article on the site. That's collaborative everybody, you know, we

1012
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 2: get a bunch of different writers to kind of make

1013
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 2: picks there. And in this segment on the show, I

1014
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 2: like to go through and just kind of pick my

1015
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 2: favorite one and highlight the one that I agree with

1016
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 2: the most, and this week that was Andrew Abbott. It's

1017
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 2: a compelling case made by Adam ronas a fantasy alarm.

1018
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 2: It's also kind of a short case because it's fairly

1019
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,359
Speaker 2: obvious his era does not match up with his FIP

1020
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 2: and his expected FIP. His strike cut rate is really low,

1021
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 2: you know, six point seventy nine k per nine well

1022
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 2: under a strike out brainning eight point three swings strike rate.

1023
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 2: He's also not giving up a lot of home runs

1024
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 2: by giving up a lot of fly balls, whether it's

1025
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 2: heating up in Cincinnati, as Adam mentions, So that's not

1026
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 2: likely to kind of stay stay in a good spot

1027
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 2: for him. So he suggests, you know, trading him for

1028
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 2: Brandon Fott. I'm not going to throw out a name

1029
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 2: out there, but I'd be very happy to sell Abbot

1030
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 2: and his sub three e ra.

1031
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:54,839
Speaker 1: Who's your guy here?

1032
00:45:55,840 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm fine with with selling Abbot. This name is

1033
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 4: the name I wanted to bring up earlier in the show,

1034
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 4: but I wanted to say it when we were talking

1035
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 4: about Paul Skeens because the same person who wrote in

1036
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 4: that we were too low on Paul Skian said we

1037
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 4: were too low on Louise Heel and I said, Sir,

1038
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 4: I disagree. I think we're just at the right spot

1039
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 4: on Louise Heill and I actually have him as a

1040
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 4: cell high. And I actually joked with our customer support

1041
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 4: agent that, you know, I was like, I actually just

1042
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 4: wrote up Louise Heill and our bilow Sell High. You

1043
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 4: should just send him the article and say this is

1044
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 4: why he's ranked where he is. But the reason and

1045
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 4: I go to this in the article and as you

1046
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 4: mentioned where you can see this on the site right

1047
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 4: it's it's a by low Sell High Featured Pros where

1048
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,720
Speaker 4: we have you know, multiple experts from around the industry

1049
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 4: kind of contribute with a few of us internally. The

1050
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 4: title of the article is nine players to Trade Now,

1051
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 4: and it's you know, it's on the MLB page on

1052
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,360
Speaker 4: the site right now. But what I wrote, I'm not

1053
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 4: going to read it because I wrote a lot was

1054
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 4: but I basically wrote that he's pitching like an ace

1055
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 4: right now, Louis Heal. The problem is that and you

1056
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 4: know how I like to go back to the innings

1057
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:03,320
Speaker 4: argument is is twofold one. I think he's pitching like

1058
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 4: an ace, but I don't think he's this good. I

1059
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 4: think he's good. I think he's fine. But he's pitching

1060
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,439
Speaker 4: above his talent level right now, and he's also leaning

1061
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 4: on his fastball too much. The other thing is that

1062
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 4: he's already thrown more innings in twenty twenty four than

1063
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 4: he did in twenty twenty three and twenty twenty two combined.

1064
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 4: And you can even or no, no, you can actually

1065
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 4: include twenty twenty one in there, because twenty or no

1066
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:27,320
Speaker 4: twenty twenty one, he threw more innings in the minors,

1067
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 4: so it's just twenty twenty two and twenty three combined.

1068
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 4: But last year he threw four innings, and twenty twenty two.

1069
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 4: Through twenty five innings, he's already at fifty five innings.

1070
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 4: He's already twice has twice as many innings this year

1071
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 4: as he did the last two years combined. And there's

1072
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 4: just no way he throws an one hundred more innings.

1073
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 4: Like he's destined to the bullpen at some point, you know,

1074
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 4: even if they want to, like, you know, go to

1075
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,320
Speaker 4: a six man rotation when Cole comes back or something like,

1076
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 4: he just doesn't have many more innings left in him.

1077
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:55,959
Speaker 3: You're not going to get a hundred more innings out.

1078
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:58,400
Speaker 4: Of him if even if you look at fangrafs or

1079
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 4: our consensus projections on on our site, they're projecting him

1080
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 4: for between sixty to seventy three more innings, and there's

1081
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 4: just limited value at that point, and so this is

1082
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 4: the perfect time to sell. I know he's pitching out

1083
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 4: of his mind right now. He's got seventy strikeouts and

1084
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 4: fifty five and third innings. He just came off that

1085
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 4: incredible performance where he struck out fourteen matters and just

1086
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:24,320
Speaker 4: yesterday he struck out eight more. So he's, you know,

1087
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 4: on a Raphael Devers esque heater right now. But also

1088
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 4: I just think this is like his peak value, and

1089
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 4: this is the perfect time to sell high because there's

1090
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 4: a possibility he's not in the starting rotation for much longer.

1091
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 2: I appreciate that you're working through my dog barking in

1092
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 2: that one, but between my internet connection and the dog barking,

1093
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 2: we are.

1094
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: Really up against it here.

1095
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 3: I thought it was my stomach for a second.

1096
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 1: Ye let's quickly give our waivers picks here. I'll go first.

1097
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 1: Luis Matos obviously he's got.

1098
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 2: Some prospect pedigree. Only twenty two years old. Was quite

1099
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 2: bad in sort of his first in majors. He had

1100
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 2: a nice weekend and was hitting well, and he's the

1101
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 2: type of talent where, you know, second year in the

1102
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 2: big leagues he got the call up. I don't think

1103
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 2: he's going to be a mega superstar. He's batting three eleven.

1104
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:21,879
Speaker 2: I don't know that that will last. But I think

1105
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,399
Speaker 2: he's a talented player and he's only twenty two years old,

1106
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 2: and if you're in a five outfielder league, I think

1107
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 2: this guy should be rostered and just see like maybe

1108
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 2: he is putting it together and sort of taking the

1109
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 2: leap that we knew it was possible, and it becomes

1110
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 2: kind of a something closer to a must dark guy.

1111
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, so my.

1112
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 4: Favorite hitter for this week is David Schneider and kind

1113
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 4: of similar to Luis Mantas. I'm not saying he's a

1114
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 4: mustad everywhere, but again going back to you know, we

1115
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:53,800
Speaker 4: lost our beloved Xander Bogarts. You know, we love to

1116
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:57,279
Speaker 4: talk about him on the show, but just someone I

1117
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 4: find myself in a bunch of leagues needing more middling

1118
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 4: field help. Just because of some recent injuries or lack

1119
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 4: of performance, and he's not like the most exciting name.

1120
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 4: Although you gave me, you gave me some gruff a

1121
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 4: couple weeks ago for my win seal pick. But he's

1122
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 4: the most added guy over the last two weeks on fangrafts.

1123
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 4: I didn't give you that much ruff on wed seal.

1124
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1125
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 4: But the thing for Schnyder is he's been playing well,

1126
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:25,400
Speaker 4: playing better lately. He's got a high walk rate, so

1127
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:27,879
Speaker 4: if he's someone you can probably target in points leagues.

1128
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 3: He's cut down on his strikeout rate a little bit.

1129
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 4: It's still high' still twenty seven percent, but his walk

1130
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 4: rates eleven point six percent. He gets on base, he's

1131
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 4: set a little bit of power, a little bit speed,

1132
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 4: not a ton of both, but projected to hit about

1133
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 4: fifteen more and maybe steal a handful of more bases.

1134
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 3: Maybe a little bit more.

1135
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:45,240
Speaker 4: But I think those projections could be even higher because

1136
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 4: the thing that's been happening for him the last week

1137
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:49,120
Speaker 4: is he's been leading off for the blue Jays, and

1138
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 4: depending on what happens with the blue Jays the rest

1139
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 4: of the way, he could be kind of locked in

1140
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,439
Speaker 4: near the top of that order, especially if they start

1141
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 4: trading away players, and so obviously that would hurt the

1142
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 4: overall value with the lineup. But regardless of lineup, if

1143
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 4: you're batting to the top of a lineup, there's going

1144
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 4: to be value there. And so he's someone who's only

1145
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 4: rostered in twenty three percent of leagues, and maybe he's

1146
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 4: not for you know, your your ten team leagues or

1147
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 4: your twelve team leagues with small rosters, but like a

1148
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 4: Rodo size twelve team roster, or even anything bigger than that,

1149
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 4: I think he's definitely worth worth picking up, especially in

1150
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:23,399
Speaker 4: like I said, points leagues and OVP leagues where because

1151
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:24,959
Speaker 4: he gets on face all.

1152
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 2: Right, we're going to speed through the end of this

1153
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:30,399
Speaker 2: show as best we can to try and avoid as

1154
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 2: many connection issues as possible.

1155
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 1: My pitcher to pick up is Cole Irvin.

1156
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 2: I alluded to him when talking about John means this

1157
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:39,840
Speaker 2: now opens up the spot in the rotation. They're not

1158
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 2: going to go with the six man rotation anymore. They're

1159
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:43,879
Speaker 2: just going to do standard five. Cole everyn was really

1160
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 2: good in his last four starts before kind of transitioning

1161
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 2: to the bullpen for a couple of appearances. He only

1162
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 2: gave up two earned runs across four starts. And then

1163
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 2: they'll start two and six and two thirds seven innings,

1164
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 2: six and one third, five and two thirds, three of

1165
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 2: them start to give up no runs. One of them

1166
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 2: he just gave up two. Only seen total strikeouts in

1167
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 2: the start. So you don't he's not gonna give you kays.

1168
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 2: But he's been good and he got to win in

1169
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 2: every one of those games. The Oils are really good

1170
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 2: and you're gonna get a lot of wins if you're

1171
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 2: pitching deep into games for them. So if you need

1172
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 2: the replacement for Means or just for anybody, I like

1173
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 2: Cole Irvin as a guy who should be really available.

1174
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:18,320
Speaker 2: Who's your pitcher?

1175
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 4: Well, real quick, if we're gonna talk about content on

1176
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 4: the site, so I you know, I had the privilege

1177
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:30,439
Speaker 4: of editing Welsh's this his prospects the Stashed article this week,

1178
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,439
Speaker 4: and he actually thinks there's an Oril's prospect who could

1179
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 4: be called up to replace John Means.

1180
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's thinking of Kaid Povich, that's correct. I

1181
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:39,280
Speaker 1: love Povich.

1182
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 2: I don't know that they're gonna promote him since they

1183
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 2: already have five starters up there, like they were going

1184
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:48,799
Speaker 2: to a six man rotation because they had too many

1185
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 2: good pictures.

1186
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 1: So I don't know if there's room for him yet.

1187
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 2: I don't think they like Irvin enough in the bullpen

1188
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 2: to like necessarily want to keep him there.

1189
00:52:57,800 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 1: Not that he was in the bullpen, but he just

1190
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 1: did make a couple of peers is out of there.

1191
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,280
Speaker 1: I would love it. I would be all over Povich

1192
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 1: if he gets called up. I think Povitch is really good.

1193
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:07,760
Speaker 2: I think he's developed really nicely in the farm system,

1194
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 2: and I am stashing him. So I'm in on Povich,

1195
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 2: but I don't currently expect the Oils to do that,

1196
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:14,839
Speaker 2: but would be really exciting if I'm wrong.

1197
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if it's going to happen in

1198
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 4: the near term, but I also don't know that if

1199
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 4: he keeps pitching well in the minors, I don't know

1200
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:23,399
Speaker 4: that cole Urban is going to prevent him from from

1201
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:26,879
Speaker 4: coming up, especially because cole Eban's era is three point

1202
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 4: one five, is Cerra's four point one seven.

1203
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 3: The other better numbers are fine.

1204
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:32,840
Speaker 4: But also, like you said, he's not stroaking out a

1205
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 4: ton of batters, and he's historically been like a cromulent picture,

1206
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:39,719
Speaker 4: you know, not someone near yourmulars.

1207
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: Wow, that your word of the day on your calendar.

1208
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 3: No, that's a Simpsons reference.

1209
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: Oh I don't. I've never seen the Simpsons.

1210
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:50,880
Speaker 3: Hold on, we can't. We can no longer speed through

1211
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:52,359
Speaker 3: the show if you have never seen the since.

1212
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 1: I have watched one episode.

1213
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 2: It was like two years ago because a friend found

1214
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 2: out I had never watched it, and so late night

1215
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 2: we were all kind of hanging out out and drink in.

1216
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: He was like, oh, we got to put one on.

1217
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 2: And it was an episode where Homer was eating a

1218
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 2: lot of donuts, which I realized maybe isn't the most

1219
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 2: specific description, but it was like Homer like just kept

1220
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 2: eating donuts and wouldn't stop.

1221
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: And the only episode I've ever seen.

1222
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 4: Oh, well, you're missing out. It's an incredible show. The

1223
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 4: Uh real quick the reference. First off, cromulent is a

1224
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:24,320
Speaker 4: made up word by the Simpsons.

1225
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 1: Oh great, I didn't know. I assumed I was, go,

1226
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 1: that's just a fancy word.

1227
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:29,480
Speaker 2: That I know.

1228
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 3: It's a made up word.

1229
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,800
Speaker 4: But like there's like this whole legend of like Jepedi Springfield,

1230
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 4: like the founder of Springfield or whatever, and like the

1231
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 4: phrase is like a noble Spirit and begins the Smallest Man,

1232
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 4: And there's two teachers standing to the side like watching this,

1233
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:44,360
Speaker 4: and the one teacher goes, I don't know that, and

1234
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 4: bigan is a word, and the other teacher goes, oh,

1235
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 4: come on, and Bigin's a perfectly cromelent word, like crimelent

1236
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 4: is also made up word?

1237
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 1: That is it? Is it bigan not a word?

1238
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 2: Don't they use that in Miss Marvel where she's like

1239
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 2: in bigan and it makes her big, that's her whole superpower.

1240
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 1: It may have been invented.

1241
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:04,359
Speaker 3: I think that the Simpsons have coined a bunch of words,

1242
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 3: and that might be another one that they coined.

1243
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:09,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I feel like I've heard Ben Solak of yeah.

1244
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 1: I just never.

1245
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 2: I mean, I wasn't allowed to watch Simpsons as a kid,

1246
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 2: Like my parents are pretty strict what I was allowed

1247
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 2: to watch. And I remember at one point they were like,

1248
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:18,800
Speaker 2: all right, we're gonna try watching an episode of the

1249
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 2: Simpsons for the first time. And then it was like

1250
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 2: a Valentine's Day episode and like the first scene is

1251
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 2: like margin Homer like going to have sex in the

1252
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 2: bed or whatever for Valentine's Day, and my parents are

1253
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 2: like Nope, turning it off like and that was it.

1254
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:32,640
Speaker 2: We never went back to it, so I just didn't

1255
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 2: grow watching it, and it was never I mean, I'm

1256
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 2: aware of the characters, right obviously, it's it's impossible for

1257
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:39,320
Speaker 2: them not to be someone in your lexicon.

1258
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 1: But I will never get like a reference to it.

1259
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 3: Oh well, you're in for a real treat, because I

1260
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 3: do it a lot, all right. So by now that

1261
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:49,320
Speaker 3: we got that out of the way, I get speed

1262
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:49,759
Speaker 3: through here.

1263
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:54,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll continue to reference the Simpsons throughout. So Jeffrey Springfield,

1264
00:55:55,920 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 4: just kidding, Jeffrey Springs, Jeffrey Springs is my favorite Waiver

1265
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:03,879
Speaker 4: pitcher and it's because he's coming back soon. He's theing,

1266
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 4: he's on a rehab assignment. Now he's not rostered, and

1267
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 4: more yet, he will be rostered soon. It's gonna be

1268
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:11,839
Speaker 4: interesting because the Rays are starting to get some arms

1269
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 4: back in that rotation and they're going to have something

1270
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 4: to figure out, whether they go to six man rotation

1271
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 4: or promps some people to a bullpen. I'll talk about

1272
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:20,400
Speaker 4: that more in a second, but I mean, this is

1273
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:22,800
Speaker 4: a cy young candidate. This is you know, he's that

1274
00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 4: good very small samphasized last year, but he was off

1275
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:28,799
Speaker 4: the a terrific start last year, had to get shut down,

1276
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 4: but even the year before that two point four sixt year,

1277
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:32,239
Speaker 4: one hundred and forty four strikeouts, one hundred thirty five

1278
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:35,120
Speaker 4: and third innings on a good team. I'm a big

1279
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 4: fan of Jefford Springs. It's kind of wild to me

1280
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:38,839
Speaker 4: that he's thirty one.

1281
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 3: Did not know that.

1282
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 4: I would have guessed he was like twenty seven, But

1283
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 4: I guess he was just kind of like a late bloomer.

1284
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:48,080
Speaker 4: Another picture of the Rays kind of figured out. But

1285
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 4: it'll be interesting to see what things look like when

1286
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 4: he comes back. But if you need pitching, perfect time

1287
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:56,240
Speaker 4: to stash him. He's only fifteen percent rostered.

1288
00:56:57,560 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 1: Great call.

1289
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:01,160
Speaker 2: I had not really been following his rehab closely, so

1290
00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 2: that's a good one to bring up. Let's get to

1291
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:07,560
Speaker 2: the weekend excitement. I'll go first, Kyle Harrison versus Christian Scott.

1292
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:10,479
Speaker 2: That is tonight, just a couple of young, talented arms

1293
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 2: that I am excited to watch go head to head

1294
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:15,400
Speaker 2: against each other. We get Kyle bradsh first, Garrett Crochet,

1295
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 2: who's been really good lately on Sunday, and another you know,

1296
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:20,200
Speaker 2: just a couple of talented match There weren't a ton

1297
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 2: of great pitching matchups this weekend, so you know those

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Speaker 2: might sound a little more uninspiring than usual. But really

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Speaker 2: the big one is what will Runel Blanco look like,

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Speaker 2: because that is gonna be really, I think key in

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Speaker 2: terms of how we consider him rest of season. If

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Speaker 2: he looks like he did prior to the suspension, then

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Speaker 2: maybe we chalk it up to kind of a fluke

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Speaker 2: or whatever. If he looks really bad, I think he's

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Speaker 2: going to be getting dropped in Mass. So I'm really

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Speaker 2: curious to see what Blanco looks like in Mass.

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Speaker 3: Great phrase.

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Speaker 1: I did not make that up from the Simpsons, No,

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Speaker 1: you did it.

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Speaker 3: It's a real one.

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Speaker 4: So for me, first thing is the Phillies incredibly hot

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Speaker 4: right now and they get to face the Rockies this weekend.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to pencil in three more wins for them,

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Speaker 4: just on like an unbelievable run right now, and it's

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Speaker 4: it's pretty wild that the Braves are as good as

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Speaker 4: they are, and they are currently twenty nine and eighteen

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Speaker 4: and six games back in the Phillies and the NLA,

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Speaker 4: which is wild. The Phillies have won one, two, three,

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Speaker 4: four or five six games in a row and that

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Speaker 4: isn't even really that impressive because they've won like twenty

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Speaker 4: five or the last twenty nine games or something ridiculous

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Speaker 4: like that. I did have the math, the exact math earlier,

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Speaker 4: I didn't write it down, so I'm not going to

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Speaker 4: do it again. But interesting to see. I'm a Red

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Speaker 4: Sox fan, but like the Phillies are kind of like

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Speaker 4: a close second in my heart because they know I'm

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Speaker 4: like a I love all things Philly, So definitely looking

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Speaker 4: forward to seeing them lockdown three more wins. I wrote down,

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Speaker 4: I want to see Jordan Montgomery versus the Marlins, just

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Speaker 4: because Jordan Montgomery has been just kind of like like

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00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 4: growth so far, and like he finally gets he gets

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Speaker 4: like a Marlins matchup, and like if he doesn't turn

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00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,280
Speaker 4: around against the Marlins, like what are we doing here?

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Speaker 3: Because his numbers are bad? I also wrote down we already.

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Speaker 4: Talked about that, but I'm looking forward to seeing where

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Speaker 4: in the world is Austin Riley.

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Speaker 3: What are we doing here?

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Speaker 4: Or you know, is he going to play this weekend?

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Speaker 4: And then I also wrote Aaron Savalle's last stand. We

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Speaker 4: just mentioned the Rays are getting some pictures back Aaron Savali.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm an Aeron Savali truther, but he's not

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00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 4: been pitching great and they're going to start to have

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00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 4: a very crowded rotation soon and if he doesn't turn

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Speaker 4: it around soon, he could be headed to a bullpen.

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Speaker 4: And I don't want that for Aaron Savali. I don't

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Speaker 4: want it for me, and so I'm looking forward to

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Speaker 4: seeing he can get back on track against the Royals.

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Speaker 4: And then also it's momor all day weekend, so I'm

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Speaker 4: looking forward for a long weekend, even though it's somewhat

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Speaker 4: different when you have very young kids like me, because

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Speaker 4: what a long weekend really means is an extra day

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Speaker 4: where I'm watching them and their school is not watching them.

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Speaker 3: And so but looking forward to a long weekend with

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Speaker 3: the kids.

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Speaker 4: We have a nice pool here in my neighborhood and

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Speaker 4: it's supposed to be in the eighties and sunny all weekend,

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Speaker 4: although as I say that, it just started rating.

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Speaker 3: But after this rain it should be eighties and sunny

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Speaker 3: all weekend.

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Speaker 2: Long holiday weekend for me means just a nextra day

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Speaker 2: to sit around and do nothing. Last year, for a

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Speaker 2: Memorial Day weekend, I went and checked off a national

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Speaker 2: park off my list. I saw Great Sand Dunes National

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Speaker 2: Park and Memorial Day, like May June is the best

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Speaker 2: time of year to go see that park because you

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Speaker 2: get this kind of like overflow of melting ice from

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Speaker 2: the mountains nearby, so it creates almost like a little

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Speaker 2: river like beach to get to the huge sand dune,

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Speaker 2: so it's really cool. I'd recommend it's very out in

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Speaker 2: the middle of nowhere, so it's hard to get to,

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Speaker 2: but I'd recommend it to anybody who likes national parks

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Speaker 2: all right. To start picture competition, obviously, I won the

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Speaker 2: week the most recent recently finished week because that was

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Speaker 2: Cornan Burns versus Renel Blanca who got suspended, so that

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Speaker 2: was an easy one for me. We're still waiting to

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Speaker 2: see what happens with Bradish and Chris Sale.

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Speaker 1: This week.

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Speaker 3: Has looked good, so that one might be a rap

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Speaker 3: soon too.

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Speaker 1: We'll see. We'll see how how that one finishes off.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 1: I've got Max Freed for next week.

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Speaker 2: He gets home start two home starts actually against the

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Speaker 2: Nationals and the Athletics.

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Speaker 1: That sounds super appealing to me, and also Freed has

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Speaker 1: been pitching really well lately.

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Speaker 2: A couple of complete games recently for him, so I

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Speaker 2: wont freed here who you got?

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Speaker 4: So I scrolled through the list and I kind of

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01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:20,640
Speaker 4: had trouble deciding who I wanted to go within.

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Speaker 1: There were a lot of good options this week.

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01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 3: Thought, yeah, I thought there were some good ones.

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Speaker 4: I briefly considered Justin Steele, but I'm bullish on Steel,

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Speaker 4: but he hasn't been pitching great, and you know, it's

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Speaker 4: a long competition. I'm I'm really hoping he really kind

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Speaker 4: of like hits his stride and I'm able to use

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Speaker 4: him like later in the summer, as opposed to potentially, like,

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Speaker 4: you know, we could only use these pictures once, so

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Speaker 4: I don't want to like waste it while he's still

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Speaker 4: ramping up and like not looking like himself. And so

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Speaker 4: instead I went with Gavin Stone to decent massive matchups

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Speaker 4: one against He's on the road against the Mets, in

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01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:52,480
Speaker 4: that home against the vaunted Rockies, and he's someone I

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01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:54,280
Speaker 4: wanted to use now because I don't know if he's

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Speaker 4: going to be in the rotation later in the year.

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Speaker 2: And so, you know, you said it's not that long

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Speaker 2: of a competition, it's what twenty something weeks, plus there's

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Speaker 2: only like, guys only get two start weeks every couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks. So my philosophy has been more like, if

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Speaker 2: you got a really good picture with good matchups, I'm

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Speaker 2: trying not to save him. Of course, this is coming

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Speaker 2: from the same guy who used Emerson Hancock a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks ago, so clearly that's not my only strategy.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, that was really just testifying it to myself too,

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Speaker 4: where I was just kind of nervous about, like, I

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Speaker 4: don't know if I want to start justin Steale.

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Speaker 3: This week hasn't looked great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we'll get out of there on that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you everybody for bearing with us through barking dogs

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Speaker 2: and like eight different internet connection issues. Hopefully we'll have

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Speaker 2: that sorted out before we record again next week for

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Speaker 2: what will be our last show together for a month

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Speaker 2: because we've got a couple of vacations coming up. We'll

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Speaker 2: still have shows every week, don't worry, but it'll be

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Speaker 2: a couple different iterations with different hosts on that. But

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Speaker 2: Mayor and I will be back next week, possibly with

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Speaker 2: the guests possibly not. So thank everybody for tuning in

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Speaker 2: for Mayor. I'm Ryan Warman, and we'll see you again

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