WEBVTT - The Cycle: Rounding The Bases (Ep. 1068) 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:08.440 Hello, everybody, Welcome into the cycle. I'm Ryan Warmley, joined 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:11.440 as always by Mike Mayer. We are talking a whole 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.040 bunch of stuff today on rounding the bass. We're gonna 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:16.119 talk a little chase Birds. We're gotsually gonna talk a 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:18.040 lot of rookies here as we do a little bit 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.079 of a second half buy or sell, and you're just 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:23.759 warning to everybody there's way too many rookies, so we 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:25.959 are not talking about all of them, because otherwise we'd 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.000 be here for about seven hours, So we're going through that. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:31.960 We'll be talking some news notes and injuries, some unfortunate 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:36.080 ones there for us, particularly for many of my fantasy teams, 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.280 some unfortunate injury updates. And then I also wanted to 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:41.040 take some time to talk a little bit about cal 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.920 Raley just because he's awesome and I don't think we 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:45.440 talk enough about him on the show, and what he's 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.400 doing so far this year is So that's kind of 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:48.960 what we have on the docket here. 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:50.199 Mayor. This is our last. 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.839 Show in June. So we are like halfway through the 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.040 baseball season. How are you feeling at the midway point. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.800 I think we're almost exactly halfway through the baseball season. 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.600 I think y're close to exactly a couple of teams 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:01.960 already at eighty one, and you know a few others 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.640 will hit it obviously this weekend, and I will just say, 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:07.280 I'm willing to do seven hours. If you're willing to 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.440 do seven hours and talk about all these rookies, we 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.800 can do it. Production might not be happy, but we can. 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.680 Don't tap me with a good time. How are your 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:17.280 teams doing? 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:18.679 Here? Kind of halfway point? 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:21.240 You know, I'm not sure how many leagues are in actually, 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.240 but of the leagues are in that you can recall 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:24.920 off the top of your head, how are they performing. 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.399 I'm in like nine leagues. I think it's kind of 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.960 been the same answer for me the last month or so. 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.040 I'm I'm in a couple of rota leagues where I'm 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:38.120 just doing atrocious, and then pretty much all of my 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.320 head to head leagues I'm doing fairly well. I'm like, 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:42.840 I mean, obviously the one keepers slash Dynasty league with 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.160 you where I took over that one team and I'm 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.360 kind of like hanging on, like you know, doing pretty well. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.120 I'm in another dynasty league where I did not expect 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.760 to do that. Well, this year, I thought I would 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:54.440 kind of have like a middle of the road team 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.040 and like be able to like maybe fight my way 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.360 in the playoffs. And I'm like comfortably in first place. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.120 And I don't understand how, because i just keep looking 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.000 at this roster and I'm like, I shouldn't be this good, 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.080 but you know, I'll take it. It's kind of the 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:05.360 opposite of a lot of the other times when you 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:06.920 draft the team and you're like, this team is great 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:08.800 and then it doesn't go well. I'm kind of doing 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:10.960 the opposite in that league, so calling them all over 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.440 the place. But you know, when you're in enough leagues, 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.359 some are going to be bad. Some we're gonna be good, hopefully, 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.280 and so I have enough good to keep me happy 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:19.880 for a little while. 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.680 Yeah, I dialed back my fantasy leagues this year, so 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.440 I'm only in four. I just felt like that was 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:27.959 gonna be better for me to be able to really 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:28.720 focus on them. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:30.080 One of them. 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.040 My team is like the best team I've ever had 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.280 in any fantasy league. I'm like in rode Oh, I'm 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.320 up by like twenty points over second place. It's like 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.480 utterly dominant, which is awesome. It's of course for no money. 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:42.680 One of the other weeks I've been we're about to 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.000 you know, this is the last week of the regular 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:45.840 season because of the way we do our schedule here 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.520 at or and so that's I'm fighting for a playoff 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:52.240 spot in that one, the Dynasty League with you My 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.160 team is very good, definitely a contender, but not the 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.000 best team in that league, but you know good and 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:58.480 you know we'll fight for it. 0:02:58.800 --> 0:02:59.919 See how we do in the playoffs. 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.079 But then the other one is the one with Dan 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.280 Harris his league, where I started off in like second 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.160 or third place for most of the first couple of months, 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.280 and now I've fallen off and I literally have too 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.000 many players on IL. Two for my bench and IL 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.840 spots combined are entirely clear players who are injured to 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.280 the point where I am starting players on IL in 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.080 my starting line because I can't drop a lot of 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.520 these players because they're too good or at least good 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.680 enough that I want to hold on to them. And 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.040 it's just I've completely fallen off. I'm in like, you know, 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.840 fourth or third from the bottom now because because of 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:32.519 injuries in that league. 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.040 So that hasn't been very You're done, You're down here, 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:35.200 you're done near me. 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.800 And yeah, I'm better than you, and Kelly thinks. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:38.360 You're better than me. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:42.640 But for now, for now, yeah, now. 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.960 All right, let's shove into the first topic here, which 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.000 is Chase Burns. Like this is a couple of days ago, 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.600 but I you know, it was very fun watching him 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.160 in those first couple of innings, such an electric debut 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.800 that I felt I really did want to hit on him. 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:57.640 You are somebody who has Chase Burns in a lot 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.240 of places. He's also somebody that I recommended everybody pick 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.080 up last week, like just before they announced he was 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:04.520 going to be coming up to make his debut. 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:05.840 So that worked out very well for me. 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.000 I've had a lot of bad calls in the waivers 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.360 recommendation segment, so that was a nice one too to 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:15.080 seemingly hit on. And what a debut right strike out 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.679 the first five batters he faced in his debut against 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.320 the Yankees like an actually good team. He was the 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.760 first player in the Expansion era at least to strike 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:23.960 out the first five hitters that he. 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:25.719 Faced in his major league career. 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.719 He ultimately ended up allowing some more runs after that, 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.080 but five innings, six hits, no walks, three earned runs, 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.240 eight strikeouts again against the Yankees. 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:36.960 Just really, really good. 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.440 There's a reason he was the top pitching prospect in baseball. 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.600 A lot of his minor league stats looked like relatively 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.600 similar to Paul Skeens' minor league stats. Like I'm not 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.760 saying he is skiings, but this was as a lead 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.960 of a pitching prospect as you can get outside of 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.159 like a guy that was being compared to the greatest 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.520 pitching prospects ever. And if you have him in any 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.080 kind of heabor format, you should be really excited. And 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.159 I think you should be excited to have him in 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.880 the second half here. There has already been kind of 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:06.719 talked about they're going to limit his innings after the 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:11.000 All Star break, but I think the ratio numbers and 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.680 these strikeouts are going to be good enough that even 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:15.279 if he doesn't get as many wins because he's not 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.520 going deep into games and he maybe you know, in 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.600 a points format, he's not getting this on innings, I 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.520 think he'll still be very worth having on your team. 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.400 That's how good he looked. I am buying into the 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.559 hype right away. What was going through your mind watching 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:26.000 his debut? 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:28.200 Yeah, a lot of the same stuff. You know. It 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.640 was I was kind of hoping that he would debut 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.320 against someone without, you know, such a potent offense. But 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.359 he came out and like did not look afraid, like 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.279 you said, struck out the first five people, five batters 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.000 to face, including Aaron Judge, and it was just like 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.880 high velocity. He was like, you know, flirting with triple digits, 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.320 really high, aggressive slider that looked really good and was 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:52.320 playing off his fastball, and he also like has a 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.680 decent curveball they didn't really use, and so I think 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:57.000 we can see more of that and kind of like 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.480 that next iteration from him. The Paul Skeins Canson is 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.599 interesting for a number of reasons because he's also he's 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:06.640 following a very similar trajectory where the Pirates drafted Paul Skeens. 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.520 And then a lot of times when you see a player, 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:13.120 especially a pitcher drafted, they kind of like let them 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:14.880 debut a little bit, like because it's it's kind of 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:16.440 a weird time to get drafted in baseball, right, You 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.760 get drafted in the middle of the season, and so 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:20.640 a lot of times players get drafted and they'll like 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:22.839 debut that last month and like get their feet wet, 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.040 whereas the Pirates just kind of like shut Paul Skins down. 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.920 They're like Melvisie in next year. The Reds did the 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:29.480 same thing with Chase Burns. He did not he was 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:31.640 drafted in the first round last year, did not pitch 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.320 last year, and so it's kind of crazy that he 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:36.880 debuted this year in High A and he's you know, 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.440 it's June and he's already in the big leagues. He 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.119 just kind of flew through the minor leagues, showed pretty 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.680 much immediately that he was ready, and then gets to 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:46.880 the big leagues and once again looks like he's ready. 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.640 And again similar to Paul Skeens, where he you know, 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.240 we saw his his innings limited, but the innings that 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:54.800 you did get were really good, and they kind of 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.160 stretched him out kind of all the way through the 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.320 whole season just by kind of limiting his innings here 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.520 and there. We're probably going to see the same thing 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.600 from the Reds, who you know, we'll see how they 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:05.360 do with the second half. 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:11.040 If he finishes the second half, let's say at seventy 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.920 five percent of the production that you saw from Paul 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.000 Skins a year ago, because like, I don't want to 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:17.640 say he's going to be Paul Skins in the second half. 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.240 That's like putting way too much on anybody. But let's 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:21.760 say he's like seventy five percent of that. Where do 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.000 you think you'll be ranking Burns and your starting pitcher 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:25.400 rankings going into next season? 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.520 Ooh, that's interesting next season. So this season I already 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.680 moved him up pretty aggressively into. 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:33.960 I was going to ask about this season too, But 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.160 I'm curious what we think of him when we get 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.640 to the point where we're not expecting an ings limit. 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:45.920 I mean assuming, Like so you're saying, like seventy five 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.160 percent of Paul Skians like production. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.480 I'm saying, I'm saying he's very good in the second half, 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.680 but he's not like, holy cow, this is the new 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:54.680 best pitcher in baseball good. 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:56.880 I mean, I think the top of the sp market 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:58.720 is also kind of interesting, and it's in flux. There 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.120 are some questions about some of the pictures at the top, 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.160 like a Cole Reagan's. I think there's some question marks. 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.560 Now I don't know that Zach Gowen was in that 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.760 top tier, but there's a lot of questions about Zach Gowen. 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.920 Now he does not look very good school. I'm basically 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.480 taking the long road to saying I think there's a 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.560 really good chance he's an sp one going in the 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.440 next year. No, I don't think. I don't see him 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:24.760 overtaking Scooble schemes, Crochet Wheeler, Yamamoto, assuming they all stay healthy, 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.960 of course. Sure, and then you know there's like that 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:31.360 franber Valdez tier Hunter Brown looks really good. He looks 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:32.880 like he's going to be a locked in sp one 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.080 headed in the next year. And then he get into 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:39.880 like Logan web Logan, Gilbert Michael King. I feel Jaspern's 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.160 could give me right there. I think, all. 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:44.400 Right to where is he the rest of the season 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:48.439 now for this year, knowing the kind of limited innings, I. 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.480 Just ad updated my rankings the other day, so I 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:55.280 have him thirty six, which is it's kind of putting 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.760 into consideration like we're probably going to see some innings limitations, 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:01.840 and I you know, I reserved the right to move 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.600 him up, but you know, I had to move him 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.880 into like my top forty pretty much immediately. 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.679 Last question on Chase Burns, and by the way, I 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:13.600 can't remember who it was. I wanted to credit them, 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.920 but somebody made the comparison to at least those first 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.760 few innings. We're very similar to Steven Strasburg's debut against 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.480 the Pirates, you know, fifteen years ago, and I like 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.560 remember watching that. I actually had tickets to go to 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:26.480 that game and ended up not going, which I've told 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:27.800 that story on the show before. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:29.880 Hugely, hugely annoying to me. 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.040 Didn't finish the same way that Strasburg's out against the 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:34.959 Pirates did, but that start, I think that is actually 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.400 a pretty similar experience to Holy Cow. Like we knew 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.320 who this guy was. It's not like an out of nowhere, 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:44.360 but like even better than you could have expected for him. 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.760 Is there anybody I could offer in our Dynasty league 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:50.520 to pry Chase Burns from you? 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.400 I mean probably, Let's see. So I actually updated my 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.520 Dynasty rankings the other day and moved him up to 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.440 SP fourteen, and I feel like that was really aggressive, 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:07.360 But I also tried to put myself like, you can't 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.200 just like move someone to like number one just because 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.000 they're like a young top pitching prospect. But yeah, I 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.880 also try to like think realistically in these leagues, like 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:17.599 if I have Chase Burns. What is it going to 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.120 take to get him from me? And it's gonna take 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:26.439 Paul Skins, Schooble, Crochet, Logan, Gilbert Yamamoto like, and here's 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.319 an interesting what about Spencer Strider? Like, are you down 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.600 enough on Spencer Striyder that you're willing to flip like 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:34.840 in Dynasty Burns given the arm history with Stryder. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:36.719 Good one. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.720 Actually, I don't know. I don't know how I would 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:40.320 answer that one off the top of my head. 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.160 I technically still have Strider ahead of Burns, but like, 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:44.880 that's how aggressively I moved Burns up. 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:49.000 My initial reaction to that is Stryder I would rather have. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.960 But I think I think Burns is good enough that 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.839 given the arm history with Strider, I'm thinking about it. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.600 So here, this isn't our next segment, so it's not 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.000 a perfect segue. But I just I flipped over into 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.200 to my overall rankings, and I have, based on how 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.120 it grades out, I have him at fifty six overall, 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.440 which could even be a little bit higher. Number fifty five. 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:15.800 Cal Raley Interesting, Yeah, well, we'll get to cal Raleigh 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:16.440 a little bit later. 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.800 We've got some rookies coming up before that, and Chase 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:21.240 Burns obviously among that group. 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:22.200 But before we even get. 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:23.640 To the rookies, I want to let everybody know we 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:28.079 are now giving away a Cecil Fielder signed Tigers jersey 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.520 courtesy of our friends at Pristine Auction dot com. All 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.120 you have to do to enter is to subscribe to 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.920 the Fantasy Pros MLB YouTube channel right now, drop a 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.319 comment below in any video, and that is it. 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We simply cannot go through 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.839 every rookie in baseball because you and I like to 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.120 talk a little longer about these, and there's just no 0:11:58.200 --> 0:11:59.880 way that we could make it. 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:00.480 The all of them. 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.560 And even we wrote down eighteen names, and then you 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.160 were telling me that as you were was it watching 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:07.840 a game or something the other day or look at 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.280 something you were like, there was even more names we 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:12.440 didn't write down, and just like the list could have 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:14.560 gone on and on, there's just a ton of them. 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:16.880 In baseball right now, or at least some of them 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.280 have been up and are currently in the minors. But 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.600 some of the mentions of the names that we're not 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.760 going to have time to really dive into on this segment. 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.040 Chase Burns, So we obviously just talked about and I 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.880 think clearly both of us are buying Christian Campbell, Chandler Simpson, 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.760 who's back in the in the big leagues, Roman Anthony, 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.680 Jacob Wilson, Dylan Cruz, Brady House, Marcella Meyer, Kobe Mayo, 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.679 Matt Shaw, Chase Mydraf. I think these are for different 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:42.360 reasons for some of these guys. Some of them are 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.199 we pretty much know what to expect from a guy 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.120 like Chandler Simpson when he's in the big leagues is 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.440 a lot of stolen bases, you know, reasonable average, no 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.160 power like that. We're already aware of what that is. 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.160 You know, we're gonna be talking about a guy like 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:58.000 Roman Anthony a little bit later in today's show. You know, 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.880 some of these like Kobe Mayo, like I think it's 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:01.960 easy to sell, so like some of these were like 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.559 pretty Jacob Wilson the opposite, right, Like we're all pretty 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.800 much generally buying Jacob Wilson, so kind of speeding through those, 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:10.240 but just want to do at least mention them that, 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.200 like we didn't forget those guys existed, you know, on 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:14.080 the rookie side. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:15.719 Two guys that we. 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:19.000 Do want to talk about, Jack Kaglione and Nick Kurtz. 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.600 Kind of looping them together with the first base stuff. 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.400 Kurtz obviously has been on my heater lately. Kaglione had 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.200 a two home run game to kind of get on 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:31.880 the home run board recently. Obviously very talented prospects, guys 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.360 who went very high in the draft, both top six picks. 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:36.840 Was the top four picks I forget we. 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:40.560 Know Kaglione was six, so Kurtz was four? 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:41.160 Yes? 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:42.000 Four? Okay? 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:42.280 Yeah? 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:42.760 Four or six? 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:45.920 Are these guys players that you were buying our salag 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.520 specifically for obviously in Dynasty we like all these guys, 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.960 but specifically for the second half of this season. Well, 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.199 actually we put it like this, if you had to 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.000 pick one to buy and one to sell, how would. 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:56.520 You separate them? 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.360 That makes it harder because I thought it would. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:00.000 That's why I changed. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:04.920 Yeah, are you buying Yes, I'm buying both of them. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:09.080 That makes it harder. I think I would have to 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.360 buy Kurtz more just because he's done more and he's 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.199 shown more, and he you know, he's hit eleven home 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:14.960 runs in forty two games, and he's you know, like 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.199 you said, he's heating up Kagali, and I do think 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:21.040 is going to get there. He's just gotten up to 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:22.640 like he came up a little bit later. He doesn't 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.120 have as large as a sample size, so he could 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.560 go on the same kind of heater that Curtsi's on 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.280 right now. He also he's batting one eighty six, but 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.600 he's expected batting average is two ninety two. It's over 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.600 one hundred points higher. And I think he does have 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.680 good He doesn't have high strikeout numbers. He does put 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.840 the bat on the ball, whereas Kurtz is striking out 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:42.880 at a high clip. He's at almost thirty two percent 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:44.600 strikeout right, So there is some swing and miss in 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.360 Kurtz's game, whereas Kakalion makes a little bit more contact. 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.480 Both have incredibly incredible raw power. I think both have 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:53.240 really bright futures, and I think both are going to 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:57.320 have strong second halfs, especially because I mean we've talked 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.960 at nauseum about hitters coming up struggling. They've both come 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.600 up struggled a little bit, and both are already showing 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.360 signs that they're kind of taking that next step. And 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.080 I think that's the kind of talented hitter that they are, 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:09.440 and I think they're going to be fine, and they're 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:10.920 going to give a lot of power in second half. 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.000 Kurt Kurtz feels like you'd have to pick him between 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.480 the two, just because he's had more time to adjust 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.880 to big league pitching and has just simply done more. 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.920 Like you said, Caglione, if you're picking him, it's a 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.080 reflection of you're just buying into the talent and trusting 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.160 that it'll come along. Plus the underlying numbers, like you said, 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.400 where some of the expected data is better than what 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.600 we've actually seen some bad luck early on. I mean, 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.480 he's only had seventy at bats, so still super early. 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:39.160 But yeah, I would. 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:40.800 Agree with you, like I'd rather have Kurts, of course, 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:45.080 but I'm willing to buy into both. Are you like 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:49.280 giving up anything of value to try and acquire Kagalion 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:54.000 or or Kurtz or are you more just like I'm 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.600 hoping they're already on my rosters and want to take 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:57.480 advantage that they are. 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.160 Are you actually looking to like buy these. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.880 I would look to buy especially looking like if you 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.120 need power on a roster. Like a lot of times, 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.920 it comes down to roster construction, you know, especially in RODO, 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.120 where it's probably a little bit more of a conversation 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.600 in points, but in Rodo, if if you are looking 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.640 at the roto standings and you're lacking in power, these 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.560 are two guys you should definitely target. And I didn't 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.160 write them up as a buy low candidate this week, 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.960 but I considered buying up Jack writing up Jack Kgaloon 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:27.720 as a BILO this week for that reason, and that 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:29.880 you could kind of, you know, if I had some 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.720 surplus pitching or maybe some surplus speed and I needed power, 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:34.480 I would definitely go out and buy these guys, because 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.640 I think you are going to get double digit home 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.240 runs for sure in the second half of the season. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:43.120 If not, you know, double digit and then some not 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.280 triple digit. I'm gonna get triple digit home. 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.160 Runs, Yeah, no, you will not. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:49.840 Another player that I want to talk about who's got 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:54.080 some power Christian Moore second Basement for the Angels. Somebody 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.600 who we have a very small sample size. He's only 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.760 played thirteen games, forty at bats. He does have three 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:03.120 home runs already in those forty at bats. Also a 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:06.600 lot of strikeouts. That's part of his game, just two walks. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.320 Seventeen strikeouts is the number against two walks, he's only 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:14.320 batting one seventy five. Second base an interesting position if 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.840 you can get some real power from there, that's intriguing. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.560