WEBVTT - Leading Off: Did Boston Overpay for Curtis Mead? (Ep. 1349) 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:08.000 It's leading off right here on Fantasy Pros MLB. I 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:11.039 am Chris Welsh, that is Joe Rico, and we got 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:15.120 a full slate oft stuff to talk about across the board, 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:18.799 from Betts to home run calls, to a ton of 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:21.680 news and by the way, for whatever combination, it's like 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.320 Ben Noah's Ark of homers. It's just two by two. 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:26.720 Everybody had two homers over the weekend, these big two 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.360 home run games. I know what's going on, Rico, what's up, buddy. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.600 We haven't been on the rotation of shows together, but 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:34.519 back in action, and I think you were on a 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:38.200 little You're on that boys trip that I miss, so survive, okay, 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.240 make any bad choices. 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.279 Oh, I made plenty of bad choices. Had to take 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:46.040 a couple of days off to recover from it. But 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:48.680 that's why we got Bubba and Bogs doing great work 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:50.640 filling in there. Yet it was a nice little trip. 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.239 And then this weekend just got a lot of golf in, 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:55.520 watched a lot of baseball, had a few drinks. 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It's like 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.760 a centerpiece trade for like kateel Marte. There were some 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.400 in that he might be untouchable. And I don't want 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.720 to be dismissive of Curtis Mead because I have been 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.680 a Curtis Mead guy. You know, he's been a really 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.160 good waiver wire ad. He's done a lot of good things. 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.400 But like Curtis mean for conn Le Early did not 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.280 make sense. I think everybody kind of genuinely agreed with that. 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.680 Conlee Early's injured right now. They said he's going to 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:48.600 begin to rehab Sigmon on August third. Curtis Mead is 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.920 going to end up playing second base, that was the word. 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.560 A long term maybe third base, but currently second base 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.200 while they make the adjustments, probably be putting like a 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:01.120 really good opportunity. But this was a wow trade. This 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.400 is a trade the Dynasty owners, if it were done, 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.560 might have had to talk about some vetos here because 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.200 there's just so much staying power with Conlee Early and 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.920 he had really been good before the injury. To trade 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:17.520 that part of a rotation piece for again, I just 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:19.560 don't want to be super dismissive of Curtis Mead to 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.760 be like, he's kind of this rental thing, but dude 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.960 didn't make the White Sox roster and it just doesn't 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.159 add up. It was such a weird trade this weekend, 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.960 and it does have some pretty interesting fantasy implications. So 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.039 were you as jaw dropped as I was, or did 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.279 this I don't know make a tiny bit more sense. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.680 I'm still trying to work my way through it all, 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:44.880 but I think it does generally make sense, especially from 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.719 the Nationals perspective. The Nationals this is a real life 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.120 Cell High type of trade with her. Now, like you mentioned, 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.680 Curtis Mead was defaed by the White Sox in March, 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.400 and now he's traded for a guy in early who 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:59.520 I mean coming into the season. I think you and 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.640 I were both early over. Totally correct me if I'm 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.599 wrong there, But like this is that we really really 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:09.680 liked coming into the season. It hasn't gone as perfectly 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.280 as I would have hoped after seeing the early returns 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.039 from Connolly. Early he has the three forty five RA 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.440 but a lot of the expected numbers are not great. 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.560 He's given up a lot of homers, a lot of 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.400 walks this season, the strikeout upside hasn't been what we've 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:26.279 seen in the minors, swing strike rate fairly pedestrian ten percent, 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.680 So he hasn't quite lived up expectations. But that being said, 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.080 it's twenty four years old. This is a perfect trade 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.280 for a Washington team which ranks thirtieth in Major League 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.800 pitching war even if he doesn't help them so much 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:39.600 for this season, because I have heard it, you know, 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:41.680 gone back and forth. Maybe he pitches this year again, 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.680 maybe he doesn't. He probably will at the end of 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.480 the season, but this is a good long term move 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.119 for a Nationals team that will be desperate for pitching 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:49.160 going forward. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.799 And everybody's everybody's pitching for a desperate for young pitching. 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.360 And that's like the thing that I guess it, even 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.320 if you take the player out of it for a second, 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:01.520 it's like a young control ROLLI bull left arm, left 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.560 handed pitcher. That's that's already been in the rotation. That 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.440 I agree some of it's like pedestrian and what he's done. 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.720 But you know, you got to twenty four percent K percentage. 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.720 You hit a three four to four ERA on this 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:16.080 season in those ninety whatever innings whip a little bit inflated. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.480 Expected was in the fours and stuff like that, and 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.640 obviously there's some room to grow, but like, we just 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:25.680 don't see the cost ever look like this unless there 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:30.080 is something far beyond what we all put on Curtis 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.520 Meat and Curtis Meads value, who, by the way, sitting 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.560 two fifty four in the air, does have seventeen homers, 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.760 does have six stolen bases. And frankly, like if this 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.799 was the old Curtis Mead, you know, the raised prospect 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.320 Curtis with what I didn't I interviewed Curtis Meat. It's 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.320 probably my worst interview like that I ever. I've talked 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.599 about this on my Prospect show. Of the interviews I've conducted. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.599 It's the worst job I ever did of an interview. 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.240 And I almost didn't erit. It was so bad and 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:56.919 he was so kind and gracious, but that was like 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.280 a top prospect Curtis Meat. He looks like he's kind 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.960 of living up to that, but there's still you know, 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.960 it's just like this is fine. It feels a little 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.600 wrintally in that, but this is not usually what we 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.160 see add up. So that I was just I was 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.560 kind of blown away by what this trade looked like. So, 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:16.400 I mean, we obviously see the structure. You know, they 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:20.560 traded from a position of depth in Conley Early. I'm 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.880 shocked that it cost Early to get Curtis Mead. But 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.200 Curtis Mead, obviously, in their mind, fills that gap of 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.800 a guy who's not only been successful this year, but 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.080 he is going to probably continuously succeed. He's more than 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:35.400 doubled his barrel percentage, his strikeout rates gone down, his 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:39.200 XBA is supportive, it's actually better than his current batting average, 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.320 and like, maybe he's going to be like a twenty 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.040 five to ten guy and they can hit him in 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.120 the middle of the lineup. Just doesn't feel like it 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:46.000 should cost Early. 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.160 No, And the more I look at it too. The 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:50.960 Red Sox, yes, they have a lot of lefties, but 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.880 Sunny Gray is going to be thirty seven Rangers. Suarez 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.360 is a guy that the fantasy community, the baseball community 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.840 generally agrees is probably not going to age very well 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.680 once his starts to dip below ninety, which it seems 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.600 like it's coming. He's at ninety one seven this year. 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.440 I'm not sure how successful he's gonna be Garret Crochet 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.720 will be fine eventually. By Patrick Sandoval, I mean, Jake 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.480 Bennett looks really good, but this is not a position 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.120 of depth to the point where I think they should 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:18.560 have done this trade. The more I think about it, 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:20.440 the more I think it is a loss of a 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:21.960 trade for the Red Sox. We'll see how it ends 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.840 up happening. But Curtis meat it's a good season, but 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.119 it's kind of an out of left field good eighty 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.400 five games where his bat speed is worse than it 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.120 was last season, and it has actually been going down 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.160 for the last couple seasons from seventy four to seventy 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.520 three point three to seventy two point six. It's a 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.320 metric I look at a lot. Maybe it's not as 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.840 important as I'm giving it credit for, but I think 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.480 this is more a really good half season for Curtis 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.520 Mead than oh, he's just gonna be a nine hundred 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.720 ops guy going forward. The more I think about it, 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.440 the more I think the Red Sox probably don't come 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:53.280 out looking great here. 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.520 And that's been the Bresla thing that just mean bad 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.640 trade after bad trade. We'll see if this one works 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.920 up works out. I kind of thought like they were 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.600 given the grace of how good they've been, how ridiculous 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.440 they've been, that they could go and potentially make a 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.920 couple moves that people could put some eyes on. I 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:11.680 just didn't think it would look like this. This was 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.719 kind of a shocker to me, So Conley early the 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.160 first kind of domino in the Curtis Me trade. First 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.840 domino as the trade deadline is looming and teams really 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.920 have not no one has a bent, you know, or broken. 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.880 Really if you know, you know, they're bending until they break, 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.240 Like we haven't seen the flood of trades happen. Maybe 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:30.920 they're going to be happening soon. We got a week 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:36.000 before it. In what continues to look like maybe the 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.000 best pitcher we have seen and god knows how long, 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:43.800 especially if it can hold. Jacob Zarowski continues to dominate 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.880 and continues to be absolutely incredible this week, and he 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:51.000 went five innings, twelve strikeouts. It wasn't eighty three pitches. 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.040 That's the thing that we don't like. But we have 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.360 definitely discussed like, hey, should you have your concerns of 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:01.800 the management, should you consider maybe consolidating. It's a really, 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:05.360 really tough question. We've openly done that, but he continues 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:09.080 to defy odds, where he struck out the first seven batters. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:11.560 He ended up giving up a homer to cole kerrig 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.240 By the way, which was just like, I mean, it 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.360 just threw so hard a character, just put the bat 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.760 out and it went opposite field. But he struck out 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:23.719 twelve of the first thirteen Colorado batters, And I mean, 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.360 the stats continued to roll. One of my favorites on this. 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.079 As you can see the Sarah Lang's over on the 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.200 on the right hand, if you're looking at the visual screen, 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.920 put together so many of these really interesting stats. The 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.920 two that really jumped out to me was sixty six 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.880 fastballs he threw. They were all one hundred miles per 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:48.080 hour more, which is an absolutely Banana's number. And the 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.480 other one I really like is thirty three of those 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.080 pitches were one hundred and three miles per hour. And 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.600 I mean, it's just it's continuously like record after record 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.320 after record of what he does, and despite even having 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.480 this stupid management thing, which whatever it looks like, he 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:09.120 continues to just clearly be the number one fantasy pitcher 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.680 in baseball. So the question is is like, obviously this 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.560 performance is amazing. You're welcome to say whatever you want 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.160 on it. But where do you stand in that conversation 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.520 that we've all been kind of having of like, do 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.840 you is the management enough of a concern going down 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.360 the stretch here? Should we have any concern about it? 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.560 It's impossible sometimes to trade the best players, but is 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.280 that of any concern when you see what he was 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.079 able to do this weekend in eighty three pitches anymore? 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.600 Yeah, I just don't think you can really trade him 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.720 unless you get blown away, and somebody might be willing 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.679 to blow you away with an offer for him. But 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.520 I think people generally are going to have that same 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.400 kind of thought of maybe he's gonna throw four innings, 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.840 maybe it'll be five innings. He's gonna get the Garrett 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.080 Crochet type of treatment. So I don't know if you're 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.080 gonna get top dollar just because people have that in 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:52.480 the back of their minds. I think he's gonna be 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.360 more valuable to the person who has him in most 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.960 cases than the offer you're gonna receive back would be. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.400 That's kind of where I'm at, unless you're getting off for, like, 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.320 you know, another top five or seven pitcher and a 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.719 second piece as well, Like if somebody's giving you cam 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.280 Schlitler and a bat from Mizrawski, sure or. 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:09.400 Deal, Yeah, no one's doing that. 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.199 But no one's doing that right, so yeah, well what 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:11.959 does a. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.000 Cease one look like? Then? I think Schlitler was the 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.319 wrong name for you to use, because I think it 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.720 has to look more like a you know, like a 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:21.600 sea sore. I mean, I don't know how where you 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.760 feel in like rasp Musen if you feel he's kind 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.000 of in that that world, but like, let me look here, 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.280 like I want you to expand who is the cease 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.600 hitter plus that you would do it, because I'm starting 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.000 to get to the space and I said this last week. 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.079 It's just like I don't really even know if I 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.400 have the stomach to move him in whatever this deal 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.000 is going to look like. It's got to be something 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.760 where I feel, I mean, not me, but this is 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.880 like the more macro perspective rhetorical where I'd be like 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.280 if I were you guys, and I looked at this 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.560 trade and I was like, I gotta get on leading 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.719 off and ask uh Rico and Welsh if this is 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.520 a trade, Like if you have that feeling then that 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:55.719 trade is probably worth it. 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:56.719 I would have to. 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.559 Have something that looks so stupid that I would really 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.480 want to pull the trigger because he is just so 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:06.040 good despite So what is cease and what makes Misroowski 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:06.320 for you? 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:12.160 Let's say it's Dylan Ces or any top ten pitcher 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.680 there if you'd prefer like a Wheeler, or you'd prefer 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.920 you know, Christopher Sanchez Rasmussen, and then you add and 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:24.000 then you add on maybe a Matt Olsen type or 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.440 a Bryce Terrang or a Miguel Vargas or a top 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.439 twenty five type of hitter. Okay, that might be asking 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.160 too much, but miss that's a point. I think that's 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.360 the point though. Yeah, you ask for too much and 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.960 maybe you get the world from somebody. But what Miserowski's 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.400 doing like this is this is the best pitching season 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.199 since one of the peak de Gram years. I think, 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.120 like this is just unbelievable stuff that he's doing. And 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:47.960 I just don't know if you're going to get that back. 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.440 You might, but you probably won't. 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:56.240 Next year, will you have Miserowski as sp one like 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:00.840 the sp One? Ooh your hes really? 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.199 I mean from a talent perspective, yes, but I really 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.480 worry about the injury stuff with him. And I know 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.480 we're horrible at predicting injuries, but like you mentioned, he 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.680 through sixty six fastballs that are all over one hundred. 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.240 Most pitchers are going to require some kind of surgery 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.439 at some point. It's gonna happen for Miserowski, and I 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:16.760 don't know if I want to be the one hold 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.360 in the bag the year he does inevitably need Tommy 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:23.120 John So I'll probably rank him number one or number two. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.640 I don't know if I'll actually draft him there though 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.240 that might make me a hypocrite, But I do worry 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.600 a little bit about being the guy to draft Miserowski 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.400 the year that he does eventually, you know, reach for 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.480 the arm after that pitch and go, oh man, here 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.600 we go. He's gonna have surgery, and it could happen 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.560 at any moment. He might last sixty years before he 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:40.120 needs it. 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:41.120 It might happen tomorrow. 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:42.560 But I just don't know if I want to be 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.200 the one who is rostering Miserowski, especially he's gonna be 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.160 a first round pick next season, top five pick. 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:51.080 Probably. Yeah, it's a lot for a guy who throws 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:52.800 so hard. It's such an injury risk. 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:54.280 Well that's what I was going to ask you, is like, 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:56.480 I mean, you've already answered it in that you don't 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.720 want him, but like he's going to be a first 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.680 round pick. He probably takes a place for Schooble where 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.000 he was going this year, which is somewhere between like 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.200 eight and ten, you know roughly in leagues. Maybe he 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.520 pushes up a little bit. But I think there's the 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.000 two different discussions are A, do you invest in a 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.920 pitcher in the first round? And b is Jacob Mizerowski 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.400 so far and beyond the number one pitcher? And I 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.160 think the only one that's a question right now is 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:23.680 if you draft the guy in the first round like 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.800 Miserowski and what this, what this looks like. My concern 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.600 always was like he was gonna be old school Dylan Cees. 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:32.200 You'd have one of these games and then you have 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.560 a game where he walks like five and then and 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.600 it's not happening. Miserroowski's got the best era in baseball, 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:42.280 he's got the best expected era in baseball, the most strikeouts. Dude, 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.960 looks like he could strike out three hundred this year. 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:47.680 So I don't know, especially if you're going to take 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.600 the training wheels off next year. And there's no any 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:51.760 management stuff as well, Like, I just don't know how 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.800 we have a discussion where he's not the number one guy, 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.360 but the discussion of like where do you want to 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.360 invest in the first round? And also there are so 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:02.680 many valuable pitchers, like Mirowski is gonna be tailed behind Scooble, 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.040 and then it's gonna be Cressanchez, and it's gonna be 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.320 Paul Skeens, and then they're Schlitler and it's just like 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.360 cool taken miz you know, in the ninth overall pick, 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.000 but you could take like a hitter in the next pitcher, 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.200 or frankly, you might be able to take two hitters 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.200 in the third round. You might get a Schlitzler come 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:20.680 back to you. I don't know if they'll really truly 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.760 be a clump. It's gonna be great offseason discussion. Miserroowski 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.240 continues to roll. He is absolutely ridiculous though, And I 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.280 don't like the management, but I wonder if the management 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.600 is starting to move itself out a little bit. And 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.160 I think one way they could really fix that is 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.640 going to be aggressive in the trademarket. Go get yourself 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.880 a Terrek Scooble. Have some protection out there, Get other 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:43.240 starting pitchers that can go deeper into games, that protects 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.480 your bullpen and that continuously protects a guy like Jacob 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:51.480 Mizerowski and just ridiculous numbers. Also in the ridiculous numbers 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.640 department is the Washington Nationals, particularly James Wood and C. 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:59.680 J Abrams, maybe the sickest duo out there right now. 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.720 Both this weekend with double dongs. As mentioned it was 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.960 the Noah's Ark weekend of homers. Is they were going 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:09.560 two by two. Wood was two for four, two homers, 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:15.040 three RBI. Cj Abrams three for five, two homers, three 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:19.960 RBI and they both look absolutely berzerko. As you can 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.640 see on this they're the only team with two players 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.399 in the top ten in homers this season. They have 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.720 two guys in there. Six is James Wood and cj 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:32.560 Abrams is eight, which is just crazy. Season long totals. 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:36.640 James Wood is hitting two seventy one thirty homers, fifteen 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:41.200 stolen bases, with ninety six runs comical and seventy two RBI. 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.920 But cj Abrams doesn't get enough of that love where 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.440 he should be next And I said this last week 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.679 when you weren't a round Dude, you and I screwed 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.359 up in our two round mock, even though it was 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.560 a ten team because cj. Abrams belonged to be there, 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:56.439 and frankly, he belonged to I think me. In the 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.359 first round. C. J. Abrams is hitting two ninety seven 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.640 twenty seven homers, which, by the way, is the most 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:06.760 by a shortstop, a national shortstop in history, passing Ian Desmon. 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:11.639 Seventeen stolen bases, sixty six runs, and eighty two RBI. 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.480 That's as good as what James Wood is doing, if 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:18.080 not maybe even more impressive. It's more stolen bases, better 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.440 batting average, more RBI. He really tails in the run department, 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.240 but I mean he is in tow there. These are 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.280 both first round picks. I know we're talking very macro 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:29.439 level of baseball right now, but they just had a 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:32.800 ridiculous weekend. All of that being said, do you think 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.720 there is an actual, realistic way C. James Abrams could 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:40.280 get traded and would that have any effect theoretically, Maybe 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:42.440 on the value if he goes to a worse environment, 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.840 maybe just changing environments. I mean, this offense is one 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.119 of the best offenses in baseball, and it's due to 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.520 the collective group. What do you think does Abrams get 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:54.000 traded and does it hurt any type of fantasy value 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:54.840 in your mind? 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:59.280 I honestly hadn't heard much of Abrams being traded rumor. 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.200 I don't think it would make a ton of sense 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:02.840 for them to do that. I mean, they struck gold 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:04.800