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Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is the

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Baseball Podcast. It is be Joey b, joep Zepia

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Speaker 1: and Welsh. In just a few days, we're going to

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Speaker 1: have baseball accounts. I'm so happy we've got a weekend

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Speaker 1: of some news. Christian Campbell, first of all, looks like

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Speaker 1: he's gonna get that starting base job, and Shane McClanahan

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Speaker 1: not an elbow issue in that sense or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: So the hope is some rest recovery. Maybe he ramps

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Speaker 1: up in a month or two. We'll see what it is,

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Speaker 1: but at least it's not something where you go, oh

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Speaker 1: and an upside opportunity for a young prospect. That about

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Speaker 1: what eight weeks ago, we were just talking with Jeff

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Speaker 1: Ponce and he was saying, Christian Campbell could very well

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Speaker 1: be the starter. And guess what that handsome SOB was.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yep and log Day four hundred and seventy two.

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Speaker 2: There's still no news on Jared Jones and will Jared

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Speaker 2: wait with baited breath if Jared Jones will play. That's

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Speaker 2: the third piece of news. We still have no idea.

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Speaker 2: But yes, the Christian Campbell one feels pretty good because

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Speaker 2: that's a good vindication of what we've been saying for

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Speaker 2: a long time on this show. And Jeff Ponce was

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Speaker 2: they're giving him every opportunity, and there's also every opportunity

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Speaker 2: to be against it because of Alex Bregman signing. The

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Speaker 2: I'm very excited about the Christian Campbell one that gets me,

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Speaker 2: that gets me all hot and bothered. And the Shane

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Speaker 2: that was like Shane McClanahan cover because we're building around

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Speaker 2: him and he looked so good and when his arm

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Speaker 1: The interesting thing that I thought when he went happened

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Speaker 1: I don't think this is an elbow thing. I think

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Speaker 2: So I'll be honest, it just didn't matter he grab

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Speaker 2: And I will say this. I will say this. It

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Speaker 2: is one more small reminder for the crew of the

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Speaker 2: Bogman's of the world, the people that are like I

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Speaker 2: want no part of any injury. This now this is different.

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Speaker 2: But this is a guy that was out like all

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Speaker 2: last season coming in with injury. And there are so

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Speaker 2: many of those players this year. We're going to talk

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Speaker 2: about at least two of them on this. It's just

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Speaker 2: a reminder if if you you know, if if it's

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Speaker 2: that's kind of the inherent stuff. At least this wasn't

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Speaker 2: a reaggravation of the injury. But good reminder.

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Speaker 1: of you today. We're looking at league winners. That's a

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Speaker 2: missed out, Victor Scott is the freest, cheapest version of

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Speaker 2: Victor Scott has all the makings of a league winner.

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Speaker 1: to Oscar has already had thirty one hundred season James

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Speaker 2: actually really good names. I'm gonna say Dustin May just

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Speaker 1: Number ten on my list at ADP of three forty

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Speaker 1: hitting after Jose Ramirez. Now I know the strikeouts have

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Speaker 1: And you know, the Rays, you know, make their choices

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Speaker 2: All right, coming in at number eight, we are going

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Speaker 1: This year, he's been so good it's funny. In my

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Speaker 1: Of course they are, because he's a guy that cost

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Speaker 2: handful of players that legitimately can hit more than thirty

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Speaker 2: five homers. Michael totally is that, and if he does,

431
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Speaker 2: that's league winning stuff for power that you just can't find.

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Speaker 1: Really. Leiden Drafts agreed, all right. Next on my list,

433
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Speaker 1: guess what, it's another picture. There will be some more

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Speaker 1: offensive players fear not. We will get to them, but

435
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Speaker 1: it's a big picture list for me. And another one

436
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Speaker 1: in two twenty four. Overall and ADP is Brandon woodruff

437
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Speaker 1: Orf made his first return not that long ago now

438
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Speaker 1: on the mound in spring training. He's gonna start the

439
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Speaker 1: year on the el. That's fine, that's what we want.

440
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Speaker 1: He's coming back from that interior capsule surgery. Velocity was

441
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Speaker 1: good and that first start was up to ninety five.

442
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Speaker 1: That is a good sign. He's got to build up

443
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Speaker 1: his strength. And I don't want him pitching the month

444
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Speaker 1: of April. Really. I mean, if he comes back by

445
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Speaker 1: the end of the month, okay, great, but I want

446
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Speaker 1: to slow play this, especially if I'm the Milwaukee Brewers

447
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Speaker 1: or if I'm a fantasy manager, because the last thing

448
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Speaker 1: you want is Woodroff pushed too soon in games in

449
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Speaker 1: April where the weather is tricky sometimes and things of

450
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Speaker 1: that nature. You want him to be out there when

451
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Speaker 1: he's one hundred percent ready, and then if he gives

452
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Speaker 1: you five solid months, let's not forget once again. Brandon

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Speaker 1: Woodriff very good, in fact dominant at times. Thirty starts

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, he threw one hundred and seventy

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Speaker 1: nine innings, struck out two hundred and eleven guys in

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Speaker 1: twenty seven starts in twenty twenty two struck out one

457
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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety guys both years a whip right around one.

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Speaker 1: So this is a good picture. This is a great picture.

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Speaker 1: Sure it's risky, but it looks like every picture is risky.

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Speaker 1: So why not mitigate that risk by taking guys later?

461
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Speaker 1: In adp Lozardo Clay Holmes, we're talking about Brandon Woodriff.

462
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Speaker 1: These are guys and all the potential to end up

463
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Speaker 1: as front of the rotation Fantasy starters, and if Woodroff

464
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Speaker 1: regains that form, guess what he's gonna be Just that again.

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Speaker 1: So here's one from Knuckin is totally a Timu Schwarber.

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Speaker 1: There you go. That's a fun one from Knuckins.

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Speaker 2: That's probably a really, really good example. I've never ordered

468
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Speaker 2: from them though they scare me.

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Speaker 1: No me neither. I'm scared too. And now that I've

470
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Speaker 1: said their name out loud, I'm sure we're going to

471
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Speaker 1: see five thousand ads on my social media.

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Speaker 2: Check your phone in two minutes, you're gonna have the worst.

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Speaker 1: Let's go do JF here Dynasty had to head points,

474
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Speaker 1: lead grade the trade receive Trout, Fairbanks, Stroman Weatherhold, like

475
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Speaker 1: Weatherhold sent Gossman, Louder and Bradley.

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Speaker 2: I mean fleece, you fleeced them. Some people could question Trout,

477
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Speaker 2: but I'm not super big into big pitching trades in

478
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Speaker 2: Dynasty or having trades where you're getting all the pitchers.

479
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Speaker 2: And this time you moved away. You traded a couple

480
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Speaker 2: of good young pieces in Bradley and Louder, but you

481
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Speaker 2: got Mike troufor this year. You also got JJ Weatherhol

482
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Speaker 2: who's a great Dynasty pick. You you did great.

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Speaker 1: All right, Number six on our list, Welsh kick it.

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Speaker 2: Off, number six. I'm going to the pitching market. I'm

485
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Speaker 2: going to a Phillies pitcher that's not Hazus Lozardo. No,

486
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Speaker 2: We're going to Christopher Sanchez. Christopher Sanchez who has had

487
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Speaker 2: again I'm not trying to do a hyper focus on it,

488
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Speaker 2: but like these are guys that have had great springs

489
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Speaker 2: that are hoping to carry it over. But he also

490
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Speaker 2: had a great year last year one hundred and eighty

491
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Speaker 2: innings of three three two Era carried that into this

492
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Speaker 2: season with a one six to two spring ERA, gave

493
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Speaker 2: up only three earned runs. And here's the big key,

494
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:49,679
Speaker 2: sixteen innings, struck out nineteen last season, low strikeouts, it

495
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Speaker 2: was a twenty percent K percentage with a little over

496
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Speaker 2: a five percent walk rate. It's not horrible or anything

497
00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,160
Speaker 2: like that. It's getting into the brand new WU territory.

498
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Speaker 2: But he added that cutter that he's looking too. He's

499
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Speaker 2: put in all spring and it looks like that's starting

500
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Speaker 2: to reap some good strikeout results. Christopher Sanchez's stuff is

501
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Speaker 2: the type where if he can add strikeouts, it's kind

502
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Speaker 2: of like Brian Wu. If you added like twenty six

503
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Speaker 2: twenty seven percent K percentage, you're talking about a guy

504
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Speaker 2: that could be top fifteen. And that's where Chris Sanchez

505
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:21,680
Speaker 2: is going. Also, projections have been very very heavy on him.

506
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Speaker 2: If you look, he's a top twenty five war pitcher

507
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Speaker 2: off of bat and ATC and on ATC tied for

508
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Speaker 2: the third most wins in baseball. So you look at

509
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Speaker 2: a guy with low ERA potential strikeout increase who gets

510
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Speaker 2: massive innings on a great team. You said the Zartoka

511
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Speaker 2: win fifteen. If I had to put a bet down,

512
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Speaker 2: I would say Chris Sanchez is the guy that might

513
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Speaker 2: touch that fifteen. So we both picked two Phillies pictures.

514
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Speaker 2: It's great team context. I think Sanchez is the guy

515
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Speaker 2: that could fly up those sp ranks. He has moved

516
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Speaker 2: up quite a bit from like January, but he's still

517
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Speaker 2: in a pretty good cost range and he could be

518
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Speaker 2: a league winner for your rotation.

519
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Speaker 1: Who wins that division, Mets Phillies, Braves. Braves are the

520
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Speaker 1: top right now in terms of Vegas. I'm just curious

521
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Speaker 1: what your thoughts are.

522
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Speaker 2: I think, like my immediate go well, okay, just like

523
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Speaker 2: I know I was gonna my gut was gonna say,

524
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Speaker 2: I was gonna say the Phillies. But if Spencer Strider

525
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Speaker 2: is back and Acuna can get back, like they're going

526
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Speaker 2: to be impossible. Like that team is going to be

527
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,879
Speaker 2: so tough, and I think they still have assets to

528
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Speaker 2: make a trade. But if you've got Sale and Strider,

529
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Speaker 2: like just that one two combo's gonna be ridiculous. I

530
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Speaker 2: don't know, that's really really tough. I'm gonna say Phillies

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Speaker 2: right now because they're healthy and they've got all those pieces,

532
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Speaker 2: but that that actually might be the best like three

533
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Speaker 2: bang bang bang for a division that's out.

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Speaker 1: There especially now that the Yankees have had all those

535
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Speaker 1: injuries too.

536
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Speaker 2: Exactly so different in.

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Speaker 1: The American League. All right, next on my list, coming

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Speaker 1: in at number six. Don't worry. We'll take a break

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Speaker 1: from pictures in a second. But not now. It's Sean Manaya.

540
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Speaker 1: He's already throwing from ninety feet. Last year, a breakout

541
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Speaker 1: season from seaman Ie one hundred and eighty one hundred

542
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Speaker 1: and eight for strikeouts sixty three walks, had an ERA

543
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Speaker 1: of one point zero eight. Excuse I whip up one

544
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Speaker 1: point he wait an ERA of three point four seven.

545
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Speaker 1: The fip was right around, you know, in the neighborhood

546
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Speaker 1: of the era. The adjustments he made were real, and

547
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Speaker 1: the offense around him is real that this is a

548
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Speaker 1: really good lineup, especially when Alvarez comes back healthy too.

549
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: My god, this is gonna be really tough to face

550
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Speaker 1: the Mets lineup. So to me, this is all just

551
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Speaker 1: about patience, and the ADP has fallen obviously because of

552
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Speaker 1: the injury to seventeen. If he's throwing at ninety feet now,

553
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Speaker 1: the ramp up, I imagine, well, you're probably gonna get

554
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Speaker 1: him over the next couple of weeks. I anticipate having

555
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Speaker 1: him back. I would say probably after Easter would be

556
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Speaker 1: my guess of Shaan Ma and Iya in that week.

557
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Speaker 1: I think you can ramp him up potentially that quickly,

558
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Speaker 1: and I think the Mets kind of need to. So

559
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Speaker 1: for me, Manaia is one of these guys, it's a

560
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Speaker 1: need factor. He seems like everything's going okay barring any setbacks.

561
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Speaker 1: You're in good shape. Remember this was an oblique issue,

562
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Speaker 1: wasn't an arm issue, So there's no reason to think

563
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Speaker 1: the sky is falling here with shaw Manaya. So I'm

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Speaker 1: back in on Shawn and I brings us to our

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Speaker 1: top five. So we got ten more guys in our

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Speaker 1: list of twenty league winners. And if you're joining the show,

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Speaker 1: make sure you subscribe to Fantasy Rows MLB on the

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel too and of course on twitch a twitch

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Speaker 1: dot tv slash Fantasy Pros Welsh. Let's get to the

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Speaker 1: top five here, kick us off. Who is your number five?

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Speaker 2: Number five? We're going to the outfield, and we're going

572
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Speaker 2: to the cubs. And I actually had a couple cubs

573
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Speaker 2: that could have probably gotten this five spot, but I'm

574
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Speaker 2: gonna go with Pete crow Armstrong, not even someone that

575
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 2: I'm like the biggest, biggest on in the world. But

576
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Speaker 2: I've definitely been kind of turning face simply because A, yes,

577
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Speaker 2: you have a fantastic, fantastic spring where he would put

578
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Speaker 2: together you know, hitting three homers, he's hitting like five

579
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Speaker 2: hundred stealing bases. But you also look, if that bat

580
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Speaker 2: is the thing that's going to continue, that's the game changer,

581
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Speaker 2: that's the ultimate game changer for Pete Crow, because Pete

582
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Speaker 2: Crow can fly. Pete Crow has some underlying hitting metrics

583
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Speaker 2: that are not the greatest in the world seven percent

584
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 2: barrel under forty percent hard hit rate, but he's lowering

585
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Speaker 2: his strikeouts, he's making a bunch more kid attack and

586
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 2: if that, at the end of the day really does

587
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,479
Speaker 2: come together, you're looking at some projections that could put

588
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,679
Speaker 2: him close to twenty thirty, a catalyst for this Cub's offense,

589
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 2: which I think is going to be pretty high flying.

590
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 2: So I think Pete Crow in this like, can these

591
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 2: guys be five tool? He has a legitimate shot to

592
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 2: be a five tool player, and he's carrying over a

593
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 2: really great second half. He hit two sixty two in

594
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 2: the second half of last season. Aggressive stolen bases. If

595
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 2: he puts up a twenty thirty season that is going

596
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 2: to push right around like third or fourth round value,

597
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,119
Speaker 2: and it's at worse going to be it could be

598
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 2: five four high categories like I don't know where the

599
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 2: RBI are going to go, but he could move up

600
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Speaker 2: the lineup. But at this point, Pete Crow, where he's

601
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 2: going kind of later in drafts definitely looks like he's

602
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 2: got the makings of being a league winner, all.

603
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Speaker 1: Right, league winner potentially there for Pete Crow Armstrong a

604
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Speaker 1: guy that I've talked about as well, number five on

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Speaker 1: my list Jackson Holiday. And that brings us to this

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Speaker 1: love Jackson Holiday again. You know, well, I remember a

615
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: simpler time. Oh it was back in twenty twenty four.

616
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Speaker 1: I think it was March, maybe it was April. It

617
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Speaker 1: was spring, and it was a beautiful time where Jackson

618
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Speaker 1: Holiday was the top guy for Rookie of the Year

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Speaker 1: on the board and everybody was falling all over themselves

620
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Speaker 1: to draft Jackson Holiday the number one overall pick just

621
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Speaker 1: a few years prior, and then at just twenty years old. Well,

622
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Speaker 1: he didn't hit right away and he got sent back

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Speaker 1: down and everybody lost the love of Jackson Holiday. And

624
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: now he is still just a boy, and he is

625
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 1: still got so much upside. And for some reason, Jackson

626
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Speaker 1: Holiday is a player that people I see everywhere having

627
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: a hard time buying back into. Now. I don't know why.

628
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly what happens sometimes where you get

629
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Speaker 1: these players where people just completely lose their minds and

630
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: lose faith. But when you look at what he's done

631
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Speaker 1: in the minor leagues, you look at the adjustments he's

632
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: made this offseason, and then you look at what he's

633
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Speaker 1: doing this spring, and I know last year was a

634
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 1: good spring. To eight sixty six ops, a three thirty

635
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: three batting average. He does have a homer, he's got

636
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: five stolen bases. If you're looking for a league winner,

637
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Speaker 1: how about the ADP of Jackson Holiday at second base,

638
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: a position that none of us really love, at one

639
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: eighty three nearly two hundred overall. So it's funny to

640
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Speaker 1: me wlsh going back to last year, his ADP was

641
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: still higher than it is this year, and to me,

642
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Speaker 1: I'm far more confident in him this year, succeeding and

643
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Speaker 1: being set up for success with the adjustments he've made.

644
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Speaker 1: So Jackson Holiday for me could be a league winner.

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651
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Speaker 1: learn more about number four on Welsh's list.

652
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 2: Shall we also a young player who is going to

653
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 2: be up for potential Rookie of the Year. I think

654
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 2: those are a good recipe sometimes for league winners. There's

655
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 2: been a lot of strikeouts, but there's still a lot

656
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 2: of accounting stats. Number four for me is Jason Dominguez

657
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 2: with the New York Yankees actually struggle between him and

658
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 2: Dylan Cruz. I think both of those guys kind of

659
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 2: flow in there. But you know, dimingas in that hitting

660
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 2: environment could really be a game changer. And there's a

661
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 2: part of me that wonders could he have a same

662
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 2: or similar Jackson surio trajectory where it's a little bit

663
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 2: slow starting. Like I said, the spring strikeouts have been

664
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 2: kind of their batting average has been their homers and power.

665
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 2: But that's the thing, like he he is the epitome

666
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 2: of a five tool player. You know, when he's hitting,

667
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 2: he's going to hit closer to middle and this lineup

668
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 2: he could hit closer to a middle of the order

669
00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 2: of the lineup where he could potentially move up. There's

670
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 2: big He's going to score runs, he's aggressive on the

671
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 2: base paths. The batting average is going to be a

672
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 2: big key. And I do, like I said, I do

673
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 2: think there is a potential worry that early on maybe

674
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 2: things could have a tiny bit of a struggle. But

675
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 2: there's a commitment to Jason Diminguez this season. I love

676
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 2: the ballpark factors. We've seen some big homers in his

677
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 2: short stints out here, and when you look at some

678
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 2: of the projections we've got on screen here on the

679
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 2: video side, you can see, you know, some are more

680
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 2: optimistic than others, but you're toying around with twenty twenty

681
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 2: in some instances, maybe even pushing twenty thirty. So Jason

682
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 2: Diminguez doesn't have the fervor of a lot of young

683
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 2: guys in how high they're going, But I think he

684
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 2: could be a league winner if things start to click.

685
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 2: So that is the rookie that I went at number four.

686
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: Now there's some demand in the chat. And I had

687
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: to explain this to our producer, Michael Cally, because you know,

688
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: Leading Off is its own little cult sometimes, and Jackson

689
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 1: Holiday is a favorite of the show. So can we

690
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 1: get it? Can we get a look at Jackson Holiday?

691
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 2: Oh boy, look at me.

692
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 3: I'm having a great spring. Don't give up on me

693
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 3: quite yet. I had a four hundred on base percentage

694
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 3: of the minor leagues. Oh, don't forget about me. Gee whiz,

695
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be so excited to play.

696
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: Major league baseball.

697
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 2: Boy. Oh boy, look, big dad was Matt Holiday.

698
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, my dad played for the Rockies. Do you remember

699
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 3: the Rockies when they were good.

700
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: Hardly anybody does that was a long time ago good.

701
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: Just say I don't. I don't think the Rockies did

702
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: ever want anything. All right, let's get back to the

703
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,239
Speaker 1: there you got little Jackson holiday for everybody. We love

704
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: the Jackson Holly. Let's get to number four on my

705
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: list here, number four for me. I guess what, We're

706
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: back to the pictures. It's Ryan Peppio and now the

707
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: McClanahan is out. Well, you know what, Ryan Pepio's definitely

708
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: locked into rotation spot. If it was any concern three

709
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: to one strikeout to walk Ratio last year. Pepio to me,

710
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: is ready to take that next step. If you look

711
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: at where he's at in terms of adp still one

712
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: seventy five, one seventy five Welsh. I think he's consistent.

713
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: I like his delivery, I like his approach, I like

714
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: his demeanor, like everything about him, the moving to the outside.

715
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: The only thing I wish is for, you know, for

716
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: Kevin Arrow. I want him to be outside, out of

717
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: that ballpark for all the pictures. I want to be

718
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: back in that old ballpark. But that's who knows. It

719
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: might never happen. But what I do know is this

720
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: Ryan Pepio is ready for the big time. We're gonna

721
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: look back on this season, I think for Pepio and say,

722
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: you know, this guy was being drafted way too late

723
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 1: considering the skill set. And I think we're gonna look

724
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 1: back and say, man, we should have been more aggressive

725
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: on him. A lot of people, not me. I'm pretty

726
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: aggressive on him, and I think you should be too.

727
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: Let's get to the next one on the list here,

728
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: Top three territory. I got some big names on my list, Welsh,

729
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: I know you've got some big names as well. Let's

730
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: get to a couple questions here. Does Ranger Suarez make

731
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: it to the top three? Here is another Phillies starting

732
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: picture to be talked about. Spoiler alert. He did not.

733
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: But we likes Ranger Swarez. We like him here, we're

734
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: a fan, all right, it's fine. Here's look at this

735
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: and the first time or Jerry friend of the show

736
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 1: making it to twitch with us, Jerry, glad you're making

737
00:33:56,040 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: that switch over. Are we concerned about Francisco Lindors, Mats Ring,

738
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: Not at all, Not for me, could care less the veterans.

739
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: I never care about Spring. It's guys that have something

740
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 1: to prove for me. We wash I'm not scared at

741
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 1: all enough, No, I.

742
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 2: Mean, and I will. I've admitted this, like I think

743
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 2: a bad thing about Spring for a lot of us

744
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 2: is like you take the good and it confirms like, okay, cool,

745
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 2: things are working well. You take the bad and you're

746
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 2: just like, I don't worry. What's that like this? Yeah,

747
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 2: in this instance, I'm not worried about Lindor specifically, though,

748
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 2: like you know, maybe like the elite elite players in

749
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 2: their struggles, it's not something I'm gonna does.

750
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: Rasp mes An uptick, this is a good question. With

751
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: the mcclan injury. I think absolutely, yes, I think so.

752
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,760
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I mean he's had a good Spring,

753
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 2: and I worry about, like, you know, what the bottom

754
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 2: of the rotation looks like. And I will say, like,

755
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 2: if you picked two guys that are going to be

756
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,240
Speaker 2: in minor league ballparks this year with you have Springs

757
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 2: and Pepio, which might make them values, Rasmussen is going

758
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 2: to be in the same spot. But yeah, no, I

759
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:56,359
Speaker 2: think he gets the games are on the road.

760
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: Half the games are on the road still, which still

761
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: stuff for Pepio, but not as bad necessarily for mister

762
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: was a springs there earlier. All right, let's get top

763
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: three here, and I mean there's not a Welsh list

764
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: that doesn't have this guy on it.

765
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, this will be on the show we do on Thursday.

766
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 2: This is the guy. But it's more than just one

767
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 2: of my favorite players. I still hold firm. I think

768
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 2: obviously a lot of people agree with me coming in

769
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 2: at number three. A league winning pitcher Spencer Schwellenbach. Of course,

770
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 2: schwellenbach ADP can vary when he gets up into the sixties.

771
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 2: This isn't like a ADP necessarily value conversation, but when

772
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 2: you're talking about league winners, you do want to have

773
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 2: some separation because like like Eli Da Lagers is a

774
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 2: league winner, but it's a first round pick. You know,

775
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 2: he comes up and down. But Schwellenbach going anywhere between

776
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,439
Speaker 2: the sixties and nineties also proves a really good point

777
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 2: and outside the top twenty SPS that the reason he

778
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 2: could be a league winner is because he is a

779
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 2: legitimate shot that he could crack the top ten. And

780
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 2: I you know, I've kind of talked about it at nauseum,

781
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 2: but you know, low barrel rate against low walk rate

782
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 2: is like Brian Wuish for point six percent walk right,

783
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 2: but he had good K percentage twenty five almost twenty

784
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 2: six percent K percentage, and he's got an arsenal of pitches.

785
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 2: I think we could see more split finger this year.

786
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 2: He throws five pitches ten percent or more of the time.

787
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 2: Fastball ticks in in the mid nineties. He's had a

788
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 2: phenomenal spring. It's showing it off. He looks more consistent,

789
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 2: and I think Schwellenbach really does have the opportunity to

790
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:23,919
Speaker 2: jump up. So I think you know, from a league

791
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 2: winning standpoint, you want your sp threes to be SP threes,

792
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,839
Speaker 2: but this is an SP three or four that can

793
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 2: be an SP one. So I think Spencer Schwellenbach. I've

794
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 2: been pretty pretty clear about this for five or six months.

795
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: He is a league winner at one thirty seven, number

796
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: three on my list. Sandy al Contra. He has given

797
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: up oh wait, how many earned runs this year in

798
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: spring trading. None? He's given up none. That's what he's done.

799
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: He's been great, okay, and he is not going to

800
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,720
Speaker 1: finish the season on the Marlins. Bold prediction there, somebody's

801
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:56,879
Speaker 1: gonna come knock in The need is going to be there.

802
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: These teams are all in, and there's more teams fighting

803
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: for playoff spots nowadays and they used to. And this

804
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: guy's far too valuable and the Marlins are not competing

805
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: anytime soon in this division, So the sooner they deal him,

806
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: the better the hall for prospects will be. If the

807
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: Mets come calling, if the Yankees come calling, if the

808
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: Red Sox come calling, if the Orioles decide finally to

809
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,919
Speaker 1: go calling for a starting pitcher, somebody's gonna call this team,

810
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna make a move. And the quicker you get

811
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 1: Sandy off this team and on yours, the better. Awful

812
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: lot of people are going to be I love this ADP.

813
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: He's a keeper in my home league too that I

814
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: talked about. That I'm absolutely stoked about. Unfortunately, I also

815
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: have mclan am. I took both of them for like

816
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 1: a buck or two last year in a rebuild, and

817
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: I was so excited. And then Saturday afternoon, I was

818
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: out taking a walk when the McLanahan stuff happened, and

819
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 1: I was like Welsh, I would just was continuing to

820
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: walk and straight into the lake and that's that's where

821
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:52,320
Speaker 1: I was going. Yeah, just kept walking and going this

822
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: is real life, this is happening. But seriously, Sandy walking,

823
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 1: this is a cy young guy. This is this is

824
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 1: the guy wh's one of the best pitchers in baseball

825
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: for years in a row, and then he soldier through

826
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: the injury before he ended up having the Tommy John

827
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 1: He looks great. I'm not concerned about restrictions with him.

828
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 1: I think we're in a good spot with him and

829
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: I am going to invest and if he is anything closed,

830
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: if he is eighty percent ninety percent of what he

831
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 1: was a few years back when healthy Sandy Alcontra is

832
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: an absolute league winner. Ace, how many aces are gonna

833
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: find outside of the top one hundred ADP Not many?

834
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: All right, Welsh? Two more names on the list. Who

835
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: are they for you? Number two?

836
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 2: This is the biggest pitcher that is the league winner,

837
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:35,320
Speaker 2: and this guy was going outside the top twenty sps.

838
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 2: Still is dicey. There are rankers that have him in

839
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 2: the forties and the thirties. Some of us have pushed

840
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,800
Speaker 2: him into the twenties. The number one pitcher because my

841
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 2: number one is going to be a hitter, but so

842
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 2: number two. Overall, number one pitcher is also an Atlanta

843
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 2: Brave Spencer Strider. Of course, Spencer Strider, who's had multiple

844
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 2: spring starts, looked fantastic. The only thing that we've cared

845
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 2: about this spring starts is that he's out there as

846
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 2: that he's getting going. He had four innings. He struck

847
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 2: out ten in four innings over two games. He walked one.

848
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 2: We saw the stuff the velos where it needs to be.

849
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 2: The slider is biting and that's the big key with

850
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 2: Spencer Strider because we got nothing out of him last year,

851
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,839
Speaker 2: and you know a lot of people like we've said

852
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 2: this and people have jumped back into it where you

853
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 2: see the love of a guy like Jacob deGrom, who

854
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 2: in you know, ten team leagues can be a number

855
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,879
Speaker 2: five or you know he's going anywhere between like sp

856
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 2: seven and twelve. Spencer Streider is just right there. Spencer

857
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 2: Strider obviously has the injury coming into the season. De

858
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 2: Grom doesn't. We know Degram is going to hit the il,

859
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 2: but if Stryder ends up pushing those innings, you know,

860
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 2: projections are kind of all over the board. You can

861
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 2: see on the screen a few of them. I don't

862
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 2: know if you can scroll down at all, but there's

863
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 2: like one twenty on ATC. If he beats those projections,

864
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 2: even in a slight way and gets to one thirty

865
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 2: or one forty, we're talking about Spencer Strider being without

866
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 2: question a league winner with dominant stuff in twenty twenty three,

867
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 2: a thirty seven percent K percentage, a three and a

868
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 2: half walk percentage. They need him more than ever. This

869
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 2: to me screams, but there's risk. McClanahan just got hurt,

870
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 2: so it's inherent risk here. But if you want to

871
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 2: talk about the true meaning of league winner, Spencer Strider

872
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 2: absolutely encompasses it because he can be a number one

873
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 2: overall starting pitcher, not like, oh, the top ten or

874
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,280
Speaker 2: something like that. Like he can be the most valuable

875
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 2: pitcher in fantasy and we might get him for like

876
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 2: ninety to ninety five percent of the season. So it's

877
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 2: a pretty easy pick for me with Strider.

878
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,280
Speaker 1: Louis Robert is my number two at eighty five overall.

879
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:37,839
Speaker 3: A lot of mine.

880
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: You know, there's a theme here with a lot of

881
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: guys on my list, which is I'm old enough to

882
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 1: remember when they were great, and I feel like the

883
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: short term memory loss of people in Fantasy baseball this

884
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 1: year in particular is absurd. Let me dial all the

885
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 1: way back to twenty twenty three, thirty eight homers, twenty steals.

886
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: I mean still at two sixty four. There's a guy

887
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 1: who's got even more upside batting average so far the spring.

888
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:03,839
Speaker 1: He's got three homers and he's hitting the Let's see

889
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,760
Speaker 1: two seventy seven with an eight sixty oh ps. Luis

890
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 1: Robert is the guy, and another one where I don't

891
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 1: think he finishes the year with the dreadful White Sox.

892
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: I'm a big line of protection guy. I know the

893
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 1: lineup sucks. He's a superstar guy. They're going to be

894
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: in a lot of meaningless games. But if he has

895
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: a good April and May, teams are gonna come knocking

896
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: for this guy. There will be more injuries to other teams.

897
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: Robert is a bat I could see in Houston making

898
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: a huge impact potentially if they want to go all

899
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 1: in there. Louise Robert has had injury issues in the past.

900
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 1: That's why the ADP is suppressed and last year was

901
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: a complete nightmare. I get it. But let's not pretend

902
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: that if he isn't right, if I just give you

903
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 1: those stats, Welsh right, if I say to you, you

904
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 1: can have a guy that's gonna hit thirty five homers,

905
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 1: drive in eighty five ninety runs. He is around what

906
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: player for you? Two round three? Maybe you get lucky,

907
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:56,879
Speaker 1: you get him a round three.

908
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 2: Well, I mean you're inderstilling. This stolen base is what

909
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,879
Speaker 2: you should say, is yeah, thirty thirty stolen bases, thirty

910
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:03,720
Speaker 2: five homers, that's first.

911
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: Right, thirty pushing It's twenty from Robert and I'm over

912
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: the moon. And again it's just a situation where you

913
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: need to understand, Louis. Robert does have risk. It's baked

914
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: into the ADP. But the upside is league winner, which

915
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: brings us to number one on both of our list.

916
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:21,720
Speaker 1: Welsh your number one league winner for twenty twenty five.

917
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 2: Is people are gonna hate this one. It's Mike Trout.

918
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 2: We're gonna go back to Mike Trout. League winning is

919
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 2: what he's built for, and also losing unfortunately, because he

920
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 2: is literally healthy and that I mean it is one

921
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,320
Speaker 2: way or the other. But here is where the league

922
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 2: losing alters just a tiny bit, my friends, he does

923
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 2: not cost first, second, third, or fourth round this year.

924
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:50,800
Speaker 2: Now he has moved up a little bit because spring's

925
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 2: going he was going outside of the top one hundred.

926
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 2: He's still pushing in that one hundred range. You can

927
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 2: see projections of also baked in the injury. He's not

928
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 2: hurt right now. He's lost some weight, moved positions. But

929
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 2: look at those projections. Four hundred at bats. It's just

930
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 2: four hundred bats across the board. But what are those

931
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 2: four hundred at bats and that's two thirds of the

932
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 2: season played. What do those show you? Those show you

933
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 2: almost a thirty ten guy. Now if he were if

934
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 2: some butts candies announcement, I'll have a merry Christmas. If

935
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 2: we were to get more of a mic trout, you're

936
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 2: talking about a thirty five to forty home run season.

937
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 2: I really do think it would behoove the team to

938
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 2: not let him be aggressive on the base paths. But

939
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 2: we did see him aggressive last year. But if they

940
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:39,800
Speaker 2: hold that back, maybe that helps helps the health. But

941
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 2: it's the speed that's going to be or the power

942
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 2: that's going to be there, and if that power goes

943
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,399
Speaker 2: it could be forty ten. Let's say he's not super

944
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 2: hyper aggressive. He didn't even attempt to stolen base in

945
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 2: spring so far. But you're talking about two seventy two

946
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:57,399
Speaker 2: eighty batting average, one hundred rbi, ninety runs, thirty five

947
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 2: forty homers, and he could probably do it in like

948
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 2: four hundred and fifty to five hundred bats. So, Mike Trout,

949
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 2: there's big caveats here, and unfortunately league winners, some of

950
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 2: these guys are attached to injuries, the first two, the

951
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 2: bottom two. I'm giving you the number one pitcher, number

952
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 2: one hit or do. But Mike Trout has the makings

953
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 2: of it because he is cheaper than it's ever been

954
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 2: before and you can really take on the inherent risks.

955
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 2: So that is my pick for the number one league winner.

956
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: I like you said league winner and league loser, but

957
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 1: I don't think he's as much of a legual loser

958
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 1: at the current ADP.

959
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 2: I will agree with you on that one.

960
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,800
Speaker 1: ATC Projections has him for one hundred and three games

961
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 1: twenty seven homers. He hasn't played one hundred and seven

962
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: games except for twenty twenty two, where you played one

963
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: hundred nineteen, and that's since twenty nineteen. Obviously, the short

964
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 1: season of twenty twenty doesn't really count, so it's been

965
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: a while. We'll see if he could do it. But

966
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 1: you're right. I mean, especially at this ADP, there's upside

967
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: for more. I'm gonna take another guy who's not gonna

968
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: play a full season. It's Ronald Dacunia Junior. Because forty

969
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 1: seventy guys don't grow on trees. I know. I heard

970
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: Roald Acunia say, well, I'm gonna be easier on the

971
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: base pass. I've heard this nonsense before. I've seen this

972
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: movie play out. I've seen in the NFL with quarterbacks

973
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: when they get heard who like to run, they say, yeah,

974
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not gonna run as much, and then

975
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,800
Speaker 1: they go out there and they run the same. Because

976
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: you can't change who these athletes are. You just can't.

977
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,879
Speaker 1: It's in their DNA. And Ronald Acunya, so far, all

978
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: signs are pointing in the right direction. I would expect

979
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: him back mid May. And if you are going to

980
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 1: look at Mike Trout and Roald Acunya, I'm gonna bet

981
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: on the twenty seven year old who's coming off the

982
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 1: VIE repair, second knee repair, but it's a different knee,

983
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:42,240
Speaker 1: and I expected both to go at some point. Typically,

984
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: when you have a guy who go hays an acl

985
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: tear the other one's not far away, and that happens

986
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: quite a bit, so it was not surprising to me.

987
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 1: It was surprising that happened so quickly. But forty seventy

988
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: talent is incredible. Now do I expect forty seventy Of course,

989
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: not because he's not gonna play that many games, but

990
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 1: whereas well, that's just taking my trout. I think it's

991
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: season long roto leagues. You could take the one hundred

992
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 1: games of my trout you get and say that's gonna

993
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: make a big potential impact. I'm saying that if you

994
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 1: are in any head to head formats when you have playoffs,

995
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 1: by the time Acunya really gets up to speed and

996
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,400
Speaker 1: becomes Ronald Acunya again, and I think he will be,

997
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: you have what a top three overall player. Now that's

998
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: a league winner. I would say it's more in those

999
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: leagues where you have playoffs, more in those head to

1000
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: head kind of formats rode or points. But at the

1001
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 1: same time, Welsh you look at the ATC projections for him,

1002
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 1: they're one hundred and sixteen games, twenty one homers, twenty

1003
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 1: nine steals. I'll sign up for that. That to me

1004
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: is again if you're getting that in a compacted period

1005
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: of time, a huge potential league winner, and I dare

1006
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 1: I say there's upside for more. People were concerned when

1007
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 1: he first came back too that he wouldn't steal bases

1008
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 1: last time around, and he did. I think with two

1009
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,399
Speaker 1: repaired knees, he's gonna be fine. I think he's still

1010
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:54,320
Speaker 1: thirty and one hundred and twelve one hundred and nineteen

1011
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: games last time around. So give me Ronald Acunya in

1012
00:46:57,840 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 1: the third round. That's where I like him. Second round

1013
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: a little too rich. Third round. Lock it in just

1014
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: a recap. Here the names on our list for me,

1015
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: it's Manzardo Springs, Lozardo, I got Lozardo and Manzarto Woodruff,

1016
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:15,359
Speaker 1: Manaia Holiday, Pepio, Acontra, Robert and Acunya, Welsh has, Victor Scott,

1017
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:20,280
Speaker 1: cam Smith, Clay Holmes, Michael Tolia, Christopher Sanchez, Pete Crol Armstrong,

1018
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: Jason de Minguez, Spencer Schwellenbach, Spencer Strider, Mike Trout, Welsh.

1019
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 1: Hell of a list you put together. Who are your

1020
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: league winners? Drop your comments below on the YouTube channel.

1021
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:33,080
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1022
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:36,800
Speaker 1: tense Schwellenbach. Is the past tense Schwollenbach. I just I

1023
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1024
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:42,280
Speaker 1: chat too. Is it Schwellenbach post?

1025
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:43,720
Speaker 2: Is it Swollenbach?

1026
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:45,799
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