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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into the cycle. I am Ryan Warmley,

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Speaker 1: joined as always by Mike Mayer, who wanted me very

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Speaker 1: explicitly to tell everybody that he is editor in chief

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Speaker 1: here at Fantasy Pros. Is really important to him that

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Speaker 1: I use this title. But not as always. We have

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Speaker 1: a guest today. We had a few guests last season.

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Speaker 1: We haven't really done it a lot this year, Mayor,

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Speaker 1: but I was talking to George and I was like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, we want to get some guests on.

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Speaker 1: He's great. We talked to him during the Fantasy Fest

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Speaker 1: back in March, so let's bring him on again. George

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Speaker 1: Bissel from Road a World editor, writer, a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: of stuff over there, no known official title. George, thanks

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Speaker 1: for coming on with us.

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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, thanks for having me. It's great to be here.

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Speaker 2: I'm honored to be one of the very few guests

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Speaker 2: to come on this show, and you got me at

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Speaker 2: a perfect time. We're sort of in that little transitional

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Speaker 2: state before we hit the trade deadline next week. We

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Speaker 2: just had the MLB Draft, so we had a bunch

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Speaker 2: of new names to talk about for Dynasty purposes, and

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Speaker 2: we're gonna have a lot of prospects moved at the

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Speaker 2: trade deadline as well, so really fun time in the

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Speaker 2: baseball calendar. A lot to get to.

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Speaker 1: It's always an interesting couple weeks because you have that

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Speaker 1: reset at the All Star break. It's kind of the

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Speaker 1: unofficial start of the second half, even though technically that

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Speaker 1: you're almost in a holding pattern right ahead of the

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Speaker 1: trade deadline, just to kind of see how things shake

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Speaker 1: it's an interesting time of year, and yeah, we're definitely

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Speaker 1: happy to have you on. We're gonna run through some

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Speaker 1: news and notes, just general stuff going on in baseball.

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Speaker 1: Then we want to talk about your mega update to

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Speaker 1: your Fantasy Baseball Dynasty rankings on Roade World, your top

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Speaker 1: five hundred players in Dynasty, so we'll talk about that,

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Speaker 1: and then we're going to kind of do a second half,

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Speaker 1: you know, stretch run, playoff run, kind of strategy guide

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Speaker 1: from George how we're approaching the final couple months of

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Speaker 1: the season, because it's hard to believe. It feels like

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Speaker 1: just yesterday we were on the Fest talking bold predictions

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Speaker 1: that we were just mentioned before the show. Were largely

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Speaker 1: very incorrect. And here we are here, you know, just

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks away from the playoffs and head to

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Speaker 1: head leagues, and just a few months left in the season.

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Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and dive right in and mayor

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Speaker 1: do you want to run us through some of these

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Speaker 1: news and notes. I did write down the first one,

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Speaker 1: which I was like, not at all fantasy actionable. But

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Speaker 1: Jotani has five straight games with the homer just worth noticing,

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Speaker 1: you know, mentioning it's awesome, He's really good. NOI what

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Speaker 1: here in the news and notes?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, Tani five trade games. It

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Speaker 3: almost feels like any other batter. We'll be like, whoa,

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Speaker 3: this is incredible, and of Tani, it's like wow, like

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Speaker 4: It's like not even news. We rarely even talked about it.

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Speaker 3: If you if I didn't like see it yesterday in

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Speaker 3: not have even realized that happened. A couple of names,

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Speaker 3: you know, Jordan mentioned the trade deadline is coming up,

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Speaker 3: so we might see some big picture names traded. You know,

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Speaker 3: some are pitching better than others. The biggest name is

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Speaker 3: probably Joe Ryan, just because he's, you know, one of

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Speaker 3: be blown away. Dylan Cees not having as good of

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Speaker 3: Nick Lodolo just through a complete game shut out. He's

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Speaker 3: day Shane Boss still in the rotation. George, we will

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Speaker 3: fill you in on that joke.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but Mayor Mayor has repeatedly mixed up tag one

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Speaker 1: time not repeating I just give you a heart. It

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Speaker 1: was one time, but the commenters were very merciless about

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Speaker 1: he's reference in there. But yes, it was not Shane

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Speaker 3: And also by the way, I corrected myself like immediately,

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Speaker 1: I want to kind of loop together the trade deadline

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Speaker 1: When you look at some of these, like Dylan Sees,

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Speaker 2: So this stuff's always pretty contact dependent based on the

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Speaker 2: I think I always take a wait and see approach

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Speaker 2: And I try not to change my opinion too much

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Speaker 1: Till and Cease mayor is that somebody for you in

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Speaker 4: Like where he like where he landed, that I would

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Speaker 3: And I was thinking maybe the Houston Astros, like maybe

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Speaker 2: The Yankees, it's tough with the ballpark context, like that's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Mayor are there any other names in the I

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Speaker 1: of last second, but not to three under the Bus.

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Speaker 1: But any any other names in the article from Jeff

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Speaker 1: let's get into this Dynasty midseason update. I was actually

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Speaker 4: I say, we have to talk about that other trade.

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Speaker 1: So there was This league has been going on. I

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Speaker 1: So one of the things, well, first of all, Mayor

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Speaker 2: You know what do you guys think? I would always

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Speaker 2: because whatever moves you make, people are gonna remember, hey,

435
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Speaker 2: he did that or she did that five years ago,

436
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Speaker 2: and I'm not gonna forget about it. So just be

437
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Speaker 2: mindful of that whenever you're making trades.

438
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Speaker 4: This manager did quite the opposite.

439
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Speaker 1: He was gonna say he could have used that advice.

440
00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:50,880
Speaker 1: He ended up crashing out in epic fashion and actually

441
00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:55,320
Speaker 1: left the league after this happened. But he did it

442
00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:57,720
Speaker 1: in a I'm gonna burn bridges on the way out

443
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Speaker 1: kind of a way. It was like a I get

444
00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:02,960
Speaker 1: his frustration of like, hey, I made this trade, why

445
00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,440
Speaker 1: doesn't it stand? But he was like he did not

446
00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:08,200
Speaker 1: take that approach with it, which is this right. I

447
00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:10,080
Speaker 1: think that's a good piece of advice though for anybody

448
00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:13,040
Speaker 1: in general in trading, is to keep the other managers

449
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Speaker 1: in mind in that regard. The last thing I'll say

450
00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:17,680
Speaker 1: about it before we move on to your your rankings

451
00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:22,760
Speaker 1: is I had offered uh Francisco Lindor for tattoos and

452
00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:25,760
Speaker 1: not even gotten a response. So it was extra frustrated

453
00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:27,760
Speaker 1: for me to be like, you didn't give me a response,

454
00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:32,440
Speaker 1: but now you're accepting hill and and Kwan instead, Like

455
00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:33,480
Speaker 1: that was tough for me.

456
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Speaker 3: Speaking of Georgia's rankings as we transition, do you do

457
00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:38,720
Speaker 3: you want to well, actually, I'll ask you, George, do

458
00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,400
Speaker 3: you know we're right off the top of your head

459
00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,080
Speaker 3: where you have Louise Heal ranked in your dynasty rankings.

460
00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:45,480
Speaker 2: I want to say it's around two hundreds. Let me

461
00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,600
Speaker 2: pull it up deeper than that, is it?

462
00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:49,720
Speaker 4: Let me say.

463
00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:52,280
Speaker 1: I have it?

464
00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:53,240
Speaker 4: Want me to tell you.

465
00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:57,240
Speaker 2: Let's see.

466
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Speaker 4: Growing.

467
00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,119
Speaker 2: I think he was one fifty at the start of

468
00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:06,480
Speaker 2: the year.

469
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Speaker 1: Yeah, two ninety five and tattis shockingly is in the

470
00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:11,360
Speaker 1: top ten.

471
00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:14,560
Speaker 2: So part part of that health concerns though, as we

472
00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:17,119
Speaker 2: saw play out where he's missed five months at the

473
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Speaker 2: start of the year basically, so for sure, pictures, it's

474
00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:22,840
Speaker 2: they're volatile. I don't know, it's so.

475
00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,880
Speaker 1: Let's let's get into the rankings. Then from that perspective

476
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Speaker 1: when you're when you're doing this, how much are you

477
00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:31,440
Speaker 1: considering the volatility of pictures, not just in terms of

478
00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:35,320
Speaker 1: volatility even when healthy, but specifically when it comes to

479
00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,040
Speaker 1: health you have you have trigged. Schooble is obviously third.

480
00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,200
Speaker 1: He's amazing, right, like everybody would be happy to have

481
00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,479
Speaker 1: him in Dynasty, but he's ahead of hitters like La

482
00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:46,920
Speaker 1: Da La Cruz, Ronald Cooney Junior has his own injury stuff,

483
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,440
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. Are the three guys right after him in

484
00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,639
Speaker 1: your rankings? Does the fact that Schooble is a pitcher,

485
00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:54,520
Speaker 1: were you ranking him inside the top three?

486
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Speaker 2: So I resisted pushing Schooble and Schemes into my top

487
00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,560
Speaker 2: five range just because of the volatility pitchers. That's always

488
00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:07,160
Speaker 2: been a thing I would always prefer as a central

489
00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:11,560
Speaker 2: kind of roster building philosophy to center my build around

490
00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,240
Speaker 2: hitters under twenty five. That's kind of what I'm looking at. Obviously,

491
00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,640
Speaker 2: if you're in a startup, you can go first couple

492
00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:19,920
Speaker 2: of rounds, take best player available. There's not a huge

493
00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,439
Speaker 2: gap there unless you're talking about like a Freddie Freeman

494
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,920
Speaker 2: type in the early stages of a draft. But I

495
00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:27,639
Speaker 2: want to prioritize getting hitters under twenty five. That's how

496
00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:31,280
Speaker 2: I would view things, just because with pictures you never

497
00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,520
Speaker 2: really know what you're going to get. And part of

498
00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:38,240
Speaker 2: that's because like a Jacob Mizerowski is a great example

499
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:42,560
Speaker 2: where he's a guy who was probably a top fifty

500
00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,720
Speaker 2: range dynasty prospect coming into the year because of the

501
00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:49,040
Speaker 2: control issues they were committed developing as a starter, and

502
00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 2: then the command takes a leap and all of a sudden,

503
00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:55,119
Speaker 2: he looks like a potential top fifteen starting pitcher for

504
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,920
Speaker 2: fantasy purposes. So that's the type of thing where you

505
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,520
Speaker 2: can kind of find and identify those guys a little

506
00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:02,560
Speaker 2: bit later on, whereas I don't know that you need

507
00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,600
Speaker 2: to be investing early on in those elite, upper echelon guys.

508
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:07,960
Speaker 2: But I will say for Scoogl and Schiens, the reason

509
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,879
Speaker 2: they're ranked that highly is because the gap between them

510
00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,440
Speaker 2: and the rest of the starting pitching pool is pretty

511
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,480
Speaker 2: immense at this point, even with those injury concerns baked in.

512
00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,200
Speaker 2: You look at guys who we thought were relatively safe,

513
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 2: like Logan Gilbert, people like that, who were Corbyn Burns,

514
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,280
Speaker 2: guys who had been pretty durable they've missed time this

515
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:28,199
Speaker 2: year due to injuries, so no one's really safe or reliable.

516
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,440
Speaker 2: But when you look at those two guys, I think

517
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,359
Speaker 2: they're pretty much head and shoulders above the rest of

518
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:34,840
Speaker 2: the starting pitching crop at this point.

519
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Speaker 1: How do you weigh a breakout season when you're looking

520
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,760
Speaker 1: at dynasty do you try to give credit and say,

521
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 1: this is an elevation of this player's skill set and

522
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,879
Speaker 1: game and the production we can expect going forward. I

523
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,240
Speaker 1: look at a guy like Cal Rowley, who mayor actually

524
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Speaker 1: has in that dynastague we were just talking about. He's

525
00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 1: fortieth on the list right here. He's been insanely good

526
00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 1: this season. Right Obviously he's had power and stuff in

527
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 1: the past, but you know, thirty nine homers already, you know,

528
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 1: won the home run Derby at a position like catcher

529
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 1: where you're just not getting that kind of production, So

530
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,159
Speaker 1: forty on the one hand, might seem kind of low.

531
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Speaker 1: But on the other hand, you know he's a catcher,

532
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 1: so like that, you know, will be a little more

533
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,720
Speaker 1: wear and tear on the body. It's also kind of

534
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 1: a later breakout, at least a breakout to this level.

535
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Speaker 1: So how do you kind of square those two things

536
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 1: when you're breaking a guy like Raley.

537
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 2: So when I open my spreadsheet and I sit down,

538
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 2: I go, okay, let's start this process. I go in

539
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 2: with the premise that I don't know anything. These rankings

540
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,440
Speaker 2: are a snapshot in time. You're going to be wrong

541
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 2: all the time. So what you're trying to do is

542
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:42,160
Speaker 2: balance all those variables. And catchers are weird, first of all,

543
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,120
Speaker 2: Like their aging curves are weird, their development tracks are weird,

544
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,160
Speaker 2: like Gary Sanchez had like ten five rights on prospect

545
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 2: lists forever, like he was a prospect forever then finally

546
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 2: got here and he's still around. So catchers because of

547
00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:57,680
Speaker 2: all the things they have to manage, like their breakouts

548
00:23:57,680 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 2: are weird. And for Raleigh, I just look at this

549
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 2: as like an tension of a guy we kind of

550
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,680
Speaker 2: knew was a pretty much borderline elite power hitter for

551
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 2: his position, And this feels to me like a career

552
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 2: kind of outlier year where I don't want to overreact

553
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 2: to the point that I'm pushing him, like into the

554
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,440
Speaker 2: top ten of these rankings or anything like that. He

555
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,119
Speaker 2: would not be a first round pick if we did

556
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,879
Speaker 2: a startup dynasty next spring. But you have to also

557
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 2: weigh that the production he's given you in the present

558
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 2: is probably an early round contributor. So that's someone I

559
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,480
Speaker 2: want to value in that top forty to fifty range.

560
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 2: I just you can't overlook what he's doing. It's undeniable,

561
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,879
Speaker 2: But I tried to view it where A good example

562
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 2: of this is like Lawrence Butler when he's kind of

563
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 2: made the leap in the second half of last year.

564
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 2: You look at him and say, Okay, I think this

565
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,680
Speaker 2: is a legitimate skills growth. I think what he's doing

566
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 2: is real. I'm going to be aggressive and pushing him higher,

567
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 2: whereas someone like a Nolan Jones it was maybe more

568
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 2: context dependent because he was doing this in coors Field.

569
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,119
Speaker 2: So I try to balance that a little bit more

570
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,280
Speaker 2: when I look at the environment and what actually changed

571
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 2: with a hitter. Did they make adjustments where their real improvements?

572
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 2: Can I find evidence that what they're doing is real?

573
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 2: Those are the things I kind of look for. Then

574
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 2: I'm weighing when I do these lists.

575
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Speaker 1: Mayor, how do you feel about the fact that your

576
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,119
Speaker 1: best player is only fortieth on his rankings?

577
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Speaker 3: Well, it's funny to say that because I was pulling

578
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 3: up my dynasty rankings and I haven't even lower, so

579
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 3: I feel pretty good if George likes him more than

580
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 3: I do, so I might have to bump them up

581
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,440
Speaker 3: because I have him in the fifties, so if I

582
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:26,959
Speaker 3: could piggyback on that out, I was going to ask

583
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 3: you about a few specific players, so I'll rather than

584
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 3: go one by one, I'll just throw a few at you.

585
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 3: One of the more interesting ones I noticed was Cam

586
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 3: Smith at sixty eight. He's having a really interesting year obviously,

587
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 3: you know, really young prospect, came up struggled, but has

588
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 3: been quietly very good for a while now. Your Don

589
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,159
Speaker 3: Alvarez at twenty is also very interesting to me, with

590
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 3: the age and health concerns there. I looked at my

591
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:51,680
Speaker 3: rankings and I don't have a much lower than you,

592
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 3: so but it did jump out to me. And then

593
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 3: the last one is why do you hate Roman Anthony

594
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:56,400
Speaker 3: at thirty two.

595
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Speaker 2: I don't know that I hate Real and Anthony. I'll

596
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 2: start with Cam Smith. First of all, I'm like a

597
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 2: sort of Red Sox fan, so I take that personally.

598
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 2: I like, but I don't know Cam Smith. I think

599
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 2: he's illustrative of the fact that the gap between Triple

600
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 2: A and the majors is maybe wider than ever. You know,

601
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 2: he's one of five guys from the twenty twenty four

602
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 2: draft class that have reached the majors. You know, Ryan

603
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 2: Johnson with the asterisks is like the fifth guy. But

604
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 2: what you're seeing is the timeline between when a guy

605
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 2: gets drafted and when they reach the majors, especially for

606
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 2: college hitters in college pitchers, it's getting compressed to the

607
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 2: point that the development time's not what it probably was

608
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 2: a few years ago. So these guys are kind of

609
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,880
Speaker 2: learning on the fly, so to speak, at the big

610
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,159
Speaker 2: league level, like they're facing that caliber of pitching for

611
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,359
Speaker 2: really the first time. I just like, I don't think

612
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 2: the quality that you're seeing of pitching in Triple A

613
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:55,719
Speaker 2: is great and that's that that matters, because you get

614
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 2: guys coming up facing stuff they've never really faced before,

615
00:26:58,119 --> 00:26:59,959
Speaker 2: and they got to adjust the league adjust to them.

616
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 2: It's constant battle and likes. There's countless examples of guys

617
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 2: who've struggled at the outside of their careers, like Alex

618
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 2: Bregman's the example I always kind of go back to.

619
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 2: He was like one for forty or something like that

620
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 2: to start his career obviously he was fine, So just

621
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 2: always be a little bit like wary of overreacting to early,

622
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 2: small sample sized stuff, especially with a guy like Cam Smith.

623
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 2: I was pretty aggressive pushing him in the in the

624
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 2: preseason update to these rankings, and I feel like it's

625
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 2: kind of been justified in terms of like what we

626
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,359
Speaker 2: were seeing from like a scouting standpoint has showed up

627
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 2: on the field the last couple of weeks. So yeah,

628
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:38,400
Speaker 2: I think the other NW you mentioned, Jordan Alvarez, Yeah,

629
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 2: he's another one where it's just really tough because I

630
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,399
Speaker 2: think I always trying to think of other examples of

631
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 2: these types of situations. That's what I've been doing throughout

632
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 2: the show today. But like Kyle Tucker missed a ton

633
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 2: of time last year with a weird like knee Brews

634
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 2: that was revealed was a hairline fracture. Once again, it's

635
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 2: the Astros. So is that an Astros thing? Maybe? But

636
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 2: I I just think they're at the point like they're

637
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 2: not going to push him, They're not going to risk

638
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 2: any sort of setbacks, like they can't do that with

639
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,440
Speaker 2: a guy who's basically one of their franchise cornerstones. So

640
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,199
Speaker 2: we looked at Kyle Tucker's example, like he came back

641
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 2: and was fine this the following season. So I don't

642
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 2: want to overreact with a guy with that kind of

643
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 2: established elite track record. Now he's maybe a more challenging

644
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 2: example because of just the profile, like a bigger guy

645
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,120
Speaker 2: where maybe this is a hand issue. Does that impact

646
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 2: the swing the power? Maybe, But I also don't want

647
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,200
Speaker 2: to push him into the back half of the top

648
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 2: fifty and then he goes out and hits forty home

649
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 2: runs next year. Yeah, because I overreacted to a hairline fracture.

650
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,239
Speaker 2: So those are the types of things that I think

651
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 2: are challenging the WAGH when you do these rankings, and

652
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 2: you might be wrong, but I always want to kind

653
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 2: of give a little bit of difference to guys with

654
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 2: a track record with the rankings.

655
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, you're done.

656
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 3: Alvarez as difficult to rank because I was looking at Ears,

657
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 3: I was like, wow, twenty seems high.

658
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:57,479
Speaker 4: Where do I have him?

659
00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 3: And I have him at twenty four, so I'm pretty

660
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 3: high too, And then I was like, where do I

661
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 3: want to move him down? But like, where do I

662
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 3: move him down? I have Mookie bets too high. I'm

663
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 3: gonna have to drop him down because it's what do

664
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 3: you Well, I'll throw it back to you, what are

665
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 3: your thoughts on Mookie bats? You have him at thirty six?

666
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 3: But is this year the beginning of the end?

667
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say the end. I think it's maybe the

668
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 2: end of like the elite stolen base production, Like that's

669
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 2: that's what I kind of look at as on the decline.

670
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 2: He's obviously he's going to miss time on Friday I

671
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 2: with a personal issue, So maybe there's stuff going on

672
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 2: off the field that's been impacting him. They've kind of

673
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 2: tried to move him around in the lineup. They've been

674
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 2: batting him lead off the last couple of games until

675
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 2: they get Max Monsey back and then we'll see how

676
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 2: things shake out there.

677
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 3: So yeah, and that's a really weird start to the

678
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 3: season where he lost a ton of weight and people

679
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 3: were really concerned about what he what he was going

680
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 3: to look like to start the season.

681
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 1: Yeah.

682
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 2: So again this goes back to like the Kyle Tucker

683
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 2: like weird outlier like Ronald Lukunya missed seasons with injuries.

684
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 2: Like when you have a guy who's that talented, I

685
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 2: never want to just dismiss the possibility that they can

686
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 2: take some time off and come back and get things

687
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 2: right and be back in order. Like Corey Seeker is

688
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 2: a good exit, Like he misses time all the time

689
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 2: with injuries, and then he comes back and he looks

690
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 2: like the best hitter on the planet sometimes. So yeah,

691
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 2: just guys with that type of extended track record, I'm

692
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 2: very hesitant to bump them lower. But when you start

693
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:24,719
Speaker 2: to creep into the mid thirties, it can it can

694
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 2: start to look like a roller coaster where the decline

695
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 2: is pretty precipitous and it comes quick. So just be

696
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 2: aware of that with any guy in their thirties.

697
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm over here distracted because Stephen Kwan has two

698
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: home runs today and I'm like, maybe we should have

699
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: let the trade go through, all right, All yeah, I

700
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you, George, were there any names that

701
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,719
Speaker 1: really surprised you when putting this together? Like you kind

702
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: of got to the end of you go, this is

703
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: the right place. I'm not going to move him, But

704
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,719
Speaker 1: I can't believe I have this guy as low as

705
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 1: I do, or this guy as high as I do.

706
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 2: So Michael Harris to me stands out as the name.

707
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 2: I can't figure out what the heck to do with

708
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 2: because from from like a scouting standpoint, if I told

709
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 2: you there was a guy who was only twenty four

710
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 2: and he had the type of production that he had

711
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 2: had earlier in his career at the big league level,

712
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 2: you'd say, this guy is like a top twenty player

713
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 2: in the league. Like he'd had basically three straight seasons

714
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 2: of close to twenty homers and twenty steals with borderline

715
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 2: elite batting averages. Most of that time, you'd say that

716
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 2: guy is like a first round pick, and he's just

717
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 2: not this year. This year's kind of been a weird disaster,

718
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 2: kind of outlier. And I again, that's one where I'll

719
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 2: circle and I'll go to try and find an explanation,

720
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 2: because there's something will come out in reporting. You know,

721
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 2: was it mechanical, wasn't mental? Was it physical? We don't know,

722
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 2: So we'll see he's the one who stands out for

723
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 2: me on the hitter side. And from a pitching standpoint,

724
00:31:56,040 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 2: I think Andrew Painter is exceptionally tough to rank because

725
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 2: he had all the time off due to injury. He's

726
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 2: come back, the stuff hasn't totally been top of the

727
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 2: rotation at the Triple A level, the production certainly hasn't

728
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 2: been But do you really ever want to write off

729
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 2: a guy who the entire industry said was basically like

730
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 2: a generational type of pitching prospect who could have been

731
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 2: in the majors. It's like a nineteen twenty year old No,

732
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 2: So he to me is really tough to forecast because

733
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 2: I don't want to drop him too far, and then

734
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 2: he goes out and pitches well in the majors and

735
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 2: I have to reconfigure everything. So he's one who stands

736
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 2: out to me from that standpoint, from a prospect side,

737
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 2: And then, like Spencer Jones is the obvious name, like

738
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 2: you if you believe the approach can work, like if

739
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 2: he can be like better Joey Gallo with the straightouts, Sure,

740
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 2: but there's just not a lot of evidence historically speaking,

741
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 2: to show a guy coming up and striking out like

742
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 2: over thirty percent of the time and being a really

743
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 2: productive power hitter in the majors, So proceed with caution.

744
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 2: He's got a three homer game today as we record this,

745
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 2: so he's been on an absolute heater, but the plate

746
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 2: skills again once he gets to the big leagues and

747
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 2: he's facing better competition, Like, I don't know that the

748
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 2: profile is going to work. He's just not going to

749
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 2: make enough contact.

750
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: I want to ask you kind of one last question

751
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: on the Dynasty stuff as we transition into the last

752
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: segment of the show, which is kind of the second

753
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: half strategy guide. Do you find yourself using the Dynasty

754
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: update and rankings in redraft decisions, Like, if you're moving

755
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: a guy up in Dynasty, are you more likely to say,

756
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: you know, I think we're going to see some real

757
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: value added between now and the end of the year,

758
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: So this is a guy I want to trade for

759
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: for that playoff stretch run in my fantas league for

760
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 1: this season. Do you use the Dynasty rankings in that way?

761
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 2: Yeah. I always kind of look for those guys where

762
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 2: I was maybe higher on them than the rest of

763
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 2: the crowd, and then maybe now they're producing in the

764
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 2: majors and you know, maybe there's a little bit of

765
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 2: a disconnect between what the public perception of their value

766
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 2: is and what I feel it is. And I think

767
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 2: that's a good process, you know, kind of a theme

768
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 2: that that fantasy managers should be using. Like when I

769
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 2: look at you know, excuse me. When I go through,

770
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,720
Speaker 2: uh sort of my rankings, I use my colleague Matthew Pooley.

771
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 2: I use a lot of his top three hundred. He

772
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 2: does a top three hundred. He pretty much updates it

773
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 2: every week. So I try to go through there and see,

774
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 2: like where am I missing on guys and their present

775
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 2: value as opposed to like the future long term, because

776
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 2: I try to use like a three year window when

777
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 2: putting these rankings together, so the production right now matters

778
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 2: a lot more than what you're going to get in

779
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 2: three years from a guy. So I think that's a

780
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 2: big part of my process, is incorporating a guy's present

781
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 2: value and what he means right at the moment. Like

782
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 2: cal Raley's a good example of that, where it's like, Okay, yeah,

783
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 2: probably need to push him a lot higher because of

784
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 2: the impact he's making right now where he's basically the

785
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 2: number one player in fantasy. Uh. So you try to

786
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 2: weigh that and not overreact too much with it. But

787
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:56,760
Speaker 2: it's definitely part of the process.

788
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: I think for me, I actually want to really quick

789
00:34:58,520 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: you have to do a more thing on the on

790
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 1: the dynast decide because you mentioned a three year window,

791
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: how do you incorporate the guys who were just drafted

792
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: into this so we haven't seen play professionally yet, and

793
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: you can keep this quick because obviously these are guys

794
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: that are a couple of years away, but like what

795
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: is your process for including them in these rankings?

796
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,760
Speaker 2: So situation, age, proximity, those are the three biggest things

797
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 2: I look at, And obviously like Ethan Holliday is a

798
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 2: good sort of jumping off point for that because he

799
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 2: maybe isn't going to be the first one to reach

800
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 2: the majors, It's probably going to be at least a

801
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 2: couple of years. But the context of a hitter with

802
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 2: his type of power profile in Colorado that matters. That's

803
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 2: why he's the number one guy in my rankings. Like

804
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 2: I try to view things from a historical perspective and

805
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 2: looking at recent draft classes, having done this a couple

806
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 2: of years, it's like, Okay, who does this situation in

807
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 2: talent remind me of like Connor Griffin what a year ago,

808
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 2: really highly thought of prospect and then he didn't play

809
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 2: after he got drafted, so we didn't basically see him

810
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 2: on a field till spring training. And now I think

811
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 2: he's pretty much universally regarded as one of the top

812
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 2: three prospects in baseball from a dynasty standpoint, so that matters.

813
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,879
Speaker 2: Like I'm just not writing a guy off completely because

814
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 2: he's eighteen in a shortstop, like I try to look

815
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 2: at the situation and the talent. And I've also tried

816
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 2: to be a little more aggressive with the college pitchers

817
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 2: like Jamie Arnold's a good example of this from the

818
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 2: current draft class, where you know, I want to push

819
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 2: him a little bit higher. Some of the other pictures

820
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,839
Speaker 2: as well, you know, because they're probably going to reach

821
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 2: the majors within a year. To Kate Anderson, I think

822
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 2: for the Mariners probably get to be the majors at

823
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 2: some point in twenty twenty six. So those are the

824
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 2: things I'm trying to balance a little bit more. Is

825
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 2: just like being aware that some of these guys might

826
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,879
Speaker 2: get to the big leagues a lot faster than we thought.

827
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into kind of your back half,

828
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: you know, end of the year's strategy guide, And I

829
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: promise I'll let Mayor talk again at some point, but

830
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: I want to kind of I want this to be

831
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: very flexible, right, Like I think this can go in

832
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: a number of different directions, and I want to know

833
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: what is important to you, and I will give mere credit.

834
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: Actually this is kind of his idea for a part

835
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: of this discussion. But I want to know, like when

836
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 1: you sit down and say, Okay, we're at the end

837
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 1: of July, I'm trying to you know, make the playoffs

838
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: and head to head league. I'm trying to make that

839
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 1: final push in a roto league. Whatever it is, what

840
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: do you care about? What are you paying attention to?

841
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:30,320
Speaker 1: Is it specific players, is it overall league trends, is

842
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: it anything else? Is it a certain stat that you

843
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: try to keep an eye on? What is it that you,

844
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: George sit down and go this is And it's a

845
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 1: time of year where we know a lot of people

846
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: are splitting their focus between baseball and football. It's a

847
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 1: time of year where the grind of the season can

848
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: wear on you. They call them the dog days of

849
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 1: August for a reason. So if you could kind of

850
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: owne in on a couple of key pieces to pay

851
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: attention to, what is that for you?

852
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 2: So part of my responsibilities with rot World is doing

853
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 2: player news five days a week, So I am constantly

854
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:09,800
Speaker 2: looking at lineups, injuries, I've kind of referred to this

855
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 2: as like vibes is basically how I kind of view it,

856
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 2: Like who's producing and why? Like is it the competition

857
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,399
Speaker 2: they're facing here? Like a good I've use a good

858
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 2: example a bunch of times, the Red Sox they go

859
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 2: on that big ten game winning streak. Was that the

860
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 2: Red Sox or was that the competition? You know, I

861
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 2: was impressive what they did against the race to close

862
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 2: out the first half, but you know they beat up

863
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 2: on the Nationals, the Rockies, and then you look at

864
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 2: strength the schedule in the second half. So I tried

865
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 2: to look at each situation like individually, and I try

866
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,799
Speaker 2: to look at the schedule, the lineup like is there

867
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 2: a reason this guy has been moved up in the lineup?

868
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:48,959
Speaker 2: Is there a reason he's producing at this type of level,

869
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 2: So especially with younger players, because that's where I think

870
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 2: you can see the biggest jumps in value is all

871
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 2: of a sudden they're in a prominent lineup spot. Like

872
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,320
Speaker 2: if a Jack kagal Noon got hot like and started

873
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 2: going on a power surge, you know that matters. So

874
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 2: you want to be quick to adjusting to that. Is

875
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,280
Speaker 2: there going to be a change in a closing situation,

876
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 2: who's struggling right now, who's hurt. So just staying up

877
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 2: to date on information, I think you can kind of

878
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 2: get a sense of which player's values are changing the most,

879
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 2: Like Mookie Betts is a good example. Like Mike brought up.

880
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 2: You know, if you're not plugged in, you're probably not

881
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,399
Speaker 2: going to notice that he's been batting like one eighty

882
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 2: for a month, and you might trade for him thinking

883
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 2: he's gonna come back and be really productive, but there's

884
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 2: not a lot of evidence or signs that, like mentally,

885
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 2: he's at the point that's going to happen for him

886
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 2: right now. So those are things to watch for. I

887
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 2: think it's very specific. I try to go like each

888
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 2: individual player and just kind of figure out what the

889
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 2: vibes are and then try to figure out what future

890
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 2: outlook is for them, because if you start looking at

891
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 2: leaderboards and all these different factors, you're gonna end up

892
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 2: like Zach Alfanakis with the numbers going around your head,

893
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,399
Speaker 2: like you're just going to drown in information because you're

894
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:03,839
Speaker 2: just going to be able to find something to back

895
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 2: up whatever your premise is. So just kind of hone

896
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 2: in on the player and try to figure it out

897
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 2: on your own would be the best advice I can

898
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 2: give you, because at the end of the day, it's

899
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 2: your roster, your decisions, So I want to be comfortable

900
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 2: with my assessment and trust my own judgment on those calls.

901
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:22,720
Speaker 1: So mayor you mayor I want to ask you actually

902
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 1: about the news side of this too, and you can

903
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 1: jump in a second also, But because you oversee our

904
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,280
Speaker 1: news desk here, so you are also kind of drowning

905
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 1: in a lot of information. How do you sort through

906
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 1: the noise?

907
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,760
Speaker 4: I don't. I just I just hate all the noise

908
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 4: and I hate my life now.

909
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:39,439
Speaker 3: I think you just have to, like, like you said,

910
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,320
Speaker 3: your your attention is starting to get split, Like you

911
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 3: know you're going to be abandoning the show pretty soon

912
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 3: to go focus on football and leave me to do

913
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 3: it by myself.

914
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 1: But you know, as is required of me by the

915
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: management here, not something I'm pouting the table to do.

916
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 2: This is why when training camp opens, you're gone.

917
00:40:58,600 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much.

918
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 3: This is why people think we don't like each other,

919
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 3: which is another thing that comes up in the comments

920
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 3: pretty frequently. They think that Whorrem and I like actively

921
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 3: dislike each other.

922
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:10,800
Speaker 1: And they're just again you keep using this word to

923
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: think more like they notice.

924
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 3: It doesn't help because Worm makes that joke every week.

925
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 4: What was the question?

926
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: Let stopped listening about about the news and just kind

927
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: of you know how there is so much news out

928
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: there right like that it is easy to drown it

929
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: and kind of how you sort through it?

930
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, sorry, I think that.

931
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 3: I think the one thing George mentioned was big is

932
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 3: paying attention to lineups and more importantly, why players are

933
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,879
Speaker 3: moving up in the lineup. Like you mentioned Mooki Bets

934
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 3: moving into the leadoff spot. I didn't actually didn't know that.

935
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 3: I just know that it's been a down year for

936
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:47,359
Speaker 3: all the teams that where I roster Mooki Bets. But yeah,

937
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 3: I think it's it's knowing like which which information to

938
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,879
Speaker 3: pay attention to. There's a lot of just like one

939
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 3: off lineup trends. But you know, if if a guy

940
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 3: is just like you know, kind of like batting six

941
00:41:57,719 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 3: or seventh, and now he's like every few days he's

942
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 3: beat adding first or second, and then you realize, oh,

943
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 3: whenever they face a lefty he moves up in the order.

944
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 3: That could be really valuable information when like setting your lineups,

945
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 3: whether it's you know, setting your line up for the week,

946
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 3: or like they got four lefties this week and you

947
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 3: know this fringe roster player for me is going to

948
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 3: be batting second most of the week.

949
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 4: So it's kind of like.

950
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 3: Filtering through what's the important news, which is the easy answer,

951
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 3: I cheated.

952
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 2: It's basically figuring out what's actionable and what's not. Like

953
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 2: this picture is this picture? Have they made an adjustment

954
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 2: and now they're in a point where they're going to

955
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 2: have sustained success or like you said, why they've moved

956
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 2: up in the lineup is this prospect, you know, playing

957
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 2: themselves into a more prominent role. And once like like

958
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 2: if Kobe Mayo goes on a hot streak and then

959
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:45,800
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, Ryan o'haran gets straight at the deadline,

960
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, he's playing every day, whereas he

961
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 2: had started four games in the last month. So those

962
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 2: are the types of things you want to know about,

963
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 2: you know, and stay ahead of, because then you're going

964
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 2: to be first to react when when the moment comes

965
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 2: to make a move.

966
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: What what stats, George, at this point in the year

967
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: do you care about if you're specifically in the context

968
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: of identifying a guy you want to pick off off

969
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: waivers or even a guy that is roster everywhere that

970
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: you want to trade for. Is it something as simple

971
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,760
Speaker 1: as like, oh, I just want to look at who's

972
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: got the big differences between their era and they're expected

973
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 1: you know, underlying information. Is it I want to look

974
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: for guys who like their actual like pitch usage has

975
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 1: made significant changes this year, and we're deep, well, you know,

976
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 1: way more than deep enough into the season to care

977
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 1: about that. On the hitter side, is it like I

978
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,399
Speaker 1: want to look at stat cast and see who has

979
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: the highest average exit velocity. Like if there's one or

980
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: two metrics that again, at this point in the year,

981
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: when you're looking for good kind of by low targets

982
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: or even a buy high target, what are you looking

983
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 1: at to say like this is legitimate or this is

984
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: something that I think is going to change for the

985
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: better moving forward.

986
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 2: So that's a really great question because a lot of

987
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:59,240
Speaker 2: these metrics, they're more useful from like a full season

988
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 2: context as opposed to isolating them into really small samples.

989
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 2: So like the difference between er and PIP like that

990
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 2: might show up over the course of six months, but

991
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 2: it's not really actionable in a smaller sample. And there's

992
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 2: a lot of like with the newer stackast metrics, like

993
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,479
Speaker 2: I'm not smart enough to tell you what I'm looking

994
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 2: at sometimes, not that I don't understand what the stat means,

995
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 2: but I don't know how to how to make it actionable.

996
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 2: Like when we first started getting bad at ball metrics,

997
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 2: we had to figure out like how many bad at

998
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 2: ball events before this becomes like a reliable indicator, And

999
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 2: then it was okay, we've run the data. It's like

1000
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 2: forty bad at ball events. Now we can draw conclusion

1001
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 2: it's like one guy. So that's the type of stuff

1002
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 2: I want to look at over a period of time,

1003
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:45,439
Speaker 2: like is a guy making harder contact? I think swing

1004
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 2: speed has proven to be one of these metrics that

1005
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 2: we can look at and say, Okay, maybe there's a

1006
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 2: physical issue with a guy because all of a sudden,

1007
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 2: he's not swinging is hard Like that, you know, is

1008
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 2: he dealing with something that's limiting his ability to swing hard?

1009
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,879
Speaker 2: So that's something that can show up strike out minus

1010
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 2: walk right for me is kind of the one I

1011
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:06,839
Speaker 2: go to for pictures because I think it's pretty right there,

1012
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 2: your your strikeout rate and your walker rate kind of

1013
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 2: don't really change a lot. It kind of is what

1014
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 2: it is, Like, it's hard to fake that over an

1015
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 2: extended period of time. If you have bad control, you're

1016
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,879
Speaker 2: gonna walk a lot of guys. It's pretty straightforward. It's

1017
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 2: been proven out over time. So those to me, I

1018
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 2: think are the most like straightforward ones I can look

1019
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 2: at and say, okay that if I'm going to pick

1020
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 2: up a picture, it's for that reason. So yeah, those

1021
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 2: are the big ones that for me I look at.

1022
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,240
Speaker 2: And then obviously upcoming schedule matters too, like the matchups

1023
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 2: matter a lot at this point of the year.

1024
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, the fewer games you have left, the more who

1025
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 1: you play is going to matter.

1026
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 3: Just to just to piggyback on that, because I thought

1027
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 3: George made some good points there. The swing speed one

1028
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 3: or the bad speed one is a really interesting one

1029
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 3: because a lot of these stats they kind of, like

1030
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:52,240
Speaker 3: you said.

1031
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 4: They come out, we're not really sure what to do

1032
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 4: with them. But then also as we get like.

1033
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 3: More and more data and and you know, we we

1034
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,239
Speaker 3: can then like comparing like year over year, you start

1035
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 3: to see like what do these trends mean? And I

1036
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 3: was actually watching a Red Sox game the other day

1037
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 3: and they were talking about Daron Durant and how a

1038
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 3: lot of his contact numbers are way down this year,

1039
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 3: but his swing his bat speed is actually way up,

1040
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 3: and it's actually they think he's swinging harder and making

1041
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 3: less contact. So it's kind of interesting, like you think, like, oh,

1042
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 3: bat speed is up, like that's all good, but he's

1043
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 3: having a down year offensively despite a big uptick in

1044
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 3: bat speed.

1045
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 4: So it's interesting. The more we learn about this stuff

1046
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:26,919
Speaker 4: and what it can mean.

1047
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 2: And it kind of all ties into the point like

1048
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 2: how to figure out what matters, Like he's not playing

1049
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 2: as much against lefties either, so he's seeing fewer pitches

1050
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 2: and he's not being as confident, maybe getting more aggressive

1051
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 2: in those swings against lefties too. That's leading some more

1052
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 2: struggles there. So all this is like big context stuff

1053
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 2: that you have to go to an on, to an

1054
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,839
Speaker 2: individual player and try to figure it all out with them.

1055
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 2: It's not just looking at one single thing at all.

1056
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 2: Kind of matters in context.

1057
00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:58,919
Speaker 1: May we got to get out of here. Any final

1058
00:46:59,000 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: questions for George?

1059
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 4: Wrap up?

1060
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 1: No, this has been great, George, thanks for Thanks for

1061
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 1: Avada and and like I said, we we always say

1062
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: we want to have more guests, and then it's always

1063
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 1: a great time when we do. And I don't know

1064
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 1: why we don't do it more so, appreciate you talking

1065
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: about all your Dynasty rankings and the second half strategy.

1066
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: I got any party thoughts before we get out of here, Not.

1067
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 2: Really, I will say that everyone should check out my

1068
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 2: Dynasty rankings. Over a rotal world, I definitely would want

1069
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 2: to come back arm with you guys in the offseason

1070
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 2: kind of reset things because the prospect landscape is going

1071
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 2: to change a lot in the next couple of weeks.

1072
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:37,800
Speaker 2: Like there's a bunch of names I'm kind of watching

1073
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 2: in the second half, like where is like Edward Florentino

1074
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 2: going to finish Esteban Mahia for the Orioles throws like

1075
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 2: one hundred and three and he's got my collar stuff,

1076
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,799
Speaker 2: Like that's the guy where I was like, Okay, how

1077
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 2: high can I push him in my rankings and still

1078
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 2: not look crazy?

1079
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 4: So I have one.

1080
00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 3: I do have one actual final question. We can get

1081
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 3: out of here when it's spend a lot of time

1082
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 3: on this. But you did remind me of you, did

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Speaker 3: you think when when looking at like dynasty rankings and

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Speaker 3: look at looking at this like this recent draft class,

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Speaker 3: did you think of it as kind of like a

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Speaker 3: down year for prospects or was twenty twenty four really

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00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 3: just like that good of a draft class.

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Speaker 2: Well, Like twenty twenty four had a bunch of like

1089
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 2: really polished college hitters like Nick Kurtz came out and

1090
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 2: was like immediately the best college hitter we'd seen in

1091
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 2: like forever, just the ability to hit for power, control

1092
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 2: the strike zone. I could go on and on, like

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00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan, but yeah, I think this was

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00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 2: a weird year because you had a lot of really

1095
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 2: good prep shortstops and maybe the best picture in the

1096
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 2: class is like Seth Fernandez, who's a prep arm writing,

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00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 2: so maybe one of the best prep writings we've had

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00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 2: in a long time. So it was a weird kind

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00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:48,840
Speaker 2: of year as the way I look at it, and

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Speaker 2: I think next year's class is really interesting.

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00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:54,839
Speaker 3: So yeah, he's taken the top of the draft this year,

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00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 3: like no one really knew who was going to go

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00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:58,439
Speaker 3: first overall, and then the first overall pick I turned

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00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 3: into a surprise, and everyone's like, this is not what

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00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:01,799
Speaker 3: we projected to happen.

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Speaker 2: This is an interesting So there's a bunch there's a

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00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 2: bunch of reasons, like Eli Willis went first, but you

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00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 2: look at the economics of the decision. And then also

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00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 2: he was like seventeen, So if you're forecasting a guy

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00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 2: at that age with his present skills and what he

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00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 2: could grow into, like nobody's sitting here saying he's Ken

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00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 2: Griffy junior, like he's gonna become like a Hall of

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00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 2: Fame caliber player. But we have seen a lot of

1114
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 2: high school, you know, prep shortstops make that leap and

1115
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 2: become really impactful, potentially franchise cornerstones. So yeah, just this

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Speaker 2: is the fun part of the year when you're just watching,

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00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 2: like how good is like Joshu Obias gonna be like

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00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 2: just Sinceton I see it, like you know, just what's

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00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 2: gonna happen. These are the fun two months of the

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Speaker 2: year for prospects to watch.

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Speaker 1: George, this has been great. We'll get out of here

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Speaker 1: on the high note if you bring up spun Mihia,

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Speaker 1: because I'm an Orioles fan and I'm just very excited

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Speaker 1: for so that is a great note to wrap things up. Five,

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Speaker 1: we will definitely have you back on. I would love

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Speaker 1: to get you ont of the offseason and kind of

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00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: really dive into some of the more Dynasty stuff and

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Speaker 1: Mayor and I can take advance and you know, hopefully

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Speaker 1: do better in our in our Dynasty league that we're

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Speaker 1: both in with with the knowledge. So thank you so much. Everybody.

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Speaker 1: Definitely please do go to rote a World check it out,

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00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: you know, all of Georgia stuff, really the updates and everything.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, the the top five hundred Dynasty rankings update

1134
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Speaker 1: was a beast. I was messaging with him a little

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Speaker 1: on the day that he was putting that together and

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00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 1: you could tell it's silly that you put a lot

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Speaker 1: of work into an effort and it shows, so it's great.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, thank you again for coming on for Mayor

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Speaker 1: and for George. Everybody go check out his stuff at

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Speaker 1: George Bissel on Twitter. I'm Ryan Warm. We'll see you

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