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That's 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:06.679 all you got to do to win that bad boy 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:10.400 Welsh another tough loss for your Diamondbacks. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.679 To my mets, how are you doing this morning? After that? 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:16.839 A tough l capital style. 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:22.160 He was safe, he was safe. Alec Thomas was safe. Yeah, 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.400 I mean, you know, what can you what can you do? 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:28.200 I think positive sign. I've had this like little tiny 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.320 baby bit of concern about that little bat run that 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.800 Corbyn Carrol had this past week where it was like, oh, 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.520 are we getting back into old trends? Leadoff Homer kind 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:39.560 of right back into it just makes you feel all 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.080 warm inside, but doesn't make it feel good when the 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.479 Diamondbacks couldn't pull that couldn't pull that win back together. 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:47.520 Joey A little disappointing. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:52.280 Now, also disappointing my bets yesterday. Holy crap, Oh terrible over. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:56.480 I was four and no on Saturday Monday. I'm feeling strong, right. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.760 This is what happens. This is what the baseball betting. 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.559 World does, Doy. It smacks you back down. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.040 That's what it did yesterday. Cole Reagan's well, he had 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.720 over six and a half strikeounts. He had eleven yesterday 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.959 three nothing, shut out so good news Cole Reagan's is healthy, 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.280 terrific enjoy. Bad news that Sandy al Contra did face 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.160 the Dodgers again. We were hoping that he would get skipped. 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:18.960 He did not, and. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.360 Unfortunately bad times. Five runs, two homers, and five innings. 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.400 Another l for sandyal Contra. I was looking at my 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.440 home league Welsh he has eight points on the year. 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:29.280 Eight that's how. 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.400 Many points he ask because of all of the walks, 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.800 all of the losses, all of the earned runs that 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.359 he's given up, eight stinking points, you know, on the 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:38.200 fifth of May. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.920 It's really it is really rough with him. If you 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.000 were watching the game, I was watching the start of it. 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:47.400 First at bat he went aggressive after Tani looked really good, 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.840 got him swinging, and there was this little part of 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.720 me we put together, we've got the bi sell article 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:54.839 that's out there and Fantasy pros that should be dropping today, 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:56.160 and there's a little part of me that was like, 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.360 might want to put Sandy on this. I still think 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.560 like they were even talking about the broadcast, they were 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:03.240 just like, yeah, they were even talking. They were like, 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.560 we all know that Sandy's going to turn it around. 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:07.680 We just don't know when and this was after you know, 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.320 then he strikes out and then it just started to 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.640 slowly fall apart. I mean, he didn't even end up 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:17.480 having the high whiffs. Ben Casparius, who who didn't even 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:18.919 like start the game. They had like an opener and 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.800 he came in. He ended up having more whiffs than Sandy. 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:26.160 Sandy wasn't really efficient again, which is just ultimately the 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.400 ends up being the big problem with him, and I 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.560 just don't know how it turns around. You know, he's 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.520 a change up monster. This is third most used pitch 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:38.200 again because he was under fifty percent on the usage. 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.880 He was way way in the zone on the fastball, 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.640 and it just doesn't feel like there's any great life 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.480 on the fastball, and it's not setting up his secondary's 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:50.120 great twenty three percent swing with percentage and only at 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.440 twenty six percent CSW. So between getting whiffs and then 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.160 getting called strikes, it just wasn't there. Guys were making 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.840 contact and making hard contact on him, leaving stuff high 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:03.360 in the zone. It feels like we might need one 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.600 of those phantom il stents for Sandy kind of get right. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.760 Well. He his next stars against the White Sox, so 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.680 that is I think it was the Dodgers. 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.119 To your point, yeh is the Dodgers. 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.200 Dodgers are pretty good last time I checked, Oh, Tawny, 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.120 you know it's pretty good at baseball. Jerry wants to know. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:21.360 Was Sandy droppable in a shallow league? Absolutely? Ten team league, 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.559 one hundred percent. You drop them for whatever's out there. 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.200 In a twelve team er, I'm still holding. But in 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:28.520 a shallow league you could drop them. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.160 I'm an as I'm holding two. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:32.600 You know, before the show, we were talking about the 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.680 Yankees and their facial hair rules that they change and 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:37.200 one of the people that they changed it for is 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.479 Devin Williams. Do you think it's cursed Devin Williams? Because 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.440 he was charged with three more runs and two thirds 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.640 of an inning against the Padres yesterday, and just for 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.039 s's and g's, I was looking at this. Devin Williams 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.760 has given up thirteen earned runs this year. He gave 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:55.360 up ten in fifty eight innings in twenty twenty three 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.120 and thirteen in twenty twenty two. In sixty innings so 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.599 far this year, eleven innings, thirteen home runs. So what 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:07.320 a massive difference a few years has made for Devin Williams. 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.120 You think there's the facial hair curse. We'll call it 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:11.839 the sideburns mattingly curse. 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.200 But he has it back, like they literally he's the 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:17.040 I mean, I guess to your point, the reason is 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.360 because they asked him and he's like, I really wouldn't 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.880 want to come back, because then they just got rid 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.520 of it, or they adjusted it to say like, well, 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:27.800 if you have manicured beard. So he's got his manicured 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.240 beard back. But yeah, maybe he stirred the gods of 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.120 Yankee Old and everything got all bubbled up and they're just. 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:36.640 The sort of those side burns maddingly. 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.080 Maybe yeah, maybe that's the case. But I mean, also 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.880 everything is inefficient. He's flipped his pitch usage. He's throwing 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.840 more change ups than four seams because his force team 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.520 it's getting smacked around. It's a three eighty nine batting 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.080 average against on the forcing fastball one eleven last year, 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:58.359 absolutely brutal. And the change up, which that's you know, 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.920 they're the what do they call it the fork or 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:05.200 I'm forgetting with the airbender. That's not as efficient. Forty 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.960 eight percent with rate last season, thirty percent this year. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.640 That's a dramatic drop and the k percentage two huge 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.960 drop fifty one percent, so actually striking guys out only 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.839 twenty five percent, it's half as efficient. So he's just 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.360 in the zone a lot. He's changed the usage. He's 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.920 not as comfortable, and maybe the beard not being there 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.800 is maybe can't hide some of the whatever these guys 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.120 are trying to hide any stickies or whatever. But yeah, 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.240 it's it looks really messy. And this is kind of 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.760 why not that Luke Weaver was like that much better 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.400 in this one. But it's why there was more concern 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.799 for me on Devin Williams than there was Emmanuel Class 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.360 when both of these guys were going through the you know, 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.040 going through it. And he's still doing it, he's still 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:45.520 showing it. 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.520 And Classe still has not been perfect by any stretch either, 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.400 but at least better improved. Pete Alonso two four, two 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.120 run homer Francisco Lindor to three run Homer Mets five 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.560 to four over the d Backs. Carson Kelly is his 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.400 eighth home run. He continues to kind of float around 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.720 waiver wires, I feel like, because you know, he had 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.720 that one huge game and then people like, oh yeah, 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:07.760 I don't want to chase that, but you know, at 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:11.040 a certain point we're looking around August then Ramirez who 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.280 got a home run yesterday but had been really bad 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.240 last week. Austin Wells has been disappointing. We've had a 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.120 lot of catcher disappointments so far this year. What do 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.000 you think about Carson Kelly? You think that's somebody that 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.080 in single catcher leagues is a must roster. 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:24.360 At this point. 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:28.040 Yeah, I think like the pantheon of it is ten 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.360 team leagues, you could just burn and turn if you 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.120 don't have one of the best, most elite, and I'm 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.800 talking also like from a name value perspective catchers, you 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.240 should be pretty comfortable just like moving in and out, like, oh, 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.560 Ramirez is kind of bad. You pick up a guy 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.280 like Kelly roll It while it's good twelve team and 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.240 fifteen it gets like a little bit dice here, but listen, 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.240 Like for name value, I don't want Gabby Morino anymore 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.080 with the Diamondbacks, Like we're done with that. Like like Kelly. 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.360 Ruiz, like I'm the Huise is good. 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.600 I think you can interchange that, especially if Kelly happens 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.520 to still be out there. That means you don't have 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:03.360 a league that's like hyper active in trying to move 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.160 and burn catchers. Now do I believe it long term? 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.360 I kind of don't. But maybe it's also because it's 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.320 so absurd. I mean, listen to this sixteen percent barrel rate. 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.760 That's elite class, not just for catchers, A three twenty 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.400 expected batting average. He's currently hitting three sixty one with 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.239 eight homers, and his expected batting average is over three hundred, 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.080 a fifty four percent hard hit rate. All of these 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:28.000 things are so good. This is crazy eight percent strikeout 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.000 rate with a twenty one percent walk rate. So those 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.400 all are absurd. But guess what, it stands out so 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.320 much to me that I just don't really buy it 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.560 for like long, long term. So when you ask me, 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.560 when someone asked me, like, hey, would you drop like 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.120 Augustin Ramirez. 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.559 Or Augustin by the way, It's okay. 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:45.720 So that's that's where I'm going to go. 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.280 Eighteen ribies, Well, he's ating two oh nine. I know 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.280 that Carson Kelly's three sixty one is not going to 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.520 hold up, but that's a massive gap. 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:53.880 Right now. 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:55.559 I'm talking to points leagues too, one hundred and twenty 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:57.199 points a seventy eight points kell. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:58.760 Points league, it's even a little bit different. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.000 Well, but I mean saying, you know, just just looking 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.240 at it, he's rostered in seventy percent of leagues. But 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.240 I feel like he's still just floating out there in 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.320 a lot of leagues where people are just taking the 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.600 catcher they have still instead of chasing the productivity of Kelly. 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.440 And I don't know if that's the right choice right now. 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:14.840 Yeah, I know one hundred percent is still floating out there. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:16.560 And what I was saying was is like when you 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:20.920 ask me Agustin Ramirez or Kelly, fine, drop him for Kelly. 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:22.959 But when you start getting into like would you drop 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.440 William Contreras, would you drop. 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.319 Wilson contrary, See, Wells isn't in the leatle spot. 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.240 Wells is in that borderline area. I still think when 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.400 the season's done, we're going to look back and it 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.480 is going to be Wells. But I'm fine with that. Again, 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:41.360 if Kelly is still out there, you can make that move. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.040 So I'm trying to like show the levels of where 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:45.480 I think he bounces around. I think a lot of 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.840 these catchers when they get hot, they bounce around that 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.360 ten area, but I just don't want to drop, Like 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.000 probably there's ten catchers in front that I just don't 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.120 want to drop. And then there's a big old clump. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.880 Kelly looks ridiculous right now. And if this does continue, 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.000 Hell yeah, dude, he's gonna be a top twelve catcher. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:01.920 I just don't think it's going to keep rolling. 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.560 All right, Let's do some questions here, Laker, what level 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.280 of player should I trade Garrett Crochet for an elite one? 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.880 You better be getting back up Fernando Tattis junior type 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:13.160 player like you've got to get. 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.720 I think elite productivity back for Crochet. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.800 He's a top five starter right now in baseball with 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.120 the strikeout rate that he's got. He's on a good team. Well, 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:22.839 I wouldn't expect nothing less in return. 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.719 I don't think you're not getting Frando Tatis junior. That's 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.520 one of the number one hitters in baseball, So you're 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.720 not going to get Tatias. I like what you're going at. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.080 I agree you should have that type of feeling. You 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:38.120 should get an elite player. You shouldn't be buying the Yeah, 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.280 I think I think Lindor is easier to get than 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.719 tat Teas. But like, here's what I'm not doing. I'm 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.719 not going to be like someone's like, well what if 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.120 I trade you Brian Wu and Carson Kelly. No, like, 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.200 get out of here. I don't want two for trades. 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:51.480 I don't want two for trade. 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:51.679 Yah. 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.680 I don't want Peter krow Armstrong. I want elite players. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.280 Cody says if Brian who had a ten K or nine, 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.520 would he be top ten? Dude is amazing maybe, I 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.560 mean maybe fringy special in the way guys are falling 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:03.880 apart this many. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:04.920 Royce Lewis is back. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.760 Any thoughts where he ranks reversus of the season, impossible 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:08.840 to rank royce Lewis. 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:10.360 I think you just kind of stick him in the 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:11.400 middle and hope that he plays. 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.360 Yeah, I have him ranked. I do that that kind 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.959 of agree. He's really difficult to like lock down the spot. 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.440 I think the depth of third base really stinks right now. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.800 Guys like you know, Jake Berger, we're sent back down. 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.040 So I do think in a twelve man league he 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.440 is like a startable third baseman, but we also know 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:30.959 the injuries are there. He might struggle with batting average, 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.160 but the depth is so stinky. That's that's a relative range. 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.640 I'm not sure if you're asking for trade purposes or 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.560 for like should I pick him up? I think he's 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.040 like a he's like I think I have him at 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.360 literally like twelve or thirteen as far as third baseman go. 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:44.200 All right. 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.240 Next is Cookie Chubs Taylor Wardroppable for Pajas. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:49.200 I say yes, I'd say so. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.839 I want the upside baby, That's what I want. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.880 Also, fun history made yesterday three hundred and fiftieth career 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:56.840 home run for Freddy Freeman. 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:57.839 Shout out to Freddy Freeman. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:59.680 We love Freddy Freeman on the show Here, Good People, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.960 is the Freddie Freeman rolling Acunia Junior is not going 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.080 to require follow up exam in LA after all. So 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:10.080 hopefully we're getting news soon of a minor league rehab assignment. 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.320 They're still targeting end of May for the return Spencer Streider. 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.040 Also with the Braves, news has been clear to begin 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.800 throwing long toss, so get excited, folks. It's a little 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:20.800 bit longer than you thought. 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.720 They were a little weird too about like, yeah, I 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.840 agree with what you just said, Like this is like, oh, 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.760 it's a hamstring. It should be easy and then it 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.760 was just like, yeah, he's clear to like start moving, 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.319 but not this with the arm. Are they hiding? I 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.280 feel like they're hiding something about the arm. This is 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:36.559 supposed to just be a handspring. 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.640 There's tension here between the manager and the players, period. 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:42.160 Something some's up here. 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.839 Something's rotten in the state of Atlanta right now, between 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.120 Acunya and the front office and the management. 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.840 Of the team. Stryder, I don't know about that, but 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:51.360 you're right. 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.280 It does feel a little weird because it was supposed 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.920 to be quick and now it's like, oh no, now 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.520 he's just getting long toss. Okay, well what does that mean? 0:12:58.559 --> 0:12:59.959 Does he have to go on a rehab assignment? Again, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.280 it's very very weird. Also, you know, the Rangers, since 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:08.320 nobody's hitting, decided to fire their offensive coordinator, Donnie Ecker, 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.480 and now they have hired Brett Boone as their new 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.120 hitting coach. So unless he's bringing special vitamins with him, 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:15.560 I don't know what Brett Boone's gonna do. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.320 You want to know a quick, little funny story in 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:22.040 January out here, some of these teams run these different camps, 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.160 and the padres are running it's a fantasy camp where 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.720 if you have an extra you know, eight thousand dollars 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.520 or whatever, you can hang out for four days play games. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.040 I know, that's all, and you get coached by major leaguers. 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:36.560 And Brett Boone actually was coaching for the Padres for whatever. 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.200 And I was down there one of those days, you know, 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.480 and this like Wally Joyner was there, Jake peve I 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:42.840 was there literally CEPV. 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:43.160 I know. 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.120 It's a cool camp. But Brett Boone is like walking 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.400 around and we're talking to him for a second and 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.760 he just whips out a business card and it was 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.040 first podcast. He's like, I got a podcast, and he's 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.440 and he hands He's like, I got Turik Scoobel on 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.199 this week. And I was like wow, And I'm like, yeah, 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.480 I do podcasting too lightly and like our podcasts are 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.400 probably quite a bit bigger. But good for you, Brett. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.960 And unfortunately on YouTube or just audio. Yeah it was YouTube, 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.280 but I think it was only like a couple hundred views. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.480 And I'm like, how do you go and get trade 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.880 scoople and have that? So I guess the podcasting didn't 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.200 quite work out. And he's getting back into the hitting game, 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.000 but it was just very funny. The thing he went 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.600 to immediately was I've got a podcast, and he was 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.320 like handing out to everybody he could his podcast. 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.880 Everybody's got a podcast now that business starts, four hundred 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:29.760 and seventy subscribers, we've got more than that. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.000 We almost have more than that watching live. 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:37.640 Well we've been at it longer. 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.040 But you know, everyone thinks this podcast up is easy 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:41.920 until they start to do it. They realize, oh wait, 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:43.960 it's a lot of work and a lot of preparation 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.280 and it takes a lot of effort to look effortless. 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:47.880 I just want to put that out there everybody. 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.920 Rookie, lookie time, Craig Council to reporters that guess who's coming. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.560 Kate Horton candidate to start Saturday against the New York Mets. 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.400 So I Monaga on the IL. We talked about him 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:02.200 yesterday on prospecting with the Welsh, so once again Welsh 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.920 seeing the future. So Kate Horton expectations now, how aggressive 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:08.480 should people be on the fab budget? 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.120 I saw fifty thousand outcomes and this was the only 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.440 one that was gonna end up working. Kate Horton on Saturday. 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:20.440 I think he'd be relatively relatively aggressive. I worry that 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.280 they're gonna be weird and they're not going to like 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.440 let him stay up, or they're gonna be like, hey, 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.840 bye bye, We're gonna keep going with Colin Ray. But 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:28.640 like I would, I want to pick him up. I 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.280 want to stream him. His fastball is better. I think 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.320 strikeouts are going to be up. He's been insanely efficient 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.960 in the minor leagues. This is not Bubba Chandler. But 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.640 this is also not like AJ blab blah. You know 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.760 what I'm saying, Like this should be in the middle 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.680 of that. So you don't drop like five to eight 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:46.680 bucks or something like that if you haven't spent a 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.120 lot or you know, just just make sure that you 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:50.560 pick him up. By the way, I love the people 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.880 acknowledging some of the humble brag drops I have. By 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.120 the way, I want to Michael, I did not attend 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.480 Fantasy Camp. I can't drop eight thousand dollars on that. 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.560 I was just there walking around. I have a lifetime 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.160 pass to walk around facilities. I was not there, thank you. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.040 On the pod five days ago, he had a pod drop. 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:07.880 So he just got hired. So he's gonna. 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:09.600 Well, maybe he doesn't from the road. 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.400 Maybe this was an investment in the podcast in the future. 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:13.840 He's like, I'll be the hitting coach and I'll just 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.080 interview players while I'm there. 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.320 Players, Why do you suck so bad? Marcus? 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:21.560 Jake Berger be like, how does it feel to be 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.080 awful and send down the miners? 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:24.320 What's it like? What's it like? 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.560 Have you that last option cashed in? Uh, let's get 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.040 this because a good question. Horton or Hogland. 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:36.480 I would go with Horton. That sounds like a Doctor Seuss. Yeah, Horton. 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.600 Horton has a Hoglin. That's a different Doctor sewous one. 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:44.120 That's too funny. I I would say the talent is 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.920 on Horton's side. Huggling was awesome in the last start. 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.240 I kind of feel like maybe Horton has a little 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:51.920 bit of a has a little bit of a better 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.120 opportunity to stay in the rotation. So Horton, here's the 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:55.320 who and not the hog one. 0:16:55.440 --> 0:17:02.680 A curveball, a fastball, a slider, a sweeper, nothing, it's sweeter. 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.600 Good times. All right, Let's get to some more rookie lookies. 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.639 High Song Kim first two big league hits for him 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:13.720 and a stolen base Monday against the Marlins, so he's 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.560 getting some work while Tommy Edmund is hurt and Augustin 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:23.960 or Augustin Augustin Ramirez three running homer in two of 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:25.760 his at bats. 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