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

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Speaker 1: Baseball Podcast. It is me JOEYP Joe Pi Zapia, and

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Speaker 1: this is Fantasy Pros MLB. Baby. We are excited to

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Speaker 1: be here. Today we're breaking down the top fifty guys

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Speaker 1: in ADP. That's right. You can go to Fantasypros dot

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Speaker 1: You can see the Yahoo, the ESPN, the NFBC, all

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Speaker 1: The acronyms, the acronyms abound. And today we're gonna break

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Speaker 1: those consensus numbers down, give you a look at those

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Speaker 1: tiers and give you our thoughts on maybe some players

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Speaker 1: that should be in the top fifty that aren't that

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Speaker 1: you should be drafting. And Welsh just that time of

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Speaker 1: year or two, getting very excited for baseball. This weekend,

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Speaker 1: I saw Wan Soto's first at bat. He had a

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Speaker 1: home run. I love the Mets new orange hats with

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Speaker 1: the little sunglass baseball. I feel like the sunglasses baseball

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 3: Actually I would totally do that. I'm also getting excited

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Speaker 3: for it. I have been at camps every morning when

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Speaker 3: I can. I'm going out here, live out here in Arizona,

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Speaker 3: seeing lots of these guys, trying to talk to some players,

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Speaker 3: catching some of the unique things on the backfield. I

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Speaker 3: had been to the Brewers and very interesting. I was

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Speaker 3: there the day that Many Margo signed and you saw

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Speaker 3: Christian Yelich still not working. I thought, oh, oh, they're

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Speaker 3: signing Margo, They're signing Mark Canna. Yelich is maybe behind.

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Speaker 3: I still kind of think he might be behind. But

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Speaker 3: then we also found out that they were going to

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Speaker 3: be losing. Who was it they lot Blake Perkins. They're

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Speaker 3: losing for some period of time. So I'm as excited

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Speaker 3: as you. My just process is very different because I

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Speaker 3: am there in the back. I also got to see

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Speaker 3: here's another one, Joey. I got to see Jim Tomey

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Speaker 3: and Andrew Vaughn working with Joey Gallo and I tweeted

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Speaker 3: about it on this very special, unique little angled thing

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Speaker 3: to try to fix his swing. So I'm definitely seeing

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Speaker 3: some not top fifty players and where we can go

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Speaker 3: deep into drafts. But I have also been catching plenty

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Speaker 3: of these top fifty guys from Bobby Wit to Julio Rodriguez,

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Speaker 3: Corbyn Carrol coming soon. I'm out in their faces preaching

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Speaker 3: fantasy pros and also our own drafts.

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Speaker 1: There you go. I saw Tomy's kid actually in a

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Speaker 1: real the other day swinging about good. He's pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: You got the I saw Jim Tomy play in double

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Speaker 1: A uh, and everyone and the announcer called him Jim

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Speaker 1: of the plate, I mean, who I just some double

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Speaker 1: A kid, right, Jim Thomi coming to the plate. And I

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Speaker 1: remember this guy with high socks getting up there, and

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Speaker 2: I actually, you know, it's unique. His swing.

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Speaker 3: When I was a kid, his swing was the one

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Speaker 3: then also I would use that when I used to

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Speaker 3: play the video games and you would create yourself. I

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Speaker 3: would use Tim Jim Tomey swing as my the archetype.

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Speaker 1: There you go. There you go. Good stuff. Well, speaking

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Speaker 1: That's pretty good, right there, Billy Wagner, illustrious and now

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame career. Let's talk about the guys at

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Speaker 1: the very top of the draft. Shoey Altani. He's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: He's at number one on our list. Here. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: I don't feel like there is a pitcher for me

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Speaker 1: None of them great out that way for me based

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Speaker 1: I'm just an offense first kind of guy at this

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Speaker 1: look at that. I also look at this grouping of well,

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Speaker 1: you have Otani with I agree with that. Ramirez a

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Speaker 1: I know you might put Gunner Henderson in that grouping.

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Speaker 1: How does your strategy enter into this group? Is there

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Speaker 3: Okay, so a lot of stuff in there. First, I

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Speaker 3: believe schemes in Scooble would be those players, and I

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Speaker 3: But I'm not doing it so like I am offense

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Speaker 3: Looking at the total fifteen, I think there's some great deals.

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Speaker 2: Maybe not a lot of people do this.

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Speaker 3: It's a really great way to do your league draft

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Speaker 3: settings is kats if you guys are familiar with this

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Speaker 3: thirty thirty potential projections are back in, you know, so

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Speaker 2: Players, there's probably three tiers.

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Speaker 3: Inside of the first round, at least how I look

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Speaker 3: And then getting to your final question, when you're talking

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Speaker 3: is Fringy right there. But the guy that you're not

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Speaker 3: We have a low key Ronald A Kunya from a

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Speaker 3: I think there's upwards of five to seven elite players,

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Speaker 3: So you know what I think from a KDS standpoint,

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Speaker 3: I think having the five or six spot is awesome

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Speaker 3: maybe not in a points league. You could get a gunner.

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Speaker 3: You could get a Hose Ramirez who tends to fall you,

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Speaker 3: So I think that five to six is really great

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Speaker 3: in KDS. And I also think the wheel is a

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Speaker 3: You legit could have a draft where we've talked about

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Speaker 2: So I think that fourteen to fifteen spot is really

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Speaker 3: I kind of want to stay away from that maybe

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Speaker 3: eight to twelve, but there's a really good high core

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Speaker 3: elite players that you can chase here, and the wheel

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Speaker 1: I agree. I love the wheel this year. It's interesting

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Speaker 1: you said you like the middle spot there that's six

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Speaker 1: or seven, because I just did that Beat the Shift

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Speaker 1: podcast Vario Cone, friend of the show. We did a

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Speaker 1: mock draft on there. We were talking about our favorite

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Speaker 1: spots and I said, look, I drafted from the twelve

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Speaker 1: challenge as opposed to having right at the wheel. But

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Speaker 1: he likes to be in the middle too. My struggle

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Speaker 1: on some of these runs, and it's very difficult. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: you're kind of getting it from both ends, like somebody's

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Speaker 1: I like to start the control. What's that?

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Speaker 2: So maybe start start the run?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well you can try, but sometimes in the middle

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Speaker 1: nobody cares, you know. And I also like having more

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Speaker 1: time to watch the board, and that's something to me

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Speaker 1: that's very important. Also, I like being at the in

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Speaker 1: feel like you have more time to see the board

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Speaker 1: how people are drafting. Where you're in the middle, I

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Speaker 1: feel like it's just right there, back and forth. I

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Speaker 1: like the extra time and then slam those two picks

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Speaker 3: You know what's unique about what you're saying too, And

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Speaker 3: we're not this isn't a live episode we're doing, but

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Speaker 3: you guys can comment in the comments.

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Speaker 1: Look, Tatis Lindor at the wheel sounds awesome. I mean,

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Speaker 2: In fact, that's what happens to me too.

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Speaker 1: Leagues, I'm okay Welsh. Like, if it's a ten team league,

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Speaker 1: absolutely ten team league, you can figure it out. Twelve

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Speaker 3: But you do have an advantage if you're at fifteen

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Speaker 1: You know what else I like? I like the grouping

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Speaker 1: Let's get to the tier here of our guys than

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Speaker 1: the top fifty. This is sixteen through thirty here, so

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Speaker 1: we'll start with Jordan Alvarez, and then you have Zach Wheeler,

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Speaker 1: Bryce Harper, Freddy Freeman, Julio Rodriguez, Jackson, Cheerio Gatel Marte,

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Speaker 1: Because I feel like I'm a Purio guy, I am

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Speaker 1: I tell Raphael Devers. How about how about you tell him, Hey, buddy,

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Speaker 1: you look at Mookie Bets. He goes and plays every

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Speaker 3: I mean, how about Toronto flip for Vladdie Endeavors. Vladdie's

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Speaker 1: whereas the other guy, it's like it's a hunter.

431
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Speaker 2: It's not like he's the old vet.

432
00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:03,400
Speaker 3: No.

433
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Speaker 1: But it's this constant roller coaster with Julio where by

434
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Speaker 1: twenty four and three or four years in the league

435
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Speaker 1: I want him to hit that next level and he

436
00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,360
Speaker 1: hasn't done it yet. That's my frustration with him.

437
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I understand the frustration with Julio. I mean

438
00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,960
Speaker 3: there I think the positive is like there's not a

439
00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:21,359
Speaker 3: crazy amount of underlying stuff that completely fell apart, like

440
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Speaker 3: he still barrels really well. A hard hit percentage went

441
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Speaker 3: down by four percent, while the strikeouts ticked up about

442
00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:31,479
Speaker 3: a percent. That coincided though with struggle against off speed

443
00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:35,560
Speaker 3: pitches by a pretty dramatic amount. But also he wasn't

444
00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,440
Speaker 3: pulling the ball. His pole percentage went down by six percent,

445
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Speaker 3: so that might have just been, you know, the approach

446
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Speaker 3: of pitches seen a little bit different. He saw a

447
00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,840
Speaker 3: little bit more breaking pitches. Maybe he was a little

448
00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:48,120
Speaker 3: too little too zealous early.

449
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Speaker 2: On in counts.

450
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Speaker 3: But also like it's a bad pitching environment, so you

451
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Speaker 3: are hitting environments. So you say all of this stuff

452
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Speaker 3: and you go, well, I could pivot off of him.

453
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Speaker 2: He still did all of this.

454
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Speaker 3: Two seventy being a twenty twenty guy. We still we'll

455
00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,800
Speaker 3: see a lot of the underlying stuff that is completely

456
00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,640
Speaker 3: supportive and nothing that I look at that I'm like, man,

457
00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,440
Speaker 3: this is going to completely fall apart. The top two

458
00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,200
Speaker 3: pitch types he saw he hit two seventy years higher,

459
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Speaker 3: and that's slider sinkers in fastballs, Like this is still

460
00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:16,119
Speaker 3: a really great hitter, aggressive runner, with a little bit

461
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Speaker 3: more run potential that I feel like I'm willing. I

462
00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:20,560
Speaker 3: want to look at his babbitt too. I'm willing to

463
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Speaker 3: give a tiny bit of the benefit of the doubt,

464
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Speaker 3: though he had a higher babbit this year than in

465
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Speaker 3: previous years, so we'll have to see. I don't I

466
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Speaker 3: don't think you're going wrong if you take Cheerio over

467
00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:32,720
Speaker 3: Julio Rodriguez. Better hitting environment, maybe runs a little bit more,

468
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Speaker 3: but I don't think you can count out a thirty

469
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Speaker 3: thirty season coming from Julio.

470
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Speaker 1: I like the hitting environment, and Milwaukee's always been a

471
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Speaker 1: good spot for home runs historically, Like it's always been

472
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Speaker 1: a good So are you on team Julio? Are you

473
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Speaker 1: on team Churio.

474
00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,480
Speaker 3: I'm on team Julio. Here, I'm gonna I have Julio

475
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Speaker 3: ranked higher than Tue.

476
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Speaker 1: Do you actually have yeah, right, higher than Taro. So,

477
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Speaker 1: I mean again, it's it's splitting hairs, but like that's

478
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Speaker 1: what we're doing in the second round. Like you're you're

479
00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,240
Speaker 1: splitting hairs. You're trying to find the player in the

480
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Speaker 1: best situation you can get because you know you can't. Well,

481
00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:04,680
Speaker 1: they say you can't lose your league in the in

482
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Speaker 1: the first or second round, right, I mean probably not.

483
00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:10,040
Speaker 1: You know, these are all really good players. For the

484
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Speaker 1: most part. But I want to get everything I can

485
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Speaker 1: out of the best of the best players that are

486
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Speaker 1: on the board, and I just feel like ballpark factors better,

487
00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,040
Speaker 1: maybe the upside potential is better, and Julio's had a

488
00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:23,399
Speaker 1: couple of years in the league to show me that

489
00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,360
Speaker 1: next benchmark for his productivity. It just hasn't happened yet,

490
00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:29,440
Speaker 1: and I'm maybe I'm just being impatient.

491
00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:31,600
Speaker 2: It's possible sophomore slumps.

492
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Speaker 3: I mean, hey, the Cheerio's going to get attacked deicately

493
00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:35,680
Speaker 3: this year as well. Pitchers are going to have the

494
00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,600
Speaker 3: reports on, hey, what did this guy do really well,

495
00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:40,240
Speaker 3: and how do we need to alter and how do

496
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Speaker 3: we make him struggle in the first half. I think

497
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Speaker 3: the same thing happened with Julio. Yet I would say

498
00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:48,359
Speaker 3: like it was actually the career best expected batting average

499
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,800
Speaker 3: he had XBA was two seventy five, slug was still there.

500
00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,840
Speaker 3: I mean, all of the numbers were there, with slight

501
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,159
Speaker 3: dips and a little less pull. I think there's a

502
00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:57,720
Speaker 3: lot that he can work with. And we'll have to

503
00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 3: see how Churio now is going to just to this

504
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:04,919
Speaker 3: league right, new kick changeups and new versions the kick.

505
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 1: Change up, the homesicks change up. I'm very excited about that.

506
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,480
Speaker 1: Seventy four reels about that already, Like maybe it's just

507
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 1: as simple as Julio just need needed in a Rosa

508
00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,639
Speaker 1: ringer all year own and that's and that's probably the case.

509
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,000
Speaker 1: So fingers crossed. But again, a lot of that's the

510
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 1: studies that come out about that Seattle Ballpark have been

511
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,440
Speaker 1: really discouraged. It sucks, it does suck, and I'm starting

512
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:26,920
Speaker 1: to wonder.

513
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,359
Speaker 3: At you know, it's it's interesting, I wonder. I'm like,

514
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:32,840
Speaker 3: you have Baltimore, who is a very picture friendly environment,

515
00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 3: who's taking the ball to make it more Yeah. But

516
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:38,720
Speaker 3: then at the same time, though, you look at Seattle

517
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,679
Speaker 3: and it's like, is this the time to make it

518
00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,119
Speaker 3: more hitter friendly? Maybe it is, Maybe it's not. You

519
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 3: have some of the best pictures in the world.

520
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Speaker 1: You know what it is? I think you spend a

521
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,320
Speaker 1: little bit more money and get some more bats in

522
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Speaker 1: that lineup and stop pretending like you can't spend any money,

523
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Speaker 1: you know.

524
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Speaker 2: Like see I would have loved Alonzo.

525
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Speaker 1: But then there was a stunning statistic. I don't know,

526
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Speaker 1: if I have it on hand, I can look and

527
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Speaker 1: see if I do. But it had to do with

528
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Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners. I think there were forty three and

529
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Speaker 1: seven or something to that effect when they scored three

530
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Speaker 1: runs or more at home. Forty seven. It's a crazy

531
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Speaker 1: stat Like all you got to do is get these

532
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Speaker 1: guys like three runs.

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Speaker 3: That's it, I mean, I mean, and that was a

534
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Speaker 3: challenge you have. We have sub three r you just

535
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Speaker 3: I mean, you just blink and you just throw it

536
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Speaker 3: behind you. And you've got a sub three er guy

537
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Speaker 3: that you're putting out on the mound every week three.

538
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Speaker 1: And seven at home when they score three runs or more.

539
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Speaker 1: Just just crazy, I mean crazy. Uh. Also crazy is

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562
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Speaker 1: next tier. Welsh, here we go. You're ready. I am

563
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 1: Manny Machado, Jackson Merril, Garrett Crochet, Chris Sale. Here's where

564
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: the attempting pictures and the returns on investment start to come.

565
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm, Austin Riley, Dilon, Ceese, Cole Reagan's Corey Seeger,

566
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Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo, Emmanuel class A too early foreclosers for joeyp

567
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 1: We all know that Garrett Cole, Helsel two A Blake Snell.

568
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 1: Then you've got George Kirby, Kyle Schwarber, Albi's Langford and Harris.

569
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Speaker 1: So what we've done here is looking at the to

570
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Speaker 1: the fifty with Yamamoto being the last guy pulling up

571
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Speaker 1: the rear. So it picks thirty one through fifty. There's

572
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: a lot of talent. This is when some of those

573
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Speaker 1: starting pitchers. To me, I start to say, okay, I

574
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: love the consistency of Dylan Cees Blake Snell. You know,

575
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Speaker 1: I'm willing to start a rotation in fantasy this year

576
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:21,400
Speaker 1: with Blake Snell. That bullpen is so good, that offense

577
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 1: is so good. I'm a little worried about the defense

578
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 1: of the Dodgers, to be honest with you, with all

579
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 1: the things and moving pieces going around, I think that

580
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 1: might be the one Achilles seal. But I mean, Blake

581
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 1: Snell could win twenty games just by being okay, I

582
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 1: mean it is stunning to me. Ozzie Albi is another

583
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: guy that I think has become a real value. Just

584
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, we're looking at him around

585
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 1: the turn, and now you're getting him in the late forties,

586
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:44,880
Speaker 1: there's a lot to pick apart here, but let's start

587
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,399
Speaker 1: with the pitching here, because I feel like that's where

588
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 1: you're starting to see the pitching really pop in this

589
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Speaker 1: thirty one to fifty range. So if Snell is my guy,

590
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Speaker 1: do you have one in particular, like, yeah, I love

591
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:57,920
Speaker 1: this return on investment in this range.

592
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, one hundred percent.

593
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Speaker 4: I do.

594
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 3: And if people have been watching, they know exactly who

595
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 3: it is. This is Garrett Crochet time for me. So

596
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 3: it's funny because we're doing a bigger group here of

597
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 3: like you know, thirty through fifty, because there's blankets of

598
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 3: like the bottom end of this are some prime targets

599
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 3: of mine, but Crochet is one of my top top targets.

600
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 3: I love getting a value on him. I've gotten him

601
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 3: in early drafts in the fourth round, probably more of

602
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 3: a third rounder. I even took him in the second

603
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 3: round of tout just bigger, you know, fifteen team, kind

604
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 3: of closer to the wheel. I really really love Garrett

605
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,159
Speaker 3: Crochet over two hundred strikeouts and under one hundred and

606
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 3: fifty innings last year at the tippy top really just

607
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 3: of everything. His three five eight era White Sox doesn't

608
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 3: tell the whole story. He had an expected ERA of

609
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Speaker 3: two point eighty five. His strikeouts were near the tippy top.

610
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Speaker 3: I believe it was in the top two percent tile

611
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 3: of the league at thirty five percent, only walks around

612
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 3: five percent. We'll see what happens in Boston. It's a

613
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 3: little bit more of a hitter friendly environment. But this

614
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 3: is a guy that could lead the league, and I

615
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 3: think in some projections have him leading the league in strikeouts.

616
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Speaker 3: So I love Garrett Croche specifically when he's going off

617
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:06,199
Speaker 3: as like SP six or seven or eight. So in

618
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 3: this thirty range, he is a prime target. There's lots

619
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 3: of good picks in here. Merrill is a nice safe pick.

620
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what the total offensive upside looks like,

621
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 3: but he's super safe. Jazz Chisholm tons and tons of upside,

622
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 3: especially stolen bases at third. And you know, mentioning these pitchers,

623
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 3: it's not just Sailing Crochet just a couple of picks later.

624
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 2: It cease it's Reagan's.

625
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 3: But I actually specifically think Sailing Crochet are kind of

626
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,120
Speaker 3: their own tier. So those two are both big targets.

627
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 3: And I would say if we're looking at this in fifteen,

628
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 3: team this is the third round, prime pitching area for me.

629
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Speaker 3: I don't want to wait too long. I'm not like a, Hey,

630
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,400
Speaker 3: give me pitchers in the seventh eighth round me.

631
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Speaker 1: Like, I just I want one. I like that. The

632
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: thirty five to fifty overall pitchers, I just think is

633
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 1: a really good group this year. Just the way it's falling,

634
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: you know, it's a solid group. It's not like that

635
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: every year. I do agree. Crochet is absolutely one to target.

636
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,119
Speaker 1: The upside there is enormous as long as he can

637
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: handle the pressure of Boston, which I feel like you can't.

638
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 1: What I love about Crochet is, despite the fact he's

639
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: a bigger kid, I feel like the mechanics are really

640
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 1: sounds are really easy to repeat delivery, which you don't

641
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 1: always get with the bigger dudes. You know. Sometimes there's

642
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts there and they don't always

643
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: find consistency. Let me look how long it took Randy

644
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 1: Johnson all those years to put all his mechanics together.

645
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: But yeah, Crochet is incredibly tempting. Now I don't have

646
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: a closer of my top fifty. Is Class A in

647
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: your top fifty? Yeah?

648
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 3: I mean so like in AFB, well in an NFBC draft,

649
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 3: and hold, I think you've got to push closers up

650
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 3: in that format. In a roto, you got to push

651
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 3: them up a tiny bit more as well. It's not

652
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 3: the format where you're gonna punt, you know, and head

653
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 3: to head in twelve teams, I think it's a little

654
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 3: easier to get by. I think it's easier to get

655
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 3: by the smaller of the league and if it's not

656
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 3: ROTO and NFBC. So I do have Class A kind

657
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 3: of like right in this territory. I think I also

658
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 3: took him in tout in like the fourth round or

659
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 3: something like that, because you know, this is a league

660
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 3: winner as far as he's gonna be at the tippy top.

661
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 3: Cleveland is a team that is always up there with

662
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 3: tons and tons of win opportunities and save opportunities. So yeah,

663
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 3: I think he's right there. But I am like overall

664
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 3: in agreement with you paying high costs. I'm more likely

665
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 3: to pay the later closers than I am am Class A.

666
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 3: But I think in a world of like questionable closers,

667
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 3: I guess you kind of can also look at it

668
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 3: and go wow. Devin Williams classe and hater and Edwin

669
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 3: Diez are still all there, So that's a good sign.

670
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of rotational saves and other

671
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 3: spots that if you're gonna spend a high investment, take

672
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 3: a guy that you know there's no question about his

673
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 3: job and that he has lots of opportunity. That's why

674
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 3: I like Class A so much. But me actually pulling

675
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 3: the trigger, eh, don't love it.

676
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 2: Don't want to.

677
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: Now there's an a Land of Braves player that stands

678
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: out to me in this group, and it's Albi's because second.

679
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 2: Base, you're gonna crap on the other guy.

680
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: No, no, no, Sea, I'm gonna say something nice. Albi's

681
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: to me, what have we forgotten how good a player

682
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: he is? And do we look at second base and

683
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: not thinking that it's got a lot of issues and

684
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: problems with some of the investments you can make. And

685
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 1: once again, he's not that far removed from being a

686
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: guy that you would take at the turn. He's got power,

687
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 1: he's got speed, he hits an incredible lineup. So to me,

688
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: that's the biggest value. But Welsh, if I am pressed

689
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: to kick somebody out of the top fifty, it would

690
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: be Michael Harris that's right. I feel like Michael hars

691
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: the top fifty players. I want an impact. I want

692
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: impact guys. I want guys who are gonna drop forty

693
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: home runs, guys who are gonna Like Michael, Harris does

694
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: a little of everything, and he does it pretty well,

695
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 1: but nothing is like off the charts to me. I

696
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: know you're probably gonna argue batting average, and batting average

697
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: is hard to come by these days. So he's a

698
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: nice player, but I feel like he's somebody statistically that

699
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: I can comp at least eighty five percent of a

700
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: couple rounds later. So is there anybody that you want

701
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: to kick out of the top fifty before we find

702
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: guys that we want to put in to the top

703
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: fifty that aren't well.

704
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 2: I want to speak on one thing.

705
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 3: It's interesting because I'll push back about the Albis thing

706
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 3: and to your Harris thing, which is interesting because I

707
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 3: actually think, like, yeah, Albi's is fine, has some injury stuff,

708
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 3: but like I think you can get ninety to ninety

709
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 3: five percent of Albi's probably forty picks later, and Marco

710
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 3: Simon and Marcus Simmons Mark Simion is completely fallen off

711
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 3: the table for everybody, and you got this healthy, revamped

712
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 3: Texas team where he's going to be leading off in

713
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 3: front of Seeger and Langford and them. Simeon, I don't

714
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 3: want to dismiss Albi's, but if you use like, hey,

715
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 3: I can get ninety percent of this player. Later my

716
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 3: argument would be against Albi's and Altuve really would be

717
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 3: players I could push down, but the position kind of stinks.

718
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty three, Albi's had thirty three homers, one hundred

719
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 1: nine RBI and scored ninety six runs. He has had

720
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: three hundred run scored seasons, almost four if you counted

721
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: ninety six. He's had two thirty home run seasons. He's

722
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: had two seasons where he's driven in one hundred runs. Now,

723
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: I look lineup placement has a lot to do with

724
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: Albi's this year and his value, and that might get

725
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: a little weird this year because profis there and Harris's there,

726
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,719
Speaker 1: so they've got lots of options of how they want

727
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: to approach to the beginning of this order. And then

728
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: Lakunya coming back is going to throw a wrench into

729
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: that too. But man, I look at Albi's being a

730
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 1: potential impact player at a tough position, Simey and I

731
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: like too. And that being said, maybe we should talk

732
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: about guys we want to put into the top fifty.

733
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: So Welsh, why don't you go first? I've got my names,

734
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: you've got yours. Maybe this is a little bit of

735
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: looking ahead, and I feel like that's a very healthy

736
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: thing to do, because the best way to draft is

737
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: kind of looking at adp as polling and what the

738
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: consensus and everybody think things are. And then you might

739
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: want to think about what does the first you know,

740
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: fifty players of twenty twenty six look like, and that's

741
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: probably how you should be drafting. So with that in mind,

742
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: give me three names that you think should be in

743
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: the top fifty that aren't currently being drafted as such.

744
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,239
Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna get a caveat because two of the

745
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 3: players you picked would have been my choices, specifically, one

746
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 3: massively would have been mine, because there is a player

747
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 3: that did make the top fifty, White Langford, who I love.

748
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 3: I'm I'm very about wine Lakeerd. I think five tool

749
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 3: player twenty twenty potential. I like Langford more than Michael Harris,

750
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 3: and I think Michael Harris might be going like one

751
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 3: spot ahead of him, or they're like right near each other,

752
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 3: and I guess he's right behind. So caveat that two

753
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 3: of yours. I'm in complete lockstep with.

754
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: SO.

755
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 3: I dug a tiny bit deeper with a few names

756
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 3: that I think can be top fifty and jump in there.

757
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 2: First.

758
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 3: One you're gonna hate. It's Jacob de Grom. I'm just

759
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 3: gonna throw this out here that he is in I

760
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 3: think sixty on ADP.

761
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 2: This is the.

762
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 3: Fantasy pros ADP that's bringing in all the different sites here,

763
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 3: and his rank is all over the board. I believe

764
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 3: he's the thirty sixth overall player on Yahoo's platform NFBC.

765
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 2: He goes higher.

766
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 3: He's all across the board. The one thing we know

767
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 3: about Jacob de Gram is the lack of innings. He's

768
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 3: not gonna have two hundred innings. He's not gonna have

769
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty. He's not gonna he's gonna have

770
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 3: one hundred. He has had one hundred since twenty nineteen. Well,

771
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 3: and I think the team, the team, if they can

772
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 3: get one twenty out of him, it would be.

773
00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: A we weren't even working here in twenty nine team. Okay,

774
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: that's how long ago. That was different. The world was

775
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: a different place then.

776
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.

777
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: It was pre COVID. COVID the pandemic hadn't you That's

778
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: how long it's been since Jacob deGrom is. Don't guess

779
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:13,240
Speaker 1: what the season.

780
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 3: He's ready to be back. He's ready to come back.

781
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 3: I remember Pitchcon he'd be coming on here next week.

782
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 3: If people are checking up at Nick Pollock had come

783
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 3: on the panel. I was on on his PITCHCN conference

784
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 3: and he had said, in a twelve team format and

785
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 3: a head to head format with less players, Jacob de

786
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 3: Grim is probably arguably a top five overall pitcher across

787
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 3: the board. And I think that's what I'm talking about here. Yes,

788
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 3: the injury is so apparent, but yes the cost is

789
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 3: built in. So if you're talking about who deserves to

790
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 3: be a top fifty player, listen, I like George Kirby.

791
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,399
Speaker 2: I was the biggest George Kirby guy last year.

792
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,760
Speaker 3: I'm like, he's gonna win the cy young low walks,

793
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 3: He's gonna up his strikeouts. He didn't, and he got

794
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,800
Speaker 3: into his head again. But like Jacob de Gram's upside

795
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 3: is exponentially higher because he could lead the league in strikeouts.

796
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 3: If from a per game basis, Jacob to Grom will

797
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 3: probably be a top five fantasy pitcher from a per

798
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 3: game basis, But the question obviously exists about like, oh,

799
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 3: how many damn games is he gonna play? That is

800
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 3: kind of built in here, but right in the top

801
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 3: fifty range. I think Jacob de Groom belongs in that,

802
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 3: or at least he is in. He justifiably can be

803
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 3: in there, and in some platforms he already is a

804
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,879
Speaker 3: top fifty player. My other two Christian Walker. I love

805
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 3: Christian Walker. Maybe he doesn't need to be a top

806
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 3: fifty player. I think he's going to perform in a

807
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 3: top fifty player probably gonna have thirty five homers in

808
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 3: this great, great pull side hitter friendly environment in Houston.

809
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be shocked at one hundred hundred on that

810
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 3: side of running RBI, and he can hit for average.

811
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 3: He is one of my main targets at first base

812
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 3: and then finally the actual the complete opposite end. This

813
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:47,439
Speaker 3: is a risk, but Junior Camenero legitimately has a shot

814
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 3: to be a thirty plus home run guy at third base.

815
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 3: He could be everything we're drafting Manny Machado for he's younger,

816
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 3: He's probably not gonna steal a whole bunch. The environment

817
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 3: of Tampa Bay around him isn't great, but it's in

818
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 3: a minor league park. I think Junior Cameronaro's upside is

819
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 3: going to continue to grow, and I think he can

820
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 3: be a top fifty player. Christian Walker, Can and Jacob

821
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 3: de Grom could all be top fifty overall players, maybe

822
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 3: by the time people are watching this at the end

823
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 3: of draft season, but assuredly value wise in.

824
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: Season, Viano's and Camonaro my two biggest targets at third

825
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: base this year. I want one of those guys, and

826
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: I'm willing to be aggressive on them. And I feel like,

827
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't get Jose Ramirez, I'm just

828
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: gonna wait and then when it's Kem and Aro Vanto's time,

829
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 1: whatever that round is or where ADP is suggesting, I'm

830
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:29,879
Speaker 1: going to be a little bit earlier and just make

831
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: sure I lock one of those guys in. All right,

832
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: So those are some good names here, Kemenaro de Grom,

833
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 1: give me one more.

834
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 2: I gave you all of them. I gave you, I

835
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 2: gave Grom, Walker and Junior camon You.

836
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: Did give me, Christian Walker, I'm sorry, I thought I

837
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 1: must have zoned down.

838
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,439
Speaker 3: I'll take yours because the first two of yours, Joe,

839
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 3: I want to I want you to go through yours.

840
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 3: Number one is a great one, and I'm fully on

841
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 3: board with number two. Was the first person I thought

842
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 3: of when you presented this to me.

843
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: Of course, so let's start, or let's start with James Wood.

844
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: Then it's sixty seven overall right now, and Jay Sames

845
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: Wood a guy that you know, I think is going

846
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: to be the breakout star of this year. And I

847
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,320
Speaker 1: think the Nats are going to cover a lot of games.

848
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: If you're in the betting market, I think the Nats

849
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: are going to be very plucky, very dangerous. They're a

850
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: young team. They're better than I think. People are going

851
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: to give him credit for exciting athletic, and James Wood

852
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: really is you know, James would if you go back

853
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: and look at the minor league track record, he's a

854
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: three hundred hitter with a four hundred on base and

855
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: a five hundred slugging. That means you're basically going to

856
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: become an elite major league player more often than not.

857
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: That is the elite slash that you're looking for, and

858
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 1: I don't mean the guy from Guns n' Roses. I'm

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00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 1: talking about James Wood and I'm looking at him this

860
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 1: year being ready to just be the rocket ship that

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Speaker 1: takes off. So I think it's crazy that he's not

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Speaker 1: in the top fifty. I mean, you know, he's He's

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Speaker 1: not even the top sixty, to be honest, which is

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Speaker 1: kind of just bizarre to me. The next guy on

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Speaker 1: my list Brent Rooker.

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Speaker 2: So love that one.

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Speaker 1: I want impact guys right in my top fifty. I

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00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: think Brent Rooker's going to have forty plus home runs

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00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 1: this year. That's a big impact. And you look at

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Speaker 1: the move to the Sacramento Ballpark PCL area right, maybe

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00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: balls jumping out a little bit more. Lawrence Butler gutting

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00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: off to a good start helps too. I want some

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00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: protection around him. Blade had a good finish to the season,

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00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,240
Speaker 1: so there's some pieces around him now in that lineup,

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Speaker 1: I think the A's are going to be another plucky team.

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Speaker 1: The A's in the American League and the Nationals in

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Speaker 1: the NL. I think those are two teams that this

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00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: year are going to be maybe not the biggest in

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Speaker 1: the win column, but they're going to be competitive and

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00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,919
Speaker 1: they're going to drive some people crazy, and I want

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00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: pieces of them because they're very cost effective this year.

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00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 1: And the last guy is at sixty three is Pablo Lopez,

883
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: So you know, I know you want to put Dagram

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00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:39,360
Speaker 1: in there and you make a good case, like I

885
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 1: know what the upside is of de Grom. He is

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00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: the best picture on the planet when healthy. I just

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00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: haven't seen him in the planet since twenty nineteen.

888
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,760
Speaker 3: He's in orbit, he is flying around the universe.

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00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: He's like the stars that burn out, you know, and

890
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: then they become these dwarf planets and then they crystallize

891
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 1: and then explode like that. That's it. I would love

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00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 1: nothing more c Jcob deGrom healthy and successful this year.

893
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:07,280
Speaker 1: But I'm looking at Pablo Lopez and I don't understand

894
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:10,240
Speaker 1: this is a guy that has two hundred strikeout potential.

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00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: I know the ERA was over four last year, but

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00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: the XCRA and some of the FIP numbers suggests it

897
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: was more like a three seven five, which is more

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00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,799
Speaker 1: in line the year before. The year before, he had

899
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: a massive total of strikeouts as well. He continues to

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00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 1: just be a really solid starter. I think the overall

901
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: when you look at the Minnesota Twins. There's some problems there,

902
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: but I think the Minnesota Twins, if the health cooperates

903
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 1: just a little bit more, are once again going to

904
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: be right at the top of that division. But one

905
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety eight strikeouts last year, two thirty four

906
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: of the year before. But maybe most importantly, he's like

907
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 1: the anti Degram because twenty twenty two, thirty two starts,

908
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, twenty two starts, twenty twenty four. Guess

909
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 1: somebody thirty two starts. The guy makes thirty two starts

910
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: every year, and I play in a lot ahead to

911
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 1: head league, so I value that. So Pablo Lopez, to me,

912
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 1: I think is being undervalued because the ERA was higher

913
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 1: than it was expected. Strikeouts are still there, the team

914
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,439
Speaker 1: is still solid, the division is still I think, well

915
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: within their grasp. So Lopez is another guy to me

916
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 1: that I would put in that conversation with some of

917
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 1: these other pitchers and I would certainly take him over

918
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 1: a closer. But as you said in NFBC, saves are

919
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 1: worth a little bit more. But we love to hear

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Speaker 1: from all of you. Who do you want to put

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00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: in the top fifty and who do you want to

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Speaker 1: take out of the top fifty. That's the question I'm

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Speaker 1: asking everybody on the YouTube channel, So drop your comments below,

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00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: and who knows that comment might be worth a Billy

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00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:36,439
Speaker 1: Wagner autograph Baseball Hall of Famer Billy Wagner. By the way,

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00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,399
Speaker 1: while you're behind me, all those balls that Welsh has

927
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: behind him now one Billy Wagner. I guess what, He's

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