WEBVTT - 409 | Top 10 Team Outfields for 2023 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:11.200 There's a. 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:19.640 Stage La Packer Bray Ship. 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:38.240 We will sue you's the Gorner Welcome to one hang out. 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:43.360 The week on the Just Baseball Show Top ten Team Outfield. 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.040 We've got a whole bunch to get to this week. 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.160 We've got a World Baseball Classic preview and prediction episode. 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.600 Peter is going to be back to drop his I 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.240 guess picked to win and probably pick to make it 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:59.000 out of each pool. But me, Jack him Arum are 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:03.000 taking you through Team Outfields here on Monday, March sixth. 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:07.800 First and foremost, I've never understood the whole Royal family thing. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.320 Did you see my tweet on Sunday morning? William and 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.600 Kate were at a spin class in like a suit 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.279 and address and they had like a quick twenty second 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.959 race and it made Reuters like it made global news 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:23.760 and there was a video of it and then the 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.959 rest of the spin class had to clap after the 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.399 twenty second race. It was the dumbest shit I've ever seen. 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.360 And Clay Snowden, one of our writers, made a great 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.440 comment about it. He was like, Americans know way too 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.759 much about celebrities, Like what if we knew less? And 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.920 my thought is, yes, you're not helping, not helping, but 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.640 what do we do about the Royal Family? Because like, 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:47.360 what do. 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:51.960 You ignore them? That's what I do. I legitimately don't 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.640 even like the names that you just mentioned. If you 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.760 gave me a lineup of faces, I would not be 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.200 able to line them up. I'm not kidding. South Mark 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.200 actually just had a great episode on on the Royal 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:06.640 Family and in that situation, which was really really funny, 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.560 so I would I would recommend checking that out. But 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:11.840 now I I it's one of my biggest pet peeves 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.360 on earth that specifically not a reality TV guy, not 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:20.359 a Royal Family guy, And yeah, I'm checked out. I 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.560 don't I don't pay attention whatsoever. 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.440 I eat up a good season of the Bachelor, and 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.880 like I eat up my numbing television. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.200 I don't judge that. I don't judge that. That's that's 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.639 that's some good mind numbing stuff to like just unplug 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.600 and change it up. I'm okay with that, But I 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.400 draw the line at like inside Edition, let me keep 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.600 up with what every celebrity is doing and just like 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.079 make their lives feel miserable because they have no privacy. 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.119 So you're not a keeping up with the Kardashians person, 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.600 I assume hell no, okay me neither me neither. I 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.760 think my thing with the Royal family is like I 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:52.760 care so little about them that I want to know 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:54.440 what's going on because I think it's funny. 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.120 I yeah, I just I don't even get it. I 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.720 don't what do they do? They just get money for 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.600 I think so like Royal I don't. I don't don't 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:07.880 understand that that's thing anymore. It's twenty twenty thirty, right, 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.480 you see a separate government that like actually makes decisions. 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:14.160 They just know they have a prime minister, Like, yeah, 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.280 forget it, move off. Are a baseball time? Yes, yeah, 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:23.360 we're gonna talk about team outfields before that. A couple 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.960 of a couple of overreactions from spring training come from 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:31.880 Tampa and Cincinnati. Cincinnati Ellie de la Cruz with a 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.840 triple in a nuke Christian and karnassion Strand with what 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.800 a four hundred and forty foot home run? Are you 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.520 all the way pot in on that or what? I like? 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.560 I am? And I'm not like, I know he's going 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.600 to hit for a ton of power. I'm just worried 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.520 about like the hit tools and everyday player Uh, we 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.360 know he can do that. You know, so Red's prospects, 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.000 Christian and karnassion Strand he's gonna hit you your tape 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.880 measure shots. It's just can you catch up to vll Oh. 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:58.960 It's got a little bit of a pushy swin, which 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.160 is gonna make Vello a little bit difficult. But man, 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.080 when he gets into one, he gets into one. Speaking 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.320 of which, I just went to my first spring training game. 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.200 It was a blast. It was a blast just to 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.320 be at the field. The game itself kind of sucked. 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.360 It was Marlins, Mets, Mark Vientos put on a show. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.440 And actually, I'm glad you brought up spring training real quick, 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.400 because how about all of these youngsters, Man, Like, these 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.640 aren't just the youngsters coming in against other youngsters. Curtis 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.560 mead multi home run game is Ray Raise prospect, Mark 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:31.159 Vianto's Mets prospect, multi home run game, Jordan freaking Walker 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.359 basically almost it for the cycle. That's, of course, the 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.720 Cardinals prospect. We're going to talk about all these guys 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.000 in detail on the call up, but all of these 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.760 guys pertain to the Just Baseball Show because they're making 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:46.599 their damn case to be in the opening day lineup. 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.960 And I don't think that Vientos is just because of 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.919 the roster. I don't think that Meat is because of 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.880 the rays. And I don't think that Walker should be 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.120 because he has not played in Triple A yet and 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:00.960 still needs to get his he wet in the outfield. 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.440 But shit, man, Walker keeps doing this, I might have 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.599 to put my hands up and just say, hey, just 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:08.600 throw him out there. He's swinging it too well. So 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.039 it's kind of funny because he would fit into this 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.320 Cardinals outfield, which we will be talking about in this episode. 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.680 But I just wanted to mention all the youngsters swinging 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.440 it and spring training so far. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.000 Yeah. My other overreaction was TODJ. Bradley looked great again 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.680 for Tampa in the same game that Need had a 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.839 multi homer day, So the youth is there. I think 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.400 Taj Bradley is good enough to be in that opening 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.480 day rotation, even though he will likely not be because 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:38.599 they're so crowded. If Glassnow is hurt, he could be 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.400 making a case for it. But I have no idea 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.040 how severe Glassnow's issue is. 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:47.400 Yeah, so the thing with Taj is this splitter. That's 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.640 the big X factor. And again we're going to talk 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.560 about him when we start breaking down the top one 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.520 hundred prospect lists should be out soon. But if his 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:58.400 splitter is semi consistent, because his slider, you and I 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.760 have seen it, it's phenomenal. The fast fall is fantastic. 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.320 If the splitter is just semi consistent, this guy is 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.240 going to be a problem. And guess what, Jack, It's 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.520 been pretty consistent in spring training and look at what 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:13.480 he's done. So man, if the Rays kind of get 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.240 him right, that's a perfect guy to be able to 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:19.720 plug into that rotation. And I would love I would 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.039 love to see him starting triple ultimately too, just another 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.719 guy just like make a few starts in triple, which 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:29.080 is weird. I feel like I'm I'm I'm perpetuating service 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.120 time manipulation here. But I just I like seeing guys 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.960 like come into the big leagues hot, you know, kind 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:36.719 of ride that wave in hot instead of like go 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.560 sink or swim. See how you do. But yeah, my 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:44.240 overreaction is going to be Mark Fianto should be their DH, 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.960 you know, or at least their left handed mashing DH 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.800 the Darren rough roll right away. I think he can 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:52.600 be better than Rough from day one. I know they 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:54.640 gave up some decent pieces for Rough, so they don't 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.240 want to just you know, relegate him into the but 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:02.080 I think Mark Vanto can be a better option right away. 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.600 He took some freak swings at that game. He tomahawked 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.000 one up and then also hit a really nice put 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.720 a nice swing on a Dylan Floro you know, breaking ball, 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.800 which you know, again this is I think this is 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:14.920 a guy that can really produce for them. 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.880 Mark Vanzos, Yeah, I was just on on Saturday night. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:23.280 I was just on Chatterbox Reds with Nick Kirby, who 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.200 obviously does great work in Cincinnati, and you and I 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.360 both know him and have read his stuff, has listened 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:32.320 to his stuff, and Nick I kind of explained my 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.080 thought process in regards to Christian and Karnacion strength because 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:39.480 obviously he's kicking tail right now, He's kicking ass, said 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:41.920 would he make sense on the opening day roster and 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.600 I said no, because he I wanted to see him 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.320 get comfortable and double, and then get comfortable and triple 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:52.160 because my overwhelming prospect thought is in terms of hitters, 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.080 the moment they get comfortable at a level, I think 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:56.960 is when you can move him up. But I got 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.800 to see him get comfortable and succeed at each level 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.280 as post to arms, where like, if you look great 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.320 for four starts, just go up to the next one. Yeah. 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.760 No, I agree with that too, especially. 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:11.640 But I think the conversation changes with Jordan Walker because 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.600 he's the He might be the best power hitting prospect 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.000 in baseball. Yeah, he might be making his push for 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.320 best hitting prospect in baseball, like not all around best 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.760 offensive prospect in the game. If he continues to do 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.440 what he's doing right now, it's hard not to put 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:29.520 him on the opening day roster. 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:31.640 He's going to force their hand if he keeps doing 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.319 what he's doing it. And we've seen more teams push 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.040 guys up from double, you know, and I think that's 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.720 something that Walker looks like he could be ready. Uh 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:41.840 you know. The one thing for him is the sliders. 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:43.839 Maybe give him a little bit of trouble last year, 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.400 but it looks like he's already making those adjustments. He 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.040 didn't go yard off of some you know, random minor 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.840 league filling guys. He went yard off of Josiah Gray, 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:53.040 which I know a lot of people did. But then 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.160 he went yard off of a couple other big league 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.720 arms in that game, and he's continued to just mash 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.079 against big leaguers, so I think that's something to really 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.400 look at. My concern is the defense, But if you're 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.520 hitting like that, who cares, and I think the defense 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:07.960 will come along. But he could also kind of rotate 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.079 in the DH roll or whatever. So I'm interested to 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.280 see what they do. But Walker, if he keeps doing this, 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.400 he's going to force their hand and people are going 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.360 to be clamoring for him on the opening day roster, 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.280 and I think we're already starting to see that momentum 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.000 build a little bit. The one thing within karnasil streand 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.200 real quick chasing way too much that that's something that'll 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.360 get exposed more at the big, big level. I'd love 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.960 to see him just show an improvement with the approach 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.560 and double especially triple A where guys have better command, 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:34.560 and then send him up there. I think that's a 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.920 different case. Walker might be forcing the hand here for 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.440 the Cardinals that said we're gonna talk about the outfield, 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.040 where does he fit in? Obviously, once he's ready, you 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.280 move somebody, because he's Jordan freaking Walker. But they've got 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.600 a lot going on out there, and a lot of 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.319 moving parts that I'm really interested. And that's why it's 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.040 so surprising that they haven't traded from some of this surplus. 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:56.880 But again, we'll get to that. 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.559 Brother. The answer may be dh with Yepez, you move 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.600 Yepez out of the dh roll, and it's just Jordan 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:02.720 Walker's to lose. Right. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.959 I love yet Best too, though, I know, but it's 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.880 Jordan Walker. Yet Best could be really special, but it's 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.959 Jordan Walker. Yeah, Best could be special? 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:13.400 Could yepes be Jordan Walker. 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.240 I think he could be better than Jordan Walker for 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:17.559 the first half of this season. 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:22.040 Okay, yeah, that's fair. Through twenty at bats, Walker's hitting 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:26.040 four point fifty with three homers. So yeah, Like, if 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.120 he continues this, you make space. 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.839 Yeah, you gotta know, you can't. You literally cannot. I 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.480 think they should legitimately put him in situations where he 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.880 is expected to fail, so that they could say, okay, 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.199 here you struggled against Verlander. But or if he goes, 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:42.800 you ont off Verlander, You're like, all right, here, we 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:43.520 gotta do it. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:44.920 You want to be able to point to it like 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.040 an arbitration hearings, Right, It's like this is what you 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:48.920 did poorly this spring and this set, how you're not 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:49.320 on these. 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:51.520 Just sink or swim in the toughest spots. And I 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:52.760 think they're going to do that. I think he's gonna 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.439 be at the top of the order for them throughout 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.760 the spring and they're gonna say struggle or if you can, 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.839 if you can survive the final boss here, yeah, then 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.840 there you go. You're good to go. And I think 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:04.120 that's something he can rise to. 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.280 Think about that lineup too. Nuke Bar's playing for Japan, 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.800 Edmond's playing for Korea, Goldschmidt and Aeronado were playing for US. Like, 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.160 there's a spot for Jordan Walker in the lineup every day. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.240 So he's going to be seeing a lot of the 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.000 best arms because guess what, a lot of the best 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.200 American arms, a lot of the best Dominican arms are 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.480 not pitching for the US or the Dominican. 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.320 Yep, yep, correct, So it should be fun. That's that's 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.640 definitely got to follow closely the rest of spring training. 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:33.400 Yep. All right, outfields, We've got three honorable mentions, and 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.760 then of course the top ten, the two that we 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:40.400 left off San Francisco and Minnesota Minnesota. Is Gallo, Buxton 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.280 and Kepler Buckston obviously greats. Can't say on the field, Gallo, 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.079 they figured out a way to shift against him. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:47.840 Boom, that's so funny. 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:51.559 It's so funny, like they're royally fucked if he hits 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.040 the ball to left field. But chances are he's not 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:55.280 hitting the ball to left field. 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.480 Dude, I think he can, Like, I think he's going 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:59.200 to figure that out. And for those who didn't see it, 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:03.000 they legit put two outfielders in left and right. Excuse me, 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:03.640 they put. 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.120 Nobody in shallow right, and they had the center fielder 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:08.840 in the right field are pretty much playing straight up 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:10.559 the right fielder towards the line a little bit. 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.720 So there was like five hundred square feet of open 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:18.040 space basically and in left and left center field, and 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:22.000 like he could pop up into left field. Expected batting 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.319 average of zero and it's gonna fall for a double triple. 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.640 I'm really interested to see how this goes, because I 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.400 think that Joey Gallo is capable of inside outing a 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.520 pop up. The problem with the shift was those wouldn't play. 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.240 You still had to hit the ball hard somewhere to 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.160 fall because you had to hit it into the outfield 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.520 hard because you had three outfielders. Still, the hard part 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:47.040 was sneaking it through the infield. Regardless. Joey Gallo is 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.040 is not a guy that we're you know, I think 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.480 expecting to be much more than a slightly above replacement 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.360 level player. So it's hard to put that outfield above 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.679 that said, healthy bust In, some of the young guys 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:03.040 performing that Kepler is underrated. If Warnick or somebody else 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.680 kind of fits in here and can contribute, it's a 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.600 it could be a good outfield, but it's just not 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.679 proven enough and too many I think too much variants, 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:12.719 even with their best player in Buxton and Center to 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:14.120 put them in the top ten. 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.120 Yeah, and you can't or even in the honorable mentions, right, 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.960 they might be Fifteen fourteen is San Francisco. And the 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.199 way we went about this, and you can follow along 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.360 the write up it's on just Baseball dot com. It's 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.199 also in the episode description. And the way we did 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.320 this is the projected starting outfielders are the three projected 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.440 outfielders on fangrafts, but of course we're gonna mention the 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.720 others that could factor in. San Francisco is the other 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:41.960 like just missed, and that is Confordo, mikeys Streemsky, Mitch 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.960 Hanneger and Jock Peterson has slated as like the opening 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.640 day d H Right now, Conforto, I don't want anybody 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.920 just banking on him being good. He missed an entire 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.239 year of baseball more more. 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.079 Like, and since the last time he's played, it's been 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:57.839 how long, I mean, how many days do you think 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.520 since the last time he played an actual Major league 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:00.960 baseball game. 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.480 It is the Jonathan Isaac thing, Like he's been gone 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.760 for a really long time, So we. 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.720 Don't know how his body's going to react. We don't 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.000 know how It's been a long long time. So we'll 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.120 see and and remember like this is a guy that 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.320 we saw a lot of players impacted by the shortened 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.400 twenty twenty season. He plays twenty twenty one, one hundred twenty 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.840 five games after that, like, we'll see how he does. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.560 But that said, he wasn't doing that well too, right, 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.040 Like twenty twenty one was a bad season for him. 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.360 I like the Canfordo pickup. I think he can be good. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.440 I think it was a good deal for the Giants, 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.800 but we can't bank on him. I agree he can't 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.040 bank on him being anything more than a one and 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.320 a half two win guy. I think he can very 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.080 easily be better than that, but a bank on that 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:45.760 would be would be malpractice. 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.960 Yeah, one hundred percent. And Hanneger is good. We both 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:53.640 like Hanneger. Mikeystremsky is solid, but they're they're not top fifteen, 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.640 I don't think. And our three honorable mentions are Arizona, 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:01.160 Chicago White Sox, and the LA Dodgers. Start with the Diamondbacks. 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.760 As of right now, it's Corbyn Carroll, Alec Thomas, Jake McCarthy. 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:09.280 You've got Lordus Gurriel as the DH type. This is 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.240 an outfield that could be really good or could be 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:17.880 underwhelming for our expectations, like Alec Thomas got optioned at 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.200 the end of last year, but we also think Alec 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.520 Thomas can be great, and we think Corbyn Carroll can 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.560 be a six win player. But he also may sputter 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:29.800 that there is a whole bunch of deviation available for 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:31.440 the Arizona Diamondbacks. 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.600 I would I could make a case. I think that 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.600 they could be higher because while there is uh like, 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.320 there is deviation there. Like you said, I don't think 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.440 this outfield is capable of being bad because even if 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.680 they're not hitting, they're gonna defend and they're gonna run, 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.320 and they're gonna put the ball in play enough, Like 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.560 even Alec Thomas last year, but where he was just 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.760 not hitting, I know they sent him down. I think 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:58.960 there was more to that. I don't totally know why, 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:03.000 but like even being lost out there and not playing well, 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:06.000 like he still was above replacement level, which is saying 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.120 a lot because he was really not hitting for them 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.560 at all. I look at a Jake McCarthy, great defender, 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:13.520 he's gonna steal bag, he's gonna put the bat on ball. 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:15.680 Gorman Carrol's a fast player in Majorleague Baseball and hits 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.600 the ball hard like he's gonna find a way, and 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:21.560 the defense is great. Triples yeah, oh yeah, no. I 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:23.800 think if you look at my right up on him 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:25.760 from even two years ago, I said he's going to 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.440 lead the leaking triples because of that outfield too, just 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:32.600 the space out there. Peralta, David Peralta always had a 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:34.880 ton of triples out there, So imagine what Corman Carroll's 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:38.360 gonna have out there. I think this outfield's going to 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.160 find a way to even at the bottom be good, 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.360 but this could be a great outfield if these guys 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:45.960 hit the way they can. I am a little bit 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.720 concerned about the bats of McCarthy and Thomas, Relatively speaking, 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.360 I'm not really worried about Carrol, even as a rookie. 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.640 I think at the very worst you're getting above average production. 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.200 From him, which is why at the twenty twenty two 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.960 end of season updated the top one he was one 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.280 over gunner because like, there's nothing to worry. 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.840 About with Carol No, literally nothing. 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.600 I think Jake McCarthy is a very underrated talent for 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.320 Arizona ninety nine games, finished fourth and Rookie of the Year, 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:16.439 voting eight homers forty three driven in. He was twenty 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.400 three for twenty six in the stolen based department. If 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.240 you're that good of a base dealer with a seven 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.000 to seventy oh ps, you've got a spot man. And 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:28.160 I think Guriell is like the rotating guy in the outfield, 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.800 and he who knows, maybe Gabriel Moreno hops in a 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.119 corner at some point if they feel like Carson Kelly 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.080 needs to catch. I think too. 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.120 Garriella is a left fielder, is like God forbid, Thomas 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.440 stinks or McCarthy thinks what we don't think is gonna happen, 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.360 Like Garriell in the corner is still an above average 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.600 big league outfield act correct, So I mean they've got 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:51.919 a nice even though he's not a good or a 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.600 great defender, he's gonna hit and he's gonna be fine 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:59.320 enough defensively. Yeah, last thing on them, McCarthy, I don't 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.120 know how to feel about him. Like, I know, he's 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:06.080 a good player. He's hit at least above average. He's 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.640 put up above average numbers at every stop and kind 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.359 of done similar to what we saw last year. But like, 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.640 do you think that he can maintain a two eighty three, 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.879 three forty two, you know, four to twenty seven slash 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:20.119 line at the big league level, you know as he continues, 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.920 or is he more of a one hundred WRC plus 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.840 guy with all of the little you know, I guess 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.760 what would you say, like accents to his game right, 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:34.800 like all of the little like tangibles. Yeah, Like that's 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.320 the one thing I don't know. I I he is 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.679 a very tough read for me. I think that he 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:42.840 can be close, like close to what he was last 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.080 year though ultimately gun in my head, that's probably what 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.320 i'd say, But I do have some concern of, like, 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.120 you know what if he does regress a bit offensively. 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:50.639 I don't know. 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.840 So he had a one eighteen ops plus last year, 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:56.280 even if he's like a one oh three to one 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.119 oh five ops plus guy, I feel good about everything 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.200 else that he does. And he's always going to be 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.720 the third outfielder here, you know what I mean? Yeaheah, 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.800 So I feel decent about that. An ode to John Rothstein. 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:12.280 It is conference championship week, Conference tournament week in college basketball. 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:16.200 It is March by stock now in the Arizona Diamondbacks outfield. 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.879 Yeah, and I'll say also, real quick, Kyle Lewis, Like 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.160 I don't. I think he's pretty pretty cooked in terms 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.000 of playing center and stuff. But that guy can get 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:28.800 by in a corner. Again, that's that's a bonus guy 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:31.520 to throw out there. If anything goes wrong, that's not bad. 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:35.640 Yeah. Second, Honora, we'll mention is the White Sox. One 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.120 of these things is not like the other. Andrew Ben 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:41.400 and Tendy Luis Robert and Gavin Sheets. Is the projected 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:45.920