WEBVTT - The Cycle: Rounding The Bases (Ep. 1056) 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:08.880 Hello, everybody, Welcome into the cycle. I am Ryan Warmley joined. 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:10.680 I would say, as always, it's been a few weeks, 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:14.640 but I'm joined today, certainly by Mike Mayor. We did 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.200 not do a show last week. I was off on vacation. 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:21.239 I was actually traveling from Delaware to New Hampshire on 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:23.720 the day that we were going to record last week, 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:26.520 so I was out. You had some stuff going on yourself, 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:28.720 so you ended up not able to record the last second, 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:30.720 so we did not have a show. Sorry to those 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.240 who were waiting and wondering and who we did not 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:35.040 warn that we would be taking a week off, but 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.000 that is what ended up happening last week, so apologies 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:40.760 for that. I of course was gone the week prior 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:44.520 as I was starting that vacation as well, So it's 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:46.640 been a few weeks because the week prior to that 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.519 you were not here. So coming up on basically a 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:50.839 month since it's been the two of us. 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.280 Yeah, it's definitely not entirely but mostly my fault that 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.120 we didn't have a show last week. We had, you know, 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.600 like you were out, Kelly had some some stuff to 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:02.040 deal with, and then we were actually going to have 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.679 Welsh fill in and so then we ended up pushing 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.280 the show back to Friday. But then I had some issues. 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:09.080 You know, I was out two weeks ago for a 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:12.959 medical procedure and I had some complications from that said 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.800 procedure and was not physically able to do the show 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.399 last week. So was not planned. Apologies for missing it, 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:21.920 but you know, not something we were intending to do. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:23.760 It just kind of just kind of all fell apart. 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.640 Yeah, we are back now. I told you that I 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.400 watched very little baseball on this vacation. The one baseball 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:36.120 I did watch was I was gifted front row seats 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:42.600 atop the Green Monster for Red Sox game, which was bonkers. 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.480 I had never been on the Monster before. I had 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:46.440 been to Fenway once, but I was sitting in like 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:51.960 the foul section, like in deep right field, like way 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.960 under the row above us, like really really terrible seats. 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.680 This was a very different experience at Fenway. This was 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.000 again front row the Monster. My friend who I was 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:05.160 visiting up in New Hampshire, his company does some you know, 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.320 work with Fenway, and he reached out, like as a sponsor, 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:09.400 and he reached out and was like, hey, I got 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:10.960 a buddy in town. He's not even a big baseball fan. 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:11.959 He was like, I got a buddy in town. He 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:13.919 loves baseball. Do we have any tickets if we want 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:15.360 to try to go to the game. It was a 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:18.679 Friday night, beautiful night again Yankees, Red Sox, so you 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.919 would think like really like, you know, highly sought after tickets, 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.440 and they're like, yeah, we've got four for you didn't 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.440 even tell them where they were. Turns out there were 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.160 a front row of the monster, so wild experience, very 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.320 very cool. I'm very grateful for that experience. And we 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.520 saw Aera judge hit a ball probably five hundred and 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.520 seventy feet. I mean, I know technically it was like 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:41.079 four sixty or something, but he obliterated the ball off 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.239 of Garrett Crochet. So that's fun to watch. But yeah, 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:44.960 very cool experience. I know as a Red Sox guy, 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:45.960 you were probably jealous. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.440 Yeah I was jealous. I've been. I've been where you 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.080 took the picture from, but not for a game. I 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:52.400 went on like a tour and got to go up 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:53.600 there and like see the view from up there as 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.200 very cool. I also found out it wasn't my first 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.560 game at Fenway, but one of the when I was 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:00.880 like an adult, I like bought tickets. I found out 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.960 the hardware that they still sell obstructive view seats and 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.200 they're real and you actually can't see the field from 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.280 like as you're like behind a pillar. So like if 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.040 you buy that seat, you might as well just not 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.280 sit in it and like walk around because you literally 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.160 can't see the field from it. 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.400 It was very close to those seats that I sat 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.320 in the first time. I was at Fenway, where I 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:21.880 was going for as cheap as I can, and you know, 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.400 I'm trying to go to every stadium. I'm at fifteen 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.920 of them now. And my buddy and I were, you know, 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.160 crossing Fenway off the list a few years ago, and 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.200 so we went as cheap as we could, and it 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.160 was it was borderline obstructive view. So that wasn't great. 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.400 All right, enough about that, we will go ahead and 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:38.760 dive into riding the bases here. 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:39.520 Now. 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.000 It's kind of funny because I said to you, hey, 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.400 do you want to do our usual bit where I, 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.080 you know, come back from vacation. I tend to go 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.320 pretty off the grid when I when I'm off, I 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.080 try not to be you know, keeping up with work 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:57.360 or anything. And so I enjoy when you kind of 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.960 catch me up on everything I missed, and you know, 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.560 coming in kind of with maybe a little less you know, 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.880 knowledge and research than usual. And you said maybe, and 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:11.000 then all of your topics in in the show sheet 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.400 are Worm is going to try and guess this picture 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.120 based on his stats or real or not real for 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.960 these recent breakouts. And I'm like, I just told you 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.520 I haven't watched baseball in two weeks, and you're forcing 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.200 me to really shoot from the hip here. So we'll 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.640 see how this segment goes. I hope everybody appreciates it. Nonetheless, 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.479 let's dive into the first one, which is you've labeled 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.919 is this mystery picture? Legit mayor will provide stats for 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.679 Worm to try to guess this picture. 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:41.000 Yeah, so I was gonna put the stats in the sheet, 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:42.880 but I didn't want you cheating. I'm looking up beforehand, 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:44.200 so I put the stats elsewhere. 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.400 What do you take me for? Okay, I don't take 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.520 this seriously enough to cheat to try to win. 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.680 Well, you've already been lobbying, you know, internally we have 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.080 an ice cream bracket going. You've already been like lobbying 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:55.839 for your picks to try and win. You tried to 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.680 get what is it, Moose Tracks all the way to 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:58.480 the finals. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.320 I tried to get more. Okay, you frame it like 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.040 I'm trying to get it to the finals. I'm trying 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.440 to get it past drumsticks, which are not even an 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.239 ice cream. They're like a novelty treat that aren't even 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.520 that good. So yes, it's not like I've been trying 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:15.160 to like bribe the voters to get Moose Tracks all 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:16.880 the way to the championship just because I like it. 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.640 I just think it should have beaten drumsticks. 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.119 For those interested, the championship matchup is chocolate chip cookie 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:25.719 dough versus drumsticks. 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:27.560 I wasn't even gonna bring this up because I think 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.320 it's such a travesty that drumsticks are in there. 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.760 It's a travesty that we eliminated one of the Vanilla's. 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:36.560 We had Vanilla, Vanilla, Bean and French Vanilla, and we decided. 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.000 That that was a travesty that in a thirty two 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.560 censorship three of them were Vanilla's and we had no 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.920 cookies and cream to start, which thankfully we snuck in 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.080 there later and they made it to the to the 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.560 final four. So deserving, deserving fit. I mean, chocolate chip 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.719 cookie dough isn't my top choice, but it's good. Like 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:55.960 if it wins, which I hope it will at this 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.760 point facing drumstick, that'll be a very deserving flavor. I 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.480 think everybody let us know in the comments what ice 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.039 cream flavor you woul vote for, whether it's a classic one. 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.000 It could even be something simple like just plain chocolate, 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.400 or maybe a more unique one like an interesting Ben 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.280 and Jerry's flavor, or you know, something unique to your 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:13.480 hometown ice cream shop. Let us know your favorite iceam 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:14.720 flavor in the comments. 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.400 Or your favorite ice cream to watch a baseball game with, 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.200 probably just playing vanilla out. 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.720 I do love summer Day. You can't see it right now, 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:23.200 and I promise we'll get to the show in a second. 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.280 You can't see it right now. I know people could 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.040 just skip ahead on YouTube. It's fine if they don't 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.160 care about this, but we have I have this background 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.840 behind me, but normally you can see I have ice 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:39.200 cream helmet Sundays from every ballpark. I'm missing three of them, 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.120 but there were a lot of them. Were collected by 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.040 my mom when she was growing up, and then kind 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:44.480 of passed them down to me, and I've tried to 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:45.960 add to the collection to round it out and get 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:49.000 all thirty I think I'm missing. It's like the Rays, 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.440 the White Sox and whatever other. I can't remember the 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.440 third one I'm missing. But we're we're we're whiddling away 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.840 at it. That's half the reason I moved to Denver 0:06:57.920 --> 0:06:59.479 with so I could get the Rockies off the list. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.600 Well, that's all of a reason. All right, I'm gonna 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.680 I'm gonna bring you this this picture. Do you want 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.440 to like guess after like every stat or how do 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:08.120 you want to do it? 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.040 I think it's very unlikely I get this right at 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:16.000 any point, so I would say, give me, give me 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.040 every two stats, I'll guess. 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.400 All right, And I have the clues kind of set 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.040 up in a way that, like, I'll make it more 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.520 and more obvious as we get closer, Like, Okay, this 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:32.559 person's name is so is this is this mystery picture? Legit? 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.200 He has a one point eight four e r A 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.840 and earlier in June he threw a complete game shutout. 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:42.720 I think I might actually know who it is on 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:47.320 the first round of clues. Is it Andrew Abbott? 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:47.840 No? 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.080 Yeah, I was a comple game shutout he did throw 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.280 on It was in June, right, I thought that was 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:58.680 a good guess that. 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.680 If you have another clip, well I lied because it 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.800 is Andrew Emit. That's I just lost all a little. 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:10.200 Bit, all right. I can't think of it many other 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.480 complete game shoutouts, at least at the top of my head. 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:13.360 That happened in June. 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.640 So well, you're you sold yourself short. And I was 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.600 gonna I was going to go through many other stats 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.120 and you got to, you know, pretty early. I was 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.840 going to go through his CA percentage, really low whip. 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:24.520 Then I was going to start getting more more obvious. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.800 He's a lefty, he has a six and one record, 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.240 he just turned twenty six. He pitches in the NL 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.800 Central and then get all the way to he's a lefty, 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:33.920 pitches for the Reds, and make. 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:38.160 More obvious his name is alliterative. The shutout, I think 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.560 is a much more obvious clue than those other ones. 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:42.480 I think that was a mistake, but like I wouldn't 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.800 have gotten it based on his CA percentage or having 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.800 six wins or anything that the shutout I think was 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.560 it was an obvious clue, but go great job by 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.680 you now. Really, I know, I clearly I've been watching 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.320 a lot of baseball. Yeah, you know, ab It's interesting 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.920 because he was somebody that I was interested in it 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.960 times last year, and then maybe it wasn't as good 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:06.880 after I invested in him. But yeah, he's been on 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.280 like a really good stretch. I mean, he's been really 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:14.560 been good this whole year. And to answer your question 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.040 if he's legit or not, I think he's I would 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.120 phrase it. And this is the way I sometimes think 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:24.920 of questions like this, is he's legit enough, right, Like 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.400 I don't know that he's gonna you know the ideo 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.720 for hun complete game shoutouts right and left, right, But 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:35.880 I think he's legit enough to want to like have him, 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.400 And I would be interested in trading for him if 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.760 he was available and the price was right to be 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.080 starting him like he's legit enough to trust for now. 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.760 That's an interesting way to phrase it. I wonder, let 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:50.640 me pull up the trade value chart, although I didn't 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.920 do it yet for this week, but I wonder who 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.600 you'd be willing to trade for him? 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.239 And by the way, by the way, I do recognize 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.600 but he had a downstart coming off of that shutout, 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.800 so it's and and also the start before the shoutout, 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:06.360 he wasn't very good, so it's not like he's just 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.640 been right and left like amazing. But again good good 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:10.599 enough for me. 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:15.080 Yeah, although his most recent start it was five runs, 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:16.240 but only one of them was earned, so it was 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.079 kind of a weird a weird start. But before the 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:21.920 shoutout there were five ron runs. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.160 I always I always kind of roll my eyes a 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.200 little bit, like if it's like one extra run compared 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.880 to the earned runs, then yeah, like you know it's 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.240 fair and not hold it against him, Like he's still 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:35.680 allowed a three run home run, Like I recognized that 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.200 he wouldn't have needed to get to that batter if 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.560 not for the error, and that's why it doesn't count 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.400 as an earned run. So yes, that's like a legitimate thing. 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.840 I'm not saying the stat should be different, but like 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.880 I think in evaluating him as a pitcher moving forward, 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.120 like he still threw a pitch that resulted in three 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:56.200 runs being scored even if he in an ideal like 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.520 defending you know, fielding scenario wouldn't have had to throw 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:00.280 that pitch. 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.880 I think error, Like how unearned runs are calculated is 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:06.840 another thing we could have talked about when we did 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:08.600 are like what do we want to ban in baseball 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.760 kind of segment because I do think errors could be 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.600 more subjective, subjective for like earned runs and stuff, because. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.240 Somebody I would be fine if I would be fine 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.000 if if the earned runs were the guy who got 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.200 on is an unearned run, but the other runs that 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:25.000 scored still are earned because you would have had to 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.439 face those batters. Eventually, I get that there's a lot 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.080 of like logical fallacies with that argument. This is just 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.080 me off the cuff, like thinking about a good fix. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.800 So I recognize that that's not a fully fleshed out thought. 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.680 But again, like he allowed that home run, Like to me, 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.559 that's still worth considering and in evaluating his performance. 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.719 Well, there's also like if it's if it would have 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:46.680 been the third out of an inning and then you 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.360 give up eight more runs, those eight runs are all unearned, 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.599 and that's kind of you know, again, you wouldn't have 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.720 had to face those guys, but like you probably would 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.240 have been next inning anyway. 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.319 So yeah, or I mean maybe if it was the 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.679 last inning of your outing, like you would have been 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:01.679 pulled the next sitting Like again, you can get into 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:03.640 a lot of like kind of back and forth about it, but. 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.000 I guess that's all we got. Anything else on Andrew Rabbit. 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.240 Well, what was your thought? Yeah, I legit to you. 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.959 I think he's he's like, similar to what you said, 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:16.920 like legit enough. I would say, he's like in between 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.280 like legit and not legit. He's like good enough. 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.440 You know he would you be interested in training for him? 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:23.880 Depends. I pulled up the trade value chart to see 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:25.440 what I would want to give up and kind of 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.240 like in that range of what he would be worth. 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.960 Reyese Hoskins is kind of in that range if I 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.560 needed a hit her. I don't know that I would like. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.000 I feel like he's more like the kind of player 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.000 like if I have him, I'm going to keep him 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.760 or so high. I don't know that I'm like really 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.120 interested in like going out and acquiring him just because 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.720 he one A four era. His whip is really good. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.880 His expected numbers are all over the place. Two point 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.360 nine two x CRA, three point nine two FIP and 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.320 then the Sierra or x FIP and then the Sierra 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.280 and FIP or in between there. His that gas page 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.679 is pretty solid. You know, you always say like red 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.240 as good, blue as bad. He doesn't throw like a 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.199 big fastball, doesn't have a good ground ball rate, which 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.880 could come back to haunt him where he pitches, but 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:11.480 he has like a really good he's like really good 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.600 at avoiding hard contact, even though like his it's kind 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.160 of weird. His hard hit percentage is eighty eight percent 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.319 of but his barrel percentage is like forty percent of. 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:22.120 But he's always like getting barreled but not very hard 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:26.520 kind of a thing, or at least like getting you know, 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.680 like hard hits barrel rates. It's you know, kind of 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.320 subjective for the stats, but like, other than that, like 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:36.800 everything looks really solid. And he throws his fastball almost 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.520 fifty percent of the time despite not having like a 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.439 big fastball, which is also a little weird. Like he 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.120 throws a ninety two mile an hour fastball fifty percent 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.920 of the time. That doesn't sound like a pitcher you 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.120 would normally think is like has these great numbers, but 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.640 he just you know, he locates it. Like batters are 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.120 only hitting two hundred against it with an expected batting 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.480 average of one ninety. So he's doing something with his fastball. 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:01.920 That's you know, working for him, and so like I 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.200 feel like he's legit, but also like he worries me. 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:05.920 It seems like he has to kind of profile that 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.679 like if one thing changes like this could all unravel 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:09.280 very quickly. 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.760 I think that's fair. I think I would be very 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:22.120 open to moving off him if it gets to that point, 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.960 Like like, I'm not going to be digging my heels 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:26.960 in and say, oh, he had three bad starts in 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:31.800 a row. I'm still blind faith like you know, starting 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:36.240 him regardless, But right now I'd be happy to, you know, 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:40.480 I Like I said, I think he's legit enough at 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.400 least for the time being. So that's that's kind of 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.120 how I think about Andrew Abbott. We are now giving 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:49.360 away a Cecil Fielder signed Tiger's jersey courtesy of our 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.680 friends at Pristineauction dot com, and all you have to 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.360 do to enter is to subscribe to the Fantasy Pros 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.800 MLB YouTube channel right now, drop a comment below on 0:14:57.840 --> 0:14:59.840 any video and that is it. We will be announcing 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.240 one lucky winner right here on the channel, so make 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.640 sure to turn on those notifications so you can know 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.560 when new videos are up and to claim your prize. Again, 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:12.640 that is a signed cecil Fielder Tigers jersey. May or 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:14.680 what would say is the coolest jersey you own? 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:17.360 Coolest jersey I own? 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:18.680 We'll say baseball jersey. 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.400 I say baseball. I have some really weird football jerseys. 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:25.000 I talked about that on other shows. I don't have 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:29.040 a ton of baseball jerseys. I do have. I mean 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:30.880 I have a bunch of signed things, but the cool 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:32.520 the coolest one that I have that I would wear. 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.880 I have a a roy Holiday Phillies jersey. That's pretty cool. 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:36.440 I like that one. 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:43.440 It's pretty good. I'm collecting one one jersey from each team. 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:45.640 I've got like twenty five of them. I'm almost done, 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:49.680 actually all right, My Tigers one is Hank Greenberg. So 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.640 I'm not that interested in the cecil fielder. I try 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.080 to get like a hall of Famer for each team. 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.080 But some teams don't have a Hall of Famer. And 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.800 so when I started this project, like over which teams 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.240 don't have a hall of Fame, Well, like the Rays 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:07.320 don't have one. I mean they have they have, yeah, yeah, 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.840 or at least like if they have a Hall of Famer, 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:13.600 it's like they're you know, you know, I try to 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.200 get players that are like this is like a life 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.000 for like the like Evan Longoria for the race if 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.520 he was you know, good enough to be in a 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.080 Hall of Famer instead of all of very good type 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.360 of but I mean, I'm you know, a guy that 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.160 it's like you really associate with that franchise. So like 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.320 the first one I got was like Jackie Robinson or 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.640 you know, like try to get like real legends, but 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.720 some of them like didn't really have an obvious name 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.240 when I started this project, so I had to kind 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:41.880 of like project out. So I got like Josh Johnson 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.040 Marlin's jersey because I was at the time, I was like, 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.240 he's really good, and I'm trying to you know, make 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.200 a guess here, or you know, I think I did. 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.640 I did get a Longoria. I got like like a 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.240 Tilowitzki Rockies, which isn't terrible, but like, I think I 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.960 can do better. Some of them obviously were easy, like 0:16:58.040 --> 0:16:59.480 you know, I got like Ted Williams for my Red 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.120 Sox one or Lou Garrig or you know, stuff like that. 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.040 But I do love collecting jerseys, so so that's a fielder. 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.880 Go ahead and comment on the video and make sure 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.560 you're subscribing to YouTube to get that one. Let's go 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.159 to our second topic here, real or not real. You 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.160 added some names here, which again I am not happy 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.080 about because I told you I watched very little baseball 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.520 the last couple of weeks. But we'll see how this goes. 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.520 Start us off, well, I'll give you the names and 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.040 some contexts and some stats and stuff. Also, I was 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:29.480 gonna say when I was hosting two weeks ago, I'm 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.240 actually the keeper of these jerseys, and so I have 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:33.399 it right here in my house. I don't have it 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:34.600 right next to me like I did last time, but 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:36.240 I last time I held it up showed it to 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.560 people on YouTube. But it is a real jersey. It's 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.159 in my house, and I'll be the one mailing it 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:47.920 to you. So Andy Pajez Andrew Paper. He I just 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:48.479 made that up. 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:50.560 Great, right, I think it's pretty good. 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:54.320 Actually, yeah, he like he's someone I picked up earlier 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.680 in the year just to like stream an outfielder, and 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.920 it's just kind of never dropped him. I forgot to. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.000 I did that with last year too. I think it 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.199 was Mark Vientos last year who's like not doing as 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.840 well this year. But I was just kind of expecting 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:09.679 like a decent batting average and maybe a little bit 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:11.040 of pop, and like I wasn't sure how much he 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.200 was going to play in that Dodgers outfielder, and he 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.520 continues to look really good despite I can't I mean, 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.800 the Dodgers lineup is so deep that I keep hoping 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:22.200