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Speaker 1: Wednesday, May third on the Just Baseball Show, and it

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Speaker 1: is the mail Bag. We answer all of your questions

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Speaker 1: We post the graphic. Butfore the day starts, we let

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Speaker 1: all the questions roll in and we pick our seven favorites.

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Speaker 1: I'm Peter Apple, that's arm Layton and one of the

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Speaker 1: questions I had to add on them because it's just

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Speaker 2: I'm very excited to get care it's more of a request.

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Speaker 2: I don't even think it's a question. It's a request,

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Speaker 2: which I saw that one. I was like, oh man,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if we're there yet, but I'm I'm

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Speaker 2: happy to indulge a little bit and get into that.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, some great questions. As always, always look forward

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Speaker 2: to this because it gives us a really good opportunity

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Speaker 2: Orioles and Cardinals and pitching and it's like, we're just

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Speaker 2: gonna do this every two fucking weeks. But you know,

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Speaker 2: a pulse of like, who's gonna be buyers, who's going

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Speaker 2: just still so early that people want to know. So

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Speaker 2: that's the funny recurring question.

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Speaker 1: It is early, but at the same time, we are

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Speaker 1: So let's just get into it. The first question of

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Speaker 1: This is an interesting one because there are a lot

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Speaker 1: Most notable, believe the New York Yankees. How about the

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Speaker 1: Cleveland Guardians are under five hundred, Houston Ashos are still

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Speaker 1: You make some sense as a person who watches the

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Speaker 2: But I would say it's like Yankees, Mariners, one A,

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Speaker 2: They're in a different boat for me. I'm more concerned

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Speaker 2: we can paint the picture of a balanced team, Fiaret

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Speaker 2: with the Mariners especially, the Yankees have a path to

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Speaker 2: what they've got either really really hit or answer all

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Speaker 2: of the questions that we've been regurgitating about, you know,

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Speaker 2: this Cardinals team. But I'm with you on the Mariners.

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Speaker 2: I'm not worried about them even in the slightest and

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Speaker 2: they just caught up Bryce Miller, who I think should

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Speaker 2: whether it's as a swingman, spot start or whatever. They've

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Speaker 1: The Cardinals are ten and nineteen. Yeah, ten and nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Let's move on. Another team that is sixteen and thirteen,

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Speaker 2: getting much for him. You're not getting much for Coopek,

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Speaker 2: you're not getting anything for Clevenger, You're not getting much

428
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Speaker 2: for Lance Plain, if anything at all. And because Giolito

429
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Speaker 2: is about to be a free agent, so his value

430
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Speaker 2: is pretty much useless too. You got Tim Anderson for

431
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Speaker 2: a year and a half, which should still get you

432
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Speaker 2: a pretty nice return, but the only guy that's getting

433
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Speaker 2: you a franchise altering return is still in cease. And

434
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:40,560
Speaker 2: I think it's the White Sox start to look in

435
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 2: the mirror and realize, Hey, this is not going to

436
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 2: get better anytime soon. I think they might have to

437
00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,360
Speaker 2: cash in their most valuable chip here. And I don't

438
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Speaker 2: know if it's this year, I don't know if it's

439
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 2: next year. I don't know if it's a deadline, I

440
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,199
Speaker 2: don't know if it's in the off season, but I

441
00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 2: think they'd be nuts not to trade Dylan Seas and

442
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Speaker 2: I think that they're already starting to realize that it's

443
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Speaker 2: probably gonna be the case, especially with him being a

444
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Speaker 2: Scott Boris client. So Cee says two years of control

445
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,719
Speaker 2: after this one, so you could say too and change

446
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 2: it's two and a half. If he's traded at the deadline,

447
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:12,160
Speaker 2: that's extremely valuable. They could get a franchise altering return there.

448
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 2: You look at like the Cardinals and what they could

449
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,920
Speaker 2: put together, look at the Orioles, though I know it's

450
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:18,919
Speaker 2: not their standard practice, and what they could put together,

451
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,680
Speaker 2: like some of these teams out there, the Dodgers could

452
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 2: put together franchise altering packages. We saw Trede Turner and

453
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,920
Speaker 2: Max Schurzer packaged together. What if the White Sox packaged

454
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:30,919
Speaker 2: Sees and Tim Anderson to the Dodgers and just let

455
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 2: bail the Dodgers out again, Like that's something that could happen.

456
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 2: So I think they'd be nuts not to trade him,

457
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 2: to be honest, because you're not winning with Dylan Sees.

458
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Speaker 2: You're just not It's not happening.

459
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Speaker 1: It's not happening. So let's do some mock trades. Why not?

460
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Speaker 1: Why not us, let's do some mock trades for Dylan Cees.

461
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Speaker 1: So you mentioned three teams that could definitely be in

462
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Speaker 1: the mix, Saint Louis Cardinals, the Baltimore Orioles, and the

463
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Dodgers. Who else do you think could possibly

464
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 1: be in the mix there for a guy like Dylan Cees. Now,

465
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Speaker 1: when I rack my brain and I think about some

466
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 1: of the teams that potentially do it, I wonder, and

467
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,159
Speaker 1: this is kind of a bad answer, but it was

468
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Speaker 1: on kind of the top of my mind, and I

469
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Speaker 1: was thinking about it. The Angels are playing good baseball.

470
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:27,280
Speaker 1: They are like we make fun of them sometimes because

471
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Speaker 1: it's always if not now when.

472
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Speaker 2: This is the time.

473
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Speaker 1: Otani's about to be a free agent, right, Mike Trout

474
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 1: ain't getting any younger. And they have the lineup, and

475
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Speaker 1: they have a decent starting pitching staff, but a lot

476
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Speaker 1: of them are lefties. It would be nice to slot

477
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Speaker 1: in one of the best right handed pitchers in all

478
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Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball. So they're a team I thought

479
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 1: of that. I think we could possibly workshop. The Cardinals

480
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,679
Speaker 1: are definitely that team. I go through the teams, like

481
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 1: the astro. Luis Garcia got removed from his last game

482
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 1: with elbow discomfort. We're hoping he's going to be okay,

483
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 1: but that's not good. Jose ra Keaty was just put

484
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Speaker 1: on the shelf. You already lost Justin Verlander. Right, So

485
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 1: the rotation as we sit here today is Framber, Christian Javier.

486
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: Then what yeah, right, we saw Brandon Black come in

487
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,400
Speaker 1: give them four innings. Okay, that's not a guy here

488
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Speaker 1: starting every fifth day. With all due respect to him,

489
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Speaker 1: like credit to him, I think he was on a

490
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Speaker 1: bus from Reno and just hopped on and was good

491
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Speaker 1: for him. That's awesome, And I don't think he's the

492
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,479
Speaker 1: fourth starter for them right now. So the Astros are

493
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Speaker 1: a team. The Angels are a team that I'm looking at.

494
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Speaker 2: How about the Tampa Bay Rays? Fuck yeah, the Rays

495
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 2: have been in conversations for some of these big deals

496
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 2: and just haven't quite pushed it across the finish line.

497
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Speaker 2: You know.

498
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Speaker 1: I think they mentioned that slider with the Rays, That's.

499
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Speaker 2: What I'm saying. And they look at everything from an

500
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Speaker 2: asset management perspective, right almost like treating it like a

501
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 2: private equity verb and like if they feel like they're overpaying,

502
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 2: they won't overpay. But I think in this spot they

503
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,199
Speaker 2: could beat a lot of packages, and they've got so

504
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,400
Speaker 2: many guys and they have such a log jam right

505
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 2: now organizationally. You know, Curtis Mead is just sitting there

506
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 2: in triple A. Kyle Monzardo is sitting there in Triple A.

507
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 2: Those are two big league ready bats. And if you're

508
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,119
Speaker 2: the White Sox, like the White Sox can't really handle

509
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 2: a full full, full, full full tear down like training

510
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 2: Dylancy's for a bunch of eighteen nineteen year olds. That's

511
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 2: gonna look real bad. It's not gonna look too much

512
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 2: better that you're training them for Triple A guys. But

513
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 2: at least those guys will be on the opening day

514
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 2: roster next year, and if they play, you're you're expediting

515
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,360
Speaker 2: this real, this rebuild, so like something around. I don't

516
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 2: know if they trade meet because they're talking about a

517
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Speaker 2: pre ar deal with him, but obviously if Dylant see

518
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 2: some on the table now, you look at things differently.

519
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,439
Speaker 2: But Meat and Manzarto are two of the best position

520
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 2: player prospects in the game, and those are two guys

521
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 2: that'll be big league ready pretty much tomorrow. They could

522
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 2: you could plug them in the lineup tomorrow. So like

523
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 2: I could see them building a package around that with

524
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 2: some of the other arms they have and pushing this

525
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 2: thing forward. We've talked about the injuries that they've dealt

526
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 2: with with the springs hurt obviously, the inconsistency of Glass

527
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 2: now and bas and unavailability there. I assume they're not

528
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 2: going to pay glass Now ultimately, so I mean that's

529
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 2: money that's going to be opening up for them too,

530
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Speaker 2: So they can feel pretty good about maybe leveraging those

531
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Speaker 2: two and a half years and trying to extend cease

532
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 2: as they've started to look like they're going to spend

533
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 2: a little bit more money. When the time is right,

534
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 2: the Rays could put together a hell of a package, dude,

535
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 2: and that would be the way to make their statement

536
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 2: here and say, yeah, I know we're off to a

537
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 2: great start, and maybe this is in the mid season.

538
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 2: I know we're in first place. Now you're going to

539
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 2: be fearing us as the World Series favorite. I would

540
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:44,120
Speaker 2: love to see that.

541
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Speaker 1: I would absolutely love to see that. So of the

542
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: teams that we named, the Rays, the Orioles, the Astros,

543
00:27:54,920 --> 00:28:00,200
Speaker 1: the Angels, the Cardinals, and the Dodgers, right those where

544
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: I think the main six that we talked about, who

545
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: do you think makes the most sense?

546
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:08,200
Speaker 2: Let's let's do this.

547
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 1: So we have those six teams, let's knock it down

548
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: to our three favorites and then come up with the trade.

549
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: Ok So we'll go through them again. I think the

550
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: Dodgers have to be in that top three. I agree,

551
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 1: and I think the I think the Rays do I

552
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:31,880
Speaker 1: really do? Okay, so we'll do the Rays. So then Cardinals, Astros, Angels,

553
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 1: and Orioles.

554
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 2: So I hear you on the Astros from a like

555
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 2: team perspective, of course, like that makes so much sense.

556
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 2: I think they might not have the assets like okay,

557
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 2: fair enough so that I think they they'd be spread

558
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 2: way too thin trying to put that deal together, Like

559
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 2: they'd get out bid for sure. So I think we

560
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 2: can eliminate.

561
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: Them down to three Cardinals Orioles Angels.

562
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 2: Angels are gonna be hard pressed to make a Dylan

563
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 2: Cee's package. Adell, Joe Adell, Edgar Carrow I love, and

564
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 2: that's a crown Jewel like prospect. You could start a

565
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 2: package there, but I don't think Adele and him are

566
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 2: gonna get it done. They could slap something together, they'd

567
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 2: get out bid by the Dodgers and the Rays. I

568
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 2: think the Cardinal like it's against their practice. But hell man,

569
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 2: if you're just trying to climb back into the thicke

570
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 2: of things and you can go get Dylan Ceese, like,

571
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 2: maybe this will be what pushes John mose Lock like

572
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 2: grow a set of nuts and do something. I think

573
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 2: I got my votes on the Cardinals because we know

574
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 2: what they've got prospect wise, they don't need to. They

575
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 2: were in on Juan Soda like they've had the interest

576
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 2: to make the splash, but again, another very calculated team

577
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 2: that's only gonna make the splash when it makes a

578
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 2: lot of sense for them. They were in on Sean

579
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 2: Murphy but then drew the line. I think this could

580
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 2: be where they're like, all right, and that was when

581
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 2: they were really good. They're up to a slow start.

582
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 2: Now a little bit more urgency. They could put together

583
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 2: a package without Jordan Walker and I think get Dylan

584
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 2: Cees with the prospects that they have.

585
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: Okay, Cardinals raise Dodgers. Now we uh, we shortened the

586
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Speaker 1: list because we see what type of package they would get.

587
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 1: So if we go back to that deal with a

588
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: Max Scherzer and Trey Turner to the Dodgers, they had

589
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: to give up Josiah Gray, iber Luiz. Who else was

590
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: in that deal? That was that was it was mostly

591
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Speaker 1: centered around them.

592
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,479
Speaker 2: Those were the two crown jewels and then he had

593
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 2: a couple other fillers in that deal, but it was

594
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Speaker 2: really Ruiz and I mean two top fifty prospects there

595
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 2: that we're big league ready.

596
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: So okay, but Dylan Cees, you know, even if he's

597
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 1: not included with Tim Anderson, those guys were free agents

598
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: after the year. So let's just say what it's going

599
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: to take is at least two top fifty prospects and

600
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Speaker 1: then two fillers ye to get a Dylan's I think

601
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: that's a fair deal. For the Chicago White Sox, two

602
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 1: top fifty is awesome. Yeah, So for the Cardinals, it

603
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: would probably have to center around who Mason Win potentially

604
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: and Matthew Liberator. All right, Mason Win and Matthew Liberator.

605
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 2: Those are like just outside the top fifty. But like

606
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 2: it's you know, then you throw in a third guy

607
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 2: that's of higher value, right, So then instead you add

608
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 2: Yvon Herrera, who I think they'd be very interested in

609
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 2: because they need help and catch her too. They don't

610
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 2: have anybody coming up and Asmani Grondal like that, that's

611
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 2: not helping you right now. So Yvon Herrera and then

612
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 2: a filler.

613
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: It's so funny. The Cardinals could easily do.

614
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 2: That and not even give a shit. You could do that,

615
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 2: yet here we are like tink Kents. You could you

616
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 2: could include in that too, like maybe the White Sox

617
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 2: have interest in tink Kents. That's the craziest part. Pick

618
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 2: several of the aforementioned guys here Mason Win, Tink Kent,

619
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Speaker 2: Gordon Grisefo, Matthew libertre Cooper, Jerpy, Yvon Herrera. Like they

620
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 2: can trade two of those arms, they can trade three.

621
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 2: I would prefer to keep Hence. But if the White

622
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 2: Sox want Hens, Okay, take Hens, then I think I

623
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 2: think Libertore makes more sense because you can plug him

624
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 2: right into your rotation again, expedite this rebuild. So Libby

625
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 2: Win and Yvon Herrera and then another piece like that's

626
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 2: a they don't blink and that's a good package.

627
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: That is a good package, all right, Los Angeles Dodgers.

628
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: It's gonna have to be either Gavin Stone or Bobby Miller. Yeah,

629
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: then we're probably looking at Andy Pajes. Yep, we might

630
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: be looking at Michael Bush.

631
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 2: The Bush.

632
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: So who would you rather give up Stone or Miller?

633
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: Which is a loaded question.

634
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 2: I would say Miller just because the shoulder discomfort, a

635
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 2: little bit of inconsistency there, Like Stone is a safer bet.

636
00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 2: White Sox go with the upside. They get their kind

637
00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 2: of like second copeck good luck Bobby Miller. So I'd

638
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 2: go Bobby Miller, Michael Bush and Andy Payes. I mean

639
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 2: that's that's that's a good package.

640
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then another piece ye throw in throwing River Ryan.

641
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 2: Actually really like River Ryan.

642
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Speaker 1: River Ryan. That's a great name. The marketable name. Will

643
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Speaker 1: sell tickets in the South side of Chicago.

644
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, everyone's gonna be winding up to see River Ryan.

645
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Speaker 2: All right. I wish Jack was here. I do so.

646
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Speaker 1: The Tampa Bay Rays they could do something and not

647
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: even feel it. And the and the White Sox they

648
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: should be saying we need either Taj Bradley or Shane

649
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 1: Boss right, yeah, they should like they need that. They

650
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: should and the Rays could easily do that. The Rays,

651
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Speaker 1: I think, you know, the Rays could trade.

652
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 2: Bos and not. I would let me ask, you would

653
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 2: rather trade Boz or Bradley. You've got to see Bradley

654
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 2: now at the big league level. I know Boz is awesome,

655
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 2: but we've seen, you know, kind of the injury history.

656
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:11,240
Speaker 2: They're very similar profiles. Bradley's obviously very young, much younger.

657
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 2: There's they're kind of similar to each other in a lot.

658
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 2: They are very similar sands the injury history, so you're

659
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,399
Speaker 2: taking a younger, less injured. But then Boz, I think,

660
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 2: is a little bit more upside just with this quality

661
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 2: of stuff is just like might be a slight notch above.

662
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. If I just would like to

663
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Speaker 1: keep Shane Boss, like I think Shane Boss is the

664
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Speaker 1: fucking truth, Like I think he's in the same breath

665
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Speaker 1: as a Grace And Rodriguez went healthy like one of

666
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: the best overall pitching prospects in baseball. He absolutely was.

667
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Speaker 1: So we'll give Taj Bradley, who's still an amazing pitching prospect.

668
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: Like taking Shane Bos over TODG. Bradley is not you know.

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Speaker 2: The only world where I'm trading either of those guys

670
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Speaker 2: is if I'm getting a Dyllancy's too, like if I'm

671
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Speaker 2: s So there you go.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Shane Baz, No, sorry, we're trading TOAJ Bradley. Okay, Manzardo.

673
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Speaker 1: He can't also throw meat in there, No, no, not

674
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: if you're getting Bradley, No way. Yeah, So Bradley, Manzardo

675
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: and then who.

676
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 2: Got a good piece because they have Carson Williams, who

677
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 2: is a top fifty guy for us, are just baseball

678
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 2: junior common arrow. I would not trade for anything right now.

679
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 2: That guy's hundred with seven pumps in high end.

680
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 1: Now is when you trade him though, and he's gonna

681
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,720
Speaker 1: suck on the White Sox. You know, he's gonna stuck

682
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: on the White Sox. I mean they got him for

683
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 1: Tobias Meyers straight up. So that's that's gonna be the

684
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: highest price right there.

685
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 2: Raised fans will actually block us if we trade Taj Bradley,

686
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 2: Kyle Mozardo and Junior common Arrow, like like, never listen

687
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 2: to the show again. I'm telling you're getting Dylan Cees.

688
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 2: I think Carson Willis swap Carson Williams from Manzardo.

689
00:35:56,239 --> 00:36:00,879
Speaker 1: Okay, so Carson Williams to Bradley and.

690
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 2: Who Junior common Era.

691
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 1: Oh that's a funck all right, I want to hear

692
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: on YouTube. Leave us some comments if these trades are

693
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Speaker 1: we out of our mind?

694
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 2: Yeah? And White Sox fans, which ones do you like

695
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 2: the most? And also if you hate them all like

696
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 2: which it's also very possible that's what ends up happening.

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00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,280
Speaker 2: Race fans no way to do that. White Sox fans

698
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 2: not enough on any of those like, and it's just like,

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00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 2: all right, this is why trades never happened, Like this

700
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Speaker 2: is why so I would say these packages are like

701
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 2: that changes a lot for the white sox it does,

702
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 2: and I know it sucks to lose Ceas, but you

703
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 2: ain't winning with Dylan Cees.

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Speaker 1: So speaking about a lot of players trading players, you

705
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: know a lot of people listen to our podcast to

706
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: get fantasy baseball advice, and we partnered with So Rare,

707
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: which is the best fantasy app. I mean, it's just

708
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 1: so much fun. You're consistently building your fantasy team throughout

709
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: the season. And I got to toss it over to

710
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: my guy Rum because he has been absolutely in the weeds.

711
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,760
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so Rare and having so much fun, probably

712
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: spending more money than you need to, but it's so

713
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 1: much fun that you're getting all the players and you're winning.

714
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Speaker 1: Give us an update and you're so Rare team. Yeah.

715
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 2: So I've got my free team, which is Cooking. You know.

716
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 2: That's the team that you can draft for free with

717
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 2: with the link in our podcast description. You put it

718
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 2: together and then as you enter competitions, you can win

719
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 2: cards of actual value monetarily, or you win cards that

720
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,760
Speaker 2: are also like part of that free designation, the common cards,

721
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 2: and you add them to your lineup and keep reinforcing

722
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 2: it and keep reinforcing it. So my common lineup is

723
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 2: pretty loaded. It's getting to the point now where I've

724
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,280
Speaker 2: got like tough decisions to make because I'm looking across

725
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 2: my lineup and you know, like I've got a Kunya,

726
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 2: but I've also got Corbyn Carrol. So now it's at

727
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 2: the point like before it was just I would pick

728
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,359
Speaker 2: the best player and put him in my lineup. Now

729
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 2: it's like, okay, I got to figure out the matchups

730
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 2: a little bit. So for the for the common lineup,

731
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 2: like I encourage everyone to go try it because you

732
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 2: can pick your players. Remember keeping in mind that you're

733
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 2: looking at guys for the entire course of the season,

734
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 2: So you know, you don't just want guys that are

735
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:06,399
Speaker 2: off to a great start that you might not think

736
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 2: it's sustainable. You also just want to pick good players

737
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 2: that you think will be good all year. So for

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00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 2: this week, I've got Sho hey O Tani on the

739
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,839
Speaker 2: bump that's always gonna go well. Albert Alzalai has been

740
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 2: my reliever, that's been awesome. Bregman's been disappointing me at third.

741
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 2: I'm waiting to get like a third basement update, you know,

742
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:27,320
Speaker 2: like to basically hopefully my next reward is a third basement.

743
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 2: I just have not been getting one. Lindor has been unbelievable,

744
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 2: it's short, and Akunya has been unreal. In the outfield,

745
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 2: Corbyn Carrol is like my Flex and then Sunny Gray's

746
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 2: my Pitcher Flex, so I'm in really good shape there.

747
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 2: And then for those that want to like spend a

748
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 2: few bucks and play in the limited competitions, which is

749
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 2: with those limited cards, you can get them for pretty cheap.

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Speaker 2: They have bundles for like forty dollars where you can

751
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 2: get four or five cards. That's where I got Araya's

752
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:56,280
Speaker 2: Ashcraft Pascantino and put those guys into my team. I'm

753
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,439
Speaker 2: trying to ball on a budget with the limited team

754
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 2: and earn my rewards and just keep get limited cards.

755
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 2: I got hosed with an Austin Gomber reward thanks a

756
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 2: lot so rare, but no, they've also hit me up

757
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 2: with some with some good rewards as well. I need

758
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 2: to upgrade my Flex. Last week I was talking to

759
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,280
Speaker 2: Jack about that. I picked up Jack Soonwinsky for two bucks,

760
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 2: which was a great, great, great pickup, and he's been

761
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 2: helping me big time. But I want to upgrade one

762
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,399
Speaker 2: more like a bat and one more pitcher, and I'm

763
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 2: trying to find like an underrated pitcher to pick up

764
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 2: that people aren't totally on because remember it's like a market,

765
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 2: so uh like, who are people like maybe still overlooking

766
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 2: a little bit that I could scoop up on the

767
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 2: mound for so rare because my team is like I

768
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 2: just missed the an Ethereum reward. So like, if I

769
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 2: can upgrade this team a little bit, like I can

770
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:45,359
Speaker 2: actually win cash or tickets or VIP experiences and that's

771
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 2: like all the things that you can win here on

772
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 2: so rare, I need like a slight upgrade in my

773
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:54,240
Speaker 2: rotation right now, because Ashcraft is good in the right matchup,

774
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 2: but like I need another another arm that I can

775
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 2: pick on because sometimes they aren't pitching in that week

776
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 2: competition too, because there's you usually it's three day competitions.

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Speaker 1: So I really like these young pitchers for the Guardians

778
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Speaker 1: Logan Allen and Tanner Biby end of the programmer. I

779
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Speaker 1: think both of them are very solid pickups because they're

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Speaker 1: still really young, but they just look like they're you know,

781
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: from the Cleveland Pitching Lab where these guys who just

782
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 1: have great pitchability, but didn't have great stuff, but now

783
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: this stuff looks great. Like Logan Allen can put the

784
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:30,240
Speaker 1: ball wherever he wants. Yeah, Tanner Bibey has multiple plus pitches.

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00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: I think those guys like not everyone has come around

786
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 1: to them yet, but they're like some of the guys

787
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Speaker 1: that are keeping the Guardians in check with no Tristan McKenzie,

788
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: cal Quantrell struggling more than you know in previous years,

789
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: and Shane Bieber has been good but not amazing, and

790
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: it's like the guys at the bottom. You know, Zach

791
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: Police continues to get bombed. I don't know why they

792
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 1: would keep him in the rotation over these two guys.

793
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Speaker 1: So I would take a strong look at Alan or Biby.

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00:40:55,680 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: You got a VET underrated, VET under rated. I think

795
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna be a big part of what they're doing

796
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: right now. Like I I definitely think those guys are

797
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:06,760
Speaker 1: are worth a watch.

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00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 2: I think they still got to be added in. I

799
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 2: since they're new guys, they come in like the next drop.

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00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 2: So I love those guys. Like, are you buying what

801
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 2: Brax and Garrett is selling right now? He's got like

802
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 2: a two to two five? Yeah, like yes, but like

803
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 2: he's not gonna Is he gonna win me money?

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00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: No? Is Kakuci expensive of the Blue Jays. He's been nails.

805
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. Let me see he's been nails.

806
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 2: Kakuci is cheap. Yeah, that might be the pick up.

807
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,840
Speaker 2: I think that's the picture, dude.

808
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 1: I mean, Alec Manoa has been one of baseball's worst

809
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 1: pitchers so far this season. Jose Brios had a good

810
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 1: stretch and then had a bad start against the Red Sox.

811
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Speaker 1: Kevin Gosman is still doing his thing, you know, Bassett

812
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: is up and down. But Kakuchi's been the second best

813
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: pitcher in that rotation.

814
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:57,320
Speaker 2: And I want guys that can like give me flashes

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00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 2: because it gets short. If a guy gets bombed, he

816
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 2: gets bombed. I lose that competition that week, but the

817
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 2: beautiful thing is I can just do it again in

818
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 2: three days. But like Kakuchi has flashes, Like, I want

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Speaker 2: guys that can give me like ten k's or eight

820
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 2: or nine ks when you're locked in and win me

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Speaker 2: a competition. Kakuchi like could be that guy. So that

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00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 2: might be my pickup for like six dollars or whatever

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00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 2: it is. I think it's five six bucks. That might

824
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Speaker 2: be my my new addition to my limited team. My

825
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 2: free team is so much better. But it's crazy you

826
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 2: see it on paper, but my limited team is finished

827
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,359
Speaker 2: higher on several occasions, and we talked about my All

828
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Speaker 2: Grinder teams like Yondi Diez, Luisa, Rayaz Alex Verdugo, and

829
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Speaker 2: Vinie Pascentino. Like that shows you, like I picked those

830
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 2: guys up early for a couple bucks. So like, if

831
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 2: you do want to kind of dip your toes in

832
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 2: the limited competitions, like if you know what you're doing

833
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 2: and you have some undervalued players you like, like you

834
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:51,240
Speaker 2: can put together a pretty good team for like fifteen bucks,

835
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:53,360
Speaker 2: but again you can do it for free with the

836
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 2: with the link in our podcast description.

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00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: Again, go draft your team on somewhere. It's such a blast.

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00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: The think is in our podcast description. Okay, moving on,

839
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 1: and this will be kind of a shorter one, but

840
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Speaker 1: I had to add it because of course, you know,

841
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 1: we debate over what the stats are telling us what

842
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: they aren't, and I kind of wanted to talk about

843
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: a specific player. So the question is who is the

844
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:21,879
Speaker 1: definition of my eyes say against the stats? For me

845
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: as a Giants fan, it's JD Davis. His stats aren't

846
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 1: the greatest, but wanting him on the field and at

847
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 1: the plate, we would be around two wins without him,

848
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: as by Little DJ two to two seven. And this

849
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: is a guy who I go back and forth on

850
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: because I understand the advanced analytics argument, but the more

851
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 1: I watch him, the more I start to disagree. And

852
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: that player is Assie Albi's with the Atlanta Braves. Like

853
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: he's a guy who podcast is at.

854
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 2: Ozzie Albi's a roller coaster, all of us roller coaster.

855
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: You know what, He's fucking good and I don't care

856
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 1: who knows it. For example, are rum he's in the

857
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: first percentile of outs above average and the first percentile

858
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: of arm strike. That's bullshit, Like he's still the worst defender.

859
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: That is a fake stat. I love outs above average,

860
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: but they don't know what the fuck they're talking about,

861
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: because Auzzie outbis and through my eyes, is one of

862
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 1: the best defensive second basement of the sport. Yes, he

863
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: walks out a five percent rate, so his WRC plus

864
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 1: isn't gonna look that good. He has a two to

865
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 1: eighty six on base percentage. Yeah he doesn't walk, but

866
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 1: you know what he does do. Hit tanks. He's got

867
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 1: seven bombs, he's got three doubles. He doesn't have a

868
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: stolen base yet, which I don't really understand, but he will,

869
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,360
Speaker 1: like at second base, Ok, yeah, my second basement, he will.

870
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:52,320
Speaker 1: He's gonna get thirty my second basement. Can it twenty

871
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: to twenty five bombs, steal fifteen bags, hit thirty doubles,

872
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: and is expected batting average is even two seventy It's

873
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: not the two forty three it is now. He is

874
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: way better than a lot of people want to give

875
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: him credit for. Yeah, and like you forget he's twenty

876
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 1: six years old. He's not this thirty seven year old.

877
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 2: I'm with you on this one. Like I know he's

878
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 2: getting on base at a two eighty six clip, but

879
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 2: like I find it hard to believe that he is

880
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 2: a replacement level player right now.

881
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: He's way better than that.

882
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 2: In the eyes of f woar, he's zero point zero.

883
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,359
Speaker 2: If anything's closer to zero point negative zero point one,

884
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:30,799
Speaker 2: I think he's closer to that. I don't. I don't

885
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 2: understand that. I'm with you on that. Like I understand

886
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 2: his WRC plus is ninety seven right now. These seven

887
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 2: home runs in twenty nine games. I feel like such

888
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 2: a boomer right now, he's driven to twenty three runs, Like, yeah, yeah,

889
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 2: twenty three, Like I really want to know that if

890
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:50,240
Speaker 2: you swapped out Azzi Abbi's for replacement level second basement,

891
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 2: are the Braves at the same exact record. I don't

892
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 2: think so, I don't like I don't think so. So

893
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 2: I'm with you on that one. I can back that.

894
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 2: I can. Okay, he's good.

895
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: He's not amazing, but he's gonna be better than like

896
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: a regular ass player.

897
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 2: He ain't no regular ass player. Yeah, no, I agree,

898
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 2: And mine's kind of from in the same breath, uh,

899
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 2: because like the guy's put up power numbers, but like

900
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 2: obviously the advanced numbers are going to kind of hate him.

901
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 2: I'm kind of just buying in. I know he's off

902
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 2: to a great start, but I'm buying into, like Patrick

903
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 2: Wisdom in terms of like him sustainably being a good

904
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 2: baseball player. I think he just bucks the trend of

905
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 2: So you look at his stats and you say his

906
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,399
Speaker 2: success is unsustainable, Right, you look get twenty twenty one,

907
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 2: you know he hits twenty eight home runs for the Cups,

908
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 2: strikes out forty one percent of the time. We're all

909
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 2: prepared for twenty twenty two, where he's going to be,

910
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 2: you know, just kind of fall off a cliff and

911
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 2: not hit enough. He took a step back, but he

912
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,839
Speaker 2: still put up a one on four WRC plus. Yeah,

913
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 2: he was a one win player and that step back

914
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 2: struck out thirty four percent of the time. Still hit

915
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 2: twenty five home runs, played all over as well. He's

916
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 2: not a great defender, but at least he can play

917
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 2: a bunch of different spots. So far this year, twenty

918
00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 2: six games, he's hit ten home runs. He's already had

919
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,399
Speaker 2: a one point point one four and he's playing all

920
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 2: over the dime. He's going to strike out a shit loud.

921
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 2: He might lead the league in strikeouts, and he doesn't

922
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 2: really walk to hedge it. So it's a really bizarre profile.

923
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 2: It's like two forty. He might not get on base

924
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 2: that much, but he's gonna slug five point fifty, and

925
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 2: I think there's something to be said about that. With

926
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 2: some possessional versatility, he steals a few bags. Like I

927
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 2: think we keep looking at it and saying, oh, yeah, well,

928
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 2: how long is it gonna last. Well, we're heading on

929
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 2: like two hundred and fifty games now of this of

930
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 2: him being a solid big league power bat, it's weird.

931
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 2: I don't get it, Like it's a weird profile. But

932
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 2: at this point, it's like, how can we deny what

933
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 2: he's doing. This is almost what is it, sixty home

934
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 2: runs over his last two hundred and something games, Like

935
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 2: this guy's just hit a bunch of homers. Actually, you

936
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 2: think it's closer. It's seventy home runs. Like this dude's

937
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,439
Speaker 2: just hitting bombs. I think you got to give him credit,

938
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:52,760
Speaker 2: Like he's an everyday player.

939
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: I love it because, like I see Patrick Wisdom in

940
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: the lineup every day, I'm like, oh, is he that good?

941
00:47:57,440 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: And then I watch Cubs games and like he hits

942
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 1: a bomb, like that's awesome, Like he's Jack and I

943
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:05,359
Speaker 1: were even talking about it on a previous podcast. We're like,

944
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: if he has three separate two week stretches of hitting

945
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 1: like seven home runs, which he does it seems like

946
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: at least three times a year, then he sprinkles in

947
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:18,759
Speaker 1: some more home runs. We're looking at a thirty home

948
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: run guy. Yeah, Like if you with thirty home runs,

949
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: I kind of want you on my team.

950
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 2: Like this is that's kind of what I'm saying here.

951
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,840
Speaker 2: So the last three seasons, it start like I guess,

952
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 2: two seasons in the start of this year, one thirteen

953
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 2: WRC plus he's slugging for eighty one. Yeah, he's punching

954
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 2: out thirty seven percent of the time. But he's been

955
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 2: above replacement level player. He's got a five four Like

956
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 2: it's pretty fine. Like, I'll take that. So it's a

957
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 2: decent player. He's gonna run into baseballs. I like Pat Wisdom.

958
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 2: I think he's a part of what the Cubs are

959
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 2: doing here. That's not a guy I want to cast aside,

960
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 2: like he's better than Mancini, it's better than Osmer, Like

961
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:56,400
Speaker 2: that's that's that's a guy that should be in the

962
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:58,240
Speaker 2: lineup every day. I agree.

963
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the next question. So,

964
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:05,320
Speaker 1: as a Yankees fan, Monday's loss against the Guardians is

965
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 1: a loss that is going to sting for a very

966
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: very long time. If this team continues to play at

967
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 1: a level they are now a double A club at

968
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: best in parentheses, and continue to roll out IKF, Aaron Hicks,

969
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 1: and Willie Calhoun in the same lineup every single day

970
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: to the deadline. Do you think the Yankees will be

971
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 1: buyers or stay put if you think they buy. What

972
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 1: are some realistic trade packages? Asked by Chase Blcak on Instagram.

973
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: My first point to that is comparing them to a

974
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 1: double A club is disrespectful. They are the Savannah Bananas,

975
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: except they aren't dancing Double A at least have players.

976
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 1: These aren't players that we're looking at right now. The

977
00:49:55,000 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 1: Yankees this past stretch has been some of the worst

978
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: Yankees baseball I have watched. Do you know, and I

979
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: was looking at splits this morning, Arm, do you know

980
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 1: what the Yankees WRC plus is against right handed pitchers

981
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks? I know, it's like a

982
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 1: weird you know, I mean, it's pretty relevant, dad, though,

983
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 1: it's what is their WRC plus against the picture that

984
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: they're gonna see the most a right hander over the

985
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:22,839
Speaker 1: last two weeks. I'm gonna assume it's ass I'm gonna

986
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:28,400
Speaker 1: assume it's eighty eight Wait?

987
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:30,240
Speaker 2: Wait, what, well, what's the slash line?

988
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:37,280
Speaker 1: It's like one eighteen two nineteen, like one seventy. Wait

989
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:40,879
Speaker 1: it is URC plus against righty's over the last two weeks. Yes,

990
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 1: that makes on crack. Make sure because when I was

991
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 1: looking at it this morning. I queued it up and

992
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 1: I thought I saw eight.

993
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 2: All right, somebody listening out there, please check make sure

994
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 2: my friend Peter is not losing his mind over here,

995
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 2: because I don't believe him, like I believe you, but

996
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:58,800
Speaker 2: I don't believe you. You know what I'm saying.

997
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 1: So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go through

998
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: the roster. I'm gonna throw it over to you for

999
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: your feedback, and then I'm gonna redo the queue and

1000
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 1: see if I didn't see something that just made me

1001
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:12,879
Speaker 1: so upset because I'm watching a team that has an

1002
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: eight w rcity plus this lineup, Arm Layton, this New

1003
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: York Yankees lineup. They have a couple of good players.

1004
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:30,840
Speaker 1: Anthony Rizzo is great, Glabor Torres is pretty good. DJ

1005
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:36,320
Speaker 1: Lemayhew is pretty good. That's it. Aaron Judge is injured

1006
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,360
Speaker 1: right now. So the current lineup as we sit here today,

1007
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 1: And this is why I understand Yankee fans when they're

1008
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:45,239
Speaker 1: so upset. I saw this hilarious tweet on my timeline

1009
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 1: that when Harrison Bader returns from injury, and it was

1010
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:51,279
Speaker 1: just a meme of Chris Paul hits a three from

1011
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: deep to cut down a forty two point lead. That

1012
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: was a perfect way to describe it, because it has

1013
00:51:56,640 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: been terrible. Kalagashioka is not a major league catcher like

1014
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: you go through Oswalda Cabrera cannot hit. Willie Calhoun should

1015
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: not be on a major league roster. Francis Cordero is

1016
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: already not on a major league roster, Aswalda Cobrera. Good

1017
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 1: young player, but at the end of the day, thirty

1018
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: eight WRC plus and Aaron Hicks is quite possibly the

1019
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:25,839
Speaker 1: worst overall player, has a ten WRC plus. And what

1020
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: I don't understand. What I don't understand is why they

1021
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: keep shoving this lineup in our face. I understand that

1022
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: you have injuries, but at the same time, can you

1023
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:42,760
Speaker 1: grab anybody else? Yeah, that be one not the worst

1024
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: overall players. And I keep saying, you know, I'm gonna

1025
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 1: keep giving Brown cash In a pass. You know they've

1026
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: been injured. I'm gonna keep giving Aaron Boone a pass

1027
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 1: because they keep getting injured. This is just what the

1028
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 1: Yankees are injured. Their whole team is going to be

1029
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:02,399
Speaker 1: injured for the rest of time. It's like we've been

1030
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:05,960
Speaker 1: doing this podcast now for multiple seasons. What is the

1031
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 1: main point we always talk about Yankees are gonna get

1032
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: guys back. They're just injured right now. That's the entire

1033
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: The last World Series I saw was.

1034
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:14,879
Speaker 2: Two thousand and nine.

1035
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, like as a twenty five year old Yankee fan,

1036
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:20,279
Speaker 1: I've seen one that I remember. We have not been

1037
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: that good for a while, Like we've been good, We've

1038
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:27,000
Speaker 1: gotten to an alcs and then just gotten absolutely trounced

1039
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 1: by the Astros year in year out. Never had a chance.

1040
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:32,120
Speaker 1: And if we face the Mariners of the Bludgets in

1041
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:34,279
Speaker 1: that series, I don't think we win. I've you know,

1042
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: still on that fact. So it's like, yes, is it

1043
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:41,600
Speaker 1: not Aaron Boone's total fault? Like am I like fire

1044
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:44,440
Speaker 1: the manager? No, because he doesn't have his players? Is

1045
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:49,800
Speaker 1: it Brian Cashman's fault? Like those like, for lack of

1046
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 1: better word, like idiots in the lineup, Like he puts

1047
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: them there, Aaron Bood puts them there. These are guys

1048
00:53:57,160 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: that they acquired. They thought Willie Calhoun had some, they

1049
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: thought Francis Cordero had something like this is objectively and

1050
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:08,799
Speaker 1: what you're saying like they're gonna bounce back. Yeah, like

1051
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:12,240
Speaker 1: in three months when they get their players back. Yeah,

1052
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: and then let's see if they're great coming off injury,

1053
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: which is more than likely that they won't be as

1054
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 1: amazing as they were. Like the bullpen is blown up.

1055
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 1: Clay Holmes is not nearly the same guy like Jannie

1056
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:27,919
Speaker 1: Peralta gets outs, but like Michael King is the only

1057
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: guy I rely on in the pen. Like Garrett Cole

1058
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 1: is five and zero in his five starts. Without Garrett Cole,

1059
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:38,439
Speaker 1: they are ten and fifteen. Aaron Judge is by far

1060
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:40,720
Speaker 1: the best hitter on in this lineup. He's the only

1061
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:43,839
Speaker 1: guy that teams are actually game planning around. And when

1062
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:47,360
Speaker 1: he's on the lineup, it's the Savannah Bananas without the dancing.

1063
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 2: Yeah. End of rent. I love it very good. I

1064
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,799
Speaker 2: will tell you though, like I think about you every

1065
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 2: single time they put the lineup out. I'm like, bro,

1066
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 2: like it's one thing to be able to embarrassing. It's

1067
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 2: not even embarrassing. It's one thing gonna be a Marlins

1068
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:04,839
Speaker 2: fan and see those lineups because it's like that's kind

1069
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:06,840
Speaker 2: of the status quo. Like you mentioned, like not winning

1070
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:09,440
Speaker 2: a World Series in two thousand and nine, minus the

1071
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 2: twenty twenty Mickey Mouse season, which I will not say

1072
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 2: when Walker's on the podcast, by the way, minus the

1073
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:19,440
Speaker 2: twenty twenty Mickey Mouse season. Like the Marlins have not

1074
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 2: finished over five hundred since two thousand and nine. So

1075
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 2: like that's a lineup that you you associate with, like, oh,

1076
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 2: bad team sitting on their hands. It is the New

1077
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 2: York fucking Yankees. Like it's a joke. I'll ask you.

1078
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:31,800
Speaker 2: Are you at the point where you would be excited

1079
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:34,400
Speaker 2: about a Cole Calhoun debut because that is somebody that

1080
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:35,400
Speaker 2: the Yankees picked up.

1081
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:38,759
Speaker 1: He's gonna be fucking horrible, Like I already know he's

1082
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:43,000
Speaker 1: gonna be terrible because you have fade by these random teams. Yeah,

1083
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 1: Like like Garrett Cole is gonna be a free agent soon.

1084
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole is gonna be a free agent soon. He's

1085
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: gonna opt out. What are the Yankees gonna give him

1086
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 1: a fucking like trillion dollars because he deserves it. Some

1087
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:56,799
Speaker 1: other team is going to if they're not going to

1088
00:55:57,280 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 1: sev Brito pitches eighteen.

1089
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 2: Ings a year. Yeah, I know is nef for quarters.

1090
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:06,279
Speaker 2: Junior has a forte that is one start. I'm not

1091
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 2: letting you, boy, he is he has a forty nine one.

1092
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:12,840
Speaker 2: All right, that's just the bottom line on him. You

1093
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 2: know he's gonna save you guys, Elijah Dunham.

1094
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 1: Maybe, or he puts up a thirty w RS plus

1095
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:21,319
Speaker 1: like us older Cabrera does.

1096
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:24,799
Speaker 2: Here's the one part that I really don't get and

1097
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:26,759
Speaker 2: like I really do hear you on this because people

1098
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 2: are like, oh, well, why why does my team play

1099
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:32,360
Speaker 2: this crappy replacement level player or below replacement level player?

1100
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,800
Speaker 2: Like I get it when you have one hole and

1101
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 2: you're like, You're like, all right, I don't want to

1102
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 2: I don't want to compromise the forty man. I don't

1103
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:40,239
Speaker 2: want to make any crazy decisions. We just got to

1104
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 2: get by for now with the one hole, Like you

1105
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 2: do that. But when you're the Yankees right now and

1106
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 2: you have three to four, maybe five guys in the

1107
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 2: lineup that you could DFA and no one's claiming like,

1108
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:54,120
Speaker 2: no one's touching those guys, no one even wants them,

1109
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 2: no one's trading cash considerations for them. How are you

1110
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 2: not trying to shake this thing up calling up a

1111
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:05,879
Speaker 2: random prospect like I even know that? Who am I thinking?

1112
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 2: I'm Florio Stevon Flourial he struggled in every single Big

1113
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 2: leaguxtent so far. I don't care. Can't be worse than

1114
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:17,000
Speaker 2: Aaron Hicks. Try it, shit man, Andre Chapero, like he

1115
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 2: hits the shit out of the ball, Like, I don't

1116
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 2: know if he's gonna hit at the big league level.

1117
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 2: He might not fuck it. He's not gonna be worse

1118
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 2: than what you got right now. I do think it

1119
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 2: is literally the definition of insanity, Einstein's definition, what the

1120
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 2: Yankees are doing with this lineup. And I know it's early,

1121
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:35,000
Speaker 2: but it's insane to be able to expect this lineup

1122
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 2: to magically do anything other than what it's doing right now,

1123
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 2: which is suck because the back half of it is

1124
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:41,919
Speaker 2: worse than a lot of Triple A lineups I watch

1125
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:43,160
Speaker 2: on a daily basis.

1126
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 1: I want to read you the lineup from that horrific

1127
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:49,320
Speaker 1: loss where Domingo Horman basically threw an eight inning shut

1128
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 1: and they absolutely blew it in the ninth inning. So

1129
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 1: Anthony Volpi leading off, he's been better, but he's your

1130
00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: leadoff hitter. I would love him to be the ninth

1131
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 1: hitter right now. Anthony Brizzo, great Labor Torres, Remember those

1132
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 1: five stolen bases I was talking about and how awesome

1133
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 1: it was. Has a stolen one since that was like

1134
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 1: in the first week of our podcast the season, DJ

1135
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 1: lem Mayhew, you know he's doing his job in two sixty,

1136
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 1: Like char Willie Calhoun is fucking horrible.

1137
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 2: Who's hitting fifth? He has to happen to ship for him?

1138
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 2: He has to have dir he has to.

1139
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 1: Have Dirt gets who pinship for him? Aaron Hicks also,

1140
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 1: Parrazza takes a lot of prospect. Guy, he's fucking horrible, kidding,

1141
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,480
Speaker 1: He's not, He's not. He's he's just off ready.

1142
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 2: I guess he's not ready. So he's just off to

1143
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 2: a terrible start.

1144
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:41,280
Speaker 1: He's hitting one eighty eight. Isaiah Kunor Fleffer plays center

1145
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 1: field and hits one eighty eight. He is so bad

1146
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 1: he has like a twenty WRC plus he's like eighty

1147
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 1: percent below the league averageator Oswalda Cabra terrible, Like after

1148
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 1: DJ Lem Mayhew, it's out out.

1149
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 2: Out, out out.

1150
00:58:56,240 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 1: And then even Volpi like does doesn't get on that much.

1151
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 1: And then you have Rizza win Kleeber like, well, how

1152
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:05,400
Speaker 1: does this team score?

1153
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 2: Volpi should be in the nine hole right, Like if

1154
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:10,400
Speaker 2: the Yankees were at full strength, and they were the Yankees.

1155
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 2: Volpey's in the nine hole, and you got one of

1156
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 2: the most dynamic nine hitters in Baseball's eventually will be

1157
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 2: your leadoff guy when he's and he's playing pretty good shortstop,

1158
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 2: he's stealing bags.

1159
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:20,520
Speaker 1: It's a great nine hole, a.

1160
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 2: Great nine o hitter until he kind of settles in,

1161
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:24,800
Speaker 2: and then you know, maybe next year that's your leadoff guy.

1162
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 2: I'll say, though, Jake Bowers, I'm glad they brought him up.

1163
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:31,960
Speaker 2: He might help, probably not out. He should be playing

1164
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:34,480
Speaker 2: more than any of those other guys like I or

1165
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 2: so He's gonna suck for a month and then I'm

1166
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 2: just gonna come back to it and be like, Jake

1167
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 2: Bowers has an eight w or C plus. Yeah, yeah, Well,

1168
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 2: it's fun times in New York. Man. I think they're

1169
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 2: lucky to be where they're at right now, I'll tell

1170
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:47,040
Speaker 2: you that. But I still think they're gonna turn it

1171
00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 2: around because then he gets standing back, hopefully soon, judge

1172
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 2: obviously not.

1173
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 1: Soon, like seven more weeks, and then like like Rodawn

1174
00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:58,160
Speaker 1: has another back.

1175
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:00,640
Speaker 2: Thing. Like as far as I'm I'm still not even

1176
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:02,920
Speaker 2: worried about the Yankees. I swear I'm not. I know

1177
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 2: you are, but I'm not, even though it's really ugly.

1178
01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:08,720
Speaker 1: And I'm a fan, and like I'm saying, I'm not

1179
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:11,120
Speaker 1: worried about Mariners, and the Mariners fans are probably like,

1180
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 1: I'm so worried.

1181
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:13,640
Speaker 2: Fans are probably like what the fuck?

1182
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:16,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, like they're they're twelve and sixteen. The Yankees are

1183
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:20,080
Speaker 1: fifteen and fifteen. So like, I get it. I'm overreacting,

1184
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:20,600
Speaker 1: I know.

1185
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:23,240
Speaker 2: But like Sime, if I stare that lineup in the

1186
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 2: face every day, i'd overreact to I don't even think

1187
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 2: it's a total overreaction. I just think that the cram

1188
01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 2: will rise at the top here.

1189
01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm redoing the uh the against righties. Okay,

1190
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 1: I was wrong in the last two weeks. They don't

1191
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 1: have an eight WRC plus and I might have done

1192
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 1: it in the last week, but in the last two

1193
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 1: weeks fifty four WRC plus still last last Let's do

1194
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:52,480
Speaker 1: it in the last week, because that's might have been

1195
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 1: what I was looking at. So in the last week

1196
01:00:55,720 --> 01:01:00,600
Speaker 1: against right handed pitchers, the New York Yankees a sixty

1197
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: WRC plus. So I don't even know where I saw eight.

1198
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:05,960
Speaker 2: But that's last last.

1199
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,919
Speaker 1: They are the worst offense against righty's in the last

1200
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 1: two weeks and the last week.

1201
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:12,600
Speaker 2: The worst fair.

1202
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 1: All right, next question, Okay, this is a more fun one.

1203
01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:21,200
Speaker 1: This will make me happier. This is a fun conversation.

1204
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 1: What is up with the Orioles call up chicken game

1205
01:01:26,200 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 1: Jorge Mateo trade to a contender that needs an infielder?

1206
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:31,520
Speaker 1: Question mark allows them to call up guys and get

1207
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 1: a good return for Mateo and still have leftovers to

1208
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 1: trade for an established pitcher. In parentheses, Lord, I can't

1209
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 1: keep watching Deed Kraber. God bless him. As from at

1210
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 1: ben wic K i z e R on Instagram.

1211
01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 2: This is our last question. I love I love the

1212
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 2: God bless him like like, it's not personal. I just

1213
01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:59,280
Speaker 2: can't watch you pitch anymore. It's hard, but I love that.

1214
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:00,080
Speaker 2: I love that.

1215
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:05,120
Speaker 1: So Horne Mateo could possibly be traded to a contender. Now,

1216
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a there's a bucket of Orioles fans

1217
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:10,040
Speaker 1: to be like, we cannot trade this man. He's like

1218
01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 1: our best player. I mean Adley Ruchmand obviously, but he

1219
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:16,160
Speaker 1: has been maybe the best shortstop in Major League Baseball

1220
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:18,800
Speaker 1: up to this point. But then I know there's an

1221
01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 1: other set of Orioles fans and maybe people looking in

1222
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:26,800
Speaker 1: from the outside saying cash in. Now, a lot of

1223
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 1: big time teams need a middle infielder, most notably the

1224
01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:33,480
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Dodgers, and can give you a lot of

1225
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:37,600
Speaker 1: pitchers in return. Because I know you're kind of grimaced

1226
01:02:37,960 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 1: and you're like, we can't trade Horne Mateo from the Orioles,

1227
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:45,680
Speaker 1: But how many young infield prospects do they have? Like

1228
01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 1: this is such a surplus of young, exciting players, and

1229
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:53,400
Speaker 1: now you can make the argument, well, this is one

1230
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 1: of them, and he's amazing, so why would you deal him?

1231
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:59,959
Speaker 1: Why not deal a prospect that hasn't proven anything yet

1232
01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:03,960
Speaker 1: who still has that shining light right that can be

1233
01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 1: amazing and that could get you something like a major

1234
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:07,640
Speaker 1: league ready player.

1235
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:08,120
Speaker 2: Yep.

1236
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:10,400
Speaker 1: So there's two sides of the coin. I'm interested to

1237
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 1: see what your side is.

1238
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, I mean, I'm kind of buying this Mateo breakout.

1239
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 2: I really, this is a guy that had the soft

1240
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:21,480
Speaker 2: breakout last year and in that year three f four

1241
01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 2: thirty five bags. We talk about guys that benefit from

1242
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 2: the new rules, like Mateo. Definitely guy that even if

1243
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 2: he was putting up the same numbers as last year,

1244
01:03:29,520 --> 01:03:31,800
Speaker 2: would have been improved because of the new rules in

1245
01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 2: the stolen bases and limited a shift, limitations a shift

1246
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:37,720
Speaker 2: with the defensive prowess that he has, but all of

1247
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:41,440
Speaker 2: the offensive metrics. You're looking at his end zone wift rate,

1248
01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:44,560
Speaker 2: so his own contact rate has jumped by about seven percent.

1249
01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:46,680
Speaker 2: That is a one of the bigger year over year changes.

1250
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:49,120
Speaker 2: You're going to see. His swinging strike rate has dropped

1251
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:51,560
Speaker 2: by five percent, one of the bigger year over year changes.

1252
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:53,560
Speaker 2: You're going to see. His chase rate has dropped by

1253
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 2: ten percent. Again, I'll say it again, one of the

1254
01:03:56,280 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 2: biggest year over year changes. You're going to see. Walk

1255
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:02,000
Speaker 2: rate up two percent, strike out right down thirteen percent.

1256
01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:05,120
Speaker 2: I'm in, like, I'm I'm buying it. This guy hits

1257
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:07,800
Speaker 2: the ball hard. I don't think people realize that it

1258
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:10,680
Speaker 2: was the approach and mostly the approach and the swing

1259
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 2: and miss that kind of overlap with each other that

1260
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:14,960
Speaker 2: was holding him back. I don't think you changed this.

1261
01:04:15,480 --> 01:04:17,440
Speaker 2: I think like, is he gonna hit three fifty? Probably not,

1262
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:19,560
Speaker 2: but this guy's gonna be good. Like this is a

1263
01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:22,040
Speaker 2: really good piece. I don't know why they sent down

1264
01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 2: Joey Ortiz, I guess he was really just up there

1265
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:27,240
Speaker 2: to fill in, which fucking sucks. Like Adam Frazier, we

1266
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:30,000
Speaker 2: set it from day one. Get that dude the fuck

1267
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:32,439
Speaker 2: out of town. Like he might be a great guy,

1268
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:34,560
Speaker 2: but like, man, it's pissing me off because we got

1269
01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 2: exciting players that have an opportunity to help the Orioles

1270
01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:40,920
Speaker 2: and then are just better. I would trade from the

1271
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:44,080
Speaker 2: surplus of prospects because I mean, what what Matteo? And

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Speaker 2: I'm curious what you think, like what Mateo's doing now,

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Speaker 2: Like I think this is something that he could he

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Speaker 2: could do. I think he's a really good player, especially

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Speaker 2: in today's game, with the defense, with the speed. You

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Speaker 2: could trade a couple of Joey Ortiz, Jordan Westburg, Connor Norby.

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Speaker 2: I mean we're just talking about Dylan Cease thing. You

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Speaker 2: could package several of those guys with sotours who just

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Speaker 2: got recalled, like they're just bringing them up one at

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Speaker 2: a time to plug in for a day and then

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Speaker 2: sending them back down like they've got the Bignes the

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Speaker 2: best NFL practice squad out there. It's annoying. I get it,

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Speaker 2: Like you want to get them the consistent at bat,

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Speaker 2: so it's good that they're getting those in triple instead

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Speaker 2: of just sitting on the bench. But like, all of

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Speaker 2: those guys are big league ready. Just about every single

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Speaker 2: one of them are big league ready. And I'm not

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Speaker 2: trading you know, the most valuable guy that for me

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Speaker 2: this year besides Rushman and Mateo, because I think the

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Speaker 2: Orioles have their sights on the playoffs and they're trying

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Speaker 2: to build something here. Trade Westburg, trade one or two

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Speaker 2: of those guys, or just cut Baits if you can

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Speaker 2: dump Fraser's contract, because like, I don't know why they

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Speaker 2: did it, and I think they're starting to realize now

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Speaker 2: with the leap of Matteo that they really don't need Fraser.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this Oriols team is good. Like I

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Speaker 1: think their bullpen is very solid. I think they're starting

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Speaker 1: rotation obviously has its holes, but you see guys who

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Speaker 1: are giving you good starts, Tyler Wells, Kyle Bradish and

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Speaker 1: Grayson Rodriguez.

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Speaker 2: Rodriguez is making the leap man.

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Speaker 1: Making the leap, as of course he is, because he's

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Speaker 1: a stud and he's a freak, and he throws ninety

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Speaker 1: seven with a see you later changeup and other plus

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Speaker 1: pitches like the slider. Those three are pitchers. Like those

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Speaker 1: three you can build around, but you have two more

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Speaker 1: spots that you need to fill. And yes, Jorge Matteo,

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Speaker 1: a part of me says this is a perfect time

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Speaker 1: to cash in on him because he's unbelievable right now.

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Speaker 1: But maybe he might just be unbelievable. Yeah, like maybe

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Speaker 1: he might be a perfect player for the new rules,

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Speaker 1: bigger bases, no more shift, hitting the ball on the ground,

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Speaker 1: hitting it hard, finding the hole and playing good defense.

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Speaker 1: Like that might just be what he is former Yankee.

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Speaker 1: By the way, thanks a lot, Hoory Matteo stud All right,

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Speaker 1: I don't think you trade him because you have all

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Speaker 1: these guys and you all you hope they can be

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Speaker 1: Orge Mateo. That's the goal, Like you hope they can

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Speaker 1: all be what hoorge Mateo is right now, And if

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Speaker 1: you're playing for right now, trade those guys who the

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Speaker 1: Orioles don't even feel can take playing time over Adam Fraser.

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Speaker 1: Now do we agree with them? Absolutely not. Is that

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Speaker 1: the reality of the situation as we sit here today,

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Speaker 1: oors fans? Yes, So if I'm an Orioles fan, I

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Speaker 1: want us to trade from our surplus of infield prospects

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Speaker 1: or outfield prospects in order to get those starting pitchers

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Speaker 1: or get a big time bat in the outfield, because

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Speaker 1: they have good outfielders, but a lot of them are

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Speaker 1: you know, defensive guys, and like they do hit like

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Speaker 1: Austin Hayes I know is hitting. Cedric Mullins I know

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Speaker 1: is good. But you could get another big bopper, Like

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Speaker 1: it's not just in the infield, or excuse me, it's

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Speaker 1: not just in the starting rotation, Like you could go

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Speaker 1: get another big time bat too, So I wouldn't limit

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Speaker 1: yourself to just pitching, and you have all the assets

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Speaker 1: to do it, Like they could easily make a package

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Speaker 1: for Dylan Ceese and not really feel it and then

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Speaker 1: also get a big time bat while getting Dylan Ceese.

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Speaker 1: The reason why we don't often put them in there

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Speaker 1: is because they don't fucking do it.

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Speaker 2: They just don't do it.

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Speaker 1: Like we keep telling, we keep talking about it. I'm

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01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:19,880
Speaker 1: just wasting my breath over here.

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Speaker 2: It's actually exhausting, exhausting Ramonaius, would you trade him? Yes?

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01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:29,880
Speaker 2: So that's a guy that has value. That's that's a

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01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:33,400
Speaker 2: one twenty four WRC plus he's played third base for them,

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01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:35,439
Speaker 2: you can play second, you can move them all over

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01:08:35,479 --> 01:08:38,479
Speaker 2: a little bit. You have Gunner and he's under control

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Speaker 2: until twenty twenty seven, So yeah, you get a repeat

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Speaker 2: as valuable as Matteo right now, but you package him

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01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:48,280
Speaker 2: with a couple other prospects, you can get a lot

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Speaker 2: of good players. So that's what I would do. I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't touch Mateo, especially when you have the context of

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01:08:54,560 --> 01:08:57,559
Speaker 2: the chase rates his own contact, Like, the underlying metrics

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01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:01,360
Speaker 2: look really good. I'm buying it. So if i'm them,

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Speaker 2: I'm looking to make that move with Arius and then

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Speaker 2: a couple of those prospects, and you can get a

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Speaker 2: lot of good players with that. You can get plenty

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Speaker 2: of good players. The craziest part is they could just

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Speaker 2: swap a mid level prospect in a month or two

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Speaker 2: for gi Alito, and that probably upgrades the back end

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Speaker 2: of their rotation. Like I would just love for them

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Speaker 2: to do something they're gonna get John means back. So

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Speaker 2: I would rather not go for the like three or

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Speaker 2: four type starter. Go get a stud, Go get somebody impactful,

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Speaker 2: and I think they will like I think that, I

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Speaker 2: really do think that this is finally gonna be the

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Speaker 2: year if they're seeing how they're doing. They're they're hanging

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Speaker 2: around the top of the division, and they're really dealing

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Speaker 2: with the crunch. Now they're gonna have a forty man crunch.

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Speaker 2: They already have the active roster crunch. They're having to

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Speaker 2: send guys back and forth all the time. I hope

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Speaker 2: they finally do it. But to answer the question, only

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Speaker 2: guy from this active team that I'm trading in the

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Speaker 2: infield at least is Arius and then from the team

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Speaker 2: in general, Like you talked about being able to upgrade,

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Speaker 2: how about moving on from Santander? Santander is you know

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01:10:01,479 --> 01:10:04,599
Speaker 2: you got one more year of control, but he's been

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Speaker 2: brutal And yeah, again you can find a corner outfielder

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Speaker 2: who can make a big difference as well. So that's

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Speaker 2: that's a spot where they could upgrade. Or how much

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Speaker 2: is playing Cows Towers more instead of Santander? Like at

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Speaker 2: what point do we look at Santander and is negative

1384
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Speaker 2: point three F four and seventy seven WRC plus and say, hey,

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Speaker 2: I think maybe we can upgrade over this right now?

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01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:24,040
Speaker 2: I know he had a decent year last year, thirty

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01:10:24,040 --> 01:10:28,240
Speaker 2: three homers, but doesn't get on base pretty aggressive. I

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01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:30,080
Speaker 2: think they could upgrade in a lot of different ways,

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Speaker 2: and they're already.

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