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Speaker 2: Joe Alrico.

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Speaker 1: The first guy we're going to talk about is a

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Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox and a player that I think is

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Speaker 1: being a little undervalued. A couple of years ago, kind

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Speaker 1: of burst onto the scene, had some pop, had some speed,

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Speaker 1: get a little of everything here, and I feel like,

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Speaker 1: the shuffle. So let's talk about Jaron durand what he

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Speaker 1: could do for folks in twenty twenty six in fantasy.

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Speaker 2: It's true, Boston's had a lot going on. They brought

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Speaker 2: the best prospects in baseball, and no one really cares

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Speaker 2: about Sharon Durant anymore. A guy who was a second

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Speaker 2: round pick last year and early second round pick in

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Speaker 2: a lot of rooms, like a top twenty player, and

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Speaker 2: justifiably so. I think now he had a poor year,

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Speaker 2: but it was still eighty six runs, eighty four ribies,

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Speaker 2: is relative. He was still very good. He was still

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Speaker 2: very productive, almost seven hundred played appearances. And now you're

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Speaker 2: getting him in the seventies, and that's kind of the

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Speaker 2: basis of this. You're getting a guy who hasn't changed

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Speaker 2: at all fundamentally. He's twenty nine years old now, and

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Speaker 2: you know that's generally peak years twenty seven to thirty ish.

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Speaker 2: Like we mentioned on another show that you guys can

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Speaker 2: check out on the channel, but his barrel rate was

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Speaker 2: nine point seven percent last year, best of his career,

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Speaker 2: forty six percent hard hit rate best of his career,

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Speaker 2: exit velocities average and Max were both the best of

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Speaker 2: his career. It's a good ballpark, it's a really fun lineup.

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Speaker 2: I think Jaron duran feels like a baseline guy for

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Speaker 2: fifteen home runs, twenty five stolen bases, with a decent

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Speaker 2: stats in the middle of that line. But fifty picks

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Speaker 2: cheaper than last year for no real reason other than

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Speaker 2: maybe the counting stats weren't as loud as they were

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and if we're going by that age range thing,

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Speaker 1: that explains why Joe Rico is in his prime and

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Speaker 1: I am well well passed it obviously. He is sixty

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Speaker 1: five right now overall in the consensus ADP on Fantasy Pros,

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Speaker 1: and I'm with you. I think going back to last year,

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Speaker 1: year from Jaron Durant, I think could certainly be in store.

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Speaker 1: The next guy we're gonna talk about is another one.

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Speaker 1: This guy's in a new place though hit twenty homers

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Speaker 1: last year. He's gonna qualify at a few positions to

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Speaker 2: It seems likely. And I got some pushback on a

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Speaker 2: I could see it maybe being Lou Bob or Alvarez,

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Speaker 2: but I currently agree with what Vangrafts has laid out

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Speaker 2: I mean, maybe it's fallen under the radar based on

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Speaker 2: his draft price this year. But twenty six home runs,

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Speaker 2: in seventy eight runs, and he did it in what

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Speaker 2: one hundred being average, they had a ninety one park

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Speaker 2: which doesn't sound like a huge difference. It's a big

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Speaker 2: Seattle is also terrible ninety three park factor overall. Now

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Speaker 2: in New York, where the Mets play at City Field

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Speaker 2: oh four. All This is say, it's eleven percent better

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Speaker 2: off of a twenty six home run season, who has

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Speaker 2: Horey Polonco, I don't understand the price. He is of

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Speaker 2: all my drafts, of all the positions, my most drafted

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Speaker 2: I think that he is going to be a mid

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Speaker 2: runs close to eighty ribis with a upside for more

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Speaker 2: in that lineup spot, and a guy who has been

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Speaker 2: a good average hitter in his career. He's two sixty

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Speaker 2: be pointing up for Polanco. Now, there is some injury

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Speaker 2: risk with his history, but I picked two thirty. If

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Speaker 2: it doesn't work out, you can easily drop him.

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Speaker 1: I like the point you made too, because I think

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Speaker 1: that he does hit clean up at least a start

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Speaker 1: the year. Alvarez or Luis Robert would have to get

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Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that's not impossible. I think those

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Speaker 1: But if Alvarez realizes his potential, or if Robert all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden starts to just hit gangbusters, you could

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Speaker 1: absolutely see him moving up to a four spot two

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Speaker 1: potentially in that lineup. But that would be a slow

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Speaker 1: they're taking it easy with him. He's another guy that's

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Speaker 1: missed a lot of time. So Polanco, I think, is

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Speaker 1: a really interesting addition here before we get to two

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Speaker 1: the app. All right, next up here. One of my

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Speaker 1: favorite things, JJ Weatherhold. Oh, I love me some. JJ

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Speaker 1: Weatherhold last year one hundred and nine games between double

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Speaker 1: That is elite level stuff. The kid makes contact, he's

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Speaker 1: got pop. I love his approach, I love everything about him.

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Speaker 1: It's just a matter of where he starts, and I

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Speaker 1: do think he does start this year coming out of

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Speaker 2: won't take long for them, because Saint Louis what they're

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Speaker 2: trotting out right now. Oh my goodness, Joe. They actually

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Speaker 2: said something yesterday that they have this new ballpark deal

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Speaker 2: for twenty nine bucks, like all you can eat at

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Speaker 2: You need to incentivize people to come to the park somehow,

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Speaker 2: And with JJ Weatherholt. I think a guy who could easily,

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Speaker 2: Which guy you targeting? Connor Griffin, JJ Weatherholt, Kevin McGonagall,

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Speaker 2: and they were all within a couple percentage points of

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Speaker 2: Weatherholt feels like the most exciting guy with the most upside.

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Speaker 2: As well that team being bad, it works against him

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Speaker 1: I agree one hundred percent. I think that's one of

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Speaker 1: the best ones we're going to talk about. The next

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Speaker 1: the two hundred and thirty first player overall right now

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Texas has been a pretty poor park for right

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Speaker 2: adeleast Garcia are phenomenal. It doesn't really matter which system

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Speaker 1: Well, it's funny, Joe, because he's going back to back

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Speaker 1: All right, there you have it, everybody. Those are four

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