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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into the cycle.

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Speaker 2: I am Ryan Warmley, joined today, not by Mike Mayor,

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Speaker 2: who was still on vacation. It's now been three or

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Speaker 2: four weeks since he and I have last done a

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Speaker 2: show together.

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Speaker 1: He had a couple of guests.

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Speaker 2: I had our friend Scott Bogman on last week, and

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Speaker 2: this week I've got another friend and coworker. It's Chris

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Speaker 2: Welsh from leading Off from Fantasy Pros from all over

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Speaker 2: the place in Past Lives.

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Speaker 1: Welsh, thank you so much for coming on Past Lives.

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Speaker 3: I think about who was I in a past life?

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Speaker 1: Was I?

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Speaker 3: Everythink about that, like we have a famous person. Of

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Speaker 3: those people out there that were that are like you

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Speaker 3: know in your past life. Everybody in their past life,

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Speaker 3: by the way, was like Cleopatra or Abraham Lincoln unless

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Speaker 3: we're definitive of those. But yes, in a past life

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Speaker 3: you may have known me the Welsh.

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Speaker 2: Well in this life, the Welsh is a very well

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Speaker 2: known baseball expert.

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Speaker 1: We'll be talking to prospects today.

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Speaker 2: We'll be talking some guys in the major league level,

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Speaker 2: some bilos, some cell highs, some waivers, some stuff. We're

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Speaker 2: excited for the same things that you guys have come

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Speaker 2: to know and love from this show. But it'll be

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Speaker 2: myself and Welsh Welsh and the Worm, which would be

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Speaker 2: make very great.

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Speaker 1: You know sports talk.

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Speaker 3: Radio, and both are both radio guys too. By the way,

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Speaker 3: if everybody doesn't know our previous past, we are the

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Speaker 3: two fantasy pros people that have the radio backgrounds too,

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Speaker 3: so so I might say in our past lives we

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Speaker 3: were radio games, our past live. There you go, there's

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Speaker 3: the past live. So we just need to keep going

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Speaker 3: with this entire thing. And I'm excited to do this,

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Speaker 3: but I don't know, like it's it's almost it's like

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Speaker 3: a bill or something. At some point, if Mayor doesn't

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Speaker 3: come back, does he get to come back to the show.

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Speaker 3: He's been gone, So I guess it's you two have

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Speaker 3: I guess.

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Speaker 2: That's the Problemly, Yeah, we back to back, were gone

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Speaker 2: and it was me for a couple of weeks than

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Speaker 2: him for a couple of weeks. He posted some pictures

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Speaker 2: on Instagram earlier today with his wife and them traveling

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Speaker 2: around Switzerland. I think it is so he's he's like,

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Speaker 2: I just went to the East Coast. He's actually taken

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Speaker 3: I've never been to either. I've never even been on

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Speaker 3: the East Coast, and I've never been out of the country.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I haven't been to Switzerland. I

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Speaker 2: have been out of the country. I've been to Europe.

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Speaker 1: I've been to New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: I've been to Central America been I've been to forty

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Speaker 2: two of the fifty states in the United.

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Speaker 3: States, I've been to like six of them. So my

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Speaker 3: past life maybe was more traveled. I am not. I

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Speaker 3: just literally consume prospects in baseball. That's what I do.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: That's how we know you're gonna make for a great

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Speaker 2: guest here is because you have been diving deep all

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Speaker 2: season long. And by the way, everybody you know Welsh's

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Speaker 2: been on the show before obviously, so you might have

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Speaker 2: heard him do guest spots with us. He of course

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Speaker 2: is on every day with joeyp On leading off, so

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Speaker 2: make sure you are checking that out if you want

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Speaker 2: your everyday baseball fix throughout the entire season. Just a

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Speaker 2: quick note for everyone that if you like this content,

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Speaker 2: fantasypros dot Com slash MLB review. That's enough preamble. Let's

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Speaker 2: dive into rounding the bases. We will start off at

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Speaker 2: the top with Garrett Cole. He was rocked in his

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Speaker 1: It's been bad.

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Speaker 2: I mean there's really like no other way around it.

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Speaker 2: Like he's out against the Orioles, Like wasn't terrible. He

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Speaker 1: So what are your like initial takeaways from Garrett Cole?

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Speaker 2: And like, given the age and the injury and we're

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean anybody that's and I assume most people

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Speaker 3: Garrett Cole because he's he's been very I told you so,

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Speaker 3: be honest with you, my worry is still minimal. It's

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Speaker 3: considering Garrett Cole because I think, yes, that last start

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Speaker 3: of that said, like, this is still and I don't

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Speaker 3: it takes time. I've had I've had plenty of players

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Speaker 3: You know, his VLO dip wasn't a thing in the

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Speaker 3: And I heard that being talked about. But I also

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Speaker 3: Garrett Cole, would you know this last year slider twenty

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna talk about it a little bit, but like these

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Speaker 3: But I have minimal worry, and I think Garrett Cole

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Speaker 2: Are there any big names that you would throw out

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Speaker 2: Garrett Cole. I mean, whether it's a hitter or like

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Speaker 2: a one for one pitcher trade. I mean, he's ranked

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Speaker 2: in ECR Rest of the season as SP nineteen. Some

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Speaker 1: Know, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if everybody would consider it an aggressive ranking,

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Speaker 3: I think it's an aggressive rank.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, I would. I would say it is too.

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Speaker 2: So is there like a big name hitter who you

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Speaker 3: It's a great question. I wish I could think of,

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Speaker 3: like exactly what, Like I'll tell you this. In the

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Speaker 3: don't think it would caught. And by the way, picture

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Speaker 3: right now as we're recording this, from this day on,

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Speaker 3: I would buy that Garrett Cole will be more efficient

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Speaker 3: does that And obviously, like this could blow up in

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Speaker 3: Cole and then the next start things are bad, then

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Speaker 3: it's a much bigger story and maybe we're not going

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Speaker 3: to catch up this year. But in that general kind

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Speaker 3: like a top seventy, like outside the top seventy five.

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Speaker 3: Like when I'm buying Garrett Cole, I'm acknowledging I should

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Speaker 3: be getting this discount. I'm not buying a top ten

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Speaker 3: someone outside the top one hundred, and again you know

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Speaker 3: what's great to have a top five pick next year,

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Speaker 3: because I I don't think any one of those guys

435
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Speaker 3: own the space of no doubt. Otani with the DH

436
00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,040
Speaker 3: is tough judge with the injury. Gunner's got to keep

437
00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:54,040
Speaker 3: doing it. Bobby Witt is just the inverse of Gunner.

438
00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,760
Speaker 3: He steals the home run rate and hits the homer

439
00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:59,600
Speaker 3: to the stolen base rate of Gunner Henderson. They just

440
00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,240
Speaker 3: swapped the two numbers better batting average. But I think

441
00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:04,960
Speaker 3: it's just like a bigger glob of just like really

442
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,640
Speaker 3: great players. That So my answer to your question is, no,

443
00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,760
Speaker 3: he's not the number one overall pick, because how I

444
00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:13,600
Speaker 3: read that is a definitive. He's clearly the number one

445
00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:16,320
Speaker 3: overall pick. Can he be yes? Is he no? I

446
00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,640
Speaker 3: think there's easy judgment and it did not happen in

447
00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:23,600
Speaker 3: the we were redrafting. The rest of this season different too.

448
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Speaker 1: And I think there's room still.

449
00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,480
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's not so we're basically at the

450
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Speaker 2: halfway point of the season, like there's still a room

451
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Speaker 2: for somebody else to be in this conversation, Like like

452
00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,359
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about Hulio Rodriguez later in the show,

453
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Speaker 2: but like, if he has a second half that is

454
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Speaker 2: on par with what we think, you know, his expectations

455
00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:41,760
Speaker 2: can be said at, then he could be in that conversation.

456
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Speaker 2: I mean, there's still a room for it to be

457
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Speaker 2: more than just the names you've already listed. I gotta

458
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Speaker 2: tell you, man, Like, outside of outside of the Otani

459
00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:52,080
Speaker 2: also pitches factor. This is talking in real life, not fantasy.

460
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Speaker 2: Outside of the Otani also pitches factor. I'm I think

461
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Speaker 2: there's a pretty compelling case for Gunnar Henderson as like

462
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Speaker 2: the best player in base No. I mean, he's gonna

463
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Speaker 2: hit forty five home runs, like you said, he's gonna

464
00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,440
Speaker 2: steal twenty five vases. He's gonna hit at a decent average.

465
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Speaker 2: He's leading, you know, one of the best teams in baseball,

466
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Speaker 2: and he's doing it while playing a very good shortstop,

467
00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,360
Speaker 2: which none of the other best hitters in baseball can

468
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Speaker 2: say outside of Bobby Witt, And Gunner's giving you more

469
00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,760
Speaker 2: power than him. I love him verse, but like, and

470
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Speaker 2: he's and he's twenty two, he's about to turn twenty three.

471
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Speaker 3: He's gotta. He's got a mean attitude too. If you

472
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Speaker 3: walk him, he throws with that all.

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Speaker 1: See.

474
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Speaker 3: I love that stuff. I love everything about Gunner Henderson.

475
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Speaker 3: He is psychotic. Between them, he is psychotic. So yeah,

476
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Speaker 3: I'm in full agreement. And like I said, I have

477
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,159
Speaker 3: the second pick in that. And I was like, hey, listen,

478
00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:39,880
Speaker 3: I'm a Bobby Whitt you know me. Look right here

479
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:41,240
Speaker 3: and no one else can see this. I have a

480
00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,239
Speaker 3: Bobby wait autograph Jersey in here. I have talked with him.

481
00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:48,040
Speaker 3: I love Bobby Whit. That's my guy. Corbyn Carroll obviously

482
00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:50,359
Speaker 3: my guy doesn't deserve that conversation. Bobby WIT's my guy.

483
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Speaker 3: I didn't hesitate to taking Gunner Henderson and I wouldn't

484
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Speaker 3: hesitate into next year as well, because he fits the mold.

485
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Speaker 3: I mean, really, at the end of the day, you

486
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,359
Speaker 3: want one of two things from your top top player.

487
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:07,360
Speaker 3: You want five tools or you want that elite thing

488
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:11,600
Speaker 3: that is so ridiculous it can't be it can't be matched.

489
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 3: And that's why Judge belongs in the conversation because where

490
00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 3: Akunya was out with those stolen bases last year, while

491
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Speaker 3: by the way, being a five tool asset across the

492
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Speaker 3: board judge can make up for any little conversation you

493
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 3: want to have with stolen bases by hitting fifty five homers,

494
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,439
Speaker 3: which you can't really you know, you can't make up.

495
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,520
Speaker 3: It takes two players to when you find a player

496
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Speaker 3: that it takes two players to make up those stats.

497
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Speaker 3: Those are where it's like, oh, this isn't even a

498
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,160
Speaker 3: question anymore. And Acunya didn't show that offerly this year

499
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,720
Speaker 3: and then got hurt, and no one else quite is

500
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:44,879
Speaker 3: in that exact space. So that's why it's kind of

501
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 3: open for interpretation.

502
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Speaker 2: By the way, like in War is not a perfect stat,

503
00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,640
Speaker 2: Gunner is on pace for like a single season war

504
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:57,000
Speaker 2: total that would basically be topped only by like Babe

505
00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,720
Speaker 2: Ruth Barry Bonds like the true Inner Circle Hall of

506
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Speaker 2: Fame that we know and love are basically the only

507
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 2: people who have had a better war. If Gunner continues

508
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 2: on this pace by the end of the season.

509
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Speaker 3: Notice we never had any Gunner Henderson like autograph stuff

510
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 3: that was out there that could have been on leading

511
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 3: off as giveaways because it went straight to Wormley's house.

512
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 3: It's there, I know it's there.

513
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Speaker 1: I will happily take any and all I.

514
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Speaker 3: Actually don't have any gun that actually might That is

515
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,359
Speaker 3: a people know me. I love. I'm a collector. I

516
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 3: like cards and stuff. I love autographs, that's a big thing.

517
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 3: I have baseball's galore and futures games, and I've got

518
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 3: autograph cars. I have so much stuff, and you could

519
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 3: probably go down a list. I'll be like, I have

520
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 3: something of that guy's something. I don't have anything of

521
00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 3: Gunner Henderson. And that's attraction. Then you're gonna fix it.

522
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Speaker 2: I've got they can't see because this is audio only,

523
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 2: but you can see. I've got on the shelf behind

524
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 2: me just three baseballs. One of them one of them

525
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,879
Speaker 2: is signed by Brooks Robinson, very important to me. One

526
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 2: of them is signed by the two thousand Orioles, who

527
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 2: were not a good team. But one of them, which

528
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 2: was a gift from a gift from my I believe

529
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,639
Speaker 2: my grandfather to my mom and my mom gifted to

530
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,439
Speaker 2: me last year, is a baseball signed by the nineteen

531
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Speaker 2: eighty three World Series.

532
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:14,679
Speaker 1: And that one very.

533
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Speaker 3: Very un birth. Here there you go. I love that.

534
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,640
Speaker 2: It's a heck of a year, all right, last topic

535
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,720
Speaker 2: and around in the bases here this is very open ended.

536
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,680
Speaker 2: I just wanted to kind of do a general prospect

537
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 2: check in with you because obviously that is an area

538
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 2: of authority for you. It's something that we've had you

539
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 2: on the Talk, you know, on this show about and

540
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 2: then before as a guest, and I figured this would

541
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 2: be a good opportunity to kind of touch base again

542
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 2: halfway through the season. I do want to briefly hit

543
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,880
Speaker 2: on maybe some redraft guys that we should be stashing.

544
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Speaker 2: This is something that you cover on leading off on

545
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:43,679
Speaker 2: a weekly basis, so everybody can get sort of a

546
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 2: more in depth conversation there as well. So briefly, you know,

547
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 2: we were talking before the show. You mentioned Kobe Mayo.

548
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,640
Speaker 2: He had a home run for the third straight game today.

549
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,160
Speaker 2: I think he's up to twenty now. The only question

550
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 2: is when will the Orioles make room for him, because

551
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 2: he is ready to scale the Great Wall of Baltimore.

552
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 2: You know, we've talked about guys in the past, like

553
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 2: James Wood, who seems like an elitelite prospect.

554
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 1: He of course had the hamstring issue.

555
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,159
Speaker 2: You know at some point obviously, you know, some of

556
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 2: those elite guys like Jackson Holliday has been heard and

557
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 2: is now dhing in the minors. And Paul Skeens was

558
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 2: the guy who mentioned earlier this season, he of course

559
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 2: is up and playing, you know, pitching very well, already

560
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 2: in the majors. So who's still in the minors, who

561
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 2: is healthy that could be theoretically soon?

562
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,200
Speaker 1: Would you highlight and redraft?

563
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 3: Well, the only two hitters that are worth stashing are

564
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,400
Speaker 3: James Wood and Kobe Mayo. That's it. What I did

565
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 3: on leading off today is actually played a guarantee game

566
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 3: because I feel bad because you know, people want every

567
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 3: time we'll do this, people will be like, well, let's

568
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 3: get some other names, and it's like, okay, Well, there's

569
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 3: a balance between me telling you guys that are worth

570
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 3: stashing and a balance of just giving you guys names

571
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 3: that are fun, like in a bigger dynasty spectrum. That's

572
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 3: why I rank five hundred prospects for fantasy and stuff

573
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,880
Speaker 3: like that. There's guys to talk about all the time,

574
00:25:54,920 --> 00:26:00,160
Speaker 3: But who's worth stashing and then again stashing or when

575
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 3: their name gets called up, do I pick them up?

576
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 3: Those are two different things. There's only two guys that

577
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 3: are healthy that are worth stashing. It's James Wood and

578
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 3: Kobe Mayo. And my guarantee, by the way, you'll love

579
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 3: was James Wood. My guarantee is he will be up

580
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 3: post All Star Game. But this is the one you're like.

581
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 3: My guarantee is Kobe Mayo will not be traded because

582
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,880
Speaker 3: there's a lot of trade talk, and I see all

583
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 3: the trade rumors and almost all of them have Kobe

584
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 3: Mayo involved. Delusional. I actually at this point think Jackson

585
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 3: Holiday might be able to get traded before Kobe Mayo.

586
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 3: They're not trading him, so I don't believe he gets traded.

587
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 3: It'll be cursed out, it'll be Norby, it'll be anybody else.

588
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 3: But Kobe Mayo's hitting over four fifty in June. Since

589
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,880
Speaker 3: he's returned. It's twelfth game today. I think this is

590
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 3: his fourth home run or some Yeah. I think it

591
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,400
Speaker 3: was a fourth home run since he's returned. And he's

592
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 3: on a completely another level, and it's just going to

593
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 3: be about them getting him up. He is worth stashing

594
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 3: because it could happen anytime. James Wood, same thing. He's

595
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,239
Speaker 3: only been back for five games, but he's hitting over

596
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 3: three hundred, He's had a homer, he has no major

597
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,439
Speaker 3: split issues, he's not striking out. I just think he

598
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 3: needs a handful more games healthy for this team to justify.

599
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 3: And as I said, three and a half games out

600
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 3: of the wild card, they're in the race. Baltimore is

601
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 3: in the race. These two teams will make that move.

602
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 3: And then the only other guy that kind of quantifies

603
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 3: this but he's injured, is Junior Camonaro. Like that would

604
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 3: be the other guy who we know it's going to

605
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 3: take a little bit, but he's he kind of has

606
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 3: fallen off that wanting to stash area because he's hurt.

607
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,400
Speaker 3: So to answer that direct question, the only two guys

608
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 3: that are worth the stash are Wood and Mayo. But

609
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 3: there are guys that are worth to keep an eye on.

610
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 3: I talk some about those on leading off when we

611
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 3: can talk about some if they get the call in

612
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 3: the near future. But it's only Wood in Mayo that

613
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 3: I'm stashing.

614
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 2: What do you make quickly of he just got, you know,

615
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 2: called up and hit a home run against the Orioles.

616
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 2: I actually not even tire the shred of pronounce it

617
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 2: John Kensky Noel that the Guardians called Big Christmas.

618
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:03,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because Noel, Yeah exactly, Yeah, No, He's I've

619
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 3: seen him for so long. He hit I didn't even

620
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 3: think about this. Two of the biggest home runs I've

621
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 3: ever seen in person were from actually Guardians players. One

622
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 3: was coleman Zarto in the AFL this past year that

623
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 3: hit one bounced out of Puria Stadium. And Noel at

624
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 3: the Rangers facility a couple of years ago hit one.

625
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 3: It was so far and it was foul, and it

626
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 3: wasn't a homer. It went past the foul ball and

627
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 3: try to explain it. But there's this like parking lot.

628
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 3: It went out into the parking lot and it bounced.

629
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 3: So here's a perspective. It bounced so far into the

630
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 3: parking lot, it went into the Royals facility, it bounced

631
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 3: through facilities. And I remember, I say, I remember, I

632
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 3: can't remember his name. He was a former player who

633
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 3: was the manager for the Complex Guardians for years, and

634
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 3: he was an outfielder. And it's just completely escaping me.

635
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 3: I've talked to him because I saw him so many times,

636
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 3: and he raved about Noel and the power, and Noel's

637
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 3: power is prolific. It's always just been about making sure

638
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 3: you know you're getting quality of contact, and that's what

639
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 3: the Guardians are built around. So I'm interested in no

640
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 3: while he's a guy like I have a little less

641
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 3: interest in maybe like Ben Rice, where I think Noel

642
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 3: can get some of that playing time right now. I

643
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 3: think if you're trying to chase some power, he's got some.

644
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 3: He has some staying power for the team.

645
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: Yeah.

646
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 2: I think it was Cespida's family barbecue, somebody I saw

647
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 2: on Twitter. I think it was Then was pointing out

648
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 2: that there have been something like fourteen balls in Triple

649
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 2: A this year hit at one hundred and fifteen miles

650
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 2: per hour or faster with the eggs of velocity, and

651
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 2: he has like three of them, Like he just obliterates

652
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 2: the ball when he runs into one.

653
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: So thinking about respects less so.

654
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 2: Than from a redraft perspective, but maybe some deeper guys,

655
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:51,959
Speaker 2: maybe some like dynasty risers or followers.

656
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: If there's somebody that you want to highlight.

657
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 2: But is there anybody kind of at the minor league

658
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 2: level that you think we have seen halfway through the

659
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 2: season their value has actually changed rather than just hey

660
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 2: it's a hot streak, it's a cold streak, but that

661
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 2: you are more excited about now or less excited about.

662
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great question, and I can give you

663
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 3: a couple of those guys. One player that has made

664
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 3: a big, major move for me is Aiden Miller with

665
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 3: the Phillies, who's moved up two levels. Now, I will

666
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:22,719
Speaker 3: say in that move, he has had some struggles at HIA,

667
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 3: but six homers, thirteen stolen bases, He's at two sixty three.

668
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 3: He's a twenty year old third baseman, prolific, prolific power,

669
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 3: He's got his gorgeous, beautiful swing. I'm the move is

670
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 3: what is so dramatic? Where he was like this, like

671
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 3: near the top one hundred type of guy that has

672
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 3: moved into my top twenty five. We do need to

673
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 3: pay attention to these high A struggles. I want him

674
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 3: to adjust. But that's a player that has really changed

675
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 3: in fantasy value. And I'll tell you one I have

676
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 3: been obsessed with, and if people don't know, I've got

677
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 3: a show called Prospect one every single week where I

678
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 3: talk about fantasy prospects and you know, go through the

679
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 3: loves and whatnot. But two players, and this one specifically

680
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 3: I've talked a bunch about, is Augustine Ramirez with the

681
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 3: New York Yankees. He's one of the guys that has

682
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 3: flown up my board. Sixteen homers, thirteen stolen bases for

683
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 3: a catcher, but he's not going to be a catcher.

684
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 3: As the info I've gotten, he's hitting two sixty nine,

685
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 3: got a three fifty two OVP. He has moved two levels.

686
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 3: He's up to triple he's struggling in Triple A, but

687
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 3: it's over five games in Double A. He hit two

688
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 3: eighty nine with pretty much all that production, huge hard

689
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 3: hit numbers he was putting up in Double A. Ninety

690
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 3: percentile exit velocities were huge. There is like thirty five

691
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 3: plus homer in power. He's also stealing some bases. He's

692
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 3: in the New York Yankee system. And then another one

693
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 3: that comes to mind when you're bringing this up is

694
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 3: Luis Baiez with the Houston Astros, and he has been

695
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 3: one of those like good age to level guys. He's

696
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 3: in High A this year, hitting two ninety three, has

697
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 3: ten homer, six team doubles, stolen six bases, and he's

698
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,959
Speaker 3: only twenty years old. And this is another like taps

699
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 3: into huge power, big hard hit numbers. He's have really

700
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 3: good contact you're gonna want to monitor. He doesn't walk

701
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 3: a bunch and his strikeouts are not a massive problem

702
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 3: right now, but they could get there. It's around like

703
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 3: the twenty five ish percentile range. But Luis Bias has

704
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 3: moved up into the top fifty range, Augustin Ramirez has

705
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 3: moved in as a top fifty, and Aiden Miller kind

706
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 3: of due to like age and all the tools, has

707
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 3: moved into a top twenty five. Those have been three

708
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 3: of the biggest dynasty prospect risers on my list over

709
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 3: the last couple months.

710
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: I love that.

711
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 2: I think those are gonna be really helpful for dynasty

712
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 2: managers who, you know, it's hard to pay attention to everything,

713
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 2: like you're already so focused on so many moving pieces

714
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 2: at the big league level that to kind of get

715
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 2: some help with the minor league level I think is

716
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 2: really valuable.

717
00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: I play in.

718
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 2: I've shown you that myra during this league before. It's

719
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 2: it's technically a deep keeper league, but it functions essentially

720
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 2: as a dynasty league, and you have a minimum number

721
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 2: of minor leaguers you have to have on your roster

722
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 2: at any given point in time. This year, during the draft,

723
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 2: I got Aiden Miller for one dollar and I was like,

724
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 2: I liked I liked him.

725
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: His draft profile. He felt because of injury.

726
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 2: I believe in the actual draft, but was a really

727
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 2: good high school hitter and I was like, I'm gonna

728
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 2: take a swing on him, and I've just seen the

729
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 2: stock go up, and.

730
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, he had a he won like a high school

731
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 3: home run derby. I'm gonna give you one other guy,

732
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 3: and uh, he's really one of my favorites. And he

733
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 3: I just saw him the other day because he was rehabbing.

734
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 3: He toes the line of dynasty prospect to maybe getting

735
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 3: production this year. Keep your eyes on Jacob Wilson. He

736
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 3: is Jack Wilson's kid. He was drafted by the A's.

737
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 3: He actually went to Grand Kenny University out here. He's

738
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 3: already at Triple A right now. And the problem why

739
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 3: he is not exciting is he kind of has a

740
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 3: Leise Rise in this to him. He does not strike out,

741
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 3: doesn't walk a ton, and his counting stats are a

742
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 3: little dicey. But this year he's hitting four fifty five

743
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 3: and has moved all the way up to lay. He's

744
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 3: moved three level complex if you want to count it.

745
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 3: He hit four fifth. Check this out. He hit five

746
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 3: seventy one when he was out here in rookie ball. Rehabbing.

747
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 3: He hit four fifty five in Double A and he's

748
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 3: hitting four h six in Triple A. They're like, the

749
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 3: swing is going to generate some power. He might only

750
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 3: be a ten to ten homer stolen base guy when

751
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 3: it's all said and done, but he'll be at the

752
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 3: top of a lineup. He's going to score lots of runs.

753
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 3: He's going to hit for high batting average and is

754
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 3: a great Point League player. And I think there's a

755
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 3: legit shot we could see him this year. Jack Wilson's kid,

756
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 3: Jacob Wilson category Rodo might be. I don't know, but

757
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 3: I'm just buying in on Jacob Wilson because his his

758
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,280
Speaker 3: bat is very, very exciting.

759
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 2: Was he was like the sixth or seventh pick six,

760
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 2: I think sixth overall. He was like right behind that

761
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 2: elite top five. He was the next one to go

762
00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:00,959
Speaker 2: right rights. Yeah, you're right, Yeah, Yeah, that's a great

763
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 2: call as well. That would be pretty exciting if you

764
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,399
Speaker 2: got up this year too. Let's move on to by

765
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:10,280
Speaker 2: Low Sell High. Let's start with you. Who's your favorite by.

766
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 3: Low All right on the by Lows, give me some

767
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 3: Wyatt Langford and I don't know how much Langford is.

768
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 3: I still assume he's in the lows, especially from like

769
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 3: early preseason, and he's his overall numbers at two point fifty.

770
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 3: It was even a little bit worse earlier on. They've

771
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 3: just had people. People have been kind of jaded by

772
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 3: white Langford. It took all the way until June for

773
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 3: him to hit a ball over the wall, so I

774
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 3: think everything has cooled off. The excitement has wavered for

775
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 3: a lot of people. But in the month of June,

776
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 3: Langford is hitting two ninety three. He's got two homers,

777
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 3: stolen six bases as well. He's walking some eighteen rbs.

778
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 3: He has more RBIs in June than he had the

779
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 3: entire season combined before that. He's finding a comfort level.

780
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 3: Josh Young is re hurt. Another person that might not

781
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,359
Speaker 3: take him off of the lineup, Evan Carter's not coming back,

782
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 3: who's also hurt. Langford gets a real opportunity to hit

783
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 3: three for this team when they want because they like

784
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 3: to go Marcus Simeon and Corey Seger, so you're gonna

785
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 3: have RBI opportunities for him. He's hitting the ball well,

786
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:20,240
Speaker 3: he's not striking out sub twenty percent power is starting

787
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 3: to click in. He's running more aggressively, by the way,

788
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 3: he had one stolen base before June. Now that he's

789
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,839
Speaker 3: getting on base, he's running this is a great time

790
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 3: to buy Wyatt Langford. So that is my by low

791
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 3: right now.

792
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 2: I think it's a good call. Mine is kind of

793
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,879
Speaker 2: the opposite end of the spectrum. It's not somebody who

794
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 2: has been getting better lately, and if you look at

795
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 2: the season long numbers, you would say, come on, that's

796
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 2: not a by low. Jordan Westbrook has had his worst

797
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,839
Speaker 2: month of the season here in June, and I kind

798
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 2: of include him to say that that is not going

799
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 2: to last. I think he is the guy we saw

800
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 2: in April and May more so than what we've seen

801
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 2: in June. And he hasn't been awful in June, but

802
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 2: it has been a step down, lowest batting average of

803
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 2: any month this season low.

804
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: So pis sevity, you know, a month this season, And.

805
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 2: It might actually already be too late because in the

806
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 2: last two days he has five more hits again, so

807
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 2: he might actually already be heating up. And people might say, well,

808
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 2: it's too late to even do this. But the reason

809
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 2: for including him isn't that I think you can get

810
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,320
Speaker 2: him as some sneaky steal. But if whoever had him said,

811
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,800
Speaker 2: you know what, like this guy wasn't like a mega

812
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 2: elite prospect, and he was really good in April. But

813
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 2: I think he's you know, maybe that was just a

814
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 2: hot streak to start the year.

815
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 1: He's starting to fall off.

816
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 2: He's not gonna hit that high in the lineup because

817
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 2: it's such a good lineup, Like he's not gonna hit

818
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 2: out a gunner. Although he has done a debit against lefties.

819
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 2: I don't actually think that's gonna last. All that is

820
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 2: to say, like, I think he's a really good player,

821
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 2: and I think that if you can get him at

822
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 2: it even a slight discount, because he has struggled quote

823
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 2: unquote in June compared to the rest of the year.

824
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 2: Like he's the type of guy if I'm if I'm

825
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 2: trading big names, if I'm trying to swing a blockbuster deal,

826
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 2: and it's like, okay, well, like I need to throw

827
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 2: in another player here, Like he's better than a throw in.

828
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 2: But I think you could get him based on name value,

829
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 2: if you're pairing him with somebody else and giving away

830
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 2: stud I think that's doable. And I think he is very,

831
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 2: very good, and I would be really happy to have

832
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 2: a moment team. So I wanted to include him because,

833
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 2: you know, just as sort of an affirmation of I

834
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 2: don't think I don't think like the you know, he's

835
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 2: reached the end of his rope or anything. And again,

836
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 2: he's already starting to get hot again, so it might

837
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 2: be too late for that, but as of the time

838
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 2: I put this together, he had not started to get

839
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:22,800
Speaker 2: hot again, so I still wanted to include it.

840
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of Westburg, so I'm with you.

841
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 2: I think I think it's just that dude is the

842
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 2: definition of just like he's just a ballplayer.

843
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 1: Like he's that guy is just a ballplayer.

844
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 2: I also, I said in January, I message one of

845
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 2: my Orioles fan friends, I was like, my big prediction

846
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 2: for the team this year, Jordan Westburg All Star. And

847
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 2: he's not going to like start ahead of Rosie Ramirez,

848
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 2: but he's got a chance to.

849
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 3: Oh and also, dude, when you get a couple of

850
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 3: the guys that are going to be like I can't

851
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 3: make it or blah blah blah like that, that's where

852
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 3: I think he falls in. It's it's kind of the

853
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 3: killer to Jackson Holiday. You know, if Westburg hadn't really

854
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,080
Speaker 3: been good, the leash might have been even longer for

855
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 3: a guy like Holiday, and or we might have already

856
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 3: seen him back. And I'd also say the same thing

857
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 3: Michael with Kobe Mayo. If westbroog Warren so good, we

858
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 3: might have seen Mayo. It's a glut of riches that

859
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 3: your team has.

860
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 2: Ultimately, I think what we'll have to see is they

861
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 2: have to be willing to sit Mateo and slide Westburg

862
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 2: over to second and have Mayo at third, because like

863
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 2: I was thinking that Mayo would come up as a

864
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 2: DH this year initially because I was like, well, the

865
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 2: infield's kind of set, and you know, Mountcastle is a

866
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 2: good first baseman is having a good year, and I

867
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 2: thought the DH spot would be open. But O'Hearn, being

868
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 2: as good as he's been, has really kind of limited,

869
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 2: like for Karstad for Mayo, like they have not been

870
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 2: able to find that.

871
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 1: Extra spot because the guys playing are too good.

872
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 2: So it's a good problem to have, but eventually I

873
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 2: want to see some at bats for them. Give me

874
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 2: your favorite cell high.

875
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 3: All right, my favorite cell high, let me pull this

876
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 3: up here is Raynaldo Lopez and maybe to your point,

877
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 3: like you could definitely see people like that's the one.

878
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let me.

879
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 3: Lay out a few things. And I did put this on.

880
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 3: This is a cheap plug for making sure you check

881
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,800
Speaker 3: out all the stuff we do over on Fantasy Pros

882
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 3: because we've got articles that come out weekly, articles of

883
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 3: by lows Sell High and I had kind of put

884
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 3: this in here, and I just wanted to reiterate this

885
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 3: one because there was a start in between it. It

886
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 3: because I had wrote this before the last start where

887
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 3: he then went out five innings two earned runs, wasn't

888
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 3: his best, did walk four, struck out five, but still

889
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 3: maintained a lot of the numbers. But Lopez has had

890
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 3: a fantastic year. There's just absolutely no doubt about it.

891
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 3: You know, he's put in some solid strike ups. From

892
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 3: a gambling perspective, his numbers went from every day four

893
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 3: and a half to now every game it's like five

894
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 3: and a half because he's consistently getting strikeouts. He's got

895
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 3: a sub two ERA one point seven ERA on the season,

896
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:48,399
Speaker 3: one of the best in qualified pitchers in baseball. I mean,

897
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 3: he has been great for this bravesman. He's been a

898
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 3: savior for it, and this is a guy, then this

899
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 3: is part of it. Though that has not thrown a

900
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 3: full work schedule since like twenty nineteen. He does have

901
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 3: two one hundred and eighty behind him, but it's been

902
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,800
Speaker 3: like four or five years where he's been a reliever.

903
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,879
Speaker 3: So here's the deal. I have been very towdy about

904
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:10,360
Speaker 3: Pablo Lopez over the last couple of weeks because Pablo

905
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 3: Lopez had this high inflated era is over five, but

906
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 3: he had one of the biggest differentials to his expected ERA,

907
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 3: which was two runs lower. Or Rinaldo is the opposite.

908
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,320
Speaker 3: He has a ridiculous one point seven ERA, which is awesome,

909
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 3: but his expected ERA is three point nine seven, almost

910
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 3: a four expected RA. And I know plenty of people

911
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,280
Speaker 3: out there kind of roll their eyes when you hear it. Okay,

912
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 3: well it's expected. What does it matter and blah blah blah.

913
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 3: What it is it's telling is it's telling the potential regression.

914
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 3: Does that mean and I do this a lot, does

915
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 3: that mean he's going to be bad? No, It's the

916
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 3: same thing I've done with Emonaga, where I'm like, hey, guys,

917
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:54,240
Speaker 3: Imanaga is going to regress. He's also a two pitch pitcher,

918
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 3: and the summer months are coming and you saw this

919
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,919
Speaker 3: big differential as expected. Does that mean I think Iman

920
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 3: Aauga is going to be trash No, I just think

921
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:02,360
Speaker 3: he's going to come back down to earth and instead

922
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 3: of being, you know, pitcher twelve, he might be pitcher twenty.

923
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 3: The same thing goes on with Renaldo Lopez. Do I

924
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 3: think Renaldo Lopez is going to be cut and you're

925
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:11,840
Speaker 3: not going to want to start him. No, I'm not

926
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:13,879
Speaker 3: saying that he just might, it might become a little

927
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,240
Speaker 3: bit more fringy. That is a wild swing. It's actually

928
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 3: closer to two and a half run differential. He's also

929
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 3: giving up a decent amount of barrels hard hit as

930
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:28,360
Speaker 3: a starter that's coming up. Batting average is expected around

931
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 3: two point fifty. This is a lot of stuff that

932
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 3: I think, you know, the negative regression will come into play.

933
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 3: If the slider's not efficient, strikeouts are going to become

934
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 3: a little bit more of a problem, and the fastball,

935
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 3: if he has to lean on that. He's given up

936
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 3: a two to fifty batting average against the fastball this

937
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 3: year and doesn't give with So I think there's just

938
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,839
Speaker 3: an opportunity to sell Renaldo Lopez, who's on a Braves team,

939
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 3: who's a sub two EIRA, and you might be able

940
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 3: to capitalize to get some hitting that you really need.

941
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 3: Bryce Terrang is having a wild year or I don't know,

942
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 3: you could do that, but his name value doesn't feel great,

943
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 3: but he's stealing bases. I saw some interesting Dylan White.

944
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,360
Speaker 3: Baseball America put out a was it a one hundred

945
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 3: and sixty two day calendar view of Corby and Carroll

946
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 3: versus Bryce Trang, And it's the same. Maybe you can

947
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,399
Speaker 3: go and swing get a Bryce Trang for a sub

948
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 3: too era a Renaldo Lopez. If you're a trader, I

949
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 3: would see if I could sell high on Renaldo Lopez.

950
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 2: I think it's a great pick. I'm also going with

951
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:30,320
Speaker 2: a pitcher. It's Garrett Crochet. Obviously has been fantastic this year.

952
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:32,800
Speaker 2: He has already thrown more innings this season than he

953
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 2: has in the rest of his big league career combined. Obviously,

954
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:39,800
Speaker 2: he has made the transition from bullped into the rotation.

955
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: You know, a really really good picture. It has nothing

956
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 1: to do with oh, it's you know, like.

957
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 2: With Lopez, the expected data is worse, like the expected

958
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 2: data for Crochet is largely better than it even has been,

959
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 2: Like he has been phenomenal, but they have already they

960
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:56,959
Speaker 2: talked about this week, the White Sox said that their

961
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 2: plans to start kind of curtailing the in and making

962
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 2: sure that he gets through the season healthy.

963
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a.

964
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 2: Pretty extreme scenario of an innings leap in an individual season,

965
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:13,879
Speaker 2: and we are only halfway through the year. So I

966
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 2: think if you can find somebody in your league, and

967
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,919
Speaker 2: this is maybe even geared towards more casual managers, because

968
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 2: I think, you know, the more die hard managers are

969
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 2: probably already well aware of this. But if you're in

970
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,280
Speaker 2: any kind of league where you can say, listen, Chrischet

971
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,240
Speaker 2: has been awesome, and even if he pitches fewer innings

972
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 2: in the second half of the season, those innings are

973
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 2: still going to be excellent, and you can.

974
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,439
Speaker 1: You know, get somebody good for him.

975
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 2: This is an ace who I just think is not

976
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 2: going to pitch as much in the second half. So

977
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 2: I'm deeply concerned by that. We've talked about on the show.

978
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:45,359
Speaker 2: Mayor has brought it up a bunch on the show

979
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 2: all season. Now that we are at the halfway point,

980
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 2: it kind of feels like whatever you get the rest

981
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:52,359
Speaker 2: of the way might be gravy, just based on a pure,

982
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 2: you know, innings thrown perspective, so really really good pitcher,

983
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,240
Speaker 2: and if I could sell that because he's his numbers

984
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,720
Speaker 2: are so fantastic, sick for any kind of really quality piece,

985
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 2: I'm looking to do so. And it's the reason why

986
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:08,839
Speaker 2: his name has gotten thrown out a bit. For the

987
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 2: Orioles who need to trade for a starting pitcher, I

988
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 2: don't really want them to trade for Crochet because the

989
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,320
Speaker 2: whole point is they need somebody in October, and I

990
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:16,800
Speaker 2: don't know how you can trust their Crochet.

991
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 3: I just don't think. I don't think a team is

992
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 3: trading for Crochet without the confirmation that he will pitch

993
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,359
Speaker 3: the entire time. I said this in leading off. If

994
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 3: Crochet gets traded, I actually think that's a great sign

995
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 3: that he is going to just continue his path. Now,

996
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 3: if he's a Dodger, we know what that path is.

997
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 3: Every six day, never pitches twice a week. I still

998
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 3: think that's doable. But I think a trade tells us

999
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 3: a better story that we can trust than anything else,

1000
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 3: because I don't think any team is going to go

1001
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 3: and trade for him and be like, all right, well

1002
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 3: you hit your cap, so we're gonna put you in

1003
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 3: the bullpen, like what they're gonna have to sell.

1004
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 1: I think about a.

1005
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 2: Team at the Orioles who, like Corvin Burns, is a

1006
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 2: free agent at the end of the year.

1007
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: Kyle Bradch is gonna be solve twenty twenty five.

1008
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 2: So maybe they make a trade and say, we'll get

1009
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 2: what we can out of him this year. But like

1010
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,800
Speaker 2: having him under control for next year is actually a value.

1011
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 2: But again that's not what I'm looking for as a fan.

1012
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 2: That's not I think. I think any organization that is

1013
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 2: traded what it will cost to get a guy like

1014
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 2: Crochet is gonna want him for this year. So I

1015
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 2: think I think it's a really good point by if

1016
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 2: he gets traded that I will probably recalculate.

1017
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: This. This opinion for an as tough.

1018
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 3: But it's tough though because and I said take this

1019
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 3: to the Garrett Cole bank too. It's like you can wait,

1020
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 3: but then things are gonna change, Like it changes too much.

1021
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:37,359
Speaker 3: I guess if he were to get traded, you're gonna recalculate,

1022
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 3: But then guess what And the cost will be higher,

1023
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 3: but now you're gonna go on and trade him, and

1024
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 3: then if you know he's gonna get shut down because

1025
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 3: he doesn't get traded or whatever, then the cost goes down.

1026
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 3: So that's the You got to take risks if there

1027
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 3: has to. You have to have calculated risk. You don't

1028
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 3: want to take too many with everything. You've got to

1029
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 3: take shots in fantasy sometimes, whether it is buying on

1030
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 3: a low on Garrett Cole, or it is selling a

1031
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 3: high or buying on a your Crochet. Knowing those type

1032
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,279
Speaker 3: of things, you just you got to figure out what

1033
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 3: those risks are to you, and Crochet definitely qualifies in that.

1034
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:08,320
Speaker 1: We'll go to Waivers Central.

1035
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 2: I'll go first here Alec Thomas three percent rostered on Yahoo,

1036
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 2: so very available. Obviously, he has been injured for most

1037
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 2: of the year, only twenty four years old. Has the

1038
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 2: prospect pedigree I don't need to tell you, given your

1039
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 2: fandom and your knowledge of prospects.

1040
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 3: I love him. By the way I've interviewed, he's one

1041
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 3: of the best people on the planet.

1042
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 1: Busy. Oh, that's great.

1043
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 3: That's always a great human being.

1044
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 2: I liked the player and I thought this had a

1045
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 2: chance to be kind of a nice breakout season for him.

1046
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,879
Speaker 2: He only played what was it four games before getting hurt,

1047
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 2: and then he had a setback in early May.

1048
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 1: It looks like though, based on how the rehab.

1049
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 2: Since is going, that he will could even be back

1050
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,279
Speaker 2: as early as this weekend, which I'll be excited to

1051
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 2: see if he is. And I've said it all season

1052
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 2: on the show, but like all of my leagues where

1053
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 2: you start four or five outfielders, I have just had

1054
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 2: a brutal time filling the outfield position this year. So

1055
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 2: if you are like me and you help it outfield,

1056
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 2: talented kid, still young, hopefully theoretically back healthy, can provide

1057
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 2: a boost to a team that needs it no offense.

1058
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,399
Speaker 2: I just think he's the type of guy that's worth

1059
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 2: picking up now before he comes back this weekend and

1060
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:22,359
Speaker 2: is potentially good and maybe picks up where he left

1061
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 2: off after this first few games of the season and

1062
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 2: everybody's rushing to grab him on come Monday. If you

1063
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 2: can pick him up now and have the room and

1064
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 2: need help it outfield again, he's available everywhere. So I

1065
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 2: have already picked him up in one league where it's

1066
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 2: deep and I need help.

1067
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 3: And there's no offense needed. We're recording this and the

1068
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 3: Diamondbacks are getting destroyed eleven to nothing by the Twins

1069
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,920
Speaker 3: through three innings and rookie David Festa is throwing a

1070
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:46,800
Speaker 3: no hitter. So just through three.

1071
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 1: Wow, But this podcast it was six nothing.

1072
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:55,760
Speaker 3: It's eleven to nothing through three innings. Oh, it's pretty

1073
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 3: it's pretty absurd. So yes, the Diamondbacks do need. The

1074
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:01,360
Speaker 3: only problem that they have, though, is they have a

1075
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 3: it's a cardinal esque issue where it's like their depth

1076
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,760
Speaker 3: is in the outfield. You know, you got Corbyn, Carroll

1077
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 3: McCarthy has come back up, You've got Gurry Yell, You've

1078
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 3: also got Peterson who's occupying that DH spot. And then

1079
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 3: Alex comes back in and guess what, Besides Gurriel, they're

1080
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 3: all lefties and that's another kind of disadvantage that this

1081
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 3: team has had got so many lefty outfielders. But I'm

1082
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 3: with you, like I think Alex is immensely underrated. He's

1083
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:31,840
Speaker 3: an incredible defender, he's the best defender on that Team's

1084
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 3: a Gold Glove center fielder, so he's needed out there,

1085
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 3: and he has put up some pretty big, hard hit

1086
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 3: stuff and had some bad luck. I'm rooting for him

1087
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,919
Speaker 3: because I followed him his entire career and his dad

1088
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:44,919
Speaker 3: was a strength and conditioning coach for the White Sow.

1089
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 3: I just saw Alec this past weekend when he was

1090
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 3: rehabbing or last weekend, and it's just good to see him,

1091
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 3: and I'm rooting for it. And he could be a

1092
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:53,879
Speaker 3: really good fantasy player too.

1093
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love to hear that.

1094
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 2: I was. I wanted to talk about it a because

1095
00:49:58,000 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 2: I'm somewhat interested to think he's a risk worth take

1096
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 2: if you have spot in your roster. But B I

1097
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 2: wanted to get your opinion being a little closer to it.

1098
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 2: So I'm happy to hear you kind of affirming.

1099
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 3: My Yeah, I'm not sure he's like a must pick up. Yeah,

1100
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 3: but I will say in like deeper leagues five outfiitlder

1101
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 3: like you're saying he is literally not owned. It's actually

1102
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 3: not a bad speculation because one other thing is I

1103
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 3: think the Diamonbacks have to look themselves really hard in

1104
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:23,800
Speaker 3: the mirror and look how embarrassing their their entire rotations

1105
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,400
Speaker 3: on the IL and the one guy that's there, Jordan Montgomery,

1106
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 3: just got lit up for eight runs today. He's garbage

1107
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 3: and you've got Gallon who's not back yet, and Caroll.

1108
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 3: They have all these injuries. What I'm getting is they're

1109
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:37,840
Speaker 3: gonna have to mix moves. And they have for many,

1110
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 3: many years been talking about either Alec or Jake McCarthy

1111
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 3: being in a trade, and I think that's still likely.

1112
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:46,399
Speaker 3: If they want to compete, they need to consolidate. They

1113
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 3: need depth in the bullpen and in the starters, and

1114
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 3: I think any trade will it might be centered around

1115
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 3: guys like Davison de la Santo's who are absolutely dominating

1116
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 3: in the miners, maybe a lawlor. But also I think

1117
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 3: i'm McCarthy or Alec, and I think McCarthy he is

1118
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,400
Speaker 3: more likely to get moved, So it could be like

1119
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 3: McCarthy and Dela Santo's, let's say to go get some

1120
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:10,839
Speaker 3: available starting pitcher or maybe even a bullpen piece. So

1121
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:14,840
Speaker 3: that's and that would create a better, even better opportunity

1122
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 3: for a guy like Alec Thomas.

1123
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, who's your hitter.

1124
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Joe is gonna love this, Mark

1125
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 3: vi Intos and more roster than your guy. But thirty

1126
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:29,240
Speaker 3: six percent on Yahoo, which is a really known low number.

1127
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,279
Speaker 3: And then I like to compare those against CBS, which

1128
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 3: have like really really high competitive moving leagues. He's barely

1129
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 3: over fifty percent fifty two percent owned on CBS, so

1130
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:42,799
Speaker 3: that is wildly available. And he's ESPN. That probably translates

1131
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 3: to twelve percent owned or something with four percent. But

1132
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 3: he's hitting two ninety eight so far in the year.

1133
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 3: He's got nine homers in one hundred and twenty at bats.

1134
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 3: His hard hit rate solid, great barrel percentage. I tell

1135
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 3: a lot of people I always like to look at

1136
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,319
Speaker 3: like hard hit and barrel to kind of tell me

1137
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 3: some about the hitter. Fifteen percent barrel rate is in

1138
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 3: an elite territory. Hard hit is probably a little above average.

1139
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 3: He's not getting the ball in the air aton, but

1140
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 3: that is a very easy adjustment. Good heart heart like

1141
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 3: exvelocity numbers as well. But here's what I love the most.

1142
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 3: He's cut a strikeout percentage. He was thirty percent last year.

1143
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,399
Speaker 3: He's got a twenty two percent so far this year,

1144
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 3: while doubling more than doubling his walk percentage. That's what

1145
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 3: you're looking for. I mean, you cut down strikeouts, you're

1146
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 3: gonna put yourself in better counts. He's destroying, he's the

1147
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 3: destroyer of fastballs right now. Six of his nine homers

1148
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,400
Speaker 3: have come off of fastballs. But he's just become a

1149
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 3: more polished, better hitter, and when you barrel the ball

1150
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 3: up like that with solid hard hit numbers, good things

1151
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:44,319
Speaker 3: are gonna happen. And he's just a big boy, and

1152
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:47,359
Speaker 3: I don't think anything is coming off of that right now.

1153
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 3: So I think Vientos is pretty under owned right now

1154
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 3: for what his production is, and I think he's got

1155
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:55,359
Speaker 3: a lot of underlying things that tell a pretty good

1156
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 3: story for any potential regression. He has his expected batting

1157
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 3: average around twenty lower than it currently is, and I

1158
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 3: think it'll go a little bit lower, but if you

1159
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 3: get two sixty out of him, you legit might get

1160
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,400
Speaker 3: ten to fifteen more homers the rest of this season.

1161
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 3: So I think Vianto's is a good pick up right now.

1162
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 2: For the favorite pitchers, I've actually got two, and they're

1163
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 2: very opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of how

1164
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 2: roster they are. One of them is Chase McDermott, who's

1165
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 2: rostered in fewer leagues than Alec Thomas. He's an Orioles

1166
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 2: pitching prospect, and the reason I bring him up is

1167
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 2: because their rotation is taking a beating. I mean John

1168
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 2: means out for the year, Kyle Bradish out for the year,

1169
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:32,840
Speaker 2: Tyler Wells out for the year. Currently three fits of

1170
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:34,799
Speaker 2: the rotation is Kate Povich, who I like quite a bit,

1171
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 2: Cole Irvin, who I think could fall back to Earth,

1172
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 2: and Big al S Lorez who could definitely fall back

1173
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 2: to Earth and maybe he has already started to do that.

1174
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 2: It's basically Corbyn Burns, Grayson Rodriguez and then question marks.

1175
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,280
Speaker 2: So there's room here. He is their best pitching prospect.

1176
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 2: I think even a swing of trade for a pitcher,

1177
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 2: he could get an opportunity. Big strikeout guy. I think

1178
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 2: he's struck out something like one hundred and nine and seven.

1179
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 3: Leads Triple A. He leads Triple A and strikeouts, has

1180
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:02,799
Speaker 3: the third best swinging strike percentage in Triple A and

1181
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 3: the I believe it's the best K minus walk percentage

1182
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:08,320
Speaker 3: in current Triple A pictures.

1183
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 1: That is awesome to hear us both in ORMA.

1184
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 3: I talked about him today. Sorry, so he's all my brain.

1185
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 3: I talked about him on the show. Is like he

1186
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 3: I'm agreeing with you, Like he is one Suarez or

1187
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:22,799
Speaker 3: Povich blow up away from being the next guy, but

1188
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 3: you might not. Like I actually predicted he's gonna get traded.

1189
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 3: I think he is going to be one of the.

1190
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,800
Speaker 2: Face I could see that happening, and it wouldn't It

1191
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 2: wouldn't crush me like a Mayo trade would.

1192
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's Kobe Mayo.

1193
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:36,240
Speaker 2: We can trade Mike Mayo anytime we won off this show.

1194
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 2: I uh so, yeah, Like he's not out that level,

1195
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:41,919
Speaker 2: but he could be an interesting piece.

1196
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:44,360
Speaker 1: I actually think that's not like a totally crazy prediction.

1197
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 2: If he does stay in Baltimore though, like we know

1198
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:49,240
Speaker 2: it's become a pictures park with that leftfield wall pushback.

1199
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 2: You know you're gonna get wins opportunities with this lineup

1200
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 2: and how strong this organization is. I think he's zero

1201
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 2: percent roster. Go get him. He is unless you're in

1202
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 2: like a Dynasty format. He is probably available in most

1203
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 2: of your leagues, and there is a chance that he

1204
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 2: gets a pretty compelling opportunity with pretty.

1205
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:08,280
Speaker 1: Darn good strike gut numbers.

1206
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 2: Like the control needs to be rained in a bit,

1207
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 2: but I think he can be a contributor and a sneaky,

1208
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:15,799
Speaker 2: really valuable piece in the second half.

1209
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:16,360
Speaker 1: Of the season.

1210
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 2: The other guy I mentioned as quickly just because I

1211
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 2: think he's under rosters Christopher Sanchez.

1212
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 1: This one is far less available.

1213
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 2: He's but he's only seventy six percent roster in Yahoo.

1214
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 2: I think that's too low. Like I'm not saying he

1215
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,240
Speaker 2: needs to be one hundred percent every single league, particularly

1216
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 2: with the strikeout rate, but he has a two thirteen

1217
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 2: ERI since the start of May. He also plays for

1218
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 2: a really good team in the Phillies. He's gonna get

1219
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 2: wins opportunities. He's been really good, like I said, really

1220
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:42,280
Speaker 2: in the last like six seven weeks he's been particularly great.

1221
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:44,759
Speaker 2: And again I just think, I mean, thirty one percent

1222
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,840
Speaker 2: roster in ESPN, that's like, you know, a miracle in

1223
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 2: ESPN formats, but seventy six in Yahoo. Like, I just

1224
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 2: think that's too low. So I wanted to mention him

1225
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:53,879
Speaker 2: that if you are in one of the leagues where

1226
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 2: he does have to be available, even if it's a

1227
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,080
Speaker 2: shallower league, I think he's worth at least having as

1228
00:55:58,120 --> 00:55:58,840
Speaker 2: a bench pitcher.

1229
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:00,839
Speaker 1: But just wanted to his name out there as well.

1230
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,319
Speaker 2: So I gave you one very rostered guy and one

1231
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:06,799
Speaker 2: very unrostered guy. You went with a more normal, just

1232
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 2: lowly rostered guy.

1233
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't actually didn't see the Yahoo numbers on it,

1234
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 3: but we're gonna know it's going to be quite a

1235
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:15,840
Speaker 3: bit lower based off of the conversion rate. There's conversion

1236
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:19,240
Speaker 3: rates where it's usually Yahoo is usually you know, fifteen

1237
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:22,240
Speaker 3: to twenty percent lower than CBS and ESPN is usually

1238
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:24,960
Speaker 3: like ten percent of what CBS numbers are. So I

1239
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:27,600
Speaker 3: have CBS numbers for Jeffrey Springs, who is thirty nine

1240
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:32,400
Speaker 3: percent owned on CBS. Now here's the risk. He's had

1241
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 3: a couple I think he had a jolted rehab start

1242
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:37,840
Speaker 3: he's coming back from. I think it's a UCL injury

1243
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:41,800
Speaker 3: from last season, and the rehab kind of stopped. Came back.

1244
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 3: He has not pitched over two and one thirds of

1245
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:46,480
Speaker 3: an inning, and I will present to you that could

1246
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:48,880
Speaker 3: definitely be a problem if he's not stretched out and

1247
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 3: they use him as a long reliever, or he's under

1248
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 3: major caps and bottom line, there may be kind of

1249
00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:56,480
Speaker 3: like a major cap situation in theory in general. But

1250
00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:01,839
Speaker 3: if not, Jeffrey Springs my favorite players from last year

1251
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:05,240
Speaker 3: and coming up to this All Star break. His last

1252
00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 3: start was I think three days ago. He went two

1253
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 3: and one thirds. What you want to see is the

1254
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 3: next start to get over three, potentially to four, and

1255
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 3: I think that's going to be a sign that they're

1256
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 3: going to get him fully back into the rotation. But

1257
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 3: here's my guess. Let's say we get this next one

1258
00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 3: go to four. You then get him to the majors

1259
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 3: right before the All Star break or perceivably right around there,

1260
00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 3: and you have probably a Garrett Cole like first start

1261
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 3: sixty five seventy innings pitch. My hope is by August

1262
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 3: first we can get him back onto a normal eighty

1263
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 3: five plus schedule. And if you get that from Jeffrey Springs,

1264
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 3: this is a I think it could be a potential

1265
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 3: windfall type of thing. He's a lower walk guy. I

1266
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 3: don't want to look at last year's numbers because he

1267
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 3: got hurt right away, but in previous years twenty six

1268
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 3: and thirty five percent K percentage, he's probably going to

1269
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 3: be right around a three, maybe even a low low

1270
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 3: or high two s er type of guy. Not a

1271
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 3: lot of barrels. Twenty twenty two give up only five

1272
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:04,680
Speaker 3: point nine and a barrel percentage in a two thirty

1273
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 3: one expected batting average, while having a two four six

1274
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 3: cra So he gets back to that guy. He doesn't

1275
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 3: walk a bunch, he strikes out a decent amount. I

1276
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:15,320
Speaker 3: love the repertoire. Looks like his fastballs kind of back

1277
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 3: to where it was before. It's just not a lot

1278
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 3: of innings. I would be preemptively picking up Jeffrey Springs

1279
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 3: right now now that he has rehabbed, had a little setback,

1280
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 3: came back, had a couple starts under his belt. We

1281
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 3: are now kind of in the in game. Your only negative,

1282
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 3: which you're gonna regret, is if they tell us like, hey,

1283
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 3: he's just going to be a long relief guy because

1284
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:36,800
Speaker 3: of the injury. But I'm banking that he's not, So

1285
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 3: you know, go pick up Jeffrey Springs because that will

1286
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:41,640
Speaker 3: go from thirty nine percent to well over seventy percent

1287
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 3: in a one week span. When he gets called up,

1288
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:44,480
Speaker 3: I guarantee that.

1289
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great call. I want to quickly open

1290
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 2: up the mailbag. I promise Alicitor we would talk about

1291
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:52,520
Speaker 2: Julio Rodriguez, and he asked, should I this is from Andrew,

1292
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 2: by the way, should I expect a big second half

1293
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:58,320
Speaker 2: from Julio Rodriguez or try to sell him based on

1294
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:01,680
Speaker 2: name value for the stretch. I briefly mentioned him earlier

1295
00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 2: as a guy who looking ahead to next year's drafts.

1296
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 2: If he goes nuclear in the second half, I think

1297
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 2: people will be drafting him as if he was really

1298
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 2: good for the whole year and just kind of writing

1299
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 2: off the first half as a cold streak. It's interesting

1300
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 2: looking at his MLB savant page because the statcast data,

1301
00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 2: some of it's like really good, like the bat speed

1302
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 2: is ninety fifth percentile afterge exit velocity eighty fifth percentile,

1303
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 2: hard hit rate eighty ninth percentile, almost a fifty percent,

1304
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:27,960
Speaker 2: But some of it's lower, like the expected wOBA expected

1305
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 2: slugging barrel percentage is calling all in the sixties range.

1306
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 2: So and then obviously like chase rate is pretty high

1307
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:37,480
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. So what do you make of

1308
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:39,480
Speaker 2: what we see out of Julio so far this season?

1309
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:41,920
Speaker 2: And what more importantly, what do you expect out of

1310
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 2: him in the second half. Is he somebody that you

1311
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:45,919
Speaker 2: would sell if you can still get something decent based

1312
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:48,800
Speaker 2: on name value or are you saying you kind of

1313
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 2: waited this long, like let's see if he goes nuclear

1314
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:51,720
Speaker 2: in the second half.

1315
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, What you don't like is that he's having a

1316
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 3: bad month right now. He's only hitting two sixteen this month,

1317
00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 3: sub three hundred OVP. He does in all of that, though,

1318
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 3: I will say he's tied for the most homers he's

1319
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:05,280
Speaker 3: had in a month this month, but he's stealing a

1320
01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 3: little bit less. Like so those things are concerning, but

1321
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 3: you kind of laid it out the positive. Here is

1322
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 3: the profile for the most part, looks the same. Strikeouts

1323
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 3: are up a little bit, heard hits down a little bit. Okay,

1324
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:20,479
Speaker 3: those are things we understand. Launch angle it is down

1325
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:23,720
Speaker 3: a little bit, and his barreling is down. I think

1326
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 3: those are slight swing things. He and far As like

1327
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:31,160
Speaker 3: how he's getting pitched. It looks kind of the same,

1328
01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 3: but he's eating more fastballs this year comparatively. I mean,

1329
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:37,680
Speaker 3: he's he's kind of up to about two percent against

1330
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:41,120
Speaker 3: all pitch types except fastballs. It's closing it on five percent.

1331
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:43,800
Speaker 3: He's striking out more, but he has he's hitting two

1332
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:47,280
Speaker 3: eighty five against fastballs, a three h nine expected against fastballs.

1333
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 3: So because the hard hit numbers are there, I think

1334
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 3: it's some slight adjustments. I mean, it's kind of making

1335
01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:59,600
Speaker 3: excuses like the profile doesn't really say one way or

1336
01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:02,360
Speaker 3: the other, like, oh, he's one hundred percent going to

1337
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 3: bounce back. We have to kind of go off of

1338
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:08,479
Speaker 3: like track record, and from a track record perspective, most

1339
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:10,919
Speaker 3: of the things outside of slight adjustments kind of seem

1340
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 3: on pace. Now you've got summer months where the ball

1341
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:15,680
Speaker 3: is going to fly a little bit more. I kind

1342
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:17,280
Speaker 3: of think this team is going to be aggressive and

1343
01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 3: bringing a bat to help and offensively that would be

1344
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:22,320
Speaker 3: a really big positive. The only other thing you can

1345
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 3: kind of pinpoint he has really struggled against rdy's this year.

1346
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 3: It's the lowest he's ever hit. He's never hit under

1347
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 3: two sixty seven against righty's. He's hitting two thirty eight

1348
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:34,000
Speaker 3: right now, So that also there's an anomaly in there

1349
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 3: that you think that can kind of be adjusted. But

1350
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:39,959
Speaker 3: he does bounce back, it's been a little bit higher.

1351
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:42,120
Speaker 3: I'm holding all of that to say, like, there are

1352
01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 3: a few things I've did it with Corbyn, Carrol, I

1353
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 3: probably want it. I should do it with Julio where

1354
01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 3: I did like really intensive like swing profile and zone

1355
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 3: chart changes and I could you could really see what

1356
01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 3: was going on with Carol. I haven't done that with

1357
01:01:55,400 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 3: Julio yet, But a lot of the surface iss level

1358
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:03,680
Speaker 3: stuff and underlying metrics tell a fine story of a

1359
01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:06,000
Speaker 3: player that like we're just going to take track record, no,

1360
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:07,960
Speaker 3: Like he's a great player, Like he's going to adjust

1361
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 3: it to men's bat speed, like you said, good hard

1362
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:11,840
Speaker 3: hit numbers. And maybe if you put a Robert or

1363
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:13,680
Speaker 3: if Lad Junior in that lineup, a little bit more

1364
01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:17,920
Speaker 3: lineup protection might help because around him it's like ty France,

1365
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:21,160
Speaker 3: you know, and yeah, Luke Rayley. Like I'm not saying

1366
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:23,760
Speaker 3: that he's necessarily getting the pitch mix doesn't look like

1367
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,640
Speaker 3: it's too crazy different, but like at the same time,

1368
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:29,080
Speaker 3: there'sn't a lot of lineup protection either.

1369
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 1: For whatever that is worth, I would like to see

1370
01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:32,640
Speaker 1: him pull the ball a bit more.

1371
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 2: He's pulling the ball about eight percent less as it

1372
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:38,680
Speaker 2: was thirty nine point five percent pull percentage last year,

1373
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:42,240
Speaker 2: thirty one point three this year. That's largely turned into

1374
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:45,640
Speaker 2: going straight. It's a little higher on the opo as well,

1375
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:47,240
Speaker 2: So I'd like to se him pull the ball a

1376
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:50,160
Speaker 2: bit more, maybe tap more back into that power. But like,

1377
01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 2: dude's also only twenty three, Like he's allowed to have

1378
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:55,920
Speaker 2: a rough couple of months and still be thought of

1379
01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 2: as this really high end t on.

1380
01:02:57,640 --> 01:02:59,840
Speaker 3: So I'm hold yeah, And like the reason I want

1381
01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:02,200
Speaker 3: to look at the profile more is like with Corbyn Carroll.

1382
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:07,640
Speaker 3: Last season his upper inside zone he sucked, He was bad,

1383
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:10,880
Speaker 3: bad percentages, but guess what, the how he was being

1384
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 3: pitched wasn't targeted in that. So what's happened this year?

1385
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 3: It's all there and he is horrific in his upper

1386
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:21,800
Speaker 3: upper inside zone. So it's like once this is kind

1387
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 3: of the sophomore slum thing. Once teams can kind of

1388
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:26,800
Speaker 3: kind of get a hold of the full profile where

1389
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 3: they take an off season on how and create charts

1390
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:31,480
Speaker 3: on how to attack hitters and stuff like that, Like

1391
01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 3: they found this clear cut way to attack Corbyn Carroll. Again,

1392
01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:37,480
Speaker 3: I haven't quite looked at this yet to see was

1393
01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 3: there a really definitive thing with Julio Rodriguez. But you

1394
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:44,160
Speaker 3: know they're pitching him in a way where again hard hit,

1395
01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:47,280
Speaker 3: barrel and launch, angle and pull they're all down. Those

1396
01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:49,880
Speaker 3: are all connected in a way where if he is

1397
01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:54,160
Speaker 3: getting a slight better even just use barrel for a second,

1398
01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:56,160
Speaker 3: the ball is gonna get hit harder. He's gonna pull

1399
01:03:56,200 --> 01:03:58,320
Speaker 3: it in the air more and the launch angle's gonna

1400
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:00,640
Speaker 3: go up. So you know, he might be being pitched

1401
01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:03,000
Speaker 3: a little bit more on the outside portion of the

1402
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:06,280
Speaker 3: zone that he hasn't quite adjusted to. That's allowing him

1403
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:10,120
Speaker 3: to tap into pull numbers or forced guys to be like, oh,

1404
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:12,160
Speaker 3: we can't do this anymore. Like that's what Corban Carroll's

1405
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:14,560
Speaker 3: problem is, is like they can do it all day long.

1406
01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:16,520
Speaker 3: They can throw up an inside and he's not doing

1407
01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:19,400
Speaker 3: crap with it. But it's like, you have to make

1408
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 3: those adjustments. So teams have to then be like, Okay,

1409
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:24,120
Speaker 3: we now can't do this, and that's where then people

1410
01:04:24,200 --> 01:04:26,560
Speaker 3: make mistakes, should pull the ball boom and we get

1411
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 3: back to the Julio that we love.

1412
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:31,640
Speaker 2: Let's talk a little weekend excitement. What we're looking ahead

1413
01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 2: to this weekend. For me, I'm excited about the Orioles

1414
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:36,160
Speaker 2: Rangers Alds rematch.

1415
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 1: It was very tough.

1416
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:40,760
Speaker 2: I was there for Game two last year in October,

1417
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:42,480
Speaker 2: which was really fun to go to a playoff game,

1418
01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:44,920
Speaker 2: and then they got blown out. Of course, the Rangers

1419
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:47,760
Speaker 2: swept the Orioles in route to a World Series. I

1420
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:50,320
Speaker 2: know I don't need to tell you about the Rangers

1421
01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 2: in October last year. They both our teams out, but

1422
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:56,080
Speaker 2: we get the rematch this four game series. We're gonna

1423
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:58,280
Speaker 2: see Corbin Burns, We're gonna see hopefully Max Chers. There

1424
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:01,120
Speaker 2: should be a fun one in BA Baltimore. We get

1425
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:07,560
Speaker 2: Tanner Biby versus Cole, Dragons Reagans on Saturday. Just two

1426
01:05:07,680 --> 01:05:09,919
Speaker 2: really good, fun young pitchers that I'm excited to see

1427
01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:12,560
Speaker 2: go ahead to head. And speaking of Paul Skins versus

1428
01:05:12,560 --> 01:05:15,800
Speaker 2: Max Free on Saturday, also, that is a really really

1429
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:18,280
Speaker 2: fun one. You also had Skeins down as I mean,

1430
01:05:18,320 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 2: he's every every weekend he pitches, He's going to be

1431
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:21,840
Speaker 2: on weekend excitement.

1432
01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:24,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would tune into that podcast. I did on

1433
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:27,080
Speaker 3: End this League too about if Paul Skins makes that

1434
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:29,840
Speaker 3: top four rounds, and I'm kind of hinting that he

1435
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:31,760
Speaker 3: does because we.

1436
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 2: Also I almost asked you during the Garrett Cole segment,

1437
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:36,880
Speaker 2: who would you rather have rest of season Coal or Skins?

1438
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:39,880
Speaker 3: And I think that is It's all It's tough in

1439
01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:43,880
Speaker 3: nature because of what there's some unknowns with Skins, but

1440
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 3: it really seems like they're going to lay into it.

1441
01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 3: We were talking about there might be a legit argument

1442
01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:51,040
Speaker 3: that Paul Skins could be the number one picture next

1443
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:54,480
Speaker 3: to them in fantasy and that's comparing to Tyler Glass

1444
01:05:54,520 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 3: now and Corman Burns and everybody like that. That's how

1445
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:00,480
Speaker 3: incredible he is. So obviously any start for him I'm

1446
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:03,480
Speaker 3: dialed into. But you know, with everything I said before,

1447
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:06,720
Speaker 3: I think this is a really critical Garrett Cole start

1448
01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 3: because you know, the first start was whatever, the second

1449
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:14,919
Speaker 3: start wasn't great. You can't start stacking stacking stacking bad start,

1450
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 3: So I think this is a really critical start Offensively

1451
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:22,480
Speaker 3: against Toronto. They're not as scary, but they also don't

1452
01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:25,600
Speaker 3: strike out a bunch, and they're a team that, like,

1453
01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:28,640
Speaker 3: you know, like they don't with because of some of

1454
01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:31,600
Speaker 3: the patients in here. Garrett Cole is gonna he could

1455
01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:33,480
Speaker 3: probably get away with some of the Vilo stuff that

1456
01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:35,480
Speaker 3: he's den but he's gonna have to like throw strikes,

1457
01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 3: you know, because they're not chasing stuff. This team doesn't

1458
01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:39,800
Speaker 3: chase a whole bunch. So I think this is a

1459
01:06:40,600 --> 01:06:43,840
Speaker 3: incredibly important one. So I'm gonna be dialed into Garrett

1460
01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:45,800
Speaker 3: Cole this week and especially for all my takes on it,

1461
01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:47,440
Speaker 3: because I might be if I go out there and

1462
01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:51,120
Speaker 3: I see it's like Villa's down again and he's just

1463
01:06:51,200 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 3: getting beat up and it's walks, and then I might

1464
01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:55,720
Speaker 3: have to reconsider because I am giving him a lot

1465
01:06:55,720 --> 01:06:57,040
Speaker 3: of benefit of the doubt.

1466
01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:00,800
Speaker 2: Let's go wrap up with our our season long two

1467
01:07:00,800 --> 01:07:03,800
Speaker 2: start pitcher competition. Mayor decided my first week out that

1468
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 2: whoever the guest was would make the pick for the

1469
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:08,960
Speaker 2: person who was out. So Kelly made a pick for me.

1470
01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 2: Tuma made a pick for me last week. Bogman made

1471
01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:14,680
Speaker 2: a pick for Mayor. You will be picking for Mayor

1472
01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:18,400
Speaker 2: this week. Just a quick recap from two weeks ago,

1473
01:07:18,520 --> 01:07:20,720
Speaker 2: because that's how we have to do it, because we

1474
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:23,080
Speaker 2: don't know what the second start of last week's will

1475
01:07:23,120 --> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 2: be yet, so we don't know who's won last week's yet.

1476
01:07:24,880 --> 01:07:28,240
Speaker 2: But two weeks ago match up eleven, Tuma picked for me.

1477
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:34,200
Speaker 2: Pablo Lopez. Mayor picked John Gray. Lopez absolutely smashed John Gray. Now,

1478
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:37,160
Speaker 2: most of John Grey's bad performance came in just the

1479
01:07:37,240 --> 01:07:40,840
Speaker 2: one out where he got absolutely smacked around, gave up

1480
01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:44,200
Speaker 2: niner in runs, but it ended for nine innings niner

1481
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:47,560
Speaker 2: and runs, just five strikeouts on the week. Not a

1482
01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 2: good start, you know, good week by him, whereas Pabla

1483
01:07:50,080 --> 01:07:53,240
Speaker 2: Lopez finally had that breakout that everybody's been waiting for,

1484
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:56,560
Speaker 2: calling him a Bilo candidate. He had seventeen strikeouts on

1485
01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:59,760
Speaker 2: the week fourteen, coming from that Sunday start. I believe

1486
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:03,400
Speaker 2: it was twelve innings, two walks, five and runs. So

1487
01:08:03,600 --> 01:08:05,640
Speaker 2: Pabo Lopez gets to win. I am now up seven

1488
01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:09,640
Speaker 2: to four on the season. We're awaiting the results of

1489
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:12,080
Speaker 2: last week where we both pick picked Phillies pitchers.

1490
01:08:12,560 --> 01:08:14,960
Speaker 1: I have Suarez, he has Nola, so we'll see where

1491
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 1: that goes. This week.

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Speaker 2: I picked Hunter Brown, and I'm actually sorry to feel

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01:08:19,360 --> 01:08:21,400
Speaker 2: a little bad about it because one of his starts

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01:08:21,479 --> 01:08:23,960
Speaker 2: is at Toronto, the other is at Minnesota, and the

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01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:27,880
Speaker 2: way the Twins are hitting today, that's a little concerning.

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01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:30,680
Speaker 2: So I mean it's already locked in. I can't change it,

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01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:34,280
Speaker 2: but I'm going with Hunter Brown here for the upcoming week.

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01:08:34,320 --> 01:08:36,280
Speaker 3: Who do you have? All right? So, I mean, I

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01:08:36,320 --> 01:08:38,200
Speaker 3: guess I'm gifted. By the rule of this game, you

1500
01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:40,680
Speaker 3: just can't take guys that have been taken before, so

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01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:42,400
Speaker 3: I get an obvious cup. But I will tell you

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01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:45,240
Speaker 3: there's a second option. My guy is Trek Scougle and

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01:08:46,160 --> 01:08:47,719
Speaker 3: you know. I mean, I think this is blatantly obvious.

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01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:50,000
Speaker 3: One of the best pitchers in baseball could arguably be

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01:08:50,080 --> 01:08:53,439
Speaker 3: in the discussion as the top guy. He also has

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01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:56,200
Speaker 3: the Minnesota Twins, I think at the beginning of the week,

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01:08:56,680 --> 01:08:58,680
Speaker 3: and by the way, David Festa did not throw a

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01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:01,479
Speaker 3: no hitter. He's actually given up four as we're at

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01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:07,000
Speaker 3: this now. But Turk Scuble, he's a lead of elite

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01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:10,360
Speaker 3: and Minnesota can definitely get into kay problems against lefties

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01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:11,800
Speaker 3: and stuff like that, so I like that. And then

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01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:15,720
Speaker 3: he's got Cincinnati. Now here's the It is in Cincinnati,

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01:09:15,880 --> 01:09:18,040
Speaker 3: so these are two road games, so it's a little dicey,

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01:09:18,080 --> 01:09:20,599
Speaker 3: but he's so good. The guy I want I thought about, though,

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01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:25,519
Speaker 3: and I might regret is Grayson Rodriguez because Grayson Rodriguez, though,

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01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:30,760
Speaker 3: has also two road games, has Seattle and then Oakland,

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01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:33,680
Speaker 3: and the Seattle matchup is currently looking like it'll be

1518
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:36,080
Speaker 3: up Luis Castillo, which is tough, but then you just

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01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:38,479
Speaker 3: got Oakland in general, which doesn't matter. So Grayson's in

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01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:41,360
Speaker 3: a really, really great spot. But I'm gonna take Turk

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01:09:41,439 --> 01:09:43,000
Speaker 3: Scuble for this bad boy.

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01:09:43,320 --> 01:09:46,280
Speaker 2: I already used Grayson this year. Otherwise, I would have

1523
01:09:46,400 --> 01:09:50,200
Speaker 2: considered by the way Schooble. He's the type of guy

1524
01:09:50,280 --> 01:09:53,320
Speaker 2: where if the Orioles traded Kobe Meo to get him,

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01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:55,160
Speaker 2: I'm working.

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01:09:55,080 --> 01:09:56,200
Speaker 1: But we're comfortable with that.

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01:09:56,720 --> 01:10:00,120
Speaker 2: Sure they're all trading obviously, Yeah, going out of a

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01:10:00,200 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 2: limb there, But uh yeah, Mayor so far in this

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01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:08,320
Speaker 2: likes to not take like he like wants to save

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01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:09,519
Speaker 2: the really elite guys.

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01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:13,000
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of happy that, like, you're taking.

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01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:16,599
Speaker 2: Schooble here, because he's a you're kind of quote unquote

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01:10:16,600 --> 01:10:18,800
Speaker 2: wasting it. Although I think it's obviously a smart play

1534
01:10:18,800 --> 01:10:20,160
Speaker 2: you want to use him, at some point, you're kind

1535
01:10:20,160 --> 01:10:22,240
Speaker 2: of quote unquote wasting Schooble and he doesn't even get

1536
01:10:22,240 --> 01:10:23,960
Speaker 2: the satisfaction of being the one to pick him in

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01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:24,479
Speaker 2: the right week.

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Speaker 3: So I like that. But also, he's down pretty big,

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01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:28,960
Speaker 3: so you got to stop getting cute and you gotta

1540
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:31,400
Speaker 3: start getting wins. So I'm I'm I'm here to get

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01:10:31,479 --> 01:10:32,840
Speaker 3: him a win to get back in the game, and

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01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:33,920
Speaker 3: you can pick some other guys.

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01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 2: I believe I'm on a one two three, I'm a

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01:10:36,680 --> 01:10:39,360
Speaker 2: three week winning streak. Although I think Nola had a

1545
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:42,920
Speaker 2: better start than Suarez this week. So I'm behind the

1546
01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:44,559
Speaker 2: eight ball for this week, so he might be snapping

1547
01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:47,200
Speaker 2: that already, but you're right, Mayor's getting too cute. Uh,

1548
01:10:47,439 --> 01:10:51,200
Speaker 2: it's ridiculous. He needs to uh to snap in and

1549
01:10:51,320 --> 01:10:52,160
Speaker 2: focus up here for.

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01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:55,720
Speaker 1: The back half. Get some wins, baby, Yes, exactly.

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01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:57,959
Speaker 2: All right, we'll get either on that a little longer episode,

1552
01:10:58,240 --> 01:10:59,960
Speaker 2: but obviously we hit on a ton of different top

1553
01:11:00,120 --> 01:11:03,519
Speaker 2: so I really appreciate everybody sticking around with us through

1554
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:06,120
Speaker 2: you know, about seventy minutes in, and I appreciate you

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01:11:06,200 --> 01:11:08,559
Speaker 2: Welsh for coming on filling in for Mayor. As far

1556
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:11,160
Speaker 2: as I'm aware, Mayor is finally back next week, so

1557
01:11:11,520 --> 01:11:14,400
Speaker 2: as we get into we finish our entire month of

1558
01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:17,040
Speaker 2: me and him not being together, and it'll be Worm

1559
01:11:17,080 --> 01:11:20,639
Speaker 2: and Mayor once again as we turn the calendar to July.

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01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:23,720
Speaker 2: But thank you again for coming on, buddy, and you

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01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:25,760
Speaker 2: know I'll see you around and everybody, thank you for

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01:11:25,840 --> 01:11:26,200
Speaker 2: tuning in.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you next time.

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01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:30,520
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01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:34,400
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01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:37,000
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