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Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is the

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Baseball Podcast. It is me, Joey p Joe Pizipia

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Speaker 1: with me, of course is the Welsh and it's time

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Speaker 1: to look ahead to the waiver wire this week, starting

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Speaker 1: with a couple hitters that we are looking to add

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Speaker 1: to our rosters. So the Welsh and aren't getting me

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Speaker 1: a couple of names to add to your lists before

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Speaker 1: those waivers run this weekend, And I'm gonna start off

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Speaker 1: with one from the New York Mets. Here. Mark Viento's

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Speaker 1: a guy who, let's face it, had a pretty down

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five after a twenty twenty four season that

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Speaker 1: was very encouraging. Maybe it's JD. Martinez showing up back

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Speaker 1: around helping him out. All I know is the first

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Speaker 1: eight games of the season, he's got ten hits, He's

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Speaker 1: got a home run. He's also hitting four to seventeen

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Speaker 1: with a four to sixty two OBP and a six

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Speaker 1: twenty five slugging But Welsh. More to the point, Mark

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Speaker 1: Vientos is going to see a fair amount of playing

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Speaker 1: time between first base DH who knows maybe little outfield two,

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Speaker 1: while jan Son's on the show for the next three

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Speaker 1: weeks or so. So Viento's right now. If you're looking

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Speaker 1: on CBS, where a lot of people are paying for

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Speaker 1: their leagues, he is under fifty percent roster just at

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Speaker 1: forty eight percent. That number is lower on Yahoo and ESPN,

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Speaker 1: so he is widely available, and I think in the meantime,

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Speaker 1: guys like him and Brett Baty will see more playing

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Speaker 1: time while the Sodo injury takes place, and Mark Viento

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Speaker 1: so far has made the most of it. Welsh, where

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Speaker 1: would you start here for the first guy on the

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Speaker 1: hitter side of things that you're looking to add this

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Speaker 2: So this guy's been heart red hot to start the season.

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Speaker 2: His percentages are going to be all over the board.

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Speaker 2: He is a higher percentage guy in what you were

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Speaker 2: talking about with CBS on the paid leagues, But when

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Speaker 2: you look on the consensus ownership percentage on Fantasy pros,

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Speaker 2: which takes Yahoo and ESPN, he is barely over thirty percent,

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Speaker 2: which is a surprise to me. And I see a

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Speaker 2: lot of questions pop up about Cam Smith. Still, people

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Speaker 2: are not one hundred percent sure where Cam Smith is

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Speaker 2: at if they should be dropping said player. You know,

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Speaker 2: in pretty active leagues he may already be picked up.

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Speaker 2: So there's maybe a little bit of irrelevance here for

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Speaker 2: your specific league man leagues that think he's to be

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Speaker 2: floating out there. Three homers, three stolen bases, hitting three hundred,

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Speaker 2: got a four hundred OVP. Looks really really solid right now.

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Speaker 2: Fifty percent hard hit rate, almost an eighteen percent barrel rate,

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Speaker 2: strikeouts are down a little bit, and he is making

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Speaker 2: the absolute most out of this. He really found some

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Speaker 2: struggles last year. There's a little bit in his game

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Speaker 2: you got to pay attention to and why, like would

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Speaker 2: I not want to make a big change and cut

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Speaker 2: some like really great player for a guy like Cam Smith,

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Speaker 2: because he's predominantly doing this right now against fastballs. He's

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Speaker 2: hitting three seventy nine against fastballs. He really has like

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Speaker 2: one other hit against any other type of breaking or

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Speaker 2: off speed pitch, but he is able to attack. His

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Speaker 2: I think he's added two or three miles an hour

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Speaker 2: on average to his bat speed, which has helped create

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Speaker 2: these monster barrel and hard hit numbers. He's stealing bases,

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Speaker 2: he's got confidence he's a tooled out player and the

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Speaker 2: ownership is kind of still putting people on the fence

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Speaker 2: about him, and I think he must pick up. Thirty

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Speaker 2: think ESPN is a lower percentage. Yeahoo's a little bit higher,

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Speaker 2: But so far, so good. The real litmus test is

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Speaker 2: There's quite a few players that are kind of under

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Speaker 2: this same space where he's seeing almost fifty five percent fastballs.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna be up to able to have to hit

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Speaker 2: all this other stuff, but his ability to barrow right now,

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Speaker 2: the renewed bat speed make this a very promising pickup.

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Speaker 2: And Cam Smith might be a guy we're laughing about

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Speaker 2: that wasn't drafted when the season comes to an end.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw him floating around a couple of my

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Speaker 1: should be. He should be scooped up because the potential

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Speaker 1: the fly, developing on the fly. You're gonna take your

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Speaker 1: lumps at the major league level when you have to

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Speaker 1: and especially with Alvarez ing the way he is, that's

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six than he did in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: All Right, The next guy on my list is a

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Speaker 1: and he's been in that Nets organization for quite some

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Speaker 1: time too, but he's not that old. He's just twenty three.

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Speaker 1: And it's Brady House. He is rostered again, just like

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Speaker 1: Vento's less than fifty percent. In fact, he is all

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Speaker 1: percent in some other spots. So you're looking at a

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Speaker 1: player basically available in seventy percent of leagues. And what's

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Speaker 1: interesting about Brady House so far, he's slashing three thirty

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Speaker 1: three four hundred five eighty three through his first ten games.

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Speaker 1: He got three doubles, two homers, five rbi, seven runs. Now,

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Speaker 1: he can strike out a little bit, but if you

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Speaker 1: look at the minor league track record. Over three hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty minor league games, he hit two eighty had

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Speaker 1: but that's not really his game. What you're looking for

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Speaker 1: I know last year was a struggle for him. He

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Speaker 1: only hit two thirty four. I don't expect him to

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Speaker 1: I do think there's something in between where you're looking

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Speaker 1: from a corner spot. So I would be rostering Brady

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Speaker 1: house Welsh, who's the last guy on the list for

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Speaker 1: today's waiver wire hitter ads.

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Speaker 2: It's very funny that I'm going to say this guy

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Speaker 2: because I used him as a piece of why you

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Speaker 2: could be paying attention to another prospect, but me included

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Speaker 2: it's time that we really give attention to a guy

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Speaker 2: that has a consensus seven percent ownership percentage across the

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Speaker 2: ESPN and Yahoo, I believe is under thirty on CBS.

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Speaker 2: It's TJ Rumfield, former Yankee. By the way, I had

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Speaker 2: absolutely used him as a as a piece to say, like,

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Speaker 2: why is this going to keep Charlie Condon down? Why

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Speaker 2: recipe for success. Seventeen degree launch angle with a almost

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Speaker 2: like elite numbers and just good things are going to happen.

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Speaker 2: The second piece, the guy doesn't strike out for a

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Speaker 2: team that is always perpetually striking out, and you know

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Speaker 2: they're one of those where it's like, you know, you

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Speaker 2: strike out ten Rockies, that's like translate to seven to

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Speaker 2: a normal team. Jij Runfield has a seventeen percent k

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Speaker 2: he's finding good pitches. He's swinging at good pitches. Launch

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Speaker 2: ability he is able to make contact and get the

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Speaker 2: even if some of the numbers are kind of you're

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Speaker 2: talking about a Colorado first baseman who even at worst

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Speaker 2: looks like he could step into twenty five homers and

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Speaker 2: he might not get challenged for a guy like Charlie

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Speaker 2: Conton taking over his job. Maybe they get rid of

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Speaker 2: Troy Johnson and it's Condon and him. What I'm getting

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Speaker 2: at is it's a super super low percentage for a

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Speaker 2: some really impressive plate skills. Maybe you can't roster him

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Speaker 2: in a ten team league, but twelve and fifteen you

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Speaker 2: should definitely pay attention when you're losing guys like Andrew

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Speaker 2: an extra boost. So I'm putting some extra attention into

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Speaker 2: TJ Runfield even when I wasn't before, because all signs

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Speaker 2: very early on are very impressive, and you know, ten

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