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Speaker 1: What's up, friends, and welcome in too, Fantasy Pros MLB.

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Speaker 1: This is cleaning Up. I am Chris Welsh, joined by

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Speaker 1: Joe Rico, where we are live on our Fantasy Pros discord,

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Speaker 1: talking with the amazing people and talking with you on

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Love to have you guys here. Thank you

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Speaker 1: guys for joining us. As we it's kind of an

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Speaker 1: open forum show. As we get some of these people

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Speaker 1: in dropping questions, we will be either bringing them on

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Speaker 1: or going through We've got some topics that we can

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Speaker 1: hit as well, my friends. So mister Joe Rico, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for filling in for me. You had

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Speaker 1: a couple had a couple of days on the on

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Speaker 1: the Big show. You're up in the majors there, mister

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Speaker 1: Joe Rico, up on leading off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I've been shuffled back and forth from TRIPAA to the

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Speaker 3: Majors and back a couple of times this year.

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Speaker 2: But it's good, you know. It gives me a little

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Speaker 3: Later in the year when Joey p and later on

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Speaker 3: you will go to football and get the audience familiarized

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Speaker 3: with me. I did a lot of stuff in the

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Speaker 3: off season, but for just leading off listeners to try

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Speaker 3: and reintroduce myself.

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Speaker 2: So it does work out. But good to have you back, man.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, like the Edward oliveris, but

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Speaker 1: you know your production is much better than that Edward

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Speaker 1: oliveris just from the do you remember that year where

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Speaker 1: he had it felt like four good jillion just send

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Speaker 1: ups and downs all season long. But your production is

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Speaker 1: quite above the oli Varius level.

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Speaker 2: My friend, Well, thank you. I appreciate that. I very

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Speaker 2: much appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: You are very very very welcome. But glad to have

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Speaker 1: people in here, Glad to have people hanging with us,

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Speaker 1: and always funny in this as well, because people are

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Speaker 1: remembering baseball show. I think we had some football people

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Speaker 1: that jumped in here as football season is closely coming in.

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Speaker 1: As you said, we've got, you know, piece of Pia

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Speaker 1: that is going to be making that move over. I'll

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Speaker 1: be making a version of that but a little bit later.

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Speaker 1: But all your offerings here, but we do not leave

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Speaker 1: you without some baseball before we get to it, getting

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Speaker 1: some of our our boys and girls in here, dropping

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Speaker 1: some questions, filling that up ranks. We are a day

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Speaker 1: away from the first of the next month, July, halfway

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Speaker 1: point of the season, all Star games coming around. We

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Speaker 1: all kind of do ranks a little bit differently. Some

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Speaker 1: people might go in like monthly pushes. I over on

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Pros, me Mike Mayer think Kelly Kirby does it,

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Speaker 1: and I think we're kind of the big core. We

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Speaker 1: will continuously do pretty much weekly rest of season ranks

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Speaker 1: where you're trying to find this dance between the guy's

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Speaker 1: current value obviously where they're at, you know, for the season,

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Speaker 1: but balancing in like injuries. That's always a really tough one,

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Speaker 1: you know, and like a guy like Catcher is a

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Speaker 1: perfect market for it, where you know you're looking at

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Speaker 1: values and you're going, okay, right now, duh. You know,

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Speaker 1: Drake Baldwin is producing and Ivan Herrera is not. But

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Speaker 1: finding the rank with a guy like Ivan Herrera who's

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Speaker 1: that ends up happening with ranks. So I've got my

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Speaker 1: kind of like a little bit different. But what I'm

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Speaker 1: curious about here, to start at the show off, Joe,

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Speaker 1: is do you have a guy or too that jumps

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Speaker 1: that made big, massive, significant jumps for you. For whatever reason,

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Speaker 3: So there are a couple that jump out, particularly in

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Speaker 3: third base. There was a lot of movement because third

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Speaker 3: going to be called a homer and that's okay. But

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Speaker 3: I've moved Addison Barger up to a top ten third

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Speaker 3: me right now. They have been so good for the

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Speaker 2: Side, starting with Barger.

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Speaker 3: When I look at what he's done, you know, especially

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Speaker 3: gets on base at a three to twenty clip, which

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Speaker 2: It's backed up by the data.

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Speaker 3: Thirteen and a half percent barrel, fifty three percent hard hit.

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Speaker 3: The max ev at one sixteen is nice. The launch

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Speaker 3: think across the board, Adison Barger has arrived, especially being

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Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't get any question.

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Speaker 3: Let's stop there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's stop there for one second, because what I

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Speaker 1: want to do, I'm looking at Fantasy Pro's ranks, and

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Speaker 1: If I take Vlad off and I'm trying to see

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Speaker 1: I could take anybody else off weird position wise, I

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Speaker 1: would have Barger at let's say best fourteen, because I

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Speaker 1: think I got him at fifteen or no, I'm sorry fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Who is right below Barger for you that you pushed

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Speaker 3: Have him above Jordan Westberg. I have him above Alec

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Speaker 3: Bohm and Mark Fientos. Those are the guys who are

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Speaker 1: Okay, then okay, So here are guys that I have

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Speaker 3: So I didn't have Bregman in because I didn't rank

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Speaker 3: injured players. I should have probably specified that I don't

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Speaker 3: have Bregman there, but if Bregman was healthy, absolutely, like

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Speaker 3: do you have chat I just don't know. Uh no, again,

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Speaker 3: because it's the injured thing. I didn't I didn't have

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Speaker 3: Chapman on there. Chapman would be Chapman and Barger is

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Speaker 3: don't know. I wouldn't feel strongly going one or the

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Speaker 3: it's I think it's a reasonable conversation to have between

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Speaker 1: Okay, so here are then these players are not injured.

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Speaker 1: Johanniel Suarez, Preetis, MIKEL. Garcia, Cam Smith, Brendan Donovan. Qualifies

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Speaker 1: Barger over every single one of them for.

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Speaker 3: You, So I wouldn't have him over a Uhannio Suarez,

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Speaker 3: can you say those again one more time?

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Speaker 1: Suarez, Paradis, MIKEL Garcia, Cam Smith, Brendan Donovan.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I just want to do the math to

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Speaker 1: I do rank Bregman and Chapman. I've got Paradis, I

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Speaker 1: got Garcia above, I got cam Smith above. I think

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Speaker 1: it's close. I think he's in that range. We're not

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Speaker 1: too far off. I want to throw this about Ernie Clement.

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Speaker 1: Bogman and I were doing this really interesting thing joking

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Speaker 1: about how he's like a poor man's Luisa Rise. Did

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Speaker 1: you know Ernie Clement has the same amount of runs

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Speaker 1: as Luisa Rise, the same amount of homers, the same

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Speaker 1: amount of stolen bases, but he has a better batting

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Speaker 1: average and a better obp Ernie Clement versus Luisa Rise.

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Speaker 1: He is cvs Luisa Rise. Right now, Louise Rice does

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Speaker 1: have more RBIs, but he also has more bats. So

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Speaker 1: an interesting take, just to kind of go with you

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Speaker 1: a little bit on Ernie Clement. Any other guys you

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Speaker 1: want to throw out that got some rank jumps. I've

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Speaker 3: Ernie is just I'm not going to go on about him,

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Speaker 3: but he's been unbelievable this year. If you're just looking

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Speaker 3: at war, he is more winsbubperplacement than Matt Olson, Pete Alonzo,

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Speaker 2: He's been just so good.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to a couple of guys who have kind

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Speaker 3: pitching side, Bailey ober Zach Gallen, Sandy al Contra. I

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Speaker 3: did a top seventy five update and Gallon at seventy

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Speaker 3: Ober at seventy five. They're both they're both coming out.

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Speaker 3: I can't do it anymore. And also I have Dustin

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Speaker 3: May at the end here as well, at number seventy two.

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Speaker 3: He has been just awful this year. So those guys

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Speaker 3: like I have them at the back end here. I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna still, you know, move around a couple of guys

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Speaker 3: over the next couple of days here, and especially heading

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Speaker 3: into the All Star break. I'll continue to tinker, but

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Speaker 3: I have lost essentially all faith with Gallin, El Contra,

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Speaker 3: May and over. It's it's ugly, man.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, some I moved Carroll down. Nothing crazy. I'm a worry.

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Speaker 1: I'm just kind of worried in general about this injury,

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Speaker 1: the risk fracture that it's going to that more power.

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Speaker 1: I just had him really high. I made sure, like

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Speaker 1: James Wood deservedly is higher, you know, can be higher

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Speaker 1: than rest of season. I'm going to bank on it.

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Speaker 1: He took a little bit of a dip from me.

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Speaker 1: Andy Pajus has taken a huge rise over my last

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Speaker 1: couple updates Byron Buxton as well. I mean rest of season.

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Speaker 1: Would you rather have Byron Buckston or Michael Harris?

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Speaker 3: Oh it's Byron Buxton without questions, Yeah, yeah, I have.

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Speaker 3: Michael Harris is at fifty seven in my outfield rankings,

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Speaker 3: which maybe is too low, but is it I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got him in the forties right now, so

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Speaker 1: I moved him down. It's interesting you mentioned like third

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Speaker 1: base positionally. Another guy that I took a big boost

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Speaker 1: for is brooks Lee. Brooks Lee has taken a big

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Speaker 1: jump up in my ranks to seventy seven eight homers,

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Speaker 1: a stolen base. You know, he's missed some time. He

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Speaker 1: seems to be really kind of locking in another Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Twins and Saddana Rafaela is the other one that was

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Speaker 1: the one that I was really thinking about that I

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Speaker 1: I had just had I didn't realize I had so low,

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Speaker 1: but he's just sneaking up on it. A double digit

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Speaker 3: What's up, dude, Hey, how's it going?

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Speaker 4: Guys?

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Speaker 2: Hold on man, I got a couple questions there for you.

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Speaker 4: First, one rest of the season. Do you like Kyle

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Speaker 1: But but the dream was also like someone that maybe

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Speaker 2: Blue Jay fan.

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Speaker 3: Preferably if we're getting like Reynolds and Bednar shore up

432
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Speaker 3: the pen, get another solid outfielder. I know Reynolds hasn't

433
00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:26,080
Speaker 3: had a great season, but we're currently throwing Jonathan Classe

434
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Speaker 3: out there a couple times a week. David Schneider started

435
00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,679
Speaker 3: yesterday and left field, So that's something I would absolutely

436
00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:33,240
Speaker 3: love to see as a blue Jay fan.

437
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, like I wanted to say that

438
00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:40,600
Speaker 1: Jared Durand to the Padres thing, but it's not a

439
00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:44,199
Speaker 1: great hitting environment for him to be in, so I

440
00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:48,560
Speaker 1: don't think that is like that's a huge benefit. One

441
00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,719
Speaker 1: that flashed to me was like Jared Durand to the

442
00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,480
Speaker 1: Braves would be awesome if they really consider you know,

443
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:58,720
Speaker 1: they already talked about these trades and if maybe that

444
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,840
Speaker 1: had come up, like Jared Duran being in Atlanta because

445
00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:04,880
Speaker 1: you know, Profar can't be there for the playoffs, they

446
00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,480
Speaker 1: just decide to make this like big move, and maybe

447
00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:11,240
Speaker 1: Ozuna goes as well. Like that would be a destination

448
00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:15,760
Speaker 1: where I'm like, damn, that really really fits and he's

449
00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:17,800
Speaker 1: kind of I don't know if that that conversation has

450
00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,240
Speaker 1: ever been had, but like that one jumps out to me. Mitch,

451
00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,560
Speaker 1: Mitch Keller going to the Cubs. It's not like a

452
00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,960
Speaker 1: dream scenario, but it's just like, get him on a

453
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Speaker 1: winning team, you know, Mitch Keller maybe going to like

454
00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,600
Speaker 1: you know, the Padres or the you know, like a

455
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,560
Speaker 1: really pitching friendly environment with great offense would be really great.

456
00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:39,120
Speaker 1: But like I think the Cubs, I think they kind

457
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Speaker 1: of qualify that. I'd love to see Mitch Keller and

458
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,480
Speaker 1: like san Dio Contra trated to drive Line, you know

459
00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,240
Speaker 1: what I mean, like somebody fixed him, Like whatever the

460
00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,399
Speaker 1: hell's going on with That's what I want. But maybe

461
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Speaker 1: Sandy go into you know, like the like the Mets.

462
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,960
Speaker 1: You know, like the Mets have done a really good job. Yeah,

463
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,560
Speaker 1: Like the Mets have done a great job in their

464
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Speaker 1: player development pitching wise, that I feel like maybe they

465
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,040
Speaker 1: could and they Lance Prazosi did that study where it

466
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,320
Speaker 1: was like, you know, they minor league major league have

467
00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,920
Speaker 1: like the highest average fastball, Like, maybe they could fix

468
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,560
Speaker 1: some stuff. So do you do you like that Sandy

469
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Speaker 1: one to the Mets.

470
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that something has to change. This is untenable at

471
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Speaker 3: this point. Like, I know, some of the expected numbers

472
00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,280
Speaker 3: are a bit better, but he has a seven ERA

473
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Speaker 3: at the halfway point of the season. This is not working.

474
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Speaker 3: And you know, I don't think that it would just

475
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,800
Speaker 3: be an immediate fix going anywhere, because I think that

476
00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,520
Speaker 3: it's something about just coming off of the surgery and

477
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 3: his command is still not there. The strikeouts rates are down.

478
00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,240
Speaker 3: But going to a team like the Mets, who have

479
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:40,120
Speaker 3: turned around so many careers over the past couple of seasons.

480
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 3: Tyler McGill, people were kind of writing him off. David Peterson,

481
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,159
Speaker 3: no one was really sure what he was going to be.

482
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,440
Speaker 3: Griffin Canning turned in a really good season. He's done now,

483
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,640
Speaker 3: but they have some real success stories Clay Holmes. There's

484
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,879
Speaker 3: a lot of good success stories out of the Mets

485
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 3: organization over the last couple of years, and Sandy could

486
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Speaker 3: be a prime candidate. I just wonder what the trade

487
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:01,280
Speaker 3: would look like, because I don't know how much value

488
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:03,439
Speaker 3: Sandy has at this point given what he's done. But

489
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,480
Speaker 3: he has a pretty team friendly contract for the next

490
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 3: couple of years.

491
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,640
Speaker 1: So hes like I wonder if the ptrational years or something.

492
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 2: Like that he's got.

493
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,359
Speaker 3: He's signed through twenty six with a club option for

494
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 3: twenty seven at eleven million, so that's like super team

495
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,440
Speaker 3: friendly if they can, if they can fix him, what

496
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:20,360
Speaker 3: it would it cost the Mets one of their top

497
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:21,400
Speaker 3: pitching prospects, You.

498
00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:25,400
Speaker 1: Think, uh no, I don't. I think that's the problem

499
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,400
Speaker 1: is you're not getting a top now. See the Mets

500
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,639
Speaker 1: will have quite a few guys, but you're not gonna

501
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,880
Speaker 1: get Tong, You're not gonna get Spraught. Maybe you could

502
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 1: get Tidwell, but I think you're looking at a trade

503
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 1: that's probably closer to like two mid tierish prospects. You know,

504
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 1: maybe it's a Tidwell and then maybe it's I don't know,

505
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 1: maybe you know, maybe you can pull off Ronnie Mauricio, like,

506
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: where the hell are they ever going to play him?

507
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:51,240
Speaker 1: I'm not one hundred percent sure what it looks like.

508
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 1: And the reason I'm not is because I don't, like

509
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 1: you said, I don't understand Sandy's value right now, controllable,

510
00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,880
Speaker 1: but he stinks and then he was amazing and then

511
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:04,159
Speaker 1: fell apart again. Like I he threw everything in the

512
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 1: zone in that diamondback start. It's crazy slider you want

513
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,440
Speaker 1: to throw sliders also not in the zone. By the way,

514
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 1: everything was in the zone. Every slider was in the zone.

515
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,160
Speaker 1: And guess what, every sinker was high up in the zone.

516
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 1: So it's like in the low just look for us,

517
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 1: you know, look for offspeed low, look for anything fast high.

518
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 1: Even if you don't understand the break and stuff like that.

519
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,919
Speaker 1: If you don't throw, if you throw everything in zone

520
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 1: and then your your fastballs are all up and your

521
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:37,360
Speaker 1: breaking stuff is all low, kind of an easier thing

522
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 1: for hitters to adjust to, even if like they're you know,

523
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 1: do you have a great this and that. It's just like, okay,

524
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 1: we know what the top and the low of the

525
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Speaker 1: zone looks like, and you go from there. So that's

526
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Speaker 1: why I'm saying like, I don't understand. I don't understand Sandy.

527
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 1: I don't know what his trade value looks like in fantasy.

528
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can even trust him anymore.

529
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 1: I don't know what team would trade for him, and

530
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,719
Speaker 1: I don't know what it costs. In the Marlins, they

531
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Speaker 1: may end up just going, you know what, but screw this.

532
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 1: You know he's so bad right now, we still have

533
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,639
Speaker 1: years of control. We're much better doing this in the

534
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: off season if he can write some stuff the rest

535
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:11,400
Speaker 1: of the way, and that's where we might be heading

536
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 1: unless the team is aggressive. So I don't know, dude,

537
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 1: I do not know.

538
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 3: I agree.

539
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 1: Let's let's look at some questions. Some of the people

540
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 1: in the chat dropped us some questions. The Big Dance said,

541
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 1: I saw Jikib Mizerowski on the trade video. Is Valdez

542
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,119
Speaker 1: a fair trade target or do I need to aim lower?

543
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: Maybe Schwellenbach. This is a keeper least by the way,

544
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 1: that's not lower. By the way, Schwellenbach is not looking lower,

545
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,880
Speaker 1: but this is a ten team roto keeper that changes

546
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,159
Speaker 1: the value of Misowski. Do you think Valdez. I know

547
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:44,600
Speaker 1: you're not the biggest keeper guy, but do you think

548
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 1: Valdez or Schwellenbach too hire too low for a guy

549
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: like Miz.

550
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,120
Speaker 3: I mean, if you can get either one, I would

551
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 3: absolutely do it. And this is why I put him

552
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 3: in the trade video that I did, is because people

553
00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,359
Speaker 3: are already talking about him as a top fifth or

554
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 3: top twenty starting pitcher. So if somebody is willing to

555
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,919
Speaker 3: give you Schwellenbach or Framber, you should absolutely do that.

556
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 1: I prefer no human being is giving you Schwellenbach. That is,

557
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 1: if you can get Schwellenbach, you do it. No one's

558
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 1: doing that. Valdez is a little bit different, maybe with age,

559
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,439
Speaker 1: I think you yeah, I don't know. That's a tough one,

560
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 1: Like it might have to be like you get Miserowski

561
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,159
Speaker 1: in a pick and you trade Valdez and maybe like

562
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 1: you know, another win now piece. Like to me, that's

563
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:37,160
Speaker 1: a matchup of like a not winning this year team

564
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: is trading for Miz and a pick and they're trading

565
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 1: away Valdez. Like I see that, Schwellenbach is arguably still

566
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 1: a top like two or I'm sorry, top like six

567
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 1: to ten starter in keeper leagues, somewhere in that range.

568
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 1: And the Big Dance says he offered mis and Peralta

569
00:26:55,520 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 1: for Schwellenbach, Freddy Peralta and Miserowski for Schwellenbach. You might

570
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: actually like you might want to get something back on

571
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 1: that now too.

572
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot.

573
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:11,199
Speaker 3: I mean, my selling of Miserowski is more redraft based.

574
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 3: If we're talking dynasty carlt is really really solid too.

575
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 3: I think I think I agree with well, so you

576
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 3: could probably get a second piece back there if it's

577
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 3: just one for one, though, would you trade Miserowski for

578
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 3: Framber if that was the only deal? Would you do

579
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 3: it one for one.

580
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: If I'm like a losing team. I don't know if

581
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 1: I do. I know that sounds crazy. It's just like

582
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 1: Miserrowski is one of those guys that it was like

583
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,360
Speaker 1: he has the potential to be number one overall pitching prospect.

584
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: Then he walked everybody in the world. And he's so

585
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: much younger, you know. I mean, I think he's got

586
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 1: he's in he what twenty two to twenty three, He's

587
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,479
Speaker 1: got seven or eight years on Valdez. But Framber's having

588
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: an insane season two two seven to two era. He's

589
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 1: already up over one hundred innings, He's got nine wins,

590
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 1: on the year. Like you, I like to work in

591
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: three year windows, so you probably have three incredible years

592
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 1: in front of him. It's just Miss has got you know,

593
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 1: the best years are still in front and his stuff

594
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: it looks so frickin' unhittable. His juice is so high.

595
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: Maybe that does make sense. But I think if you're

596
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 1: trading away Mis for Peralta or I'm sorry, Miz for Valdez,

597
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: where you have to do is you've got to find

598
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: a way that you're getting another future asset and if

599
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: you have to get so that's the way. That's the

600
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: dance where I don't like it straight up, but it

601
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 1: makes lots of sense. Now, if I'm trading miss and

602
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:33,639
Speaker 1: I'm getting Valdez, let me get a pickback, and then

603
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,120
Speaker 1: maybe I got to give you, you know, some other

604
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: workable piece that helps you, like a closer that I

605
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: don't care about, you know right now, where you know

606
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 1: rold As Chapman gives you saves. It's that type of dynasty.

607
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: Is such a weird dance you have to do with

608
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: trades in a vacuum. Yeah, maybe Mis for Valdez kind

609
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 1: of makes sense for the winning team versus the rebuilding team.

610
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: But Misowski has the potential to be like Valdez's value

611
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: next season and then do it for ten more years.

612
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: That's the problem trading him.

613
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 3: Like where does Mesrowski slot into your Dynasty rankings? Is

614
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 3: he a top fifty in top twenty, top thirty, Like

615
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 3: how high are you on him?

616
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: So I don't I don't positionally break down. I have

617
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: it in the rank, but I don't like I don't

618
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: have like the Dynasty pictures and I don't like physically

619
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: look at them. What I can tell you, let me

620
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: look at Miss and that may be something I need

621
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: to add to that. It's just a formatting sheet thing.

622
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: I have Miss inside my top eighty overall players, So

623
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: you know pictures, I mean, I can do like a

624
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: rough look here, like I want two, three, four, five, six.

625
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: I'm just doing this real quick, seven eight nine. I

626
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: have ten pictures inside my top fifty. So that and

627
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: I'm just doing a little glancy glance probably roughly makes

628
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 1: him SP eight twenty to eighteen. Let's call it just

629
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: just I'm roughly just throwing out numbers in there, and

630
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: I have it. I just did a new update on

631
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 1: my patroon, by the way, and in this thing dot com.

632
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: But there are some questions in there as well, like

633
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 1: I really still love McClanahan, but if he if he

634
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 1: like reinjures himself, he would come off that list. So

635
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 1: he's somewhere in that general range of twenty to fifteen.

636
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: I think sp dynasty already, but Framber because I value

637
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 1: in three year windows. He's near there, but I have

638
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: him below Miz in my dynasty ranks. So like that's

639
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: where I'm giving you this weird advice where I'm like,

640
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: I would you know, I kind of would want more,

641
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: you know, like if you're winning now, I have Mis

642
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: hiring dynasty, but his value for a win now is

643
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: more important. So it's I'd go on and on about

644
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: the quirks of dynasty and stuff like that. But you know,

645
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 1: he's almost thirty two years old. You know, I've got

646
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: Mis higher than Peralta, I've got miss higher than Valdez,

647
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: but I have Schwellenbach over Miserowski in my dynasty. Yeah

648
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 1: makes sense, Okay, a good dynasty. It's fun talking dynasty.

649
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: Da da da dinner says, hey, boys, are we dropping

650
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: Westburg at all? I have him in like three points

651
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: leagues and his injuries have been brutal. Would you drop

652
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: for someone like Otto, Lopez, Stott or McKinstry. What do

653
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: you think?

654
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 3: I don't really have a huge problem with it. I

655
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 3: think like, based on my rankings, I probably wouldn't do it.

656
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 3: But I just have a hard time thinking we're gonna

657
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 3: get a ton out of Westburg, kind out of the

658
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 3: Orioles really in general, just based on what we've seen

659
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 3: this year. They've been a little bit better as of late.

660
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 3: But he's he's such a wild card, Like he's out

661
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 3: again today, he's not on the lineup.

662
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 2: It's a finger.

663
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to be a situation that

664
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 3: keeps him out a long time necessarily, But when he's

665
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 3: been out there this year, he's been eying nothing exceptional.

666
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind streaming in that spot. Otto Lopez just

667
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 3: had an incredible week and Zach McKinstry has been low

668
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 3: key kind of great for a while, So I really

669
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 3: don't mind using as a streaming spot. There's a chance

670
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 3: that could come back to bite you in the end, though, Yeah,

671
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 3: I think.

672
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: In smaller leagues you can just not worry about it

673
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: and do it leagues. He didn't say he didn't say

674
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 1: what type of format. It's a little bit more of

675
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: a question. But then throwing points and it's like, now

676
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: he's leaving a little bit less valuable. His strikeouts are

677
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: up this year, his walks are okay, it's a little

678
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: bit up year over year. The injuries are a really

679
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: big problem. He's just he's just weird right now. Like

680
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: I think he's underperforming to a level that you know

681
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: he's going to be better. But his XBA has dropped

682
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:29,719
Speaker 1: down to two fifty the mounting injuries. He's whiffing a

683
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: lot this year. The k percentage is bad. Like, based

684
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: on those guys, I'm gonna guess this is at least

685
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: a twelve team league. Otto Lopez is really hot right now, Stott.

686
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: I think you could kind of like run in and out.

687
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: I think you could stream if those are the guys

688
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: that are out there. I don't think it's the worst

689
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: thing in the world. Everything being fair, I want Westburg

690
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: rest of season over all those guys. But if there's

691
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: a constant churning, like I don't think anyone's going to

692
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: jump to pick up Westburg right now, So why don't

693
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: you pick up Otto Lopez for the next week? See

694
00:32:58,120 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 1: if he gets, you know, get some of that run

695
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: that he he just had. Unfortunate, he's not going to

696
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: get the Diamondbacks every day, and then see if you

697
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: can pick Westburg back up if he shows he's healthy

698
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: and he starts hitting a tiny bit. If not, Stock

699
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: might be a decent replacement. So the Big Dance just

700
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: lost Jeremy Pania and I'm afraid he's going to be

701
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: out for the season. With the way the Astros handle

702
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: injuries lately, I'm actually pretty optimistic. They said it's a

703
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: small fracture, and with the All Star break coming up,

704
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: I think that's going to give him. They didn't say

705
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,719
Speaker 1: the timeline because they're super mysterious and don't say anything.

706
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: Assuming this isn't the same fracture that Corbyn Carroll had.

707
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: If it's a small fracture, maybe it's two weeks. He

708
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,479
Speaker 1: gets a little time to heal. I think he's back

709
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: by August first. I feel very confident saying he's backed

710
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 1: by August first. What do you think?

711
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 2: I don't feel any confidence saying anything about this.

712
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: Situations or the injury because.

713
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 3: Of the Astros, because three days ago they said Jeremy

714
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 3: Panney is sore according to Joe a spot of the manager,

715
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 3: but he does not have any fractures. This is what

716
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 3: they said three days ago. He does not have any fractures,

717
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 3: and today he has a fracture in his ribs. So there,

718
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 3: They've become a complete clown show in terms of injuries.

719
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 3: Last year with Tucker, this year with Jordan Alvarez, Like

720
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 3: remember a month ago and they said he's now day

721
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 3: to day.

722
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 2: I'm like, they just they are a mess.

723
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 3: So I have Jeremy Paany on a few teams I

724
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 3: have been my home league, which sucks because that team

725
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 3: is taking hits left, right and center. Carol Bregman, like

726
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,919
Speaker 3: everybody's going down on that team. I hope he's back soon,

727
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,399
Speaker 3: but with the Astros, Honest to god, if he missed

728
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 3: the rest of the season, I wouldn't be sitting here

729
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 3: in September shocked by it.

730
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 1: I think a lot of this to me is like

731
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: I'm going to take the risk, and if I could

732
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: go acquire him, I think I would. I know it's

733
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: super sketchy and scary and they could be lying and

734
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: Alvarez has missed like everything. I kind of think that's

735
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:44,919
Speaker 1: also why they had to make this public statement because

736
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: of criticism, and I actually did this whole thing on

737
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: ITL just about like, I just think baseball needs to

738
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 1: figure out a lot of sports. Do they need to

739
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 1: figure out about how to kill the the ambiguousness of

740
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: injuries and stop these teams from being able to to

741
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: lie and hold all this stuff back. And maybe they

742
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 1: need to put like, you know, league personnel in with

743
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: these doctors and MRIs and stuff. But whatever, that's another thing.

744
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 1: I think this might be kind of the result of

745
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: some of their caginess. And I think it's a small fracture.

746
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: I think you can get back in a month. You're

747
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: taking on risk if you own him. I'm holding. I

748
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: think you're holding and you're bracing. I'm I'm a little

749
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: bit more optimistic than Arico is, but I guess I

750
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: get it. Brick says, think I'm dropping, Think I'm dropping

751
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 1: Christian Walker to activate shape Bengaliers. I'm fine with that.

752
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 2: Sure.

753
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,919
Speaker 3: The other catch is but Walker's been brutal. I don't

754
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:39,959
Speaker 3: have any problem with it either.

755
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I'll just in a vacuum seit. I

756
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: just I'm fine. I'm fine with doing that unless you

757
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: had some super garbage player on the other bench that

758
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: you're deciding not to. But like Christian Walker stinks, it's

759
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,240
Speaker 1: a big l He just stinks.

760
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 2: Hugel for me this year.

761
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: Just dude, you and me, You and me both, Jay Salty,

762
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: Happy Monday, Joan Welsh. I mean it's team had to

763
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,399
Speaker 1: head categories. League had Henderson and Seger, but just sent

764
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: Seager for Will Smith. What are your thoughts, he said,

765
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,479
Speaker 1: is my only catcher was Goodman and he's been dealing

766
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: with a hammy, so that secures that position and still

767
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: can use a Goodman in the outfield or when Smith

768
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,240
Speaker 1: is sitting. So what do you think about trading Seeger

769
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 1: for Will Smith based on his catching position, because in

770
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: a quick vacuum, I don't like it. I like buying

771
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 1: in on Seeger for the rest of the season. But

772
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: there definitely seemed to be a positional need and he

773
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: had nobody. It looks like when Goodman was missing time.

774
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: But what do you think?

775
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I ideally I would have wanted to get a

776
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 3: little bit more, especially considering the week that Seger just had.

777
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 3: But Will Smith has been great this year too. He's

778
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 3: in an amazing lineup. Corey Seeger is in a terrible

779
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,839
Speaker 3: lineup and considering the positional needs, I don't think it's bad.

780
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 3: I think he probably could have done a little bit better.

781
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,720
Speaker 3: But I'm not sitting here saying it's terrible or anything.

782
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:54,280
Speaker 2: Agreed.

783
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: I think it's fine. You got a chalk catcher who's

784
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: going to secure the position. And I also think he

785
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: could have got a little bit more for Seeger, and

786
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 1: I think Segar is going to kind of lock in,

787
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: but you know, he's got a lot of injury problems

788
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: and stuff. I think it's okay, and I think that

789
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: is it. We had our other one and then oh,

790
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 1: Jay Brick was also saying he has Wilson contrarist who

791
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: can put it first, So when he drops Christian Walker,

792
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: he can put Contraras at first, and then Langoliers can

793
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: be his catcher.

794
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, chill some of the value with Wilson putting him

795
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 3: at first, But it works.

796
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 1: It's fine, it's fine. I mean the question becomes Christian

797
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 1: Walker or Langoliers rest of season.

798
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 3: And yeah, then it's Langler's Yeah.

799
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: And it's fine. Big dance. Last one. Would you trade

800
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: Schwarber for kateel Marte?

801
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 3: Yes?

802
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: I would, Yeah, Yeah, I think it's a good even trade.

803
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: You're not even needing a lot of context here, Like

804
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: it's fine, totally good, and you get that second base

805
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 1: locked up. I'm down with it. Also, friends, if you

806
00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:00,120
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