WEBVTT - Cleaning Up: Big Second Half Rankings Movers (Ep. 1073) 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:07.960 What's up, friends, and welcome in too, Fantasy Pros MLB. 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.160 This is cleaning Up. I am Chris Welsh, joined by 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.760 Joe Rico, where we are live on our Fantasy Pros discord, 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.959 talking with the amazing people and talking with you on 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.960 the podcast. Love to have you guys here. Thank you 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.480 guys for joining us. As we it's kind of an 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:28.160 open forum show. As we get some of these people 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.680 in dropping questions, we will be either bringing them on 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.199 or going through We've got some topics that we can 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.080 hit as well, my friends. So mister Joe Rico, thank 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:38.680 you so much for filling in for me. You had 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.199 a couple had a couple of days on the on 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.479 the Big show. You're up in the majors there, mister 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:44.960 Joe Rico, up on leading off. 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:46.200 Yeah. 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.360 I've been shuffled back and forth from TRIPAA to the 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.239 Majors and back a couple of times this year. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:52.520 But it's good, you know. It gives me a little 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:53.680 bit of practice for. 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.279 Later in the year when Joey p and later on 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.440 you will go to football and get the audience familiarized 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:00.960 with me. I did a lot of stuff in the 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.680 off season, but for just leading off listeners to try 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:05.160 and reintroduce myself. 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.880 So it does work out. But good to have you back, man. 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.880 I was going to say, like the Edward oliveris, but 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:14.839 you know your production is much better than that Edward 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.399 oliveris just from the do you remember that year where 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:21.880 he had it felt like four good jillion just send 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.399 ups and downs all season long. But your production is 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.199 quite above the oli Varius level. 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.080 My friend, Well, thank you. I appreciate that. I very 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:31.920 much appreciate that. 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.440 You are very very very welcome. But glad to have 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.560 people in here, Glad to have people hanging with us, 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.480 and always funny in this as well, because people are 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.880 remembering baseball show. I think we had some football people 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.720 that jumped in here as football season is closely coming in. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:48.840 As you said, we've got, you know, piece of Pia 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.080 that is going to be making that move over. I'll 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.560 be making a version of that but a little bit later. 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:57.360 But all your offerings here, but we do not leave 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.320 you without some baseball before we get to it, getting 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.800 some of our our boys and girls in here, dropping 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:07.640 some questions, filling that up ranks. We are a day 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:11.400 away from the first of the next month, July, halfway 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.480 point of the season, all Star games coming around. We 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.520 all kind of do ranks a little bit differently. Some 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:20.560 people might go in like monthly pushes. I over on 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.680 Fantasy Pros, me Mike Mayer think Kelly Kirby does it, 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.920 and I think we're kind of the big core. We 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:31.200 will continuously do pretty much weekly rest of season ranks 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.960 where you're trying to find this dance between the guy's 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:38.480 current value obviously where they're at, you know, for the season, 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.320 but balancing in like injuries. That's always a really tough one, 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.400 you know, and like a guy like Catcher is a 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.920 perfect market for it, where you know you're looking at 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:50.960 values and you're going, okay, right now, duh. You know, 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:55.440 Drake Baldwin is producing and Ivan Herrera is not. But 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.200 finding the rank with a guy like Ivan Herrera who's 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.320 on the IL versus what the rest of season production 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.360 is versus guys that are producing, now, that's the dance 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.320 that ends up happening with ranks. So I've got my 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.560 rest of season ranks and you might do yours, just 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.160 kind of like a little bit different. But what I'm 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:13.960 curious about here, to start at the show off, Joe, 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.680 is do you have a guy or too that jumps 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.200 out that from the last time you had touched your 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.560 ranks to today or yesterday whenever you just finished them, 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.480 that made big, massive, significant jumps for you. For whatever reason, 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.919 it is sometimes I just kind of like, especially doing 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.000 rest of season, you just don't put a hyper focus 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.359 on somebody. I've got a guy or too, but who's 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.280 a player too that really got like a big boost 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:37.520 for you and your rank update. 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.400 So there are a couple that jump out, particularly in 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.800 third base. There was a lot of movement because third 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.880 base has been a bit of a dumpster fire, but 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.800 we have had some decent performances come out of the 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.680 woodwork as well. So there's a couple of guys. I'm 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.760 going to be called a homer and that's okay. But 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.520 I've moved Addison Barger up to a top ten third 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.600 base spot. He's at number ten, and I've also moved 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:02.040 up Ernie Clement V who is at number fifteen for 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.240 me right now. They have been so good for the 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.520 last month plus Ernie Clement really for a couple months now, 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.640 and the Blue Jays offense as a whole just finished 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.400 off the month of June where they were one of 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.640 the better teams in baseball, specifically on the offensive. 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:17.799 Side, starting with Barger. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.480 When I look at what he's done, you know, especially 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.120 the improvements from last year to this season. The strikeout 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.839 rate being at twenty four percent is really solid. He 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:27.800 gets on base at a three to twenty clip, which 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.839 isn't crazy, but the power nine home runs in fifty 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:31.520 nine games, and. 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:32.679 It's backed up by the data. 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.080 Thirteen and a half percent barrel, fifty three percent hard hit. 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.800 The max ev at one sixteen is nice. The launch 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.000 angle is really good, and the play discipline metrics are 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.560 all really strong with him as well. He's cut down 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.000 in his chase rate. The end zone contact at eighty 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:49.160 seven percent is really good. Swinging strike rate, he's made 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.120 improvements there as well. He's only at eleven percent. I 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.559 think across the board, Adison Barger has arrived, especially being 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.120 somebody who is consistently in the top three or four 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.920 of that Blue Jays lineup. There's a lot accounting stats 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:02.040 that are going to come from him, and I think 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.520 the power is really legit. So I put him at ten. 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:05.800 Okay, I didn't get any question. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:06.359 Let's stop there. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.520 Yeah, let's stop there for one second, because what I 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:12.560 want to do, I'm looking at Fantasy Pro's ranks, and 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.919 we'll take Vlad off of it because Lad technically qualifies 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:21.800 there based on like the most open world of position eligibility. 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.159 If I take Vlad off and I'm trying to see 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.240 who someone else could I take it, I don't think 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.520 I could take anybody else off weird position wise, I 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:35.400 would have Barger at let's say best fourteen, because I 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.320 think I got him at fifteen or no, I'm sorry fifteen. 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:42.320 Who is right below Barger for you that you pushed 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:43.839 him above rest of season? 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.359 Have him above Jordan Westberg. I have him above Alec 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.760 Bohm and Mark Fientos. Those are the guys who are 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:56.160 directly below him. Also Nolan ernadoum. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:59.159 Okay, then okay, So here are guys that I have 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:06.760 above Jaziramirez Manny Machado, Jazz Devers, Cam and Arrow, Riley 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.840 Bregman Chapman. Those are not a question right. 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.400 So I didn't have Bregman in because I didn't rank 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.760 injured players. I should have probably specified that I don't 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.120 have guys who are if there's somebody who is coming 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:19.880 back this week, then I put them in, but guys 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:21.839 who we don't have a clear timeline on. I don't 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.359 have Bregman there, but if Bregman was healthy, absolutely, like 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.840 do you have chat I just don't know. Uh no, again, 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.080 because it's the injured thing. I didn't I didn't have 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:34.080 Chapman on there. Chapman would be Chapman and Barger is 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.840 kind of interesting. I think they'd be pretty close. I 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:39.760 don't know. I wouldn't feel strongly going one or the 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.440 other there. I think it's probably Barger, but I think 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.559 it's I think it's a reasonable conversation to have between 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:44.920 those two. 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.919 Okay, so here are then these players are not injured. 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:55.919 Johanniel Suarez, Preetis, MIKEL. Garcia, Cam Smith, Brendan Donovan. Qualifies 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.000 Barger over every single one of them for. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:04.360 You, So I wouldn't have him over a Uhannio Suarez, 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:06.080 can you say those again one more time? 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:10.400 Suarez, Paradis, MIKEL Garcia, Cam Smith, Brendan Donovan. 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:15.120 I have Parades at seven, MIKEL Garcia at eight, cam 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.080 Smith is at fifteen, but I could probably put cam 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:19.480 Smith up a couple more spots. 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.600 Okay, So I just want to do the math to 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.040 figure out, like I think it's a general vicinity, like 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.680 I do rank Bregman and Chapman. I've got Paradis, I 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.080 got Garcia above, I got cam Smith above. I think 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.520 it's close. I think he's in that range. We're not 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.600 too far off. I want to throw this about Ernie Clement. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:36.800 Bogman and I were doing this really interesting thing joking 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.360 about how he's like a poor man's Luisa Rise. Did 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:43.720 you know Ernie Clement has the same amount of runs 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.880 as Luisa Rise, the same amount of homers, the same 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.920 amount of stolen bases, but he has a better batting 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:54.200 average and a better obp Ernie Clement versus Luisa Rise. 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.920 He is cvs Luisa Rise. Right now, Louise Rice does 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.200 have more RBIs, but he also has more bats. So 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.520 an interesting take, just to kind of go with you 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.920 a little bit on Ernie Clement. Any other guys you 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.560 want to throw out that got some rank jumps. I've 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.080 got some as well. I just want to give you 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:08.720 the floor if you do. 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.000 Ernie is just I'm not going to go on about him, 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.480 but he's been unbelievable this year. If you're just looking 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.560 at war, he is more winsbubperplacement than Matt Olson, Pete Alonzo, 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:20.920 Manny Machado like that, both sides of the ball. 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:22.600 He's been just so good. 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.080 I'm going to a couple of guys who have kind 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.520 of fallen down the rankings, and it's mostly on the 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.960 pitching side, Bailey ober Zach Gallen, Sandy al Contra. I 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.800 have Gallen and ober right at the bottom here. I 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.840 did a top seventy five update and Gallon at seventy 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.880 Ober at seventy five. They're both they're both coming out. 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.079 I can't do it anymore. And also I have Dustin 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.320 May at the end here as well, at number seventy two. 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.440 He has been just awful this year. So those guys 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:50.120 like I have them at the back end here. I'm 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.240 gonna still, you know, move around a couple of guys 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.040 over the next couple of days here, and especially heading 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:56.920 into the All Star break. I'll continue to tinker, but 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.400 I have lost essentially all faith with Gallin, El Contra, 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.720 May and over. It's it's ugly, man. 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:07.000 Yeah, some I moved Carroll down. Nothing crazy. I'm a worry. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.200 I'm just kind of worried in general about this injury, 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.680 the risk fracture that it's going to that more power. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.040 I just had him really high. I made sure, like 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.160 James Wood deservedly is higher, you know, can be higher 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.199 than rest of season. I'm going to bank on it. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.480 He took a little bit of a dip from me. 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.440 Andy Pajus has taken a huge rise over my last 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.920 couple updates Byron Buxton as well. I mean rest of season. 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.120 Would you rather have Byron Buckston or Michael Harris? 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:37.240 Oh it's Byron Buxton without questions, Yeah, yeah, I have. 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.920 Michael Harris is at fifty seven in my outfield rankings, 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.240 which maybe is too low, but is it I don't know. 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.920 Yeah, I've got him in the forties right now, so 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:49.040 I moved him down. It's interesting you mentioned like third 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:52.640 base positionally. Another guy that I took a big boost 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.480 for is brooks Lee. Brooks Lee has taken a big 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.240 jump up in my ranks to seventy seven eight homers, 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.760 a stolen base. You know, he's missed some time. He 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.880 seems to be really kind of locking in another Minnesota 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.800 Twins and Saddana Rafaela is the other one that was 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:09.760 the one that I was really thinking about that I 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.120 I had just had I didn't realize I had so low, 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.280 but he's just sneaking up on it. A double digit 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:20.000 homer stolen base first half, two fifty three, nine homers, 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:25.600 eleven stolen bases so far this year. As of recent 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.559 he's got three homers since June twentieth, which is pretty 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.880 nice little stolen base in there. He's got hits in 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.080 five of his last seven games, Like he's just kind 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.000 of locked in, and even though he's been more of 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.000 a defensive guy, he just deserved a little bit more respect. 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.079 I just had him super low, but in the same 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.000 vein of like if you're going to bank on the 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.480 McClain's or whatever, like I boosted him up. And one 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:54.559 other is Brandon Lao is having an absolutely ridiculous season, 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:58.080 qualifying it first and second. But you know, Brandon Lao 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.920 I had in the teams, but I moved him up 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.600 and I don't even know if it's justifiably high enough yet, 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.440 but I've got him right near the top five of 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.480 second basement rest of season. Obviously, what he's done think 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:13.600 Yahoo's player Raider has him is like the number one 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.240 second basement, but he is a legit shot to finish 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.280 as the like I would say top, I mean easily 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.720 inside the top three is within reach for him to 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:23.880 finish this season. So I'm a big believer. I don't 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:25.840 know any thoughts on any of those guys that I've 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:27.280 made some big rank jumps on. 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.960 So I'll start with Brandon Lao. I have him at eight. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.080 I moved him up as well. The only thing that 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.440 keeps me from moving him up even a couple spots 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.520 higher is just his history of not being able to 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:41.520 stay on the field and just to worry that eventually 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:42.680 that's going to come back to bite us. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.640 Yeah, his at bats are close to like what he 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.400 did last year. You're like, oh god, in the next 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.240 ninety at bats, this is where he gets hurt. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:49.680 Yeah. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.440 I did a trade short couple weeks ago now, and 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.520 just going over his career, he played one hundred and 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.880 forty nine games in twenty twenty one, and every other 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:00.760 season that's been forty three, eighty two, fifty six, sixty five, 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:04.240 one oh nine, one oh seven. So I just don't 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.120 have a ton of confidence that he's gonna be able 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.040 to stay on the field, just based on this track record. 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.000 If we were just removing injuries and turned off the 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:14.000 injury sliders, then he is, you know, top five pretty easily. 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:16.600 I just kind of bake in some of the injury 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.400 risk into those rankings and that's why he's a little 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.960 bit lower. But it's unimpeachable production. So far this season, 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.520 he's on pace to go thirty five, one hundred and 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.920 one hundred with a good batting average with Brandon Law, 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.920 and that's something that's not really been that consistent over 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:31.720 the years. The batting average is kind of bounced around 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.560 the last couple of years two forty, two, thirty two, 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.160 twenty one, but he's back up at two seventy five 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.320 and the Babbit is at three fifteen, So it's not 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.760 like it's a huge babboit running the show. He's just 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:44.360 been fantastic Sadain in Raphaela as well. Like I don't 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:46.880 I don't really know what to make of him in 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.480 the long run, necessarily because some of the offensive metrics 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.280 are still not great. Like even with his production this year, 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.520 he's in ninety five WRC plus the swinging strike rate 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:00.640 is still sixteen percent. He chases every thing, he'll swing 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.880 at literally anything, So there are still some concerns. But 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.240 if you're just looking at the fantasy production, he's pacing 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:08.719 out to do a little bit better than what he 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:10.920 did last year. He had fifteen and nineteen last year. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.280 He's probably gonna end up with, you know, maybe seventeen 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:18.160 homers and maybe twenty steel something like that. But where 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:22.520 he has made massive gains is in the hard hit data. Really, 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.440 the barrel rate's gone from seven percent to twelve, hard 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.960 hit from forty six, or from thirty six to forty six, 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.400 the max ev one oh eight to one twelve, and 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.720 on average the average eggit velocity I think is more 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.560 important than the max. He's gone from eighty six to ninety. 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:37.679 So there is a lot to really like here. And 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.840 he's also underperforming his expected batting average, he's expected slugging 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.480 in his expected wOBA A lineup. Sucks, but he's gonna play. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.160 He's definitely gonna play. And I think that he is 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.120 somebody that probably should be a little bit higher in 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:50.840 my own rankings. I'm just looking where I put him, 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.800 and I had him as my number fifty two outfielder. 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:55.800 Just looking at that, it might be I might be 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:56.920 selling him short a little bit. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.760 Yeah, And he'll also qualify at second in some spots, 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.040 So yeah, you know something, the position eligibility kind of 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.840 opens it all up. And when you pair it against 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:10.520 injuries and stuff like that, Like you know, Anthony Santander 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.000 is like an impossible one. You know, he's just been 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.319 out forever. We don't know what's going on. He was bad, 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.000 but you know what the power is. But it's like 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.080 he just can't bake on Joe Adele. I think Joe Adell, 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.320 like in the profile of what he's done this month, 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:25.800 it is staring us right in the face. But it's 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.520 like how much longer? It's an interesting game to play. 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.440 You guys want to check out the ranks, you can 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:32.840 do it over at fantasypros dot com. 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I see some of the 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.760 awesome people, and I see Van Rod who's in the 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.880 community as well in Leading Off. And we got our 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.440 boy mctunda, who's got the hand raise. So let's bring 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.920 on mctonda's becoming a regular on here. Let's bring up mctunda. 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.560 What's up, dude, Hey, how's it going? 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:49.880 Guys? 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:50.880 Doing good? Man? 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.440 Hold on man, I got a couple questions there for you. 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.480 First, one rest of the season. Do you like Kyle 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:58.800 Teel or Sean Murphy. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:06.920 Ooh, so I like the production of Kyle Teal right now. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:11.720 But there's a couple of caveats to this. The Braves 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.480 look like they're trying to move Sean Murphy. They want 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.480 to get out from under him. He hasn't been great, 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.320 He's only hitting like two twenty, but he's got a 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.600 lot of home run power. I just wonder if he 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.000 goes to his because Drake Baldwin's knocking on the door, 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.000 and I wonder if Sean Murphy leaves and he goes 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.000 to a spot where maybe he gets more playing time 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.760 a team that needs a catcher, and that benefits him, 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:35.040 that benefits Drake Baldwin. Where Kyle Teal. My only problem 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.920 with him is they've also got like Edgar Carrow there, 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.280 so they've got two catchers and you're not seeing Teal 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:46.000 play in the outfield. So all of that said, I 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:51.400 think I'm gonna side on potentially Sean Murphy because I 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.040 think he's just gonna get that continued, continued play time. 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.200 But I think Teal is right there. And the winner 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:57.440 of all of it, by the way, is as Sean 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:02.520 Murphy goes, it's all about Drake Baldwin. What do you think, Rico, Yeah. 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.240 I don't know. I'm not a big Sean Murphy guy. 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:08.480 I have to heel ranked higher. I understand the appeal, 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:10.679 Like the power is still good when he's able to 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.640 make contact, but he's also a thirty percent strikeout rate 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.240 guy to twenty six batting average. He was at one 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.320 ninety three last year. I just see Teal. It feels 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.720 weird to say the White Sox asset feels safer, but 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.200 he just does feel a lot safer considering how often 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.440 he gets on base. He hasn't hit a home run yet, 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.320 but he's barreling the ball up twelve percent of the 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.440 time with a forty four percent hard hit expected patting 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.840 averages too eighty six, expected slugging is five eleven. Like 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.439 the better days are ahead for him in terms of 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.720 the actual production. He's hitting three nineteen, but you know 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:41.800 we're only looking at six runs and four rippies. There 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.760 are better days ahead, especially in OBP. I would take Teal, 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:46.920 But even if we're just talking standard five by five, 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:49.320 I think I would still go with Teal here. 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:51.400 Yeah, and I think Teal is actually more thing about 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.720 the better answer, because like, if you want it now, 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.400 you want Teal. Both of these guys are inversions of platoons, 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.600 but Teal is the one that's producing. And if Murphy 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:02.800 a lot of the stuff I laid out was like 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.160 speculative stuff with Sean Murphy. So yeah, I think Till 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.320 is the answer. What else? What else did you have? Mctanda? 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:11.600 The other question I had for if you had a 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:16.679 dream scenario like one player going to a contender or 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.520 somebody being sold to the right team for the right 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.040 scenario for fantasy. 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:22.960 Who would it be, Like do you mean that in 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.040 a person that is viably to be traded or like 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:28.439 any in the world viably? 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.160 Yeah, definitely viably, because I mean we would all would 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:31.840 let you know. 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.400 Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're like, oh yeah, we just start 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:38.600 dreaming about random players. Okay, So here you're you got 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:41.400 to think of the like logical candidates. I think Jared 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:47.000 Durand belongs in this conversation. Rico al contra Mitch Keller 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:49.720 trying to think of other guys that are in trade rumors. 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.160 I mean, Chris Sale has been photoed, but the Braves 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.520 are winning again, So I'm just throwing out a couple, 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.600 you take it wherever you want. Dream scenario of guy 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.800