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Speaker 3: my friend.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we get some good short hitting stuff here in

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Speaker 1: Are live for a full hour, just straight answering questions,

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Speaker 1: help dictate the show. But I got a couple offerings.

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Speaker 1: We are going to start this show off with Joe Rico,

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Speaker 1: and the first one is a little prospectee type of thing.

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Speaker 1: We got a couple little prospect he ones. But you'll

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Speaker 1: be able to handle this fine, because Matt Shaw being

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Speaker 1: called back up to the majors, And I think this

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Speaker 1: is putting a big question into Moisist Ballisterio's value moving

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Speaker 1: a Maya, because Bush is the first baseman. Shaw's gonna

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Speaker 1: come back and play third, presumably, and that puts a

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Speaker 1: question into Ballisteros. So Ballisteros isn't really even kind of

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Speaker 1: the question here. But my curiousness first is what is

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Speaker 1: your valuation on Matt Shaw? Is he a must add player?

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Speaker 1: After his struggles, he went back to the miners, got

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Speaker 1: back pretty good. Is he a must add in fantasy formats?

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Speaker 3: I think in the majority of leagues I would take

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Speaker 3: I'd say he's a top ten third baseman. But in

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Speaker 3: the minors, twenty four games, six homers, five steals, he's

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Speaker 3: he's done some really good stuff, and that lineup is

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Speaker 4: I'd like him. I think in twelve teamers and deeper,

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Speaker 1: I think I agree with you on that the must

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Speaker 1: like there's a lot of offensive upside, especially if he

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Speaker 1: So let me ask you this, though we both agree,

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Speaker 1: Matt Shaw or Nick Kurtz, who would you want rest

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Speaker 1: I think I'm a I think I'm a Kurtz guy

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Speaker 1: Question number two is Corbyn Burns back. This is a

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Speaker 3: And I think Burns is one of those guys who

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Speaker 3: Somebody that it just hard to be that that worried about.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to redo my starting pitcher rankings, but

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Speaker 3: It wouldn't excite me, but I think it would really

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Speaker 3: we shouldn't sound the alarm fully because it's the Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: Like the prime spot. That's what I'm talking about. Like,

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Speaker 1: It's like, is that the opportunity to go and jump?

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Speaker 1: I think it is. I kind of think it is.

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Speaker 1: The Diamondbacks need him. He's going to press Filo kind

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Speaker 1: then it's just kind of come back down. Pat Murphy

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Speaker 1: puttinghim at six and stuff.

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Speaker 4: It's it's a.

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Speaker 1: Little concerning and he I mean, he's the essentially one

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Speaker 1: of the table setters of that offense. So another small

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Speaker 1: piece that you can put in the pie of similar

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Speaker 1: players of like looking at offenses and between that through

444
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Speaker 1: that trade Terrang is or those players trang is barn

445
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Speaker 1: On the worst offense across the board. About about the

446
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Speaker 1: big dances. Drop Ben Rice for Ronda Berger or hole.

447
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Speaker 1: This is a ten team standard, Rodo.

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Speaker 3: I don't mind moving on from Rice. It's been it's

449
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Speaker 3: been pretty bad for a while now. The thing with Randa,

450
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Speaker 3: as much as I like him as a hitter, he

451
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Speaker 3: doesn't provide a.

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Speaker 4: Lot of fantasy juice.

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Speaker 3: He has no stolen bases, nineteen runs, twenty one ribies.

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Speaker 3: Even though he's hitting three twelve. The batting average has

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Speaker 3: been there. He just doesn't provide a lot in the

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Speaker 3: other categories. I'm kind of surprising myself with this one,

457
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Speaker 3: but I think I would probably make the swat for

458
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Speaker 3: Jake Berger. He's hit safely in every game since he's

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Speaker 3: been back up to the Bigs. He hit a homer

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Speaker 3: off of Hunter Brown the other night. Who's maybe been

461
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Speaker 3: the best pitcher in baseball at this point of the season.

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Speaker 3: I think it is Burger, and you also get multi

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Speaker 3: eligibility with him. I think he's the call here for me.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, I hate this one because, like iron is ridiculous,

465
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Speaker 1: But there's some splits. You know they're gonna platoon Ben

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Speaker 1: Rice's profile. I love Burger. I am you know I'm

467
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Speaker 1: gonna go with my gut and say that I'm keeping

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Speaker 1: Ben Rice here. But I was a huge Jake Berger guy,

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Speaker 1: and I have been a huge buy on Jake Berger

470
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Speaker 1: as he's bouncing back person. But I mean, let me

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Speaker 1: pull up here Burger at two eighteen four homers. Things

472
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Speaker 1: have definitely kind of kicked back. Let's see May he's

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Speaker 1: he has hitting up to three thirty three. I didn't

474
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Speaker 1: even realize that I'm gonna stick with Ben Rice though.

475
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Speaker 1: I think he's kind of going through his worst parts

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Speaker 1: of the year right now. His hitting profile is through

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Speaker 1: the freaking roof the Yankees offense. I really like they

478
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Speaker 1: already kind of gave up on Burger a little bit.

479
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Speaker 1: I would rank this God, these guys are all super close.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Reis Berger Ronda, even though Ronda has

481
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Speaker 1: been like one.

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Speaker 2: Of the best.

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Speaker 1: Like like you said before, offense, Weird doesn't steal bases.

484
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Speaker 1: He's kind of in a little platoony situation. But I

485
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Speaker 1: think these guys are all so especially in the ten

486
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Speaker 1: team league, I think you could cut all of them,

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Speaker 1: for any of them and just play the hot hand.

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Speaker 4: You agree, yeah. I mean, I mean you said you

489
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Speaker 4: are you guys.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: The waiver wire as so packed in a ten team

492
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Speaker 3: or the fact that those guys are even available is

493
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Speaker 3: kind of surprising.

494
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Speaker 4: But it's good though. You can you can swap in

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Speaker 4: the hot hand.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, that's a ten team.

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Speaker 2: Ten teams are crazy?

498
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Speaker 4: Man?

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Speaker 1: Are we still Augustin Ramirez over Langaliers.

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Speaker 4: Augusta's group?

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Speaker 3: I No, I would probably have to go Langaliers there.

502
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Speaker 3: I really really like Ramirez. Langaliers has been a top

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Speaker 3: five actually, he's ranked number six tech speaking. He's the

504
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Speaker 3: sixth catcher on the season. He's hitting for a better

505
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Speaker 3: average than we thought the powers there. He's even stolen

506
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Speaker 3: a couple bases. I love the ballpark. I think I'd

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Speaker 3: have to go Leangaliars. Even though I love Ramirez, I

508
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Speaker 3: couldn't take them over Langley.

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Speaker 1: I think I'm going to kind of agree with you

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Speaker 1: because we're also now like more than six weeks into

511
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Speaker 1: the year where dude's hitting two fifty. He has an

512
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Speaker 1: expected batting average of two to eighty. The underlying stuff

513
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Speaker 1: is great, and he has dramatically cut his strikeouts down.

514
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Speaker 1: And then you got that little baby ballpark. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's Langoliers. So Lango Lingoliars is the answer there.

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Speaker 2: I'm spraad.

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Speaker 1: I thought I would have said posted when I looked

518
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Speaker 1: at it.

519
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Speaker 2: What's fact he's.

520
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Speaker 4: Below fifteen percent strikeout rate. I hadn't realized that he'd cut.

521
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Speaker 3: It that much. That is incredible. That's incredible from what

522
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Speaker 3: it was he was above thirty.

523
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Speaker 1: To have a fifteen percent k percentage guy with ten barrel,

524
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Speaker 1: forty five hard hit and expected batting average thirty points

525
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Speaker 1: higher than where you're at. Give me a break, and

526
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Speaker 1: you're hitting in like a minor league ballpark. Well, by

527
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Speaker 1: the way, is an eighty five percent zone contact rate.

528
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Speaker 1: He makes better contact in the zone than Bryce terrang

529
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Speaker 1: Is this year, and.

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Speaker 3: The fact that his own contact rate was eighty two

531
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Speaker 3: up to eighty seven. He's chasing less, swinging strike went

532
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Speaker 3: from thirteen down to eight percent. I didn't realize how

533
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Speaker 3: dramatically he'd.

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Speaker 4: Improved this year. Neither amazing.

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Speaker 1: I know, it's crazy, all right. A couple quick ones.

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Speaker 1: Smith Shaver, is he what Schwellenbach was supposed to be?

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Speaker 4: I don't think so.

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Speaker 3: I've I added him in a few leagues, and I've

539
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Speaker 3: been very happy with the results, but he's stranding eighty

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Speaker 3: five percent of base runners. He's got a two thirty

541
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Speaker 3: three ERA, but he is outperforming all of the other

542
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Speaker 3: ERA estimators. My favorite is Sierra, and that's at three

543
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Speaker 3: ninety nine. You know, the barrel rate against is about

544
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Speaker 3: nine percent forty eight hard hit, ten percent walk rate.

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Speaker 3: I'm more inclined to believe this is a hot run

546
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Speaker 3: as opposed to he is the next braves.

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Speaker 4: Ace along the lines of Strider and Schwellenbach. I think

548
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Speaker 4: he's good, but I don't think he's this good same SE's.

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Speaker 1: I agree with your assessment for eight nine expected ERA,

550
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Speaker 1: giving up one sixteen max TV over ninety average ex

551
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Speaker 1: velocity already, so I'm in agreement here with to Oscar returning.

552
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Speaker 1: Would you drop Austin Hayes or Hove Baias.

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Speaker 4: I've been an Austin Hayes guy.

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Speaker 3: I did a video, a short video for the channel

555
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Speaker 3: last week trying to sell high on Havy Baias. I

556
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Speaker 3: just don't really buy into it. I'd hate to drop

557
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Speaker 3: him because I think you can maybe get something back

558
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Speaker 3: for him. But between the two options, I probably have

559
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Speaker 3: to drop Bias.

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Speaker 4: I think I'm on an island there though.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I might drop Austin Hayes. I mean

562
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Speaker 1: he's played, he's played, he's played well, you know, serviceable.

563
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Speaker 1: But you also have like Will Benson's kicking back up

564
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Speaker 1: where he's hot. You know, guys are getting returning from injury.

565
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Speaker 1: He might have some platoony type of things. Bias is

566
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Speaker 1: going right now. I'm gonna go with the hot hand

567
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Speaker 1: on both of those options. And then lastly, Buez he

568
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Speaker 1: said that he's at a rico. I'll be in Toronto

569
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Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks for from Saint Louis. Just

570
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Speaker 1: wanted to give a shout out hitting up a Blue

571
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Speaker 1: Jays game in Canada's Wonderland.

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Speaker 3: Any advice, Oh man, you're gonna be in my neck

573
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Speaker 3: of the woods. Well, there's a lot of fantastic food.

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Speaker 3: If you're looking for like actual things to do. In

575
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Speaker 3: terms of activities, there's not a ton in the downtown core.

576
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Speaker 3: Going to Wonderland should be good. The weather's warming up.

577
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Speaker 3: There's Kensington Market, which is a nice area in downtown

578
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Speaker 3: Toronto specifically like in the Chinatown area.

579
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Speaker 4: There's a lot of nice food.

580
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Speaker 3: But Hockey Hall of Fame is also down there. There's

581
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Speaker 3: not a ton of fantastic attractions in the downtown core,

582
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Speaker 3: but it's a nice city. If you're at the Blue

583
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Speaker 3: Jays game, let me know which day are going. I

584
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Speaker 3: go down every now and again. Maybe we'll be able

585
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Speaker 3: to interact and say Hi, hey there you go.

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Speaker 4: Love that? All right?

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Speaker 1: We have two more topics we were going to hit.

588
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Speaker 1: I told you as a pitcher and a prospect. So

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Speaker 1: number three Jacob de Gram is Jacob de Grom, the

590
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Speaker 1: prince that was promised. I was going to do the

591
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Speaker 1: Dune thing.

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Speaker 4: But what is it?

593
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Speaker 1: Eel giche BALI, I can't I don't remember what the

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Speaker 1: name is.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about? The have you seen

596
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Speaker 2: in the Dune?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, lista, it's the high ho you are bardemn thing, right,

599
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Speaker 3: Lisa the Gabe or.

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Speaker 1: Yeah something whatever it is, yeah, Gabe Davis, whatever it is.

601
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Speaker 1: But is Jacob de Gram fully back two two nine

602
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Speaker 1: era fifty three strikeouts in fifty one innings sub one

603
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Speaker 1: era K percentage is down walks or up from that

604
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Speaker 1: crazy elite thing. But I will tell you something that

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Speaker 1: has been pretty focal point in my face is that

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Speaker 1: I really think they he paired himself down at the

607
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Speaker 1: beginning of the year, and he has worked himself up.

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Speaker 1: We saw some velo increases, We've seen the pitch mixes

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Speaker 1: kind of change a little bit. Really seem like there

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Speaker 1: might be something in for Jacob de Grom that they're

611
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Speaker 1: working towards for health. They're trying, you know, he's the

612
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Speaker 1: lowest arm angle that he's ever had in his career.

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Speaker 1: Last year was like a thirty four degree angle. It's

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Speaker 1: at thirty. He's never had a four degree drop. See well,

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Speaker 1: actually I guess he did in twenty twenty one to

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Speaker 1: twenty two. He had a four degree drop from thirty

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Speaker 1: six to thirty two. But it's the lowest arm angle

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Speaker 1: of his career. The pitch mix has changed around a

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Speaker 1: little bit, but things seem to be coming in. So

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Speaker 1: is Jacob de Gram top five sp for you rest

621
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Speaker 1: of season. Knowing that injury history.

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Speaker 4: I mean people probably know this.

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Speaker 3: I was not quiet about it, but I came into

624
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Speaker 3: the year, excuse me, with Jacob de Gram ranked as

625
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 3: my number one starting pitcher. People called me fancy slurs

626
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 3: for that one, and I maybe deserved it. But it's

627
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 3: looked good so far. The thing is with de Gram

628
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Speaker 3: He's not classic to Grom. This is not prime forty

629
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Speaker 3: five percent strikeout rate, three percent walk rate Jacob de Grom.

630
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Speaker 4: But he's still excellent.

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Speaker 3: He is, like you said, kind of learning how to

632
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 3: pitch again at this newer velocity. The thing that worries

633
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:40,880
Speaker 3: me a little bit is that he started creeping up

634
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Speaker 3: in terms of the velocity. He's averaging ninety seven on

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Speaker 3: the season. I want to see him more in the

636
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Speaker 3: ninety six range. I know that sounds trivial, but every

637
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 3: tick you add at that range just adds another a

638
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 3: lot of injury risk, especially when you're Jacob de Gram

639
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Speaker 3: and you're thirty six years old. But I am pretty

640
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Speaker 3: confident in that take from the preseason. As long as

641
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,199
Speaker 3: he doesn't get easy out of hand, and as long

642
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 3: as the Rangers don't really start using him for like

643
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty pitches eight innings every single night,

644
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Speaker 3: As long as they're careful, I think we get one

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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty one hundred and sixty innings out of

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Speaker 3: Jacob b Gram and he wins the cy Young this year.

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Speaker 3: I've I've been on that tune since January and I'm

648
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Speaker 3: gonna stick with it.

649
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Speaker 2: Seeing if you were still there. Very interesting.

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Speaker 1: The cy Young thing too opens up because I don't

651
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Speaker 1: believe just doing this with Bogman, we're looking at the odds,

652
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Speaker 1: I think it's I don't think he's top five right

653
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Speaker 1: now because I think.

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Speaker 2: It's Turk Skuble.

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Speaker 1: Freed is like four, Hunter Brown is two. Damn I'm

656
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,640
Speaker 1: forgetting who three is. But we're looking at like Joe

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Speaker 1: Ryan when we're doing it, I don't believe de Grom.

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Speaker 1: I know he's not on the top four. He might

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Speaker 1: not be in the top five of al say Young

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Speaker 1: Award voting. So there's some still pretty good odds if

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Speaker 1: you want to play it. And also in the trade market,

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Speaker 1: I think this is about the time where if you

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Speaker 1: have I don't know why Jacob de Gram owner who's

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Speaker 1: super fearful, would would have him in the first place,

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Speaker 1: But if they did, they might start thinking injuries are coming,

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Speaker 1: injuries are coming. I need to get out while I

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Speaker 1: still can. Yes, they can maximize value, but that type

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Speaker 1: of person would be wanting to get out if if

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Speaker 1: you're not a non believer. Last one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's still fifteen to one. He's still fifteen to

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Speaker 4: one in the cy Young odds.

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Speaker 2: It's not bad.

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Speaker 1: That's honestly, that's not bad, especially with the Rangers underperforming.

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Speaker 1: If everything starts to click, Seeger gets back, Burger starts hitting,

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Speaker 1: and Simeon starts hitting offenses rolling. I mean, everything that

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Speaker 1: Ivaldi has been is where Jacob da Grom could go.

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Speaker 1: And I think Ivaldi, I think he's a top five

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Speaker 1: guy in the the odds market. I think he's all wrong.

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Speaker 3: Right above him, right above him, eleven to one, it's

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Speaker 3: scooball Brown Crochet, freed of aald and Gram right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Dull Crochet was the one I wasn't thinking of

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Speaker 1: all right, last one. Jack cagleone has been moved up

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Speaker 1: to Triple A. That means he has one call away

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Speaker 1: from the majors. He's played outfield first. He hit over

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Speaker 1: three hundred at Double A. He wasn't striking out. The

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Speaker 1: Royals have some needs. I'm not necessarily sure it's first

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Speaker 1: base or DH with guys like Vinnie and Salvador Perez,

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Speaker 1: but he's creating some outfield eligibility over under. Jack cagleone

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Speaker 1: is in the majors by the All Star break.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I think he should be.

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Speaker 3: I think I honestly, when I saw people posting graphics

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Speaker 3: of him.

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Speaker 4: I thought he got called up to the big leagues

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Speaker 4: because the one call away thing.

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Speaker 3: We've seen that a lot more recently in the last

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Speaker 3: couple of years, the Double A, you're kind of a

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Speaker 3: call away. And with the way he's been hitting, the

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Speaker 3: fact that the Royals have been a pathetic offense this

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Speaker 3: season as a whole, they're a bottom three or four offense.

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Speaker 3: The only teams worse offensively this year the White Sox,

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Speaker 3: the Pirates and the Rockies. I thought they were gonna

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Speaker 3: am I am I crazy to think that he could

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Speaker 3: be up any day, Like, if he has a week,

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Speaker 3: he could.

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Speaker 1: I said it a couple of weeks ago, like I

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Speaker 1: would not be shocked if they moved him from Double

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Speaker 1: A to the majors. But you know, maybe they they

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Speaker 1: want to see him take the challenge of a league,

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Speaker 1: Maybe they want him to work a little bit more outfield,

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Speaker 1: whatever those things are. You can make every case in

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Speaker 1: the world that he should be up right now. And

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Speaker 1: I now think we've gone from a like, oh, yeah, maybe.

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Speaker 2: He's up this year too.

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Speaker 1: No, he's up this year, but it's now the timeline

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Speaker 1: of win and I think I kind of think it's

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Speaker 1: going to be right after the All Star break where

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Speaker 1: they're going to bring him up. But listen, if he

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Speaker 1: just sets off another two weeks of hitting over three hundred,

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Speaker 1: not striking out, maybe play some outfield, June might hit

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Speaker 1: and he might be up. So June is the time

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Speaker 1: where you should really really make sure. If you can sooner, great,

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Speaker 1: but you should really make sure. If Jackkaglian is sitting

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Speaker 1: out there, I think the clock is ticking very quickly.

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Speaker 1: Where we've moved away from the Nick Kurtz watch, we're

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Speaker 1: on Bubbo Chandler watch. There is the slimmest of chances

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Speaker 1: right now, Jack hagleone could maybe beat Roman Anthony to

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Speaker 1: the majors, you know, because it looks like the Red

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Speaker 1: Sox are prepping Marcella Mayer to come up here very

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Speaker 1: very shortly. Because you've got Christian Campbell playing first, we

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Speaker 1: still don't have that spot for Roman Anthony own beats him.

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Speaker 2: That would be.

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Speaker 4: Crazy, wouldn't surprise me at all.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the Red Sox are kind of in the

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Speaker 3: same window where I thought the Orioles were in the

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Speaker 3: last year or two of you have too many prospects,

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Speaker 3: you probably need to trade one or two of them,

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Speaker 3: or else you need to start learning new positions. I

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Speaker 3: know it was Christian Campbell, I think the other day

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Speaker 3: taking reps at first Is it crazy? You think they

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Speaker 3: should trade Mayor for a first basement or maybe even

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Speaker 3: Anthony and get a first basement of proper first basement.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but it seems like they have too

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Speaker 3: many mouths to feed now.

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Speaker 1: They should let him work at first base. You don't

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Speaker 1: trade Roman Anthony just to get a first baseman. Probably

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Speaker 1: not may Or either, unless you've got the elite of

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Speaker 1: the elite and those guys aren't available, like who you're

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Speaker 1: gonna trade them for. You're not gonna trade Josh Bell

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Speaker 1: to get Roman Anthony. No, you let him work at it.

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Speaker 1: But they're letting Campbell do it. But either way, cagli

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Speaker 1: Own and Anthony might be a way sooner at the

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Speaker 1: same time period than I think a lot of people expected.

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