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Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. It's time to

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Speaker 1: look ahead at the waiver wire. It's me Joey b

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Speaker 1: Jopi's appear with me, of course, is the Welsh, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take a look some hitters and some pitchers

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Speaker 1: that could make an impact for you as we are

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Speaker 1: looking towards the dog days of summer ahead of us already.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing. The baseball season just goes on and on

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Speaker 1: and on, and at some point we'll run out of fab.

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Speaker 1: But we haven't yet, Welsh, we have not run out

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Speaker 1: of fab yet. Let's start with one of two catchers

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about now. This first catcher just got

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Speaker 1: called up to the big leagues on the weekend. He's

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Speaker 1: still just about thirty percent rostered on CBS, even less

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Speaker 1: than some of the other spots. It's Kyle Teal, which

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Speaker 1: is kind of crazy to me that he got called

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Speaker 1: up on a Friday and still on Monday he was

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Speaker 1: I think thirty three percent rostered and hasn't moved up

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Speaker 1: too much. Teal is an on base machine Welsh. It's

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Speaker 1: got some power. He can also play first base DH

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Speaker 1: and he's gonna play every day for the White Tux, who,

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Speaker 1: by the way, are starting to play a little better

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Speaker 1: just recently, especially offensively. So I kind of look at

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Speaker 1: Teal as an interesting long term investment for the rest

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Speaker 1: of the season because of his skill set and because

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Speaker 1: of the fact if you're hurting a catcher, this is

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Speaker 1: a guy that can give you every day at bats,

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Speaker 1: which is really hard to find nowadays. The other guy

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Speaker 1: is contrarists who could really does that for you in

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Speaker 1: the big leagues nowadays. So to me, Teal is a

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Speaker 1: guy that I'm really targeting.

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Speaker 2: I think the only place I'm not like looking at

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Speaker 2: Teal is in like ten team leagues. Other than that,

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Speaker 2: or unless it's a ten team too catcher league, anything

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Speaker 2: else to catcher deeper leagues, I do think you need

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Speaker 2: to kind of pay attention to him. They brought him

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Speaker 2: up to keep him here the rest of the year,

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Speaker 2: Caro and him can continue to survive. Teal is going

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Speaker 2: to keep moving around between D eight's catcher and what

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Speaker 2: we really hope is he will start playing some first base.

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Speaker 2: And like you said, I mean, he's a contact machine,

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Speaker 2: makes a ton of contact.

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Speaker 3: The simple size is.

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Speaker 2: Really too small right now to read into anything. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's like tenant bats as we're looking at.

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Speaker 3: This hard hit numbers are really good.

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Speaker 2: He's not striking out a bunch, that's great. He's getting

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Speaker 2: the ball in the air boom. He's just not barreling

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Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be a doubles guy. I think

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Speaker 2: he legitimately has the potential to be a top fifteen catcher. Now, Like,

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Speaker 2: here's an interesting thing I'll throw out to you. Ben

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Speaker 2: Rice just opened up qualifications. I think getting his fifth

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Speaker 2: game at catcher, so CBS, he is now eligible as

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Speaker 2: a catcher. So that's one of those things that kind

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Speaker 2: of like pushes the field down just a tiny bit.

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Speaker 2: But once Steel gets first base eligibility, I think he

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Speaker 2: hovers around that fifteen ish area starting catcher. But because

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Speaker 2: he has the potential to play every single day, it's

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Speaker 2: why you might even want to hold a little bit longer.

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Speaker 2: Higher batting average, pretty good counting stats, probably hit in

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Speaker 2: the middle of the order. Yeah, I think outside of

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Speaker 2: like ten team leagues, you should be probably be looking

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Speaker 1: With Stanton coming back soon too, he's in his double

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Speaker 1: A rehab right now. It'll be interesting to see who

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Speaker 1: gets squeezed. Is a grisham is at Rice, Like, who's

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Speaker 1: gonna lose him at bats on those gags. Somebody's gonna

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Speaker 1: lose somewhere. Another catcher, Alejandro Kirk, who has actually been

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Speaker 1: on a tear over the last ten games, slashing four

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Speaker 1: an incredible run for Kirk. Oh, look, he's in for

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Speaker 1: thing to find nowadays in fantasy. So again it's circumstantial.

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Speaker 1: As Welsh was saying, if you're a deeper league, Kirk

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Speaker 1: just looking at his roster percentage right now, he's still

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Speaker 1: available in sixty percent of leagues right now. So if

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think if you're in the run of

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Speaker 2: But there's a really good team context for Kirk. There's

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Speaker 2: He's sitting over three twenty against both righties and lefties,

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Speaker 2: so there's not any big.

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Speaker 3: Crazy split issues.

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Speaker 2: April, May and June, his batting averages continue to rise.

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Speaker 2: He's a great points league player. He's striking out less

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Speaker 2: the second most he's ever done in his career. So

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Speaker 2: you know the Interestingly enough, like there's like some high

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Speaker 2: It's Kyle Rally, and then there's just this huge clump

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Speaker 2: there can be the Kirks and there can be the teals.

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Speaker 2: I think I would side on Kirk right now because

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Speaker 2: of the really lead elite average, good like back to

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Speaker 2: take that batting average at the catching spot, all right.

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Speaker 1: The next guy we're going to talk about, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be controversial because I think we're gonna be on other

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Speaker 1: ends of this. Usually I'm the positive guy. This time

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the negative one. Joe Adell is having

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Speaker 1: a great week and a half. There's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: He's at the ton home runs. He's rostered in about

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Speaker 1: thirty five percent of the leagues currently. Over the last

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Speaker 1: I understand that he's got power and some speed there too. However,

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Speaker 1: speed really hasn't been the thing for Joe Adell anymore. So,

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Speaker 1: if you're in a deep league with outfield. I get

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Speaker 1: but I don't want to spend too much on it. Welsh,

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Speaker 1: What do you think about this recent hot stretch from

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Speaker 2: I've got interest, and that's where we differ. You know,

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Speaker 2: he's a batting average still kind of stinks round two twenty,

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Speaker 2: but he's got around to seventy expected batting average two seventy.

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Speaker 2: Jo Adell is a complete game changer because he's got some,

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Speaker 2: you know, pretty big hard hit numbers.

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Speaker 3: He can put up. Bat speed is way up.

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Speaker 2: It's up over a mile and a mile and a

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Speaker 2: half per hour versus previous year. He's opened his stands

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Speaker 2: up more, and you know, we've had new batted like

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Speaker 2: Stance dat over on Baseball Savant, and we learn about

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Speaker 2: attack angle, and his attack angle was well below average,

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Speaker 2: So he's getting to the ball better, which is equating

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Speaker 2: to better barrel percentages. The hardest average ex velocity he's

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Speaker 2: strikeouts Listen, Joe Adell has been a failure for many,

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Speaker 2: many years, but he is some loud tools. He's hitting

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Speaker 2: a bunch of homers, fifty points better overall expected batting average,

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Speaker 2: and a huge, massive underperformance against fastballs around one hundred points.

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Speaker 2: I believe it is that he's going to go in

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Speaker 2: that positive direction. I actually think Joe Adele is someone

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Speaker 2: decent to speculate on right now. But I am worried

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Speaker 2: he's going to come back down to earth. He's got

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Speaker 2: his problems and stuff, but there's a lot of things

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Speaker 2: that are saying like if he's a two forty two

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Speaker 2: to fifty hitter, I think he's going to be pretty

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Speaker 2: valuable in fantasy. So the low what is the ownership percentage,

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Speaker 2: isn't it like thirty five percent on CBS?

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Speaker 3: I think I want to pick him up in five

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Speaker 3: outfielder leagues.

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Speaker 1: Loud Tools, by the way, was the original working title

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Speaker 1: for our show for the two and who knows it

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Speaker 1: might come back again. We've been called worse. Let's get

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Speaker 1: to OTTOKEMP third base, Philadelphia. He got the call when

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Speaker 1: Bryce Harper went on the il Welsh and he's had

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Speaker 1: a really good year so far Triple A. We've talked

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Speaker 1: early in the season. He's a twenty five year old kid,

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Speaker 1: but you know your message. You want to say, well,

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Speaker 1: he's an older prospect and all that stuff. He's also

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Speaker 1: been blocked by Alec Bowm and Bryce Harper last couple

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Speaker 1: of years, so it really wasn't a lot of room

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Speaker 1: for outto camp. But at Triple A this year three thirteen, four, sixteen, five,

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Speaker 1: ninety four slash, fourteen homers, nineteen doubles, forty nine runs

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Speaker 1: slow start so far in the big leagues. This week,

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Speaker 1: that's fine. He's had a couple of strikeouts, five strikeouts

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Speaker 1: an opportunity that if he gets hot, who knows if

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Speaker 1: he could press for more playing time. He is a

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Speaker 1: versatile guy. That's a plus with Auto camp, so maybe

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Speaker 1: it's just more of a band aid. Again, he's available

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Speaker 1: in practically every league, ninety percent available right now, just

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Speaker 1: ten percent roster. What do you make of Auto Kemp

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Speaker 1: in this stretch. He's gonna get here the Phillies.

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Speaker 2: I think deeper leagues there's some value. The offense in

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Speaker 2: general is really exciting. He's got a quick bat speed

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Speaker 2: seventy four point five, which looks really good, really great

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Speaker 2: contact numbers in the minors power speed combos. I watched

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Speaker 2: it in the AFL like he's like a solid player.

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Speaker 2: I've always likened it similar. I wouldn't be surprised if

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Speaker 2: he and I know this will read negatively, but like

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Speaker 2: you remember how David Schneider came in and he had

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Speaker 2: ball really hard and fast and good barrel numbers like

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Speaker 2: that's who I think Kim can kind of get to.

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Speaker 2: But he's going to hit lower in that Phillies lineup.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a deeper league play. The sample size

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Speaker 2: it stinky, but it doesn't tell us much of anything.

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Speaker 2: Right now, He's going to get an opportunity while Harper

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Speaker 2: willing to make a little attempt at him, especially if

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Speaker 2: it's a really barren waiver wire, just because if things

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Speaker 2: start to click there are you know. I don't think

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Speaker 2: the stolen bases are going to be big. But there's

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Speaker 2: like theoretical five tools in there.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the arms before we do.

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Speaker 1: let's start with Chad Patrick, another one of the many

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Speaker 2: He's not a big, crazy wiff guy, but he does

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Speaker 2: But that's not really your worry with him because he's

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Speaker 1: Another guy that we kind of made jokes about, and

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Speaker 1: He's rostered in about thirty five percent of leagues. Again,

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Speaker 1: All right, we got two more guys to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Two relievers. David Bednar of the Pittsburgh Pirates forty eight

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Speaker 2: So I'm a little bit worried about him. I completely

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Speaker 3: I think they're not going to go to like it

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Speaker 2: I think Gates might be like a set up type

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Speaker 3: So I think if you're looking for cheap saves, it's Kopek.

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Speaker 2: I feeling for long term value, it's Bednard, but understand

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