WEBVTT - The 2022 All-Breakout Team (Ep. 479) 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:16.680 Super breakout. Let's talk to the pros. Welcome in everybody 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.760 to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy Baseball Podcast. It 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:21.600 is me, Joey Paid, Joe Pisapia. 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:24.720 That guy over there is the Welsh, and it's you 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.600 and today it's all about the breakouts. And yes, there's 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.200 many different definitions of what a breakout is and we're 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:32.840 gonna try to give you as many as we can 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.519 on today's podcast. But before we do, I want to 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:39.440 remind everybody make sure that you are getting involved in 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.199 the giveaway because we've got a new one. It's that 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.560 Austin Reiley Jersey courtesy of our friends at Pristine Auction 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.880 dot com. 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But a 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:08.399 lot of John Lack something else A lot of John 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.480 Lackey's were for me and I had to do a 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:14.440 meme of I did a Chris Rock will Smith meme 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.640 of someone calls me John Lackey and the Welsh goes slap. 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.280 There is a John Lackey quality to the Welsh and 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.240 this is also why you subscribe to the YouTube channel. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.640 But going back to the draft kit, you do have 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:26.760 to go to Fancypros dot com slash kit to get it. 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.720 And I'm telling you're gonna dominate your drafts with the 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.280 MLB Draft kit that we're offering right now Fantasy Pros. 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.400 You got the consensus rankings, projections, the salary cap values 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.160 for all you guys who with salary cap drafts. 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Of all the 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.760 things I've posted, the thing that got the most traction 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.800 I've ever posted, obviously is my home run call, the 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.560 Fernando Tatis Junior home run call, because that had its 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.440 own life, it was on ESPN and stuff. This though, 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.840 had the funniest comments, you know, because like easily to 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.160 hurt my feelings in the Fernando Tatis call when not 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:39.200 liking my voice or something. This everybody jumped in on it, 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.160 and one of the common themes though was everybody asking, 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:43.920 does Snell know your impression? 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:44.680 Uh? 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.160 No, If he did might have gone a little bit different. Though. 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.560 I did kind of get a pseudo threatened by our 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.840 dear friend Paul spor who is friends with Blake Snell, 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.640 and he said, he said, I'm gonna share with him 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:58.400 your impression. 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.240 That was like, oh God, be. 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.840 Pleasing, hoping you were doing the impression right to his 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:04.400 face and he really didn't even notice. 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.880 That was my no, what was going on? Inside my head. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:07.840 No, you have to. 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.240 You have to do total troll mentality. Man, you have 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.680 to internet tough guy. You have to do your internet 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.400 thing or your podcast thing. And then in person you 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:14.880 gotta go. 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.640 Oh, hi, Blake, I'm such a fan. Can I take 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.279 a picture? That's what you gotta do. 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:21.560 That's the impression of what you do when you do 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.800 an impression of him. But Scott Bogman did right, So 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.000 I don't know if you saw this. This dropped today. 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.640 That picture got so much traction that our dear friend 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:35.000 Scott Bogman wrote lyrics because I joked around how it 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.640 could be an album cover, and we do have an 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.039 album cover. I saw the album picture. Would you like 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.800 to hear some of the lyrics or not the lyrics 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:44.400 the tracks? 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:45.840 On tracks? You want to hear the track? Okay? 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:46.080 Track? 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.560 So track number one is gotta get mine? Uh? Two 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:51.680 is mud people. 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.839 That's a me thing. Three is not very nice. Can't 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.919 get out of the six? And he said, out of 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.160 the six, four is sweating for water, sweating for well, 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.960 it's so hot out here, man. Number five is traded 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:07.000 and faded. Number six is change or not to change up. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.760 Number seven is mean spotty facial hair. And number eight 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.560 is I'm risking my life, risking I think that's the 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.120 album title. I think that'll be me and Blake's at 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:17.400 album title. 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.920 Risking my life definitely, And I love that it was 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:20.680 spelled with a y. 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:23.520 That was that was the most important, That life was 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:24.200 spelled with a why. 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.160 You know, the worst part about it is Blake couldn't 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:31.000 be a nicer, more funny person as well. He's not like, 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.400 he's not like Creudgi or anything. He's he's very funny. 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.920 He's very funny how he interacts with people. Loved to 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:38.840 take pictures and stuff, and you know, he didn't know 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.159 what he was getting into, just this dummy taking a 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.960 picture with him and then going online and everybody, everybody 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.200 having a lot of fun with it. A few mean 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:50.440 ones out there about Blake getting at the six. I 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.520 did it, man, I got mine. We stayed hydrated, we 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.880 did a thing, and I did not like your tweet 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:57.520 by the way. We were like, if we get a thousand, 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.880 it'll do an impression the entire show. I didn't sign 0:05:59.920 --> 0:06:01.800 up for that, and that would be a night you didn't. 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.400 Well give a thousands, so you're out of that. So 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.000 if you want to go find that tweet at Joe 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.000 PCPs seventeen. Again, it's two thousand likes. We could do that, 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.039 So that's still on the table. Guards are on the 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.479 table now. Today we're gonna go through the All Breakout Team, 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:18.560 which last week we did the All Bus Team. Obviously, 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.080 you know that went over huge because you know we 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.520 do such great work over here at Fantasy Pros. But 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.800 the Breakout team is a little trickier because you were 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.240 mentioning before the show, you're sort of limited, right, you 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.000 don't have a lot of guys. You're typically looking for 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:32.359 the young guys, but you don't want to go with 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.960 all rookies on this kind of team because that's just 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:36.520 too easy because. 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:37.919 Not all rookies are the guys that have breakouts. 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.080 You have guys who have breakouts sometimes in their third 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.679 or even fourth season or later in the major leagues. 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.039 It's hard to identify them. 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.080 We're gonna do our best today, and I gotta say 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:47.919 most of the guys in this list are either I 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:52.320 would say young or post hype sleepers, or guys that 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.240 you know, we see that there's still potential and they 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.120 haven't realized it. I feel like that's kind of what 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.240 breakout is. Breakout is is a much wider definition. But 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:00.880 I feel like we're gonna have a bunch of those 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:02.800 different definitions and some of the guys that were going 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:03.599 to be picking today. 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:05.520 Yeah, but it is tougher, That's what I was saying 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.320 to you, Like, I felt like, you know, if you're 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.400 talking about bus, you really can go to anybody. 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:10.400 But I felt like this. 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.080 Pool was just it's a smaller pool to pick from 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.280 because there's so many guys that you're not going to 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.520 qualify as your breakouts. So I felt, you know, you 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.360 had a really good list. Your list was out before 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:23.440 mine was, and it took me a little bit to 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.880 kind of, I think, really identify you know, where the 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.280 breakouts are going to come from. And I think I 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.280 even tow the line a little bit of the uh, 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.920 the identifying of what a breakout really is. 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:35.000 But we'll see what people think. 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:37.480 All right, Well, let's see what people think of the 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.160 catcher Welsh, who you have as your breakout catcher for 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:41.040 twenty twenty two. 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.560 Well, I thought you stole the good one. You stole 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:45.320 the really really good one. But you know, I think 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.080 this is the other guy. And again, if you got 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:48.920 you look at catchers like how many I don't know 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.400 about you, but like when you look like how many 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.440 catchers were there really out there for us to choose from? 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.880 If you're talking about breakout, there's some older guys that 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.880 have kind of like, i'll behind the scenes. Max Stacey 0:07:57.960 --> 0:07:59.480 was one that I kind of thought about, but I 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.000 was like, it's not like a breakout, Mitch Garver, that's 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:02.720 not a breakout. 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.480 So I would had a huge breakout season a couple 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.080 of years ago exactly. I felt like that was kind 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.400 of cheating because it already happened. That's the now that's 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:11.520 more of a bounce back than. 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.760 Had you identified this as maybe like the All value team, 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.120 I think this could have been a different discussion and 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:19.560 it would have been a different set of players and 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.320 Garver and Stacy probably Stacy, honestly what might have been 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.280 my pick. But with this one, I'm going over to 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.240 the Giants and I'm going to go with the guy 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.880 that's replacing Buster Posey, and I'm going to take Joey Bart. 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:31.640 Now I'm gonna have kind of a theme to a 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:32.400 lot of my guys. 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.520 I have a lot of these second year kind of 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:40.440 underperforming rookies giants. GM just recently said that Bart has 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.439 looked as bad as good as he's ever looked. He's 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.320 been working with definitely a big crew of catchers. He's 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.760 going to go between being able to play catcher or 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:51.280 DH because they want to keep his. 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.240 Bat in the lineup. Is bat just hasn't been consistent. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.760 But I think one key here, especially for him staying 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.720 in the lineup is this is, if I know it correctly, 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.800 it's the first real off season that he has had 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.800 a full run with all of the starting pitchers, all 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.240 of the major leaguers and a job that he is 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.400 walking in with him and that is significant. I think 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.480 that is significant enough. Even Joey Dell is a guy 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.760 that didn't have that, and this is like that first year. 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.280 Those guys jumping into that space is pretty important. And 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.920 Joey Bart has been always a pretty decent contact guy. 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.400 There's big, there's thirty plus power in there. 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.000 For sure. He could go the way of actually think 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:29.520 he could. 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.199 Be very mimic like a Gary Sanchez, where he could 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.320 have a couple of really good years of high batting 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.680 average and high homers and then they could fall apart 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.079 as well. But Joey Bart is free in drafts right now. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.560 He's got a home in multiple spots. The DH is 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.680 really important to his bat and I think when you're 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.000 just playing around at the bottom pool of catchers, if 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.719 you really want to talk about breakouts, Joey Bart is 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.440 a guy that could potentially move himself up into a 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.120 catcher one in a twelve probably more like a fifteen 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.040 man league. You're hitting in Colorado, you're hitting in Arizona, 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.320 there's some really a good hitter, friendly parks, inner division Wise, 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:03.960 I'm gonna take Joey Bart. 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:05.240 I like it. 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.640 And the guy that Welsh is alluding to that I 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.280 took for catchers Tyler Stevenson, who you know last year 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.600 hit for two eighty six average, had ten home runs. 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:14.760 I think the reason why I'm hi on Stevenson this 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.320 year is I think a better spot in the batting 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.040 order is going to be there for him. So that 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.360 is huge, and were always evaluated his talent. I think 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.240 now that you've gotten rid of Winker and Suarez, there's 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.400 no way you can't imagine Stevenson if you want to 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.360 hit him six or five, who knows, maybe some days 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.400 you want to hit him two potentially. So basically he 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.880 was left in that lineup, you got Joey Vada left 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.439 in that lineup, you got Jonathan India left in that lineup. 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:38.880 Tyler Nake wins around. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.559 I mean, I think that Stevenson is a player that 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:43.800 I know catchers don't play every day, but I do 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:45.920 believe even with that DH maybe he's going to see 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:47.840 a little bit more at bats to get that bat 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.719 in the lineup. So there's two things going for his 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:51.839 favorite I like so much. Besides the nice season he 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.440 put together last year. The good preferrals from last year 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.439 we all know of. But what's going from this year 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.280 is I think a move up the lineup and that 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.200 DH because if he is swinging the bat pretty well, 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.200 you can still get him in the lineup. And I 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.360 think those DHF bats are going to be crucial because 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.200 when you have catchers that are going to not just 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:09.679 take a day off, but take a day off and 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:13.120 still swing the bat, that's big. That really matters a 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.440 great deal because that's gonna be an extra what you 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.040 say four times three carry the one, I mean that 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:21.880 could be an extra hundred at bats over the season. 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.679 And rush a resource has him set at four right now, 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.840 which is a you know, fantastic part of the lineup 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.439 to hit. Like you said, the DH allowing him to 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.960 move spots. He could play first base, you know, if 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:33.960 there's any injury. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:34.720 Stuff with Joey Vada. 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.960 Kind of flexible, really smart kid. I actually interviewed him 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.520 in the Arizona Fall League. He won the I forget 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.120 the name of it, so apologies, but it's kind of 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:47.080 like the the personality, you know, like the guy of 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.480 the Year in the AFL, not the best performer, but 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.040 like the best like team leader. Cole Tucker had won 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.160 it and Tyler Stevenson won it the year after. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:55.679 He's just in geniality. 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:57.440 Yeah, that's kind of what it is. 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.280 And he came out with the Sandra Bullock of the 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:03.160 Cincinnati Red Organization totally and he was all like cowboyed 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:04.559 up when he came out to its some big old 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.000 boots on and he was out in the field. 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.920 He's just like a really nice guy, good hitter, he is. 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.360 He's actually best friends with Taylor Tremmell, who's now with 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.680 the Seattle Mariners, and he's got a big bat and 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.040 there's big home run potential and he's played some first 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:18.760 so a little bit of flexibility I. 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:19.400 Like out of him. 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.000 High in the lineup, I like at him. It just 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:23.760 got to determine our guys going to be on base. 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.360 But you do have Jonathan India, who roster resource has 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.640 his leading off, Tyler Naquin and Joey Vado in front 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:28.960 of him. 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:30.400 That's not a bad group. 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.160 That might be a sneaky seventy five eighty RBI that 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.559 come into a guy like Tyler Stevenson. And the thing 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:39.280 we have to quantify for all catchers is there's more 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.880 potential at bats for every single one of these guys. 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.040 We just don't one hundred percent know who like Will 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:45.640 Smith well, but that doesn't. 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.280 Guys just sitting clean up every day is far more 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.280 likely it's gonna be somebody like Stevenson. Because that's what 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:51.920 I'm saying, that spot when he's out. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.440 Varshow Will Smith. Will Smith, like I said, not the puncher, 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.880 the Dodger. He's a guy that's gonna be in the 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.360 d H spot and then you're gonna get Tyler Stevens. 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.480 It's not every single catcher, but it's on the table 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:04.760 for any catcher with a bat to get more at 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.760 bats this year, which also might even be a little 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:11.240 bit of a separator when we look at like, you know, ooh, 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.800 Dalton Varshows so much more valuable because he's an outfielder. 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.760 It's like, well, it's probably gonna be a level playing field. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.520 It's more valuable because of the stolen bases. But I digress. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.800 Stevenson and Bart breakout catchers. 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.079 All right, who's the first basement on your list? Welsh? 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.439 Oh, first baseman? I really liked yours, so this one 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:30.680 is I think. No, I mean, I love your guy, 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.080 but no, I picked extra guy that hasn't done anything, 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:34.839 so he's not only gonna break out, he's got a 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.400 break in. And I'm going with Spencer Torkelsen because I 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.400 went through the first baseman and I didn't see really 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.240 any that I would like. I said, I would quantify 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.040 as like a breakout first baseman. I think there's some 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.600 great values later on with a whole bunch of guys, 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:51.360 even into the CJ crones and stuff. But Torkelsen, the 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.560 breakout is simply him breaking through the roster, and I 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.360 think he will. I think he's got a legit shot. 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.200 I've said it a gajillion times over. Miggey wants him 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.040 to play first, even though he was drafted as the 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.079 third basement. They want him there. He's got multi position eligibility, 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.600 good defender, and he's got a live bat, and he's 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.600 kind of free. You know, these rookies, Bobby WIT's not free, 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.480 He's sure not. He's been moving up into. 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:16.320 The top out after draft. Seat well, Bobby Woit's awesome. 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:18.720 The NFBC some of the drafts, I think the main events, 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.960 he was going in the top fifty to sixty. So 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.600 he's not free anymore. Torquosen is still free, and he 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.240 has got a very good opportunity to break camp. And 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.400 you know, there's it's tough to say with the rookie 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.520 in the bumps he's going to go through. He's a 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:33.680 little bit susceptible to stuff in the zone. It's kind 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.000 of been his little, you know, notch that guys have 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.480 known on him. Has rubbed since ASU, since he was there, 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.720 and he's been working on that lower half, especially on 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.600 breaking pitches, and that. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:45.680 Could be a little bit of a problem. 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.840 I've also seen him get really really heavy kind of 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:52.040 singles hittory, like not lofting the ball the whole bunch, 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.200 which could maybe have shades of like first year Vladimir Guerrero, 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:56.000 but it doesn't matter. 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:56.720 He's free. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.640 So I'm going to take as a first baseman as 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.520 my my all breakout team, I'll go with Spencer Torkelsen. 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:04.640 Yeah, it's a good one. It's a good one. 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.440 I mean, I know it's sort of trendy rookie, but 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.760 it doesn't mean it can't come to fruition for me. 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:09.760 It's a guy that got tasted in. 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.680 The big leagues last year and he was okay, Alex Kiroloff. 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.240 Not everybody comes up and just absolutely mashes from the 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:18.400 get go. But if you look at the track record 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.160 historically of Alex Kierloff, you go back at two hundred 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.000 and eighty one minor league games, the guy hit three 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.360 eighteen with a three sixty six obp, a five to 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.360 zero three, slugging an eight sixty nine ops. This is 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.520 a guy who can get on base. He's gonna make contact, 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.160 he's got some pop. I think he's gonna grow a 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.920 little bit more power as time goes by. You have 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:38.320 to go back a couple of years to see like 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:41.000 a bigger power season that combination. But he's only twenty 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.000 four years old, so there's still you know some growth 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:43.680 potential there. 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.240 But Kira Lof qualifies at first. 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.360 He qualifies an outfield, so it gives you a position 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.120 for flexibility. And I feel like he's a player people 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.120 have kind of forgotten about, and that's perfect because he 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:53.520 is going to be a nice player. 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:54.280 I'm looking like. 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.360 Player profile wise, could he be an all star level 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.840 nice player? Probably at some point he could get there, 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.160 but the very least right now, when you're looking at 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.360 ADP and you're looking at the opportunity for guys like 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.840 kiralof Uh, to me, it's a no brainer, especially if 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:09.440 you're looking in those leagues where you're playing in those 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:10.720 corner infielders. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.280 You're looking for a guy who might have some upside. 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.680 Still, to me, it's kiral Off and right now he 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.360 is going at one eighty five overall. He's the twenty 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.040 fifth first basement off the board. So I'm a Kira 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:22.680 Loff guy. Why are you a Kira lov guy? Wa? 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.560 I love think is another guy I got to actually 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.520 speak to some years ago on my show Prospect One. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.400 His dad is a pretty prolific hitting coach. He's got 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.480 to think like a whole hitting series that he does, 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:35.440 and he trains kids to Lemanski. 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.680 That is that nod. 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:39.280 I think it's an actual career off. 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.720