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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into the cycle. I am Ryan Warmley,

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Speaker 1: joined today by Mike Mayor. It is the day before

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Speaker 1: fourth of July, kind of an unofficial ish midway point

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Speaker 1: of the season, and I think if you look at

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Speaker 1: the games played, we're technically a little bit pass it

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Speaker 1: at this point, Mayor, but we wanted to use this

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Speaker 1: holiday and this like pseudo midway point to look ahead

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Speaker 1: to the second half. So on today's episode of Rounding

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Speaker 1: the Bases, which is part one of the cycle, we're

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Speaker 1: kind of taking a different approach. Instead of our usual

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Speaker 1: run through of different trending topics than maybe a specific debate,

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Speaker 1: we wanted to have some news notes and injuries. We're

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Speaker 1: running through some key questions for the second half of

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Speaker 1: the show. These kind of burning questions type shows is

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Speaker 1: one of our favorite formats to do here at Fantasy Pros.

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Speaker 1: We did one for the whole year prior to opening day.

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Speaker 1: So now we're going to kind of do one of

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Speaker 1: key questions for the second half here. We've got three

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Speaker 1: some quick news updates at the very top. One in particular,

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Speaker 1: that just happened this morning that we felt it was

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Speaker 1: worth hitting on. But that's what will look like and

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Speaker 1: just everybody knows. Instead of our usual three parts on

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Speaker 1: the episode this week, because of the holiday and you know,

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Speaker 1: editors and everything, we want to be able to kind

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Speaker 1: of enjoy this friday off for fourth of July, we're

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Speaker 1: just going to do two parts this week instead of three.

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Speaker 1: So instead of that part two, we're going to loop

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Speaker 1: the waiver pickups into part three. We'll have our pitching

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Speaker 1: streamers episode to help everybody get ready for next week.

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Speaker 1: Throw some waivers, you know, additions at you in that segment,

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Speaker 1: but we're not going to do that part two that

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Speaker 1: we usually do. Does that all sound good, mayor.

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Speaker 2: That sounds good? It sounds like a lot. While you

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Speaker 2: were talking, I thought to myself, I wish we would

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Speaker 2: have gone back and looked at the preseason burning questions

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Speaker 2: see how all those questions looked. But we didn't think

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Speaker 1: Too late now, yeah, definitely too late. Absolutely no chance

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Speaker 1: we could just quickly pull up the old outlines and

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Speaker 1: actually be able to fine or not, but before we

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Speaker 1: do that, if we do end up doing that, the

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Speaker 1: big news update that we did want to hit on

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Speaker 1: Louis Ortiz being investigated for gambling. Now, this news literally

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Speaker 1: dropped minutes before we started taping this show, so we

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Speaker 1: don't really have any kind of follow up to this

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Speaker 1: going on in the NBA, like this is you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a history of gambling and baseball. Obviously we talked

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Speaker 1: about Pete Rose earlier when he passed away, but this

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Speaker 1: is something that has become more prevalent. It feels like

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Speaker 1: since gambling has become more legalized, where you kind of

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Speaker 1: know if this is we're assuming he's being investigated for

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Speaker 1: gambling on baseball. Again, this story is brand new, so

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Speaker 1: we don't have information yet. And not like you, uh,

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Speaker 1: those Lions players, I think it was last year, maybe

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Speaker 1: two years ago, we're gambling, not on football, but they

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this is that type of situation

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Speaker 1: mayor what was the first thing that came to your mind.

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Speaker 2: So the first thing that came to my mind was

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Speaker 2: as someone who was a proponent of sports betting, I

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Speaker 2: opponents of sports betting are going to use to say,

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Speaker 2: this is why we can have legalized sports betting, this

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Speaker 1: I assume you would have no problem with like a

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Speaker 1: Time though, prior to his to his passing.

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Speaker 1: Just mean I think the timing would have been nice

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Speaker 1: we talked about that already, we sure did. Yeah. I

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Speaker 2: Will also say that he is innocent until proven guilty

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Speaker 2: referencing the Terry Rozier situation from a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 2: least in terms of his standing, there's nothing pending right now,

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Speaker 2: also possible that's the case, which is again even more

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Speaker 1: Different scenario, but I mean, just think about the reactions

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Speaker 1: I did mayor pull up our key questions from before

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Speaker 1: the season. Do you do you want me to run

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Speaker 2: Sure? I wasn't sure if you're gonna be able to

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Speaker 1: Question number one, We'll go through these really quickly. Question

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Speaker 1: number one, how does sho Heo Tani follow up his

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Speaker 1: historic twenty twenty four season, especially now that he's pitching again.

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Speaker 1: He's still really so far he's not really pitching, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's not really pitching, but he's still really good.

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Speaker 2: He's still really good. Just I think we thought he'd

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Speaker 1: Speaking of historic twenty to twenty four seasons, Paul Skeens

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Speaker 1: a year two. Will he justify a first round pick

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Speaker 1: Kind of not. I don't feel like he's I mean,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think I think to be a first

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Speaker 1: Like just being the third best starting pitcher to me

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Speaker 1: Question three, Any chance we get more two hundred plus

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Speaker 2: We have a couple that could do it. Just looking

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four was a bit of a down year

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Speaker 1: for top hitting prospects making their debuts. Get in the

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Speaker 2: No, No, they cannot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an easy one. Here's the fun one. Question

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Speaker 1: Question six. Stolen bases are up across the league after

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Speaker 1: recent rules changes, but even still, Ronald Acunya is the

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Speaker 1: only player to hit seventy stolen bases in a season

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Speaker 2: a Cabierra with thirty O'Neil cruz as twenty eight, peak

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Speaker 1: Say if they didn't send Chandler Simpson down, maybe he

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Speaker 1: Speaking of Akunya, how will the Brave Stars look coming

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Speaker 2: I think mixed? So far Acunya hit the ground running,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, I just pulled up, But not that

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Speaker 2: I just pulled up another random episode of was our

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Speaker 2: preseason superlatives, and the very first one is pretty funny,

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Speaker 2: most likely to succeed Shane McClanahan for you and Brian

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Speaker 1: which surprise fantasy MVP will have the better second half?

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Speaker 1: Pete Crow Armstrong or Cal Raleigh. When you read this question,

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Speaker 2: My honest gut reaction was like, ooh, that's a good question,

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Speaker 2: But my second reaction was maybe I lean Pca just

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Speaker 1: I think for me, I mean that there weren't a

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they're like stars who are gonna

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Speaker 1: like reshape your Fantasy league or anything like that. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't it doesn't feel like there's a lot of those

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Speaker 1: options this year, so it's kind of hard to come

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Speaker 1: up with like a really like high impact what I mean,

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Speaker 1: sticking with the Orioles, Like R Hearn, I mean, O

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Speaker 1: Hearn's really good, but I don't think he's I mean again,

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Speaker 1: he's not gonna be like oh, in a new lineup.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna all of a sudden take

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Speaker 1: another step forward. I think he's gonna be what he is.

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Speaker 1: I would have maybe felt differently if they were still

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Speaker 1: not playing him against lefties, which they were doing under

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Speaker 1: Brandon Hyde, but now that Mantlino is playing him against

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Speaker 1: lefties too, more like, I think wherever he goes would

449
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Speaker 1: just be pretty similar. If anything, it might hurt if

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Speaker 1: they go back to a team where they do use

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Speaker 1: him in a platoon, you know, sticking with the Orioles,

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, e Flyn before the last couple

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Speaker 1: of starts where he's been really bad, has largely been

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Speaker 1: very good in Baltimore, and if he goes to you know,

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Speaker 1: a good ballpark and a team that's gonna win more

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Speaker 1: games than the Orioles have this year. He's another guy

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Speaker 1: that I would have been interested in prior to recently.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it's I didn't think there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: great choices.

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Speaker 2: To your point, I just pulled up a list of

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Speaker 2: like trade candidates while you're talking, and like the position

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Speaker 2: players are exactly what we said, like Josh bell Adolice Garcia,

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Speaker 2: Austin Hayes, Danny jans and Brandon Law, Ryan McMahon, Ean Mancatta,

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Speaker 2: Ryan mountain Castle, Cedric Mullins, Ryan O'Hearn, Luis Robert juhannioscaraz

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Speaker 2: Daln Barso, Taylor Ward. Like there's no like league winner

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Speaker 2: going to in new situation.

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Speaker 1: It's not like when Manny Machado went from the Orioles

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Speaker 1: to La or you know, these these real studs that

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Speaker 1: we've seen in previous years. It doesn't it doesn't feel

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Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get surprised and that'll be fun if we do,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't feel like this time.

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Speaker 2: The list of pictures, I won't read them all, but

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Speaker 2: it's a similar level list, Like like Zach Gallen, but

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Speaker 2: Zack Allen isn't pitching.

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Speaker 1: This one's for me. Which rookie, either already up or

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Speaker 1: still in the minors, is going to become an impact

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Speaker 1: fantasy option in the second half now, mayor you might

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Speaker 1: remember just last week we did kind of a second

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Speaker 1: half look ahead on the rookie class. There were tons

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Speaker 1: of names. I think we read out eighteen different rookie

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Speaker 1: names and that doesn't even hit on everybody. We just

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Speaker 1: had to cap it eventually. So there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: options here. You could go with some of the bigger

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Speaker 1: names who are already up, like a Roman Anthony, Jack Caglione.

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Speaker 1: You could go with I know, when we were talking

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Speaker 1: about the show beforehand, you threw out the name of

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Speaker 1: Andrew Painter as sort of a stash who's not up

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Speaker 1: in the big leagues. Get when you read a question

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Speaker 1: like this, where does your mind first go? Who is

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Speaker 1: a type of player that you think could become an

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Speaker 1: impact fantasy option in the second half.

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Speaker 2: Well, the timing of this answer isn't good because he

502
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Speaker 2: just got lit up by the Red Sox in his

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Speaker 2: last start. But I do think that, like when Chase

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Speaker 2: Burns first came up, my initial thought was like, this

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Speaker 2: guy could be a league winner, you know, if he

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Speaker 2: gets enough innings. He's that good. You saw in a

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Speaker 2: lot of leagues, especially like NFBC leagues, where he kind

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Speaker 2: of came up at the very beginning of the week.

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Speaker 2: He wasn't available in those leagues, and then you had

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Speaker 2: to wait the full week, and then you know, you

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Speaker 2: saw the Yankee start, and then everyone had to bid

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Speaker 2: their fab on it. He was going for thirty or

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Speaker 2: forty percent of fab and it's because people see that ceiling. Now.

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Speaker 2: Of course, the timing of this doesn't look great because

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Speaker 2: he had one like pretty good start against the Yankees

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Speaker 2: where he struck out the first five batters that he

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Speaker 2: saw and ended up allowing three runs, and then he

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Speaker 2: just got boat raced against the against the Red Sox,

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Speaker 2: but it does seem like he was probably tipping his chip,

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Speaker 2: tipping his pitches in that start. You know it, it's

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Speaker 2: MLB teams have a little bit of tape on him.

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Speaker 2: There was even a clip on the broadcast where it

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Speaker 2: looked like Jaron Durant came around and was talking to players,

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Speaker 2: you know, in the dugout and in the on deck circle,

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Speaker 2: like something that he may have seen. So if that's

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Speaker 2: the case, I assume it's going to get corrected and

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Speaker 2: he's going to be that good going forward. For that reason,

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Speaker 2: I think he's won a buy low. And two, I

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Speaker 2: think he might be the answer to this question, even

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Speaker 2: though it's it's odd timing coming off of how he

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Speaker 2: just looked.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough to say him given the most recent

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Speaker 1: thing we've seen of him, but I totally get it right.

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Speaker 1: He's been so good for his entire professional career that like,

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Speaker 1: why wouldn't you be willing to look past one really

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Speaker 1: really really really really bad start. I was trying to

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Speaker 1: look at some of the hitters. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: you can make a case for any of these, like

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Speaker 1: high level guys. I wonder somebody like Dylan Cruz when

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Speaker 1: he gets back from injury, like has had enough time

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Speaker 1: to adjust where he starts to look more like the

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Speaker 1: elite prospect he was. I mean again, somebody like somebody

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Speaker 1: like Nick Kurtz has already had stretches where it looks

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Speaker 1: like he's kind of figured it out, so he maybe

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Speaker 1: doesn't even really fit the question. I'm like trying. I'm

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Speaker 1: like looking through a list. You know, Jacobzerowski, if they

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Speaker 1: let him pitch enough, I think he'll be really good

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Speaker 1: in the innings he is pitching.

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Speaker 2: But Logan Henderson, you can just say the same thing

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Speaker 2: for Logan Henderson is the same team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the pitchers are always tricky for that reason. I

552
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Speaker 1: think Matt Shaw as somebody who could get you a

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Speaker 1: lot of steels and look better in the second half

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Speaker 1: that he did in the first half. So he's somebody

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Speaker 1: that I would like to, uh, you know consider for this.

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Speaker 2: How about this one. He's a player we mentioned either

557
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Speaker 2: last week or week before. I brought him up because

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Speaker 2: he was someone I was very high on coming into

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Speaker 2: the season, and he got to a very slow start

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Speaker 2: to the point where he looked like he was gonna

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Speaker 2: get sent down, but he didn't. The Astros kept him

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Speaker 2: up and it's Cam Smith, who is someone quiety batting

563
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Speaker 2: two eighty five now despite in April batting two thirteen,

564
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Speaker 2: and he he has his average up because in May

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Speaker 2: he batt at three oh seven and in June he

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Speaker 2: had a three oh three and he didn't hit any

567
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Speaker 2: horme runs in May, but he did come back and

568
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Speaker 2: hit four in June, And so he might be someone who,

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Speaker 2: especially at a really thin position like third base, He's

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Speaker 2: someone that in a couple of leagues I've I've learned

571
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Speaker 2: with dropping him all season and I haven't, and he's

572
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Speaker 2: someone who could just be really solid at a really

573
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Speaker 2: thin position in the second half and make a big difference.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a great call, speaking of players who

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Speaker 1: looked at they were going to get sent down and

576
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Speaker 1: then did get sent down. When he comes back up,

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Speaker 1: I think Christian Campbell is the guy that it wouldn't

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Speaker 1: surprise me if he does a lot better kind of

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Speaker 1: the second time up up. The other dame I was

580
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Speaker 1: going to throw out, not as a serious pick, but

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Speaker 1: that I wish I could pick him is Chase Dolander

582
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Speaker 1: because I went to the Rockies game two nights ago

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Speaker 1: Rocky's astros and as we were walking in. I point

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Speaker 1: out to my friend. I was like, oh, look, there's

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Speaker 1: two kind of elderly people wearing Chase Dolander jerseys in

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Speaker 1: front of us. I was like, are those his parents? Like?

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Speaker 1: What are the two? You know, kind of older fans

588
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Speaker 1: both having a Chase Dolander jersey of all things. And

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Speaker 1: as we got up closer to them, we were right

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Speaker 1: behind them in the security line, and the older gentleman

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Speaker 1: was wearing a Master's hat. And my friend that I

592
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Speaker 1: was with has gone to the Masters before, so he

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Speaker 1: made a comment. He was like, oh, have you been

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Speaker 1: to the Masters? And the guy goes no, but my

595
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Speaker 1: grandson went he's actually pitching tonight, and we were like, oh,

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Speaker 1: we do it. So Chased Dolader's grandparents, very very nice couple.

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Speaker 1: It was a shame for them. Dolander I didn't get

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Speaker 1: out of the third ending in that game, so that

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Speaker 1: was a tough start for their boy. But nice was

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Speaker 1: gonna say.

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Speaker 2: I was wondering where that story was going because I

602
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Speaker 2: remember that being a not good start.

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Speaker 1: No, it was not a good start. I did see

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Speaker 1: Cam Smith get a base hit, though, so that's what

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Speaker 1: they think of it. All right, let's go to question

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Speaker 1: number four, What do you got here before?

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Speaker 2: Which starting pitcher currently flying under the radar will be

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Speaker 2: a top twenty five starting pitcher rest of season?

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Speaker 1: And your pick?

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Speaker 2: So when you were going to pick, so, I had

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Speaker 2: a couple of interesting ones. One I've mentioned a few

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Speaker 2: times on the show, and you always roll your eyes.

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Speaker 2: But what if it's Max Scherzer and I'll throw another one?

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Speaker 1: I metaphorically roll my eyes again.

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Speaker 2: Another one, Maybe you're more open to Uri Peretz, who

616
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Speaker 2: is working his way back and has the talent to

617
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Speaker 2: be a top twenty five starting pitcher in the second half.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm more open to that one for sure. I

619
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Speaker 1: wonder how you define under the radar. Are you defining

620
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Speaker 1: this as just anybody outside the top twenty five or

621
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Speaker 1: are you saying you want somebody that's pretty low that

622
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Speaker 1: you think could rut because like somebody like Casey Mice,

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Speaker 1: for example, I'm looking out our rest of season rankings

624
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Speaker 1: right now to see where these guys are. He's SP

625
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Speaker 1: fifty five. I think he'll be better than that rest

626
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Speaker 1: of season, but he's not really under the radar because

627
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Speaker 1: everybody knows he's had like kind of this breakout like

628
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Speaker 1: first really good year of his career, so I don't

629
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Speaker 1: know that he would like totally qualify.

630
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Speaker 2: So it's kind of those things like how do you

631
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Speaker 2: define a sleeper, Like everyone has their own definition definition

632
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:02,719
Speaker 2: of what a sleeper is, and I think you have

633
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Speaker 2: to be pretty clearly outside of the top twenty five.

634
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Speaker 2: And then maybe someone who hasn't been talked about, like

635
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Speaker 2: maybe it's Shane McClanahan because he's coming back and like

636
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 2: we've just forgot it.

637
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Speaker 1: I was just I was literally just about to say,

638
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Speaker 1: what about coming back from injury? How about Shane mclan

639
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Speaker 1: and he just threw a bullpen session on Tuesday. I

640
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Speaker 1: was just about to use him as an example, So

641
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Speaker 1: that's funny. Yeah. Yeah, I'm like kind of scrolling through

642
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 1: the rest of season rankings right now just to see

643
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Speaker 1: if there's anybody that I'm forgetting, you know, somebody. One

644
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: of the rookies that I did really like earlier was

645
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Speaker 1: Mick Abel, but he's been so bad lately that he

646
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Speaker 1: can't pick him. Charlie Morton I talked about as a

647
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: waiver pickup recently, he's actually been like sneaky, really good

648
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Speaker 1: the last month and a half.

649
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Speaker 2: Shock though it feels like a taking time bomb. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's like what happened here, It's like he rediscovered his curveball.

651
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: Right, That's exactly what it is. His curveball was not

652
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: working the first month and a half. He kind of

653
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: had a reset in the bullpen, and it's been working

654
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: since he came back. I mean, he said from the

655
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: beginning that he he felt like he said the stuff,

656
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: he just it just was not clicking totally. Like he

657
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 1: was like, if I felt like I didn't have the stuff,

658
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: I would retire, because a lot of fans were calling

659
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: for him to do that because he was so bad

660
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: to start, but he was like, no, I have this stuff.

661
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: It's just not clicking now, and now it is. So

662
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: I don't know, if you look a little higher, like

663
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: somebody like Andrew Abbott we've talked about to see legit

664
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: or not, he's, you know, well outside the top twenty

665
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 1: five in rankings. Matthew Liberatore is SB fifty eight in

666
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: the rest of the seasons rankings. I think he's very

667
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: good and could get there. So some interesting names there.

668
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: All right, we have one more key question each mine

669
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: kind of sticking on the mound. Are there any non

670
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: closing relievers with a chance to take over ninth inning

671
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: duties in the second half and become new elite closers.

672
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: And there was I mean, there's there's always gonna be

673
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: a few names for this, like whether be you know,

674
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: if somebody gets hurt, or you just kind of earned

675
00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: the job because the guy in front of you isn't

676
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: pitching very well, or because there's a trade at the

677
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: deadline and all of a sudden a new role opens up.

678
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: So there's kind of a lot of different ways that

679
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: this can go. When you saw this, I can go

680
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 1: first of you want, but I wanted to hear what

681
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: you have as your guy that you think could elevate

682
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: into that role.

683
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 2: So I wrote down a few notes and what was

684
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 2: kind of hanging me up was the the inclusion of

685
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 2: the word elite because I wasn't sure, like who can

686
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 2: be and a new elite closer? I think a likely

687
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 2: trade candidate is a worldest chapman, but he's already a

688
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 2: valuable closer and he's already in the closer closer role.

689
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 2: And then you start looking at teams like that, like

690
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 2: who has a closer that is most likely to trade

691
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,239
Speaker 2: their closer? And then who's going to step up behind them?

692
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 2: And is you know, is there a potential elite option there?

693
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 2: But then again, if that player, if that team is

694
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 2: trading their closer, they're probably not that good, and so

695
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 2: is that new clos are going to be elite. So

696
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 2: you can see how I got. I went down a

697
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 2: rabbit hole and got hung up on the word elite.

698
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 2: The I kind of struggle with this one.

699
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I have a pick, if you want me

700
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 1: to give it.

701
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have some notes, but none of them like

702
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 2: perfectly answer your questions. So why don't you go first?

703
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: Okay, So my favorite pick here is Randy Rodriguez in

704
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: San Francisco because he has been completely filthy this season.

705
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: Thirty seven to two thirds innings pitch, He's only allowed

706
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: three earned runs. That's an ERA of zero point seven

707
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: to two. His whip is zero point seven to seven.

708
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: He only has eight walks in those thirty seven innings,

709
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: and he has fifty three strikeouts. He has been very,

710
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: very good in his second season here, and it's not

711
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: like there's some elite option already. Like Doval has thirteen

712
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: saves this year. His ERA is over three, right, his

713
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 1: whip's one point one to three. He has a strikeout

714
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: and inning. He's also been a little worse lately dove

715
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: all in some of the like he just blew a

716
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: save yesterday, so I think there's an opportunity if he

717
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: blows a couple more saves. And I think Randy Rodriguez

718
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: has the kind of stuff that makes for an elite

719
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: fantasy culib if he gets the opportunity. So yeah, Rodriguez,

720
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: twenty five years old, like I said, just absolutely ridiculous

721
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: numbers here early on in the season. So he's my pick.

722
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 2: I'll tell you who. I talked about him really early

723
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 2: in the season when Emmanuel Class was having his struggles

724
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,719
Speaker 2: because the Guardians have two pretty good setup men and

725
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 2: it looks like they're going to be sellers. So I

726
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 2: think if they decide to move either Aboth both of

727
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 2: these players, which I don't know that they necessarily will

728
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 2: because they're not very expensive yet, but Hunter Gddis and

729
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 2: Kate Smith are both really good. And Hunter Gaddis is

730
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 2: from I think right around where I live, because I

731
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 2: met someone a couple months ago who was friends with

732
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 2: Hunter Dadis and so that's why he's always top of

733
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 2: mind mine for me, now is my neighbor Hunter Gaddis,

734
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 2: but he's someone that, you know, if they decided to

735
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 2: flip him to a contender, they could probably get a

736
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 2: lot of value for. And now that Class A is

737
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,719
Speaker 2: back to being Class A, it's not clear that Gaddis

738
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 2: or Smith are going to have a clear path to

739
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 2: being a closer anytime soon. And so it's just a

740
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 2: matter of do the Guardians want to hold on to

741
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 2: these affordable arms or do they want to see if

742
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 2: they can really cash in with prospects. And I think

743
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 2: if either one of them moved to the Tigers, you know,

744
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 2: if they moved to that like any if either one

745
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 2: of them get moved to Detroit, they're instantly the best

746
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 2: reliever that the Tigers have on a surprisingly good Tigers team,

747
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 2: and so they could instantly become like one of the

748
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 2: best closing closer values in fantasy.

749
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: Randy Rodriguez has given up one earned run since April.

750
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: Just look at his game log right now. He's so good.

751
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 2: Kate Smith has a two three six ERA and a

752
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 2: one point three to one FIP.

753
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to the last key question here. What

754
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: do you got for us to wrap things up?

755
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 2: The last key question is which player who had a

756
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 2: disappointing first half is most likely to bounce back in

757
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 2: the second half.

758
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: I feel like this one there is actually a lot

759
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 1: of options.

760
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 2: Do you.

761
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 1: Did you feel the same like trying to answer this

762
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 1: question that you actually had a bunch of answers or

763
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: did you struggle with this one?

764
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 2: I didn't struggle with it. I struggled to decide who

765
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 2: I want to do include because you know who was

766
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 2: the first name I thought of. It's Mike trap I'm

767
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:22,760
Speaker 2: sure one of the first names you thought of was Adlie,

768
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 2: Adley Richmond, assuming he is coming back healthy.

769
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: Adley was one of the first names I thought of,

770
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 1: and Gunner Henderson was one of the first names I

771
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: thought of because while he hasn't been atrocious, he has

772
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 1: not been a first round player, but a lot of

773
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,760
Speaker 1: the underlying stats look still excellent for him. Same with Adli.

774
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: And although Adley's not as good as Gunners, I don't

775
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: want to put them in the same bucket. Gunners really

776
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 1: does look like he's hitting the ball hard. He's just

777
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: not elevating it to get those home runs. But he

778
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,879
Speaker 1: still is like just hitting the crap out of the ball,

779
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: and his stack cast data looks great Adley's it's more

780
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: like his statcast data looks better than his real performance,

781
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: but it doesn't look as mega elite as gunners.

782
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 2: I think you could also look at this question similar

783
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:05,280
Speaker 2: to our second question with likely to move to the deadline,

784
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 2: because it could be a player like a Luis Robert

785
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 2: who gets traded to a contender and all of a sudden,

786
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 2: it's just like re energized and has better lineup protection.

787
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd be pretty interested in really like any stud

788
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: that there's not like there's not a reason to think that, oh,

789
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: because of some injury they're dealing with or something, they're

790
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,319
Speaker 1: gonna be bad the rest of the year, Even like

791
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,439
Speaker 1: a Mookie Bets who had some stuff early in the year,

792
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: like when he was sick and some of the toast

793
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,720
Speaker 1: stuff like nine home runs, six solen bases, batting average

794
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: is two forty six. It's just hard to imagine Mooki

795
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: Bets isn't better than that in the second half, right.

796
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a lot of names on the

797
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: list in that same vein.

798
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, Unfortunately, you're naming a bunch of players who are

799
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 2: on my team, and when the leagues weren't together, which

800
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 2: is like why I'm like near the bottom of the standings.

801
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 2: It's like I was actually looking at my rossa this

802
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 2: morning because I was talking with Dan about potential trades,

803
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 2: and I was like, why am I so bad? It

804
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 2: was it was Gunner Henderson. It was Bryce Harper, who's

805
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 2: another you know, he's been banged up, but he's another

806
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,919
Speaker 2: potential answer to this. It was Mookie Bets, and then

807
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 2: my pitching has just imploded. Like you know, even if

808
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 2: they weren't like top of the line starters, I thought

809
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 2: I was going to get like solid, reliable innings out

810
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 2: of these guys. But like Dylan Ceese has not been great,

811
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 2: Zach Allen has been awful. And so it's like you

812
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 2: can pick any of those names. I hope, I hope

813
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 2: they have better second half unless I trade them, then

814
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 2: you know, curses to them.

815
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: It's hard for me to feel too bad for you

816
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 1: in that league. Considering all my injuries. I think I'm

817
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:31,839
Speaker 1: sitting on like, well, you.

818
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:33,800
Speaker 2: Were riding high and now you're all fall all the

819
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 2: way back to where I am.

820
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, but not through picking bad players just because they

821
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: keep getting hurt. So I have I have a good

822
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 1: excuse for that.

823
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 2: Well, also in that league, there's which I think more

824
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 2: leagues should do. There's a second half penalty for the

825
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 2: bottom two teams, you know, because it's like a keeper

826
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 2: with salary ramifications. And so I am in second to last,

827
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 2: but I've been much better over the last few weeks.

828
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 2: And so even though it's a keeper league and you

829
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 2: want to you know, trade assets to get better future assets,

830
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 2: you also have to think about, hey, I need to

831
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 2: feeld a competitive team here and stay out of the

832
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 2: bottom two. And so one of the players that I'm

833
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 2: getting interested is Chandler Simpson because it's road a league

834
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 2: and you can, you can like jump four or five

835
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 2: spots in the stolen based standings just by having Chandler

836
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 2: Simpson on your team. And so for me, it's like,

837
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 2: do I want to use Chandler Simpson to stay out

838
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 2: of the bottom too, or should I see what I

839
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 2: can get for him on the trademark?

840
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: I think, well, I think you should always see what

841
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 1: you can get right on the trade market, but you

842
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: don't have to accept the offer. But a guy like

843
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: him in a league like that is really valuable. Any

844
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: other kind of thoughts just about the second half, anything

845
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: you're looking forward to and just kind of excited to

846
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 1: see you know, maybe we didn't already hit on so

847
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: far already. I mean, we're going to do a more

848
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: of a bullet predictions episode for the second half next week,

849
00:38:58,040 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 1: kind of heading into the All Star break. That'll be

850
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,400
Speaker 1: of our fun episode for that, So it doesn't have

851
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: to neces to be a prediction, but it's kind anything

852
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: you're thinking as we had into the second half.

853
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 2: One thing that I'm really interested to see, just not

854
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 2: even just from a fantasy perspective, but also as like

855
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 2: a baseball fan is we talked recently about just like

856
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 2: how many young players have been called up this season.

857
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 2: It feels like more than any ever any other year.

858
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 2: And we've also talked about how many of the hitters

859
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,839
Speaker 2: have struggled, but then you know, all not all, but

860
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 2: like a lot of the best hitters, you know, they

861
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 2: kind of hit that wall and then they get on

862
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 2: the other side of it. How many of those hitters

863
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,959
Speaker 2: are we in to see in the second half take

864
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 2: that step, like we're going to see a new version

865
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 2: of Jack Aglee and Christian Campbell Roman Anthony, you know,

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Speaker 2: like Nick Kurtz is getting hot camp Smith, you know,

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Speaker 2: there are so many young hitters, Like, what if we

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Speaker 2: just get like really good second halfs from like even

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Speaker 2: exciting second half of baseball with a bunch of young stars.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a great thing to keep an eye

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Speaker 1: out for. We'll go ahead and wrap things up there

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Speaker 1: for rounding the bases are kind of key question episode

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Speaker 1: here at the midway point of the season for mayor.

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Speaker 1: I'm Ryan Warman. Thanks for tuning in to be sure to

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Speaker 1: where we'll be talking about some waiver pickups and of

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Speaker 1: course our typical pitching streamers and all that fun stuff.

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