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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into the cycle. Part two of the week.

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Speaker 1: This is our buys and sells and it's kind of

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Speaker 1: a special buys of cells because it's buys and sells

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Speaker 1: ahead of the real life trade deadline and also the

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Speaker 1: trade deadline in a lot of fantasy leagues is coming

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Speaker 1: up as well, so we're kind of, you know, taking

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Speaker 1: the approach of like this can be a by low

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Speaker 1: or a buye high, sello and a sell high. It's

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Speaker 1: really that's kind of what we always do. But it's

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Speaker 1: really just like trade targets right in general, because we

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Speaker 1: are up against it. This is the stretch run coming

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Speaker 1: up here very shortly mayor for fantasy leagues, whether it's

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Speaker 1: a roto league or you know, a head to head league.

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Speaker 1: So these are just some of our favorite targets that

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Speaker 1: we're looking to trade four or trade away. You can

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Speaker 1: go first, who's your favorite buye? Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So normally on fantaspros dot com, we do the weekly

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Speaker 2: Featured Pros article where we you know, we ask the

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Speaker 2: experts or who's your bylow, who's your so high? And

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Speaker 2: you know, I participate that in every week in that

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Speaker 2: every week, and so this week, since we are approaching

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Speaker 2: the real like you said, the real life MLB deadline

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Speaker 2: and the fantasy trade deadline, we did more. We did

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Speaker 2: more of like a trade deadline addition, but it's still

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Speaker 2: the same thing, like who you're looking to buy, who

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Speaker 2: you're looking to sell. The player I said that I

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Speaker 2: was looking to buy is Edward Cabrera, and it's obviously

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Speaker 2: in leagues where I need pitching. He's one of my

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Speaker 2: top targets. He's been, he's been quietly excellent, sense a

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Speaker 2: rough start this season, and his name is also now

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Speaker 2: popping popping up in real life trade rumors. And so

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Speaker 2: going from the Marlins to you know, a better team,

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Speaker 2: you know, no offense to the Marlins, but a team

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Speaker 2: with maybe better defense or a better offense to support

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Speaker 2: him and get some more wins, he could be really valuable.

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Speaker 2: And so, you know, I don't want to go on

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Speaker 2: and on, but he had a he had a really

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Speaker 2: rough start to the season, and he's been, like I said,

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Speaker 2: really good recently, and I think there's even more upside there,

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Speaker 2: especially if he can go to a better, better situation.

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Speaker 2: And just to throw a couple of names out there

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Speaker 2: that I thought might be in the price range for him.

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Speaker 2: I listed Austin Hayes, Marcella Meyer, although he just got hurt,

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Speaker 2: so put a pin in him. Rhyan O'Hearn, your boy,

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Speaker 2: Spencer Steeer, Addison Barger or Yandy Diz. What do you

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Speaker 2: think about those?

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Speaker 1: I think i'd keep you. I didn't catch every name

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Speaker 1: you said, honestly, but I think Yandy Diaz I'd rather

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Speaker 1: have him than Cabrera. But I like Cabrera as a

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Speaker 1: target in general. I think you made a good point.

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Speaker 1: We just talked on part one of the cycles Luke

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Speaker 1: with George Bistol of roode World, and we talked a

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Speaker 1: little bit about Cabrera as a real life trade target

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Speaker 1: and a guy who could really benefit from moving, Like

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Speaker 1: you say, no offense to the Marlins, you know, offence

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Speaker 1: to the Marlins, Like it'd be great to see him

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Speaker 1: move somewhere else. So I think I think it's a

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Speaker 1: good Who are some of the other names you threw

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Speaker 1: out besides Yandy you said Ryan O'Hearn, I would do that.

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Speaker 2: Washton Hayes, Spencer Steere.

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Speaker 1: I think I would move Hayes if I had outfield depth,

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Speaker 1: because he's a guy that gets banged up a lot

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Speaker 1: be willing to move him if I had. You know,

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Speaker 1: if I wasn't like desperate at the position, like I said,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't move Yandy. I would move O'Hearn. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think those are something like kind of the right

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Speaker 2: Though, awesome about you.

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Speaker 1: My favorite target is Dylan sees as somebody that actually

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Speaker 1: not successfully done it yet. But he's one of those

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Speaker 1: guys that has been disappointing this year and disappointing two

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Speaker 1: of the last three years, but very consistently does seem

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Speaker 1: to have these underlying metrics that would suggest he is

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Speaker 1: You know, you're getting the strike cuts right like that

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Speaker 1: that hasn't changed at all. Eighty eight percent island strike

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Speaker 1: the highest home run to fly ball rate since twenty

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Speaker 1: that applies to who strikes out so many batters, whose

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Speaker 1: numbers say that he should be having more success than

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Speaker 1: he does. And it's one of those things where I

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Speaker 1: didn't draft him a lot this year, and yet I

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Speaker 1: still feel like I have to say I can't quit

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Speaker 1: Dylan cease. And I know you are in the position

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Speaker 1: you did draft him this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And as you were talking talk, and I was

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Speaker 2: thinking back to some of our preseason shows, and I

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Speaker 2: kind of I remember bringing up Delancey's more than once

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Speaker 2: and my main talking point was, I pretty much know

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Speaker 2: what I'm going to get out of Dellancy's mid threes

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Speaker 2: And I'm getting the two un of strikeouts, but I'm

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Speaker 2: getting a mid four ZRA, which is not what I wanted.

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Speaker 2: it's interesting that, like like you said, fip X, FIPZIERRA,

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Speaker 2: it's interesting that despite using those, you know, different formulas,

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Speaker 2: pointing to significantly better outcomes than what its actual era

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and even aside from the ratio numbers, like you're

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Speaker 1: let alone building in the you know, statistically probable improvement

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Speaker 1: of the era, but you, of course, you never know.

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Speaker 1: It's no guarantee. All right, let's go to the guys

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Speaker 1: that we're looking to get rid of. I'll let you

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Speaker 1: go first again. Who do you have?

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Speaker 2: So the player that I wrote up for the player

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Speaker 2: I'm looking to sell is Brandon Woodruff, And like Edward Carberra,

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Speaker 2: it's a pretty simple, simple formula. For me, it's he

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Speaker 2: the longest rehab assignment of all time, and a consistent

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Speaker 2: theme throughout his rehab assignment is that his velocity was

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Speaker 2: theory is that another shoe is going to drop soon

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Speaker 2: because we were only as you know, as of this recording,

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Speaker 2: we've only gotten three appearances at him, and they've all

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Speaker 2: been really good. But the concern is the diff in

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Speaker 2: vel velocity. In twenty twenty three is four symer averaged

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Speaker 2: nearly ninety six miles an hour. Now it's a hair

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Speaker 2: under ninety three. And in nineteen ninety five, a ninety

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Speaker 2: and the velocity of that is even lower. It's hovering

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Speaker 2: a Brandon Woodriff fan and he's been really good since

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Speaker 2: he's returning, I think we're dealing we might be dealing

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Speaker 2: results are going to be much much worse, and so

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Speaker 2: I'm looking to sell high. If I have Brandon Woodriff

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Speaker 2: and see, you know who I can acquire.

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Speaker 1: The velocity is definitely concerning. I'm glad you brought up

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Speaker 1: up because he has been better than I expected in

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Speaker 1: Brandon Woodriff was back, this is great, and try and

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Speaker 1: trade them away. I think it's a great call. I

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Speaker 1: really struggled to come up with a good sell target

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Speaker 1: on my own, so I did something that I used

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Speaker 1: everybody that she could read the whole article and see

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Speaker 1: kind of all the breakdowns of these guys. I also considered,

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Speaker 1: since I got to the sheet before you putting Edward

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Speaker 1: Cabrera and Brandon Woodruff, since those who you picked, and

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Speaker 1: just taking him from you. I did not do that,

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Speaker 1: but Brandon Meyers from Rasball was one of the contributors

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Speaker 1: to this article this week on fantasypros dot com, and

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Speaker 1: he picked Paul Skeins, and I thought it was a

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Speaker 1: really great case. If you look at the last thirty days,

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Speaker 1: he's sp thirty eight, even with his great era and

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Speaker 1: whip strikeout and all that. Because he plays with the Pirates,

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Speaker 1: he's not going to win games. And it's not just

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Speaker 1: the fact that you're not going to get a lot

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Speaker 1: of wins with the Pirates, it's that they have also

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Speaker 1: announced they are going to put a limit on his workload,

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Speaker 1: which makes sense given that they're not competing for anything.

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Speaker 1: They said he's not gonna misstarts, but they're going to

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Speaker 1: manage each start. I don't like the sound of that

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Speaker 1: in terms of trying to get more quality starts out

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Speaker 1: of him, just general innings to rack up the you know,

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Speaker 1: ratio help or the you know, just getting more strikeouts.

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Speaker 1: And the key thing is he's Paul Skeens, so you

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Speaker 1: can get something really valuable for him. I would think

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Speaker 1: it's not like you're saying, hey, this is a guy

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Speaker 1: that everything I just described applies to, and he doesn't

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Speaker 1: also have a ton of name value, So like, what

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Speaker 1: are you what are you going to get for him?

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Speaker 1: People will say, oh, Paul Skiens the best picture in

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Speaker 1: baseball or second best pind Schooble, Like, yes, of course,

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Speaker 1: I'd love to have that on my team. He's bound

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Speaker 1: to Waivers Central here. I'll go first on this one.

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Speaker 2: he's been playing well. Slade CHACONI I think his name CHACONI.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll wrap things up there. Be sure to

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Speaker 1: check out our conversation with George Bissel from Rotal World

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Speaker 1: that was in part one for rounding the bases this week,

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Speaker 1: start pitcher competition for Mayor. I'm Ryan Warman. Thanks for

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