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Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is the

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Speaker 1: with me. Of course is the Welsh and this is

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite shows we do. We started it

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Speaker 1: predictions on some polarizing players in three words or less

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Speaker 1: what twenty twenty six holds for them. And of course

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Speaker 1: your drafts. Welsh did a phenomenal job of assembling this

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Speaker 1: incredible schedule of topics of guests. Welsh, it's very it's

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Speaker 1: join that as well. Welsh three words or less to

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Speaker 1: describe your twenty twenty six year coming up? What do

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Speaker 1: you want to do? Cool?

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Speaker 2: Go anywhere else?

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Speaker 1: I got that attending dance festivals for dance competitions. That

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Speaker 1: that's pretty much Welsh's twenty twenty six with his kids, Right,

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Speaker 1: that's what.

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Speaker 2: You get get Still not Lackey, not John, Still not

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Speaker 2: John Lackey. Yeah, that's a big one.

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Speaker 1: Still not Lacky. Okay, Yeah, that's the.

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Speaker 2: Dance festivals all that? Did I tell you? I was

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Speaker 2: with our dear friend Frank Stamful spring training game. He

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Speaker 2: came out here, visited, we hung out, took a picture

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Speaker 2: and it wasn't a bit. Multiple people thought he took

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Speaker 2: a picture with John Lackey, and I was like, Oh,

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Speaker 2: they're doing the thing, they're doing, they're doing the bid. Nope,

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Speaker 2: they don't follow me, they didn't know me or anything

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Speaker 2: like that it is very dishart. So like that's what

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: If I lose a bunch of weight, maybe I need

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Speaker 1: Look in my phone, you're still that picture of Rico

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Speaker 1: Bronia with the Diamondbacks. Hate like, like to me, that

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Speaker 1: looks even more than the John.

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Speaker 2: Lack anybody but me, you know what? You know what,

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Speaker 2: how about this year it'll be I'm bringing me back.

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Speaker 2: That's smart.

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Speaker 1: I like that. That's very like still like getting a group.

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Speaker 2: Back the Welsh. That's who it is. It's not lacky.

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Speaker 2: It's not Richo Bosco or whatever you said.

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Speaker 1: Rico Bronia, Not Rico Bosco, What the hell are you

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Speaker 1: talking about. It's Rico Bronia, damn it. Good player, by

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about Ronald Dacunya. Obviously, the last couple

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Speaker 1: hitting forty home runs, stealing seventy bases, and of course

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Speaker 1: the Valley of Rondalcunya, which is missing time with torn

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Speaker 1: Bowl prediction Ronaldalcunya. What he got in three words, run

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Speaker 2: That's what we need from Acunya. I mean, also there's

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Speaker 2: also absolutely elite. The problem is is like things have changed,

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Speaker 2: you know, following the seventy three stolen base season. In

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Speaker 2: like twenty five stolen bases. So that's like a dramatic decrease.

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Speaker 2: The power seems to be still there and good the

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Speaker 2: which was a bump from twenty twenty four. The underlying

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Speaker 2: you know, he's barreling, he's hitting the ball hard. He's

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Speaker 2: doing all the great stuff, he's doing the Ronald Acunya stuff,

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Speaker 2: you know, the elite hitter things. But for him to

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Speaker 2: is he's got to run. And look at what happened

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Speaker 2: with Wan Soto. You know, Wan Sota. Ha's always been fantastic,

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Speaker 2: of bases and it's five. So like Ronald Acunya could

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Speaker 2: legitimately vie for a number one pick. I mean, we

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Speaker 2: If he's stealing bases, so run, Ronald, run.

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Speaker 1: It's not bad, it's not bad. I do enjoy a

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Speaker 1: good forest gumper, our friends and now and again, all right,

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Speaker 1: for me, this is maybe a little Rick Flair feel stealing,

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Speaker 1: wheeling and dealing. That's what I got for Ronald Akunya. Whoa,

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. But let me tell you something.

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Speaker 1: He is still in his prime. He's only twenty eight

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Speaker 1: There is twenty eight to thirty one that's really your

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Speaker 1: I understand the miss time has been a problem. I

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Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of issues with him and

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Speaker 1: Even though he had a lot of success, there sometimes

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Speaker 1: relationships Frey never me and the Welsh never. We never fray.

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Speaker 1: But I will say this, I mean, looking at the

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Speaker 1: hasn't for thirty steals, and I think he's gonna have

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Speaker 1: more than thirty steals. That's that's what I think is

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. I don't think he's gonna get back to

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Speaker 1: But to me, Ronda Kunya, I feel very confident. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, looks very strong. We've already got I knew

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Speaker 1: that shoe was gonna drop, that ACL was gonna tear.

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Speaker 1: It's just typically what happens with these guys. So we're repaired,

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Speaker 1: we're back better, and perhaps we're even more machine than man.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. We can read that too many words,

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Speaker 1: that's too many words. We can rebuild, it's also too

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Speaker 1: many words. All right, let's go to Jordan Alvarez for

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Speaker 1: a second. Here. My three words for him are become

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Speaker 1: dh only just stop, stop, stop playing the field. We

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Speaker 1: don't need that. I know you and I kind of

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Speaker 1: where you know it's okay, we love the Kyle Schwarber's

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Speaker 1: we love you, Ordon Alva. Just hit. That's all we

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Speaker 1: want you to do is hit. We don't want you

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Speaker 1: to be a hero. Maybe don't be hero. Maybe that's

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Speaker 1: just Alvarez, just go out there, stay healthy, take your

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Speaker 1: at bats, and then give me fantasy productivity. That's all

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Speaker 1: I want from you. I don't know if that the

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Speaker 1: Astros want more from him, but I think at this

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Speaker 1: point I think they recognize the value of Alvarez in

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Speaker 1: that lineup is just too much to muck around with.

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Speaker 1: So don't Welsh, what are your three words twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Your Alvarez need.

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Speaker 2: Some milk, Jordan Alvarez needs some milk and just be

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Speaker 2: out there all the time. And maybe that takes to

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Speaker 2: what you were saying, get him off the field. We

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Speaker 2: can't have the little the ankle thing here in the

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Speaker 2: playing to this crazy injury. He doesn't have, ironically the

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Speaker 2: injury history that Ronald Zacuna actually does. But we want

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Speaker 2: these full games. Last year was kind of a struggle.

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Speaker 2: He actually has not ever played one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: that doesn't make him valuable. One hundred and forty. One

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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty is solid, but he's guaranteed missing some time.

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Speaker 2: But we need that time to not be forty eight

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Speaker 2: games from last year or one hundred and fourteen from

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Speaker 2: like you said, if it's taking him off the field,

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Speaker 2: that's fine because we need the bat. Don't have these

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Speaker 2: great seasons taken away from US. I mean, he's had

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Speaker 2: two straight thirty home run seasons. His batting average is high,

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Speaker 2: his batting profile is absolutely freaking elite. And we've always

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Speaker 2: had those discussions of like Vladimir Guerrero Jordan Alvarez, which

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Speaker 2: one it's a Wellalvarez is continuously missing games and there's

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Speaker 2: always these little mystery, nagging injuries that are flowing around

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Speaker 1: We need that to stop.

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Speaker 2: Drink some milk, get your bone stronger, go to Germany,

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Speaker 2: do the Christian McCaffrey blood transmit, do something, do something

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Speaker 2: outside of what Profar is doing. Do something legally, yes,

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Speaker 1: He don't drink that allegedly the profile milk is probably

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Speaker 1: not the best milk to be unless it's got like

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Speaker 1: that Nestlie Quick in it. That's pretty delicious. Can he

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Speaker 2: I don't know, have you not ever seen that he

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Speaker 2: needs some milk video?

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Speaker 1: I don't think I have this rine or something, and

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Speaker 1: it's like old.

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Speaker 2: It might actually have been an old vine, but it's

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Speaker 2: just an old video. Just he needs some milk.

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Speaker 1: Vines were popular when I first started having children, so

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Speaker 1: therefore I was out, like I just I missed that. However,

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Speaker 1: my children, who are teenagers now like them. Like all

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Speaker 1: these YouTube shorts, it's a nostalgia compilation of vines. No,

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Speaker 1: not this. They think they're hilarious. Someone should bring back

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Speaker 1: the vines.

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Speaker 2: That moral of today's you should just bring back vines.

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Speaker 1: Three words, let's bring back Jackson Merrill for twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Who are you?

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Speaker 1: Who?

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Speaker 2: Who?

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Speaker 1: Who? Who?

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Speaker 2: I added the other who's, but those were It's.

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Speaker 1: Still the same word, so it's still three words.

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Speaker 2: Okay, good if I get all the words and yeah,

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Speaker 2: just lots of who's I'm an out here? Who is

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Speaker 2: Jackson Merrill? That's my big question. Obviously, in that rookie season,

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Speaker 2: always like the biggest argument against Jackson Merril is even

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Speaker 2: Then this past season the power seemed to kind of

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Speaker 2: He stole almost over four hundred bats. He had one

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Speaker 2: stolen base plus the batting average tank, So who exactly

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Speaker 2: So which version who is Jackson Merril? Is Jackson Merrill?

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Speaker 2: At twenty twenty, guys, Jackson Merrill going to switch up

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Speaker 2: What where does the batting average lie? His XBA dip

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Speaker 2: So which version of Jackson Merril, Who are you, Jackson,

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Speaker 2: Because that is the difference between where he is going

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Speaker 2: Jackson Merril could rebound him being a twenty twenty or

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Speaker 1: All right, my three words for Jackson Merrill left wanting more.

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Speaker 1: That's what I think. You know, he doesn't even have

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Speaker 1: nine hundred played appearances in the minor leagues, Jackson Merrill,

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Speaker 1: he just didn't have a lot of development time, and

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Speaker 1: Left Wanting More is the story of twenty twenty six

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Speaker 2: Ye sound like a band, by the way, Left Wanting More.

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Speaker 1: That's a pretty good band. That's definitely like a that's

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Speaker 1: Left Wanting More.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like they kind of want to be Radiohead,

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Speaker 2: but they're like maybe a little yeah, like pilots, like

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Speaker 1: Like am but like Northeastern, like you know, arim, All right,

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Speaker 1: let's go to number four in our list for hitters.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna do ten hitters and ten pitchers today. Heraldo

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Speaker 1: per Domo Welsh minus. Don't copy and paste or just

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Speaker 1: don't copy paste. I guess really I gotta get rid

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Speaker 2: Explain this to me don't copy paste.

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Speaker 1: I just don't want people to think that you can

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Speaker 1: just think it's going to repeat in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: So that's my just be careful. I'm not saying he's

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Speaker 1: put an ink. I think you're using pencil still for Perdomo.

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Speaker 1: That's my take on it. But what's yours? Three words

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Speaker 1: or less?

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Speaker 2: Do it again? Do it again? That I think is

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Speaker 2: the most important thing. I do disagree with what you're saying,

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Speaker 2: but I think the hardest part is, unlike what we're

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Speaker 2: talking about with Jackson Merril, we have a track record

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Speaker 2: of Heraldo Perdomo and pretty much every year was nothing

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Speaker 2: like this. This was like a huge, big change one off. Right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it is a one off. But the problem, or I

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Speaker 2: doesn't strike out, he has an incredible hitting profile. He

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Speaker 2: he pulled the ball at a really great degree. He's

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Speaker 2: The stolen bases, we just really don't have like a

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Speaker 2: previous season where he's stole twenty seven, so like that's

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Speaker 2: maybe a question. And obviously the powers, but like the profile,

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Speaker 2: you kind of got to blindly go in. You're just like, hey,

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Speaker 2: I think he's going to do it again, And you

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Speaker 2: can't be someone that's like, well, I need him to

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Speaker 2: prove it again or otherwise I'm not investing. Well, you

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Speaker 2: won't get him because like he was a true five

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Speaker 2: second or third round next year and it won't be

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Speaker 2: a question anymore and we'll stop fighting this.

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Speaker 1: So do it again. I would say there's a better

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Speaker 2: Seeah, I know, I kind of I'm actually kind of

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Speaker 2: on the opposite end, like the that's interesting, okay, chases

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Speaker 1: It is. It is no doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, I'm not there yet. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about number five on our Elyssa hitters Riley

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Speaker 1: Green Welsh in three words for twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: House of cards, and you know, what do we know

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Speaker 2: about a house of cards is we are waiting for

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Speaker 1: Though it don't invite Kevin Spacey to the after party.

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Speaker 2: That was a It's definitely don't invite Kevin Spacey to

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Speaker 2: the after party. But there's also a question of like

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Speaker 2: Riley Green is awesome in the big power projection that

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Speaker 2: he's had. He's had three straight years of increase up

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Speaker 2: he has had a three year decreasing XBA that has

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Speaker 2: a pretty scary seventy six percent. He was eighty percent

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Speaker 2: the year before. But the real house of cards that

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Speaker 2: I throw out to you is the strikeout rate. The

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Speaker 2: That is a significant increase year over year. How much

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Speaker 2: That's where homers start to deplete now maybe he will

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Speaker 2: have to deal with it. But like, I think he's

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Speaker 1: Kevin Spacey's career. See what I can't full.

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Speaker 2: Second, he's just keeping all right, Yeah, sorry.

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Speaker 1: Just taking shotson, It's all right. I think I'm allowed

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Speaker 1: talk about my three words for Riley Green. It's actually

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Speaker 1: a letter in two earth. It's f the haters. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of negativity about Riley Green, and

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Speaker 1: I get it. I understand. I understand what's going on here.

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Speaker 1: The strikeout rate is problematic, it is, But I want

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Speaker 1: He's always been this guy in the minor leagues too,

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Speaker 1: ops and is two hundred plus minor league games, right,

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Speaker 1: so he's played a fair amount of minor league games there.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this about Riley Green. He's still so

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a house of cars waiting

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six, still like him. The next guy

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Speaker 1: another outfielder on our list, number six, Louis Robert Junior,

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Speaker 1: scenery could have been my three words. I decided not

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Speaker 1: You know why because sometimes you know, you get that cash,

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Speaker 1: you know, for the cheap goal that you got you

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Speaker 1: I think there's a chance here Louise Robert could hit

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Speaker 1: cash in, and I think if he has a golden season,

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00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,760
Speaker 1: he will cash in. We'll see what happens with the

432
00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:13,440
Speaker 1: labor strike and all that stuff, with all these free

433
00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:16,040
Speaker 1: agents looming, and it's gonna be a weird, wacky show.

434
00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,000
Speaker 1: But don't worry, we're gonna be here for all of it. Good,

435
00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:20,000
Speaker 1: better and different. If there's no baseball, we're still gonna

436
00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,520
Speaker 1: be talking baseball here in the channel next year. I

437
00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,960
Speaker 1: guarantee you that. But I think there's that upside there

438
00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,080
Speaker 1: for him that I'm curious. I'm buying in. It's such

439
00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:31,439
Speaker 1: a better environment for him mentally, but also line up

440
00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,200
Speaker 1: protection wise, that if he starts to hit right away

441
00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:36,280
Speaker 1: and he's having a good spring, he could move up

442
00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:38,080
Speaker 1: that order and really do a lot of damage this

443
00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:39,760
Speaker 1: season here with it, and it looks like him and

444
00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,159
Speaker 1: Sodo have really kind of hit it off there. And

445
00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:43,840
Speaker 1: if you can pick up that work ethic from Soda,

446
00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:45,640
Speaker 1: which has been a big question in his career, It's

447
00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:47,680
Speaker 1: not a matter of talent. Robert's still not that old.

448
00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:49,800
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of Kenny put it all together here.

449
00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:52,800
Speaker 1: So Welsh, what are your three words for Luis Robert?

450
00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:54,800
Speaker 2: I would have said if I was using yours, by

451
00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,200
Speaker 2: the way, use cream, cash rules everything around me. Cream,

452
00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:00,560
Speaker 2: get the money, dollar dollar bill, y'all would have been mine.

453
00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:02,400
Speaker 2: He could have used the one word, but I didn't.

454
00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:05,120
Speaker 2: Mine is one last ride And that might seem dramatic

455
00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:07,560
Speaker 2: for a guy like Luis Robert who's still twenty eight

456
00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,359
Speaker 2: years old. But I feel like we have had like

457
00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,080
Speaker 2: a multitude of years that have just felt really I

458
00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:15,920
Speaker 2: mean we have We've had two straight years of just again,

459
00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:19,760
Speaker 2: have injuries, you have maybe lack of not just production,

460
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,600
Speaker 2: but like love of the game or hustle, whatever you

461
00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:23,879
Speaker 2: want to call it. Like he just didn't look like

462
00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:25,000
Speaker 2: he wanted to be there.

463
00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:25,520
Speaker 1: So this is that.

464
00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,160
Speaker 2: Opportunity he is in an environment where he's not the star,

465
00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:30,360
Speaker 2: he's not gonna be relied on as the top guy.

466
00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,639
Speaker 2: He can move down the order and he can just

467
00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,440
Speaker 2: be himself again. And we saw some monster stats put

468
00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:38,200
Speaker 2: up on some bad seasons. So again, maybe it's dramatic,

469
00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:40,760
Speaker 2: but the one last ride to me is like, this

470
00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,840
Speaker 2: is the opportunity right here for him to re establish

471
00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,280
Speaker 2: as like the dude, the guy you know, he will

472
00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:49,080
Speaker 2: be a guy that everybody loves again. And if he

473
00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,560
Speaker 2: can have a season where the batting average comes up

474
00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,800
Speaker 2: and he puts up a twenty thirty season or something

475
00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:55,119
Speaker 2: like that, then I think we'll.

476
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Speaker 1: Be back in.

477
00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:57,399
Speaker 2: But it's really important that he does it because this

478
00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,879
Speaker 2: is a maybe here's a better one. No more excuses.

479
00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:01,160
Speaker 2: That's a better three word.

480
00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:04,760
Speaker 1: You could change it if you want. Officially, I'll let you.

481
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:05,440
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do that.

482
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,920
Speaker 1: No more excuses, no more excuses. All right, While you're

483
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,320
Speaker 1: changing that, I'll talk about Chandler Simpson, So you could

484
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,800
Speaker 1: change it. In the in the sheet there playing time dependent.

485
00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:14,359
Speaker 1: We all know he's going to steal a ton of bases.

486
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,280
Speaker 1: It's just whether or not he plays every day, how

487
00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:18,439
Speaker 1: much he plays. We saw it like teased last year too,

488
00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,720
Speaker 1: and the rays are the rays, and I just you know,

489
00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,600
Speaker 1: he's gonna give you some batting average. He's certainly gonna

490
00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,440
Speaker 1: give you a ton of stolen bases. If he hits

491
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:28,440
Speaker 1: at nine. It's not nearly a sexy if he's hitting

492
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 1: at one or two. I can tell you that right

493
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:31,960
Speaker 1: now in terms of run scored, so he's a two

494
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:35,399
Speaker 1: c category player with three potential categories there too, But

495
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:39,320
Speaker 1: it's all about playing time there. Welsh for Chandler Simpson,

496
00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,400
Speaker 1: what are your three words to describe as twenty twenty six.

497
00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,000
Speaker 2: Stolen base leader? That I know there's some questions around

498
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:49,120
Speaker 2: him people I don't know, Like I have a multitude

499
00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:51,800
Speaker 2: of people that don't like love Chandler Simpson, and I

500
00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,240
Speaker 2: think that I think that's, like, you know, a definite

501
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,200
Speaker 2: concern of if he is going to hit lower in

502
00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,720
Speaker 2: the lineup and the power stuff. There's people saying going

503
00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,360
Speaker 2: down to triple A. So like, the dude gets on base.

504
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,480
Speaker 2: He is the only major leaguer that I see that

505
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,639
Speaker 2: he can hit a grounder to shortstop and he's getting

506
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:09,640
Speaker 2: on first base. So he is going to get on base,

507
00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,680
Speaker 2: and he is going to run wherever he is in

508
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:14,440
Speaker 2: the lineup, obviously, I think we want him higher in

509
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,200
Speaker 2: the lineup because then now what that does is that

510
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:18,679
Speaker 2: you know, gets him into like being a high end

511
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 2: runs leader, but stolen base leader. He is going to

512
00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,600
Speaker 2: be the number one stolen base guy. Fifty plus I

513
00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 2: think is an easy marker. That's where I'm at with

514
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:28,479
Speaker 2: Chandler Simpson and draft and I'm everywhere.

515
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:34,000
Speaker 1: All right, next guy on our list, Moonetaka Murakami. It's

516
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 1: fun to say, what are your three words for him? Welsh?

517
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:37,919
Speaker 1: All right?

518
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 2: Power or biday? We are going to see this great, powerful,

519
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:51,440
Speaker 2: thirty plus home run hitter or are we going to

520
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,479
Speaker 2: need to use a bidet to clean up after all

521
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:59,000
Speaker 2: the draft stock of Murzkami, because it is one or

522
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,400
Speaker 2: the other at this point, he is going so late

523
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 2: and there's so many devisive things. There's a great video

524
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 2: that was out there of show Yotani working with Murakami

525
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 2: on his on his swing and stuff like that in

526
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:13,520
Speaker 2: the WBC. It's so fun. But he wanted beidets in

527
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:16,480
Speaker 2: spring training and in the major League. We are going

528
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:17,960
Speaker 2: to get one or the other. We are going to

529
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,640
Speaker 2: get a big power output that is going to well

530
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 2: surpass his production, or we will all be ordering those

531
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 2: bidats to be cleaned up.

532
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 1: We could get both. He could be a first half

533
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 1: darling a second half loser like you just do you

534
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,440
Speaker 1: know what, guys kind of figure out his weaknesses. And

535
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 1: that's where mine comes into play here. My three words are,

536
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 1: that's are afraid we'll find out this rumors about you know,

537
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 1: how good he is against elite fastballs, maybe some elite

538
00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,880
Speaker 1: breaking stuff too. We'll find out if he gets exposed

539
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,440
Speaker 1: with some of those more elite pitchers. Now, the good

540
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,440
Speaker 1: news is in that division, it's Turix's Google is the

541
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:54,119
Speaker 1: elite pitcher. And then after that, like you know, like

542
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 1: there's some guys out there. But it's not exactly like

543
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:58,600
Speaker 1: blowing the doors off for the most for the majority

544
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:00,080
Speaker 1: of it anyway, I just put it out there, not

545
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: like he's you know, going against you know, Crochet and

546
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,399
Speaker 1: you know Neil Garrett Cole with his his height and

547
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: Max Free is gonna play in the East or something

548
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 1: like that, with all of his games in the Central.

549
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 1: It's a little bit more. Even though you know the

550
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 1: guys in the Cleveland, you know, some good pictures there.

551
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 1: Gavin Williams is a nice picture. But like there's there's school,

552
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 1: and then there's everybody else pretty much. But we'll see

553
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 1: what Markami's able to do. By the way, I'm a

554
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,600
Speaker 1: Bidet fan, just putting that out there. If I had

555
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 1: a bed day in my house, I would name it

556
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 1: JJ and that's what I would do. All right, let's

557
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 1: go to that's a that's a funny joke though. That's

558
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:34,160
Speaker 1: a funny one. All right, Let's talk about Connor Griffin.

559
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 1: And I've seen a lot of highlights of Connor Griffin.

560
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 1: But this spring I was able to watch at bats

561
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,520
Speaker 1: and watch his approach, and I gotta tell you, I

562
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 1: came away very excited. So my three words for him

563
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,639
Speaker 1: are the real deal. He is not a small kid.

564
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 1: He is six three two twenty like he is a

565
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 1: big boy. He is so young still, so he's still

566
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 1: going to grow into that frame. I hope he breaks camp.

567
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 1: I mean to say, he's got nothing left to prove.

568
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 1: I mean he could he take a hundred of bats

569
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 1: in trip A this year? Yeah? Would It probably be

570
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: the best for everybody. Probably, it's just whether or not

571
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 1: we're going to get at some point he's going to

572
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 1: be up. Whether it's may whether it's June, whether it's

573
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 1: April first, who knows. But for me, Connor Griffin, it's

574
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 1: it's the real deal. That's what he is. Welsh three

575
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: words for Condor Griffin. Would he have?

576
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 2: Connor Griffin?

577
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:16,399
Speaker 1: For me?

578
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 2: Is next big thing? Those are my three words for it.

579
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 2: And I think at this point, by the way, the

580
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 2: only thing that he has to like really prove, if

581
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,879
Speaker 2: you want to be like honest about it, it's the Pirates.

582
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 2: It's kind of a doofy team all that.

583
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 1: Like.

584
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 2: I know they made a bunch of moves. I don't

585
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 2: want to be dismissive of it. I like some of

586
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 2: the things the Pirates have done. But the thing that

587
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,640
Speaker 2: has to be proved is that he can sign a contract.

588
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,680
Speaker 2: That's about all that he's got to prove to get

589
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,919
Speaker 2: to the major leagues. But he is the next big thing.

590
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 2: I think he is going to be a guy that

591
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 2: I never want to say that guys aren't going to

592
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 2: struggle and stuff like that.

593
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,640
Speaker 1: But everybody going to be twenty years old signed the contract,

594
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 1: I means were super excited, and that first three months

595
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 1: was not great for Jackson jury.

596
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 2: I think I think he's just gonna come out like

597
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 2: Ronald Dacune. I mean, he is just going to vault him. So,

598
00:25:58,119 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 2: I mean Ellie did the same thing. Ellie like within

599
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 2: a year just became like an absolute superstar. I kind

600
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 2: of think that's the same thing that's gonna happen with

601
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 2: Connor Griffin. Everything's going to be loud. I'm open to

602
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 2: maybe there being a possibility there's a little bit of

603
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 2: a struggle, but he's gonna you obviously saw big hard

604
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 2: hit numbers a guy can steal. He's just well beyond

605
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:17,360
Speaker 2: his years and he is the next big thing for sure.

606
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 1: All Right, last one here for the hitters that we're

607
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,160
Speaker 1: gonna turn our attention to the pitcher Sal Stuart Welsh

608
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:23,880
Speaker 1: in three words for twenty twenty six.

609
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:29,200
Speaker 2: Bat must play. Bat must play because Sal Stewart right

610
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 2: now and just really overall isn't like a positionally solid player.

611
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 2: I don't know if he has a home outside of

612
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 2: like first base. Who's listed as a third baseman. They

613
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,439
Speaker 2: don't feel comfortable with that. And also they've got tours

614
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,160
Speaker 2: and they've got key Brian Hayes, so he's not gonna

615
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,880
Speaker 2: be there first base, DHS. The proof is your bat

616
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 2: must play. So this is like a really young twenty

617
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 2: two year old who does have incredible underlying metrics XBA.

618
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 2: Everything would have ranked so high had he had enough

619
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 2: of a sample size. But the bat's gonna have to

620
00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 2: play to stick around because if that bat struggle, there's

621
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 2: no defensive extra stuff for him. And they've got guys

622
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 2: like Spencer Steeer that are flying out there. So if

623
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 2: the bat doesn't play, he's gonna be out. But I

624
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 2: know they do think he's special, so bat must play

625
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 2: for sal Stewart.

626
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 1: My three words for Sala Stewart forgotten young talent. I

627
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, with Griffin and mcgonagal and Binge,

628
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 1: and I mean there's so many of them, Noel McLay

629
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:24,919
Speaker 1: and like there's so many like big rookies to talk

630
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 1: about this year, I feel like salth Stewart kind of

631
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 1: gets stuffed in the quarner. I came into camp in

632
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: really good shape too. Her twoto friend Conna to talk

633
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: about him too, and that's always important with the mager

634
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: things should you. But he's having a great spring, hitting

635
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: us not out of the ball, and I think he's

636
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,879
Speaker 1: a value this season. I'm with you, like he's got

637
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: a hit in order to get playing time right, otherwise

638
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: he's gonna get sent down to get every day at bats.

639
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 1: But he's doing everything again out of spring, and I think, regardless,

640
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 1: he'll be a good asset in twenty twenty six. So again,

641
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 1: I think he's a little forgotten about. However, I don't

642
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,240
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Speaker 1: Pitchers Welsh. Let's start with Chris Sale. My three words

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Speaker 1: for Chris Sale Cy young Worthy. I think people forget

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Speaker 1: Chris Sale was pretty much at the top of that

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Speaker 1: board for Cy Young. Right before he got hurt, he

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Speaker 1: was filthy. He was dominant. And I know this because

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Speaker 1: I had him in a couple of leagues and he

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Speaker 1: was absolutely running the table. He has had the freakiest,

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Speaker 1: weirdest injuries of anybody I can think of. I know

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Speaker 1: he's another year older. I know the Braves already with

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Speaker 1: some questions about Strider, and then Schwellenbach got hurt and

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Speaker 1: the sky is falling. I don't think this guy's gonna

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Speaker 1: fall two years in a row. I think some luck

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Speaker 1: bounces back of their way. But again, Chris Sale, for me,

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Speaker 1: Welsh is Cy Young worthy. I'm making the investment in him.

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Speaker 1: You know what you're getting out of him. He's a

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Speaker 1: great competitor and I think he will bounce back. Now,

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Speaker 1: should you prepare accordingly? Yes, make sure that bench is

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Speaker 1: deep at starting pitching, because you might end up with

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Speaker 1: a problem there with Chris Sale. But if he gives

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Speaker 1: you thirty starts, he's going to be in that conversation. Well,

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Speaker 1: three words for Chris Sale.

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Speaker 2: I'm just wanting to give a preamble to what I'm

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Speaker 2: going to say, is we're we At one point we

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Speaker 2: were kind of doing this game with our buddy Joe Rico,

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Speaker 2: and he had some like concerns centered around this, and

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Speaker 2: it sparked my three words or centered around like Chris

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Speaker 2: Sale and maybe value and how you're drafting him, and

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Speaker 2: mine is race to one fifty. And the whole point

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Speaker 2: behind that is if you get one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: innings out of Chris Sale, I think that the value

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Speaker 2: the cost of him supersedes the age, supersedes any of

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Speaker 2: the big questions. It is a race to one fifty.

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Speaker 2: One hundred and fifty innings of Chris Sale, like you

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Speaker 2: would say with Jacob de Gram, is like a great floor.

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Speaker 2: It's a good floor to his value on the cost

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Speaker 2: that you have to spend as like the eighth, ninth, tenth,

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Speaker 2: sp or whatever. And most of the projections are right there.

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Speaker 2: Some even a little bit higher into the one sixties

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Speaker 2: we've seen, but you're going to see elite strikeout numbers.

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Speaker 2: He's just he's an app elite picture. We haven't seen.

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Speaker 2: Another one could be like falling knife. You know, there's

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Speaker 2: a falling knife syndrome with Chris Sale. Everyone doesn't want

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Speaker 2: to have the old guy for the minute he falls off,

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Speaker 2: but to me, this is race to one fifty. He

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Speaker 2: just got to get one hundred and fifty innings and

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Speaker 2: you're gonna be set. And projections do end up liking

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Speaker 2: that for Chris Sale, even though he has only done

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Speaker 2: it once since twenty and nineteen Race to one fifty.

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Speaker 1: He's so dominant last year though, right before the injury.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, so dominant. Kyle Bradish number two on

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Speaker 1: our list of pictures. Wells three words for twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so mine's another one, just like I did here.

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Speaker 2: This one is one thirty equals twenty two.

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Speaker 1: There's no words at all there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's much enough.

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Speaker 1: Well equal equations.

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess if you use the symbol. But if

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Speaker 2: we use the word one thirty equals twenty two, that

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Speaker 2: is my three words list. What does that mean? That

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Speaker 2: means he is projected Kyle Bradish at around one hundred

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Speaker 2: and thirty innings on almost every system, and he is

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Speaker 2: the twenty second picture going off according to Fantasy Pro's ADP.

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Speaker 2: Right now, does that equal out does a picture at

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Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty innings? That is the high projection.

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Speaker 2: A guy that has some maybe scary limitations due to injury,

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Speaker 2: miss time. How much can they push him this year?

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Speaker 2: Does one hundred and thirty innings of any pitcher equate

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Speaker 2: to being the twenty second overall pitcher. I think some

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Speaker 2: guys you can say that's true. I'm not sure you

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Speaker 2: can do that with Bradish. I feel like everybody has

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Speaker 2: been super Pollyanna about Kyle Bradish. But I'm looking at

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Speaker 2: this and thinking, I don't know the cost when he's

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Speaker 2: like inside that twenty to twenty two to twenty three

743
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Speaker 2: range seems a little bit high. So I'm asking, or

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Speaker 2: my word to everybody else in three is does one

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00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 2: thirty equal twenty two? Do those things equate?

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Speaker 1: My three words Kyle Bradish are be very careful. I

747
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Speaker 1: think that's the way I said. Like, he's right next

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Speaker 1: to franber Valdez and Hazos Lozardo. He's going ahead of

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Speaker 1: Blake's Nell and Noel McLain and I love Blakes. No,

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Speaker 1: we'renn talking about later.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not Blake now.

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Speaker 1: All the rest Rol McClain, Uri Perez, Kevin Gosman, who's

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Speaker 1: very durable. You might say what you will about Kevin Gosmin.

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Speaker 1: He makes thirty starts every year, be very careful. Like

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Speaker 1: I understand everybody was super excited about Bradish. He had

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Speaker 1: a good season, then he got hurt, and then last

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Speaker 1: year he did come back and he showed he was

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Speaker 1: okay and healthy, which is huge. That's a big thing

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Speaker 1: from a confidence standpoint, but also from a mental standpoint

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Speaker 1: for an athlete. I think from a fancy perspective, he's

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Speaker 1: still going too high. I think he should be after

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Speaker 1: them Prez and Noel McLain group Personally. That's where I

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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 2: Realize you and I were in the same boat on

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Speaker 2: that everything you hear.

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Speaker 1: About have an adp uh. You know he should be

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Speaker 1: closer to that glass now grouping because I think that

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Speaker 1: that's more like realistic considering track record here and the

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Speaker 1: sample size of what of being great, which brings us

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Speaker 1: to Blake's now number three on our list. Not good start.

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Speaker 1: That's my three words for not good start. It sounds

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Speaker 1: like something Blake Snell would have. Not good start, man

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Speaker 1: good man, not good man. Not a good star for

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Speaker 1: Blake Snell. We're already dealing with shoulder issues. We're already

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Speaker 1: babying him. I know the postseason last night last YEARIC

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00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: should say excuse me, but this is an old adage

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Speaker 1: from our good friends got Bogging, which is, why would

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00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: I take guys that are already hurt when everybody else

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00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: in my team's probably can get hurt too. He's not wrong,

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00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: He's not wrong. And Blake Snell's cost is still pretty high. Again,

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00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: I just gave you that grouping of guys he's around.

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00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: There's a scenario where he could end up making twenty

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Speaker 1: six starts. And we've seen this before when he came

784
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Speaker 1: in late a couple of years ago and he kind

785
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Speaker 1: of started off slow and then was incredible in that

786
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Speaker 1: second half of the season and wound up getting that

787
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: huge contract from the Dodgers right after. But again, why

788
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: are we starting here? Why are we in this point

789
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Speaker 1: with Blake Snell where he's already in a bad spot.

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Speaker 1: Unless you get a huge discount on Snell, I think

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Speaker 1: I'm out, especially at current ADP. What are your three

792
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 1: words for Blake Snell's twenty twenty six Just.

793
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Speaker 2: Not hodrading, not hodraders. Man, if everybody around my old

794
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 2: story he was using backfields the padres and he runs

795
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 2: out and everyone's screaming, and he goes, man, I gotta

796
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 2: get hodrated and he had to run in. He's not hydrated,

797
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 2: he's not healthy, and it's a continued story and kind

798
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Speaker 2: of the same vein. I mean, the one thing I

799
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Speaker 2: would say, like Bratish looked really good last year, but

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Speaker 2: like Snell does have a track record of small sample

801
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Speaker 2: size is being able to be good. But look at

802
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,879
Speaker 2: his projections. ATC has a for twenty two starts this year,

803
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 2: so you've already got low projected starts. You've got a

804
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,439
Speaker 2: team that's looking at a theoretical six man rotation whether

805
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 2: they do it or not. You've got a team that

806
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,320
Speaker 2: is playing for November, and you got him already injured

807
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 2: right now with some questions. I'm not saying you have

808
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Speaker 2: to be a complete fade of Blake Snell, but I'm

809
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Speaker 2: just not super interested to all the things that we

810
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Speaker 2: talked about. The look at I mean, Hunter Green just

811
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Speaker 2: got hurt. Blake Snell is always kind of hurt and

812
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 2: had like tempered innings. If you can get the right

813
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,320
Speaker 2: construction around your team, I think you can do it.

814
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 2: But the joke of it is just not hydrated, He's

815
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Speaker 2: just not healthy, and that's not something I want to

816
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,959
Speaker 2: like overtly invest in. I think there's some you've already mentioned.

817
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 2: It's literally the same argument with Bradish. There's just a

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Speaker 2: lot of talented pitchers that maybe don't have the overall

819
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 2: track record. If Blake Snell had thirty starts, or if

820
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Speaker 2: you were guaranteed thirty to thirty five starts or thirty four,

821
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 2: Blake Snell will be a top ten pitcher. But you're

822
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 2: just not guaranteed that. So there's a lot of other

823
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 2: shots you can take with guys like Uri or Nolan

824
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 2: McLain that it's like, will the twenty starts you get

825
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 2: out of Blake Snell really be worthwhile for it? So

826
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Speaker 2: this is not hadrated.

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Speaker 1: Your next three words for Spencer Stryder number four on

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Speaker 1: our list here are perfect. I love this. I think

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Speaker 1: I gonna love it anyway, I'm interpreting it. I shouldn't

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Speaker 1: interpret it. I should you interpret your own words? Three

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Speaker 1: words for Blake firstcuse me for Spencer.

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Speaker 2: Schreider fast or furious? That is my favorite one I

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Speaker 2: put together here because it is all about the velo

834
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Speaker 2: and if his fastball isn't fasten, we all know we're

835
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 2: gonna be furious. Nick Pollock laid the stage. He laid

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Speaker 2: the stage for him putting him in the seventies. I

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Speaker 2: bet he's probably altered that a little bit when the

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00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 2: Vello popped back up in the next start. But it

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Speaker 2: is fast or furious with Spencer Strider is he is

840
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Speaker 2: a one of the most polarizing players out there, specifically

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Speaker 2: because of his costs. I think you could make the argument,

842
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 2: like the arguments we've had with Shan McClanahan his last start,

843
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 2: had some worries about velo and stuff, but the cost

844
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 2: difference is like night and day with a guy like

845
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Speaker 2: Strider who's going into the twenties. So we focused a

846
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Speaker 2: lot on these mid twenties pitchers. You have got to

847
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 2: have that fastball velo regain. That was the big discussion.

848
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 2: And if not, you're gonna be furious drafting him and

849
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Speaker 2: he's going to fall apart. So Spencer Strider, faster or furious?

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Speaker 1: All right? For me, Spencer Schreider, my three words prove

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Speaker 1: them wrong. Those are my three words there for a

852
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Speaker 1: Spencer Schreider. When we had that conversation with Nick Pollock,

853
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 1: it was very fun because they said, well, what happens

854
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: when he makes a second start and he's sitting you

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Speaker 1: know ninety six or ninety seven and second start he

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Speaker 1: was a ninety six or ninety seven. We don't have

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Speaker 1: a lot of data on the internal brace recovery guys

858
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: versus the regular old Tami John guys. It could be

859
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 1: a whole different path. It could be something that just

860
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: takes a while, or maybe he's just taking it slow

861
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 1: and taking it easy ramp up. There's a lot of

862
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: moving parts when it comes to Spencer Strider. I like

863
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: where he is ADP. Why it's funny because ADP wise,

864
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: to me, he's a far more intriguing dark not the

865
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,759
Speaker 1: dart throa, it's not late enough for that, but he's

866
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 1: a far more intriguing lottery ticket kind of guy than

867
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 1: Kyle Bradish at his ADP. I feel like Kyle Bridi

868
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 1: is like he's got to return Spencer Strider is in

869
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 1: that well. If he doesn't, he doesn't like it might

870
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: not destroy my team at that ADP, Whereas Bradish is

871
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: a little closer to doing that, And I'll take my

872
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: shot with Spencer Schreider. We know what kind of work

873
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: ethic he's got, we know what kind of animal he

874
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 1: is on the mound, and he's a great competitor, So

875
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: I think he is going to be a guy that

876
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: battles through this and proves them wrong at the end

877
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891
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Speaker 1: slash Fantasy Pros. Next on our list of pictures, number five,

892
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: I've got three words for Jacob Mizerowski and they are

893
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: Tommy John the highest v low of anybody in terms

894
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: of Fastball ninety nine point one. I believe it was.

895
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: I looked it up before the show. That was what

896
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: he averaged last year. It's how many times you have

897
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: to be beat over the head with this Young pitchers

898
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: who throw super hard, they start getting the stress of

899
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,919
Speaker 1: major league getings. Next thing you know, we are looking

900
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 1: at them missing significant time a year or more with

901
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,840
Speaker 1: Tommy John So, I don't want to be this harbinger.

902
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: I don't want to be this guy. I just think

903
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:05,959
Speaker 1: this is where we're going, and that's why I'm staying

904
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: away from him. Plus he's got a lot to work

905
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: out still in terms of efficiency, so that I'm Miserowski

906
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 1: still to me is very much a work in progress.

907
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: Welsh three words for you when it comes to Miserowski

908
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six.

909
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna drop a DX on him.

910
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 2: By the way, You're like, I got two words for it.

911
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 1: I got two words, so those two words.

912
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 2: Mine is a year early. So I'm gonna put the

913
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 2: question mark on how I say it. Are we a

914
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 2: year early on Jacob Miserowski. I'm kind of like, I

915
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 2: know I've been a little bit negative nancy on him

916
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 2: and stuff like that, like he's ultra talented, uh you know,

917
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 2: elite extension. He's got an elite fastball that's gonna like

918
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 2: that thing is going to induce swifts. Obviously. I think

919
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 2: the slider's really interesting because he throws it really hard,

920
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 2: so it does he got hit around last year, Like

921
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 2: is it going to continue being like the pitch and

922
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 2: he's got the curveball and change up. My thing is

923
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 2: is like he's being drafted really high. You know, there

924
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 2: was a time where Miserrowski was going above Burns. Miserowski

925
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 2: is sitting in the space of like the sp thirties

926
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 2: and there's some really interesting names in there. I still

927
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,919
Speaker 2: feel that little like, really, I don't know if it'll

928
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 2: ever actually be relief if we're being honest, because he's

929
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 2: such a talented pitcher and it never happened with Dylan

930
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 2: ces But what if he's Dylan ceas what if he

931
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,800
Speaker 2: puts up another four four and a half era and

932
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 2: he has these weird stretches. I just wonder if the

933
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 2: excitement around Jacob Misrowski is a year two early with

934
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 2: some concerning walk numbers, albeit elite strikeout rates, and that's

935
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:33,879
Speaker 2: what we're going to be walking away with and people

936
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 2: are gonna feel weird about it next year, So mine

937
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 2: is a year early, all right.

938
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: Number six tree is Savage, another young pitcher major League Baseball.

939
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:42,839
Speaker 1: What are your three words for his twenty twenty six?

940
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 2: Not just splitter? So that's one of my incomplete sentences

941
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 2: I had to put together. I was, first off, we're

942
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 2: just gonna throw out like they're already talking about, you know,

943
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 2: tempering his innings this year. He obviously went to the playoffs.

944
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 2: With how he ran out last season of being drafted,

945
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 2: I mean, it's all gone really good quick with him.

946
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 2: So I think there's some overall concerns. But the big thing,

947
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 2: and I think, you know, he'd even expressed this, is

948
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,879
Speaker 2: like we've got to have more out of the rest

949
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 2: of the pitches. There's a lot of optimism around his

950
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 2: slider and stuff like that, but it's gotta be more

951
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 2: than just the splitter. And that's what I'm gonna be

952
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 2: looking for at a tray. You Savage, He's really not

953
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 2: on my draft card this year. Probably gonna be someone

954
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,399
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be on the outside looking in, but him,

955
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 2: it's not just splitter, all right?

956
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 1: For me? With Traya Savage, my three words are going

957
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 1: to be range of outcomes, because I think that's what

958
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: you're gonna get from him, start to start, month to month.

959
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: I think he's, you know, you have to figure it out.

960
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be some starts where he looks

961
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: electric and some starts where he's a young kid figuring

962
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 1: it out as the league makes more adjustments to him.

963
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: I'm kind of more Welsh's. I'm not huge on him

964
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: in redraft leagues, Like if he falls my lap Okay

965
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: Blue Jays are going to be a very good team,

966
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,840
Speaker 1: I believe again, but I think he's more of a

967
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: long term asset, more of a dynasty guy at this point.

968
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: Next on our list here Mackenzie Gore. I got three

969
00:42:56,080 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 1: wards for him for twenty twenty six American League, or

970
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,760
Speaker 1: I should say Al, I got away with that, Al

971
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: strikeout leader. How do you like them apples? Welsh, how

972
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: do you like that? Yeah? It might take a little

973
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 1: bit to get there, but I think he's got the

974
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 1: potential to battle for that, and a lot of that

975
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,359
Speaker 1: has to come with the fact that he is now

976
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: in Texas. I think there's an opportunity for him to

977
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 1: learn a little bit more, get out of the Washington

978
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 1: Nationals organization. Get to a real organization like the Rangers,

979
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: who have some winning track record in the last five years.

980
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 1: You got some pitchers there you can learn from, like

981
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 1: Jacob deGrom, like Nathan Ivaldi's some guys who have been around.

982
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 1: There's no veteran presence worth. I mean, what are you

983
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 1: gonna learn from Patrick Corbin the last couple of years? Like,

984
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,320
Speaker 1: who are you learning from the Washington Nationals? Right, So,

985
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 1: Mackenzie Gore last year the strikeout rate was right around

986
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,359
Speaker 1: the top ten in Major League Baseball. He was nine

987
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: point nine. Hunter Brown was ten flat. So he could

988
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 1: challenge for this, But it's gotta be a guy that

989
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: you know. Mackenzie Gore has got to be an opportunity

990
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 1: where he has a good second half, he makes all

991
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 1: his starts, and I think that could be a huge

992
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 1: He could be a league winner. I think potentially this year.

993
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: Let's get your words for Mackenzie Gore.

994
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 2: First half pitcher. So there's another question mark.

995
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: We had all the questions.

996
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, like that's that's where I'm sitting

997
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 2: with mckenzy Gore because I don't disagree with a lot

998
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:13,880
Speaker 2: of what you're saying he took like this another step

999
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 2: this this year. Like in the first half, he was

1000
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 2: ridiculously one of the most valuable pitchers. In the first half.

1001
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 2: We saw, you know, his curveball usage go up, his

1002
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 2: slider looked great.

1003
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: He had.

1004
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 2: He finished the year. By the way, he throws five

1005
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 2: different pitch types at least four percent of the time.

1006
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 2: I mean, if you don't want to not count his cutter,

1007
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 2: you can, but four of the five pitches he threw

1008
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 2: had a thirty five or higher percent with percentage. That's ridiculous.

1009
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 2: And then you know he's setting that all up with

1010
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 2: a fastball that you know was solid at best. I mean,

1011
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 2: he did give up some batting average on it, but

1012
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 2: like he had all these good secondaries. But my main

1013
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 2: point was Mackenzie Gore was one of the best pitchers

1014
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 2: in the first half, and he was one of the

1015
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 2: worst pitchers in the second half. He had a three

1016
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:59,239
Speaker 2: point zero two pre All Star ERA. He had a

1017
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 2: six seven and five ERA post All Start break. He

1018
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 2: had two incredible months and frankly April he had a

1019
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 2: higher ERA, but he had forty six walks to nine strikeouts.

1020
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 2: Then he had a couple sub three ERA months, and

1021
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 2: then he just exploded in the second half July August

1022
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,760
Speaker 2: September six five, almost another six and a four era.

1023
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 2: He looked really bad in the second half. So can

1024
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 2: he hold up? He is in a really much better environment.

1025
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 2: There's a lot of leadership around. I don't know if

1026
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 2: the bullpen's that great, but there's lots of run support,

1027
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 2: Like this is a really good spot for him. But

1028
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 2: can mc mackenzie gore hold up?

1029
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 1: You know?

1030
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 2: So that maybe is it? Can he hold up? Even

1031
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 2: though it's more words, but that's what I'm looking at.

1032
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 2: Is he more than just a first half pitcher? Can

1033
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 2: the riggers of the season hold him? And will he

1034
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 2: be an ultimate value in this new environment? So he's

1035
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,359
Speaker 2: really really fascinating, but we need him to be more

1036
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 2: than just a first half pitcher.

1037
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 1: All right? Next picture on our list Tatsuya Emi Welsh

1038
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 1: What are your three words for his twenty twenty six.

1039
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 2: Eighty ninety one hundred?

1040
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 1: Do you know what that is?

1041
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:07,479
Speaker 2: Those are the contract incentives that the Houston Astros put

1042
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 2: on Amy when they signed him to his deal for

1043
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 2: innings pitched in the first year. Now we could talk

1044
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 2: about his stuff. I think the big thing has been

1045
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 2: the reverse splitter his fastball. You know, his release point

1046
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 2: is super interesting. It makes the fastball work a little

1047
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 2: bit better. There's the splitter and then there's this reverse

1048
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 2: so they call it like the armside splitter, like it

1049
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 2: doesn't work like or a slide. I'm sorry he keep

1050
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,760
Speaker 2: saying splitter slider, that it doesn't work like a slider.

1051
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 2: It comes on the inside, And I think there's been

1052
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 2: a lot of questions like is that thing going to

1053
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 2: hold up? So those are those questions in general. Size

1054
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 2: would be another, But I can't continuously let go that

1055
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:46,400
Speaker 2: he was signed to a contract where his contract incentives

1056
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 2: were at eighty ninety and one hundred innings pitch, and

1057
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 2: everybody asked the question, and then stop asking when spring

1058
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:52,720
Speaker 2: came along?

1059
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 1: What was with that?

1060
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 2: Do they know something more than we do? Is there

1061
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 2: going to be a question about how his body holds

1062
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 2: up or how he is going to hop as the

1063
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 2: league starts to catch up on him. Is there questions

1064
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 2: about some of the secondary's the same thing that happened

1065
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 2: with Roki Sazaki? Why would that be involved in that?

1066
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:10,399
Speaker 2: So that is stuck in the back of my mind.

1067
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 2: I will say he's relatively cheap. I know Bogman absolutely

1068
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 2: loves him. I haven't drafted him because I think like

1069
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 2: we had with Sazaki, Sazaki had questions about how the

1070
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Speaker 2: I think it was like the slider fastball was gonna work,

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Speaker 2: and injury questions. I feel like the eighty ninety hundred

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00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,839
Speaker 2: poses some injury questions, some durability questions, and there's still

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00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 2: some stuff questions. So I'm always been a little bit

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Speaker 2: out on him, But eighty ninety one hundred. Those are

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00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 2: my three words because those were his contract incentives for

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Speaker 2: innings pitch this year.

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Speaker 1: Mine are kind of in the same vein minor draft

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00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: and trade. I like itim I In the first half.

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00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: I think he gets off to a good start in

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00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: April and May, and I think you can flip him

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00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: for somebody that's probably a little bit more durable, a

1082
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: little bit better track record. We've seen this before too.

1083
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:59,280
Speaker 1: The second half, the rotation every five days, all that stuff,

1084
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: all that ends up taking its toll sometimes on guys

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00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: making their transition. You know, I remember first year for Yamamoto,

1086
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 1: it was kind of you know, figuring things out. It

1087
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: was funny because shote Monaga was the guy that we

1088
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 1: liked he's cheaper, at least I did. Shota to me

1089
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 1: was a guy. He's cheaper. I know what I'm getting

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00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 1: there with him, And he was really good that first

1091
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 1: year and he was cheap, and then last year he

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00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 1: was more expensive and I was out on him. This year,

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00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: I'm in on him. I at his current ADP because

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00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 1: it's pretty cheap, but I'm definitely looking to trade him

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00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: because I do think he's one of these guys. By

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00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: Memorial Day you might have seen the best of what

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00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 1: he's going to give you this season, and I think

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00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: the league makes adjustments, as they always do. It's just

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Speaker 1: part of the game of baseball. Speaking of Sazaki, who

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00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,360
Speaker 1: he just kind of mentioned there, you dropped in Roki Sazaki.

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00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: My three words for him are bust, status looming for

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00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 1: Roki Sazaki. I don't want to be hyperbolic, but I

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00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:54,400
Speaker 1: definitely think there's an opportunity here where you look at

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Speaker 1: what's happening in spring for him, and it has not

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00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: been good. Seven earned runs and three innings last year,

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00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 1: obviously very mixed results. He did have that nice run

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Speaker 1: in the bullpen during the postseason for the Dodgers. But

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Speaker 1: let me tell you, Welsh, I think we're in a

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00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: weird spot here with Roki Sazaki where emmachi hen is

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00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 1: gonna be fined, Like I know, there's gonna be some

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00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: injury potential there between glass now between Snell. This is

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Speaker 1: what we get oftentimes. But I'll say this, Roki to

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00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: me is a is a very dicey investment in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six and one that I'm not making Welsh. What

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00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 1: are your three words for him?

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Speaker 2: Really good reliever is where I've stuck with Roki for

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00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:33,720
Speaker 2: a little bit. I think that's gonna be the ultimate

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00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 2: landing spot. He showed these like signs of life in

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00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 2: the playoff, and a lot was relief like in short stints.

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Speaker 2: So you know, I'm gonna stick to at the end

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00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 2: of the like with the investment that you made on

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00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 2: a guy like this, you don't want to just make

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Speaker 2: the drastic move. And I get why they want to

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Speaker 2: continue running it out, and maybe it will. You know,

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00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:52,800
Speaker 2: he will figure it out. But I think at the

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Speaker 2: end of the day he might be best served as

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00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 2: a like really really good reliever.

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Speaker 1: We'll find out, but that's not what they paid him

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Speaker 1: to be. I can tell you that right now.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you pay if you look at the market

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00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 2: for like high end relievers though, like.

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Speaker 1: You can, that's what they thought they were getting. They

1133
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 1: thought they were getting a starting pitcher is going to

1134
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:13,240
Speaker 1: take him into the next and look that The undoing

1135
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:15,800
Speaker 1: of the Dodger dynasty right now is the pitching, the

1136
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 1: pitching health and the pitching performance. You know, that's it.

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00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 1: If Yamamoto gets hurt and Snell and Glass, now when

1138
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 1: those guys don't give you each at least twenty starts,

1139
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: that's the undoing of the Dodger So the unbeatable Dodgers,

1140
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 1: it's it's the health of the pitching staff at the

1141
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 1: end of the day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean. The thing though, is that they the

1143
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 2: argument you can make for Roki Sazaki to get back

1144
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 2: into getting the opportunities is they just have so many

1145
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 2: pictures and they have so many injuries across the board

1146
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:43,720
Speaker 2: and so many opportunities do but he's.

1147
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: Got to perform better. They got a lot of consistency. Yeah, no,

1148
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: they do.

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00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 2: I don't disagree with.

1150
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: You on that. All right, last guy we're going to

1151
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: talk about here, and very polarizing one. Shane McClanahan of

1152
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,359
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays, Number ten. The final three words here.

1153
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,919
Speaker 1: Who knows, maybe they'll be optimistic from us. We'll see, Well,

1154
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,359
Speaker 1: I feel like years are going to be optimistic. Are

1155
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 1: they three words? Are they numbers? What do you have

1156
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: here for Shane?

1157
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:09,719
Speaker 2: Here comes the money, money, money, money, Shane.

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00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 1: Fourth one.

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00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:12,279
Speaker 2: I did have to do the fourth one there because

1160
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 2: I know it is as difference all out. Yeah, I

1161
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:16,879
Speaker 2: thought you would. This is a Shane o Mac thing.

1162
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:20,240
Speaker 2: I am going to be brutally honest though the last

1163
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 2: start has me absolutely terrified for everything that we talked about,

1164
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 2: I'm not going to ignore that where his everything was down,

1165
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 2: Villa was down. More importantly, you didn't see a big increase.

1166
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 2: The thing we don't really know and they're not giving

1167
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:36,240
Speaker 2: us is like, at what level is he throwing?

1168
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: You know?

1169
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 2: Is he doing this at an eighty percent? This is

1170
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:40,320
Speaker 2: the same thing to happened with Strider. You know, Strider

1171
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,800
Speaker 2: was out at like whatever it was, ninety three, and

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00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 2: then the next start he pumped it up to ninety five.

1173
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:47,359
Speaker 2: Was this an element that they didn't want to push

1174
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 2: it up because everybody was posting about the most recent

1175
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:52,800
Speaker 2: start is we're recording this on March tenth. Here that

1176
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 2: you know, fastball everything was down. So outside of that though,

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00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 2: going back to the argument with Shane McLay, it's Shane o' mack.

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00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:05,919
Speaker 2: It's super low cost, super big upside. Unlike Strider. If

1179
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,800
Speaker 2: the velo doesn't come back or things start to fail,

1180
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 2: He's a guy that you can justifiably cut and you

1181
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 2: can get a streaming spot at it because he's not

1182
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,720
Speaker 2: like inside the top fifties. So here comes the money

1183
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:20,880
Speaker 2: because there is still upside and drafting and frankly, this

1184
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 2: new news are things that are going to push good

1185
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 2: old Shane o' mack even further down boards. Me and

1186
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 2: Nick Pollock will still be taking but because of money.

1187
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: Well, it's funny. The McMahons have a history of tearing

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00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 1: quads too, you know, in opportune moments. You know, whether

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00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 1: Shane mack at WrestleMania a couple of years ago trying

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00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 1: to leave Prog or you had Vince running to the

1191
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 1: ring and tearing both of his squads. Injuries, injuries follow him,

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00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: and injuries have followed Sha McClanahan as well. My three

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00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: words are light a candle, That's what they are for

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00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 1: Shaman klanahan. I'm not I want it to be good

1195
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to play the downside the sha mc

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00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: clanahan here. What I'm saying is a guy hasn't pitched

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00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 1: in two years has a long recovery back if we

1198
00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 1: ever gets back to being that guy. And I know

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Speaker 1: we all want to be optimistic. I want to be optimistic.

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00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 1: I hate being the due in gloom. But my job

1201
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: here is to give you good fantasy advice, and well

1202
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: she's giving you good advice too. In shallow leagues. You

1203
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 1: want to take a shot at shame of clan an

1204
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 1: that's cool because the replacement value is gonna be on

1205
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:24,720
Speaker 1: the waiver wire. There's gonna be guys coming up mega starts.

1206
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:27,959
Speaker 1: You're gonna guy who knows Avieto off the waiver wire

1207
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 1: in the shallow league. He cout off to a great

1208
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 1: start in April and May, he's been good this spring.

1209
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: Guys like that show up every single season, right, and

1210
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: we chase him all year. With Seane McClanahan in the

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00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: deeper league twelve or more, it gets real dicey for me,

1212
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 1: and I think the only thing you could do is

1213
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 1: light a candle and just pray and hope that he

1214
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 1: stays healthy and hope that he's okay. It's a great

1215
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,359
Speaker 1: story that even's here again and making his way back.

1216
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:52,320
Speaker 1: We've had multiple Tommy Johns, We've had the nerve issue,

1217
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: and look, maybe we're being hyperbolic about all this too.

1218
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,799
Speaker 1: Maybe this down velo is just a going through dead

1219
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 1: arm like normal spring training pitcher stuff, right, but it's

1220
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 1: loaded with all this stuff we just don't know, and

1221
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 1: the unknown and all the negative that we've seen in

1222
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:12,239
Speaker 1: the last two years of him not pitching. I think

1223
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 1: matters more and I want I'd rather have a young,

1224
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 1: live arm right now with that range with some upside,

1225
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 1: Like I'd rather have connor Ley early on my roster

1226
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 1: than Shame McClanahan. And I'm just putting that kind of

1227
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 1: stuff out there and it's just a difference of approach,

1228
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 1: and that's okay. But I want Shane mcclana to be

1229
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:29,840
Speaker 1: the comeback player of the year. That's what I want.

1230
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:31,800
Speaker 1: I just don't know if it's going to be so

1231
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 1: light a candle if you're a religious person, even if

1232
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:35,839
Speaker 1: you're not, light a candle sometimes, especially the scentive ones,

1233
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:39,439
Speaker 1: they're wonderful, nice vanilla candle, pumpkin spice perhaps.

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00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 2: Lit, though also good ideas also.

1235
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 1: A good idea this see you get good fantasy advice

1236
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:47,200
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1237
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:49,040
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1240
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Speaker 1: do it for us, But the story of the game

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Speaker 1: goes on for the Welsh. I'm Joey P. We'll see

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