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Speaker 1: these league winners to you. Joe Alrico, the Welsh are

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Speaker 1: going to give you a bunch of names here. You know,

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Speaker 1: each have made a list of ten guys that they

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Speaker 1: think can win you your Fantasy baseball league in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six, which at the end of the day, that's

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Speaker 1: what it's all about. It's about winning. And speaking of winning,

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Speaker 1: we've got three winners right here on the show start.

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Speaker 1: We have three winners of the Black Fantasy Baseball Trophy

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Speaker 1: from Trophy Smack. So get ready with your notepad, your pen,

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Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: The winner slash Joe, piece of Pia and Joe Rico.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations the winner.

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Speaker 3: Crazy.

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Speaker 1: No, we didn't win anything. We don't win any We're

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Speaker 1: not I wouldn't even qualify to win, no matter how

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Speaker 1: much we comment A Rico. All right, So here are

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Speaker 1: the winners of the Fantasy Trophy that we're gonna give away.

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Speaker 1: Here we have Richard Karan four zero one two that's

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Speaker 1: Richard Caron a C A r O N forty twelve.

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Speaker 1: You are a big winner. Troy T twenty six eighty eight,

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Speaker 1: you're a big winner. And kings Hard nine six five seven.

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Speaker 1: That's Kingsard or King Shard. I don't know either way

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Speaker 1: the one you want to say it nine six five seven.

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Speaker 1: You had to add numbers apparently to be a winner.

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Speaker 3: Again.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations to Richard Coron forty twelve, Troy t twenty six

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Speaker 1: Well, let's talk here about some league winners here, Joe Rico,

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Speaker 1: give us your number ten on your top ten list.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna work our way backward everybody today to the

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Speaker 1: number one biggest league winner. Alrico, what do you have

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So I'm going with Denzel Clark. It's a name

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Speaker 4: He's got the barrel rate at nine percent, a fifty

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Speaker 4: in a full season. Denzel Clark projected for thirteen homers,

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Speaker 4: he can even exceed that output. But as your last pick,

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Speaker 4: I think you do a lot worse than that power

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Speaker 1: Yeah, nice ale only option outside the top four fifty

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Speaker 1: in ADP. So he's out there, folks. And if you

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Speaker 1: she's number ten on your list of league winners.

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Speaker 2: Well, number ten. I kind of in the opposite direction

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Speaker 2: Joe picked for his tenth a super super low end player.

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Speaker 2: I picked one of the higher players on my board,

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Speaker 2: and simply I did that because you know they're gonna

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Speaker 2: I did a short on this player, but I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: put him at ten because I think of all the

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Speaker 2: players I've got online, nobody costs more than mikel Garcia.

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Speaker 2: Mikeel Garcia and a lot of spots is going to

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember. If it's Yahoo, it's like second, short, third,

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Speaker 2: I think is a league winner. He definitely doesn't qualify

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Speaker 2: from you know where you're taking him in drafts. Why,

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Speaker 2: Like I said, why he is ten, but everybody has

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Speaker 2: I think he helps your team across the board. Maybe

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Speaker 2: he isn't this singular player that wins your league, but boy,

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Speaker 2: he protects you in so many spots. You can move

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Speaker 2: look good. I've mentioned before, like I think he's like

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Speaker 2: I think he's a league winner even though he is

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Speaker 2: the priciest.

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Speaker 1: He's number ten, all right, So h MVP by the

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Speaker 1: way Michael Garcia of the WBC. There you I still

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Speaker 1: think it should have been past Quentino considering what he

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Speaker 2: We gotta get to the finals for that.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I don't think you do. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he did three home runs in one game.

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Speaker 1: Just you know, it's just unbelievable, like plus the greatest

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Speaker 1: celebration in the history of baseball.

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Speaker 2: But whatever, he wins, greatest celebration of the WBC.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's a lot of yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, You're gonna lose this argument on this podcast.

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Speaker 2: I don't even know why I'm out.

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Speaker 1: There with saltine crackers. Get that crap out of here.

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Speaker 1: All right, Arico, let's go for your number nine or

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Speaker 1: your list of league winners for twenty six. What do

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like guy have been into all draft season

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Speaker 4: as Tyler Sodshrum. He had a phenomenal first full year

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Speaker 4: lifeast year twenty five homers, he drove in ninety three runs,

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Speaker 4: he stole a few bases, and he hit a two

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Speaker 4: seventy six batting average. Tyler Soderstrom was the most talked

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Speaker 4: about player last April because he went absolutely nuclear and

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Speaker 4: hit nine home runs twenty four ribis. And then I

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Speaker 4: terms of the power output, but in terms of his

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Speaker 4: overall hitting ability, Tyler Soderstrim in the second half actually

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Speaker 4: a better on base rate. He was a better player

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Speaker 4: in the second half, even without the massive home run

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Speaker 4: And he's carried it over eighteen spring games. He has

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Speaker 4: And he's improved his play discipline as well. He's not

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Speaker 4: the last thing about Tyler Soderstrim is the in draft versatility.

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Speaker 4: You can put him in the outfield or at first base.

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Speaker 4: So if you don't end up finding a better first baseman,

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Speaker 4: then you can leave him at first. Let's say you

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Speaker 4: end up with Wilson Contreras or Jonathan Randa later on

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Speaker 4: along with a phenomenal profile. In that same ballpark I

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Speaker 4: mentioned with Denzel Clark, a minor league park. Another year,

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Speaker 4: there could be thirty home runs and fifteen stolen bases

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Speaker 1: You know, Joe, until you told me about the second

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Speaker 1: half of sodas Trim, I didn't realize it because he

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Speaker 1: had the nine home runs in April. He was so

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Speaker 1: spectacular star and we were just screw and sell Sal, Sal.

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Speaker 1: This is you can't maintain this. I don't care how

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Speaker 1: small the ballpark is. But if you bought on him high,

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Speaker 1: you still got a pretty good player in the second half.

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Speaker 1: As you said, he did come down a little bit

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Speaker 1: in May. Obviously everything was going to slow down, But

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Speaker 1: you know, eighteen homers in the first half, seven in

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Speaker 1: the second half. But as you're pointing out Joe second

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Speaker 1: half numbers, batting average, OBP all that stuff was actually

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Speaker 2: Joe, are you just going down the line of a's

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Speaker 2: hitters for your league winners? You have two? I just

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Speaker 2: is the next up going to be Brent Rooker? And

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Speaker 2: then we're going to follow it up, Joe, he'll sin

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Speaker 2: And I'm just said.

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Speaker 4: I get this is league winning athletics players. No, did

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Speaker 1: And that's what Joe Rico did, all right, Number nine

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Speaker 4: But that schedule, it's just it's a it's a can't miss,

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's a that's amazing. And then the fourth

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Speaker 4: So I'm switching from the a's back to the homer hat.

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Speaker 4: Twenty homers in seventy one games last year when he

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Speaker 4: It's a contract here for Dalton Varshow, and what we

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Speaker 4: If you look at the projections that give him the

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Speaker 1: Right, Welsh, who's number eight on your list of Lee winners.

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Speaker 2: This is gonna be very, very funny for the crap

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Speaker 2: I gave Rico, because we're about to go into the

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Speaker 2: Welsh's favorite A's players for the next two not planned whatsoever.

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Speaker 2: Apparently we really like the A's, but also you just

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Speaker 2: the purposes of them. Continue being in the minor league,

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Speaker 2: This guy is not being talked about because he didn't

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Speaker 2: be honest with you. Almost wanted to put Luise Robert

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Speaker 1: Well, let's just round out the athletics and just cross

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Speaker 1: So Welsh, go to your number seven too, So we

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to Joe Rico for his number seven

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Speaker 1: on his list.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going with Jared Duran and my theme here

441
00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:09,359
Speaker 4: unintentionally has been guys that are tearing it up in

442
00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,919
Speaker 4: spring Jared Durant three homers, two steals, he's hitting four hundred,

443
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Speaker 4: he's hitting lefties like he looks amazing in spring. But

444
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Speaker 4: even before spring training I was into duran I just

445
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Speaker 4: think the price has come down a little bit too much.

446
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Speaker 4: You're seeing him usually in the seventies of a given room.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes he gets pushed up into the sixties. But this

448
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Speaker 4: is a guy who was a second round pick last

449
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Speaker 4: year and who still had a very good season.

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Speaker 3: Maybe it wasn't what we were.

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Speaker 4: Expecting necessarily, but eighty six runs, eighty four ribbi, sixteen homers,

452
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Speaker 4: twenty four stolen bases. He didn't kill your batting average

453
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Speaker 4: at two fifty six, and the previous two years he

454
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Speaker 4: was two ninety five and two eighty five. I think

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Speaker 4: even if he's not going to be in the two

456
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Speaker 4: eighty two to ninety range, he's not going to hurt

457
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Speaker 4: your average. We'll be in the two sixty to two

458
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Speaker 4: seventy type of range. In a ton of played appearances.

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Speaker 4: He's played one hundred and fifty seven in one hundred

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Speaker 4: and sixty games over the last two years, respectively, and

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Speaker 4: I just think that the price has come down a

462
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Speaker 4: little bit too far for him. He's still a guy

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Speaker 4: that I'm expecting fifteen plus homers. He can get you

464
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Speaker 4: thirty steals. It's a great lineup, it's a great ball park.

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Speaker 4: And I don't worry at all about him missing out

466
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Speaker 4: on playing time with a bray U and Rafaela and

467
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Speaker 4: Anthony like, they're gonna figure it out.

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Speaker 3: They're not going to leave Durant on the bench.

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Speaker 4: He's going to play one hundred and fifty plus games again,

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Speaker 4: and I think he is going to be one of

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Speaker 4: the better mid round values of draft season. I could

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Speaker 4: see him fishing as a top ten outfielder this year

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Speaker 4: in a best case scenario.

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Speaker 1: All right, Joe, let's skip to your number six on

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Speaker 1: your league winner list for this year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, another guy that I have talked about at nauseum.

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Speaker 4: But Jacob Marcy. I've drafted so much. Jacob Marcy. I'm

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Speaker 4: fully bought in, and I just don't really understand the

479
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Speaker 4: projections for him. I think that the batting average should

480
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Speaker 4: be projected probably closer to two sixty two seventy. I

481
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Speaker 4: get that we have to look back over several years

482
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Speaker 4: to eliminate some noise and sample sizes and whatnot. But

483
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Speaker 4: Jacob Marcy changed as a hitter in the big leagues

484
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Speaker 4: last year. He was making much better contact. He was

485
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Speaker 4: not chasing, he wasn't swinging and missing at all, which

486
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Speaker 4: is never something that he's really done.

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Speaker 3: But he boosted the contact rates.

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Speaker 4: The end zone contact went from seventy nine in twenty

489
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Speaker 4: twenty four to eighty eight percent last year. Is a

490
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Speaker 4: really real complete hitter already. He's gonna chip in some power,

491
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Speaker 4: but he's gonna be a huge speed asset. This is

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Speaker 4: a guy who's still fifty one bases in the miners

493
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Speaker 4: in twenty twenty four. He's still forty seven bases in

494
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Speaker 4: the miners last year, and then another fourteen in the

495
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Speaker 4: big leagues. I think we could see a fifteen home

496
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Speaker 4: run forty steel season where he's hitting two seventy at

497
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Speaker 4: the top of not a great lineup in Miami, but

498
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Speaker 4: certainly a better lineup than they've had the last couple

499
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Speaker 4: of years. So Marcy, I think he might be my

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Speaker 4: most drafted outfielder this year. He's a guy that I'm

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Speaker 4: targeting in all of my drafts.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so interesting Joe because I was just going

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Speaker 1: through some of his minor league stats just yesterday because

504
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Speaker 1: I had a draft and alwas looking through some of

505
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Speaker 1: the things. I'm just like, man, it's so weird because

506
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Speaker 1: he came up to the big leagues and he just raked.

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Speaker 1: But you look at the minor league numbers and sort

508
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Speaker 1: of a tough build to buy into that. But that's

509
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Speaker 1: not He's not the first guy who figured it out.

510
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Speaker 1: Later figured out the big league with Merryfield was another

511
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Speaker 1: guy too. It was underwhelming in the miners, got to

512
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Speaker 1: the big leagues, and it became a two hundred hit guy.

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Speaker 1: So what was the chosen Marci Joe that really you

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Speaker 1: know that you think is a thing that can carry

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Speaker 1: over to the season that you saw in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I want to jump in after it because

517
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Speaker 2: I obviously have a lot.

518
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Speaker 1: I know you want to do. You know, you're very excited.

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Speaker 1: We all know you're very excited. It's most super exciting.

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Speaker 4: It's mostly the contact profile just seems to be a

521
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Speaker 4: lot sharper. And like I mentioned that in zone contact,

522
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Speaker 4: which was in the minors below eighty percent, and major

523
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Speaker 4: league average for in zone contact is about eighty five.

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Speaker 4: He jumped up ten points last year to eighty nine,

525
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Speaker 4: and he's carried that over in spring at eighty nine

526
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Speaker 4: percent as well. It just feels like a very safe

527
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Speaker 4: profile from a play discipline standpoint. And you look at

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Speaker 4: the minor league batting averages, they don't jump off the

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Speaker 4: page at you. But twenty twenty three, over the course

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Speaker 4: of the whole season, he had two seventy four. I

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Speaker 4: think everybody's going to focus in on twenty twenty four

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Speaker 4: when he hit two hundred, But I don't think he's

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Speaker 4: the same player that he was, And I think that's

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Speaker 4: where I'm a proponent of projections. But this is where

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Speaker 4: sometimes I think they can miss when a player does

536
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Speaker 4: make tangible changes at a young age, when there's not

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Speaker 4: a huge sample size, and then they are going to

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Speaker 4: revert to the minor league data because they're not trained

539
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Speaker 4: to be dynamic and change on the fly like that.

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Speaker 4: They want to take a bigger sample on purpose. But

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Speaker 4: I think Jacob Marcy was just a different place last

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Speaker 4: year than he was in the minors and Joe.

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Speaker 2: The biggest thing too, is this is the Jacob Marcy

544
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Speaker 2: that I saw in the Arizona Fall League as a Padre,

545
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Speaker 2: and I was allowed about him because this is a

546
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Speaker 2: guy that was like up for MVP in the FALLAGU

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Speaker 2: He was making all every time you saw him, whether

548
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Speaker 2: it was being able to pull the ball. I think

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Speaker 2: he got a lot of knocks about his ability to

550
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Speaker 2: pull the ball, and the home run rates weren't real,

551
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Speaker 2: but he made contact all the time, and the Padres

552
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Speaker 2: were just like a little down I think on their ability.

553
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Speaker 2: They thought for him to be able to hit homers

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Speaker 2: and get across and then you get traded. I would

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Speaker 2: point this out in that same trade when they traded

556
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Speaker 2: Robbie Snelling to the Marlins, Robbie Snelling had a super

557
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Speaker 2: down year, just readjusting finding himself, and then it took

558
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Speaker 2: about a year and a half with the Marlins and

559
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Speaker 2: he regained his velo. He got his velo back to

560
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Speaker 2: when he was one of the best pitchers in the

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Speaker 2: Padres system. I think the adjustments can be really strong.

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Speaker 2: That asked a lot of him, and I think the

563
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Speaker 2: projections are looking at the recent minor league numbers. But

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Speaker 2: he was an AFL MVP like candidate, always made contact

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Speaker 2: and I couldn't agree with Rico more. I the one

566
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Speaker 2: thing I keep sticking with maybe his power isn't real,

567
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Speaker 2: but he steals like crazy, and I just don't believe

568
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Speaker 2: he's a two thirty hitter. I think I think the

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Speaker 2: projections are just miscalculating the hitter he is, and we're

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Speaker 2: going to see a big overcorrection next year because I think,

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Speaker 2: if anything, but maybe the most solid thing you can

572
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Speaker 2: count on is him being a two sixty type plus hitter.

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Speaker 2: So I'm I'm completely with a Rico here. I would

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Speaker 2: have put Marci on here had he not.

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Speaker 1: All right, So Marci joins the list. Welsh gets the

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Speaker 1: our list. Let's go to number six. I just talked

590
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Speaker 1: about this guy being a bust, but Welsh, Welsh thinks

591
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Speaker 1: he's a league winner. I can't wait for this conversation.

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Speaker 1: Number six Welsh.

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Speaker 2: Is Bubba Chandler. I'm still on the Bubba Chandler train.

594
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Speaker 2: I think maybe the bus side. And this is actually

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Speaker 2: something I'm positive about, is that he's going to be

596
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Speaker 2: even cheaper. And this is why I like him, because

597
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Speaker 2: he's had a walkie spring. You know the spring numbers.

598
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Speaker 2: He's walked quite a few in the spring, and that's

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Speaker 2: who he was in the minors. But when he came

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Speaker 2: up last year, he was outside of like one start.

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Speaker 2: They got him in a long relief. He looked amazing.

602
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Speaker 2: He got blown up in one start and the others

603
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Speaker 2: he just refound himself. But he didn't walk. He walked

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Speaker 2: three percent that's not going to be real. Right now

605
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Speaker 2: he's walking at a much higher percentage. But Bubba Chandler

606
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Speaker 2: has also shown off not just last year. But in

607
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Speaker 2: spring he's shown off an electric fastball, fastball that grades

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Speaker 2: out very high in Stuff plus models. He's used his

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Speaker 2: slider more in the spring, which I I think is

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Speaker 2: accounting for some of the walk numbers. And we have

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Speaker 2: seen the change up add some velo. It's becoming more

612
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Speaker 2: of a punch change up. He's going to come in

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Speaker 2: with three big pitches, and I sometimes wonder if that

614
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Speaker 2: changeup is going to look a little sinkerish like Paul Skeans,

615
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Speaker 2: because he spent the whole year with Paul Skeans. But

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Speaker 2: all this aside, what this for me has been is,

617
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Speaker 2: you know, he spent the entire year with Paul Skeins.

618
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Speaker 2: He's going to spend the entire year in the rotation.

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Speaker 2: He is the cheapest of all the young pitchers. Tray

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Speaker 2: Savage is only going behind him now because he's hurt.

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Speaker 2: He has always been the cheapest, And we talked about, hey,

622
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Speaker 2: look the pirates are making some good moves. Things are

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Speaker 2: positive here. If we you know, if we think they're

624
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Speaker 2: going to make strides up, it is also going to

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Speaker 2: be thanks to Bubba Chandler. Bubba Chandler's kind of floor

626
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Speaker 2: is like a Dylan Ceese type to me, where he

627
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Speaker 2: does have a ten to eleven percent walk, but he's

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Speaker 2: striking out. You know, if he gets one hundred and

629
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Speaker 2: fifty innings, I just wouldn't be surprised if the guy

630
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Speaker 2: strikes out like one hundred and eighty or more. He's

631
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Speaker 2: going to be a big strikeout option. With this big

632
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Speaker 2: electric power fastball. You hope he can go deep into

633
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Speaker 2: games and the walks do not hinder him to a

634
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Speaker 2: crazy degree. But it's like worst Casey's last year' Jacob Mizerowski.

635
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Speaker 2: Better Casey's the top twenty pitcher with elite strikeouts pulling

636
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Speaker 2: up wins for the Pirates. And I think at the

637
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Speaker 2: cost when what we're paying for Nolan McLain and Chase

638
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Speaker 2: Burns and chickib Miserowski and Cam Schlitler, Bubba Chandler is

639
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Speaker 2: one of those guys that gives you tremendous upside that

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Speaker 2: you can I've been taking some boring pictures and let

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Speaker 2: me get abobb a Chandler to get that tremendous strikeout upside.

642
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Speaker 2: So I think Bubba really has a chance to be

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Speaker 2: a league winner this year.

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Speaker 1: We just did a mid form video here on the

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Speaker 1: Channel about some of the players we're avoiding. I'm avoiding Bubba.

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Speaker 1: If you want that take the opposite end to go.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead and check out that video here, subscribe to

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Speaker 1: the channel and ring the belt to the gohes ding

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Speaker 1: it Fantasy Bros. MLB. All right, let's get to the

650
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Speaker 1: next guy on Joe A. Rico's list. Here we are

651
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Speaker 1: cracking the top five. I'm excited and it's a met

652
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Speaker 1: Look at this, Joe Rico. What a perfect way to

653
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Speaker 1: start the top five.

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Speaker 4: There's a couple of mets coming up, Joe, so I

655
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Speaker 4: think you're gonna be interested in this last half of

656
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Speaker 4: the show.

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Speaker 3: Devin Williams is one of the most misp.

658
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,880
Speaker 1: I was interested the whole I've been interested in the entire.

659
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, I'm not trying to throw I'm

660
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 4: not trying to throw shape.

661
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 3: No more shame.

662
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: I don't think Carson Bee on any of your lists either,

663
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 1: which I think is wrong, but that's.

664
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Speaker 4: He made the opening day roster, which was announced while

665
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 4: we recorded, which is huge and maybe we should pull

666
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 4: Diminga is not so much, but a Minga is Dylan Cruz.

667
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 3: Carson, No, thank you, Carson.

668
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: I mean Dylan Cruise hit. You know, I saw somebody

669
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 1: post a video and it's a really respected friend of

670
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,199
Speaker 1: mine too, and he was like, you know, how how

671
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: can you not put Dylan Cruz in the ross? I

672
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 1: know because he had one hundred this spring and he

673
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: was terrible last year. That's why that's good enough reason

674
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: one hundred.

675
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 4: Joey Wiber Joey Wimer is gonna put butts in the seats.

676
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 4: That's that's I don't care.

677
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: About butts in the seats. How about let's get some

678
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: people on base, Joe.

679
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 2: I know those Pennant, those Pennant battling Washington Nationals.

680
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: If he can't hit a hundred spring fighting for a job,

681
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:52,679
Speaker 1: you know that, and I know that.

682
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 3: No.

683
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 2: I mean, I've been a defender of Dylan Cruise. I

684
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,679
Speaker 2: think it's legitimately that if they don't think they can

685
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 2: get him every day at bats, you them in Triple A,

686
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 2: they're gonna rework. Players do this all the time. By

687
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 2: the way Jack Leider went through it, A multitude of

688
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 2: players did. Where they it's like a developmental list. They

689
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,199
Speaker 2: send them down to work through a major change. He

690
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,199
Speaker 2: can't work. Not only can he not work through a

691
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 2: major change at the majors during the season. But you

692
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 2: can't do it if you're not getting regular playing time.

693
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 2: So I think the idea is you got to get

694
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 2: him regular playing time to redo it. I think Dylan

695
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 2: Cruz will be up before May. But I on both

696
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 2: sides of it, like, let's not pretend that the Nationals

697
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 2: are going to be heavy competition in the division. But

698
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 2: if this is to fix a future star of your team,

699
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:31,880
Speaker 2: I'm at.

700
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Speaker 1: The time, what's lucky. Here's the slash for thirty four

701
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,959
Speaker 1: played appearances in spring one, O three, two six, one

702
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: O three, Okay, Like, honestly, that's like Billy Crystal spring

703
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: training numbers when he played for the Yankees that year.

704
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 1: Garth Brooks I think had a better slash line than

705
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell.

706
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 2: Will Ferrell God that I was at that. By the way,

707
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 2: fre I was at the Diamondback Reds one when he

708
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 2: was there and helicopter, helicopter, Yeah, helicopter in.

709
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Speaker 3: It was all right, I've picked away.

710
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Devin.

711
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Speaker 3: We got way of the Joe was not interested in

712
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 3: the first half. That's what I'm just trying to say

713
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 3: that in the second half.

714
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 4: Anyway, the audience always already thinks we all hate each

715
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 4: other anyway, So just to clear it all.

716
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 3: We don't.

717
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: This is what friends be.

718
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 3: No I know, but something you don't.

719
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Speaker 4: Sometimes in the comments, people will say Joe and Welsh,

720
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 4: these guys always, these guys don't like each other. It's

721
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 4: like no, no, no, we love each other. That's why

722
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 4: we're able to go at each other the way we do.

723
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Speaker 2: Friends.

724
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Speaker 4: Yeah, anyway, Devin wils that's absolute best friends for life.

725
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 4: Devin Williams is also my best friend for life because

726
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 4: he is the most undervalued reliever in drafts this season.

727
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 4: I get that it was horrible last year, no question.

728
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Speaker 4: His first year is a Yankee. His only year is

729
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 4: a Yankee was a four to seven nine ERA. It

730
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 4: was he lost a job. They brought in about six

731
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 4: different closers of the deadline to try and find the replacement.

732
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 4: But yet he had a two sixty eight FIP. He

733
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 4: had a one thirteen whip, a twenty five percent strike

734
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 4: up minus walk rate, and at two sixty seven SIERRA.

735
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Speaker 4: These are numbers that I look at. We're evaluating pitchers

736
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 4: a lot more than I will at ERA. He has

737
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 4: the job in New York. He is the full time closer.

738
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Speaker 4: I don't think there's anybody there that really is even

739
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 4: close to him on a talent level. The stuff is

740
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 4: off the charts. He walked fewer batters than he ever

741
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 4: has last year. In terms of percentage, he got it

742
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 4: below the ten percent mark for the first time since

743
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 4: the COVID year. I just think there is so much

744
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 4: upside in Devin Williams, and a lot of people in

745
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 4: drafts are taking him as the eighth, ninth, tenth guy.

746
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 4: He's not being drafted with the elite group, with the

747
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 4: Kate Smith's and the Derans of the world, and I

748
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 4: think on a talent level, he is just as good

749
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Speaker 4: as those guys. People are just worried about the down

750
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 4: year he had last year and ignoring the previous three

751
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 4: years where he was a one twenty five, one point

752
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 4: fifty three and a one to ninety three ERA in

753
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Speaker 4: each of those seasons. I think he is fully going

754
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 4: to bounce back. You're going to get thirty plus saves,

755
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 4: tremendous ratios, and probably more than one hundred strike cooats.

756
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Speaker 1: I don't give a rats ass where he signed this year.

757
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: I'd be all over Tivin Williams in twenty twenty six

758
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 1: because he basically had a rough six weeks transitioning to

759
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Speaker 1: the Yankees in New York. And that's a lot for anybody, Okay.

760
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 1: It's pitching in New York is a lot different than

761
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 1: pitching in Milwaukee. Okay. Kelly Kirby just spent nine days

762
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: in New York and she was bitching and complaining about

763
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Speaker 1: how does anyone live in this? God for's taking place

764
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: from there, and I can tell you it's a tough place. Okay.

765
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Speaker 1: But Devin Williams had a rough start to the season,

766
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: and then after that he was Devin Williams. And I

767
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: am not worried at all about him no matter where.

768
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: Like I said, the fact he's a met is inconsequential

769
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: to me as long as he's closing games somewhere. And

770
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: he's coming to a huge discount this year. If if

771
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 1: he had a good start to the season last year,

772
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: we'd be talking about him as a top four high

773
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Speaker 1: And I.

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Speaker 2: Must put him on this list. By the way, had

775
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 2: m Joe, I was gonna put him credit two or

776
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 2: three on it. So I'm I'm with you on this

777
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 2: all right.

778
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Speaker 1: Number five for you. This is one of Welsh's favorite things.

779
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: This next guy I can tell you all that.

780
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I will tell you the League winners

781
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 2: is a little bit of like the Welsh All Welsh team. Yeah,

782
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 2: the guys that I well, we are.

783
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: Going to do the all teams on the first leading

784
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: off day, So I hope you're gonna be a few

785
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: of these blow your whole load here on this show.

786
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: Let's save a little in the chamber freezing.

787
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, raising, Will You're a bray you Will, You're a

788
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 2: bray you not only is an All Welsh guy, but

789
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 2: I legitimately think can be a league winner because how

790
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 2: often are you gonna be able to find thirty to

791
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 2: thirty five homers outside the top two hundred or close

792
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,479
Speaker 2: to the outside the top two hundred. And I think

793
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,239
Speaker 2: that's where're getting out with William. And now I've been

794
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 2: kind of screaming about this, you know, just elite ability

795
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 2: to get the ball in the air. Twenty three degree

796
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 2: launch angle, twenty five almost twenty six percent pulled air percentage.

797
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 2: He pairs that with a twelve percent barrel and a

798
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 2: forty five percent hard hit ray. So what do those

799
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 2: alls mean to you? He puts a barrel on the ball,

800
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 2: he hits it hard and the most important thing with that,

801
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 2: because we see the negatives when guys like Ellie or

802
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 2: James Wood they do those things, but then they have

803
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 2: like a seven degree launch angle and they're just smashing

804
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 2: against the wall. Williard Brayw has an elite ability to

805
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 2: get the ball in the air and pull it, which

806
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 2: is going to amount to home runs. He hit twenty

807
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 2: two homers last year in under four hundred at bats.

808
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 2: Does not like look like he's going to be in

809
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 2: the platoon space. He's going to be hitting in the

810
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 2: middle of the lineup. You kind of saw him show

811
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 2: out in the WBC. I've been a big fan of

812
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 2: him for a long time. And if he gets five

813
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 2: hundred or five hundred plus, If he gets five hundred

814
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 2: at bats, I think he's hit thirty homers. If he

815
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 2: gets close to six hundred, which might be a tall ask,

816
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 2: I think he can get to thirty five. And I

817
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 2: just don't think you're gonna see that type of output

818
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 2: this late in the rounds. He's going off as like

819
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 2: an outfielder four or five in a lot of leagues,

820
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 2: and I legitimately think he can be an outfielder too.

821
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 2: I love Willier bre you. He is probably my number

822
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 2: one shared player. I take him absolutely everywhere, and I

823
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 2: think the bat's gonna show off big and he's gonna

824
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 2: be you know, there's a lot of focus obviously in

825
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 2: Roman Anthony and you know, I mean obviously everyone's mart

826
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 2: Marcela Mayer to be a big star, but like Willier

827
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 2: bray You to me, is gonna like the unsung hero

828
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 2: of this and regardless if he actually is a true

829
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 2: league winner and he was like the top fifteen to

830
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 2: twenty outfielder, Like, he's a tremendous value, and I just

831
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 2: don't I don't see why people wouldn't want to target him.

832
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 2: So I love William bray You. He's an easy top

833
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:47,719
Speaker 2: five guy for me.

834
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: Speaking of favorite thing is the next guy on Joe

835
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: Rico's list at number four. I am sick to death

836
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: of hearing him talk about But for the sake of

837
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 1: the show, we can maybe squeeze one more time.

838
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 4: Look, I was into him before he was the opening

839
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 4: day starter, and before he had I had a zero

840
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 4: ERA through his fourteen spring inning. So I'm gonna take

841
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 4: my little victory lap, which always works out well with

842
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 4: a Vic Graye lap in March.

843
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 3: By the way, it always works out for you.

844
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 1: Oh, it's the best time. It's always smart best I

845
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: ever never bet at.

846
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I might be, you know, approaching the football

847
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,439
Speaker 4: here Charlie Brown style, and Lucy's gonna pull it away

848
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 4: from me. But I am super indicate caval He's my

849
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 4: most drafted pitcher across my sixteen or so drafts this year.

850
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 4: The stuff is phenomenal, and he has a deep arsenal,

851
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:27,760
Speaker 4: which is really important.

852
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 3: A lot of the time.

853
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,439
Speaker 4: Stuff ratings are massively high, but it's a two pitch

854
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 4: pitcher or something. Five pitches that great out at least

855
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 4: average one O two one fourteen, one oh five, one

856
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 4: oh five, one twelve, the deep arsenal one O eight

857
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 4: stuff plus overall one oh three pitching plus to go

858
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 4: along with a huge ground ball ground ball profile, Like

859
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 4: we're talking about a fifty five percent ground ball rate

860
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 4: last year that he's carried over into spring.

861
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:49,439
Speaker 3: Yeah.

862
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 4: Last season, the swinging strike rate indicated that he should

863
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 4: have struck out plenty more batters than he actually did

864
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:55,959
Speaker 4: at twelve percent. It hasn't been the highest in spring

865
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 4: to this point, and the strikeouts haven't really been there

866
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 4: so far. But I believe the talent I believe that

867
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 4: he will continue to get stronger, as he is now

868
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 4: two plus years removed from his Tommy John surgery. Usually,

869
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 4: that first year back you see some cobwebs, and then

870
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 4: the second year back you see guys fully get unleashed.

871
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 4: It's why I'm interested in Yuri this year, and it's

872
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 4: why I'm interested in mister Kate Cavali this year.

873
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, Uri would be probably one or two on my

874
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: list this year if I had this list this year.

875
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: But you tune in for the all Joe Pi's a

876
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: p A team Leading Off. By the way, it's on

877
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878
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,840
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879
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880
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881
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,480
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882
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 1: But of course if we want to be there live

883
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: for all the fun and be part of the show,

884
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 1: we want you to be part of that as well.

885
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 1: Next up, number three on the list, Actually, no, I'm

886
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: sorry number four for well, sorry, I don't want to

887
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: skip your four. It's a good one. It's a good one.

888
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 3: Number four on the lash.

889
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 2: Well, I you know, when I was battling the Devin

890
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 2: Williams thing, I was looking at it and I had

891
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 2: kind of just to go to this guy, and then

892
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 2: I noticed Joe had Devin Williams, and I'm like, okay,

893
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 2: I can do it in the same vein. I think

894
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 2: I've talked about if I the two closer combination I

895
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 2: want is Devin Williams, and I want to pair him

896
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 2: with Daniel Poalencia, and Daniel Palencia is going dramatically cheaper

897
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 2: or in NFBC a little cheaper however you want. In

898
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 2: a lot of leagues, you know, sometimes the somewhere between,

899
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 2: like the fourteenth and seventeenth closer off the board and

900
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 2: the team has been nothing but huge, as teams are

901
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 2: going to be. But we've heard an outcry of players.

902
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,760
Speaker 2: I think Daniel Polencia is in for a huge breakout.

903
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,399
Speaker 2: He's got the gig this year. There's no question he's

904
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 2: going to be the unquestioned closer, and a lot of

905
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 2: guys think he's going to lead the league. So far,

906
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 2: we've seen some good strikeout numbers, his overall arsenal. It's

907
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 2: really interesting if things are gonna carry over from last

908
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 2: year to or from spring into this season, because the

909
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 2: fastball is still elite averaging ninety nine, but he's used

910
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 2: it less this spring to throw more splitters and more sliders,

911
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 2: and that is equated to about a two and a

912
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 2: half percent higher swinging strike percentage in spring versus what

913
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 2: he did last year. Now, again it's spring, but the

914
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 2: point is is if we are going to see this

915
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 2: carry over and see a little bit less fastball usage

916
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 2: with those secondaries, he's going to be a demon out

917
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 2: there with those three pitches, especially the two offspeed breaking

918
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 2: pitches that he's inn't going to pair with a ninety

919
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 2: nine mile an hour fastball. He can be a top

920
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 2: ten closer and in the truest sense of league winning,

921
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 2: getting closers late win your leagues. Now, maybe you know,

922
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 2: if Robert Garcia, you know, gets thirty plus saves, that's

923
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 2: the truest sense of like a league winner. But to me,

924
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 2: be able to pass up the top tier of closers

925
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 2: to then maybe miss the next tier, which like Devin

926
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 2: Williams is a huge piece of to Ryan Helsley to

927
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 2: then if you were to have Daniel Polintz, Daniel Plintz

928
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 2: is a guy that can carry your closers and you

929
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 2: would pair him with someone else. I think he can

930
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 2: league win you, whether he is closer number two and

931
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 2: acts like a hardcore one, or he ends up being

932
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 2: the topier closers because you went cheaper. He needs to

933
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 2: be on every single team. I think big stuff is

934
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 2: in store. Thirty plus saves for Daniel Polentcia this year, like.

935
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: The Polancia call a lot. He is really just a

936
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: value in drafts too. H's crazy. I don't understand it

937
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: all right. Top three time here, Joe Rico number three

938
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: on your league winner list this season.

939
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 4: Another guy where I don't have to prep at all

940
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 4: to talk about Max Munsey because I have talked about

941
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 4: him so much that I can recite his numbers to you.

942
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 4: He was phenomenal once he got his vision working. Last year,

943
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,359
Speaker 4: he's in the middle of the Dodgers lineup and he's

944
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 4: carried it over to this point in spring training as well,

945
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,760
Speaker 4: he's hit three home runs and his forty two played appearances,

946
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 4: he's hitting three thirty three. He is a four to

947
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 4: twenty nine on base rate and third base. I know

948
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 4: I could probably do an entire hour debating third base

949
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 4: versus second base. This year, I think third is a

950
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 4: little bit worse in terms of the depth later on.

951
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 4: There's a lot of late second basemen that I can

952
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 4: talk myself into. Once you get outside the top ten

953
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 4: third basement or so, there's only one or two names

954
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 4: that I'm really comfortable with, and Max Munsey is.

955
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:54,959
Speaker 3: One of them. Yes, he's getting old.

956
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, you might have to figure something else out for

957
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 4: you know, two or three weeks if he deals with injury.

958
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 4: But I think we can see roughly five hundred play appearances,

959
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 4: thirty home runs, close to one hundred Ribbies, and probably

960
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 4: a decent enough batting average once the vision was correct

961
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 4: for him last year, the batting average wasn't such a

962
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 4: detriment like once he had been for most of his career.

963
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 4: He's hitting three thirty three in spring. I wouldn't expect

964
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 4: that to carry over or anything even close to it,

965
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 4: But I think he can hit like two fifty or

966
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 4: two sixty, which would make him a neutral as opposed

967
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 4: to a negative.

968
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,279
Speaker 1: Well, don't want those negatives. That's certainly not something we

969
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,240
Speaker 1: want right now, Welsh. We're now ready for your number

970
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: three on your list of league winners.

971
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 2: I mean from Willier Bray you to this guy are

972
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 2: the two definite two Welsh players. I was the most

973
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 2: anti Zach Gallon guy last year and I am super

974
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 2: pro Zach Gallon. Before he resigned with the Diamondbacks, I

975
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 2: had been kind of spouting this off Zach Gallen in essentially,

976
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 2: when the trade deadline passed, returned to vintage Zach Gallen.

977
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,280
Speaker 2: We got the numbers back. The whole prior to the season,

978
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 2: vlo On his fastball was down, which inherently made the

979
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,839
Speaker 2: secondaries tougher, and he didn't have command on his change up. Well,

980
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 2: guess what. The results in spring are not there.

981
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 3: But here's the.

982
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 2: Two things I want you to focus on. First, the

983
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 2: walk numbers are down. In four starts he is walking

984
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,399
Speaker 2: less than two per nine. That's huge because that means

985
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 2: some of the stuff might be going. Well, guess what

986
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 2: Vilo is up. Villo is up actually the highest I

987
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 2: believe in five years, actually yeah, since twenty twenty one.

988
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 2: It's the highest fastball Vilo he's thrown. He's averaging over

989
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 2: ninety four on the fastball. The slider he's throwing harder,

990
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 2: which he is throwing a little bit more. His curve

991
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 2: is changed up. Everything is pumping up a little bit harder,

992
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 2: and that's key for Zach Gollin. The main key is

993
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 2: that he's throwing strikes correctly and not just laying his

994
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 2: change up up, because when he was improperly throwing his

995
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:50,359
Speaker 2: change up, then guys weren't swinging anything, and then they

996
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,439
Speaker 2: were just either waiting on a fastball down the middle,

997
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 2: which stunk last year, or a curveball that they would

998
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 2: sit and just wait for it to pop in the zone. Well,

999
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 2: he's commanding stuff again. He's not walking guys in his

1000
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 2: fastballs up. I think those are recipes, positive recipes, and

1001
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 2: I have said this a ton and Nick Pollock agreed.

1002
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 2: You also have one of the best defensive infields in

1003
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 2: baseball in the Diamondbacks. Do I think a Diamonbacks are

1004
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 2: gonna be amazing? I don't. I think Bogmin's more Pollyanna

1005
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 2: than I am about our team. But what I do

1006
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 2: believe is from top to bottom defensively outside of Jordan Lawler,

1007
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 2: which is going to be a disaster, and left Alec

1008
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 2: Thomas is amazing, Corman Carrel is great, and the infield

1009
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 2: is absolutely sick with a great closer. So that is

1010
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 2: going to provide extra protection. Zach Allen just needs to

1011
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 2: get the ball on the ground a little bit more,

1012
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,319
Speaker 2: and you go from Nolan Aernato to Katel Marte to

1013
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 2: Carlos Santana Doraldo Perdomo, and I think that creets an

1014
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 2: advantage for a guy that is close to the two hundreds.

1015
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 2: And we have seen Zachkalan be a top twenty sp

1016
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 2: and I think he is a guy again that just

1017
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 2: rounds out the rotation can be a league winner for you.

1018
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 1: A week from now, Welsh Bogman and myself will be

1019
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: in Arizona together at the game. I'm excited about that.

1020
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 1: I have not been to that ballpark, so that is

1021
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: going to be number sixteen.

1022
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 3: Off be pressed.

1023
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 1: It's not about being in pres It's about experience, and

1024
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: I'd like to be in the pool instead. It'd be

1025
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 1: fun to watch the game from the pool and have

1026
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: them bring drinks to us. But I've been told by

1027
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: Bogman he got us the area where you can order

1028
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: food to your seat too.

1029
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 3: So I'm kind of cool.

1030
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 2: Will you order the one hundred and sixty eight ounce

1031
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 2: bucket of nachos?

1032
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 1: It's possible.

1033
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 3: What is that gonna cost? Is that gonna cost to

1034
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 3: order food.

1035
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,760
Speaker 2: Oh, it's gonna be so much. The little helmets cost

1036
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 2: like thirty dollars. It'd be like eighty dollars for a

1037
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 2: b and hopefully comes a toilet paper. It's going to

1038
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 2: be a disaster.

1039
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 4: Did you guys say the thing the Cardinals are offering

1040
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 4: this year where it's like twenty five bucks for unlimited

1041
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 4: hot dogs and or something. It's like some crazy deal

1042
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 4: that they're offering.

1043
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: Oh, there's the nine and nine one. I think it's

1044
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: a city field too, where you get the nine and

1045
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: the nine.

1046
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 2: Hot dogs and the baby baby hot dogs and laving.

1047
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 3: Beer and you're toasting hot beer.

1048
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 2: You should do the nine and nine challenge while we're

1049
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 2: out here, Joe, No.

1050
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: Because I got like I got a liver scan. I

1051
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: think the next week. I don't think that's.

1052
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 3: I've done it a couple of times.

1053
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 4: It's uh, it's not a fun next day literally a Rico.

1054
00:42:57,480 --> 00:42:59,800
Speaker 2: If I were to guess any analyst has done the

1055
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 2: nine in a nine challenge, it would have been it's a.

1056
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 3: Huge that's a huge compliment. I'll take that. It is.

1057
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, it meant to me and do my liver scan, Like, hey,

1058
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: there's a hot dog on here, just a full hot dog.

1059
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 2: It's a Tim Robinson bit like a hot dog. Don't

1060
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 2: watch the bit and think of that.

1061
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 1: Now, all right, We got a couple more names here

1062
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 1: to go in the list. Number two for Joe Rico

1063
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: in the League winners, and as promised, it's another met.

1064
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 4: Jorge Polonco is my most rostered in fielder this year.

1065
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 4: This show essentially is me breaking down my most rostered

1066
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:31,240
Speaker 4: players outside of like I have a lot of Bobby

1067
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 4: wit Junior this year, you know, just trying to focus

1068
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 4: on the guys mostly like outside of pick one hundred

1069
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:37,959
Speaker 4: that I've been really drafting and Horry Polonko and nearly

1070
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,240
Speaker 4: every draft. If I get snipe on him, I am pissed.

1071
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 4: He had twenty six home runs seventy eight ribby six

1072
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 4: deals in the two sixty five batting average last year,

1073
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 4: which is really really solid. It's not gonna blow you

1074
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 4: away necessarily. Twenty six home runs in a good batting average,

1075
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,720
Speaker 4: a one to thirty two WRC plus in a terrible

1076
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 4: park is really impressive. He's eligible at second if you're

1077
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 4: playing on Yahoo's eligible at third, and he will be

1078
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 4: eligible at first base very soon into the season, so

1079
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 4: that triple eligibility is great, but it's a huge upgrade.

1080
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 4: And if you want to argue that the lineups are

1081
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 4: essentially a wash, you know Julio Rawley, a Rose Arena

1082
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 4: versus Sodoba, Shatt Lindor, I would lean that it's a

1083
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 4: better lineup, But I think you can argue even if

1084
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 4: it's a wash, it's a much better ballpark. T Mobile

1085
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 4: is the worst park in all of baseball to hit it.

1086
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 4: It's a ninety one park factor and it's ninety three

1087
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 4: for homers. City Field is not exactly cores, but a

1088
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 4: ninety eight park factor with a one zho four home

1089
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 4: run factor is an improvement. And after what Polanco did

1090
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 4: last year, my only real concern is him staying on

1091
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:34,720
Speaker 4: the field because there is a bit of an injury

1092
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 4: history here. But outside of pick two hundred, a double

1093
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 4: or triple eligible player who's in a better situation than before.

1094
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 4: I don't know why Polonco hasn't been going a lot

1095
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,439
Speaker 4: higher through draft season. I thought when the season ended

1096
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 4: he'd be a top one hundred and fifty pick one

1097
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty. He's been like tam two twenty two

1098
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 4: thirty for most of the draft season. Then I don't

1099
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 4: get it.

1100
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if people were worrying

1101
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 1: too much about you know, the first base transition is

1102
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: that can affect him offensively when it's like, look, he's

1103
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: a short sto by trade, like these guys move around

1104
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: the field all the time. It's gonna be fine. Uh.

1105
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: And plus that position flexibility by may first two to

1106
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 1: three positions, depending on your qualifications a league, that kind

1107
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 1: of stuff matters because it changes how you approach free

1108
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: agent budget. It changes when you have injuries in your

1109
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 1: team where you could flex guys around. If you are

1110
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 1: a good drafter and you have a good bench, all

1111
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: of a sudden you've got more depth all my first

1112
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 1: basement got okay, I'll just move Polongo there from from third.

1113
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just I'm with you, Joe. I'm surprised

1114
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: it's as low as it's been with the position flexibility

1115
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 1: he gives you. And he's probably can be hit in

1116
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: four or five of that order. Yea, with tons of

1117
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: guys on base, Like I don't even know if we're

1118
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 1: like talking enough about that. When the first three guys

1119
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,799
Speaker 1: in Farnty who are Lindor Soto and Mashett. There's gonna

1120
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: be some guys to drive in with the way those

1121
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 1: guys make contact, So one hundred percent.

1122
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 2: He turned into Jerry Seinfeld. There, You're like, we're not

1123
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 2: even talking.

1124
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: Guys in front of them. There's so many guys in

1125
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 1: front of them there in the baseball I don't even understand.

1126
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:56,959
Speaker 2: Don't you turn into Seinfield and talk about pol.

1127
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:00,399
Speaker 4: Actually really good belong to fail the impression I still

1128
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 4: remember at Christopher Walking impression you did two years ago,

1129
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:05,399
Speaker 4: talking about A gonna do it.

1130
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 2: If you just see it, start saying he's gonna do

1131
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 2: all the impressions.

1132
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 1: No, you gotta save something for me. All right, let's

1133
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:13,439
Speaker 1: go to number two, and I just made my ball.

1134
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 1: Kelly sent out the bold prediction, things like what's your

1135
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 1: boldest prediction? And my ball prediction was, this guy's going

1136
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 1: to steal a hundred bases this year.

1137
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 3: No one's done.

1138
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: I say, nineteen eighty seven, he's stole one hundred and

1139
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: four bases in one hundred and ten games between A

1140
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: and double A and Welsh. The next guy gonna talk

1141
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: about I think has a shot to do it because

1142
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: he's that fast. All he's got to do is play

1143
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: every day, stay healthy, Maybe move up in the order

1144
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 1: over time, that would be helpful. But Chandler Simpson's number

1145
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 1: two on your list, and I don't think it's crazy

1146
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: to think he could see one hundred bases under the

1147
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 1: current guidelines of MLB. The way the rules have loosened

1148
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 1: up for stolen base, you can only throw over so

1149
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 1: many times, right, there's all these other things you can't

1150
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: do anymore. It's set up now for a guy like

1151
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 1: Chandler Simpson to go absolutely bananas.

1152
00:46:57,640 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1153
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,359
Speaker 2: I mean, I've been talking about them all year and

1154
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 2: I have got I don't think it was you, I

1155
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 2: guess because you're unless you turn. But I know I've got.

1156
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 2: I get all this kickback from behind, like well the

1157
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:15,359
Speaker 2: playing tim and he's a one category player, runs due, Yes,

1158
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 2: he's a three category player. You want to make my

1159
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 2: argument for me because i'm because that's the points. Yeah,

1160
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 2: he's gonna hit over three hundred, he's gonna score ninety

1161
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 2: plus runs, and he's going to lead the league stolen bases.

1162
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:29,800
Speaker 2: Guess what We did a betting pro show last week.

1163
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 2: Go and check it out, and I have a surprise

1164
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 2: for you. Chanla Simpson is not number one in the

1165
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 2: odds to lead the league in stolen bases through spring

1166
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:42,240
Speaker 2: thirty three played appearances. He's also he's already stolen four bases.

1167
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:46,319
Speaker 2: The guy is gonna steal at least sixty bases this year.

1168
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 2: The only two things are gonna keep well, there's only

1169
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 2: one thing that's going to keep him off is if

1170
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:51,839
Speaker 2: he's not in the lineup, if he's hurt or he

1171
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 2: does somehow not be able to hit for average. He

1172
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 2: doesn't strike out, it's under ten percent. Yeah, he doesn't walk,

1173
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 2: but the guy beats out grounders to the shortstop. He's

1174
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 2: the fastest guy in baseball. He's aggressive. The ras are

1175
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,360
Speaker 2: gonna let him be aggressive, and he is just a

1176
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 2: shoe in to If he plays one hundred games, he's

1177
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 2: stealing fifty bases. That's just how it is with Chandler Simpson.

1178
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's still a hundred that would

1179
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 2: be a fun bet if you could do that. But

1180
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 2: I think he's go in lead the league in stolen

1181
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 2: bases and not again. This is that league winning stuff.

1182
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 2: If he's a one category player, you can argue, like, okay,

1183
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 2: the stolen bases really help versus what he hurts in

1184
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 2: other spots, but it is going to be high batting average.

1185
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 2: Like I said, good runs and great stolen bases, and

1186
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:33,839
Speaker 2: I this actually might be the number one player I've

1187
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 2: drafted because I draft a lot of high power. I've

1188
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 2: drafted a ton of Camon Arrow and then I drafted

1189
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 2: Jhenel Swarez as like a corner infielder, and those guys

1190
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 2: become protection with the extra power. To take a guy

1191
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 2: like Chandler Simpson, I've got him everywhere, even if I

1192
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 2: have stolen bases, because he can singularly win you that

1193
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:54,760
Speaker 2: category while also at least competing in a couple others.

1194
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 2: He's a nothing burger on homers. You're not going to

1195
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,320
Speaker 2: just hit his first homer at any level.

1196
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: And head to head league man, I mean what he

1197
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,240
Speaker 1: can give you in the sole based category alone, It's

1198
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:04,959
Speaker 1: that's my point.

1199
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,280
Speaker 2: That's my point to it, and heat you that category

1200
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:07,720
Speaker 2: in league.

1201
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 1: And to be honest, like I just like I said,

1202
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,879
Speaker 1: I'm where you are with Chandler Simpson. Yeah, three category player.

1203
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: If you're straight up points leagues two, you know he's

1204
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 1: gonna be useful because he's gonna filup the scorecard and

1205
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this best bet of the day for

1206
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 1: like the first month of April is probably gonna be

1207
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: me betting Chandler sent to the steel Base. I just

1208
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 1: telling you, right well.

1209
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:26,320
Speaker 2: They're gonna be mindus money, or they're gonna be not

1210
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:27,359
Speaker 2: on the gate.

1211
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 1: They won't they You'll see it'll be plus three hundred

1212
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: plus if it's ever.

1213
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,879
Speaker 2: If it's ever over two hundred, I'll bet it it will.

1214
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 2: I will be shocked if it's over two hundred at

1215
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:38,280
Speaker 2: any time, all right, anytime.

1216
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:42,399
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Speaker 1: final the number one guy here and spoiler, these two

1244
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 1: Jabbroni's picked the same guy now I'll allow it. He's

1245
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 1: an Italian, but Joe Rico, why don't you speak first

1246
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: about yours? And Welsh's number one league winner for twenty

1247
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:09,719
Speaker 1: twenty six, his name.

1248
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 4: Jack Caglione, baby callianone and there's no culture of the box.

1249
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 4: Well there's maybe a little bit of cultural bias it play,

1250
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 4: but very little, very little in the analysis, at least

1251
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 4: I tried to. Jack Caglione is just a stud waiting

1252
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 4: to happen, And a lot of people will say, yeah,

1253
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 4: one fifty seven last year.

1254
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:27,359
Speaker 3: I get it.

1255
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,960
Speaker 4: It was a really disappointing first cup of coffee or

1256
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 4: a Steve Gardner put it the other day, a cup

1257
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 4: of espresso for Jack Caglion to start his career. But

1258
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 4: when you look at what he did in college, you

1259
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 4: look at what he did in the WBC, what he's

1260
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 4: done in spring training so far, He's walked more than

1261
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 4: he struck out. He's hitting three hundred, he's got the

1262
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 4: home run over the twenty six played appearances, ninety five

1263
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 4: average eggsit Velocity's hit the ball at one twenty I

1264
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 4: believe twice, twenty percent barrel rate, fifty three percent hard

1265
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 4: hit rate. This is an elite hitter waiting to happen

1266
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:56,360
Speaker 4: bringing the fences in. He's going to be in the

1267
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 4: middle of a really solid lineup. I've come around on

1268
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 4: the Royals over the last couple of years. He's gonna

1269
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 4: have Garcia, Wit, Benny p and sal hitting right in

1270
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:06,480
Speaker 4: front of him. There could be a thirty home run

1271
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 4: one hundred RBI season incoming here from Jack Kaglione. The

1272
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 4: only problem that I have with him is that the

1273
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 4: price has been going up and up and up, and

1274
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 4: you might see him. I don't think he'll get into

1275
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 4: the top one hundred, but he's no longer like post

1276
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:19,759
Speaker 4: pick two hundred. You're paying like one forty one to

1277
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 4: fifty for Jack. I'm still willing to do it as

1278
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 4: long as if someone wants to take him inside the

1279
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 4: top one hundred, let them do it. If he's sitting

1280
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 4: there at one twenty one thirty one forty, I'm taking

1281
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 4: him all day.

1282
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:33,399
Speaker 1: Welsh, the floor is yours. You know you could talk

1283
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,359
Speaker 1: about why you love Jack cagleone so much.

1284
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 2: Well, I think a lot of the points were made

1285
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 2: by Joe. I mean, I will say though, that what

1286
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 2: Joe is reciting as n FBC, and that is not

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Speaker 2: any of the consumer leagues. And that's important to know

1288
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:46,440
Speaker 2: because guess what, he's not going in the one fifties

1289
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 2: he's going I did a video less than a week ago.

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Speaker 2: He was still outside the top two hundred in Yahoo.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Now that's not to say that that's the leagues I'm

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00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:58,359
Speaker 2: going in. As soon as one fifty clicks. I jump

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00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 2: into Jack Kagleon because I took him in our home

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00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 2: league that we do, and then I think I also

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00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,359
Speaker 2: got him at least attempted to auction him in our

1297
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 2: Fantasy pros league that company one. I'm completely in on this.

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00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:12,839
Speaker 2: I think Jack Kaggan is hitting thirty homers this year.

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00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 2: I think he's a ninety ninety guy. It is tremendous,

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00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 2: bat speed, barrel, hard to hit. He has taken so

1301
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 2: much off of this season to the training, going into WBC,

1302
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:26,920
Speaker 2: working guys with Vinnie, going up against top talent and competition.

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00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 2: You can almost get even money for Jack kag They

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00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 2: only hit twenty five homers this year. If you ever

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00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 2: like to put a couple bets together and create, you know,

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00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 2: a little grouping, I'm putting that one in there. I'm

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00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 2: putting twenty five homers on Jack with some other stuff

1308
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,320
Speaker 2: and have some fun little parlay for futures into the season.

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00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 2: Because everything that Joe cited is correct, I'm completely with it.

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00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 2: I think he's a lock for thirty ninety ninety for

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00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 2: a guy that he'd be going. I shouldn't say lock,

1312
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 2: but that's where I think he's gonna go, and he

1313
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 2: is going outside the top two hundred. He is moving.

1314
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 2: But in a lot of drafts where you guys, if

1315
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,240
Speaker 2: you're doing a Homeland I mean, if you're doing NFBC,

1316
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 2: just no, that's the price tag. It's in the one

1317
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 2: fifties and you might have to reach a little bit higher.

1318
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:08,240
Speaker 2: But in your home leagues, a lot of these sites

1319
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 2: still have a guy like CAGs lower, So you can

1320
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 2: probably get him into the one sixties, one seventies, one eighties,

1321
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:15,920
Speaker 2: and guess what, the cost is still great there, Especially

1322
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:18,280
Speaker 2: if he ends up becoming a top fifty overall player.

1323
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 2: He could outperform a guy like Mattelson. I'm not he's

1324
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 2: going to, but like that's the type of talent that's there.

1325
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 2: There's a risk, you know, the dude hit under two

1326
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 2: hundred last year if he completely regresses like that, But

1327
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 2: a lot of us are banking that he's not a

1328
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 2: little worried that we love him all collectively as much

1329
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:35,400
Speaker 2: as we do. That always feels like a recipe for

1330
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 2: a disaster. But I couldn't let Joe just put Cagli

1331
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 2: on at the top because I agree, So this has

1332
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 2: to be in agreement. There's a couple others I agree

1333
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 2: with Joe. Joe did a great job on his sheet.

1334
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 2: There's a couple that I completely agree with, But this one,

1335
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:52,359
Speaker 2: this is mine too. I have done videos on him,

1336
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:54,840
Speaker 2: so yeah, this is like league winning material. I feel

1337
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 2: the most like hardcore about my top two. I think

1338
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 2: like Chandler, Simpson and CAGs to me represent like real

1339
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:03,359
Speaker 2: forms of this.

1340
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:05,839
Speaker 1: Some of the others like Combo too. When you're talking

1341
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 1: about trying to you know, yeah, you put those two

1342
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 1: players together, you get a lot of productivity.

1343
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 2: Chandler will help with the batting average that could.

1344
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:15,400
Speaker 1: Be inherits thats is gonna have and CAGs help.

1345
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:15,839
Speaker 3: Me everywhere else.

1346
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:17,919
Speaker 2: And I don't I don't want to argue against guys

1347
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 2: that I said the league winners are not league winners.

1348
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:21,759
Speaker 2: I think they can help you win your league. But

1349
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:25,359
Speaker 2: like the the real sense of a guy carrying your team.

1350
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:28,960
Speaker 2: I think like Chandler specifically can carry I think hardcore

1351
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 2: two categories. But I think Jack Caglion, like the players,

1352
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:35,520
Speaker 2: we might be looking at him versus in season, we're

1353
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 2: gonna laugh and be like, can you believe we were

1354
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:41,800
Speaker 2: taking pop up up ahead of so a lockstep for

1355
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:43,879
Speaker 2: all of like crazy.

1356
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:46,919
Speaker 4: If you look at our consensus ADP at fantasypros dot com,

1357
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 4: every other site has him inside the top two hundred

1358
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 4: and then Jack Hagle on Yahoo two fifty if you're playing.

1359
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 2: But the others are still like in the one eighties

1360
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:59,440
Speaker 2: and seventies and stuff. So that's why NFBC NFBC, the

1361
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:02,840
Speaker 2: high dollars is around two to three rounds higher. But

1362
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 2: in a lot of your homelings, you guys are going

1363
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 2: to be doing. My just suggestion is when around one fifty,

1364
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:10,799
Speaker 2: when it clicks, you should start paying attention. I've been

1365
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 2: taking him in the one fifties and very comfortable with it,

1366
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 2: but that's when you should pay attention. But it is

1367
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:17,720
Speaker 2: not the necessity based on what a lot of the

1368
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 2: consumer sites or that you would do your home leagues

1369
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 2: on are actually ranking him.

1370
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 1: One of the things I wanted to see from keg

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00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 1: leioon this spring was played discipline, and between WBC and

1372
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 1: spring training he's got more walks than strikeouts, so that

1373
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:33,319
Speaker 1: combination there, he's got eleven walks nine strikeouts. And that

1374
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:35,359
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like a big deal, but it is because

1375
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 1: it means he's locked in, he's taking good at bats,

1376
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: he's hitting, he's swinging at strikes right and if they're

1377
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:44,719
Speaker 1: not throwing strikes, he's walking and he's not chasing. That

1378
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 1: is equally important to me as I'm hitting bombs in

1379
00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:48,879
Speaker 1: the spring, I don't care what bombs everybody his bombs

1380
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 1: in the spring. Spring training is goofy like that. It's

1381
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 1: whether or not you're taking walks and having good at bats.

1382
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 1: And to me, that was good because that was going

1383
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 1: to be an indicator of how he could pick up

1384
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:00,120
Speaker 1: in April with some good confidence going in see the

1385
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:02,240
Speaker 1: ball well and having some good at bats early on April,

1386
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:04,440
Speaker 1: which will lead, I think, to a much better start

1387
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 1: than unfortunately had when he got called up last year.

1388
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 1: So hopefully you've had a lot of these names already

1389
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:11,879
Speaker 1: on your rosters that you've drafted. If you haven't, go

1390
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:15,400
Speaker 1: get all twenty or nineteen. I guess to technically the

1391
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:17,959
Speaker 1: same guy twice, actually draft Jack Hegley on twice.

1392
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 2: If you can't just just probably then.

1393
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 1: Welsh is muted, which is the perfect way to end

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Speaker 1: this show. So if you haven't already the.

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Speaker 2: Two way player, I was gonna say, yahho jokes split

1396
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:29,600
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1397
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:30,560
Speaker 2: Florida Carson.

1398
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 3: Being twenty Carson Bench.

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