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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into our three of Fantasy Fest twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six. I am Ryan Warmley, joined by Chris Welsh,

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Speaker 1: who has been rocking it all Fest so far. I

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Speaker 1: think you've had just one segment off so far, and

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Speaker 1: you're going through to the end all the way.

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Speaker 2: He is an iron man.

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Speaker 1: We were also joined, of course, from CBS Sports host

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Speaker 1: of Fantasy Baseball Today. It's Frank Stanfel. Franks, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for making the time for us today.

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Speaker 2: Hey, what's going on, guys? Thank you for having me. Welch.

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Speaker 3: Looks like you've been spending some time in this son,

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Speaker 3: my friend. My goodness.

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Speaker 2: Everybody keeps killing.

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Speaker 4: Okay, the lighting doesn't quite help. I could probably change

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Speaker 4: the lighting a little bit, but yes, I have been

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Speaker 4: every day I'm out there. Wore glasses and you were

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Speaker 4: with me about a week ago and we were watching

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Speaker 4: some of that. But I didn't realize I was that tan.

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Speaker 2: I might just be that pale. That's what it comes to.

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Speaker 4: You're also that pale, buddy.

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Speaker 1: I was going to very politely not mention it, but

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Speaker 1: it was the first thing I noticed.

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Speaker 4: I will admit here, Welsh, I'm changing my camera life.

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Speaker 1: Of course, every talking about Welsh just mentioned some breakout

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Speaker 1: hitters here for the next thirty minutes. No pressure on

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Speaker 1: me here talking to two of the great hosts of

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Speaker 1: their own shows in the industry. So I got to

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Speaker 1: really step up my game here for this segment at least.

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Speaker 1: Breakout hitter is one of the most fun kind of

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Speaker 1: topics to always think about. Before we dive into the

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Speaker 1: specific names that you guys picked, I do want to

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Speaker 1: ask you, Frank, when you think about finding and identifying

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Speaker 1: a breakout hitter, what's the first thing that comes to

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Speaker 1: your mind when you were trying to come up with

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Speaker 1: the names that you want to talk about.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think any type of breakout it could be

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Speaker 3: hitter or pitcher, is someone that could provide excess value.

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Speaker 3: Right we're always debating sleeper or breakout. To me, sleeper

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Speaker 3: someone who's like undervalued and you know, easy profit. Breakout

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Speaker 3: do something that we haven't seen before. Maybe it's someone

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Speaker 3: who has prospect pedigree, of post hype prospect, something like that.

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Speaker 3: But it's really for me, whether it's a hitter or

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Speaker 3: that excess value and potentially even be a league winner,

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Speaker 3: someone that has that bigide and fantasy.

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Speaker 1: Well, is that how you kind of define the difference

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Speaker 1: between like sleeper versus breakout for example.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a pretty good example. I'd say, like mine

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Speaker 4: kind of hones around like if I look at a

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Speaker 4: projection of a player and I think they are going

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Speaker 4: to surpass that, that's you know, value. Throw value into

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Speaker 4: the discussion as well, ADP like, Ooh, I think this

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Speaker 4: guy's going to be better because like the first guy

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Speaker 4: that I when I talk, it's a player that it's like,

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Speaker 4: I think the projections are low, and I think based

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Speaker 4: on their skill set they can far surpass those projections.

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Speaker 4: So they start checking lots of boxes, their breakouts, their values.

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Speaker 4: Maybe they're being a sleeper based on where they're going,

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Speaker 4: but yeah, I'm looking Usually the specific breakout is like

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Speaker 4: this guy is going to surpass the expectation of the market.

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Speaker 2: Frank, let's jump into the names we have here. You're

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Speaker 4: See you'll go first. He's your first breakout hitter for US.

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Speaker 3: South Stewart is someone who I love this season and welse.

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Speaker 3: We actually spoke about him way back at first pitch

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Speaker 2: I love them then, I love him now. Nothing has changed.

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Speaker 3: As a minor leaguer, south Stewart did everything you want

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Speaker 3: He kept his k rate below eighteen percent at every level.

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Speaker 3: He has a good eye at the plate, a career

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Speaker 3: Then once he got called up, it was a really

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Speaker 3: He only played those eighteen games with the Reds, but

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Speaker 3: On top of all of that, he just gets it.

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Speaker 3: is the hitter that I see south Stewart becoming his mentor?

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Speaker 1: Well, she said, you knew that comparison was coming.

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Speaker 4: it's a great comparison because like there are a lot

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Speaker 4: Rookie of the Year candidate. So I like this pick.

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Speaker 4: My only concern is, like the bat has to be playing,

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Speaker 1: Frank, what round are you looking to take a guy

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Speaker 1: like Stuart? Because he's outside the top two hundred in

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Speaker 1: the overall consensus rankings fantasypros dot com right now, just

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Speaker 3: So I actually just took him in my Great Fantasy

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Speaker 3: Baseball Invitational draft. That's a little bit different. It's a

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Speaker 3: So I have him ranked as my fifteenth first baseman

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Speaker 3: this year. I know his Fantasy Pros ADPs as the

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Speaker 3: I'm looking to take south Stewart. So if the ADP

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Speaker 1: Well, she was your breakout hitter.

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Speaker 4: This is my full on fifth outfielder every single league.

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Speaker 4: I want to have him at all times. It is

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Speaker 4: will your bray you? With the Red Sox? Will you

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Speaker 4: bray you? Last season, solid numbers, twenty two homers, and

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Speaker 4: he did it in under four hundred at bats. He

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Speaker 4: was pretty supportive of it. Interestingly, this is one of

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Speaker 4: what is the breakout? What are the qualifications? This is

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Speaker 4: one of those guys where it's like the projections don't

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Speaker 4: They don't advance the numbers, and I think a lot

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Speaker 4: had three straight years of an increase in his barrel percentage,

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Speaker 4: now an elite twenty three degree launch angle, which is ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: He's had solid hard hit numbers his entire career, and

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Speaker 4: he lowered his strikeout rate while walking more. And here's

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Speaker 4: is going to be this platooned lefty out guy. There

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Speaker 4: have been talks a jern Duran might be that player.

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Speaker 4: William Brayu was respectable at least against lefties this past year,

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Speaker 4: hitting two thirty against left handed hitters. He had under

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Speaker 4: going to be able to hit thirty plus homers in

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Speaker 4: this lineup. He pulled the ball in the air over

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Speaker 4: twenty five percent of the time. We talked about Sal Stewart's.

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Speaker 4: This is another one of those guys hits the ball hard,

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Speaker 4: He barrows the ball, and he pulls it. All of

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Speaker 4: those things create really good results. Plus he's not striking

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think projections most have like around four to fifty.

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Speaker 3: Frank, what do you think about a brave Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: But William Bradley, they really like him in Boston too.

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Speaker 3: But now I think both of those guys are just

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about Jack Caglione. Oh, team Italy. By the way,

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Speaker 2: I mean Mark Durosa. What are we doing?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 3: Not knowing that USA did not clinch yet? That is

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Speaker 3: h dagger in the heart. Now we're all watching Italy

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Speaker 3: versus Mexico tonight. But Jack Kaglio looked sixth overall pickback

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four, destroyed the Miners last year. Hit

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Speaker 3: three thirty seven, twenty home runs and ops over one thousand.

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Speaker 3: That was across Double A and Triple A. He actually

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Speaker 3: He posted a one twenty exit velocity so far this spring.

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Speaker 2: He has also hit.

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Speaker 3: So I think the breakout is very clear. This is

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Speaker 3: He's, you know, inside the top two hundred now. I

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Speaker 3: think we could see Caags hit two sixty two seventy

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Speaker 2: That's not what I'm expecting.

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Speaker 3: But if he does do that, that high end outcome

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Speaker 1: I have a good friend that I've played a lot

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Speaker 1: He has informed me I will not be getting Jack

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Speaker 2: There will be zero chance of that. We el, So

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm all in on CAGs. I mean, I'd been

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Speaker 4: That was a big plus huge bat speed and huge

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Speaker 4: to just kind of like revamp this. If you believe

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Speaker 4: without he is. Cost is coming up. He is now

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Speaker 4: so that changes across different sites, but you're gonna start

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Speaker 4: in on Jack Caglelane being a big breakout path.

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Speaker 1: So, frank do you see a world where he's like

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Speaker 3: Kind of a similar season to what Junior Kamanaro just did,

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Speaker 3: Who would you pick between CAGs and sal Stewart. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: That's how you learn what you really feel when you're

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Speaker 4: All right, this is gonna be a wild one. This

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Speaker 4: he is looking to do that that the team feels

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Speaker 4: that he is an adjustment or two away from being

434
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Speaker 4: this massive, big impact hitter. Because he is, he's one

435
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Speaker 4: of the best. He doesn't chase, he doesn't whiff, he

436
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Speaker 4: doesn't strike out, he walks, he gets on base, and

437
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Speaker 4: he makes a ton of contact. So he's just missing

438
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Speaker 4: those other piece because he's super low hard hit. He

439
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Speaker 4: has increased his barrel percentage every single year, but that

440
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Speaker 4: has not equated to any big results. But what we

441
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Speaker 4: have seen before, and I've called it like the CJ.

442
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Speaker 4: Abrams effect. You've seen these guys that don't like hit

443
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Speaker 4: the ball super super hard, but what they do and

444
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Speaker 4: they don't barrel super a ton, but they get the

445
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Speaker 4: ball in the air, they pull it and they maximize

446
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Speaker 4: homers and that's just something I think we could get

447
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Speaker 4: out of him. He had an eighteen point four pulled

448
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Speaker 4: air percentage, which is pretty solid. I think he's a

449
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Speaker 4: small bit of barreling away with that pull rate from

450
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Speaker 4: being able to be a twenty plus home run hitter

451
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Speaker 4: that would go along with a probably two eighty to

452
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Speaker 4: two ninety batting average, maybe with some significant runs. And

453
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Speaker 4: I'm not really sure where the RBIs will go, but

454
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Speaker 4: he is one of those characters that I think is

455
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Speaker 4: a small adjustment away from a big, actual true breakout

456
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Speaker 4: here and one thing in the spring, He's actually struggled

457
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Speaker 4: a little bit in the spring, but you know, it's

458
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Speaker 4: been happening. I've been trying to pull the ball more.

459
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Speaker 4: His pole percentage is a career high than he's ever

460
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Speaker 4: had in any season during spring, I think starting to

461
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Speaker 4: go through that process. So be on the lookout for him.

462
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Speaker 4: He's a better points league, He's viable points league. He's

463
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Speaker 4: not really in a lot of other formats, but I

464
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Speaker 4: think at deeper leagues he could be a corner infield

465
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Speaker 4: option that could be stepping into a break big breakout

466
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Speaker 4: that could maybe get him upwards of like four categories.

467
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Speaker 4: So it's kind of a weird one, but I do

468
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Speaker 4: think it fits just some of the mold of the

469
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Speaker 4: type of player that could be a real, real breakout

470
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Speaker 4: going from irrelevant to solid. I don't think he could

471
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Speaker 4: ever be a superstar. I don't think he's gonna Jack

472
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Speaker 4: Hecklin could be a superstar Jack agli owonn if I

473
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Speaker 4: told you guys, hey CAGs is a top three round player.

474
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Speaker 4: I think there's a realm where you see it, you

475
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Speaker 4: kind of believe it. I don't think that's going to

476
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Speaker 4: happen with Shanwell, but could be a top two hundred player,

477
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Speaker 4: could be a viable corner infielder that is literally free.

478
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Speaker 4: I think that is a possibility because I think he's

479
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Speaker 4: just an adjustment or two away from you know, being

480
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Speaker 4: an actual fantasy guy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, outside the top three hundred and eightyp so, is

482
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Speaker 1: he somebody Welsh that you are saying, like wait to

483
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Speaker 1: the end of the draft and like, yes, this is

484
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Speaker 1: like if when you're kind of taking swings late, you'll

485
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Speaker 1: take him or would you take him like a round

486
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Speaker 1: or two earlier than that three hundred ADP. It's still late,

487
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Speaker 1: but like just to make sure you get him. Was

488
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Speaker 1: it more weight, and if he's there, you're interested in him.

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Speaker 1: He has a lottery ticket.

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Speaker 4: It's a great question. I had this exact scenario happen

491
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Speaker 4: to me TGFBI as we talked about I'm in TGFBI,

492
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Speaker 4: and I will be Frank. I won't be Frank Stanfeld,

493
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Speaker 4: but I'll be Frank here. I want Andrew Vaughn as well.

494
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Speaker 4: I think both of those guys are like I mean,

495
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Speaker 4: there's tiers of like the guys that you want, and

496
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Speaker 4: we already talked about andrewvon I don't need to talk

497
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Speaker 4: about him in that draft. I was in a spot

498
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Speaker 4: around two seventy where I needed pitching and I had

499
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Speaker 4: both of these corner infielders out here, and I did

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Speaker 4: pass on taking Vaughn to take a picture because I

501
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Speaker 4: needed to bulk up my starting pitching a little bit.

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Speaker 4: And Vaughn then went the next pick. So I'm now

503
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Speaker 4: going to be looking at a guy like Nolan Shanwell

504
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Speaker 4: that I'm going to be able to take because Burger's gone,

505
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Speaker 4: Vaughan is gone, and it's going to be right around

506
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Speaker 4: the three hundreds. So it's a calculated potential miss because

507
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Speaker 4: if he's more of what he was before, where he's

508
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Speaker 4: like I barrow four percent of the time, and you know,

509
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Speaker 4: all I do is get on base, and I don't

510
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Speaker 4: do anything structurally super great like sixty four runs fifty

511
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Speaker 4: three RBIs aren't going to do it. But we also

512
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Speaker 4: saw some significant changes like from Heraldo Perdomo, and I

513
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Speaker 4: think that's like the space that we could go to.

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Speaker 4: So if he goes eighty eighty with twenty homers and

515
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Speaker 4: a two eighty batting average, I think we're talking about

516
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Speaker 4: something completely different. Winnyland Shanwell. So that's kind of what

517
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Speaker 4: I'm hoping for. This is my super deep breakout hitter

518
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Speaker 4: for the year. Frank, where are you at on Shanwell? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I think he's a good deep league name, high floor

520
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Speaker 3: option just because he's going to play a ton I

521
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Speaker 3: think if you play in OBP or head toed points

522
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Speaker 3: leagues where it goes a little bit deeper into the

523
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Speaker 3: player pool, it makes a lot of sense to target

524
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Speaker 3: him there. We actually did a team preview series this

525
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Speaker 3: offseason where we brought on a beat writer from each

526
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Speaker 3: team and we had Jeff Fletcher from the SoCal News

527
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Speaker 3: Group who the Angels there, and we asked every beat

528
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Speaker 3: writer for a breakout, and his breakout was Nolan Chanual

529
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Speaker 3: with the hope that he can get to more power

530
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Speaker 3: and barrel things up a little bit more. He has

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Speaker 3: good back control, he has great plate discipline, so if

532
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Speaker 3: he can just get that ball in the air a

533
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Speaker 3: little bit more, pull it, Like the Walls was mentioning there,

534
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Speaker 3: it's not crazy to see a twenty home run season

535
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Speaker 3: here with other solid counting stats and really good.

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Speaker 2: Plate discipline from Nolan Chanule.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and just to say like he has increased his

538
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Speaker 4: launch angle three straight seasons while the barrel has kind

539
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Speaker 4: of like been a slow go up. But he went

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Speaker 4: from six which is to ten, which are like, oh,

541
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Speaker 4: this is like the Vince McMahon meme. We were like, hmm, oh, oh,

542
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Speaker 4: you know, so now if we can go thirteen to

543
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Speaker 4: sixteen or seventeen, we're going to be Vince falling out

544
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Speaker 4: of the chair at this point. And it's like, yes,

545
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Speaker 4: someone in the chap mentioned like, right, feel that the

546
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Speaker 4: angels can kind of suck. But it's like, if he

547
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Speaker 4: can get that to a twenty percent pull air percentage

548
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Speaker 4: and he can go fifteen to sixteen on the launch

549
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Speaker 4: angle with a slight increase on the barrel. Listen, the

550
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Speaker 4: way he makes contact, you might just fall into that stuff.

551
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Speaker 4: You might and you don't want to be drafted guys

552
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Speaker 4: off of mites and whatever. But it's like he has

553
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Speaker 4: such a low floor it is good to hear multiple

554
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Speaker 4: other outlets. Kind of in that same discussion that like

555
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Speaker 4: everybody recognized this is a guy that is like a

556
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Speaker 4: tweak or two away from unlocking the full potential. And

557
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Speaker 4: that's where I feel like where I feel like we

558
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Speaker 4: are on the precipice. We don't have tons and tons

559
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Speaker 4: to go off of, but I feel like this is

560
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Speaker 4: the precipice year where everyone recognizes wants him to do it.

561
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Speaker 4: Kind of looks like he's doing that in a little

562
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Speaker 4: bit of spring where you know, like I said, the

563
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Speaker 4: pole percentage is up while the batting average is down,

564
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Speaker 4: and he's experimenting with this and I'm hoping it's going

565
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Speaker 4: to pay off.

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Speaker 1: We've got a few minutes left here in this segment

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Speaker 1: to answer some questions from the chat today. We are

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Speaker 1: striving to tackle as many of your questions as we can.

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Speaker 1: By the end of each segment, guarantee that your question

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Speaker 1: is answered by sending in a super chat. We will

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Speaker 1: get to them at the end of every single segment here,

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Speaker 1: we've got some chats that we want to catch up on.

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Speaker 1: Wel I got to ask you, uh, just because you

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Speaker 1: know how excited I have. How confident are we that

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Speaker 1: Polar Bear can keep performing here?

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Speaker 4: I think he's gonna keep going. I mean, Frank, you'd

577
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Speaker 4: probably be a good person answer that too. I mean,

578
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Speaker 4: I think it's the left star part of the field

579
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Speaker 4: there is a little bit more pitcher friendly. The right

580
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Speaker 4: side of the field is a little bit more hitter friendly.

581
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Speaker 4: But Pete Alonzo kind of supplants all of that. I

582
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Speaker 4: love some of the guys in front for run support.

583
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Speaker 4: I feel pretty confident he is a rinse and repeat player.

584
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Speaker 4: I don't think there's a ton of those type of guys,

585
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Speaker 4: and that can be like I guess I could be

586
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Speaker 4: like lazy analysis, but I do think there are like

587
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Speaker 4: a handful of players that are rinse and repeats, and

588
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Speaker 4: I think pet Alonzo is just rinse repeat guy. He's

589
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Speaker 4: thirty five plus homers, you know, get into could he

590
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Speaker 4: get to forty? Absolutely, He's gonna tons of runs, tons

591
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Speaker 4: of RBI. And there are a few big names out

592
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Speaker 4: there that you know are going to support him being

593
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Speaker 4: able to be driven in. I think like he's gonna

594
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Speaker 4: help I think he's gonna help guys like Adlee and

595
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Speaker 4: re unlock Gunner again as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Frank, I don't know if you knows, but

597
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Speaker 1: I'm an Orioles fan, so I'm quite excited about pet

598
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Speaker 1: alanzare here.

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Speaker 4: What do you think about him?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's all well said, by the way,

601
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Speaker 3: So I don't typically love buying the player first year

602
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Speaker 3: of a mega contract and a new location, but I mean, look,

603
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Speaker 3: I don't want to overreact to spring training. He's looked

604
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Speaker 3: awesome this spring. He is crushing the ball like he

605
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Speaker 3: always does. It's a good line up. There are great

606
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Speaker 3: players around him.

607
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Speaker 2: I know that.

608
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Speaker 3: You know they made some changes to Camden last year

609
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Speaker 3: to bring the walls back in a little bit in

610
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Speaker 3: left field. I don't think it really matters for him.

611
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Speaker 3: He just hits the ball so hard.

612
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Speaker 2: The one thing for his.

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Speaker 3: ADP is like he goes usually a round or two

614
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Speaker 3: ahead of Devers and matt Elson, and I don't really

615
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Speaker 3: see a huge difference between those guys. So I haven't

616
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Speaker 3: wound up with Pilanzo on any of my teams, but

617
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Speaker 3: that's not because you know, I don't like him, It's

618
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Speaker 3: because I just kind of like the other players that

619
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Speaker 3: are going a little bit later on.

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Speaker 4: So I've had the same thing, by the way, like

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Speaker 4: I just haven't ever drafted him an in draft because

622
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Speaker 4: I also like Devers and I think I mentioned in

623
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Speaker 4: my Welsh's you know what Welsh's targets or cheat sheet

624
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Speaker 4: that's coming out. I also like Vini pas Quentino. So

625
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Speaker 4: it's one of those things where I don't like to

626
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Speaker 4: push the can down where it's like, oh, I'll take

627
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Speaker 4: this guy because I get this guy later. But like

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Speaker 4: I think Devers and him are pretty close, and if

629
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Speaker 4: I miss on both of them, I'm like, well I

630
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 4: got Vinni. So I've never once in any mock or

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Speaker 4: anything I've done so far this offseason taken Alonzo.

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Speaker 1: Let's actually stick with the Orioles corner infield spot. We

633
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Speaker 1: got a question here from Phil Thoughts on Kobe Mayo's spring.

634
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 1: Has he figured something out, calmed his nerves finally or

635
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Speaker 1: just a hot spring. Obviously we'll have an opportunity here

636
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Speaker 1: with Jordan Westburg's injury at third base. He's hitting the

637
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Speaker 1: cover off the ball, so far in spring trading. He

638
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Speaker 1: had another great game just yesterday. Very you know, high

639
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Speaker 1: pedigree prospect from when he was in the minors, didn't

640
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Speaker 1: really pan out in the majors so far.

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Speaker 2: Still really young.

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Speaker 1: We talk a lot about like sort of this post

643
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Speaker 1: type sleeper from the prospects. Frank, I'll start with you

644
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Speaker 1: on this. When you think about Mayo, are you buying

645
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Speaker 1: into his hot spring at all?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think this is what you want to

648
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Speaker 3: see from a young player who has had very little

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Speaker 3: opportunity so far, but now he's trying to take advantage

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Speaker 3: of that. And so far the spring thirteen for twenty six,

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Speaker 3: hitting five hundred on the nose, hit a home run

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Speaker 3: the other day, it was like four hundred and thirty

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Speaker 3: four feet one away, eggs and velocity. We know that

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Speaker 3: the power is there. He really just needs the opportunity

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Speaker 3: now to take advantage that. We saw some of that

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Speaker 3: power down the stretch last season too. I believe he

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Speaker 3: had like five or six home runs in September of

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Speaker 3: last year. So I don't have any faith in Jordan

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Speaker 3: Westburg's ability to stay healthy or to get back on

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Speaker 3: the field. I think it's actually gonna wind up being

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Speaker 3: probably a major injury and surgery there for Jordan Westburg,

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Speaker 3: and as a result, I like the opportunity.

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Speaker 2: I like this lineup.

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Speaker 3: I like someone like Pete Alonzo being around to mentor

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Speaker 3: Kobe Mayo, so where he's going outside the top three hundred.

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Speaker 2: To me, this is like the definition of a post

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Speaker 2: hype sleeper here. Yeah, wellsh Meo.

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Speaker 1: Did start to look more comfortable in September when he

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Speaker 1: was actually getting more regular at bats, which he was

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Speaker 1: not getting, you know, earlier in the season when he

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Speaker 1: first got called up. Is he somebody that you're interested

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Speaker 1: in very late in drafts?

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Speaker 4: I think more importantly here, did you drop all of

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Speaker 4: your burners in here that we've only had Orioles question?

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Speaker 4: Is there any coincidence? I would just like to point out,

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Speaker 4: as the resident oriole fan, that both of the listener

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Speaker 4: questions were Orioles. Now, I think, I mean, this is

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Speaker 4: its opportunity. I mean, it's it is wild that he's

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Speaker 4: not walking, he's not striking out in spring yet and

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Speaker 4: done a whole lot of that. He's just making a

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Speaker 4: bunch of contact. But this is the this is a

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Speaker 4: huge opportunity for him to not have the taken away

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Speaker 4: with Westbrook out and he's always been one of those

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Speaker 4: like two sixty twenty five plus Homer guys. So I

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Speaker 4: think this is this is a really big opportunity. And

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Speaker 4: I'm not the biggest lineup protection guy out there, but

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Speaker 4: it's like this is a pretty good lineup for him

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Speaker 4: to thrive.

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Speaker 1: The Peter Alonzo question was the oldest question that we

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Speaker 1: had and answered, yet I had to get to it,

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Speaker 1: and as I might as well stay automatically appropriate, let

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Speaker 1: me give you just very quickly shoot from the hip.

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Speaker 2: One non Oreoles one Vaughn or Berger.

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Speaker 4: This comes from the Big Dance.

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Speaker 2: Well she you liked better.

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Speaker 4: I think we did this one oarther, but Vaughn from

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Speaker 4: me still start here?

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Speaker 1: Wasn't sure? Frank, you see the same Vaughn.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I like Andrew Vaughan a lot, like the

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Speaker 3: changes that he made with the Brewers last year.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll go ahead and wrap up this segment there,

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Speaker 1: don't go anywhere. We're going for breakout hitters to break

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Speaker 1: out pitchers next with Lance Brosdowski. We appreciated him hopping

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Speaker 1: on with myself and Welsh. Frank, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for giving us the time. Best of luck this season. Yep.

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