WEBVTT - The Cycle: News Updates, Second Half Bold Predictions, and HR Derby Draft (Ep. 1086) 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:08.080 Hello, everybody, Welcome into the cycle. I am Ryan Warmley, 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:11.280 joined as always by Mike Mayor Mayor. We are here 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:13.520 at almost the All Star break, and in fact, it 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:15.840 might even be the All Star break for some people 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:17.639 listening to this if they waited a couple of days 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:20.799 after it gets released. We are just doing one episode. 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:23.079 We always do kind of one quote unquote episode of 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:25.800 the cycle. We're doing only one part today rather than 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:28.160 breaking it up because there are not a lot of 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:30.880 games next week and not until next weekend. We're not 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.160 doing our usual you know, pitching streamers. Obviously, we can't 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:36.040 really do the two star picture contests. We've got a 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.319 fun way to so kind of go ahead to head 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:41.640 against each other and something for next week. Anyway, we'll 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.120 get to you later in the show. But yeah, just 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:45.519 won't be one episode this week. You don't need to 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:47.640 look for part two, Part three for other listeners who 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.040 are used to seeing that on audio and video. What 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.040 we're gonna be doing today is some news and notes, 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.040 which there actually isn't really all that much. It's a 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.320 lot of minor news and notes updates. We felt like 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.800 it was kind of not very newsworthy week. We're gonna 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.200 do some bold predictions for the post All Star breaks, 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.000 the second half post All Star Break, however you want 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.880 to call it. We're gonna do some bullet predictions. We've 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.200 got three each, and then we're gonna wrap up with 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:13.920 a home run Derby draft. Now we are recording this 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.000 on Thursday, which is only a few days before the derby, 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.800 and they still have not announced the whole field. I 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.680 hate that Major League Baseball is waiting so long. Now. 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:25.399 I don't see the value in this at all. Makes 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:27.640 no sense to me. Right now, we only have seven 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.120 names listed, and one of the names is Byron Buckston, 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.520 who got hit by a pitch yesterday, and I haven't 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.520 seen anything that says he's not going to participate, but 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:37.400 you know, you never know with a guy like Buckston 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.039 and his injury history. So we're gonna do the best 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.120 we can with this home run Derby draft and figure 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:44.520 it out kind of as we go along. That'll be 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:46.280 how we wrap up this show, so stay tuned for 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:50.640 that later on. Like I said, mayor just a couple 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:52.040 of days here before the All Star Break. How we 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.960 feel and kind of at this unofficial we are past 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.280 the halfway point, but the unofficial halfway point of the season. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.200 I'm feeling pretty good, you know, like you said, Yeah, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.279 we normally do just the one like quote unquote episode, 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.160 but three videos. We usually put out about one hundred 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.799 minutes of content, and so I think we agreed this 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:10.760 one episode's going to be one hundred minutes long? 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:11.200 Is that right? 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.639 I doubt it, But if it goes that long, naturally 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:18.920 we will allow it to do. So that's my promise. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:23.040 But I cannot imagine that happening. Let's dive into the 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:27.280 news and notes. Like I said, it really didn't feel 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.800 like there was a whole lot here. Dallas Kykeel signs 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:33.320 with the Royals just of note because of the name brand, 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.640 not like you and I are. I mean, I assume 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.600 not like we were expecting any kind of fantasy value here. 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:42.720 Given the most recent performances we saw from Kaykel last 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.160 time he was on the mound, I thought it was 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.160 interesting that Major League Baseball is going to be using 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:51.760 the ABS system? Does the S Stanford system? Can I 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:55.280 say ABS system? Is it like pin number or ATM 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:56.760 machine where you're not supposed to says? What does the 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:57.560 S stand for? Again? 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.960 I assume so I always. 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.040 Or is it or is it automated Balls and Strikes? 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:03.480 I know what it is, but I actually forget what 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:04.400 it's what it stands for. 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.280 I thought it was automated balls and strikes, So maybe 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.680 I can't automated ball system. 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.760 Yeah, all right, Well at any rate, I you know, 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:13.720 forget what that's called. But at any rate, they're using 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.440 it during the All Star Game. Is that of interest 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.360 to you? Do you think this is kind of a 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.720 fun exhibition to test it out more at the major 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:23.440 league level? Or do you not really care about this? 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.919 I care about it. I'm interested to see how they 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:28.360 do it. I think there's a lot of ways to 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:29.520 do it right and a lot of ways to do 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:33.080 it wrong. I think the umpiring has been so bad 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.800 that it's worth kind of you know, it. 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.880 Is automated ball strike. So you can say ABS system, 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:40.560 which is what I thought, but I got as soon 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:41.840 as I said it, I was like, wait, is this 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.040 like ATM machine or pin number? So I should have 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:44.480 stuck with. 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:46.240 The Garby eyes. 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:48.520 Yeah, runs bat it in instead of run bad. It 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:54.280 ends run bad, it ins Ribby's as I call them. 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:55.800 All right, Sorry, I keep going on the ABS. 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.240 I mean, I'm interested to see how it goes. I 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.000 know they've been playing Aroun at the minor league level. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:02.400 I think there's a lot of promise to it. I 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:04.080 think there's a lot of ways it could go wrong. 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:08.120 But I also think we're at a point now in 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.160 twenty twenty five, with all of the advanced cameras that 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.280 we have and all these angles that we have, and 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.760 we're seeing, you know, things done in other sports where 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:20.040 it's like we're so exact with some of these things, 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.000 Like even in tennis, there's like an automated system where 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:23.760 you can see like if a ball was across the 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:28.919 line from overhead and stuff that The days of Angel 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:32.320 Hernandez calling a ball six inches out off the plate 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.360 as a strike, like those have to be over at 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.800 this point. Like we just have too much technology at 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.000 our fingertips to just let that keep happening. 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:40.279 Even though there. 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:41.599 Is a part of me that loves like the human 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:42.719 element of the game there. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.000 I don't this isn't the way it's going to look 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.520 when it eventually becomes like a regular thing, which it will, 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.520 but I I kind of wish there was a way 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:58.000 to say it's only for stuff that's very obvious, like 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.360 egregious misses. I kind of don't want it to get 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.520 used for borderline well, like, well, technically that caught the 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.839 black and you know it should have been because especially 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.720 with like height, it's so different for every player. Like 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:14.440 I know the technology is like calculating for that, but 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.760 I'm not really that interested in it in a device 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:23.120 to like steal a strike here and there. What I'm 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.120 interested in it is for the stuff where it's like 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.160 like the Angel Hernandez examples, right, like the okay, like 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:30.960 this is such a clear miss I don't know what 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:32.720 you were talking about. This is going to change the 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.160 entire scope of the bat. We got to fix this. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.080 That's where I want it to be used. If it's 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.200 like a borderline thing like technically by you know, a 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.560 quarter of an inch, it is one way or the other. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.000 I'm less interested in that. Do you feel like it 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.680 should be And again I know I'm not. It's not 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.200 going to be what I want. But do you kind 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.320 of get that point of you are okay with what 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.400 I'm laying out its possibility or do you think it 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.960 should just be very exact, like even if it's by 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.040 a hair, if the ABS system catches it, it should be 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:05.480 a strike. 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:07.440 I think I'm okay with that. 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.760 You know, there's kind of like that gray area outside 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:11.719 of the strike zone, and it kind of feels like 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.839 if if a pitch hits that gray area and you 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:16.600 can still kind of have the human element, but if 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.200 it's if it's three inches outside, you know, we got 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.600 to correct that. We can't just let you make an 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.680 atrocious call like that. I think also, you know that 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.280 would that would you know, help speed up the game 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.200 a little bit too, Like we don't want like every time. 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:32.520 I know there was like a system in play where 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.600 like the way I don't know if they're still doing 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.400 this in minor leagues, but like an umpire would call 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.359 the game, he would hear in his ear like that 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:41.120 was a strike, and then he was allowed to say 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.360 striker ball, but he was told what the system was saying. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:44.880 He was just allowed to override it. I don't know 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:46.719 if they're still trying out a system like that, but 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:50.520 you know, I don't I don't think it would be. 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.120 There should be a system either where it's just like 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.200 every pitch is reviewed and you have to be like 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:55.640 like here's the pitch and you have to like look 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.680 to the side to like see if yeah, you know, 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.400 as a ball or strike. I agree, look up with 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:00.920 the scoreboard. 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.560 I mean the challenge system too, would be nice to see. 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:05.400 Just like I want to see umpires put in their 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.520 place more because they are all terrible and I love 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:10.600 I want to see it. Batters, you know, do the 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.560 hand on the helmet and sorry you were wrong, Blue, 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:17.640 like you know, cook, get your eyes checked. So also, 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:19.600 you know, just thinking about the upcoming weekend and the 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.360 All Star break, do you have any interest in the 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.080 Major League Baseball Draft? Obviously we played some dynasty leagues. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.440 We're in one together. It's really more of a deep keeper, 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:30.760 but you know we are dynasty managers in fantasy baseball. 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:35.120 The draft is this weekend. Are you somebody who consider 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.800 yourself pretty familiar with the prospects coming in? Do you 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.280 more just kind of wait to see top one hundred 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:44.520 prospect lists? Like once these guys are into professional baseball. Also, 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.160 of note, the Nationals fired not only Dave Martinez but 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.960 Mike Rizzo. They're GM one week before the draft, which 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.640 is really interesting timing. On the one hand, it's like 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.120 very surprising. On the other, you know, if you think 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:58.880 this is not the guy for you, you don't want 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.240 to making the number and overall pick, but you know, 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.520 very very definitely eyebrow raising at the very least. So 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:05.680 any thoughts on that in general. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.480 So the Mike Raiso thing I thought was interesting, but 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.160 I also agree with what you said, Like, you know, 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:15.680 if you've come to this conclusion, your solution shouldn't be 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:17.800 all right, let's give him one more draft and then 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.920 we'll fire. I'm like, no, I don't want this guy 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.680 making this draft pick. Like so, even even though even 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.400 if you don't have like a perfect, you know, replacement, 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:26.920 you know system in place. 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:29.480 If you want to make the move, you make the move. 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.520 And you know your scouts have done all the work anyway, 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:32.679 and you know you should have a good idea of 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:33.400 who you want to take. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.680 You just have a different, different person pulling the trigger. 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:38.720 I I kind of varer from year to year with 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:42.120 the MLB prospects coming in, depending on how big of 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.080 a class it is. I'll know who the prospects are. 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.880 This year, I'm not as familiar. I know there's another 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.520 holiday coming out that people are excited about, but other 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.640 than that, I kind of wait to see the names 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.160 drafted and then I'll dive in a little bit more. 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:56.199 But there's a bunch of names. 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:59.520 I've heard of, but yeah, this this is this class 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.360 in particular, or I haven't done like dug in too deep, 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.920 but as they get announced and stuff, I'll start diging 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.360 in and you know, see who the top prospects are 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.040 and you know what their path is. And I think 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.520 it's been more interesting in recent years because we're seeing 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:15.560 that path to the major leagues shortened for a lot 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:17.640 of these top prospects, whereas before I was like, all right, 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.480 like we'll see this guy in four or five years. 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.520 Sometimes it's like Chase Burham was drafted last year. There's 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.240 a bunch of players drafted last year in the league 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.160 in the league now. So that's where you know it 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:32.520 starts to get more more exciting and interesting. And uh yeah, 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:34.160 I wish they would to kind of like televise it 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:35.719 more because sometimes it's hard. It's hard to watch the 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:37.319 MLB draft or I would kind of sit down and 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:38.880 watch that or at least having it on the background. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.559 I think Kate Anderson is going to be the first pick. 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:43.959 It's just my guest. I don't have any inside knowledge. 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.600 Ethan Holliday feels like, if he's not the first pick, 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.720 feels like a lock to go to the Rockies at four, 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.880 which would be fun because he's got more power than 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:56.320 Jackson did as a as a prospect. He's a good player. 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.000 But yeah, I mean, it's not that we've had some 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.000 drafts in recent year where there is like, holy cow, 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.120 there are like, you know, three or four superstars at 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.160 the top. Doesn't feel that way of me right now, 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.080 but there's a long way to go with these guys' career, 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.520 so it's something that I will be watching. I do 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.960 very much enjoy the draft. And the Orioles just traded 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.120 for the thirty seventh pick by getting rid of a 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.840 controllable reliever who I think is pretty good what we 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.360 don't need to talk too much about. But they now 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.800 have the most despite not picking early, they now have 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:31.520 the most like bonus pool to spend. It's like eighteen 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.800 or nineteen million because they have three competitive balance round picks. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.520 So well, I thought we were considering this the Brian 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.959 Baker Emergency Podcast, so that we're going to spend most 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:41.400 of the time on that Orioles reliever. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.839 See you make fun, but you admitted to me before 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.040 the show you had never heard of Brian Baker before 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.640 this episode. He's a good reliever. I was surprise. The orielstrated, 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.240 all right, let's dive into a bunch of the news 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:53.720 and notes that you edited in here. 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:57.880 So did you already mention Dallas Kickeel. I don't know 0:10:57.920 --> 0:10:59.560 if you mentioned that. I thought you okay, So I 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.760 thought you made you just went right to ABS. So 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.920 John Gray is beginning a rehab assignment. He began it yesterday. 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.480 Any interest in John Gray potentially has a fantasy asset 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:09.199 in the second. 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:13.160 Half, I wouldn't say a lot of interest, but I 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:14.880 mean it depends on the league espers. 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:17.760 Yeah, another report there. 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:19.480 I'm surprised to see because I thought most of the 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.319 reports a couple of weeks ago with that Als Bragman 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:22.800 was you know, working his way back, but that we 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.440 wouldn't seem to laughter the All Star break. Alex's course 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.240 said yesterday that he expected them back potentially before the 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.320 All Star break, which you know, as you already mentioned, 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.360 there's only a few days left. He's been on the 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.200 shelf for a while. Kind of why would you risk 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:36.760 it at this point? You know, I get like, if 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.800 he's ready, he's ready, but also just take a few 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.280 extra days and get you know, get the All Star 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.240 break and have him start the second half. Clark Schmidt 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.800 picture for the Yankees, is expected to need Tommy John 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.080 surgery as of this recording is getting a second opinion. 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.560 But normally when it appears you. 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.120 Need Tommy John surgery, you usually need Tommy John surgery 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:59.000 or at least the internal brace procedure that obviously the 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.760 type of procedure will act your recovery and kind of 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.120 like what you look like when you come back. But 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:05.280 you know it's a your absence pretty much. 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:05.720 No matter what. 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.240 Grayson Rodriguez, your boy is ramping up activity. It sounds 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.720 like he could be back in the second half. What 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.760 do you think any interest are you? Do you want 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.720 the Ools to bring him back as a fantasy manager? 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:22.040 Are you stashing him? I am stashing me seeing you 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:23.920 up by the way, I know people don't think I 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:24.360 ever do that. 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:25.240 I just tied you up. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:30.800 I am stashing him, but I don't have really any expectations. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.280 It's more like a lottery ticket stash because at this point, 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.120 by the time he is actually pitching again, you know 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:39.880 they're going to take it easy on the innings. They're 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.760 also not in contention. I mean, they're selling off players 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.120 at least they started this with Baker, So I just 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.760 don't expect to get much out of him. Like again, 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:51.960 there are a couple of leagues where I am stashing 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.120 him as a like again, like a Highend lottery ticket. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.200 But and I have him in the keeper leagues. But 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.160 I'm not expecting this to be a needle mover in 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.400 the second half of the season. I would be very 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:08.320 surprised if he pitches enough for that to like, regardless 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.000 of how effective he is once he's back, I would 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.640 be surprised if he pitches just enough innings between now 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.200 and the end of the season to be relevant. 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:16.280 That's probably right. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.880 How about Louis Heal beginning a rehab assignment this weekend. 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.160 He's kind of been forgotten about this. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.400 This is a guy you love to talk about, is 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:25.960 Louis Heal. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.840 He's the guy I wrote up as like a a 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:34.320 cell high pretty much the entirety of last year. Yeah, 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.000 I have my own thoughts of Louis Heel, but he 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:37.960 did have a really good year last year and could 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.080 be really valuable in fantasy, you know, depending on what 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:41.559 he looks like when he came back. I think there 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.560 was a lot of smoke and mirrors last year, and 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:45.440 we'll see what he looks like when he comes back. 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.360 But you know, there are worst pitchers being started by 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:51.960 fantasy managers right now and being started by the Yankees 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.640 right now, and so if he can work his way 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.000 back in a couple of weeks, you know, he's someone 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:58.560 who can have a lot of value in the second half. 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:03.560 And then Hunter Green, your boy without a timetable for return. 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:05.199 I kind of wrote him up as a how high 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:06.600 at the beginning of the year just because of like 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.680 arm injury concerns. He's pretty much injured everything but his 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.360 arm at this point, and he just kind of keeps 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.000 having stepbacks trying to get his way back up. 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.520 This one has sunk up multiple leagues for me where 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.640 I was relying very heavily on him as somebody that 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.520 I expected to take the leap into ace level pitcher 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:24.120 and he did. 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.680 He did, he looked really good. 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:31.240 And this extended absence is just it's killing me in 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:32.280 multiple leagues. 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:37.040 So I know, it's just such such a dagger that 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.240 it wasn't even the arm. You know, we talked about 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.160 having concerned that, like, you know, he was around pitch 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.040 one hundred and the ninth inning like hitting one two, 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.480 one oh three, and I was like, I gotta be 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:47.480 I got to be honest, I'm concerned about that arm. 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.040 And then he just you know, he's had other injuries 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.440 like unrelated to the arm. And then the other update 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.080 is that Massa Takta Yoshida is back for the Red Sox. 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:56.280 He was in the lineup yesterday. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.960 Not a huge ceiling for him in fantasy, but all 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.520 a pretty high floor, as you know, someone who should 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.360 play mostly every day. The Roadsacks have kind of a 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.120 log jam in their lineup right now, especially when it 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.000 comes to left handed hitters. But I also imagine if 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:11.960 they continue to play well heading into the you know, 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:13.960 the next couple of weeks, I think we're gonna see 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:15.680 some trades and that that lineup is going to open 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:17.840 up a little bit. And so he's someone who has 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:19.880 some value, especially in deeper leagues where you know, like 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.080 he's gonna have a decent batting average, driving some runs, 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.640 but like not a high ceiling, but also you know, 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.440 again a pretty high floor for a player like Yo Yoshida. 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:33.160 Yeah, that's an interesting one. To me as a guy 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.040 to think about stashing or not stashing, but like picking 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.760 up and what what's his availability? Actually, I meant to 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.080 look that up before the show. I can put it 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.400 up now. If you don't have it, I don't have it, 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:47.960 I'll pull it up. He is. I assume it's obviously 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.960 very low. Yeah, it's five percent on Yahoo, three percent 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.120 on ESPN. So it's pretty much available everywhere. 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:57.000 Wow, I wonder what I wonder what CBS and CBS 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:02.400 is probably like forty percent, twelve percent, not even close 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:03.040 twelve percent. 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.560 I was gonna say CBS is definitely higher. Forty would 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.920 be a lot higher. I would have been surprised by that. 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.640 Yeah, so I'll probably go up this weekend though, especially 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.280 for the weekly leagues. He wouldn't have been out of this. 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:16.600 He's a he's a good person to flag. I'm glad 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:18.960 you brought him up. All right, let's dive into our 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.720 bold predictions here. Uh, we've got three each. Did you 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.680 go into a particular order for years or just pick three? 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.840 I just picked three. I tried to I Actually you 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:32.120 know you got to the sheet first. I you know, 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.080 I will admit I liked yours. I thought you had 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.160 some pretty good ones that one of them I would 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:37.080 have been one of mine. 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:38.040 To think if you didn't have. 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.480 It, I'm interesting on the movie. Don't tell me, tell 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:42.840 me when we get to it, but I'm curious to 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.880 find out which that is. Did you try to go 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:50.120 particularly bold with yours or more just like because I 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.760 didn't want to do just like regular predictions. I wanted 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.440 to have a degree of bold, but also like unlike 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.680 our because we did a preseason episode of bold predictions. 0:16:57.920 --> 0:16:59.320 And then it's a little more fun because you can 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.440 kind of amend any scenario. It's harder to imagine that 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:06.080 when you have a more just just shorter timeframe to 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.959 be working with. And also we've seen these players, so 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.920 we know more about what to expect. So I tried 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.920 to be bold with it, and you know, sort of 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.320 tow that line, strike that balance. Did you try to 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.400 be particularly bold or just try to be more accurate? 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:23.960 I tried to think of predictions that I would feel 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.239 good about, and then like see if I felt they 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.720