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Welcome back to Join the Ranks,
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I'm Drew Klein, a senior writer at

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the Dynasty Guru and with me as
my co host and brands of the operation

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Chris Knock Chris, how's your week? Emphasize brains and that beauty. I

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get it. The week has been
pretty crazy. I've been spending a lot

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of time outside manicuring my backyard,
manicuring how suburban yuppie of you you know,

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well, yeah, I mean manicuring
in the sense of, you know

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that scene in Dumb and Dumber when
they're headed to Aspen and they're getting their

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nails done right with the metal grinder. I've been using a chainsaw cutting down

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trees. So kind of a kind
of a wonder one analogy there. That's

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heck of a heck of a line. Well, hey, I'm excited to

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say we had another correct answer in
the randomly inserted obscure song title. Last

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week's song, which I thought was
an easy one kind of a game,

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was blinded by the Light. I
prefer the Manford Man version. The reason

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I did that is because that should
have been the song of the eclipse.

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Last time we recorded is right after
the eclipse, and everybody was singing total

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Eclipse of the Heart, which has
nothing to do about the eclipse of the

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sun. But blinded by the Light
has the great line that Mama always told

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me not to look into the eyes
of the sun, but Mama, that's

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where the fun is, and that
that should have been the song of the

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eclipse. And that's why I ensured
it last week. But thank you for

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everybody for playing. The season long
contest is still going on. Still time

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to get in there and see if
you can overtake the lead for the big

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prize of the twenty twenty five TDG
Discord subscription. That's I always say the

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twenty dollars value. You know,
I gotta enerject real quick. You say

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the Manfred Mann version. I would
not have guessed that there was another version

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until there was all that Hubba balloon
and the discord about it. Yeah,

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I believe Springsteen did it first.
Actually too, and nothing against Springsteen in

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general. I really liked his music, but I think the mid for Man

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really put a little more energy into
into that song. So I like that

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one better. That's when the couple
play in the radio back in the day.

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Yeah, so rocking. Well.
What we've decided to do for our

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in season episodes is to look at
the ranking by positions. We can cover

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two positions each episode, so tonight
we'll look at the corner infielders, first

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baseman, then third baseman, next
time the midland fielders, then the outfielders

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and catchers, and then the pitchers. We'll repeat that cycle three times,

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which, believe it or not,
will bring us to the end of the

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season, where as we call it
the beginning of ranking season. Each week

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we'll talk about players moving moving up
and down the ranks, with keeping with

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our focus on prospects, look at
who's about to join the ranks, and

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sprinkled in the schedule throughout the year, we'll be dropping in a special episode

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once a month, updating our JTR
thirty overlook prospect from each organization. Like

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I said last time, a quick
note, although the samples are getting large,

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we're still dealing with small sample sizes, so we are talking about first

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impressions, but the impressions we have
right now, and I think we're starting

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to see some trends from a few
of the players. But speaking of first

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impressions, Chris, what do you
think of the season so far? And

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actually I got a question for you. You probably know Marcelo Zuna is leading

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the matrix and RBIs. Do you
know who's second? Mike Trump, No,

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it doesn't get anyone on base who
is second with RBIs? Is it

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a Detroit Tiger? It is?
Okay, no, I am, but

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I'm still going to be gloating.
I wanted to see you every week.

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It is Sal Perez. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he's had a

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heck of a start. Yeah,
I see how this is going to go,

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and I like it. And actually
Taylor Ward is tied with him,

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and he was somebody I've targeted in
a lot of redrafts this year, so

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the other angel. But what do
you think of the season so far?

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Anything that was standing up for you? I mean it's not a first base

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third base conversation that much, but
I mean, obviously the arm injuries are

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more than an elephant or a gorilla
in the room. I think, you

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know, they'd have kind of seemingly
plateaued from that first week or two in

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those couple of really bad days,
or maybe I've just been a little bit

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too busy manicuring and I haven't caught
everything, but there's there have been some

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surprises also with performances. I don't
think, Josh. I mean, I'm

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jumping ahead a little bit, but
there's definitely some names that that we'll be

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talking about that I have caught everyone's
attention, not just at first place,

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but specifically our first and third base
And where's these rookies at that we're looking

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for. You know, everyone's excited
for a bunch of rookies to start the

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year, and I don't think anyone's
really jumped out as those early those first

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names of Langford. They haven't been
bad, you know, Walker just got

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demoted, but they haven't been outright
bad. But at the same time,

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no one is just running away dominating
the MLB as a fresh face rookie.

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Yeah, I mean Jackson Holiday,
you can't quite get his seat under himself

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yet. But and this will come
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we all wanted it to happen quickly, but we've got to be realistically.

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There they're facing is unlike anything they've
seen before. Yeah, I mean we

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get we got spoiled. What was
at eighteen seventeen eighteen with that crop.

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It's the Comunia, Soto and Tatis
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I don't. Everyone always says that
they're not the norm, and it just

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shows how far outside of the norm, what kind of outliers they truly were.

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And of course there's still a lot
of games to be played, so

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you know, Holiday could be making
us e crow pretty quickly. Hear any

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of them. Yeah, and even
people talking lately about Corbyn Carroll, who's

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had an amazing year last year and
he's just not making the kind of contact

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so far this year that they made
last year. But you know, I

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think we can chalk a lot of
this up to small sample size. The

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talent is there. You know.
It's almost like the people who in the

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off season were just saying, boy, we were too high in Elie de

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la Cruz, and I kept thinking, I don't think we were. And

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you know, he was a number
one prospect for like two years in a

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row for a reason, and I
think he's showing us the reason right now.

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So yeah, be patient, everybody. The stars are going to start

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and I think they'll be there.
But yeah, you're right, Chris,

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nobody's wowing us and gonna win the
MVP as a rookie right now. But

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yeah, other than that, a
few of the teams are surprising me.

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I thought I didn't think Chicago was
going to win it, but I didn't

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think they were going to be this
bad, that being the White Sox,

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you know. And then the other
end of it, I thought Cleveland was

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gonna struggle, you know, with
the moves they made or didn't make over

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the off season. But you know, they're getting off to a great start.

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So hey, that's why we love
the game. Yeah, and Yankees

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have completely reversed what the trend they
were looking like at the end of last

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year. Mm hmm, coming on
strong to start early makings of what should

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be a really good season. I
think some really good pennt races, and

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you know, Tani will Otani,
he's putting up some amazing numbers, you

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know at the bat over there.
Discussion for another day. But I just

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wonder how much he's going to pitch
in the future. I know he loves

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doing it. I know he's great
at it, but it's also great at

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hitting. And yeah, I could
see a future of the Dodgers really really

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limit his innings to minimize the risk
of keeping the bat out of the lineup.

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It'll be interesting to see, I
agree with you. But how they

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could use him in a unique you
know, they're not quite on the raised

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level of openers and all that sort
of stuff. Open every third game or

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something like that, you know,
for two that'll be pretty interesting. That'd

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be crazy. Or do what you
Pan did in the last game of the

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WBC last year and have Atani clothes
twice a week. That's a start for

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another day. Yeah, there you
go. Hey, let's talk about let's

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talk about the first baseman first,
and we'll first talk about the top of

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the rankings of our major league first
baseman. Looking back at where we were

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individually preseason, and who we thinking
is going to move down probably truly actually

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make moves, although I got a
couple who may move down pretty quickly.

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And who's outside your top ten,
outside your top fifteen, who you think

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is most likely to be in the
top fifteen overall. Yeah, yeah,

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I'm happy to go first with that
if you want to. Yeah, I

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think in my top four or Harper, Olsen, Freeman, and Alonso,

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and I don't think they're going anywhere. But then I had Vlad at number

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five and Torque at number eight,
and I'll tell you what I don't mean.

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They're both having just horrible years.
For instance, Torklesen right now zero

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home runs and he's hitting two twenty
one. Guerrero right now three home runs,

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he's hitting two nineteen. Each has
twenty one hits total. Torque has

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thirteen singles and eight doubles, and
Vlad has fifteen singles and three doubles in

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the three home runs. So unless
you put a lot of value in those

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three home runs, you're just looking
at those two guys and going, we're

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not getting anything we thought we'd get
out of top ten. First, Baseman,

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I trust, actually trust Flat to
turn it around more than Torklesen.

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I mean, I think a lot
of us in the industry, so to

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speak, got excited about the thirty
one home runs and the way Torque finished

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the year. Last year. I
watched a lot of his games. He's

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hitting the ball hard, he's got
some clutch hits, he's got paramount RBIs

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for those numbers, but he's not
playing like a top ten first base in

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right now. And I think that
he ranking a number eight is going to

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be really aggressive. I don't see
him hanging there anymore. I mean,

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Pascuentino at seven, he's going to
be moving up this season. I've got

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to believe, just seeing the way
he's getting off to know he's back in

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the lineup, and then outside the
group ed Reee Hoskins at sixteen, and

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I think I was higher than a
lot of people even there. And right

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now I'm seeing that he's coming back. To me. It looks like when

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he was healthy in Philadelphia. You
know, he's playing equally as well.

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So I had Naylor. I don't
know who's moving down, but you know,

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Pasconcino and Hoskins got to be moving
back up back in you know,

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hiring, hiring the top ten for
Pascentino and and into the top ten for

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Hoskins the way things are looking now, So how are your rankings looking?

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Yeah, I mean I had the
same well, no, I'm sorry,

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I had a lad at number two, so I was obviously a little much

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higher on him coming in. I
agree with what you were saying about him,

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you know that probably having some regression
to the positive aggression to the mean.

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Here it is early, these things
are not ironclad as far as opening

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statistics. But he is still walking
at a solid rate with a three point

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thirty OVP. You know, it's
over one hundred points higher than his average.

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If you look at his stat cast
page, you're gonna see that he

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is underperforming substantially across the board.
His batting average is two nineteen, but

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his expected average is two seventy two, So that's you know, fifty points

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lower. He's one hundred and twenty
points below his expected slugging. And then

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his ex wOBA is a good fifty
or sixty points higher than his actual wOBA.

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So in summary that you know,
that's I'm not a firm believer that

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you're gonna, you know, get
back to those everyone underperforms or overperforms every

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year in those regards, but those
are pretty extreme discrepancies. So I think

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the biggest thing I noticed is that
his launch angles decreased, it seems,

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and he was known for that.
You know, last year he finally got

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into the double digits of putting it
up into the air on average. This

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year, he said it seeming laid
back in the ground more. So if

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he can correct that, I'm hoping
that he'll be getting those numbers. He's

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not pulling the ball, and you
know those kind of those sort of things

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are looking to be more correlated as
positive for the power outcomes. So on

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the other hand, Vinnie, I'm
not Vinnie as he said, but Torque,

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he's like he's actually producing less than
is worse than his expected stats,

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which doesn't bode well for the long
term outcomes for him. You know,

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everyone was jumping back on the Torklesen
train at the end of last year.

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He had a great second half,
but he's maybe he's a slow starter.

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Let's just say, I am not
looking to buy Spencer Torkleson right now.

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Even if he had another strong second
half, I'm still going to be wary

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and he'll definitely be dropping down my
ranks and I had him where did I

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have torkles? And I hit him
at seven last year or entering the year,

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so he'll, yeah, probably be
falling down substantially. Vinnie I had

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right at ten, he'll be jumping
up. He's you know, he took

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a maybe a week behind everyone else, but then he's been hitting well.

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I think he's at four or five
home runs right now. Steers had a

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solid year, and then yeah,
Naylor is gonna I think skyrocket. I

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kind of spilled the beans a little
bit about how much I've been gushing on

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Josh Naylor, but he is just
firing on all cylinders right now, and

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it is impressed. I had a
buddy ask me if he thinks if I

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think he's gonna lose time when Manzardo
gets the call, I personally don't think

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you will. I don't know if
you have thoughts on this, Droe.

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I know you're not a huge Cleveland
guy by any means, But at the

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same time, you know, they
moved him around a lot in the outfield

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even last year a little bit,
you know, I shouldn't say moved him

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around, but then he got some
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course there's the DH, so I'm
not too concerned about Naylor's playing time when

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Manzarto finally gets the call, I
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I think as much as you want
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about more about him, I'm sure
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So between the two of them,
I see a first base DH thing

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going on with the two of them. I think Naylor is he's capable of

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playing the outfield, like and then
we played some right field the past few

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year. I think he's selling him
down at first pace is kind of let

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him focus on his hitting. But
they've got gaps in the outfield, so

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if they need to get them both
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I could see him doing it when
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But I think I think the two
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and they'll find a way to get
at bass for both of them. He

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came on so he's always been a
big power guy Naylor has, and he

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had a really good I think his
whole year last year, but the second

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half was really strong last year.
Getting off to great start this year,

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they're not going to sit him.
A couple of other names in that that

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area there are surprising me. I
don't know what to do long term in

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terms of ranking, but I thought
cronin Worth was. I'm really surprised to

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what he's doing this year. That
two fifty three and he's got the three

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home runs, so he's not He's
doing better than I anticipated. I wrote

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him up a year ago and his
stats had had gone down each each year,

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so I don't think this start he
has is sustainable. I think he'll

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kind of regreest to his norm and
not be a top fifteen to twenty first

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baseman, but right now he's playing
like one, So I don't know,

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what do you think about that?
And then ty Franz is another one who's

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not hitting for power, but he's
hitting the ball hard and he's hitting to

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sixty seven. So it two guys. I am quite sure they're doing well

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now, but I'm not going to
move him up in the rankings yet.

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Yeah, I mean France, I
don't know. I used to really be

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all in on him, always waiting
for him to pop, and last year

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was kind of a bummer, I'll
be honest. Although he got his first

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career steal last year, so that
was a big deal in my eyes.

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I made a joke to it was
a bad joke. It wasn't well done.

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I was really off and my jokes
in our co patting with friends over

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there at the Dynasty's child. And
I don't think Sam recognized when I was

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making fun of him type France,
never never stealing the base. Yeah,

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I just coronin wars actually have picked
up in my fourteen team home league,

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and yeah, he's been he's been
great. I'm not expecting to put him

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at slade him as my primary first
basement, but he's definitely a utility guy

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for me to rely on for a
while here. And we'll see what happens

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France. And no particular hopes for
anything long term with him, unfortunately.

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Maybe some batting average in those leagues, but that's about it. And then,

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Uh, one more major league that
I wanted to ask you about before

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we move talked about some of the
prospects, is where do you we're in

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the top ten or fifteen. Do
you see yourself sliding? Michael bush Man.

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Yeah, that was quite a hot
streak, wasn't it. Was it

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five games or six games? Did
we end up hitting I don't know,

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however many that's a lot of home
runs in a row. Yeah, I

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mean, did we rank him at
first place this year? No? I

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think we ranked him at third base. That's why I'm looking at my ranking.

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Where am I going to put him? Yeah, we'll see. That's

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a really interesting predicament that they have
going on, with Bellinger getting injured,

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calling up Mash Nervous, who I
think. I know he's a prospect here,

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but that's it was Bush, I
guess, But I think this is

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going to be Nervs's last chance.
Really. I was surprised when they traded

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for Bush basically and did not pull
mervs up the second half of last year.

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I pretty much saw that as the
ORG not believing in Nervous, and

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so I kind of see this as
the right, here's your chance. But

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hated mcgreery in the system is another
name that a lot of people like more

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than Nervous, so in a fantasy
sense, so I could see this as

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being, you know, the last
chance before they relegate him to a quad

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A type. So back to Bush. That's a little off topic, but

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Bush, you know, if he
can maintain this production at first base,

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I see no reason he wouldn't be
considered a fifteen top fifteen at the position

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next year. I definitely as seem
as it should be a starting your number

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one first basement on any of the
fifteeneen lenks. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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I agree. Yeah, I was
just looking real quick. We actually

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ranked him at second base last year. So when we're looking at in season

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rankings, now, yeah, that
twelve to fifteen range looks like where he's

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gonna slide in on my rankings as
well. He's gonna have I mean,

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I can't imagine having this good of
a year that he's had for the first

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month, but so I imagine some
cool cold water is gonna fall down.

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But yeah, I think even with
that regression, top fifteen is very reasonable.

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All right, let's look at the
prospect list of minor leaguers. I

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had Mansarto. It's my top prospect
for his basement. Did you as well?

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I am switching over and checking out, Yes, I did. The

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man's alien no reason to move him
off of that Other than Hesson Kirstad is

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first base eligible. I kind of
I consider or more of an outfielder.

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I'm not quite sure. I don't
just in general, I don't know where

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Baltimore is gonna fit everybody, but
uh so, I don't know where your

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stat's gonna end up or all positions
he's going to qualify at. But let's

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put in the outfield for now and
talk about Colin Manzardo. I mean,

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you and I talked about him.
We both thought he was gonna blossom this

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year. And boy has he ever. Yeah. I mean, he's doing

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what he does, which has hit
the ball and regularly and get on base.

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He's not hitting a lot of home
runs. I'm trying to find him.

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I don't have his stats pulled up
specifically, so I'm sorry, Okay,

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he's got he's got five homers.
I'm sorry I have that. Yeah.

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Yeah, so he's got five.
That's actually more than I thought he

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had. Oh, he's been hitting
him recently, last couple of days.

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Has any last week or so?
Yeah, But he's I knew he'd been,

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you know, hitting and getting his
his otherwise extra base hits in addition

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to those. So it's just a
matter of time, you know. I

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think the odds are at Cleveland he's
just playing service time manipulation here, they

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do. I mean, and the
fact that as Josh Taylor plays first base

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his position. I mean that's also
another reason coming into play here. Why

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we haven't seen him, I don't
think, but yeah, he's doing what

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we're asking or what we expect out
of him. A couple others looking at

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those, What I did was I
went into fangraphs and selected who listened first

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base there. I don't know what
the number is there, so some of

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these names may not be eligible in
different fan traction. Yeahoo formats right now,

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but Kobe Mayo was listed as a
first base prospect. He's getting off

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to a good start as well.
He's in three twenty seven, three seventy

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four, six twenty two. And
then Mark Fientos, who I've always been

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fairly high on and I've seen mixed
about four home runs a three twenty one,

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four four, five thirty eight slash
line. You know, I had

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him ranked ninth at first base coming
into the season. He's someone I see

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moving up the list, either as
people graduate, but also maybe even jumping

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over a couple of guys who are
in front of him. Anybody in the

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top of your list you see moving
one way or the other. I really

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like what Abby Bombs is doing a
double A this year. He hasn't been

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hitting many Abby bombs so far heally
has one, but he's getting on base

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and more importantly to me, and
yes, i'll sample size still in my

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opinion because he doesn't even have one
hundred plate appearances yet, but his k

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rate is in the upper teens as
opposed to the upper twenties, and that

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was a big knock on him.
So if he's working on making contact right

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now, you know, we can
let that sixty great game sixty grade game

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power come into play later, so
he'll be I had him, where did

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I put him? I had him
at number eight, which looks like a

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lot of us. Yeah, so, oh you were the high one on

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six. But I would say,
yeah, he's nching up the line for

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me and for people who haven't bought
your nickname notebook yet. That's Abby mali

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Ortiz in Texas. Yeah. Sorry, and I and I didn't come up

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with that one that is stolen off
of Twitter by Duke's was my guy.

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I think it's this handle. I
think it's the first coined that one.

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One name that I looks like he's
going to be moving up lists pretty quickly

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is a Spencer Horwitz and playing trip
lay in Toronto. Only one home run

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so far, but he's in three
fifty two four four ninety three, so

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getting on base, getting a basically
very high rate, strikeout percentage low down

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thirteen percent h and walking at a
twenty two percent rate. So again,

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I don't think Toronto's going to move
Laddie off, but he's going to be

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a useful piece depending what they do. And I'm just going to go off

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track for a second. But Toronto
calls up Addison Barger, who pretty decent

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infielder and a really good hitter,
and put him in left field. Yeah,

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I misplayed a flyball terribly and the
other thing I said, well,

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fortunately, but he's getting mad at
Toronto and not at Addison because it just

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wasn't fair. Yeah, you've got
of a play dh the guy. But

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anyhow, we're not talking about that
position yet. We will, so who

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knows what they'll do with Horwitz.
But you know, if he doesn't get

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called up, he's definitely gonna move
up, you know my ranking list over

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the course of the season. You
know, if he keeps up this kind

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of pace, and given his track
record, and I thought highly of him

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beforehand, anyway, you know,
I don't see why he wouldn't just one

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more name to throw it at you. In terms of Keston Hira from Detroit,

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old Milwaukee prospect who always put up
great trip A numbers and just couldn't

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do in the majors, is starting
to do it again. He's got a

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three twelve, three point fifty four
four ninety four slash line. I don't

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know if the Tigers are going to
call him up or not. Probably take

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an injury or two for them to
do that, but the way they've been

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handling the roster, he put him
up there in a position to succeed.

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I always pull for the guy because
I think he's got the talent and I

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never could understand why, you know, he wasn't able to do it at

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the major league level. Still not
walking. He didn't walk into majors,

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you're not walking now. The strikeout
rate to twenty four percent, So I'm

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not seeing that to be a superstar
by any means. But it's just interesting

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to see him still hanging around and
still producing a triple A and maybe he'll

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just be a triple A lifer.
But if you had any insight from his

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Milwaukee days, or if he's cut
your eye at all. No, I

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actually and when you mentioned his name, I completely had forgot he was now

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on the Tigers. Yeah, I've
he's in the back recesses, that's for

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sure. He's been had a successful
Triple A career, so I think,

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unfortunately, that's probably where he'll continue
to perform, with an occasional call up

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here and there. But yeah,
I don't have any expectations of him bouncing

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up and being a regular to any
extent at this point. But I could

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be wrong, and I'm not trying
to talk smack about the guy. But

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it's interesting that you mentioned him because
someone who I'm kind of reminded of with

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him is actually performing well in Double
A this year, and that was Rule

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five draft pick by the Cleveland Guardians
Division Dalo Santos, who is now back

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with his former club, the Arizona
Diamondbacks. So they took him in the

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Rule five when we weren't going to
give him the roster space, so they

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paid money to Arizona and gave him
back. I think that's all works.

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But anyway, he's back with Arizona, he's performing well his k raids right

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where he is always in the mid
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He's looking like he can handle a
double A and is ready probably for

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the next level. He's a home
run machine. He's got some raw power

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in that tank for being a relatively
small guy, but he swings that bad

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hard. So I was hoping he
would break camp with the Guardians. You

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know, we've already talked about how
that first basi is kind of clogged.

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He had formerly played third base too. I don't think he's played there yet

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this year, but at least Arizona
and now has a chance to let him

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fully develop in the miners to really
hopefully eliminate as many of those holes in

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his swing as he's shown so far. Yeah, I think so too.

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I thought he was an interesting Rule
five pick, and he's probably not.

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Probably he's He's definitely sitting on a
few best ball rosters that I drafted before

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he gets in back to Arizona,
thinking that, you know what, if

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if he is a good week,
he'll he'll help me here and there.

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But as a twenty one year old, I think doubles where he belongs.

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I think for his long term development, he's in the right place. But

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I agree it would have been the
interesting to see if you go, if

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you got a chance in Cleveland.
But I think sitting on the bench behind

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the first base log jam or j
ram at third, it wasn't going to

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help him any So he's probably where
he needs to be. But I'm really

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you know, I think it's becoming
quite clear to me that Cleveland they can

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develop pictures, it seems effectively,
but I'm really from a fantasy perspective.

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They tend to draft those hit first
bats without a lot of tools, and

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then they make this rule five selection
that doesn't really make sense for their roster

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construction, which has to be taken
into account when you're doing the rule five

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draft. Right. Yeah, it's
really really puts a level of concern for

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me. If I see a player
in a batter in the Cleveland organize station,

405
00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:04.799
I think I'm trying to think who
they developed as lately. I mean,

406
00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:08.680
Stephen Kwan and he's not a power
guy Batton, you know, contact

407
00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:14.119
average speed. Jose Ramirez is the
first is the is the to me,

408
00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:17.279
is like the first Sorry I could
completely cut you off, but is like,

409
00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:23.359
is like the player that wasn't a
highly touted prospect that they developed and

410
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turned into a you know, a
star MVP candidate. You know, as

411
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best as you could ever expect out
of any prospect. All right, so

412
00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:36.240
we throw out a couple of sneaky
deeps and before we move on to a

413
00:33:36.319 --> 00:33:42.920
third base. Yeah, all right. Mine is a twenty twenty three pick

414
00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:52.599
in the fifteenth round by the somewhere
in California Athletics name Will Simpson. Will

415
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:55.640
is six foot three two twenty five
so pretty much built for first base,

416
00:33:58.119 --> 00:34:01.279
twenty two years old, and so
far this year he's hitting a three fifty

417
00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:06.759
four five point fifteen five sixty three
slash line, two home runs and the

418
00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:10.800
stolen base. Last year he had
six home runs, same kind of batting

419
00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:15.800
average, hit over three hundred.
Last year his OVP was around three point

420
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:21.400
fifty and slugging average over five hundred
as well. So young guy coming up

421
00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:23.360
in the system. We don't love
what they do at the major league level,

422
00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:25.559
but if you really think about it, some good guys have come up

423
00:34:25.559 --> 00:34:30.599
through the system. They've got some
scouting and some development going on there as

424
00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:34.599
well. So if I'm looking really
deep, somebody want to put on a

425
00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:37.679
deep watch list or put a star
next to on my spreadsheet? And see

426
00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:42.679
where it goes. Will Simpson is
my sneaky deep for first base. Who

427
00:34:42.679 --> 00:34:47.800
you got? I like it?
Mine may not be as sneaky deep.

428
00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:52.079
I know he's definitely started to get
some Twitter hype, but he's only I

429
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:55.159
think it was like one percent owned
when I looked earlier on fan tracks,

430
00:34:55.199 --> 00:35:00.480
maybe three percent still single low,
single digits. And that is Annoiitus Mordn

431
00:35:01.159 --> 00:35:07.960
of the Baltimore Orioles. He's a
right handed first baseman, so there could

432
00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:13.239
be you know, some issues there. But and again he's also in the

433
00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:19.119
Orioles organization. If you weren't aware, they have quite a few good corner

434
00:35:20.360 --> 00:35:25.559
baseball prospects here, corner position prospects. But he seems to just be the

435
00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:32.320
next one. So who knows how
long he'll stay in the Baltimore system,

436
00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:39.440
but hopefully long enough to continue to
develop. He's at low way as a

437
00:35:39.639 --> 00:35:43.719
twenty year old. I think he
just turned twenty. No, he's not

438
00:35:43.800 --> 00:35:50.880
even twenty, but Fangrass is rounding
them up and it's early on, but

439
00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:54.039
he's got a near twenty percent walker
rate, which is gorgeous, upper twenties

440
00:35:54.119 --> 00:36:00.599
k rate, which obviously is somewhat
concerned but you know that might come with

441
00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:05.159
some of that high walk, right, he's watching a lot of us come

442
00:36:06.199 --> 00:36:10.800
go buy the guy. He's got
power much like everyone else, and he's

443
00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:16.760
pulling the ball well, he's putting
it in the air decently. So the

444
00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:22.599
future could be pretty bright for yet
another Baltimore Oriole prospect. Yeah. I

445
00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:28.679
was watching TV last night and next
week on Hoarders they're covering the Orioles minor

446
00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:37.000
league system. I like that.
All right, let's talk about third basement,

447
00:36:38.079 --> 00:36:43.559
you know, same thing. We'll
start talking about our our major league

448
00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:46.480
ranks for a little bit and then
take a deeper dive into the prospects.

449
00:36:47.199 --> 00:36:54.000
I know, looking at my preseason
rankings and Jose Ramirez number one, and

450
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:57.400
like I said, he's going to
be number one until he's not on my

451
00:36:57.519 --> 00:37:00.360
list. Not getting off to an
amazing start. He's had a couple of

452
00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:08.960
good games, but overall kind of
sea wre ends up at Elie de la

453
00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:15.800
Cruz at third. I know I
qualified there last year, but he's really

454
00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:21.199
a short stop now so and then
can I see him with Gunner Henderson.

455
00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:24.800
It's kind of funny with what's going
on there. Then Austin Riley Raffie Devers,

456
00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:30.719
who I don't know what's going on. They're not saying what if it's

457
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:32.880
his leg or the concussion or what, but he hasn't been playing very much

458
00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:38.960
lately. It's an interesting position right
nowt at the at the top, and

459
00:37:39.159 --> 00:37:43.599
I think that there's a lot of
guys who can move up or down.

460
00:37:43.719 --> 00:37:52.320
But the one I wanted to talk
about was Alex Boem who after years of

461
00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:57.920
like loving the guy I just had, you know, it's it's been too

462
00:37:57.960 --> 00:38:00.159
long. I have to really take
the rose color off and look at him,

463
00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:06.000
and he's just not a top ten
third baseman. And right now,

464
00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:10.800
maybe I'm amazed, but he is
really playing the top five, top three

465
00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:15.840
third base level so far in this
early season. So maybe I was right

466
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:19.320
all along. I should not have
talked myself out of him over the summer.

467
00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:24.480
But he's a guy. Yeah,
he's a guy I've always had,

468
00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:31.000
I think, probably somewhat similar opinion
like this is going to be it,

469
00:38:31.159 --> 00:38:36.079
this is gonna be it, you
know. And I've traded him and for

470
00:38:36.199 --> 00:38:38.400
him and traded him away, you
know, and traded back and all in

471
00:38:38.440 --> 00:38:45.320
the same league. I currently do
roster him in my home league, but

472
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:51.599
yeah, I mean three home runs. This is probably this will probably be

473
00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:54.400
the first year the quickest year he's
at, you know, two hands of

474
00:38:54.440 --> 00:39:00.400
home runs in his career, although
he did know hit twenty last year,

475
00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:04.679
so I don't think, you know, it could have started last year.

476
00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:07.639
I think if we were to look
at a rolling average here see some changes.

477
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:13.559
I mean his bat to ball is
he's always been you know, great

478
00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:21.039
great k rates, great batting or
solid batting average. So yeah, I

479
00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:24.039
mean he's only twenty seven. It's
not as if he's you know, in

480
00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:29.920
his upper thirties or anything and should
have been considered cooked. So you know,

481
00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:36.079
it could just be he's entering that
prime window. Yeah, it's it's

482
00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:38.840
great to see. Yeah, yeah, I think shooting like three thirty seven

483
00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:45.400
right now, and then Jordan Westburg's
got be in the conversation of top ten.

484
00:39:46.119 --> 00:39:50.599
H if he can keep it up. I know that they're some people

485
00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:53.679
kind of worried about the what's under
the hood, But he's shitting three ten

486
00:39:53.719 --> 00:40:00.639
with five home runs already and hard, hard contact rate. I don't I

487
00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:04.199
don't see why, you know,
he's not going to stay up there as

488
00:40:04.239 --> 00:40:07.159
well, So you know, what's
your uh, what's your top of years

489
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:15.159
look like. Yeah, my third
base was Ellie and Gunner, which you've

490
00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:20.239
touched on there. Uh, and
then Austin Riley, who was doing Austin

491
00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:27.480
Riley things right now. So I
think if we were to rely just eliminate

492
00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:30.079
the top two, I think Austin
Riley should be number one right now.

493
00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:37.400
And then I have Devers, Ramirez, h Cam and Arrow, and then

494
00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:42.920
I have my injury row of Josh
Young or I should say not playing row

495
00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:47.480
of Josh Young, Nouelvee Marte,
and then Royce. Yeah, that's you

496
00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:53.159
know. I was really excited for
Young this year that hip I pitch broken

497
00:40:53.199 --> 00:40:59.639
wrist. It really sucks because even
when he does come back, he comes

498
00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:01.360
back at the end of May,
like they're saying, I mean, wrist

499
00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:07.119
injuries are power sapping, and so
I could as a fan perspective, it

500
00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:12.239
could be really painful and people will
probably be dropping him, and I think

501
00:41:12.280 --> 00:41:17.960
that actually will be a great time
to pounce and probably just ignore twenty twenty

502
00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:22.960
four unfortunately it's probably mostly last year
statistic wise, and then get excited for

503
00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:27.239
next year with Josh Young. So
I'll probably I think I'll see I think

504
00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:31.800
we'll see Young drop collectively based on
what I anticipate his rest of season to

505
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:38.280
look like. But I think that'll
be quickly for Gotton into twenty twenty five

506
00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:43.639
next year. So Josh Young,
get ready to buy. Yeah, I

507
00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:46.360
think I think you're right about that. I just I worry. It seems

508
00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:52.039
like I know they're different injuries every
time, and it's not soft tissue injuries.

509
00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:55.280
So I'm not going to label him
injury prone or anything, but yeah,

510
00:41:55.320 --> 00:42:00.880
I mean just worry about it.
Yeah, And I think, as

511
00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:04.840
you just mentioned, it's this was
not a soft tissue. This was not

512
00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:07.920
him hustling down. You know,
he's not Royce Lewis. I think Royce

513
00:42:08.679 --> 00:42:14.559
h. Everyone should have some definite
caution at this point after two a cls

514
00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:19.920
in the same knee and now quad. I believe his squad, Royce,

515
00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:24.320
you should have hesitation with And yeah, he could be a top thirty type,

516
00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:30.079
but he's gotta be healthy for that. I think Young just got the

517
00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:35.679
short end of the stick here.
And if your league made is considering him

518
00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:38.719
as an injury risk, you know, maybe you could start being that birdie

519
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:45.599
on the shoulder whispering that to him
now and then a month or two after

520
00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:52.280
he's back and not hitting home runs, then jumping jumping that by that,

521
00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:58.039
by opportunity. You know, I
just you know, keep running different sorts

522
00:42:58.119 --> 00:43:02.960
on the current third basement in the
majors, and it just it's a weird

523
00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:07.280
group at the top, like easak
paradas keeps coming up. Yeah, you

524
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:10.880
may be, you know all around, you know, one of the better

525
00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:15.480
third basement out there at the moment. Six home runs and hitting two eighty

526
00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:21.239
four, and aside from a couple
of guys we mentioned it, batting averages

527
00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:23.079
dropped down in a hurry. It's
kind of like, but first base used

528
00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:27.360
to be years ago, where you
get your power and forget about any kind

529
00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:31.159
of batting average. And right now
there's just a lot of third basement hitting

530
00:43:31.159 --> 00:43:37.159
in the low two hundreds and but
with three, four or five home runs

531
00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:42.400
right now, so early to tell, and maybe we're talking about him again

532
00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:45.280
in a month or so, we'll
have a totally different conversation to have.

533
00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:49.079
But I have no idea what the
rankings are going to look like when you

534
00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:52.400
do like mid season rankings and knixt
year's rankings. Aside from let's say a

535
00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:54.559
couple of guys who we know are
going to be near the top, and

536
00:43:54.599 --> 00:43:58.760
then it's going to be whole lot
of jumble. I think this is a

537
00:43:58.760 --> 00:44:04.320
position where there's the opportunity for some
of the prospects we talked about coming in

538
00:44:04.400 --> 00:44:09.239
and kind of debuting or getting to
the top ten to top fifteen in the

539
00:44:09.239 --> 00:44:15.880
o R rankings pretty quickly because I
think the openings are there, which is

540
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:20.559
probably something we talk about it every
year and draft season and ranking season,

541
00:44:20.639 --> 00:44:23.960
but it's really kind of playing out. Yeah, I mean you mentioned the

542
00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:30.679
prospects. I guess that's a good
segue, right, Yeah, let's go

543
00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:39.039
there. Yeah, I'm excited for
Brady House. He could be one that

544
00:44:39.079 --> 00:44:47.559
could even get to the majors of
things tumble in the right direction. I'm

545
00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:54.880
trying to find. I have too
many tabs open, unfortunately, but he's

546
00:44:55.039 --> 00:44:58.760
I mean, other than Kobe Mayo, who we've already talked about, who

547
00:44:58.760 --> 00:45:06.280
I think ultimately will bouncing between third
base and first, but I think Brady

548
00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:08.800
House has a chance to be the
next next in line. His top third

549
00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:12.840
base prospectly and Cam and Arrow I
forgot about him. I guess that guy

550
00:45:12.920 --> 00:45:15.719
matters too. He'll be up.
He'll probably his eligibility though at some point

551
00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:21.360
this year assumably. But yeah,
Brady House, I think his next up

552
00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:25.960
he's he's he started off well,
he's taking walks early. You know,

553
00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:31.599
his k rates hovering right where it
always is, and the guy is gonna

554
00:45:31.599 --> 00:45:37.920
start mashing soon. He's already hit
two, but he's gonna. I think

555
00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:43.079
he's gonna at least touch trip away
this year and we'll see what those those

556
00:45:43.159 --> 00:45:47.199
Nationals do, and hopefully it'll be
his turn to shine in short order,

557
00:45:47.880 --> 00:45:52.360
jumping up our major league ranks.
Yeah, and I think we talked about

558
00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:58.559
him last episode. I've always been
really high on him and loves seeing the

559
00:45:58.599 --> 00:46:01.559
start he's getting up to. Right
now, What do you think about what

560
00:46:01.559 --> 00:46:06.000
Tyler Black is doing? Is he
at third base? I thought, well,

561
00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:10.400
they're showing eligible there. He's played
one game there so far this year,

562
00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:14.760
but yeah, I was last year. I played twenty eighth. Yeah,

563
00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:19.760
he played twenty eighth there last year. So it's interesting though, And

564
00:46:19.960 --> 00:46:23.599
the question for me is if they
signed Reese I believe to a two year

565
00:46:23.639 --> 00:46:30.719
deal Reece Hoskins first, what's there? And they're not playing Black at third

566
00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:36.840
anymore in the minors, they're obviously
prep I mean unless They're going to pull

567
00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:42.400
a Toronto and show him and left
field when he comes up and begs the

568
00:46:42.480 --> 00:46:45.920
question why is it? Because?
Is it because Black's third base defense is

569
00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:52.559
that poor? Is it? They
don't plan on having Hoskins around long term,

570
00:46:52.679 --> 00:46:58.239
so it'll be interesting. But nonetheless, I mean, offensively, Black

571
00:46:58.440 --> 00:47:01.519
is doing what you want Black to
do, a hitting homers and stealing bases.

572
00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:07.199
So I think he's ready to come
up. I bet the Brewers are

573
00:47:07.239 --> 00:47:15.599
waiting for late May, that wonderful
time in late May when players all of

574
00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:21.840
a sudden get promoted. Yeah,
but no no service time manipulation, just

575
00:47:21.960 --> 00:47:25.800
paverage out that way, right.
I got three guys outside my top fifteen

576
00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:30.480
who I'm quite sure are going to
move in there pretty quickly. A lot

577
00:47:30.519 --> 00:47:36.039
of people talking about Cam Collier.
I know I'm not breaking any uh you

578
00:47:36.119 --> 00:47:40.159
know, breaking any news there,
but two three fourteen ninety one slash line

579
00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:45.599
in the Cincinnati system. He's in
the High A. He's already got six

580
00:47:45.639 --> 00:47:52.400
home runs already and uh only a
four percent walk rate. But which is

581
00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:58.039
why the opp is only three fourteen? But well it doesn't the boy's getting

582
00:47:58.039 --> 00:48:00.000
out of the park. So uh, you argue with a lot of that,

583
00:48:02.119 --> 00:48:06.639
and then James Treanto's in the Cups, is getting off to another really

584
00:48:06.639 --> 00:48:13.320
good start two ninety three, three
forty four five seventeen slash line with three

585
00:48:13.320 --> 00:48:17.360
home runs, and oh no,
somebody's got a small basis not him,

586
00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:23.639
he's zero. And then another name
that got a lot of conversations a year

587
00:48:23.719 --> 00:48:28.960
or so ago, and then not
much last year's Andres Chaparro, who's with

588
00:48:29.039 --> 00:48:34.519
Arizona nowase he started out with the
Yankee system, I believe right now a

589
00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:40.320
three twenty one, four hundred six
nineteen slash line with six home runs.

590
00:48:40.800 --> 00:48:44.519
Not quite sure why he doesn't get
well, he doesn't get ranked higher and

591
00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:47.519
doesn't get talked about as much.
But those are three guys right now.

592
00:48:47.559 --> 00:48:52.519
I think by mid season ranking is
a very good shot at being being in

593
00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:57.920
the top ten at third base,
especially with a couple of graduations are going

594
00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:01.679
to happen. Of a couple of
names you mention before, I'm surprised.

595
00:49:01.719 --> 00:49:06.800
I didn't hear you mentioned Jace Young
or was he in your top ten or

596
00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:12.000
whatever. I don't he was not, No, I did not mention him.

597
00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:15.599
You're right, yeah, Jace Young. He's having himself a heck of

598
00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:19.360
a Oops, I just closed my
tam. He's having himself a heck of

599
00:49:19.360 --> 00:49:22.480
a twenty four here, and I
think he's actually going to be the third

600
00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:31.000
basement long term there versus Colt Keith. So but yeah, he's four home

601
00:49:31.079 --> 00:49:37.440
runs, and I mean people who
are better at scouting than I am saying

602
00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:40.440
he could be as good as his
brother. So if it's not apparent,

603
00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:45.800
I'm a big Josh Young fan,
so I'm excited to see what Jace can

604
00:49:46.119 --> 00:49:51.599
keep on doing here. Yeah,
and he I think it would definitely be

605
00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:55.119
at third base. Keith is actually
playing some very good second base right now,

606
00:49:58.000 --> 00:50:00.880
and so I think he's silly in
there. I think third base is

607
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:05.239
wide open and they're just holding it
for Jason. The kind of light the

608
00:50:05.320 --> 00:50:07.440
rotation that got going on right now. They got some good chemistry going with

609
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:12.880
the team. But come mid season, if they need a bat, that

610
00:50:12.920 --> 00:50:15.440
call up could be as early as
you know, All Star Game to bring

611
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:20.719
him up there. So yeah,
no, I didn't intentionally leave him off

612
00:50:20.719 --> 00:50:22.639
the list just as I was going
through names. It wasn't one of the

613
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:25.320
ones I circled to talk about tonight, But anybody in your I don't know

614
00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:28.880
fifteen to twenty five range. You
see moving up into the top ten,

615
00:50:29.679 --> 00:50:36.320
Well, that's tough. I'm fifteen
to twenty five range. I mean I

616
00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:39.840
had Brandon Taylor at thirteen, so
I'd be cheating. I had an Aiden

617
00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:46.840
Miller of Philadelphia, I have fifteen. He definitely has had a heck of

618
00:50:46.880 --> 00:50:52.480
a start as well. You'll pull
him up to speak a little bit more

619
00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:58.480
eloquently, but he's actually stealing more
bases. It's one thing I've noticed then.

620
00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:02.639
I anticipated he's got five stolen bases
already this year, and I don't

621
00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:07.599
think he was ever scouted as being
a fat guy. So let's see how

622
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:09.840
all that he's at low way,
so we can see how well that plays

623
00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:13.559
out as he advances. But it
definitely caught my eye. But he's batt

624
00:51:13.599 --> 00:51:21.920
in three eighteen three sixty seven OVP
and a five forty five slug. That's

625
00:51:21.960 --> 00:51:29.719
two homers and four doubles to make
that happen. Yeah, I mean he's

626
00:51:29.760 --> 00:51:35.400
shown an all round, five five
tool kind of approach here starting off his

627
00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:39.880
professional career, his first full season. So it'll be interesting to see with

628
00:51:42.079 --> 00:51:45.000
Philadelphia and them bringing him through here. And then I just want to say

629
00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:50.599
for the record, that or Elvis
Martinez has been playing second base this year.

630
00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:52.599
So even though we talked about him
in a lot of positions last year,

631
00:51:53.519 --> 00:51:55.840
we can hold off a couple of
weeks before I have to say that

632
00:51:55.880 --> 00:52:00.599
I was so wrong, you know, I actually he really was going to

633
00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:05.280
use him as mine. But I
it was like, I'll wait till short

634
00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:09.960
stop because that's where I thought he
was speaking second. Well, we'll have

635
00:52:10.039 --> 00:52:15.679
our time, all right. Uh
So, who the who's the deep dive?

636
00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:20.199
Who's the sneaky deep at this position? For you? You know,

637
00:52:20.440 --> 00:52:25.760
it's I'm really you know, I
have a hard time deciding if they're sneaky

638
00:52:25.800 --> 00:52:32.559
deep to me or sneaky deep to
our listeners. And it's definitely a name

639
00:52:32.599 --> 00:52:37.519
who was around last year near the
end of the year. It's Reuben Santana

640
00:52:37.559 --> 00:52:45.519
with the Diamondbacks. He kind of
we haven't heard much about him. He's

641
00:52:45.559 --> 00:52:52.880
another toolsy corner and fielder type and
it's been a he got a little bit

642
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:58.119
of a late start in low Way
this year. He's nineteen, just turned

643
00:52:58.159 --> 00:53:04.719
nineteen this year. Nothing. He
isn't setting my Way on fire, But

644
00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:09.840
I like the fact that he can
be stealing. He could be stealing bags

645
00:53:09.920 --> 00:53:15.199
and hitting home runs and getting you
combo meals as he makes his way through.

646
00:53:15.239 --> 00:53:20.719
And Arizona is an organization that I
trust some of their development, so

647
00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:28.480
it's definitely one to be watching.
And probably i'd say two hundred and fifty

648
00:53:28.599 --> 00:53:32.960
ish minor league teams are minor league
player and rostered leagues. But yeah,

649
00:53:34.039 --> 00:53:38.599
Reuben Santana is someone who I don't
think is getting enough press or at least

650
00:53:39.079 --> 00:53:44.960
seems to be lost in all of
the shuffle with like fypds as he was

651
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:46.960
starting to pop last year. Yeah, what I did for this, I

652
00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:52.480
was looking at players who are currently
in A or high A and getting off

653
00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:55.320
two good starts and then you know, kind of shortened through the air and

654
00:53:55.400 --> 00:54:02.079
looking with their pedigree and everything was
so you know, these are long shots,

655
00:54:02.119 --> 00:54:07.400
and I guess that's called the sneaky
deeps. But the one I settled

656
00:54:07.400 --> 00:54:09.519
on, but after that, there's
somebody else wanted to ask you if you've

657
00:54:09.559 --> 00:54:13.840
heard about. But the one I
settled on for the sneaky deep was a

658
00:54:13.920 --> 00:54:19.719
Braylan Wimmer who was in the Colorado
Rocky system at a Ball their eighth round

659
00:54:19.760 --> 00:54:28.679
pick last year out of South Carolina
and he had a decent starting complex last

660
00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:31.679
year at just fourteen games at three
eighty three four to fifty three five ninety

661
00:54:31.719 --> 00:54:37.360
six, and this year he's hit
four home runs already, uh hitting three

662
00:54:37.519 --> 00:54:43.440
nineteen four thirty nine five ninety six. Walks at a fifteen percent rate,

663
00:54:44.159 --> 00:54:47.280
strikes out at a seventeen percent rate, which is low, so almost walks

664
00:54:47.320 --> 00:54:52.239
as much as he strikes out a
ball. That's a sneakyast. It's just

665
00:54:52.320 --> 00:54:55.039
there. And if he start to
look at an a ball, because you

666
00:54:55.079 --> 00:54:59.440
know, the pitchers there are still
trying to find the strike zone, so

667
00:54:59.480 --> 00:55:01.639
it's not that hard to walk.
But at least he is showing the patients

668
00:55:01.639 --> 00:55:06.519
and taking the walks when they're there. So a few stats I see,

669
00:55:06.519 --> 00:55:09.400
they are the kind of worth worth
keeping an eye on. Sixty three two

670
00:55:09.519 --> 00:55:15.880
hundred so built for power. Yeah, listed at third base and shortstop.

671
00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:20.679
I don't see that profile sticking at
the shortstop, so very likely a corner

672
00:55:20.719 --> 00:55:27.360
infielder. The other name that this
guy is showing eligible at first, second,

673
00:55:27.400 --> 00:55:32.920
and third playing it in the Minnesota
system Rubel or Rubel cesspit us and

674
00:55:34.039 --> 00:55:40.559
no idea if he's related. So
Minnesota Twins playing high A this year three

675
00:55:40.639 --> 00:55:45.599
seventy four to fifty two, six
eighty five slash lines so far. Twenty

676
00:55:45.639 --> 00:55:51.800
two he had a very good year, twenty three he did not, So

677
00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:54.079
he's kind of been up and down
through his young career. He's twenty three

678
00:55:54.079 --> 00:55:58.159
in high A, which is starting
to get a little bit old for the

679
00:55:58.239 --> 00:56:01.320
level rule five eligible this year,
and I know that you look at that

680
00:56:01.480 --> 00:56:06.679
to be very meaningful. I don't
have you heard the name at all,

681
00:56:06.719 --> 00:56:09.639
am I just no, I am
not familiar. But I pulled them up

682
00:56:09.679 --> 00:56:16.199
as you're talking. Yeah, I
see as bad as four thirty two.

683
00:56:17.519 --> 00:56:23.639
Well that'll probably come back. Yeah, I mean the role five eligible for

684
00:56:23.679 --> 00:56:28.519
someone a twenty three year old at
hay A probably doesn't. You know.

685
00:56:28.559 --> 00:56:30.519
He might go into minor league portion
or something like that. But I don't

686
00:56:30.639 --> 00:56:36.599
see him as being all those things
unless he continues his hot streak and makes

687
00:56:36.599 --> 00:56:38.719
his way through. Obviously he's not
multi He's able to play a lot of

688
00:56:38.760 --> 00:56:45.719
positions, so that is not going
to hurt anyone by any means. But

689
00:56:45.800 --> 00:56:49.639
no, he's he's not a name
I'm familiar with. Yeah, I think

690
00:56:49.639 --> 00:56:53.840
I'm gonna file it under a hot
start and a small sample, but it

691
00:56:53.920 --> 00:56:58.000
was just funny. I hadn't heard
or seen the name at all, and

692
00:56:58.519 --> 00:57:00.719
like seeing a few different sorts of
I kept popping up in the middle to

693
00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:04.639
the high range. I thought,
who was this guy? And I've heard

694
00:57:04.639 --> 00:57:08.000
of him? But I'd start in
a small sample sounds like something like Private

695
00:57:08.039 --> 00:57:20.719
Investigators, black and white movie Boguard. I was gonna use it for the

696
00:57:20.920 --> 00:57:25.199
title for my autobiography, There you
go, my life, My life in

697
00:57:25.239 --> 00:57:31.119
fantasy baseball. Uh So, if
you got a minute, I've got one.

698
00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:35.719
Unless there any other third basemen you
want to talk about. No,

699
00:57:36.079 --> 00:57:39.320
let's let's see what she got,
all right, Uh, let's pull a

700
00:57:39.360 --> 00:57:45.400
trade. It doesn't really hit the
position. But looking over the the trades

701
00:57:45.440 --> 00:57:49.920
that got posted in their discord,
as we've said before, people kind of

702
00:57:49.960 --> 00:57:55.159
throw up a simple poll. And
so this is a in a thirty team

703
00:57:55.239 --> 00:58:01.679
dynasty league where they're looking at category
is on one side of the trade,

704
00:58:02.039 --> 00:58:08.000
Bailey Ober picture on the other side, Brady House and Hayden bird song,

705
00:58:10.440 --> 00:58:17.559
thirty team trade, the thirty team
league, thirty team league categories, and

706
00:58:17.760 --> 00:58:25.599
a macuum. I'd probably lean Ober
in a thirty teamer can I ask why

707
00:58:27.840 --> 00:58:31.079
and that that was that was the
majority of vote. It's seventy three in

708
00:58:31.119 --> 00:58:37.559
there. I would lean House and
bird Song, partly because I like both

709
00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:40.400
those guys. I don't think too
many people know bird Song except for the

710
00:58:40.400 --> 00:58:44.320
guy who just drafted him in that
league we're drafting right now, which pissed

711
00:58:44.320 --> 00:58:50.320
me off. But I'm sorry,
I hitit that out. Sorry, Aaron,

712
00:58:50.360 --> 00:58:53.000
He's all yours, good, good
good, get that thing. Oh

713
00:58:53.199 --> 00:59:00.559
man, Yeah it was. And
I I know Hope Bailly is, of

714
00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:07.079
course, but I just think he's
a guy. But is he woulden because

715
00:59:07.159 --> 00:59:14.320
in a thirty teamer he's a live
arm I don't disagree. He's not a

716
00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:21.320
He might not have the overall fantasy
impact of Brady House, but he has

717
00:59:21.480 --> 00:59:27.639
fantasy impact currently. Brady House,
as much as I'm a fan, is

718
00:59:27.679 --> 00:59:34.119
still and both of us are a
fan of many others. It's still you

719
00:59:34.119 --> 00:59:37.000
know, a minor league baseball player, and a lot can happen in the

720
00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:43.000
next year. Plus birds Song is
a pitching prospect. Enough said on that

721
00:59:43.079 --> 00:59:47.880
comment on that topic, it's just
when you're in a thirty teamer, and

722
00:59:49.159 --> 00:59:52.920
I also said in a vacuum,
okay, but so double down on that

723
00:59:52.960 --> 01:00:02.280
point. But I just think that
the MLB contributor who's above average. You

724
01:00:02.320 --> 01:00:08.039
know, he's not a He's not
just gonna be getting Indians. He's going

725
01:00:08.119 --> 01:00:15.559
to be contributing in other facets of
other categories for you. I just think

726
01:00:15.599 --> 01:00:27.159
that's very valuable piece that isn't easily
discarded. I should that's easily be discarded.

727
01:00:27.519 --> 01:00:30.039
Now, if I'm rebuilding, even
in the thirty man I would probably

728
01:00:30.119 --> 01:00:37.000
move over for House because pitching is
so fickle. I know that I am

729
01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:45.519
in probably in the minority in that
as well, but if I'm anywhere near

730
01:00:45.559 --> 01:00:52.239
a competitive window, give me over. Yeah. I do tend to hold

731
01:00:52.239 --> 01:00:57.000
pitching in the thirty team leagues,
in the super deep leagues that I'm in.

732
01:00:57.079 --> 01:01:00.320
But he's only pitched over a hundre
innings once. He just pulled up

733
01:01:00.320 --> 01:01:04.679
his page while you were talking there. He doesn't walk anybody. I didn't

734
01:01:04.679 --> 01:01:07.800
know his walk greates, you're that
good. They're all below six percent for

735
01:01:07.840 --> 01:01:14.559
his entire career. So so of
course the whip is down and that helps

736
01:01:14.599 --> 01:01:17.199
keep the E E r A down
as well. Yeah, he doesn't,

737
01:01:19.000 --> 01:01:22.599
and you know, then he'll get
those ten strikeout games or eight strikeout games,

738
01:01:22.599 --> 01:01:24.880
and then he wants you know,
one or two the next one.

739
01:01:25.519 --> 01:01:30.079
He's not super consistent, but he
doesn't walk anyone, which is crazy because

740
01:01:30.079 --> 01:01:37.079
he's huge, right, and usually
those gigantic How tall is he, like

741
01:01:37.239 --> 01:01:43.320
sixty eight or something? Yeah,
usually usually their mechanics are all over the

742
01:01:43.360 --> 01:01:52.079
place. But yeah, he's got
that down. He's only I'm actually surprised

743
01:01:52.079 --> 01:01:57.920
that he's only crossed over one hundred
Indians once. But I think he was

744
01:01:57.960 --> 01:02:00.920
a late bloomer. If I remember
right too, I think you just broke

745
01:02:00.960 --> 01:02:06.599
out. I finally had a full
season last year, right, Yeah,

746
01:02:06.599 --> 01:02:09.079
in twenty one he had ninety two
innings. That was a twenty five year

747
01:02:09.079 --> 01:02:15.280
old, and then twenty two fifty
six innings in the majors. Now he

748
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:17.880
has Yeah, I was just gonna
say, I'm gonna do the math.

749
01:02:19.000 --> 01:02:22.840
Yeah, there's been up and down. Looks like it looks like he did

750
01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:27.039
a rehab in twenty two and then
came up. But okay, well,

751
01:02:27.039 --> 01:02:31.239
thank that you enlightened me there.
So yeah, I knew a Bailey over

752
01:02:31.320 --> 01:02:36.880
of course, hadn't paid a real
close attention and a little bit more there

753
01:02:36.920 --> 01:02:39.760
than I thought. So I learned
the hard way when I first joined.

754
01:02:39.800 --> 01:02:43.760
When I joined my first thirty man
that you know, there's only so many

755
01:02:43.880 --> 01:02:52.000
starting pitchers. Yeah yeah, hold
on, hold on to him like grim

756
01:02:52.039 --> 01:02:57.760
death. Right yeah right, Well
that brings us to the end of another

757
01:02:57.840 --> 01:03:04.440
episode. Uh, Chris, any
final words. I missed talking to you

758
01:03:04.480 --> 01:03:07.719
on a weekly basis, So this
snuck up on me and that makes me

759
01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:13.400
sad that we're already at our time. Oh I did too. I'll have

760
01:03:13.440 --> 01:03:15.559
to we'll have to call in chat
and there's nothing to stop us from doing

761
01:03:15.559 --> 01:03:20.360
that. I like it, Yeah, I know, we both Uh.

762
01:03:20.840 --> 01:03:24.719
You know what else I like?
The two weeks went by, Like I

763
01:03:24.719 --> 01:03:28.000
haven't spent too much time in the
rankings. What am I doing? Like,

764
01:03:28.079 --> 01:03:30.960
I'm watching baseball, I think,
you know, during the ranking season,

765
01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:32.920
there's nothing else to do, so
I'm like in the spreadsheets all the

766
01:03:32.960 --> 01:03:37.119
time. And now I'm like,
yeah, I turned out the MLB network

767
01:03:37.159 --> 01:03:39.199
and that the you know, Tigers
are playing well right now, so I'm

768
01:03:39.239 --> 01:03:43.559
watching their games. But even when
i'm not, there's always a good pitching

769
01:03:43.599 --> 01:03:47.400
matchup or you know, good players
on. So it's definitely cutting into my

770
01:03:47.480 --> 01:03:52.119
ranking time. It's actually watching the
game we love. But uh, yeah,

771
01:03:52.159 --> 01:03:54.599
I've enjoyed it too. Uh and
Uh, I'm glad to hear things

772
01:03:54.599 --> 01:03:57.960
are going well with you. Look
forward to the next one, and to

773
01:03:58.679 --> 01:04:01.559
all of our listeners out there,
Hopefully you enjoy hearing the conversation. Hopefully

774
01:04:01.559 --> 01:04:05.719
you're learning some things, and more
importantly, we know how valuable your time

775
01:04:05.840 --> 01:04:10.159
is and we really thank you for
spending some of it with us. So

776
01:04:11.119 --> 01:04:14.079
be well. We'll be back soon
to talk about the middle infielders, and

777
01:04:14.119 --> 01:04:17.840
shortly after that look for our next
GT thirty update. So thank you,

778
01:04:17.880 --> 01:04:21.000
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