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Greetings and salutations everyone at which Wilson
Welcome to Fantasy Baseball Live. Today is

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the seventh of January, about three
o'clock in the afternoon, Tim and I

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have already did our Happy New Year
stuff, Timmy even I think Larry David,

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who was the creator of Seinfeldt and
Curb Your Enthusiasm, said after the

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third of January, you can no
longer stay Happy New Year to someone.

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That was his position, Happy New
Year, Rick, Well, it was

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there. Come on, I don't
know, like, when do you stop?

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I had to walk through it.
When do you stop saying Happy New

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Year to people? I was at
church today seeing these people and they're saying

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Happy New Year. I'm going,
it's a week after New Year's are you

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still saying it? I just don't
know. First time you see somebody wish

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him Happy New Year. So if
you first time you see somebody is in

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March, right, what do you
say Happy New Year? It's all you've

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heard a conversation off somewhere right over
year has been going well or yeah,

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it's you know, that's funny.
When I see somebody for the first time

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in April, I'm say Happy New
Year. How's your house? Year going

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exactly there. I have been seen
you since last last oct Ever, that's

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funny. If anything it'll get,
it'll provide a chuckle and a good entry

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to a nice, warm, friendly
conversation. Right, how has the week

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been going, mister McLeod, It's
been going good. Uh. I've been

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busy ranking and filing and got shortstop
done and I've even even got a few

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third basement ranked. I'm I'm embracing
the new year with a with a newfound

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zealousy. Uh. I'm putting my
why do tomorrow? We're like, no,

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why do today? We're I can
do tomorrow philosophy on the back burner

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and diving right into things. And
I got another league that's starting, another

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preseason league starting up next week,
doing some prep, doing some prep for

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my XFL draft in March. Shift
just busy, life is good. What

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about yourself? How's your how's your
draft going? What's what's happening there?

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Well, before we do our drafts, Tim, Tim's Tim left me with

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a big, like speculative question as
we were coming on the air. We'll

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get to that in a second,
But third base? Can we get back

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to third base real quick? Yeah? Sure, I'm getting a little worried

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about Manny Machado. I don't,
I mean, with with what's going on

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in San Diego and is he going
to take more time to truly heal.

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You're not hearing a lot of he's
in the best shape of his life type

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of thing. And I mean there's
nothing coming out. Am I reading too

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much into this? No, I
don't think you're reading too much into it

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at all. I'm going to you
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But I think it's fairly obvious he's
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How long will he be at DH? Will he even start the year?

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How is I about willing to affect
him? I don't see many Machado

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diving for balls, okay, with
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If he is playing their base,
and you're right, who knows he

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might he might err on the side
of caution, want to make sure he's

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one hundred percent. We might not
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So no, I think it's perfectly
perfectly reasonable right now to be concerned about

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Manny Minchado. Yeah, I just
I mean, I go a lot on

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just the setup stem and if you
kind of think about Manny Mitchado, Potch

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All Star, one of the best
players in baseball. You figure the Padres

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have been consulting. Hey, we're
bringing in one Soda, We're going for

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it. We're doing this, we're
doing that. And all of a sudden

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he gets hurt. And then he
sees his teammates leaving and again, one

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of the best players in baseball office
team, he's hearing about financial concerns,

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and all sudden, Timmy, it's
like, yeah, maybe I'll take a

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few extra weeks just to make sure
I'm healthy, as opposed to maybe if

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Soda was on the team. This
is pure speculation from my standpoint, maybe

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he would rush himself back, you
know what I mean. Yeah, No,

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it makes sense. I think it's
worth wondering about. Yeah, I'm

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not gonna he's not in my plans
for this. Yeah he was two months

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ago. He's longer anymore. And
again, this is no disrespect to me

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and child at all. This is
just like just what people you would think

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would think, you know, thirty
one year old or however, hold he

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is probably needs extra time to get
ready, and now all of a sudden

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he sees maybe a team that eh, maybe I'll take the extra time.

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Well, and let's face it,
there are options, you know, the

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current excuse me, the current ADP
for Machado sixty eight, Well, i'sa

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on Kim's a pretty bare player at
eighty twelve picks. Then you go another

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seventeen picks, No nol and Aeronatto, who's still a he's still a thirty

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ninety guy in my books. Josh
Young at one oh one, Bregman at

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one oh one, Spencer Steer at
one o six. There are there are

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options, okay, that you can
explore that you don't have to ask that

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question every day until you see him
on the field. Will he be on

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the field? You know? So
I it's just not worth it to me.

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Yeah, And there are a steam
former colleague of those who haven't been

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with us that long time. We
used to have Marcus Potter, good friend

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of ours. This is on the
podcast ten years years ago something like that

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was one. Well, we're heading
into our fifteenth years, so it might

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even be longer than that, it
might even longer than that. Just a

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great guy, really smart guy.
And he had his axiom that hey,

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if you're injured to begin the season, I ain't interested in you, and

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that was the Marcus Potter axiom that
unfortunately has played off correctly more times than

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not. Yeah, I would definitely
say, if you know, if we

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took a look at best shape of
his life, I'm healthy and going to

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be healthy in the spring after surgery. Yeah, I would say, definitely,

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he's been right more often than wrong. It's hey, it's it's a

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concern until we see these players coming
off surgery actually on the field, we

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don't know, Dooley. I took
Bryce Harper I think in like the seventh

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or eighth round last year in my
NFBC draft, and I was expecting him

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to come back early because he's Bryce
Harper, and he's you know, he's

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macho, and there's a good team. And he came back early. Timmy,

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I'm smiling from ear to ear.
I can assure you. I think

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he had two home runs at the
beginning of August. Now again, he

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killed it at August and September,
but he needed more time, tim to

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heal and get ready, and the
first couple of months were pretty tough from

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a power standpoint. It was tough
to put him in your lineup. Yeah,

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if there was training in that league, I'm sure you would have looked

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for some sort of an opportunity,
but it probably wouldn't have been the right

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move. But at the same point
in time, Yeah, that first couple

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of months returning, Yeah, he
rushed himself. Obviously he made up for

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it down the stretch, but that
doesn't help you in June and July doesn't,

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No, and it becomes stressful to
me and maybe stressed that you don't

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need because I can, like last
year, you go, well, she

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I can't take him out of the
lineup because he's Bryce Harper and he could

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hit four home runs in a week
and then I'm gonna miss it, and

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that's what you think. And then
another week passes and it's a zero home

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runs and three RBIs and you just
it's it's not torture or not the way,

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but it's very, very difficult from
an emotional standpoint. Agonizing. Yeah,

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it's agonizing exactly. So just everybody
be careful with Minny Machado until he

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shows up at spring training and looks
like himself. I totally agree, Tim,

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you asked about my draft, Yes, yes, would you like to

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hear what I've been doing? Yes, I am curious because I have reason

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to be curious. Why is that? Because I am starting a draft this

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week on Wednesday, and I happen
to have drawn the number two slot.

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Coincidence of coincidences. Again, purely
random selection, but sitting in the same

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chair as you when it comes to
picking, it's nice to know what you've

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done, maybe what you haven't done, and which you think you could have

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done better or worse, you know
whatever. Is this a real draft or

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a mock draft? That's one hundred
dollars entry, it's big money. Well,

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first off, Timmy, I will
say I'm very impressed. One that

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you remembered I was doing an NFBC
draft, so thank you for that.

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And two, Timmy, the listening
skills are on fire. This must have

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been a twenty twenty four New Year's
resolution. You remember what slot I was

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drafting, and well done? Well, thank you very much. I made

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the same New Year's resolution I've made
for the past twenty some odd years,

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not to make any more of them. Man, it's the only one I've

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ever kept. But I have been
listening. I've I've always just been impressed

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that you knew my name. So
now now that you're actually realizing what slot

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I'm drafting in Wow, exactly,
Okay, so just everybody else. I

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was in the number two slot,
and as I said, I don't know

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a week maybe three weeks ago,
that if Bobby Wood, if I Bobby

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Wood Junior was on the board,
I would take him. I took him

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to look. I love Julio Rodriguez, Kyle Tucker, Mookie Back. I

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mean, they're all great picks.
I took Bobby Witt and I went there,

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came back with Michael Harris, and
then my first picture was Pablo Lopez.

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I did take him over Zach Galen
and who else was big on the

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board. Herbie was probably still there, Kirby was there yep, and Terrek

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Scooba. Those were the four I
was considering Glass I was on the board.

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I was not considering him. I
don't think you would either, And

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nothing to GLASSA to me could easily
win a cy Young in the National League,

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but until he pitches one hundred and
fifty innings caught me skeptical. Well,

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hey, yeah, he could win
you a SI. He could cost

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you a title, that's true.
So you could get sixty out of him

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and be searching for another one hundred
while spending major amounts of yr fab Yeah.

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Yeah, it's just the way it
is. It is so so after

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that, so that's where we left
the Timmy on right, when did we

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record? We did the we did
something this past week. Yeah it was.

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It was on Tuesday because of the
New Year's Oh that's right, that's

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right, Sunday, Monday, and
yeah, yeah, it was back Tuesday.

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Had a short stop. I had
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right coming back. If you read
my targets and read my how I was

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going after drafts that I was going
to be picking early with catching and early

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with outfield I already had one outfielder, tim it was time to go with

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another outfielder, and I went with
one the only Michael Trout. Solid.

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I like it. Michael Trout in
the fourth round, Come on, I

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like it. Now. That's just
because it's an NFBC draft. You gotta

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get closers early, and they started
coming off the board. I'm like,

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I gotta get I gotta get a
closer. I wanted de Val he went

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before my next pick, so I
got Rossiel Iglesias. You know, with

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Atlanta, probably try to get his
set up as well. That's where I

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went next. Yeah, okay.
Then I came back again, thinking I'm

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going to take a catcher early.
My target was William Contreras. He went

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off early. My next guy was
Will Smith. I understand Tim McLeod's logic

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that he is not going to get
as many at bats as he did last

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year because of Choyotani being there,
but look, Will Smith is still a

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great defender, a great catcher.
So I went with will Smith. Yeah,

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sol it, I like it.
Then I came back and I've got

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one starting pitcher. I've got two
outfitters. I got my catch, I

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got one catcher, and I decided
to go back to back with starting pitchers

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in the NFBC draft and whole format. I've been playing in it too many

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years. Timmy, you will run
out of pitching, so I'm making sure

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you will run out of pitching in
a redraft league, let alone a draft

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and old format. Yeah. So
the fair point. So I went with

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Tanner Baby, Oh, I like
it. Follow it in round eight.

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This was a little controversial, but
I'm thinking, where can I get two

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hundred, two hundred strikeouts and it's
missing draft Tyler Glasgow twice that that deserves

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a rim shot. For sure to
me, let I see her well played.

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I brought, I brought. I
brought my X game today, my

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X rated game. Today. I'm
gonna go full snark. I think rich

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I went, I went toll and
seized him. I'm thinking there ain't no

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way he's gonna be with the White
Sox. I do not believe that's the

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case. Uh, the data still
looks good. Yeah, he's dropped a

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mile mile and a half in his
fastball, but the spend rates are still

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great. He doesn't have great control, but it is nasty, nasty stuff.

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So maybe it comes with a four
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gonna come with two hundred strikeouts and
a lot of wins because you know one

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of the big teams are gonna go
after him. Well yeah, and you're

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looking at uh your looking at right
now. You've got six hundred Strake coats

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in the bank. That's sweets.
That's a nice number. Yep. So

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I two of my targets, Bobby
Winn and Pablo Lopez are off the board

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the next fourth, so I did
not take any of my targets. Bibby

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just missed being on my target list. So I felt pretty good about that.

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My next picktim You'll be very proud
of me. I think I need

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another outfielder. What the hell,
let's go Jackson Curio. There, there

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you go. There's there's your difference
maker. Yep. Then I came back

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with all of my targets, my
first basement, Vinnie Pasquentina. I'm looking

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in round eleven. I'm thinking I've
already got a short stop. I don't

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care. Anthony Volpi is twenty twenty
in the bank, and come on like

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and look, the batting average of
balls and play was low last season.

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Let's go with Anthony Volpi. Yeah, come back with my second catcher and

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go Lewis Compensano. I want to
desperately to have a logan o'happy he went,

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But I Lewis Compensano was too good
to pass up. There, I

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go back with my next pitcher.
Another target of mine, a guy you

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do not like, is Brian wu
following in the fourteenth round with probably my

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biggest target of the season, and
that is Michael Garcia with your Kansas City

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Royals. Timmy, the data is
off the charts with this guy. He

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is fast, hits the ball and
people don't realize this one of the hardest

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hit rates in all of baseball is
Michael Garcias, so there could be something

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there. Then I come back with
three pitchers all targets while two other three

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were targets of mine. Brandon fought
in the fifteenth round. I had to

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get a second closer. I don't
know if I like this, but I

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went with Robert Suarez, trying to
stay on the Tim McCloud good side.

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Going with these former Japanese guys and
then coming back with Emmitt Shehan is another

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one of my targets. So it's
chuck. I put my money where my

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mouth is. At least half of
my team or guys that I have written

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up and said the data really likes
these Robert Suarez, I mean, Timmy.

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I wish I would have had a
better second closer, but you know,

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it is what it is. I
did not want Kyle Finnegan. He

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was my other selection. Well,
no, We've been through the trials and

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tribulations of Finnigan many times in the
past, and at some point in time,

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the definition of insanity kicks in.
Right, Why are we doing something

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over and over again expecting different results. It's the same situation. So yeah,

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I would have gone to Az over
Vinigan as well. Yeah, I've

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got eight pictures Tim and three outfielders. Are probably going to go an outfielder

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next. I do not have a
second basement yet. As we talked last

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week, Look, a lot of
good second basements are off the board.

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I wish I had one of them, but I do not. So I'm

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going to get a second basement a
little bit later. And that might be

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my weak position, but it is
what it is. Can't have a do

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you get options late there? Yeah? Yeah, And you can't have a

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start every position. But I'm really
happy with my pitching staff. It's deep,

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there's a lot of young arms in
there. Nobody is old on my

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on my pitching staff, so I
feel really really good about it. And

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I think my favorite pick. You
gotta like Mike Mike Trout in the fourth

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round, but I love Anthony Volpi
in the eleventh round. All right,

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Yeah, I think it's a great
pick. I don't know what people are

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thinking, like that's yeah, I'm
just taking a look right now. Is

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Adp is going as the fifteenth short
stop off the board? With an ADP

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at one thirty five, I get
the batting average was low. I'm expecting

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improvement, but as a rookie playing
in the Bronx, Okay, it's not

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like there isn't any pressure playing there
are lots of players haven't been able to

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play at all in New York.
He was a twenty twenty player. Yeah,

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that's not shabby for a kid that
has a ceiling far in excess.

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I believe what we saw last year. Would I be shocked if he's a

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top ten potentially higher than that,
even you know shortstop next year, No,

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not at all. I think it's
a great pick, and you got

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your speed short up you go,
Yeah, the power. I don't remember

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all of the bats, but between
Wit and Trow you got to be looking

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at and counting on seventy there.
Yeah, yeah, so you know,

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yeah, it's a good start.
I like it. Yeah, I'm pretty

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happy with it. It's so I
add it to my fancy spreadsheet Tim,

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which is available to our Patreon subscribers. Haven't done the update, but I

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put in some I put in all
the ADPs. I sucked in all the

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NFBC eightps, so as soon as
I put in the player, it automatically

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tells me what his ADP is,
and then all I do is say,

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what round did I pick him in? And I put in my slot,

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So I put in slot number two
on round I pick him in, and

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it tells me did I get him
ahead or did I get value at least

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from a draft slot standpoint, or
did I potentially overpay could have waited a

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little bit, which I found to
be pretty helpful. And guys like Anthony

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Volpi. I got him with my
eleventh pick that my personal ADP then would

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have been one fifty two and his
ADP was one thirty four point ninety five,

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So I felt like I got a
little value there. So yeah,

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the only the only concern I would
have uh with your team right now is

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probably at the closer position. And
again, who knows what's going to happen

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in San Diego. But I'm not
huge on a Glaciers either. I'd find

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a way to tuck a j menjer
in there. Yep, Yeah, you're

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right, just just because like I
said, I I know what Glaciers has

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got to earth to Tim. Let's
take a quick break, everybody, and

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I'll go find out where Tim went. We have missed out wherever temping cloud

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as he went into the black hole. Tim, Yes, I jumped into

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the ABYSS very quickly. There,
I was chatting away and bang power died.

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Everything shut down, so of course
you gotta wait for about five seconds.

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Power came back on and then of
course the rotor has to reboot.

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So here we are sorry about that, no worries. Some of you were

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talking about potentially a Glacias needing to
back up for him on my team.

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I agree with you there, and
obviously Robert Suarez is Robert Suarez. We

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just don't know. I will be
adding a lot more set up guys for

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sure, so it's not standing in
the draft and hold you. Yeah,

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you have to try and toss some
dark and hopefully hopefully land on a couple

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couple winners. Yeah, that's that's
the goal here. So Tim, let's

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say you've got the number out of
the number two slot coming up on Wednesday,

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and I said, well, you'll
be taking Corbyn Carroll, who actually

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dropped to number eight in my draft
here, which yeah, again, we

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talked about that last Tuesday. I
think the guy got a real steal there.

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And the eighth pick, who were
you taking as your number two guy,

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Bobby Witt? Are you really?
Yeah? I've done some digging and

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taking a look at things, and
you know what, I just have I

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just have concerns about Corbyn Carroll and
that shoulder. And I did a little

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bit, a little bit deeper digging
you. How many home runs Corbyn Carroll

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hit in the second half. Not
many, I'm gonna say, let me

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get I guess five. Uh,
you're one high over his August September totals.

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He hit four in August and September. Yeah, Now was he compensating

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for the shoulder? Did he change
something? Was it just a couple of

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bad months? Either either way?
In the back of my mind, Hey,

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you know, the guy at number
eight could have got himself a heck

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of a deal. But in the
back of my mind there's still something that

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bothers me about that shoulder. And
went in doubt. I'll go with Bobby

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Witt and take one of two three
outfielders with my second pick, and they

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should all be on the board.
So I mean you got I mean again

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Lewis Robert went rop before when I
picked at Michael Harris and Randy or Rose

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Arena, we're all three there.
So I think that's that's that's that's the

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three pretty well that I'll h that
I'll be looking at those. Yeah,

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so I'm gonna and then come back
with a starting pitcher. So same strategy

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I used, maybe different players with
same strategy I use yep, yeah,

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but pretty much. Yeah, that's
uh, that's pretty well what I'm going

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to be looking at. I I
think it makes a lot out of sense.

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I as much as I would love
an outfielder with how do you how

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do you pass on a thirty fifty
type player? You don't take take what's

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there for you and be happy.
Yeah, the data really supports this guy,

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Tim, It's uh, yes it
does. I don't know, I

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don't Yeah, so I still agree
with you. Yeah, the the Jacksonuria,

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I know you took him in a
previous draft. He was your first

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outfielder, I believe, right.
Yeah, that's the one where I went

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pitching early and heavy. I took
Garrett Cole and yeah, he ended up

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being he ended up being my my
number one, my number one outfielder.

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I'm just pulling up the information now. As far as when I got him,

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I believe it was somewhere around the
tenth eleventh round, and I'll have

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that up in a second here.
Uh, yes, I took him.

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I took him in the ninth round. Yeah, I got him in the

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ninth round as well. So I
think I could be, you know,

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smoking something here or sniffing glue whatever. We could be talking about Jackson Curio

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this time next season, like we're
talking about Corbyn, Carrol, Gunner,

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Henderson, these kind of guys.
It's that kind of upside, tim And

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I'm here to tell you write about
prospects. I have boldly put Jackson Curio

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as my number one prospect in the
game with Jackson Holiday number two. So

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I finally made that call, and
I'm just saying, you know, the

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upside is just too high. Now
he might not hit tim still very young.

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Well, you know what, every
opportunity will be presented to him for

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success. They're not going to demote
him, Timmy, unless he hits one

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ten or something like that for six
weeks. They're not gonna He's gonna get

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every chance to play. Well.
Yeah, and you might want to check

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when the Brewers have their bubble head
nights scheduled because he might be one of

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them. And you know he'll be
up for that, right, I mean,

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it's their big guy, you know
it is it is there Corbyn Carrell

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from last year. It is the
guy that they are. You know,

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he's he's going to be an important
cog in that well. Plus he's already

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won me a well, hasn't won
me already, but it's it looks like

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in the bag a steak and liquor
bet, so I had to double down

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with them. Well, yeah,
I would do over a steak in liquor

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bet. I'd be much more miserable
to the person who made it. With

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you. You'll let me off cheap
here. I appreciate it. Thank you

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again, So tell me that's going
to the news, News and notes.

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Speaking of the Mariner sim remember we
had our al Wes kind of preview was

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it maybe three weeks ago and four
weeks ago? And we were saying,

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are the Mariners really going to go
to war with Dominice, Canzone and Cade

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Marlowe? Well, Tim, what
is that answer? The answer is yes,

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but only exactly, and so they
they they were busy, Tim.

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They traded Robbie Ray to the Giants
and received a former Mariner, Mitch Haniger

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and writing a picture Anthony di Scalfini. I think it's disco disco is something

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they call him? Yeah, just
go yeah, something like that disco.

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Yeah, and then they also acquired
Luke Rowley from the Rais in exchange for

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Jose Caballero. So I before we
get into specifics, when you saw both

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of those trades, they occurred,
I believe within twenty four hours of one

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another. What was going through your
mind? Did you like it for the

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Mariners? Did you see something that
maybe for another team that wow? I

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like what they did there? What
was your thinking? Uh? Desperate times

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require desperate measures, and the Mariners
couldn't go into the season with the lineup

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that we were looking at a week
ago, so they made they made some

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moves, they made some ads.
The question that I looked at right away

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is last year, the Mariners didn't
make the playoffs? Did they? They

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did not, and they probably should
have. Well, they didn't make the

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playoffs and two of their three starting
outfielders were ti Oscar Hernandez and Jared Kelnick.

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Now they have replaced ti Oscar and
kell Nick with Hanager and Raley.

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Does that make them better today as
compared to a year ago or worse?

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Who would you rather have entering the
season Oscar above all three of those guys?

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Right? So that's fair? Right? So so they got. So

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I I think I'd rather have Ti
Oscar and the hope that Jaric callin it

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will turn into something that's what I'd
rather go to war with than Luke Raley

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and and uh oh, Mitch Hannagher. Well, and if you take that

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approach as I do, as well
as you do, that's still not good

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enough for a playoff spot, is
it? No, because they didn't make

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the playoffs last season? Not the
same was all It was all their fault

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that the pitching was fine. Well
yeah, no I'm not. I'm not

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saying it. So yeah, I
just think they were in a better position

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last year and it didn't do it. So we do. I think it's

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changed the world for Mariners fans.
Well yes, compared to a week ago,

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but in the big scheme of things, I don't think it makes them

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a playoff team. So there we
go. It's hey, it's it's better

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than what it was, but I
don't think it's good enough. I wrote

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a thousand words on this on our
Patreon site, so I tried to do

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that on all trades, so was
diving into the data. So I'm gonna

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let you opine Timmy. First of
all, Mitch Hanniger had his heyday back

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with the Marror. Still a good
player, has really struggled to stay healthy,

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right, and again that that's the
problem with Mitch Hanniger. It's health,

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right, Yep. His ADP is
three seventy seven. What are you

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thinking about about that? Is that
reasonable? Is that a guy that you

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would target or just no, it's
it's too much injury. I'm not going

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to take him as my fourth fifth
outfielder. I guess it's better than that

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fifth or six outfielder. Yeah.
Hey, I'll throw a data as a

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fifth six outfielder and hope for the
best, but also realizing the best might

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not be that good. We're looking
at three in the past four seasons he's

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failed to stay healthy and you know, twenty nineteen good in what two hundred

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and forty six at bats? Okay, in twenty twenty two to twenty four,

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twenty twenty three, two eleven three
out of four. Hey, you're

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gambling as a as a fifth,
sixth outfielder, a bench reserve slot.

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Yeah, but to bet on a
full year stats of the midchanager, it's

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a long shot based on what's happened
over the past three four years, right,

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it looks like Mitchanderger's actually ADP is
six' ten. I'm not sure.

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I got three seventy seven, so
okay, So yeah, if you're

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looking at a bench slot, sure
he's penciled into a full time position that

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gives him the opportunity. We've seen
him hit as many as thirty nine home

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runs, okay, back in twenty
twenty one. We've also seen him,

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you know, twenty six home runs
ninety three RBIs in twenty eighteen. Yeah,

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healthy Mitch Haanderger can go thirty,
thirty, eighty, thirty, ninety.

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00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:59.799
It's all about It's all about the
hell. Luke Railey tim in four

406
00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:03.319
hundred and six plate appearances, went
nineteen home runs, fourteen stolen bases.

407
00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:07.680
He did strike out thirty one point
five percent of the time, and I

408
00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:11.960
speculated in my article that's probably why
he's no longer a Tampa Bay Ray.

409
00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:17.240
They don't like that, but there
is speed and power. What you're thinking

410
00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:25.119
on Luke rally Ah as a fourth
fifth type outfielder, Yeah, I'll toss

411
00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:30.200
a dark depending on what I have
to pay for him. He did have

412
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:36.680
a two forty nine batting average three
point thirty babbots so his ex his ex

413
00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:41.000
batting average of two twenty five feels
about right. So he could be a

414
00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:45.079
twenty twenty guy with a low batting
average. Is that how you read it?

415
00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:48.480
Yeah, that's pretty much pretty much
how I read it. I don't

416
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:52.000
think there's any reason to believe that
if he gets in four hundred and fifty

417
00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:56.920
to five hundred bats, he could
hit twenty five home runs and steal twenty

418
00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:00.680
bases with a low batting average.
One of the other principal players here is

419
00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:05.720
Anthony D. Scalfini. Tim,
I trashed him in my right up your

420
00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:09.400
thoughts. It's all about health and
we haven't seen enough of it, have

421
00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:13.759
we. Yeah, the data does
not look good with this guy. I

422
00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:17.559
mean, his pitches are not very
good anymore. Well, no, yeah,

423
00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:22.480
you got to remember he's now thirty
three years old, okay, turning

424
00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:35.200
turning thirty four in April. And
guys, we just lost him, but

425
00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:37.839
I believe we have him backed.
Tim, Do you need a nickel to

426
00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:45.480
pay for your your electricity here?
No, but I might need a dime

427
00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:50.240
to pay for the burial of the
squirrel. Okay that was up front in

428
00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:54.720
a tree, chewing on buds and
dragged the line into the tree. So

429
00:32:54.759 --> 00:32:59.960
I don't know what's going on here, but I'm serious. Wait a minute,

430
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:04.079
you serious? I am serious.
I went outside. There's this stupid

431
00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:10.519
squirrel sitting in a tree, munching
on some frozen berries, and it's dragged

432
00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:19.640
somehow. It's it's dragged the line
in and shorting it out. So if

433
00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:22.880
the house burns because of a squirrel, I'll be sure to let you know.

434
00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:28.480
Rich. I'm sorry, TIMMYO.
That's a zero point zero right there.

435
00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:34.319
That is so ridiculous. Yeah.
Yeah, I opened the back door,

436
00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:37.279
powers on in half the house,
not in the front of the house,

437
00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:39.519
and there's this squirrel the sitting up
in the tree, just having a

438
00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:44.559
heyday, chewing things on a line
and dragged it into the trees. I

439
00:33:44.599 --> 00:33:51.960
think, oh, man, dude, this is not good. No,

440
00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:57.559
it's not. This is a first
soul. Okay, when when if we

441
00:33:57.680 --> 00:34:00.839
had a squirrel interrupt the podcast?
Well, I mean, we're doing this

442
00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:05.119
for fifteen years. It was bound
to happen. I guess. I don't

443
00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:07.679
know. It was on my top
thousand list, but we near the bottle.

444
00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:13.199
Wow, well we're glad you're back. Gosh, Tommy, I'm a

445
00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:15.400
little worried. I mean, I
don't want your I don't want the tree

446
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:20.760
catching on fire. And God knows
what happened. And so but anyway,

447
00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:23.599
you were saying the Scalfeini turns thirty
four in April, and then you went

448
00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:30.000
dead. Yes, And the last
time he pitched a full season was twenty

449
00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:34.880
twenty one. Before that, twenty
nineteen, it's just been one injury after

450
00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:38.159
another. Do I think he can
help if he's healthy. Yeah, But

451
00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:46.800
when I look at his his page
over or injury elbow estimated return February first.

452
00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:52.599
Okay, so again it's high injury
risk in a draft, and hold,

453
00:34:52.599 --> 00:34:58.280
would I take him, Yeah,
somewhere in round thirty five to forty

454
00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:01.480
five, somewhere in there, Okay, Yeah. And then we got and

455
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:05.880
then we've got Robbie Ray, probably
the most famous of all of these guys,

456
00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:09.440
clearly a Cy Young Award underneath,
you know, in his in his

457
00:35:09.559 --> 00:35:15.880
trophy cabinet twenty twenty one. But
he did have Tommy John surgery fairly early

458
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:19.920
last seasons. I think he'll be
back the second half of the year.

459
00:35:20.360 --> 00:35:22.119
I kind of liked it for the
Giants. I thought it was a gamble

460
00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:25.719
to get in a you know,
a very good picture. But obviously with

461
00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:32.079
Risks, he's always struggled to find
control, and that's obviously a problem with

462
00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:37.360
Tommy john surgery. Guys, coming
back from TJS, what you're thinking about

463
00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:40.119
Robbi Ray? Did you like that
deal for the Giants? It seems so

464
00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:45.800
typical giant ish, if you know, it just sort of seems to fit

465
00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:51.760
what I could see the Giants doing. I think right now, with the

466
00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:54.719
state of pitching and the number of
pitchers that are going to miss this season,

467
00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:59.199
just the overall shortage, I think
there's a couple of ways you can

468
00:35:59.239 --> 00:36:02.360
acquire pitching. You can bit against
the Dodgers, or you can roll the

469
00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:07.440
dice and take some chances and or
trade. And I don't have any I

470
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:12.119
don't have any problems with what the
Giants did, none whatsoever. I don't

471
00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:15.840
have any problems what the Mets did
with Severino either, or what the Reds

472
00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:22.239
did. You know, Hey,
it's not like you're making a huge long

473
00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:25.440
commitment and how you go about finding
starting pitching. It's tough. They've got

474
00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:29.920
now, They've got they've got Logan
Webb, they've got Kyle Harrison, and

475
00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:32.920
they've got Robbie Ray. I'll go
to battle with those three guys in twenty

476
00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:37.119
twenty five. Yeah, I don't
think it's a bad move at all.

477
00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:43.800
Now let's get to the most interesting
of all the moves, I think,

478
00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:51.480
and that is the Rays getting for
Luke Raley getting back Jose Cabarello. I

479
00:36:51.559 --> 00:36:55.000
think that's how you pronounced pronounce his
name. And after what we've heard over

480
00:36:55.039 --> 00:37:00.639
the last four or five days,
Tim, I think we should comment it

481
00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:06.239
does not sound good of what's happening
in the Dominican with wander Franco in this

482
00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:10.079
awful mother, Tim, I mean, wander Franco, what a dirtball,

483
00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:14.639
But the mother what she's being accused
of. If you can't trust your mother

484
00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:20.599
to protect the child, I mean, that's really problematic. But I can't

485
00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:22.559
imagine. And you're right up for
short stop, we're going to get it,

486
00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:25.880
and you say it's minuscule, that's
being generous, that wonder Franco's gonna

487
00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:30.760
come back in twenty twenty four.
It's not happening. So they the Raiser

488
00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:37.840
basically trying to find a shortstop.
Well that they are, and when you

489
00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:47.119
look at the options, you know
Taylor Walls is one, but again he's

490
00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:52.440
coming off October surgery to repair a
laboral tear in his right hip, something

491
00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:58.960
that I wasn't I don't believe aware
of. When I did second base,

492
00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:01.280
I might have ranked him to highly
as a result of that. But you're

493
00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:06.880
looking at Taylor Wells and you're looking
at Cavallero. As I see it,

494
00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:20.039
the two options at at shortstop for
next year are either of them. I

495
00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:22.880
told me my exercise roam was.
It must have made me wave in my

496
00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:28.559
hands to me, Oh, I've
been waving mind by that, a damn

497
00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:34.960
squirrel. Those are your two options, right? You know? When I

498
00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:37.440
when I look at Walls, he's
a twenty seven year old, right,

499
00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:42.599
brings you some speed, limited batting
average, and a little bit of pop.

500
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:46.599
When you look at Cavallero, it
sort of seems like the same player,

501
00:38:46.679 --> 00:38:52.280
doesn't it. There's no power,
Yeah exactly, Yeah, it's and

502
00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:57.960
there's some splits. There's some not
kind splits with Cavallero. I mean,

503
00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:00.639
so he might see the I mean, first of all, it would not

504
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:05.559
surprise me. And I'm sure you
assume you would agree that there could be

505
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:08.719
a time share here. That's just
the raised way. And I worry for

506
00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:15.880
Cavallero. It could be against left
handed pitching. He definitely has a better

507
00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:20.920
statistics against left handed pitchers than he
does right hand at pitchers. Well,

508
00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:23.760
I'm just a quick scan of my
rankings. I got Cavallero at thirty seven

509
00:39:24.360 --> 00:39:30.440
and Taylor Walls at forty so okay, by side, Yeah, they're in

510
00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:36.880
the same area. And the reason
I've got Cavallero higher is because there's no

511
00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:39.960
reason right now to assume he's not
healthy entering spring training. That ships ye

512
00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:45.679
Walls. Walls is definitely coming back
from a hip surgery, so there's definitely

513
00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:51.159
that I would agree. But I
think that I know the roster resources Cavallera

514
00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:54.840
is the shortstop. I'm not sure
I'm buying that. I think Walls might

515
00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:59.119
be the better, at least the
strong side of the platoon. But it

516
00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:04.679
is interesting, uh that move,
and it's just very race. Yeah.

517
00:40:04.679 --> 00:40:07.480
That's the raised way you're doing things, isn't it. Yeah, it's funny

518
00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:10.000
if if you read my note Tomy, I know you typically don't read my

519
00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:15.039
writings, but after jose Kubbeler,
I just write, here's what I wrote.

520
00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:17.079
This one's easy. The race seemed
to hit on every under the radar

521
00:40:17.159 --> 00:40:20.840
hitter they acquire in a trade.
So don't ever think it, go get

522
00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:27.199
the player. Yeah, right,
the first the first. The other thought

523
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:31.000
that came to my mind, and
it came fairly quickly, is depending on

524
00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:36.159
what happens with Franco the contract yet. Yeah. Yeah, all of a

525
00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:40.360
sudden, you know, we're looking
at we're looking at a race team that

526
00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:47.679
might be looking at promoting junior cam
and Arrow a little quicker as a result.

527
00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:50.800
Well, what do you mean?
I think Junior Camenaro is starting the

528
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:53.639
season. He's not a shortstop.
He's a third basement. Aren't you talking

529
00:40:53.679 --> 00:40:59.880
about the shortstop that's sound there?
Well no, I'm I'm talking about right

530
00:40:59.880 --> 00:41:05.840
now at third base. They've got
h east Act, Barretus pencil in,

531
00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:10.079
and they've got Richie Palatios at DH. They don't have cam and Aro listed.

532
00:41:10.519 --> 00:41:15.119
Well, Cam and Aro, I
don't care what roster resource is saying.

533
00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:21.039
I cannot imagine Cameron Aro either starting
the Sea, not starting the season

534
00:41:21.039 --> 00:41:23.599
with the Rays, or not being
up by early April. I mean,

535
00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:28.039
this is the if they want to
compete, they need a ban and cam

536
00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:31.480
and Arow's got a great I mean, this is an impact player. Yeah,

537
00:41:31.559 --> 00:41:35.320
you know you got you got Cameron
Aro, you got Curtis Mead.

538
00:41:36.159 --> 00:41:40.159
Uh. There there are options that
the race, the race can look at.

539
00:41:40.199 --> 00:41:45.400
They could they could look at Austin
Shenton if they wanted. But what

540
00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:50.400
has happened as a result of this
move is it's great in an open spot.

541
00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:54.079
And in an open spot, hey, Cam and Arrow's got to generate

542
00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:59.199
a little bit more helium now than
he did a week ago. I would

543
00:41:59.199 --> 00:42:02.079
think I was considering taking him in
the draft and hole, but I'd already,

544
00:42:02.119 --> 00:42:07.119
you know, did my my rookie
with Jackson Churio. But if I

545
00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:09.480
had not taken Jackson Cherio, Caminaro
would have been a guy that I would

546
00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:14.280
have strongly considered. Given what's going
on there. It's a very very good

547
00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:19.239
player, very good, very young, and it's Tampa Bay, so we

548
00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:22.960
don't know how they'll react to it, but the odds have definitely improved for

549
00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:28.840
an early arrival. I think Carson
Williams is a wonderful defender at short.

550
00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:32.199
I mean, he's still quite not
quite his bats, not ready. It

551
00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:37.559
would be very unraised for them to
bring a guy up before he's ready.

552
00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:40.760
But I mean there's an alternative you
could see him in the second half of

553
00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:45.960
if Walls or you know, the
new acquisition doesn't doesn't work out at short

554
00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:55.639
Yeah, agreed. I think that's
it on that particular trade. Anything else

555
00:42:55.679 --> 00:43:01.199
that comes to mind, maybe opportunities
may And for the Giants, who plays

556
00:43:01.239 --> 00:43:09.719
in the Channiger spot? Ah when
I when I look at the Giants,

557
00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:17.480
well, hey Canforido's got a job? Uh? Young holy has a job

558
00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:24.840
in the center field. And Mike
Yastremski looks like he's got a job now,

559
00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:30.239
well usually it isn't. What's his
face still there? The guy was

560
00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:32.920
the Cubs for a long time,
platoon guy, Oh, Wilmer Flores.

561
00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:39.559
Now the other guy Peterson, Jack
Peterson, isn't he isn't he with the

562
00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:44.199
Giants? Uh? He's a free
agent, I believe. Oh yes,

563
00:43:44.400 --> 00:43:49.239
okay, Oh let me just dark
Peterson. Yeah he's a free agent.

564
00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:54.239
Yeah. So you got Wilmer Flores
at d H right now, and you

565
00:43:54.360 --> 00:44:02.679
got Confordo y Stremski and Young Holyes
know the positions are covering. Before we

566
00:44:02.679 --> 00:44:07.639
get off that, I do want
to let you comment, if you if

567
00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:10.559
you choose to, what's happening in
the Dominican with wander Franco and that whole

568
00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:16.519
situation deplorable, your thoughts deplorable,
that's all, you know. Yeah,

569
00:44:16.599 --> 00:44:22.559
it's it's an awful situation, and
it's a situation that, Yeah, I

570
00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:30.280
put my closing line for my shortstop
narrative is wander Franco is not including the

571
00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:34.239
rankings this year as the odds of
seeing him play in twenty twenty four our

572
00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:39.480
minuscule at best. And I'm just
gonna leave it at that. It's it's

573
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:46.039
morally just disgusting. That's likely.
It's going to be tough for him to

574
00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:51.679
recover from this. Even if you
know that something happens and he doesn't get

575
00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:53.760
charged down there, This one's tough, tim Well, yeah, you know

576
00:44:53.840 --> 00:45:00.639
what, even if he's found innocent, indeed, he's going to be facing

577
00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:05.440
a lengthy suspension by Major League Baseball. Yeah, okay, And will he

578
00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:10.199
ever get a visa? You know, will us ever give a visa?

579
00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:15.119
That's yeah, fair question. I
didn't even thought about that. It's it's

580
00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:19.000
yeah, it look, if you
haven't a dynasty league, I guess you

581
00:45:19.119 --> 00:45:24.159
advise you don't drop him quite yet. But man, it's this is worse,

582
00:45:24.440 --> 00:45:29.880
way worse than Trevor Bauer situation.
This, this is dealing with children,

583
00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:34.679
and it's just it's a bad,
bad situation. Here. We're talking

584
00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:37.840
Felipe av Askuez level as far as
I'm going, Yeah, and that fricking

585
00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:44.719
mother man. Good lord, people, ten people, people, people.

586
00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:46.760
Let's move on to with the Mets. And Mets at a very Unmets think

587
00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:50.840
Timmy. They always signed the big
free agent, the big guy. They

588
00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:54.320
spend a lot of money. Now
not so much. They signed Harrison Bader

589
00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:58.920
for just a one year deal.
I think it was ten million dollars,

590
00:45:58.920 --> 00:46:01.719
eight million dollars or something like that. It's obviously great speed there, there's

591
00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:07.840
good defense. It's moved Nemo off
of center field, which I think he

592
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:10.639
loses a little value there from an
overall baseball standpoint, I don't know.

593
00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:15.519
Are you interested in Harrison batter Timmy? He's going in that same area that

594
00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:20.639
like the late five hundreds is ADP. Yeah, I think you got to

595
00:46:20.679 --> 00:46:23.800
have some interest, but it can
in context is important. We're talking about

596
00:46:23.800 --> 00:46:29.639
a player, okay, who has
never broken the four hundred at batmark.

597
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:37.880
There's been there's been health issues even
with those numbers, Like looking at last

598
00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:39.480
year, three hundred and nineteen at
bats, he stole twenty bases, hit

599
00:46:39.519 --> 00:46:45.360
seven home runs. Okay, Harrison
Vader will steal your bases. He'll hit

600
00:46:45.400 --> 00:46:49.559
you some home runs, he said
as many as sixteen back in twenty twenty

601
00:46:49.599 --> 00:46:52.159
one. Yeah, he will give
you some pop, He'll give you some

602
00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:59.519
speed. He'll also give you odds
of four hundred plus at bats being very

603
00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:02.679
very low. I get what the
Mets did, and it makes sense.

604
00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:07.920
It's a one year deal. Would
I look at him as any more than

605
00:47:07.960 --> 00:47:14.000
a fifth outfielder, No, but
as a reserve, as a reserve pick

606
00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:16.880
and a re draft league. Yeah. Hey, there's a little pop,

607
00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:23.400
little speed, batting average up until
last year, I are looking at two

608
00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:30.000
thirty two forty probably and he will
play good d So yeah, it's it

609
00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:32.960
is what it is. What it
is. No your parameter, So all

610
00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:37.800
right, two thoughts there. The
Mets have got some very interesting options,

611
00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:46.960
obviously in triple A with with Drew
Gilbert and particularly Lewis Angola Kunya can probably

612
00:47:47.039 --> 00:47:51.920
all over the place, and Ronnie
Maurisi hopefully we be back in the second

613
00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:54.519
half. Don't know. That's probably
another reason they made that move with Harrison

614
00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:59.719
Bader. But there's some options there. And my second thing is Harrison Bader.

615
00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:01.679
There's a little he shout a little
bit of pop a few years ago,

616
00:48:01.800 --> 00:48:05.679
but he doesn't hit the ball very
hard at all. It's all launched,

617
00:48:05.719 --> 00:48:09.400
so just be careful know your parameters
there. It's probably more of a

618
00:48:09.480 --> 00:48:13.719
five to eight home run guy as
opposed to anything more than that. But

619
00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:16.480
yeah, he definitely is fast,
so there's definitely still one base opportunity,

620
00:48:16.519 --> 00:48:20.960
Timmy, let's take a break,
we get back, let's do your shortstop

621
00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:37.800
shortstop rankings. Sounds good looking forward
to how's a squirrel? Tim he's nuts?

622
00:48:39.199 --> 00:48:45.599
Oh geez, well, plate reminds
me of my fall poem. Rich,

623
00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:50.480
I can tell you my faull poem. Now, okay, here we

624
00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:54.079
go. It's a short one.
A little squirrel with your pants so low?

625
00:48:54.920 --> 00:48:59.679
Why you walk so slow? Pick
up your pants and he's in your

626
00:48:59.719 --> 00:49:06.960
stre don't you know you've got nuts
to high? All right? Well played?

627
00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:13.079
Wow, you even have that memorized. I mean, that's that's that's

628
00:49:13.360 --> 00:49:19.960
it says a lot that is classic
by run and I'm running for the hills

629
00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:22.480
after that one. That is very, very funny, So it's almost a

630
00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:28.159
limerick. Tim yes, it's getting
close to that, all right, you

631
00:49:28.159 --> 00:49:37.280
know, Oh that's uh the land
from the tucket sometimes know, don't know,

632
00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:40.239
don't know these days sometimes, all
right, timmy, let's move to

633
00:49:40.639 --> 00:49:45.079
uh, let's move over to shortstop. Wonderful job on the rankings here they

634
00:49:45.079 --> 00:49:47.880
should be. They're all out on
prospect three sixty one. Now people go

635
00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:52.119
take a look at them. Official
think it's posted in the morning. But

636
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:54.360
there you can go to a little
tap called tim Space and you can see

637
00:49:54.360 --> 00:50:00.480
all the fantasy rankings. Let's see, Tim, you've you've a already giving

638
00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:05.159
us an impression of how you're handling
shortstop and your narrative. But why don't

639
00:50:05.159 --> 00:50:09.079
you just talk a little bit about
how you are dealing with shortstop this year

640
00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:17.119
and drafts. Ah. When you
look at shortstop, okay, you see

641
00:50:17.800 --> 00:50:22.719
a host of wonderful names and they
are and a lot of talent. Okay,

642
00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:29.199
but that talent it goes pretty quick. Based on my first draft,

643
00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:37.440
you're looking at what at least eleven
of these shortstops will be gone by the

644
00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:43.719
fifth round. Okay. You're also
looking another free three to four going fairly

645
00:50:43.800 --> 00:50:47.039
quickly. And you're also dealing with
a situation where you've got a lot of

646
00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:55.119
players with multi position eligibility. La
de la Cruz, Matt McClain as On,

647
00:50:55.320 --> 00:51:06.880
Kim Nico Horner. Moving further down, once you get through your top

648
00:51:07.400 --> 00:51:10.719
twelve, thirteen, fourteen short stops, you get all that sort of it

649
00:51:10.760 --> 00:51:15.559
gets thin and it gets fairly risky, fairly quickly. There's a lot of

650
00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:19.880
shortstops that they're going to have full
time jobs that are sitting in the twenty

651
00:51:19.880 --> 00:51:23.400
to thirty range. But do I
want to play that game? No?

652
00:51:23.519 --> 00:51:28.719
I don't. I want to get
one of the one of the top fifteen

653
00:51:28.719 --> 00:51:32.880
short stops at least. Okay,
I feel fairly comfortable down to about number

654
00:51:32.920 --> 00:51:37.719
fourteen, which is Dansby Swanson.
After that, I don't feel so comfortable.

655
00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:42.280
So for me, I'm going to
I'm going to target one of those

656
00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:46.079
shortstops and a lot of it will
also will also depend on your lot in

657
00:51:46.159 --> 00:51:53.039
life. Okay, you end up
sitting with the number two pick. Okay,

658
00:51:53.199 --> 00:51:55.559
do you do you pass on Bobby
wit Junior? I say no,

659
00:51:55.639 --> 00:51:59.599
you take him, he's there.
You're sitting with the eighth, ninth pick.

660
00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:04.079
You pass on Trey Turner. Well, a lot of these picks are

661
00:52:04.119 --> 00:52:09.920
going to fall into not a not
I'm necessarily not pre regular. There's there's

662
00:52:09.960 --> 00:52:14.119
spots where these guys are gonna go. You know, Linder's gonna Lindor is

663
00:52:14.119 --> 00:52:17.159
gonna go middle end of the second
round, Gunner, Henderson's gonna go,

664
00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:22.760
second, third round. Seeger this, you know, hey, take him

665
00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:28.679
as a fall. But for me
getting if I don't get one of the

666
00:52:29.119 --> 00:52:31.920
elite type shorts stops, I'm gonna
be fairly disappointed. I don't want to

667
00:52:31.960 --> 00:52:38.719
go into I don't want to go
into battle with Trevor's story and who whomever

668
00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:45.840
else? Yeah, or Jeremy Payinya, Okay, that's yeah, that's not

669
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:50.400
what I want. That's not my
plans for this year. Just to like

670
00:52:50.519 --> 00:52:53.639
is Tobar Yeah yeah, so so
just not looking at Thames ranking, but

671
00:52:53.760 --> 00:53:00.000
just looking at the adyps. If
you also include O'Neil Cruz, you're talking

672
00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:07.199
eleven if I'm reading this correctly,
eleven shortstops in the first six rounds.

673
00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:13.519
That's pretty impressive. Yeah, it's
it's high end and then a ton of

674
00:53:13.559 --> 00:53:21.519
speed. Yeah, and then it
drops and then it drops quickly and you

675
00:53:21.559 --> 00:53:27.599
know, hey, Bobby, what
trade Cherner, Franciscoland or Gunner Henderson,

676
00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:32.000
Segur, Dela Cruz, c J
Abrams. Well, you're doing my job.

677
00:53:32.079 --> 00:53:36.039
You're doing it. You're you're going
through the rankings. I'll go through

678
00:53:36.079 --> 00:53:44.639
the rankings. You comment, Okay, but they're all they're all bringing very

679
00:53:44.639 --> 00:53:49.199
good. They're bringing they're bringing very
good things to your team. Very good.

680
00:53:49.280 --> 00:53:52.239
Let's go through the top five with
and with Junior and Trade Turner or

681
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:57.760
Chalk with the n PC and yeah, you've already commented on that. And

682
00:53:57.800 --> 00:54:02.480
then it's interesting, Uh, Francisco
Lindor is going your third guy off the

683
00:54:02.480 --> 00:54:07.880
board. He's number five in the
NFC, which I find to be curious.

684
00:54:07.159 --> 00:54:09.599
I mean, he went thirty thirty
last year to I'm sure what this

685
00:54:09.800 --> 00:54:15.000
guy has to do. You've got
Yeah, you also got Gunner Henderson up

686
00:54:15.039 --> 00:54:20.199
to he's going six in the NBC. You've got him at four, and

687
00:54:20.239 --> 00:54:22.360
then Corey Seeger you got down to
and then Elie de la Cruz. I'm

688
00:54:22.360 --> 00:54:25.320
gonna hold off on Elie de la
Cruz because that could take a while.

689
00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:31.599
Your thoughts on Lindor, Gunner Henderson, and Cory Seger. Hey, I

690
00:54:31.639 --> 00:54:37.239
love Corey Seeger, but there's one
thing that he doesn't bring to the table.

691
00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:43.840
And that's speed. Yeah, and
I'm not gonna pass the pass up

692
00:54:43.880 --> 00:54:49.719
the speed from Lindor for the relatively
safe Flora to Corey Seeger. That's uh,

693
00:54:49.880 --> 00:54:52.800
that's fair. Yeah, that's that's
That's where I'm at. If you

694
00:54:52.840 --> 00:54:57.920
decide you wish to take Corey's Corey
Seeger as the third short stop off the

695
00:54:57.960 --> 00:55:00.679
board, I'm not gonna argue with
you for hours because there's forty five.

696
00:55:00.920 --> 00:55:04.519
So there's forty home run pop with
this guy, right, and he can

697
00:55:04.599 --> 00:55:07.199
hit him. He's this is an
MVP Canada and Cory Seger, he is

698
00:55:07.280 --> 00:55:12.400
that good. But I totally get
your point. And I look at Gunner

699
00:55:12.440 --> 00:55:16.559
Henderson. Okay, last year is
a twenty two year old? Yeah,

700
00:55:16.920 --> 00:55:21.559
we repeat that. How old was
he last year? Twenty two? I

701
00:55:21.599 --> 00:55:27.360
believe it was two every Yes,
Yeah, I'm looking at Henderson and I'm

702
00:55:27.559 --> 00:55:31.639
I'm seeing thirty home runs, ninety
RBIs, one hundred and ten runs scored,

703
00:55:31.719 --> 00:55:36.880
and fifteen stolen bases in the future, and I'm thinking that future could

704
00:55:36.880 --> 00:55:42.079
be as soon as next year.
When I look at Seeger, yeah,

705
00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:45.199
the floor's a little bit safer,
but the upside out of Henderson leads me

706
00:55:45.360 --> 00:55:52.480
to want to move him ahead of
Seeger. Now is will it work out

707
00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:54.360
that way? Well, the only
time will tell, But I'll go with

708
00:55:54.400 --> 00:56:00.400
the outside upside from Henderson versus the
stability and lack of speed from Seegert.

709
00:56:01.719 --> 00:56:07.480
I almost went Gunner Henderson back to
back with with Bobby wit Junior. I

710
00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:10.960
was that bullish on it. But
I just in the end I thought about

711
00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:14.920
it. I just said, you
know, I got to get an outfielder,

712
00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:19.360
and I didn't, but I mean
I would have. I'm big on

713
00:56:19.440 --> 00:56:22.719
Gunner Henderson. Totally agree with you. Well, and he's third base eligible

714
00:56:22.760 --> 00:56:28.480
as well. Yeah, there's there's
a lot. There's a lot to like

715
00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:34.199
from the top five at shortstop.
Let's now get the number six, and

716
00:56:34.400 --> 00:56:36.880
yes, we might talk. We
could talk about this for an hour,

717
00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:40.599
so come to no conclusion. I
think we would both agree. The upside

718
00:56:40.639 --> 00:56:45.239
of led la Cruz is off the
chart. I mean he could be a

719
00:56:45.320 --> 00:56:49.719
top three guy this time next year. He could be the number one pick

720
00:56:49.760 --> 00:56:52.079
in baseball. Yeah, I mean
he's got that sort oft he could be.

721
00:56:52.079 --> 00:56:55.280
He could hit thirty home runs and
steal sixty five seventy thirty home runs,

722
00:56:55.400 --> 00:56:59.960
steal sixty five to seventy bases.
Yeah, it's one of the few

723
00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:05.400
you guys that has Ronald Acunya fantasy
upside. Would you not agree? I

724
00:57:05.440 --> 00:57:12.000
agree totally. But can he hit
enough? I mean it could, it

725
00:57:12.079 --> 00:57:15.360
could. It could be tough to
me. He did not hit in the

726
00:57:15.400 --> 00:57:21.760
second half at all. Did you
like my narrative where I said his uh

727
00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:25.639
uh? The only question would be
the hit tool and his bias ish approach

728
00:57:25.800 --> 00:57:30.760
to swinging. I mean it is. It is close your eyes and swing

729
00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:34.480
as hard as you can. Totally
agree with you. Yeah, there's risk,

730
00:57:35.119 --> 00:57:39.679
okay, but it doesn't come without
some amazing potential rewards. I can't

731
00:57:39.800 --> 00:57:47.119
move I can't move Dela Cruz any
higher because of because of that risk.

732
00:57:47.800 --> 00:57:50.760
That means you're not gonna get them. You're not gonna get them too.

733
00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:53.480
I'm not gonna get him knowing I'm
okay with that. I'm okay with that

734
00:57:53.519 --> 00:57:57.559
too, And I get it if
people are screaming at their devices, going

735
00:57:57.960 --> 00:58:01.039
you guys are two old men.
You play too conservative. I'll comp to

736
00:58:01.079 --> 00:58:07.360
that, but it just I don't
like the setup. I'm not a conservative

737
00:58:07.400 --> 00:58:12.480
player, I never have been.
But will I take Dela Cruz at twenty

738
00:58:12.559 --> 00:58:16.639
one over Gunner Henderson nine picks later. Not on your life. I won't

739
00:58:16.639 --> 00:58:21.599
do it. I can get the
stolen. The one thing I feel fairly

740
00:58:21.599 --> 00:58:23.800
comfortable with Dela Cruz is I think
he's going to steal forty plus bases.

741
00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:30.159
I would agree, Okay, I
can get that from Ego Horner. Okay

742
00:58:30.159 --> 00:58:32.960
would I? Why would I want
to move Dela Cruze up to attain that

743
00:58:34.039 --> 00:58:37.079
same those same numbers? Yeah,
except that Eli de la Cruz has got

744
00:58:37.079 --> 00:58:40.679
the potential for massive power though he
didn't hit the ball all that hard last

745
00:58:40.719 --> 00:58:43.880
season to me, but you know, the bat speed is there. He's

746
00:58:44.039 --> 00:58:50.400
just a really young player that he's
just not fully developed yet. In three

747
00:58:50.480 --> 00:58:53.000
years he could be fully developing.
Ronald Acunya, I just don't know if

748
00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:57.800
it's going to be in twenty twenty
four. I agree, and that's why

749
00:58:57.800 --> 00:59:01.400
I have him ranked Lord. The
NFBC guys are a little bit more bullish

750
00:59:01.440 --> 00:59:08.039
on Dela Cruz being a star stud
right out of the gate, and I'm

751
00:59:08.079 --> 00:59:13.679
not as comfortable with that. I
think the range in the batting average could

752
00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:19.119
be anywhere from one to ninety to
two forty two fifty. That's a big

753
00:59:19.239 --> 00:59:22.800
range. There's many potential outcomes when
it comes to that hit tool, and

754
00:59:24.719 --> 00:59:32.280
hey, I'll I'll be very happy
with Francisco Lindoor three picks or Gunner Henderson

755
00:59:32.360 --> 00:59:37.320
nine picks after Dela Cruz. I
yeah, you and I are and in

756
00:59:37.440 --> 00:59:43.880
locked agreement. Everybody listening to this, you might disagree, and I think

757
00:59:43.920 --> 00:59:49.360
I will speak for Tim. I
hope we're both wrong because baseball needs Elie

758
00:59:49.400 --> 00:59:52.880
de la Cruz to be a superstar. He's got that kind of stop what

759
00:59:52.920 --> 00:59:57.360
you're doing and watch what he is
doing. Yes, he's a he's a

760
00:59:57.400 --> 01:00:00.559
type of player that you want to
catch every bat. I totally I was

761
01:00:00.039 --> 01:00:04.280
doing that last and I didn't have
them any fantasy team. I didn't care.

762
01:00:04.400 --> 01:00:08.159
I wanted to watch his games because
of what he is capable of doing.

763
01:00:08.239 --> 01:00:13.079
It is a it is Ronald Acuna
type of skills. Yeah, he

764
01:00:13.119 --> 01:00:15.440
can turn many a double into a
triple. Yeah. Yeah, it's great.

765
01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:20.000
Yeah, it's awesome. Now let's
let's move on. So, so

766
01:00:20.119 --> 01:00:22.480
Elie did the quiz at six.
I think we wore that one out.

767
01:00:22.519 --> 01:00:25.039
We go seven, eight, nine, and ten, you go CJ Abrams,

768
01:00:25.159 --> 01:00:30.840
Matt McClain, Hassan Kim and then
Nico Horner. The only thing is

769
01:00:30.880 --> 01:00:32.360
different. You're a little bit is
that. Yeah, you're a little bit

770
01:00:32.360 --> 01:00:36.840
more bullish on hass On Kim,
not too much so. But other than

771
01:00:36.840 --> 01:00:40.079
that, it's pretty chalked to what
the NFBC is doing. Yeah, and

772
01:00:40.320 --> 01:00:45.280
you know, when you start looking
at six through ten, there's about eight

773
01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:49.559
hundred stolen bases. There isn't there
a giver or take. It's crazy.

774
01:00:50.119 --> 01:00:52.719
I you know, until I started
looking a little deeper at CJ. Abrams

775
01:00:53.440 --> 01:00:58.840
Man, did he have himself a
breakout season in the second half last year

776
01:00:59.679 --> 01:01:04.719
He's old thirty three of his forty
seven bases in the second half. Yeah,

777
01:01:04.840 --> 01:01:08.079
Like people forget he's an eighty runner
Tommy, and people forget them because

778
01:01:08.400 --> 01:01:13.920
he struggled so much just finding himself
in major league baseball. But you looked

779
01:01:13.920 --> 01:01:16.119
at him, he looked like a
twelve year old out there playing. He's

780
01:01:16.280 --> 01:01:21.360
needed to develop into his big boy
body and he's starting to do that.

781
01:01:22.079 --> 01:01:24.519
Well. Yeah, and you know
in twenty twenty two, okay, in

782
01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:28.480
roughly half a season, two hundred
and eighty four at bats, he hit

783
01:01:28.519 --> 01:01:32.559
two home runs and strolled seven bases. Okay, last year in five sixty

784
01:01:32.599 --> 01:01:37.800
three, hit eighteen home runs and
stole forty seven bases. Yeah. Yeah,

785
01:01:37.920 --> 01:01:42.559
there's not many players in the game
of any that elevated their stock more

786
01:01:42.599 --> 01:01:46.039
in one year than C. James. Yeah, let's let me just take

787
01:01:46.079 --> 01:01:51.480
a look at what else is going
on with his data just says we're doing

788
01:01:51.519 --> 01:01:55.519
this. Oops. Oops, what
happened? Oops? Blaming on the squirrel

789
01:01:55.679 --> 01:02:00.719
worked for me? Blaming on the
squirrel. Sure, my little search bar

790
01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:05.000
went away for the baseball spunt.
I'll come back to that, Timmy said,

791
01:02:05.000 --> 01:02:07.559
I don't ye, heird, it
did come back. Let me just

792
01:02:07.599 --> 01:02:14.239
type in abrams here ab are a
MS there is cj abrams. See what

793
01:02:14.320 --> 01:02:20.079
it looks like waiting for cash boy. This spreaker thing takes up a lot

794
01:02:20.119 --> 01:02:22.599
of resources like computer. All right, I'm bored, Timmy. I'm up

795
01:02:22.599 --> 01:02:25.719
there. It just came up.
Yeah, it doesn't hit the ball.

796
01:02:27.599 --> 01:02:31.159
There's not a lot of exit velocity. There not a lot of launch.

797
01:02:31.920 --> 01:02:36.480
So I guess that's the only fly
in the ointment that really good strikeout rate.

798
01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:40.920
He never walks good speed. Yes, he's still twenty three year old

799
01:02:40.960 --> 01:02:45.079
and a guy that's developing, so
the big boy power is not there yet.

800
01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:51.079
No, but would you need to
disappointed if he hit say, fourteen

801
01:02:51.119 --> 01:02:59.519
home runs and stole fifty five bases. I wouldn't be surprised if he does

802
01:02:59.559 --> 01:03:02.119
that. If that's what you're asking, Yeah, it's yeah. I wouldn't

803
01:03:02.159 --> 01:03:06.519
be shocked either. I think he's
one of a handful of players that has

804
01:03:06.599 --> 01:03:10.159
fifty plus stolen base potential. Yeah, I'm not ready to declare twenty to

805
01:03:10.199 --> 01:03:14.800
twenty five home runs yet. No, I'm not either. I agree,

806
01:03:14.920 --> 01:03:19.079
And in one base percentagely he could
hurt you a little bit because he never

807
01:03:19.199 --> 01:03:22.400
walks, but he does make good
contact. You know, he could come

808
01:03:22.400 --> 01:03:25.840
in, Timmy and gain twenty pounds
of muscle and all of a sudden he's

809
01:03:25.840 --> 01:03:29.360
starting to pop, and that probably
will happen one year. Is it gonna

810
01:03:29.360 --> 01:03:32.360
happen twenty twenty four? I guess
we'll know in about three or four weeks

811
01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:37.480
when everybody showing up, well exactly. Yeah. But you know, hey,

812
01:03:37.559 --> 01:03:40.880
if you're looking for a lock for
forty stolen bases, forty to fifty

813
01:03:40.880 --> 01:03:45.119
stoo, I think he's a lock
for forty to fifty stolen bases this year.

814
01:03:45.559 --> 01:03:47.119
I totally agree with you, Timmy. So if you get down to

815
01:03:47.760 --> 01:03:52.679
the third round, let's say you
went your Dyan Alvarez and Pete Alonzo just

816
01:03:52.760 --> 01:03:57.800
making stuff up. Those are your
first two picks. Cj Abris was a

817
01:03:57.840 --> 01:04:04.800
good pick there. Yes, definitely
changes your your team build in a hurry.

818
01:04:05.119 --> 01:04:09.679
Yep, a real hurry, as
do all the shortstops in this in

819
01:04:09.719 --> 01:04:14.000
this grouping. Yeah, Nico Horner
is the one guy that just bugs me.

820
01:04:14.199 --> 01:04:18.280
I mean again, it's there's no
there's very little power there and he

821
01:04:18.480 --> 01:04:25.000
is. You're relying on that stolen
basis and we keep saying different than cj

822
01:04:25.119 --> 01:04:29.280
Abrams. Cj Abrams has power upside
and eventually that's going to play one year.

823
01:04:29.519 --> 01:04:33.159
But you keep telling us that speed
is plentiful. Why would I get

824
01:04:33.159 --> 01:04:36.960
a guy that's going to give me
forty stolen bases unless I need it when

825
01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:42.719
I get to that part in the
draft. Well, it is plentiful.

826
01:04:42.880 --> 01:04:45.000
And you can weak your way through
a draft and you can find yourself into

827
01:04:45.039 --> 01:04:49.280
an adequate total by looking at you
know, ten to twenty stolen base types.

828
01:04:49.920 --> 01:04:55.079
But if you can find yourself a
reasonable price on a Nico horn Horner

829
01:04:55.440 --> 01:04:59.960
who's going to give you potentially fifty
stolen bases with eight to ten home run

830
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:03.119
why wouldn't you take it and then
you don't have to worry about it.

831
01:05:03.239 --> 01:05:08.000
But I gotta get him into the
fifth round. That that's that's I mean,

832
01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:12.599
it's there's you gotta spin to get
him. Yeah, and enjoy your

833
01:05:12.679 --> 01:05:15.239
last year at shortstop because it will
only be second base eligible next year.

834
01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:24.119
Again, if nice players, this
whole group, I have no problems rostering

835
01:05:24.159 --> 01:05:27.079
any of The one that I probably
won't end up with in a lot of

836
01:05:27.159 --> 01:05:31.239
leagues is CJ. Abrams simply because
of draft slot. And that again that

837
01:05:31.679 --> 01:05:35.000
it boils down to, you know, hey, if I if you're looking

838
01:05:35.079 --> 01:05:40.519
at the first pick, you're gonna
get speed. You know You're you're going

839
01:05:40.599 --> 01:05:44.840
to get somebody who's gonna steal thirty
plus bases. Is the need there to

840
01:05:44.960 --> 01:05:48.559
look at Abrams or an Eco Horner? Probably not, But again, depending

841
01:05:48.599 --> 01:05:51.159
on your team build, it can
give you. It can put you into

842
01:05:51.199 --> 01:05:56.400
the contention in the stolen based category
real quick. It's I find it fascinating

843
01:05:56.519 --> 01:05:59.880
just I'm looking at the fifth round
where Nico Horner went in the draft on

844
01:06:00.199 --> 01:06:04.960
in and twelve picks, eleven of
them were pitchers. Nico Horner is the

845
01:06:04.960 --> 01:06:11.840
only positional player taken in the fifth
realm to start the fifth round, which

846
01:06:11.920 --> 01:06:15.920
is pretty remarkable. Tim. Wow. So and you were asking CJ.

847
01:06:15.039 --> 01:06:19.320
Abrams went in the fourth round.
He went to Team Zito, who is

848
01:06:20.320 --> 01:06:25.960
in our Patreon site. He went
Spencer Strader, Kevin Goussman, he went

849
01:06:26.079 --> 01:06:30.280
Vlad Guerrero and he's probably looking at
it, going, I got twenty five

850
01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:32.719
plus home runs. There I need
stolen bases or starting to run out.

851
01:06:32.760 --> 01:06:38.519
I went two pictures. He goes
CJ Abrams, great pick there, Yes,

852
01:06:38.559 --> 01:06:43.559
it fits his team build right to
a t yep. That's that's that's

853
01:06:43.599 --> 01:06:46.039
the name of the game to me. It's not necessarily sometimes it's value of

854
01:06:46.079 --> 01:06:50.679
where you get the guy. And
sometimes I'm keeping my little spreadsheet, whether

855
01:06:50.760 --> 01:06:56.960
mentally or physically, and what am
I lacking? And where's the best place

856
01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:00.000
to go? And that's the movie
make well. Yeah, you look at

857
01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:08.320
the ADPs in your top ten.
Okay, the lowest ADP is based on

858
01:07:08.360 --> 01:07:13.480
my top ten. His house on
Kim at eighty. Everybody else is.

859
01:07:14.280 --> 01:07:16.760
There's two in the sixties and all
the rest are in the thirties twenties.

860
01:07:16.760 --> 01:07:23.800
In first round the elite at short
stop, they go quick, Yeah,

861
01:07:23.800 --> 01:07:28.119
here's where hass I'm ken would This
is actually a really interesting draft as well.

862
01:07:28.400 --> 01:07:32.440
He goes Juan Soto and your Dane
Alvarez. What's he got seventy eighty

863
01:07:32.480 --> 01:07:39.199
home runs there? Yeah, and
ten sol. He goes Marcus Simeon,

864
01:07:39.239 --> 01:07:42.639
which is going to give him maybe
fifteen to twenty. Then he goes two

865
01:07:42.760 --> 01:07:46.559
pitchers, goes Paul Goldsmith, which
I don't particularly care for. He needs

866
01:07:46.559 --> 01:07:49.800
speed, so he goes Hassan Ken. You got a like where he takes

867
01:07:50.159 --> 01:07:55.840
Kim there because that gives him that
stolen basis and it also gives him position,

868
01:07:56.400 --> 01:07:59.320
the added bonus of position eligibility.
Yeah, it fits his build.

869
01:08:00.079 --> 01:08:05.159
So again I'll maybe taking taking taking
as a fold. Take what you can

870
01:08:05.239 --> 01:08:10.000
get, you know, put it
into your team build. And if you're

871
01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:13.840
going power early and needs speed,
hey, Kim and Horner fit the bill.

872
01:08:14.679 --> 01:08:16.239
Yeah, get it done. Let's
take a break, Timmy, and

873
01:08:16.319 --> 01:08:31.359
let's get back and look at eleven
through twenty eleven is Bopashett dropping like a

874
01:08:31.560 --> 01:08:34.560
like a like a dropping a little
bit. According to Tim McCloud, his

875
01:08:34.600 --> 01:08:40.119
buddy Ezekiel Tovar up eight slots from
where he's going into the NFC, comes

876
01:08:40.119 --> 01:08:44.359
in at twelve. My buddy Anthony
volpi ELSI has for this season come in

877
01:08:44.359 --> 01:08:48.359
a number thirteen, Dansby Swanson at
fourteen, Trevor Story at fifteen, O'Neil

878
01:08:48.520 --> 01:08:55.399
Cruz at sixteen, Xander Bogart's at
seventeen. Tim's always kind of when he

879
01:08:55.520 --> 01:08:59.279
runs out, he always gets runs
out of options for short sup hegoes thyro

880
01:08:59.359 --> 01:09:03.039
ASTROTICU. And at eighteen nineteen is
Jackson Holliday. Love the aggressiveness there,

881
01:09:03.039 --> 01:09:08.000
and number twenty is Willie Adamis okay, Tim, first of all, tell

882
01:09:08.039 --> 01:09:11.560
me, I mean, are you
a little down on Bobashet or is it

883
01:09:11.680 --> 01:09:15.720
just the way it worked out?
Well? You know, I think in

884
01:09:15.800 --> 01:09:21.199
my narrative I explained it rather straightforward
and simply. Twenty five, thirteen and

885
01:09:21.319 --> 01:09:28.560
five. Those are the stolen base
totals for the past three years, starting

886
01:09:28.600 --> 01:09:33.079
with twenty twenty one. I think
it's important you remember those numbers. The

887
01:09:33.399 --> 01:09:39.319
NFBC has them at thirty nine at
Adp at thirty nine. I've got him

888
01:09:39.319 --> 01:09:43.279
as the eleventh off the board and
the reason n it was last year it

889
01:09:43.359 --> 01:09:47.279
was okay. He had twenty home
runs with seventy three RBIs yeah, scored

890
01:09:47.359 --> 01:09:50.640
sixty nine. That's in five hundred
and seventy one at bass. That's pretty

891
01:09:50.640 --> 01:09:56.560
close to a full season, and
he stole five bases. The siding average

892
01:09:56.880 --> 01:10:04.520
was excellent at three oh six.
But he doesn't have right now one defined

893
01:10:04.680 --> 01:10:11.840
overpowering skill set other than batting average. So I was the power is okay,

894
01:10:11.880 --> 01:10:15.880
but the speed isn't. And I
think you have to look at that

895
01:10:15.079 --> 01:10:20.439
very closely when moving on Bobashet.
Yeah, it's fair, Tim, it's

896
01:10:20.479 --> 01:10:24.039
fair. I mean the speed.
I mean I think I took a look

897
01:10:24.039 --> 01:10:26.920
at his data and the speed had
definitely come down. But it's funny.

898
01:10:26.920 --> 01:10:30.640
I'm looking at twenty five thirteen to
five. This was one of those college

899
01:10:30.800 --> 01:10:33.760
board entry tests that you have to
take to get into college. Yeah,

900
01:10:33.840 --> 01:10:40.359
the next number would be like minus
four. Yet there's a trend happening there.

901
01:10:40.640 --> 01:10:45.399
It's not a good trend, not
for us in our game. If

902
01:10:45.800 --> 01:10:50.720
he had if he's hitting thirty home
runs, okay, then you're talking Corey

903
01:10:50.720 --> 01:10:55.560
Seeger, right, But is he
going to hit thirty home runs? I

904
01:10:55.680 --> 01:10:59.640
don't know his sprint speed. Let's
see. In twenty twenty one, his

905
01:10:59.680 --> 01:11:03.720
sprint speed was seventy four. In
twenty twenty two, ranked seventy fourth.

906
01:11:03.760 --> 01:11:10.119
In twenty twenty two, his sprint
speed ranked fifty third. In twenty twenty

907
01:11:10.119 --> 01:11:15.680
three, his sprint speed ranked forty
second. It is not going in the

908
01:11:15.760 --> 01:11:20.720
right direction, Tim, Uh No, it's not. Just Again, if

909
01:11:20.760 --> 01:11:25.600
you're counting on fifteen to twenty stolen
bases from Bobachet, I don't think you

910
01:11:25.680 --> 01:11:29.680
can. It pains me to say
this, Tim, This is brilliant analysis

911
01:11:29.720 --> 01:11:32.520
by the great Tim McLoud. You
have done well, ranking Bobaschet where you

912
01:11:32.560 --> 01:11:36.239
did. Yeah, I'll take the
heat for it. No, No,

913
01:11:36.520 --> 01:11:40.199
it's well thought out. He might
be wrong, but it is well thought

914
01:11:40.239 --> 01:11:45.399
out. It is very very good
analysis. Thank you. That's why I

915
01:11:45.479 --> 01:11:48.039
get the paid mom that night.
Case squirrels, Well, that's why you

916
01:11:48.039 --> 01:11:53.000
get paid the big bus. Okay, you got number coming on number twelve.

917
01:11:53.000 --> 01:11:57.119
You got your buddy Ezekiel Tovar.
Tell us why you are so bullish

918
01:11:57.399 --> 01:12:00.560
on Ezekiel Tovar. Well, yeah, a rookie season in which he had

919
01:12:00.600 --> 01:12:05.600
fifteen home runs, drove in seventy
three, stole eleven bases, and he

920
01:12:05.640 --> 01:12:09.960
did this all as a twenty one
year old with only two hundred and eighty

921
01:12:10.000 --> 01:12:14.560
five at bats above high A Yeah, it's impressive. Yeah, I think

922
01:12:14.600 --> 01:12:19.239
we're going to see bigger and better
things from Tovar heading into this year and

923
01:12:20.319 --> 01:12:26.319
for several years after that at least. And I'm willing to pay based on

924
01:12:26.319 --> 01:12:30.760
what I've seen. I'm willing to
up him ahead of a lot of shortstops

925
01:12:30.800 --> 01:12:34.359
that most people at this point in
time don't feel the same way. He's

926
01:12:34.399 --> 01:12:40.039
the one guy that I will I
will move earlier on because I've reached for

927
01:12:40.600 --> 01:12:43.239
Yeah. Yeah, good for you. It's interesting. So I know what

928
01:12:43.439 --> 01:12:46.159
that My question of who not in
the top ten will be in next year's

929
01:12:46.159 --> 01:12:50.000
top ten is going to be Ezekiel
Tovar. Let's movee down to Trevor's story.

930
01:12:50.079 --> 01:12:55.279
Timmy was really good at one point
in his career. Yeah, it's

931
01:12:55.279 --> 01:13:00.159
all about health. Okay. The
last time we saw a full season from

932
01:13:00.239 --> 01:13:08.239
him was twenty twenty one. Okay, Hey, story's a twenty twenty player.

933
01:13:08.840 --> 01:13:12.319
If he can get in four hundred
and fifty plus at bats, I'm

934
01:13:12.319 --> 01:13:17.720
betting you will. Well, we'll
see how everything unfolds. My only comment

935
01:13:17.760 --> 01:13:21.640
there is you think he's a twenty
twenty player. I mean, it's been

936
01:13:21.720 --> 01:13:25.479
so long since he's played a full
season. He could have slowed down a

937
01:13:25.520 --> 01:13:27.760
little bit. I mean, the
bats speed could have slowed. I mean,

938
01:13:27.800 --> 01:13:30.680
there's so many things that could have
happened in two years. You just

939
01:13:30.720 --> 01:13:32.680
don't know. He's gotten to be
an older player. Now, well,

940
01:13:33.319 --> 01:13:36.279
let's take a look at last year. He only got in what one hundred

941
01:13:36.319 --> 01:13:42.840
and fifty eight at bats? Okay, three home runs concerning, yes,

942
01:13:43.039 --> 01:13:48.159
ten stolen base is not so concerning. Okay, the year before that,

943
01:13:48.239 --> 01:13:51.239
when he got in three hundred and
fifty seven at bats, he had sixteen

944
01:13:51.279 --> 01:13:57.720
home runs, stole thirteen bases.
The sprint speed still says he is very

945
01:13:57.760 --> 01:14:02.079
fast. Eggs velocity, heart at
rates are kind of mid middling. But

946
01:14:02.159 --> 01:14:05.319
it was in such a small sample
size. You just don't know. But

947
01:14:05.560 --> 01:14:10.239
I guess my point is, Tommy, there's he's played so little. He's

948
01:14:10.279 --> 01:14:13.399
at thirty one years old. I
mean, if you think that he's going

949
01:14:13.439 --> 01:14:15.560
to bounce back, I'm not saying
you, but if our listeners think he's

950
01:14:15.560 --> 01:14:21.600
great, but there's you can't really
point anything and go the reason he's going

951
01:14:21.680 --> 01:14:26.920
to bounce back is because of this, And that's always disconcerting when you get

952
01:14:26.960 --> 01:14:30.319
to the draft table. Well,
yeah, and when you look at shortstop.

953
01:14:30.359 --> 01:14:34.560
After Tovar, I've got Anthony Volpe
and Dansby Swanson. Draw a hard

954
01:14:34.680 --> 01:14:40.119
line after Dansby Swanson, Okay,
I think with Volpei, I think,

955
01:14:40.319 --> 01:14:45.279
hey, he did twenty twenty last
year. Maybe I'd be very disappointed if

956
01:14:45.279 --> 01:14:49.359
he didn't better what he did last
year this year. Dansby Swanson again,

957
01:14:50.119 --> 01:14:54.720
if you're looking very good player,
he's not Saxon. He's a very good

958
01:14:54.760 --> 01:14:57.600
player. Yeah, if you're looking
at a repeat at twenty twenty two,

959
01:14:57.640 --> 01:15:00.399
it probably ain't gonna happen. Lower
the bar, but there's noth than wrong

960
01:15:00.439 --> 01:15:03.800
with low twenties power eighty and ninety
RBIs ten stolen bases, two fifty average.

961
01:15:04.039 --> 01:15:08.760
After you leave Swanson and move forward, then you get to Trevor's story.

962
01:15:09.520 --> 01:15:13.239
Question Marks, cruise, question marks, bullguards, a pile of them,

963
01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:17.119
A strata is where the strata is, Jackson Holiday will From here on

964
01:15:17.319 --> 01:15:23.920
down, there's lots of question marks. And hey, if you think you

965
01:15:24.000 --> 01:15:27.800
have the answers, well hey,
maybe you do, but I know I

966
01:15:27.880 --> 01:15:30.119
certainly don't with the next group of
players. I know with the Neil Cruz,

967
01:15:30.319 --> 01:15:33.119
I love I know what you're going
to write when I said when they

968
01:15:33.199 --> 01:15:36.520
see the first three words, or
I get it. Yeah, we kind

969
01:15:36.560 --> 01:15:42.199
of all get it. Like I
mean, there is it's led La Cruz.

970
01:15:42.279 --> 01:15:45.840
Not quite the same kind of crazy
talent, but it's close, and

971
01:15:45.920 --> 01:15:50.840
you throw in a crazy arm and
it's like you might even have more raw

972
01:15:51.000 --> 01:15:57.520
talent than led La Cruz. But
Tim, I mean, I mean hurt

973
01:15:57.560 --> 01:16:00.520
most of last season. There's tons
of strikes downs and he plays for the

974
01:16:00.520 --> 01:16:03.680
Pirates. Let's let's face it,
he plays for the Pirates. Yeah,

975
01:16:03.800 --> 01:16:08.319
you know, it was an amazing
half season we saw in twenty twenty two,

976
01:16:09.439 --> 01:16:14.119
but that's It's there's a full year
in there that he didn't play after

977
01:16:14.199 --> 01:16:17.800
fracturing his ankle and the surgery its
basically cost him the entire twenty twenty three

978
01:16:17.880 --> 01:16:25.199
season. I simply can't go as
high as into the eighties. Okay,

979
01:16:25.239 --> 01:16:30.239
you're looking at six round. I
can't go that high when I can get

980
01:16:30.560 --> 01:16:39.319
Tovar okay, one hundred and ten
picks later or Anthony Boldby or Dansby Swell.

981
01:16:39.359 --> 01:16:42.720
I just can't take the chance on
O'Neill Cruz. Yeah, Hey,

982
01:16:42.920 --> 01:16:46.000
there's only so many players one can
gamble on. Cruise is not going to

983
01:16:46.079 --> 01:16:49.439
be that player for me. To
tullygri at six round. This is too

984
01:16:49.520 --> 01:16:54.159
rich for me. I totally agree
with you, and it's just he's just

985
01:16:54.399 --> 01:16:57.199
I don't even when I was going
through my draft, and I know I

986
01:16:57.479 --> 01:17:00.600
took a short sup early, so
I didn't really get to think about it.

987
01:17:00.640 --> 01:17:02.319
But he would not have been on
my team. There's no way I

988
01:17:02.319 --> 01:17:06.960
would have been drafting O'Neil Cruz.
No, it's five, six rounds later.

989
01:17:08.039 --> 01:17:11.640
You can get more certainty, at
least more certainty I believe. Yeah,

990
01:17:11.720 --> 01:17:15.199
you go with a lighter pick.
Yeah, it's sixth round, Tammy,

991
01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:18.479
Yeah, yeah, six round.
Let me tell you what you can

992
01:17:18.520 --> 01:17:25.479
get in the sixth round. Brian
Reynolds, will Smith, Jass Chisholm,

993
01:17:25.119 --> 01:17:29.479
William Contreras, Labor Torrez, Paul
Colt. Well, that's up, Christian

994
01:17:29.560 --> 01:17:31.840
Yelich, Josh Looe. I mean
there's some really good baseball players there,

995
01:17:32.680 --> 01:17:39.439
really good with proven talent. Yep. Let's move on to twenty one through

996
01:17:40.600 --> 01:17:44.239
thirty, and then we will take
a break after we talk through these first

997
01:17:44.239 --> 01:17:48.800
of I love your Jackson Holiday selection
at number nineteen. It's I think we

998
01:17:48.880 --> 01:17:54.479
see him soon. I'm assuming you
agree as well as yes, I don't

999
01:17:54.479 --> 01:17:58.399
know if he's going to be better
than his father, but it has a

1000
01:17:58.439 --> 01:18:02.720
chance to be very very good tim
Yeah, that's maybe he could end up

1001
01:18:02.760 --> 01:18:06.000
being better. But dad was pretty
good players. So you know where you

1002
01:18:06.039 --> 01:18:11.279
know where I'm sitting with Jackson Holiday
and if the kid has superstar potential.

1003
01:18:11.880 --> 01:18:15.840
Yeah, he's physically different though than
his father was. Just his father was

1004
01:18:15.880 --> 01:18:18.840
big when he was younger, but
he put on so much weight and it

1005
01:18:18.880 --> 01:18:23.680
wasn't bad weight, it was just
he just became wide. It became like

1006
01:18:23.720 --> 01:18:28.720
a Mac truck and and it was
this massive power. Jackson Holiday's more twitchy.

1007
01:18:30.239 --> 01:18:32.520
I think he's gonna hold his speed
a lot longer than Matt Holliday did.

1008
01:18:32.520 --> 01:18:36.479
He might be the better hitter though, Yeah, I I will definitely

1009
01:18:36.520 --> 01:18:43.680
guarantee that Jackson Holiday is a better
defensive shortstop than his dad was defensive Oaksielder

1010
01:18:43.720 --> 01:18:47.800
Housing I think that well, definitely
after after he left Collar. Yeah,

1011
01:18:47.880 --> 01:18:54.199
yeah, exactly for sure. But
it's it's Jackson Holiday, Jackson Cheriot.

1012
01:18:54.199 --> 01:18:58.560
It's gonna be fascinating to see where
those guys are in three years, who

1013
01:18:58.600 --> 01:19:02.319
the better player is. And I
love that debate that that's gonna go on.

1014
01:19:02.640 --> 01:19:06.800
Number twenty one is Carlos Caraja,
Tommy Edmund at twenty two, Lewis

1015
01:19:06.920 --> 01:19:12.960
Rahifo, Orlando Arcia, JP Crawford, Jeremy Penney taking a beating. This

1016
01:19:13.079 --> 01:19:15.880
year he went he was last year
he was tenth. Timmy, he is

1017
01:19:15.960 --> 01:19:21.680
down to twenty sixth Ezekiel Durant,
my buddy, your buddy, Leov Paguera,

1018
01:19:23.039 --> 01:19:26.600
Chris Taylor, and I don't know
how how the Hecker Bia that's got

1019
01:19:26.600 --> 01:19:30.960
ahead of Heroaldo Perdomo, but it
is Tim McCloud's list. But Javier Bias

1020
01:19:30.079 --> 01:19:36.319
at thirty. That's generous, Tim
it is. I'll leave it at that.

1021
01:19:36.640 --> 01:19:43.079
It is. Yeah, when I
look at that. The one thing

1022
01:19:43.119 --> 01:19:51.039
that I definitely think people should be
looking at a little bit is Tommy Edmund.

1023
01:19:51.840 --> 01:19:58.520
Okay, he had ARTHUR'SCPIC surgery on
his wrist in October. Okay,

1024
01:19:58.520 --> 01:20:01.720
and again st and fairly quiet.
I don't know how many people are aware

1025
01:20:01.800 --> 01:20:05.119
or not. I don't aware.
But he expects him to be ready to

1026
01:20:05.159 --> 01:20:08.720
go with the start of spring draining. Again, we'll bring up the Marcus

1027
01:20:08.720 --> 01:20:15.319
Potter axiom. Yeah. Again,
I don't have any reason to think that

1028
01:20:15.399 --> 01:20:19.560
he won't. But at the same
point in time, I've moved I've moved

1029
01:20:19.560 --> 01:20:24.920
Evan down because of that. Yeah, Okay, as far as the rest

1030
01:20:24.920 --> 01:20:30.960
of them, yeah, Jeremy Paanya
did not have a good year. Not

1031
01:20:30.199 --> 01:20:38.279
all lost. JP Crawford, I
had trouble with him there, But I

1032
01:20:38.760 --> 01:20:44.479
think it's the right spot. But
I think knowing your parameters is fairly important.

1033
01:20:45.119 --> 01:20:53.800
JP Crawford last year hit more home
runs than he did in the prior

1034
01:20:54.119 --> 01:21:01.279
three seasons combined with nineteen home runs. Yeah, he's gonna score runs,

1035
01:21:01.840 --> 01:21:04.880
but he doesn't steal bases. And
I'm not betting on a repeat of the

1036
01:21:04.960 --> 01:21:09.560
nineteen home runs. I think that
will prove to be an outlier and I

1037
01:21:09.600 --> 01:21:13.960
think we'll see seven to ten home
runs from Crawford. Great runs scored.

1038
01:21:14.319 --> 01:21:17.520
The batting average is okay, but
I just can't bet on a repeat of

1039
01:21:17.560 --> 01:21:21.600
those nineteen home runs from JP.
Crawford. Hard hit rates earned the twenty

1040
01:21:21.640 --> 01:21:27.640
one percentile average ex of velocities eighty
eight miles an hour, which is rot

1041
01:21:27.680 --> 01:21:32.680
on league average, And he did
Here's here's probably why he hit more home

1042
01:21:32.760 --> 01:21:39.439
runs. He angled nearly doubled his
launch angle from eight point nine to fifteen

1043
01:21:39.479 --> 01:21:44.199
point one, so he started to
add some off to a swing. So

1044
01:21:44.479 --> 01:21:46.319
yeah, I mean, he doesn't
hit hits the ball, doesn't hit the

1045
01:21:46.479 --> 01:21:49.560
hits the ball at average. But
look, the launch angle plays a big,

1046
01:21:49.720 --> 01:21:54.199
big deal. But that probably hurt
his strikeout rate. Yes, it

1047
01:21:54.279 --> 01:21:58.119
did. Look at that the strikeout
racos from thirteen point three to nineteen point

1048
01:21:58.119 --> 01:22:00.600
six, which is still pretty good. Yeah, No, it's it's just,

1049
01:22:02.199 --> 01:22:04.840
hey, I'm not betting on a
repeat of the nineteen home runs.

1050
01:22:05.000 --> 01:22:10.399
He doesn't run period. Okay,
so that leaves your run scored, right

1051
01:22:10.720 --> 01:22:14.920
yep. Yeah. So you know
the one name of this list in the

1052
01:22:15.039 --> 01:22:21.359
in the twenties that if you completely
get called out and have I mean,

1053
01:22:21.479 --> 01:22:27.840
you're scrambling all of the league that
you're playing in love shortstop and they take

1054
01:22:27.880 --> 01:22:32.800
them all and Carlo's Korea is there. It's not the worst option to grab

1055
01:22:33.359 --> 01:22:42.439
in the seventeenth round. No,
it's not. You know, you're looking

1056
01:22:42.479 --> 01:22:45.600
at you know, based on what
we've seen the past couple of years,

1057
01:22:45.600 --> 01:22:50.680
you're looking at eh eighteen eighteen to
twenty two to twenty three home runs.

1058
01:22:50.680 --> 01:22:57.439
You're looking at sixty five RBIs the
batting average. It could be could be

1059
01:22:57.479 --> 01:23:00.079
a two to sixty batting average.
You'll score some runs. I don't think

1060
01:23:00.079 --> 01:23:03.760
he'll hurt you, but I don't
think he provides. And there's no upside.

1061
01:23:03.920 --> 01:23:08.520
There's there's really little maybe some power
upside, but that's about it.

1062
01:23:08.560 --> 01:23:13.359
And you have to worry that eventually
the things that everybody saw when he was

1063
01:23:13.399 --> 01:23:15.960
trying to sign as a free agent
might come back. The injuries might come

1064
01:23:15.960 --> 01:23:19.600
back to haunt him. You know
who I do like in there? Is

1065
01:23:19.640 --> 01:23:24.760
I like Ezekiel durant Ran. Yeah. Yeah. Plus he's outfield eligible,

1066
01:23:24.840 --> 01:23:27.840
yeah and third base eligible. Looks
like yeah, that's good. Well,

1067
01:23:28.319 --> 01:23:35.039
yeah, it looks like he's currently
slotted in as the thh Okay, you

1068
01:23:35.119 --> 01:23:39.880
know, if he can get last
year we saw fourteen home runs, eight

1069
01:23:39.920 --> 01:23:44.560
stolen bases. He strikes out too
much, but with the right opportunity,

1070
01:23:44.640 --> 01:23:47.800
there might be. Yeah, there
might be a twenty home run bat sitting

1071
01:23:47.840 --> 01:23:55.159
there with fifteen stolen bases and a
two sixty two seventy batting average really late,

1072
01:23:55.359 --> 01:23:58.720
which is right now, which his
ADP in the five to six hundred

1073
01:23:58.720 --> 01:24:03.239
grange. That's there's I think there's
an opportunity there with Duran as a late

1074
01:24:03.319 --> 01:24:09.199
option. Now, speaking of Duran
in Texas, I don't know if you

1075
01:24:09.359 --> 01:24:15.039
just forgot him or what? But
but Whyatt Langford is not on this list?

1076
01:24:16.520 --> 01:24:19.840
Whyatt Langthoring? Oh, I'm sorry, I got confused to me,

1077
01:24:19.880 --> 01:24:24.560
I had a brain cramp. My
my bad. We're talking shortstop. I'm

1078
01:24:24.600 --> 01:24:27.960
telling I looked at out well all
of a sudden I'm having I'm sitting here

1079
01:24:28.000 --> 01:24:30.760
saying, what what the hell?
I'm looking at Ezeko Duran, I'm looking

1080
01:24:30.760 --> 01:24:32.960
at out for you. I'm like, where where is? Where is?

1081
01:24:33.119 --> 01:24:38.479
Uh? I told my bad a
total brain freezer. So ignore that.

1082
01:24:38.960 --> 01:24:41.760
I'll edit that out and I won't. It's more fun to keep it in

1083
01:24:41.800 --> 01:24:44.680
there. So all right, so
forget about forget what I said there.

1084
01:24:44.880 --> 01:24:47.800
So I'm going to tell you a
quick little story a trade conversation I had

1085
01:24:47.800 --> 01:24:51.760
with our good friend Robbie Thayer,
who plays in d L five. He

1086
01:24:51.880 --> 01:24:57.359
hurt, very nice man. He's
expecting his first child, or maybe I've

1087
01:24:57.359 --> 01:25:00.439
already has already had that. So
I had a you know, him and

1088
01:25:00.520 --> 01:25:02.479
his wife both listened to the podcast, and I've heard Robbie that she's a

1089
01:25:02.479 --> 01:25:06.800
better player than you. Okay,
but anyway, so he he heard me

1090
01:25:08.199 --> 01:25:13.720
deriding h Ryan McMahon, So you
know, he said Hey, what do

1091
01:25:13.760 --> 01:25:17.680
you want for Ryan McMahon. I've
got I've got cold Keith coming up as

1092
01:25:17.760 --> 01:25:24.119
my third baseman, and and you
know, I I'll take him if you

1093
01:25:24.159 --> 01:25:26.079
know, if you if you really
don't want him. And I said,

1094
01:25:26.119 --> 01:25:30.119
well, my backup to Ryan McMahon, and I'm going to get the short

1095
01:25:30.119 --> 01:25:35.439
stuff because he's Elijo. Everywhere is
Chris Taylor. And I have zero confidence

1096
01:25:35.439 --> 01:25:40.159
that Chris Taylor is going to get
enough, you know, enough at bats

1097
01:25:40.199 --> 01:25:45.880
to really even even hold down a
I think Ryan McMahon is going to be

1098
01:25:45.880 --> 01:25:48.319
better than even Chris Taylor. So
I said no, but if I haven't

1099
01:25:48.319 --> 01:25:51.359
had anybody else, I would have
given it to him. But uh,

1100
01:25:51.439 --> 01:25:55.039
I mean, but Chris. I
mean, it's so Chris Taylor's at like

1101
01:25:55.159 --> 01:25:59.960
twenty nine, and that's another guy
that don't you think it's more position flex

1102
01:26:00.119 --> 01:26:03.439
ability. The reason that you have
him on a team, Well, the

1103
01:26:03.479 --> 01:26:09.520
position flexibility comes in handy, but
he's going to lose that probably this year.

1104
01:26:09.800 --> 01:26:12.000
Well it is, but yeah we're
talking this year though, yep,

1105
01:26:12.600 --> 01:26:15.840
yeah, this this year he offers
a position flex and you know, when

1106
01:26:15.880 --> 01:26:18.600
you look at Taylor's numbers, he's
penciled into an oatfield spot. Okay,

1107
01:26:19.600 --> 01:26:25.199
and Chris Taylor had pretty decent year
last year. The batting I was just,

1108
01:26:25.319 --> 01:26:28.359
you know, two thirty seven,
but he hit fifteen home runs,

1109
01:26:28.720 --> 01:26:32.199
stole sixteen bases. Yeah, and
that's in three hundred and thirty eight at

1110
01:26:32.279 --> 01:26:36.079
bats. That's true. Yeah,
you should have made the deal with them.

1111
01:26:36.960 --> 01:26:42.319
Yeah. Well, yeah, there's
a full time outfielder in a world

1112
01:26:42.319 --> 01:26:45.479
where outfield is short. Do I
want Chris Taylor's my middle endfielder. No,

1113
01:26:45.560 --> 01:26:48.600
but I'll take him as my fifth
six outfielder. Yeah. Yeah,

1114
01:26:48.720 --> 01:26:53.199
it's as he strikes out too much. And yeah it is an average of

1115
01:26:53.279 --> 01:26:56.159
velocity is it is all about launch
angle with him. He doesn't hit the

1116
01:26:56.159 --> 01:26:59.600
ball hard at all. He's pretty
fast, so I mean it's it's yeah,

1117
01:26:59.680 --> 01:27:01.439
and he's thirty three years old.
But you know, as a utility

1118
01:27:01.479 --> 01:27:06.119
type player on your redraft redraft plague, he provides some value. I would

1119
01:27:06.119 --> 01:27:09.039
agree with that. Tommy. Let's
take a break, get back and the

1120
01:27:09.560 --> 01:27:14.800
hard questions start to start to enter
the fray here hour and a half,

1121
01:27:14.880 --> 01:27:24.479
oh my word, because of the
world. No, that's recorded time.

1122
01:27:24.520 --> 01:27:28.680
I took a break during all of
our squirrel issues. Now, so we're

1123
01:27:28.720 --> 01:27:31.439
not getting to the San Francisco Giants
again. Forget about that that it's not

1124
01:27:31.479 --> 01:27:35.720
going to happen here. I disagree
with your hobby bias pick, but I'll

1125
01:27:35.800 --> 01:27:40.960
let you have it. Let's just
bounce around in these last thirty guys.

1126
01:27:41.039 --> 01:27:47.159
I love Heraldo Perdolma tim at five
seventy three, ADP. Tell me your

1127
01:27:47.159 --> 01:27:56.039
thoughts on Bryce Terrang. You'll give
you a stolen bases. Will the power

1128
01:27:56.039 --> 01:28:00.640
ever development? Probably not? I
don't. I don't know, okay,

1129
01:28:00.079 --> 01:28:05.039
not yet. He's young enough that
we could see better days ahead, but

1130
01:28:05.159 --> 01:28:09.000
I'm not going to pay for it. Bryce Training is a sort of player

1131
01:28:09.039 --> 01:28:13.720
that if you find yourself towards the
end of April with an injury and you

1132
01:28:13.800 --> 01:28:16.199
need some speed, yeah, pick
him up and plug him into second base

1133
01:28:16.279 --> 01:28:19.800
or short. But he's not going
to be a draft target this year.

1134
01:28:19.840 --> 01:28:24.840
I was expecting better. I was
expecting Well, yeah, I agree with

1135
01:28:24.880 --> 01:28:29.760
that. Here's one that's interesting.
You have Zach Ndo at thirty eight.

1136
01:28:30.680 --> 01:28:33.800
He's going to be the NFC is
twenty six. Why the hate for Zach

1137
01:28:33.920 --> 01:28:42.000
Needo? Good question you're asked,
asking me off memory. I took a

1138
01:28:42.039 --> 01:28:46.439
look at the numbers and it just
didn't overly impress me. Yeah, and

1139
01:28:46.720 --> 01:28:50.399
basically half a season. Yeah,
he had nine home runs, stole five

1140
01:28:50.439 --> 01:28:58.359
bases, struck out seventy seven times. I've in Anaheim, I've or is

1141
01:28:58.359 --> 01:29:05.680
it Oakland Anaheim? And yeah,
Yeah, he's young, okay, and

1142
01:29:05.720 --> 01:29:10.920
I think there's potential, but I
just don't want to have anything to do

1143
01:29:11.000 --> 01:29:14.840
with him, per Sae this.
I just don't see enough there that interests

1144
01:29:14.880 --> 01:29:18.800
me that I'm going to make a
move on Zach Needo. That's a pass

1145
01:29:18.880 --> 01:29:23.359
for me. I will take.
You know, he's going as what the

1146
01:29:23.439 --> 01:29:27.720
twentieth off the board in the NBC. There's a slew and I've got them

1147
01:29:27.720 --> 01:29:32.279
a whole listed of shortstops I will
take before Zach Needle. Zach needo sprint

1148
01:29:32.319 --> 01:29:36.840
speed is sixteh percentile and his hard
hit rate looks like it's about the same

1149
01:29:36.880 --> 01:29:41.720
about fifty So I mean there's some
power, there's some speed. Feels like

1150
01:29:41.760 --> 01:29:45.720
a fifteen to fifteen kind of guy
with strikes out a little bit too much.

1151
01:29:45.840 --> 01:29:49.199
But yeah, I mean I don't
know. I think thirty six is

1152
01:29:49.239 --> 01:29:54.359
a little harsh. Yeah, I
could have moved, But do I move

1153
01:29:54.439 --> 01:30:00.239
him ahead of von Grissom? Yes, even though von Grissom's got a full

1154
01:30:00.279 --> 01:30:05.439
time job. You don't think Zachnito
does. Yeah, oh yeah again,

1155
01:30:05.479 --> 01:30:10.439
I started like von Grissom, I
I like Bryce ter Ang will give you

1156
01:30:10.439 --> 01:30:16.079
a thirty stolen basis. Mason wins
got you know, potential perdomo at thirty

1157
01:30:16.119 --> 01:30:21.239
one. Yeah, maybe I could
swap them with half your bias. Have

1158
01:30:21.399 --> 01:30:28.000
your bias drops their response. I
think there could be something a little bit

1159
01:30:28.000 --> 01:30:30.359
more there with zach Nita. That's
that's my only my only thought there.

1160
01:30:30.920 --> 01:30:38.399
Looking back to Tim Tim Anderson,
Tim home totally totally justified forty ninth.

1161
01:30:38.520 --> 01:30:44.279
You have him forty ninth. Well
at Ted twenty nine? Okay, no,

1162
01:30:44.279 --> 01:30:47.079
no, no, no, no, no. Most most teams are

1163
01:30:47.119 --> 01:30:50.439
relatively secure at shortstop right now,
aren't they. Well, I don't know.

1164
01:30:50.520 --> 01:30:53.520
I don't even know if Tim Managers
is going to get a job.

1165
01:30:55.159 --> 01:30:58.680
He could have been the worst player
in baseball last year. Well yeah,

1166
01:30:58.760 --> 01:31:03.119
and it's it's not as if it
was a one off. Yeah, Okay,

1167
01:31:03.479 --> 01:31:10.840
you take a look at Tim Anderson, Okay, and you go back,

1168
01:31:11.439 --> 01:31:15.359
okay a few years, which is
what I'm gonna do if I can

1169
01:31:15.359 --> 01:31:17.079
ever find him. He's down at
the bottom of the list on roadal ware

1170
01:31:17.119 --> 01:31:21.960
as well. Yeah, last year
Tim Anderson one home run, thirteen stolen

1171
01:31:21.960 --> 01:31:27.000
bases, two forty five average.
But let's let's go back. You know

1172
01:31:28.720 --> 01:31:32.800
he had the twenty home run season, Okay, in twenty eighteen. Okay,

1173
01:31:33.239 --> 01:31:35.399
well, then I believe he signed
a five year deal. Well,

1174
01:31:35.439 --> 01:31:40.520
the year after that, it was
eighteen home runs, seventeen stolen bases,

1175
01:31:41.000 --> 01:31:44.920
three thirty five average. It was
a good year. Okay, after that,

1176
01:31:45.079 --> 01:31:51.079
ten home runs, five stolen bases
seventeen eighteen twenty twenty two, six

1177
01:31:51.159 --> 01:31:59.119
home runs, thirteen stolen bases,
one home run thirteen. It's he swings

1178
01:31:59.119 --> 01:32:03.279
at everything, Okay. I remember
looking at looking at looking at him,

1179
01:32:03.279 --> 01:32:10.760
and you know, commenting on what
happens, okay when the batspeed maybe slows

1180
01:32:10.800 --> 01:32:16.079
down a little bit. But you
know, his walk totals for his entire

1181
01:32:16.319 --> 01:32:23.920
career are one hundred and forty three. Yeah, it's amazing. Here's here's

1182
01:32:24.119 --> 01:32:27.840
a year and a half year and
a half of one sotos in a eight

1183
01:32:27.920 --> 01:32:31.720
year career. No, I I, hey, somebody will probably take a

1184
01:32:31.760 --> 01:32:38.359
chance on Tim Anderson. But yeah, it's interesting. His exit velocity is

1185
01:32:38.399 --> 01:32:42.239
a little bit below average. But
here's what's fascinating. In twenty eighteen at

1186
01:32:42.319 --> 01:32:45.039
launch angle of ten point eight degrees, which is a little bit below average,

1187
01:32:45.439 --> 01:32:49.880
but in nineteen it was eight point
seven, twenty twenty six point seven,

1188
01:32:50.000 --> 01:32:55.079
four point three, and twenty one
three point three, twenty two and

1189
01:32:55.199 --> 01:33:00.119
last year two percent. He's become
an extreme ground ball hitter. He's not

1190
01:33:00.199 --> 01:33:02.920
getting the ball in the air at
all. And Timmy, there's no way

1191
01:33:02.920 --> 01:33:08.640
you can hit home runs with a
two degree launching. It ain't gonna happen.

1192
01:33:08.720 --> 01:33:13.039
Everything's being hit on the ground.
Well, unless you've got an exit

1193
01:33:13.119 --> 01:33:16.800
velocity averaging about one ten. Yeah, it's a challenge, right, Maxic's

1194
01:33:16.840 --> 01:33:21.680
velocity is still up there, So
I mean, could somebody help him and

1195
01:33:21.760 --> 01:33:27.520
figure out you need to add some
launch to your swing to maybe, I

1196
01:33:27.520 --> 01:33:31.399
mean there's that possibility, but man, it's a mess. He is absolute

1197
01:33:31.560 --> 01:33:36.920
mess. I think I have him
ranked too high at forty nine. The

1198
01:33:38.119 --> 01:33:44.319
more I look at this, Yeah, I would I take Anderson over Vessab

1199
01:33:45.279 --> 01:33:49.720
or Colson Montgomery or even Jackson Marino. Probably not, Yeah, it's yeah,

1200
01:33:49.800 --> 01:33:55.039
I certainly would not have him elevated
to the thirty short stop off the

1201
01:33:55.079 --> 01:33:58.479
board. All right, Timmy,
let's get to the tough questions. Yes,

1202
01:33:58.560 --> 01:34:00.479
which player not in the top ten. We've already answered this, but

1203
01:34:00.520 --> 01:34:03.319
I want to hear it again.
Which player not on the top ten has

1204
01:34:03.359 --> 01:34:06.319
a chance to merge there next season? I know it's gonna be to war,

1205
01:34:06.439 --> 01:34:12.520
So give me that and give me
another one. Anthony Bolpley and Ezekiel

1206
01:34:12.560 --> 01:34:17.000
Tobar. Yeah, yep, okay, yeah, okay, okay, okay,

1207
01:34:17.000 --> 01:34:20.560
big shooter, you're gonna give me
that. You throw Jackson Holiday into

1208
01:34:20.600 --> 01:34:25.600
that group too, depending on what
happens. There are very interesting three or

1209
01:34:25.640 --> 01:34:30.520
four names that I think could ascend
the top ten. But hey, the

1210
01:34:30.560 --> 01:34:33.119
top ten is pretty solid. Top
ten Okay, so it's a big shot.

1211
01:34:33.159 --> 01:34:36.720
You got to take two guys out. No, I don't. I'm

1212
01:34:36.720 --> 01:34:41.880
not taking any well. I think
one has got to be Nico Horner,

1213
01:34:41.960 --> 01:34:43.760
right, I mean, it's all
of a sudden if you get a guy

1214
01:34:43.760 --> 01:34:47.479
that's doing power and speed, somebody
who's very little power and speed is going

1215
01:34:47.520 --> 01:34:51.199
to drop right right. I think
the ones that will come out of the

1216
01:34:51.239 --> 01:35:00.199
top ten are Gunner Henderson out of
the top ten. Yeah at shortstop.

1217
01:35:02.439 --> 01:35:08.159
You think that Jackson Holiday is going
to play shortstop and Gunner Henderson is going

1218
01:35:08.159 --> 01:35:13.039
to go to third. Yes,
I think that's a distinct possibility. I

1219
01:35:13.079 --> 01:35:16.439
think, so let me let me
can I push back on that. Yeah,

1220
01:35:16.520 --> 01:35:25.520
sure, you're going to take the
one of the two cornerstones of your

1221
01:35:25.640 --> 01:35:29.840
team in the Baltimore Orioles. You're
going to take a guy that's got a

1222
01:35:30.039 --> 01:35:34.600
Rookie of the Year trophy in his
trophy case, and you're gonna say,

1223
01:35:35.279 --> 01:35:40.560
there's this young hot shot in Jackson
Holiday down in the minor leagues, which

1224
01:35:40.560 --> 01:35:44.000
you didn't play with them, but
you know everybody knows of them. We're

1225
01:35:44.000 --> 01:35:46.039
going to move you to third because
we think Jackson Holiday is going to be

1226
01:35:46.039 --> 01:35:50.079
a better shortstop. You think they're
going to have that conversation with Gunner Henderson.

1227
01:35:50.760 --> 01:35:55.880
Gunner Sat Henderson played eighty four games
at third base last year. I

1228
01:35:55.880 --> 01:35:58.760
think I don't think. I think
he sees himself as a shortstop, though,

1229
01:35:59.319 --> 01:36:03.880
well again, he saw himself as
a pretty good third basement last year,

1230
01:36:04.079 --> 01:36:12.920
so I think they can have that
discussion. Interesting that he wouldn't obviously

1231
01:36:12.960 --> 01:36:17.439
he again he could, he could
move into shortstop, and we could see

1232
01:36:17.800 --> 01:36:20.680
one of the two of them is
not going to have shortstop by eligibly.

1233
01:36:20.760 --> 01:36:26.279
That's fair, that's fair in all
probability. But a player like Matt McClean,

1234
01:36:26.479 --> 01:36:31.159
okay, m h you know,
is he going to be in an

1235
01:36:31.239 --> 01:36:36.239
everyday second base hass on. Kim
has got multiple position eligibility between short,

1236
01:36:36.319 --> 01:36:40.479
second, and third. He's likely
to lose one this year. Horner is

1237
01:36:40.560 --> 01:36:45.520
going to lose He's going to lose
his shortstop eligibility. So you're saying just

1238
01:36:45.600 --> 01:36:48.600
because of yeah, where these guys
are playing next season, that's why these

1239
01:36:48.640 --> 01:36:53.159
other that's kind of cheap. If
I may be so bold to me,

1240
01:36:53.239 --> 01:36:57.680
I want a guy that's going to
drop because he's not going to be as

1241
01:36:57.760 --> 01:37:01.359
good, but I'm cheap. It's
a bill, That's what she That's what

1242
01:37:01.439 --> 01:37:06.880
she said. She said, yeah, with a dot. If I had

1243
01:37:06.880 --> 01:37:12.159
to, if I had to bet
on any of any two players coming off

1244
01:37:12.199 --> 01:37:15.279
this Leston everybody is shortstop eligible next
year, it's got to be Kim and

1245
01:37:15.319 --> 01:37:21.479
Horner, Yeah, I would,
Yeah, yep. That's and it's not

1246
01:37:21.640 --> 01:37:27.199
because they aren't good players. It's
because the potential is there for the other

1247
01:37:27.239 --> 01:37:30.920
three to be better. I agree
with you, Tim, So that was

1248
01:37:30.960 --> 01:37:34.079
one question. So that's the guy. And we talked with the guys who

1249
01:37:34.119 --> 01:37:38.039
drop off. Sorry, So give
me a couple of sleepers. Oh,

1250
01:37:38.159 --> 01:37:42.359
a couple sleepers. Oh, what's
got to be? Tovar is one?

1251
01:37:43.159 --> 01:37:46.319
Well, I don't I don't consider
him to be a sleeper. Well,

1252
01:37:46.319 --> 01:37:49.960
if he's going in the fourteenth round
and you're suggesting that people take him in

1253
01:37:50.039 --> 01:37:58.680
the uh yeah, yeah, I
guess he follows and falls into the category

1254
01:37:58.800 --> 01:38:02.960
of sleeper. Uh. I think
as Ezekiel Durant could prove to be an

1255
01:38:02.960 --> 01:38:10.720
interesting player. Uh. Paguero,
Yes, okay, definitely, and then

1256
01:38:10.760 --> 01:38:15.359
be over Praguero even though he plays
for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Yes, I

1257
01:38:16.039 --> 01:38:19.479
that caveat in there. Yeah.
His ADP right now is six oh one.

1258
01:38:20.880 --> 01:38:25.560
Okay, Yeah, there's potential.
And when you get into after pick

1259
01:38:25.680 --> 01:38:31.720
thirty, okay, Perdomo, Mason, Wynn, Vaughan Grissom, Louis Hey,

1260
01:38:31.840 --> 01:38:39.760
Marco Luciano, Zach Needo, Jordan
Lawler, all those players have considerable

1261
01:38:39.840 --> 01:38:44.960
upside potential. The guy that I
kind of like that you can get with

1262
01:38:45.119 --> 01:38:50.159
pick six ninety is Jackson Merrill.
I mean, yeah, I do like

1263
01:38:50.239 --> 01:38:55.079
the setup there. He's probably gonna
play in the outfield. He'll be shortstop

1264
01:38:55.159 --> 01:38:58.920
eligible, as he should be.
There's a lot of spots available in the

1265
01:38:58.960 --> 01:39:02.520
outfield and sand Diego Bogarts is not
going anywhere. And I do like Colson

1266
01:39:02.560 --> 01:39:06.119
Montgomery, who you've got at fifty
three. You've got him tense, actually

1267
01:39:06.159 --> 01:39:10.920
going ten slots after the NFBC.
But I do like that pick in there

1268
01:39:10.960 --> 01:39:15.920
because they could be wide open in
Chicago for him to play there. Yeah,

1269
01:39:15.159 --> 01:39:18.960
the one, the one pick that
Another pick that surprises me coming out

1270
01:39:18.960 --> 01:39:28.880
of the NFBC is Amed Rosario.
Okay, Yeah, he's currently going twenty

1271
01:39:28.920 --> 01:39:33.079
eight in the NFBC and I've got
him down at fifty two. Now,

1272
01:39:34.760 --> 01:39:42.439
am I being overly harsh? I
don't think so. I haven't even thought

1273
01:39:42.439 --> 01:39:45.920
about amd Razia. Where's he playing? He's a free agent? Yeah,

1274
01:39:46.039 --> 01:39:50.439
there you go? Okay, Yeah, last year he was left off the

1275
01:39:50.520 --> 01:39:56.119
NLDS roster by the Dodgers. He
had six home runs last year, swiped

1276
01:39:56.159 --> 01:40:00.279
fifteen bases. You know, you
go, But you have to go back

1277
01:40:00.359 --> 01:40:04.680
to twenty nineteen where he best at
fifteen home runs and it was sorry where

1278
01:40:04.720 --> 01:40:10.079
he got to fifteen home runs.
Okay, is high water marking. RBI

1279
01:40:10.199 --> 01:40:15.039
is a seventy two stolen bases.
He's a fifteen to twenty stolen base type

1280
01:40:15.479 --> 01:40:23.680
and his batting averages, say,
averaging out around two seventy seven. Yeah,

1281
01:40:23.760 --> 01:40:28.479
yeah, thirty one walks twenty five
is a Medrew's areo? Is he

1282
01:40:28.479 --> 01:40:31.199
going to get a job? I
would think he would. I mean,

1283
01:40:31.279 --> 01:40:38.279
it's you're better than have your bias. But he doesn't have the contract.

1284
01:40:39.079 --> 01:40:44.359
Does that's true? You know,
I just have my dotes as to whether

1285
01:40:44.479 --> 01:40:47.960
or not he'll get much of a
deal. Maybe a one year you know,

1286
01:40:48.039 --> 01:40:50.840
he might be the sort of player
that's added in the spring training as

1287
01:40:50.880 --> 01:40:58.800
a result of an injury. But
isn't short stop? You know, you

1288
01:40:58.840 --> 01:41:02.560
know, you start looking at the
teams that have shortstop challenges per se.

1289
01:41:02.840 --> 01:41:06.359
The Rays aren't going to go and
pay for anybody unless they absolutely, I

1290
01:41:06.399 --> 01:41:09.600
don't necessit. You have to,
you know, the Rays of the Rays,

1291
01:41:09.760 --> 01:41:13.720
right, the white socks, I
got Montgomery, Montgomery sitting there.

1292
01:41:13.760 --> 01:41:16.279
The Padres have got Merrill, the
you know, the Rays have also got

1293
01:41:16.600 --> 01:41:20.279
Bazabi, right, there's Adre's also
got Xander Bogarts unless he gets hurt.

1294
01:41:21.039 --> 01:41:27.199
Well, yeah, so again you
look at the Cards. Will the Cardinals

1295
01:41:27.199 --> 01:41:30.920
bring it in will or will if
Mason win struggles? Possibly, I don't

1296
01:41:30.920 --> 01:41:35.680
know. Possibly, but there's just
not that many opportunities. So we're saying

1297
01:41:35.720 --> 01:41:41.479
it's it's musical chairs and men.
Rosario might be the guy who's out who

1298
01:41:41.479 --> 01:41:45.039
didn't have the chair. I'med Rosario
would have been smart to have signed in

1299
01:41:45.159 --> 01:41:54.479
November and reserve his place at the
table right right now. You know,

1300
01:41:54.640 --> 01:41:59.920
hey, the number of chairs has
shrunk, and who knows how it's going

1301
01:42:00.159 --> 01:42:03.760
to fit in. That's fair,
that's fair. So we've done sleepers anybody

1302
01:42:03.800 --> 01:42:11.079
you're just avoiding avoiding. Yeah,
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna touch O'Neal

1303
01:42:11.159 --> 01:42:16.119
cruise leant not not with the you
know, the hype of the helium that

1304
01:42:16.279 --> 01:42:20.319
is floating around with O'Neal cruise.
No, I'm not going to touch Xander

1305
01:42:20.359 --> 01:42:26.520
Bogarts. Why not? Okay,
why not? I mean where's that?

1306
01:42:26.880 --> 01:42:28.840
Well, let me go back to
your list to see where he's going,

1307
01:42:28.840 --> 01:42:32.239
because I because everybody is draftable,
well most how your bias isn't. But

1308
01:42:32.279 --> 01:42:36.600
everybody's draftable depending on where you can
get him. Right, So, well,

1309
01:42:36.680 --> 01:42:41.720
yeah, where is Xander Bogart's going? Exander Bogarts is going at one

1310
01:42:41.960 --> 01:42:46.119
ten, that's the eighth realm.
Yeah, yeah, I'm probably right,

1311
01:42:46.159 --> 01:42:50.159
I probably would. He did see
a more bases last year. Yeah,

1312
01:42:50.399 --> 01:42:54.560
so did everybody. Okay, that's
fair, that's what you wrote. That's

1313
01:42:54.640 --> 01:42:58.000
that's fair. Yeah, he had
nineteen home runs and you grove in fifty

1314
01:42:58.000 --> 01:43:03.840
eight. Okay, the batting average
is fine. I just don't see when

1315
01:43:04.199 --> 01:43:08.479
I look at Bullguards, I just
don't see. Ye know, Hey,

1316
01:43:08.560 --> 01:43:12.079
I think there's an outlier in there, or rather big outlier, And I

1317
01:43:12.359 --> 01:43:20.720
just don't would would I bet on
Bullgarts or Jackson Holiday or just wait and

1318
01:43:20.800 --> 01:43:27.680
grab Ezekiel Duran or Perdomo or Paguero, You know what I mean. There's

1319
01:43:27.760 --> 01:43:31.239
just not enough there to make me
want to move on Bullgart's at this current

1320
01:43:31.279 --> 01:43:35.600
price, actually, at any price. Interesting. Yeah, I just don't

1321
01:43:35.600 --> 01:43:42.000
see any upside there. So why
if I want a safe pick, I

1322
01:43:42.039 --> 01:43:45.119
can get Dan's Dansby Swanson. I
think Dancy Swanson is a better safe pick.

1323
01:43:45.159 --> 01:43:48.720
I would agree with you there,
but he does he doesn't provide He

1324
01:43:48.760 --> 01:43:53.279
doesn't provide you any upside. I
would agree with that, but he does

1325
01:43:53.319 --> 01:43:58.960
provide some level of safety. Yeah, as a middle infielder. Yeah,

1326
01:43:59.000 --> 01:44:02.960
but and he did go nineteen nineteen
last season. Okay, you're faced with

1327
01:44:03.039 --> 01:44:06.840
a choice, as you're to fill
your middle infield slot, knowing that you

1328
01:44:06.880 --> 01:44:13.600
can get a Bryce Terring or Zach
McKinstry off the waiver wire, did you

1329
01:44:13.600 --> 01:44:20.079
go Xander Bogart's at one ten or
Jackson Holiday at two o eight, knowing

1330
01:44:20.720 --> 01:44:28.920
what's going to be left in the
free agent bool? Yeah, I mean

1331
01:44:29.000 --> 01:44:31.239
I can. I can. I
don't know. I can argue it both

1332
01:44:31.279 --> 01:44:34.439
ways. I mean, he did
go nearly twenty twenty last season with a

1333
01:44:34.439 --> 01:44:40.279
two eighty five three point fifty.
He's a big he's an established player,

1334
01:44:40.319 --> 01:44:44.000
he is thirty one years old.
The bat speed's not great. It's only

1335
01:44:44.039 --> 01:44:46.920
an eighteen percent hard hit, right, so you have to believe that nineteen

1336
01:44:47.039 --> 01:44:49.600
twenty is the maximum home run it
he is. He's probably more of a

1337
01:44:49.600 --> 01:44:55.239
fifteen home run guy. He's a
fifty seven percent sprint speed guy. So

1338
01:44:55.359 --> 01:45:00.319
that nineteen stolen bases is probably not
real either. So it's probably more of

1339
01:45:00.399 --> 01:45:02.880
a fifteen to fifteen guy. Do
I roll the dice and say, Jackson

1340
01:45:02.920 --> 01:45:08.359
Holiday, it's got more upside than
that. Later I can make that argument

1341
01:45:08.960 --> 01:45:14.800
Jackson all day and Chris Taylor sitting
there in the free agent pool. Yeah,

1342
01:45:14.880 --> 01:45:16.840
yeah, I totally get what you're
saying. I out of the two,

1343
01:45:16.840 --> 01:45:24.439
I would definitely take Danthony Swanson or
Anthony Volpi over Xander Bogarts. I

1344
01:45:24.439 --> 01:45:30.680
would get I get that. Yeah, yeah, it's I'm they just it

1345
01:45:30.720 --> 01:45:32.800
does nothing for me. Yeah,
you know, well you gotta, you

1346
01:45:32.800 --> 01:45:35.640
gotta fall in love, Timmy.
Doesn't sound like that's gonna happen with Xander

1347
01:45:35.680 --> 01:45:41.680
Bogarts. I'll even take lust.
Okay, right, Timmy, let's let's

1348
01:45:41.720 --> 01:45:45.000
take our final break and let's just
wrap this puppy up. And we've been

1349
01:45:45.000 --> 01:45:47.680
all over the place going an hour
and forty five minutes. We're not getting

1350
01:45:47.680 --> 01:46:00.479
to the San Francisco Giants prospects.
Leave that for another day. Yeah you

1351
01:46:00.560 --> 01:46:03.199
okay with that, my friend,
I am perfectly fine with that. I

1352
01:46:03.279 --> 01:46:08.920
got myself a squirrel. I got
a hunch so I could have some supper

1353
01:46:09.439 --> 01:46:13.600
stew for supper. Yeah. Have
you ever eaten squirrel before? No?

1354
01:46:13.680 --> 01:46:19.199
I haven't, But I know somebody
who hasn't really likes it really, Yeah,

1355
01:46:19.279 --> 01:46:23.239
yeah, it's not for me.
Not for me either, No,

1356
01:46:23.399 --> 01:46:29.560
it's is there much difference between a
rat and a squirrel? Oh? Depending

1357
01:46:29.640 --> 01:46:34.680
on where you live. A couple
bounds that's true. I told you about

1358
01:46:34.680 --> 01:46:39.279
that when we were in Brooklyn the
last visit, visiting my son when he

1359
01:46:39.279 --> 01:46:42.239
lived in Brooklyn. This an awful
experience. And there was this rat that

1360
01:46:42.279 --> 01:46:45.399
we saw. It looked like it
looked like a small dog. I mean,

1361
01:46:45.439 --> 01:46:48.039
it was ridiculous. I'm like,
oh my God, like, why

1362
01:46:48.199 --> 01:46:50.960
is he living here? You know? I was like, no, I'm

1363
01:46:50.960 --> 01:46:57.079
not coming anymore. You're moving.
Yeah, no, we we have we

1364
01:46:57.159 --> 01:47:00.760
have a problem. There used to
be again, uh, when the mill

1365
01:47:00.880 --> 01:47:03.600
was here. The mill's been torn
down now, but well, the mill

1366
01:47:03.800 --> 01:47:06.920
was up. There was a fair
number of living in the mill, eh,

1367
01:47:08.000 --> 01:47:10.920
and they'd occasionally be a bit of
a problem. When I was in

1368
01:47:11.000 --> 01:47:14.880
thunder Bay. Hey they got green
elevators. You got green elevators, you

1369
01:47:14.960 --> 01:47:19.000
got rats, and uh, I've
heard stories about people looking at yeah small

1370
01:47:19.039 --> 01:47:24.760
dogs, yeah, small dogs.
Yeah. Yeah. They get trash cans

1371
01:47:24.800 --> 01:47:28.840
or grain mills and they can fill
up pretty quickly. Anyway, Yes,

1372
01:47:29.479 --> 01:47:33.520
I guess I should say you wrap
bastard did very well there, So first

1373
01:47:33.560 --> 01:47:36.680
world a rat if we were forced
with a choice for supper. But I'm

1374
01:47:36.680 --> 01:47:40.279
not looking at either. Ops.
Well, I'm excited for you. On

1375
01:47:40.359 --> 01:47:44.680
Wednesday, Timmy is it a slow
draft or a one night draft. It's

1376
01:47:44.720 --> 01:47:48.239
a it's a slow draft. Four
okay, so we will we will cover

1377
01:47:48.279 --> 01:47:53.000
your draft next Sunday. See how
you're doing there, because I think people

1378
01:47:53.079 --> 01:47:56.760
want to hear that it's unfortunate that
you're picking the same slot. I am

1379
01:47:57.439 --> 01:48:00.159
it would have been better if you
picked somewhere different, but it is what

1380
01:48:00.199 --> 01:48:01.720
it is. I mean, we
can't we can't make up where you're picking.

1381
01:48:02.520 --> 01:48:06.560
No, it's uh, I am
looking forward to it. It's from

1382
01:48:08.560 --> 01:48:12.439
the same guys running it that did
my first run, and I write it

1383
01:48:12.520 --> 01:48:16.680
up for Masters Ball I I they
have they have on their site. They

1384
01:48:16.760 --> 01:48:21.319
do an early review and I provide
commentary on my picks and just general observation.

1385
01:48:21.520 --> 01:48:25.960
So I started to look forward to
it. It's uh, it's it's

1386
01:48:26.000 --> 01:48:29.479
a fun, fun exercise for me
and at the same time provides me with

1387
01:48:30.399 --> 01:48:34.800
an early look at the season that
I will definitely be using as we move

1388
01:48:34.840 --> 01:48:40.279
into draft seasons. Well, it
warms me, Cuckles Tim that maybe I

1389
01:48:40.359 --> 01:48:45.880
had just a smidge of impact on
Bobby Wood Junior with you to nudge him

1390
01:48:46.000 --> 01:48:49.279
up a little bit. That warms
me, Cuckles, does give me a

1391
01:48:49.600 --> 01:48:53.600
greater level of responsibility, because if
he sucks to me, I would I

1392
01:48:53.600 --> 01:48:59.479
feel really bad. But you know
you still do hold me for Alex Manola.

1393
01:48:59.680 --> 01:49:05.760
So oh that's true. That is
true. That is definitely. Uh

1394
01:49:05.800 --> 01:49:10.640
boy. I just I shake my
head every time I think of Alec Manoa.

1395
01:49:10.720 --> 01:49:14.479
He will never ever ever be on
another one. I don't care if

1396
01:49:14.479 --> 01:49:17.039
he wins three cy Young's in a
row. I'm done, totally done.

1397
01:49:17.399 --> 01:49:23.680
I get he wrecked my team last
year. Yes, Christian Hovier was a

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close second. Yeah, Christian Hoveyer
shattered a lot of dreams last year.

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He really did. Yeah. I
mean I looked at his data. It's

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still not awful. I'm not exactly
sure. What have I got to dig

1401
01:49:35.479 --> 01:49:41.479
into that? It's yeah, he's
not Yeah, he's once bitten twice shy,

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01:49:41.640 --> 01:49:44.960
No way, I'm not uh for
me once, shame on you for

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01:49:45.119 --> 01:49:47.119
me twice, shame on me.
Whatever express you want to use, not

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01:49:47.159 --> 01:49:51.000
happening again. Yeah. The one
thing I did find interesting doing all my

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01:49:51.640 --> 01:50:00.279
digging and looking was I wasn't aware
that Corbyn kerre his power numbers. We're

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01:50:00.319 --> 01:50:04.640
that down in August. In September, if I found the night when I

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01:50:04.640 --> 01:50:10.399
saw it, I said whoa,
that's again. We'll let our listeners go

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01:50:10.520 --> 01:50:15.880
back to a podcast we did some
somewhere in September when Rich Wilson said to

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01:50:15.920 --> 01:50:20.399
Tim McCleod, are you worried at
all about the power reduction we see in

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01:50:20.479 --> 01:50:26.720
Corbyn Carroll, I think your answer
was nope. That's exactly that's how you

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01:50:26.880 --> 01:50:30.279
said it. Nope, Like okay, and I moved one. Nope,

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01:50:31.439 --> 01:50:41.159
And apparently I've moved on as well. Tim's like, I heard this sumwherre

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01:50:41.199 --> 01:50:45.359
before. Where did I hear it
from? Better? Look at this.

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01:50:45.800 --> 01:50:49.239
It was probably Bob king Hi sending
me an email. Probably probably Bob smarter

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01:50:49.359 --> 01:50:53.560
than me. So I totally get
that. Tommy. It has been a

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01:50:53.560 --> 01:50:57.800
blast. What's for dinner? Tell
us what's for dinner? Dinner tonight?

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01:50:58.880 --> 01:51:06.560
Having? Uh oh yes, pork
ribs or beef ribs. Pork ribs with

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01:51:06.680 --> 01:51:12.439
a honey garlic sauce. Oh wow, that sounds really really good. Yeah.

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01:51:12.560 --> 01:51:15.199
I one of these days I got
to get back into the chicken ball

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01:51:15.279 --> 01:51:20.640
thing. But it's been a pause
for the cause there, so ribs ribs

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01:51:20.680 --> 01:51:25.319
should do the job. What about
you left overnight? It is leftover as

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01:51:25.359 --> 01:51:30.279
we had LORI made a salmon with
glazed some kind of glaze on it was

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01:51:30.319 --> 01:51:32.399
really good, and so we only
ate half of it. The other half

1424
01:51:32.520 --> 01:51:39.560
the night with a very healthy you're
gonna hate this kil and Brussels sprout salad,

1425
01:51:39.600 --> 01:51:44.760
which sounds gross. It was outstanding
with a little roasted pecans on top

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01:51:44.840 --> 01:51:47.640
of it. Really really good.
So we're doing that. I'll take your

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01:51:47.680 --> 01:51:53.000
work for it. I looked at
it too, and so I don't know

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01:51:53.079 --> 01:51:57.560
about this, but it was quite
good. So now after the twenty six

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01:51:57.600 --> 01:52:00.520
when I see my cardiologist for the
annual appointment, I might be more into

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01:52:00.600 --> 01:52:04.520
kale after that, might keep calling
for a recipe. I get it.

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01:52:04.720 --> 01:52:09.039
Yeah, it's it's tough to take. To mean kale is not good.

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01:52:09.039 --> 01:52:12.199
It's very healthy for you, but
it's not. And sort of Brussels sprouts

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01:52:12.239 --> 01:52:15.479
and then it's, uh, we
actually like him raw and shredded and you

1434
01:52:15.560 --> 01:52:18.640
put nice, a nice little vinaigrette
on it. It's somewhat tolerable. But

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01:52:19.319 --> 01:52:25.279
to buy themselves not good. Well, yeah, I I'll eat Brussels sprouts

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01:52:25.439 --> 01:52:28.920
and you know, broccoli and all
that stuff. But the problem is I

1437
01:52:28.960 --> 01:52:31.119
dose it with lots of cheese sauce. Okay, So it's sort of defeats

1438
01:52:31.159 --> 01:52:33.600
the purposes. And that's part of
the problem with all these healthy things.

1439
01:52:33.640 --> 01:52:36.600
They take by themselves, they taste
terrible. Anybody tells you to tastes good,

1440
01:52:36.600 --> 01:52:41.279
they're lying. I mean they well, yeah, and you know one

1441
01:52:41.319 --> 01:52:44.840
counterman's the other right, and yeah
exactly. So then you have to douse

1442
01:52:44.880 --> 01:52:45.840
them with all the stuff that's bad. And you said, well, look,

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01:52:45.840 --> 01:52:49.279
I et kale i ate Brussels sprouts, ate collared greens, look at

1444
01:52:49.279 --> 01:52:51.640
me, and then all of a
sudden, it's like, no, you

1445
01:52:53.119 --> 01:52:55.680
better. I'm better off just cutting
right to the chase. You filling my

1446
01:52:55.720 --> 01:52:59.359
face with frenh fries. So it
was funny because so we have this farm

1447
01:52:59.399 --> 01:53:01.600
stand up the road and I don't
know if you've ever had collar greens,

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01:53:01.640 --> 01:53:05.319
that's a Southern thing. Have you
ever had them? No? I haven't

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01:53:06.079 --> 01:53:10.600
awful. I mean by themselves,
Timmy, they're terrible. You literally have

1450
01:53:10.680 --> 01:53:15.840
to cook them for four hours in
bacon grease and then they're absolutely delicious.

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01:53:16.279 --> 01:53:20.560
But it's so Loris like, I'm
going to the farm stand. Should I

1452
01:53:20.560 --> 01:53:24.840
get some collar greens that go?
Are we going to dallas them in for

1453
01:53:24.880 --> 01:53:27.239
four hours and bacon? And she
goes, that's the only way to eat

1454
01:53:27.279 --> 01:53:31.359
them, otherwise are another ball.
And then I go, let's no bacon

1455
01:53:31.479 --> 01:53:36.359
tomato exactly like, let's just cut
out the middle man of of the colarts.

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01:53:36.680 --> 01:53:43.640
And but I tell you, Tommy
in the south Man, when they

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01:53:43.760 --> 01:53:46.720
they these collar greens and bacon fat, oh my word, they're really good.

1458
01:53:46.800 --> 01:53:51.119
But literally you feel your arteries closing
as you eat them. Well,

1459
01:53:51.199 --> 01:53:56.399
yeah, just give me a bowl
of bacon fat, Tommy. It's a

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01:53:56.520 --> 01:53:59.079
it's a wrap, my friend.
We will see you on Sunday. Have

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01:53:59.159 --> 01:54:01.760
a good week of luck with your
draft. Thanks a bunch, and we'll

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01:54:01.760 --> 01:54:05.520
be back next week with third Base
and looking forward to it. Have a

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01:54:05.560 --> 01:54:06.239
great week, Rich,