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Not five miles an hour, ratting
to his head. He hopped down first

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with the Mount Bonius face, and
on the very next pitch he up and

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stole second face with gretest. He
wasn't born, he had yes uniform.

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So episode twenty seven of the Prospect
B Sides podcast, I am Nate Handy

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joining me Rook. However, I'm
good, my friend. I am still

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a little stuffed up from the cold
I had last time. It's sort of

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never ending when you have young kids
and they go to daycare. But I'm

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human, and I couldn't really have
said that last week. So I'm glad

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we've given ourselves a little bit of
a break and some time to take in

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all of the action of MLB's real
opening weekend, right And it's awesome to

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have some games, some real games
that count both a Major League and some

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Triple A action. I don't know
what your biggest takeaways on the weekend have

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been, but for me, it's
just like so refreshing and so nice to

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watch some games and get like the
sense of baseball that you know, looking

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at all these spreadsheets and numbers that
we've talked about all off season and trying

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to paint a picture of these players, like actually just getting to see it

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and getting to see a baseball game
and how that story the story. Every

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game in and of itself is a
different story, and how that translates or

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can look. Box score can be
so different and varying, and sometimes the

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lines don't tell the good stories.
Sometimes they do. Right, just being

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reminded that you know you can you
can pitch well and not have great results.

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You can pitch maybe not the greatest
and have good results. You can

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swing the bat well, have nothing
to show for it. You can swing

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the bat okay, have something to
show for it, et cetera, et

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cetera. Right, And I know
you and I like to talk about or

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we have talked about WPA, right, how situational baseball is and how interconnected

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all of the parts of the team
are and how they can affect each other.

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Right, I mean starting pitching,
relief, pitching, your offense,

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your defense, like those all very
much affect each other. And just getting

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to see that story again has just
been really fun and refreshing for me.

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I don't know, I'm with you
and I got up to Seattle and saw

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the Mariners opener with a bunch of
buddies from high school. We've been doing

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this for a few years, some
fun little tradition and get some nosebleeds and

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watch our boys take on the home
opener. And this year Mayor's lost their

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home opener. But it was just
so much fun to be at live professional

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baseball again. And I love Safecoa. You know, I'll defend it as

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my favorite of all of the stadiums
set I too in the bigs, and

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you know, just going watching some
baseball with some buddies and talking shop fucking

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crap is just it's what we do
this for. It's like, it's that's

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the silly little games that we play
are just a one layer of it.

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But something about being in that stadium
and seeing the Mariners, and there was

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lots of excitement even if the Marrits
didn't win, So I was like it

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it was so fun. I mean, such a great opening weekend, just

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like I'm thankful that real baseball's back. Man, It's great. Yeah.

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Definitely. One thing that I think, I don't know, stats don't like

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paint a great picture of or maybe
when we play this fantasy game, like

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things that don't get accounted for,
like very well is game situation, right,

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you know, the Rockies got had
that third inning which was just an

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insane you know, string of hits
right, went through the lineup twice,

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and like what that does to an
offensive player when you're down fourteen to one

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before you take your second at bat, you know, and you could just

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you could see in that game,
you know, the first couple of innings

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after that, I thought the Rockies, you know, there was more fight

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in there at bats, and then
as that game goes on, it's just

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the quality of that bat just gets
less and less, right, And also

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like seeing the sort of juxtaposition for
me of that game and freeland pitching to

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today's game with Dakota Hudson going and
like, man, man, I don't

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know, I mean, I don't
have any way to like quantify this.

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This is just eyeballs, but I
didn't feel like the quality of Freelan's pitching

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that first game to Hudson's pitching today
was very different at all, like and

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just such drastically different results. Right, It'll be easy to poke fun at

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the Rockies and how horrible that half
inning was, but that kind of sucks

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to me because it takes away the
amazingness of the hitting that was going on

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by the Diamondbacks and that half inning, man, like there were good pitches

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that they put good swings on.
And just how outlier that is that you

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can string together that many hits in
a row. That's amazing, man,

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that doesn't happen, you know,
And it isn't like, oh, yeah,

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you know, Freeland's just like this
school pitcher throwing seventy miles bro or

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well, like we see position players
all the time come in, they can

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lob some stuff, and then teams
aren't getting three hits in a row,

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you know. So I just I
just love it. Every game, every

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situation, it's a it's a different
story and the same inputs can have different

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outcomes, and I love it.
And it makes this game both fun,

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challenging and maddening. Well, and
you also see the skill of the big

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leaguers, and then it's always helpful
for us then to try and comp at

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or at least have that reference point
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And you know, when you see
the upper level minor leaguers in double A

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and triple A, the gap in
size, speed, power, velocity,

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that's it's not as stark, but
it's still pretty helpful to see, like

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one Soto take a pitch that was
ninety eight up and away out of the

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strike zone and get the go ahead
RBI single for the for the Yankees the

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other day yesterday, and like that
stuff is crazy hard to do and you

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don't see that very often even in
the major leagues, and then down into

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like the minor leagues, like that's
pitch is a whiff every time for minor

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leagues, you know, and it's
cool to just see that kind of talent.

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Yeah. Another thing that kind of
hit me in the face this weekend

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was just how good major league hitters
are. Man. We spend most of

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off season, I was watching minor
leaguers right other than spring training or whatever.

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But watch a weeknd of major league
baseball. I'm like, man,

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these hitters put some really good swings
on some really good pitches, man,

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that you don't see. You don't
see you guys doing in the minor leagues

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that often at all. There was
just a lot of moments I was like,

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Damn, that hitter is good.
Then watching minor leaguers watching some Triple

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A and you're just like, yeah, you don't really see the same sort

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of swings and tough pitches. But
AnyWho, Rook, congratulations, my man,

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you are on the board. Your
first B side. Kywait sang what

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three inning of relief last night?
Yeap, yesterday? Yep? It runs

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yep. Yeah, I didn't watch
it. Did you watch it? I

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watched like I skipped through a couple
of innings, didn't watch it closely.

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And man, you were I think
you were real close to getting a couple

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more B sides in the bigs.
If it were not for a couple of

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trades, you might have got Caleb
durban In there, Meldonado. Yeah,

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both. I think we're victim to
last minute trades, maybe keeping them off

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with the opening day rosters. But
I think we're going to see both those

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guys at some point this season.
I agree. And Durbin has continued to

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look good. I mean he's at
Triple A, Like that's impressive in and

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of itself. He's hitting I think
in the two hole for the Yankees Triple

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A affiliate. It's one weekend,
but I think his ops is over nine

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hundred, like stealing bags, got
a couple of steels, already played a

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couple of different positions, I mean, doing his thing doing his thing.

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That versatility and that skill set,
I think it's gonna it's gonna benefit somebody.

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Like we've talked about before, I
think it's safe to say we're probably

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running like a thirty three percent rate
of you know, former B sides over

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the last three years, at least
just making the bigs. I know that

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doesn't say very much for fantasy,
but I think with you now and the

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types of players that you've been picking, I think we're gonna up that percentage

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a little bit. Here Matt jor
Barossa got the call I saw. I

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don't know if you played in today's
tonight's game or not. I haven't seen.

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That's another former B side. And
I think we had five total on

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opening day rosters, and then Von
Grissom on the IL with Gobs, Moore

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and Triple A and hopefully on the
way what last week we did the Spring

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Breakout series and we had one more
game to maybe discuss. So I wanted

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to get into the Seattle San Diego
Spring Breakout game briefly. Here. I

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watched it. I think you watched
it right, Oh yeah, this was

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my favorite, one favorite one to
watch. I mean, I like and

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have watched a lot of the Padres
prospects that were on display, and of

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course the Marias being my ale favorite
team and a bunch of my favorite prospects

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from them were playing, although not
Revent Scooter, which we got to talk

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to Jerry and Justin about that's unacceptable
to leave him off the roster, But

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we did get to see your Maritors
B side prospect lead us off with Logan

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Evans on the bump. Yeah,
man, the hype train is taken off

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out of the station. Mighty quick. Here man flirting with some top one

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hundred lists I see, and getting
picked up and bid on in leagues and

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people thrown some fab down. Now, obviously when we picked him for the

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B side, like we got to
see what like ten innings last year on

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in his draft year, then we
got to see another not even two innings

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in this game. So I mean, I think there's still a lot to

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be learned on Logan Evans here.
But my initial thoughts watching the game,

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you know, first inning, I
think he looked really good. Right when

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he strike out to you could see
there's definitely some some nasty and our arsenal.

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I think he's got the ability to
play games in all directions. Now,

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what I've been most interested in right
is execution of pitches, and I

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think that could have gotten a lot
better. I think I got roughed up

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a little bit in the second inning. There's six runs, two of them

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earned, But I think you could
see some things to be excited about with

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him. One thing that I didn't
notice the first time that I saw him

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was like, it doesn't strike me
as the most athletic looking fella, although

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his delivery and whatnote seems repeatable athletic
in that way. I'm curious anxious to

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see a lot more of him this
season. And are these folks putting down

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these aggressive bets on Evans, you
know, just super wise or is this

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getting a little silly? I don't
know. We will see, but what'd

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you think? Yeah, I mean
it was the clearest look that I had

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a name. Obviously, the broadcast
for this one was quality production, and

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we get to see quite a bit
clear the velocity, the movement, with

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the shape of his pitches, and
he definitely looked a tick or to firmer

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with his fastball than he was last
year. And that matches up the reports

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that we've gotten on a spring training
slider had really solid sweeping movement. Certainly

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in the first inning, he chopped
up what was a very very good top

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of the Padres lineup. You know, hit Jacob Mercy, but got Marcus

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Gatagnon on a strike out looking,
struck out Ethan Salas, and struck out

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Nathan Martarello as well. So I
mean that first inning, like you get

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one look at a guy and you're
like, wow, that that was loud

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stuff, and he just got some
really good hitters out. But I think

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we saw in the second inning something
that we preach a lot is that you

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got to watch a guy more than
just the highlights to really get a sense

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for him. And I don't think
that the development on Evans is done.

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I think that was one thing I
thought when we talked about him before that

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you know, he definitely has to
show a lot more for me to be

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like, oh, wow, this
the next Mariner's pitching prospect. And you

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know, a couple of walks,
a couple of lucky singles, obviously terso

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Ornelli's got him pretty good. That
was a nice homer. Ornellis had a

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great game that game, But you
know, Evans like put some guys on

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and then the wheels kind of came
off and he got pulled out and then

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a bunch of his friends came in. But I thought it was encouraging though

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with him, Like there's different kinds
of I don't know, quote wildness,

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quote command issues. Right. I
felt like if if you're like judging gymnastics,

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right, you get you get points
for level of difficulty, and I

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kind of felt like his his sequencing
and what he was trying to do and

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his plan of attack was a lot
more difficult than I don't know, a

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counterpart in that game, Dylan LESCo, Right, yeah, so and and

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and I didn't feel like Evans was
like wild, he was just it was

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loose, right, I mean he
just ya. I mean there were there

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was some there was Yeah, there
was some that was that was loose,

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but I think that there were some
that he was missing by a decent amount.

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And while LESCo just to jump ahead
to him, Yeah, he was

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wild on right, Like every pitch
like he was not executing you could tell

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that he was just something is off
with him or that like its just kind

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of his game. I'm not sure
there were some shadows of that with Evans

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that I want to I want to
see more like I want to see that

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this was sort of a spring breakout
blip and he's more like his first inning

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self. But there were definitely some
some nibbles that just missed, some just

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missed execution, and a little bit
of wildness in there too. Like I

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think the the hit by pitch against
Marci, if I remember correctly, I

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think that was like a he tried
like a back foot slider and like hit

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him in the back foot, right, I mean, that's yes, that's

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a miss, and yes you don't
want to do that, but that's not

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a that's not a fastball just flying
off or whatever. Right. My point

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being was just the juxtaposition of these
two pitches. Not all walks were the

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same, right, total, you
could see that very drastically with with those

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two guys. I was very unimpressed
with Dylan LESCo, as I have kind

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of always been when I watch him. That not that there's been a ton

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but some folks getting real excited about
Lesco's season and you know, very talented.

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Maybe that happens, but I've always
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little bit with him. Yeah,
I mean it was all bad. I

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you know, he got through one
inning but he had six walks, three

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hits, give up some loud contact. It was just not close. And

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so I'm sort of willing to give
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the doubt, push it out and
say, like, let's see how he

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performs this year, because what are
they slotting him at hya Where you think

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he's gonna start? I believe so
well wherever it is, Like, let's

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see him as he's turning the lineup
over and gets into starts. You know,

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there are some things you look at, and I think one of the

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things that he's lauded for is he's
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when he was hitting his spots,
like you could see he was a little

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bit of a tough some glimpses of
that. There were tough balls to square

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up, but so many just were
non competitive that it got to the point

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of, like, I don't think
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just auto taking, because these these
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inning that he was in there.
I mean, Snelling looked great. I

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really liked both how he pitched and
obviously the results were solid. Snelling,

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I think, just as my kind
of guy, you know, lefty that

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executes a bunch of different pitches and
has good command. Like I think those

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guys are fun, and he seems
just like a very high probability version of

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that typology. Austin Krabb Snellings.
That's like that. I don't want to

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call any pitching prospect safe per se, but like you can feel good and

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solid about Snelling's future in my opinion, Like, definitely that's a that's a

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big league pitcher, you know,
yeah, could be with those skills,

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could stick around for quite a while, I think, yeah. And you

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know, I'm not sure he's going
to be like a number three or number

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two, but when he executes like
that, you can see it, like

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you can see that that's a strong
possible outcome on his outcome distribution. You

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know. Just briefly on CROB,
who is my San Diego b side arm,

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he didn't look great. You know, he walked a guy, which

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is unusual for him. He's got
pretty good command, and then just gave

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up some contact that found some holes. But it seemed like more like he

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was kind of amped up for the
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otherwise, no, no real change
of opinion on him. The guy for

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the Padres that I was interested was
the Rodriguez, but I think it seems

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like Bradley Braggly. It's kind of
a funky first name. But he'd only

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pitched in the DSL. He's a
little older for a DSL guy, but

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he pumped a hundred struck out Ford, and I think threw a fastball by

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Ford, and Ford's a pretty good
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So that was interesting, like looked
relievery to me. Just also twenty years

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old already like he might be a
fast mover, reliever, but the stuff

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looked interesting for him. And then
Jeter Martinez. What did you think of

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live? Look at at Jeter Martinez? Oh yeah, uh yeah, okay,

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I mean I wasn't like, it's
a big kid. It's a big

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body, you know. Okay,
I got to see him on a mound.

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I can see why someone would be
pretty interested in someone that young with

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that kind of look, But it
didn't drat down much of my Jeter Martinez

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narrative. After that one, look
some more. But I'm not, you

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know, over the moon that this
is some wlack future stud. Yeah,

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I mean I kind of was saying
that when we had Matt on the other

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week, Like those DSL guys,
you gotta be careful. It's a super

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super high risk demographic and doesn't take
much for their development to get delayed off

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track, turn into something that you're
not quite doesn't quite look very good.

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It's just, I mean, pitching
is so much I mean, there's so

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much more to learn. There's so
much smarter than hitters, and like there's

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just developing into a major league pitcher
is quite difficult, thinks folks. Sometimes

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still they're thirty years old to figure
that all out, so steep learning curve.

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Geor Martinez was facing still some of
the better Padre's prospects, and mostly

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they were getting the better of him. You know, he walked Defrees,

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walked Marci Castagnon, doubled and that
was hit pretty hard. That was I

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thought, a really good swing from
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But even the ground up before that
was like smoked right at Michael Royo,

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walked Kai Murphy. I mean,
it just was a devree. We

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got to see a single up the
middle. Did he pull that one?

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I think he might have pulled a
line drive on that one. Yeah,

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it's like he was maybe a little
overmatched in this game. Maybe he was

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just a little amped to I can
see like why people are excited about this

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stuff because he's very young and he
was popping upper nineties and fastball. I

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think it was for me or like
real slow play. Like if all it

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took was thrown hard to be a
good major league pitcher, teams would have

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no problems finding good pictures. Yep, there's more to it than that.

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On the hitting side. Did you
see anything you liked? I mean it

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was our first look at Debris and
he had a good game. What did

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you What did you think? Yeah, I mean anytime you get these young

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guys, wow, what was he
seventeen eighteen years old going up against probably

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some of the best pictures they've ever
faced. When they just hold their own

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and look like they belong in the
box. That's that's impressive to me.

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You know, I think Debris did
that. Yeah, I mean Walk twice

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had that hit against Like he's Soliday
right right? He and Celestine though,

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like and this is what's tough.
I mean I try to what when minor

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league season kicks up, I probably
watch a ball the most just because that's

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the newest names to me, and
I just curious like that some of them.

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Sometimes maybe it happens earlier in the
season, but there's a moment where

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you're like, ah, okay,
I think as I think I get what

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to be excited about here, and
you know, both those guys seeing this

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one game, like I don't think
I really had that moment where I'm like,

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oh, yeah, these guys got
to be pushed way up prospectless.

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You know, there's just not enough, not enough input, not enough information

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for me to be there yet.
But you know, it's a it's a

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projection type of type of prospect to
both of them. But yeah, I

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thought they I mean, cool,
thumbs up, good, But I'm not

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like right, like super impressed,
like over the moon, like gotta get

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these guys, you know. Yeah, yeah, it was good. Good

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to see him both and you know, we got to see a couple of

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defensive players from each and that was
nice degrees put together like two three weeks

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of him looking like that very often
at the plate and then all right,

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that's a that's a different score,
absolutely, and I imagine that could very

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well be coming well. And you
know that the Potteries are going to be

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aggressive him like they did with Salas
too, So I wonder if he's going

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to skip the DSL, like we'll
see anybody did impress you on the bat

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side. I mean, obviously Ornelli
said the best of day, but we

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know he's awesome, so right,
we know we know about that. I

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thought that ball that Emerson hit the
double was was super pretty Marci Man,

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he got kind of turned around and
he did not play that that ball very

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well and all got over his head. I think we talked a little bit

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about that online and like the way
that Emerson just like kept extending his hands

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through the ball on that one,
and then like they really back spun it,

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and yeah, that's what Harry pretty
well. They had Emerson in the

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booth for what two winnings in that
game chatting with him, which I found

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to be those guys in the booth
really annoyed me during that interview. I

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don't know if he felt that way. They asked him with the same question

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like fourteen different ways, like so
yeah, he did really well with it,

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though, Yeah he did. He
did. He did a pretty good

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job. Come on, guys,
you got like a great opportunity to ask

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some good stuff here and you're just
like whatever. But uh, he was

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talking about how the wind was blown
out, and I was like, man,

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I think you just had a ship
town of backspin on that ball and

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it just kept going and it definitely
fooled Marci. Yeah. Yeah, he

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continues to look good. I think
I had mentioned this, But did you

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see where they had the Mariners prospects, Like, if you could have dinner

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with one famous person or whatever,
who would you pick? Did you see

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what Montes said Bob Marley? Nice? Yeah, Montes seems like a cool

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dude. He's he's very Yeah,
and and we're on the street, and

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what they were talking about is he
puts the work in. So that's nice

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to hear. Always like to hear
when coaches or whoever involved might might say

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that about a player. Don't hate
that. I thought Ben Williamson kind of

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impressed me. I think he looked
a lot better than I looks in the

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past, just a lot cleaner at
the plate. Yeah, I don't,

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I mean, nothing nothing to do
crazy. I don't think if anyone's like

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opinion or anyone got a little bit
more interesting to me, it was probably

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Williamson from this game. They hate
a couple of balls Hard Smith too.

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I mean Smith looked like he had
a slightly different setup than we saw in

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the playoffs last year. So that'll
be interesting to follows. It's those sort

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of like little visual changes that you
can pick up and you know, just

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to segue out of the breakout game
a little bit and into the first weekend

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of the bigs. Jared Kellnick is
off to a hell of a start this

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year. And you know this is
after he had a quote unquote awful Spring

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training. But as someone who watched
like ninety percent of his Major League at

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baths thus far, he looked way
different in spring in like a positive way.

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He was way quieter with his hands, way quieter with his leg kick,

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He was making better swing decisions,
and he was just hitting the ball

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right at people. I think he
was maybe hitting the ball on the ground

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a little too much in spring.
For the most part, I would like

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really encouraged by what I saw,
even though he had like three hits all

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spring. I'm kind of not surprised
that he is lighting the world on fire

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so far. You know, I
think he's got like seven hits already,

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and that's with not starting a game. Got a couple more today. I

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mean, he's just like he looks
like a different hitter. And even some

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of the hacks that he took today
when he missed, they were good misses,

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like he was looking to put a
charge in the ball and just fouled

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it off, you know. And
you know, I heard a couple of

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people say like, oh my god, Derek Kalnick, you know, he's

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going to be a total bust and
all this and whatever little hope that they

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had of a rejuvenation with the trade. I think that those people just didn't

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have the context to see how much
had changed with his swing, and it's

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visually very different, and I think
that that's going to pay dividends. Like

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I think that there is some signal
to this hot start because he has changed

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some stuff, and also he's a
different guy, Like hitting ninth for the

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Braves is very different from like you
and Julio have to save the Marritors,

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you know what I mean. So
removal of some of that pressure has to

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be good for Cale. Yeah,
I don't hate to hear that. That

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was I mean, probably the most
anticipated Wisconsin prospect maybe ever, definitely pulling

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maybe a change of scenery, some
changes there will help, but definitely pull

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them for culin A Well. I
did want to mention just one more player

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from the breakout game, Matt,
Uh. It was nice to see Nerwilliams

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Sadanio on the padre side, just
on the field. He's a B side

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selection of mine a couple of years
ago or whatever it was. But it

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remains kind of an interesting switch hitting
infield prospect to me, who just hasn't

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been able to stay healthy. So
I just want to see what a full

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season looks like for Sadanio. But
on the on the major league side,

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Matt, I watched we had talked
about Cody Bradford. I'd watched his start.

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I don't know if you saw an
then I did. I watched it.

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Yeah, I mean I thought it
was you know, we talked about

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his fastball that he likes to play
over the middle. I threw through it

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like forty seven percent of the time. He had a thirty three percent with

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rate and that's an average velo of
ninety point three miles per hour. Yeah,

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he is just different and other than
we had talked about the propensity for

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him to give home runs up on
that, which he did, but that

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was it. That was like the
only blemish in five innings. So far,

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so good with Bradford. I think
the homer was on just a middle

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middle fastball. I think he just
missed his location and Swanson put a good

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swing on it and hit a line
drive and put it out of the park.

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But he was finding the top part
of that zone with the fastball pretty

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consistently and getting whips. And I'm
I'm a fan, like I do think

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that he's he's an underrated arm and
I showed it against a pretty good Cubs

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lineup. Didn't take Jake Myers very
long to hit a home run. So

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Placios got his first home run,
Yeah, tonight. So it was just

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a couple of the major league B
side guys that brought up. Then can

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zone he just hit a homer.
Yeah, we might hairirer this point home

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a few times over the next month
or two. But I you just shouldn't

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be changing your opinion about a player
after one bad star or a slow start

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for a hitter, or like their
lineup position as like as a hitter like,

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these things just change, and it
takes a really long time for any

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of this to be meaningful as far
as showing a person's true talent. So

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when people are like, should I
be worried about Brandon Neimo because he's had

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a slow start to the season,
Like, no, you haven't even gotten

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you through the start of the season. Great, it's like it's four or

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five games. I mean, if
you're using a four game sample to tell

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you anything about any player, like, you're doing it wrong. The only

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place where that might be you might
tweak that a little bit is with bullpens.

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Like bullpens change pretty fast, and
especially for some of the unsettled bullpens,

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Like it seems pretty clear that Foley
is the closer in Detroit, and

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00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:51.720
that was obviously everybody said it was
Alex Lang coming into the season. Folly's

407
00:27:51.799 --> 00:27:53.559
nasty and I've had him in a
couple of leagues as like a good setup

408
00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:56.400
guy the past couple of years.
But he was popping one oh one and

409
00:27:56.440 --> 00:28:00.279
that fastball just has so much movement
and sync that he's he's really good.

410
00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:04.240
So you know, I think smart
choice by Detroit to put him as as

411
00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:07.839
a closer. But like those things, maybe you might jump on he might

412
00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:11.519
be like, oh yeah, I
should bump this guy up because there seemed

413
00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:15.720
to be the preferred eighth inning guy, or you know, reading something into

414
00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:19.319
the usage of the late ending relievers
in those teams that have committees like that

415
00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:22.160
can tell you something. But beyond
that, like, man, I just

416
00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:26.160
don't get Ronel Blanco just threw a
no hitter. The guy's like a thirty

417
00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:33.319
year old pitcher who hasn't really been
very good and maybe he's reworked his change

418
00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:34.960
up. I guess, like that's
what they said. It had like a

419
00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:40.000
forty plus percent with rate during the
game and throw no no in his first

420
00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:42.720
start of the year. Like everybody's
gonna be so excited to grab him.

421
00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:47.920
But I'm just gonna say, like
I'm going to be skeptical of his talent

422
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:51.480
level going forward. Like awesome accomplishment
to throw a no hitter, It just

423
00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:56.079
doesn't change my view on him very
much. So like that'll be my answer

424
00:28:56.119 --> 00:29:00.640
for any valuation question about it player
for the next month or so. But

425
00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:06.400
yeah, it's just like I see
these these wild takes from people like is

426
00:29:06.440 --> 00:29:11.400
this player better than noted superstar?
Like no, Like t had a bad

427
00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.759
opening four games, then he hit
two homers tonight and I saw somebody complaining

428
00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:18.799
in the discord about Tucker yesterday and
I was like, come on, like,

429
00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:21.759
what are you doing. I'm just
happy to be your first round talent.

430
00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:26.799
I'm just happy that those sort of
bombastic, reactionary takes are in the

431
00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:33.359
fan and dynasty fantasy player like world
and not in the world of managers and

432
00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:38.599
players. I know it's cliche,
but every game is independent of each other.

433
00:29:38.680 --> 00:29:44.799
Every day is a different story,
and every day can be drastically different.

434
00:29:44.920 --> 00:29:48.240
I have different outcomes. But one
player that I do want to feed

435
00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:52.400
the narrative if it starts, I
don't know if it's out there or not,

436
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:56.319
is that Nolan Jones sucks. Dude, Nolan Jones has suck. He

437
00:29:56.440 --> 00:30:02.519
had such a rough couple of days, so just let just across the board

438
00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:07.359
and he is, and he admits
this and talks about this like a very

439
00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:11.240
slow starter. Now, I won't
lie in my Dynasty leagues. I hope

440
00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:15.839
that he has a horrible first month
and everybody just gets scared off because I'm

441
00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:18.720
gonna try to prowl. Then yeah, I'm with you. I hope that

442
00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:22.400
he does keep sucking for the next
few weeks. And I made a really

443
00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:27.839
like I thought overpay trade offer for
him and wasn't told no, I was

444
00:30:27.880 --> 00:30:32.200
told like, I want to see
him start the year and so maybe I

445
00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:34.799
can make a similar offer and snag
him that way. But I just he

446
00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:38.279
had another tough day to day,
like oh, dude, with that ball

447
00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:42.880
of left field and Chris Barrell hit
the little little league homer. But yeah,

448
00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:45.839
that was that was tough. But
it's just small sample stuff. Like

449
00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:49.880
I know Tobar is an awful defender
now too, just he had a tough,

450
00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:55.000
tough couple of games, like he
was he was kicking the ball a

451
00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:59.480
bit. Yeah, I think that's
going on there in Colorado not playing winning

452
00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:03.279
baseball. I mean, you need
to call Ron Washington and have him hold

453
00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:07.039
a team meeting after the first two
games, right. You know, there

454
00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:11.200
is one thing with the Rockies that
I think that they have a great understanding

455
00:31:11.240 --> 00:31:14.559
of and a great manager to set
this tone is like you're going to be

456
00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:18.400
a Colorado Rocky, you've got to
have some stones and you've got to have

457
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:22.319
some some wherewithal to not to hang
tough. I mean to put it generically,

458
00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:26.920
but I think they have some really
mentally strong players there, and I

459
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:30.279
think you see that often if you're
a glutton for pain and watch the Rockies

460
00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:34.839
as closely as I does Chris Bryant, Yet he had a hit today what

461
00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:38.000
they called it an air, which
I didn't think was correct anyone, no

462
00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:41.839
one in the world is like,
hey, they're championship caliber right now,

463
00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:45.359
Like this is this is a process
and they just have to get to playing

464
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:49.200
good baseball and learning how to do
that. And I think there's this might

465
00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:53.079
be against the general opinion, but
I've actually kind of thought that they're pitching

466
00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:56.119
over the first four or five games, like, there's been a lot of

467
00:31:56.240 --> 00:32:00.680
encouraging good signs. I think despite
the four team run inning and everything,

468
00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:05.039
like, I'm actually kind of pleased
with with the pitching staff as a whole

469
00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:07.559
thus far. But you know,
you watch games, it's a it's a

470
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:14.200
different story than back scores sometimes.
Yeah, I don't know what. What

471
00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:17.799
about the minor league weekend Triple A
season started. I think they've got but

472
00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:22.720
yeah, three games in now would
you watch? Would you would you take

473
00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:27.119
away anything? I watched no minor
league games this weekend. I watched only

474
00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:30.759
major league games. Like again,
I just kind of injecting it into my

475
00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:35.279
veins the major leagues, and so
I watched, as my wife can attest,

476
00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:37.839
I watched a lot of baseball this
weekend, so, like you know,

477
00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:42.519
out of out of the five levels
that I watch, I definitely watch

478
00:32:42.599 --> 00:32:46.440
the least amount of Triple A.
Okay, in part because it's like part

479
00:32:46.599 --> 00:32:52.200
waiting room holding cell some older players. And also too, we're going to

480
00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:54.960
talk a little bit about watching minor
league baseball. I don't know if it's

481
00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:59.960
just coincidence or if there's some purpose
behind it, but most of the Triple

482
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:04.640
A broadcast have horrible angles to watch
pitching, so that plays into part of

483
00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:07.319
why I don't watch a ton of
that. And but also too, you

484
00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:08.799
could do get like the stat cast
stuff with a lot of it, so

485
00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:13.119
that's kind of a nice supplement.
And I didn't watch a ton this weekend,

486
00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:19.279
but I did watch Your Boy Will
Dion versus David Festa on Saturday.

487
00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:22.519
Dean got roughed up, you know
how, because we're interested in how that

488
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:25.039
fastball might play right, and I
don't think it played very well. But

489
00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:30.039
I also think that was in part
because I don't think my man was mid

490
00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:35.720
season form executing that pitch as he
typically can. Like Infesta, I think

491
00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:38.839
I was like one hundred percent Dynasty
shares a Festa at one point very early,

492
00:33:39.039 --> 00:33:43.480
and I think made the mistake of
kind of trading off all those shares

493
00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:46.759
probably a little too early. But
I'm still kind of reluctant on him.

494
00:33:47.079 --> 00:33:52.559
It's just like it's just loose man, Like you can throw hard and he's

495
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:54.160
got good stuff, but I don't
know, I don't know if that ever

496
00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:59.960
gets like really really clean and sharp, like major league level kind of shark,

497
00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:02.119
you know, And just that little
look of a couple of innings just

498
00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:07.079
kind of reiterated that suspicion for me. But I'm going to take too much

499
00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:12.239
away from from like one one outing. I didn't watch Lighters start, which

500
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:15.440
from the sounds of it was very
impressive. Well, he came out in

501
00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:17.960
relief. I think he came on
in like the fourth inning or something,

502
00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:22.960
and then finish the game. Yeah, I want to get into the archives

503
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:25.400
and watch that. I just didn't
didn't fit that in. I was impressed

504
00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:30.199
with watching some of the isotopes and
Jordan Beck. I don't know what your

505
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:35.239
opinion was of me putting him as
the top Rockies prospect for fantasy, but

506
00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:37.760
I'm kind of still feeling that.
Man. Yeah, man, I buy

507
00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:43.760
it. Like the tools the A
lot of his performance has been really impressive,

508
00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:45.960
Like I don't think that that's a
wild take, and I thought your

509
00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:50.360
reasoning for it was great too.
He's going to steal more and has more

510
00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:53.079
power, Like those are the things
that, especially in your category leagues,

511
00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:57.760
you should care about. And I
know their brass was very impressed with him

512
00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:01.239
this spring, just across the board, his work, his performance. I

513
00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:06.039
think we're gonna see him sooner rather
than later. Probably this season sometime would

514
00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:08.280
be my guess. But he had
like a four hundred and fifty footer a

515
00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:13.159
four hundred and thirty nine footer off
of like what a slider and a cutter.

516
00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:15.840
But he's looked good. You know
that. That was like a wild

517
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:17.719
finish to that game. Yeah,
did you do you see this? I

518
00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:21.400
didn't watch the game, but I
like saw I was, you know,

519
00:35:21.679 --> 00:35:25.760
scrolling through box scores and triple A
and saw that what was it like they

520
00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:30.400
scored eight in the top of the
ninth yeah, right, and then in

521
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:34.920
the bottom of the night they scored
was it like the isotopes or something,

522
00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:37.679
Yeah, scored like seven, and
so it was just like I don't know,

523
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:42.360
like sixteen runs in the ninth inning, alone like that that game was

524
00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:45.920
crazy. Yeah, that series was
like six' five and then six five

525
00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:50.480
the other way and then like eighteen
to seventeen or whatever. It was like

526
00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:55.639
yexteen sixteen fifteen wild some PCL action
for you. That's like another thing just

527
00:35:55.679 --> 00:36:00.440
to remember about Triple A pitchers is
like, that's a It is a tough

528
00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:04.119
environment to pitch in, very much
so. I watched a little Bits' start.

529
00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:08.119
He gave up like three home runs
in Vegas. Horrible looking line,

530
00:36:08.199 --> 00:36:13.760
but watching it, nothing super concerning
in my opinion, Like just another guy

531
00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:16.280
who's just trying to learn how to
be really aggressive in the zone and you're

532
00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:20.880
probably going to give up some home
runs in Las Vegas doing that. Obviously,

533
00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:23.880
he could have been better in different
areas. But first start of the

534
00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:29.639
year, man, no one's looking
that great except for Blanco a couple others.

535
00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:34.360
Yeah, I saw Brent Herder didn't
have a great start yesterday. He

536
00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:37.719
h mud hens right after I was
saying, like, they're one of my

537
00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:40.039
dark horse candidates for best team in
the minors, just as far as like

538
00:36:40.119 --> 00:36:44.360
top to bottom talent, especially in
the pitching side. Yep, Herder went

539
00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:46.800
three, walked four, which is
like the most surprising thing about it,

540
00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:51.440
and gave up five runs. But
that's also, like I was saying to

541
00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:53.280
somebody, like, you know,
I don't really care. It's one start

542
00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:59.079
that is exceptionally unlucky to give up
five runs on seven base runners, Like

543
00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:01.840
that's nearly all of your base runners
come home. Like again, it's there's

544
00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:05.880
a lot more to be told about
the season. But like that he's in

545
00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:08.480
Triple A, Like that's that's good. Really seems like he dominated Double A

546
00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:13.519
and is one of their options.
There are many, many, many options

547
00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:16.400
in Detroit. He's something that he
was the third starter, Like, you

548
00:37:16.440 --> 00:37:22.119
know, he's the third guy on
that rotation right now, so he's he's

549
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:23.400
in a good spot. I think
that's where he needs to be. Like

550
00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:27.639
maybe we've talked about this before,
but I think it's very different for hitters

551
00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:30.280
and pitchers as far as like the
challenge as you move up from Double A

552
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:34.760
to Triple A. Like I think
it's way different for pitchers than it is

553
00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:37.280
for hitters, especially with the abs, right, Like that's yeah, well,

554
00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:43.039
lineups, man, you're the quality
of a Triple A lineup is so

555
00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:46.119
much better than the quality of most
Double A lineups. And to me,

556
00:37:46.199 --> 00:37:50.159
that's a big part of starting pitching
is working, you know, especially once

557
00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:52.559
you get to the bigs, and
then when you get to a good lineup

558
00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:54.039
in the bigs, like you don't
get any breaks, man, you don't

559
00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:59.199
get from room for from making too
many mistakes. And but now you know,

560
00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:00.519
if you've got a PC team,
I think that could be a different

561
00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:02.679
story too. I don't know if
you want to mess with that with some

562
00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:06.320
of your pictures, but I think
Herd is in a good spot. I

563
00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:08.679
think that's where he needs to be. We had one FQO this weekend.

564
00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:13.559
Matt QO is just this kind of
silly thing that I like to look for.

565
00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:16.400
It's going six innings, what striking
out at least six, walking no

566
00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:20.559
more than two, getting up no
more than three runs, not getting up

567
00:38:20.559 --> 00:38:23.000
a home run, and having like
a whip under one point three. And

568
00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:25.440
obviously it's early in the year.
Not a lot of pictures are going to

569
00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:29.599
go six innings. But we had
one FCO in the minor leagues. Do

570
00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:34.280
you want to take any stabs at
who that was this weekend? Matt not

571
00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:37.159
a prospect, but not an old
guydol oh No, he gave up a

572
00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:39.760
Homer didn't he I think he did. I don't know if he did.

573
00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:42.960
I don't think he went six,
did he. I don't think he went

574
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:45.800
six. I thought maybe he did. Maybe he went five. But he

575
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:50.119
had a good outing regardless, so
not. I don't know who was it.

576
00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:52.719
He's on one of your teams.
Really, yeah, he was an

577
00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:57.119
All Star last year too, I
think in the majors. Bryce Elder,

578
00:38:57.440 --> 00:39:00.480
Oh, that's right. There's a
very surprising right. Yeah, probably we're

579
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:06.320
gonna get to see his uh competition, his replacement fifth starter for the Braves

580
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:12.559
tomorrow and one. The weather in
Chicago right now is miserable. It's supposed

581
00:39:12.599 --> 00:39:15.440
to be I don't know. I
know it's supposed to be snowing at game

582
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:19.480
time. But I really want them
to play. I want the weather to

583
00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:22.760
hold, obviously, just like to
see the baseball. But also I really

584
00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:27.239
am curious if Ronaldo Lopez as a
starter is a real thing. I mean,

585
00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:30.800
I'm not holding my breath. But
they never know. I mean,

586
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:34.599
dude, Jordan Hicks, Man,
Jordan Hicks, did you you didn't trade

587
00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:37.880
them? Did you? I did? I did. I was looking to

588
00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:42.840
trade Hicks. I had Matt Thias
as a catcher and a thirty teamer,

589
00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:45.679
and I just picked up Dias for
because I have Sean Murphy in one of

590
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:49.559
our leagues, and he went on
the aisle too, So I had too

591
00:39:49.639 --> 00:39:52.760
much Matt Diyas. You can't have
that much Mat Matt Thyas. I was

592
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:55.880
looking for catching help. I've been
after the guy who had Wilson Traire's like

593
00:39:57.039 --> 00:40:00.360
all off season he had too many
catchers and I kept trying to get him

594
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:02.440
from it. He traded him to
somebody else. And then that guy like

595
00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:07.280
all off season has been trying to
get me to send Jordan Hicks to him,

596
00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:09.960
and I was like, you know
what, Hicks, I kind of

597
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:15.239
buy what he's been doing his last
start in spring training. I watched all

598
00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:16.920
of it, and I think I
told you, Nate that the way Hicks

599
00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:22.159
was putting the four seam up hie, the splitter, down low, the

600
00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:24.800
slider, and then of course his
bread and butter the two seam, he

601
00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:29.760
really was pitching well, I thought, And it was a tough sell.

602
00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:32.760
Like Wilson Contraris, I think should
be the move long term, but I

603
00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:37.840
almost I definitely lost the matchup that
he would have thrown in for me,

604
00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:40.280
because like I lost by a point
and he scored a lot of points in

605
00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:44.840
that matchup that would have been so
you know, we'll see, we'll see.

606
00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:47.880
It's a long season, he's I
think the other concern is he's to

607
00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:52.719
be valuable in as a pitcher,
like you gotta do it repeatedly over a

608
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:55.079
long period of time, and I
don't know if he's going to be able,

609
00:40:55.159 --> 00:40:59.280
like he's had some injury concerns over
his career. So that was the

610
00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:00.760
other thing that tipped over to the
hitter for me. It's like, you

611
00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:05.480
know, I'm just not sure about
his durability. But I do think that

612
00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:08.079
that pitch mix is is going to
play. I think I think as long

613
00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:10.400
as he's on the mound, that
looks pretty good. We got to mention

614
00:41:10.440 --> 00:41:15.559
when we're talking about the Saints and
Dion's start, there was some B side

615
00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:20.039
on B side crime there. Did
you see that Fajardo took Dion yard?

616
00:41:20.079 --> 00:41:22.400
Oh yeah, that's right, that's
right. Yeah. And in the in

617
00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:25.760
the breakout game, Tursto took Evans
yard, right, yeah, And we

618
00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:29.679
got yeah, yeah, a couple
of your bats getting some arms there.

619
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:31.599
Yeah. The other one, just
because again I didn't watch any of the

620
00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:37.880
games, but I trolled stack cast
later boards and I liked to look at

621
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:40.760
up player breakdowns in Triple A,
just just like you have the stat cast.

622
00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:44.880
It can tell you a lot when
you kind of watch those time over

623
00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:49.760
time. But the guy who led
Triple A in Exit and Filo maybe Saturday

624
00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:53.880
was my guy for the Phillies,
Matt crun He's played a few different positions,

625
00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:59.119
you know, he's outfielder, has
played some infield, and I keep

626
00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:02.599
saying that he's he's gonna play in
the bigs and yeah, maybe he's gonna

627
00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:07.320
be the Phillies left fielder before too
long, because I just don't think Rojas

628
00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:12.559
is ready and they're gonna play Marsh
in center, Cassidy and right, and

629
00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:15.280
I mean I see a spot for
him. I think he's a better hitter

630
00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:21.559
than Rosas is. And you know, if Rojas keeps like roass looked miserable

631
00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:24.079
that first opening weekend against the Braves, and that's a tough matchup, like

632
00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:28.960
Braves have a really good pitching staff, but he looked so overmatched, and

633
00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:31.800
that is on the back of him
looking pretty overmatched at times last season too.

634
00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:35.840
So I wonder how long the Phillies
are going to roll him out there.

635
00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:37.320
You've got me on the train,
like I On the surface, I

636
00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:40.519
think he Kroon very much looks like, oh, this is like a quad

637
00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:45.559
eight air, But I kind of
feel like his talent is more than that,

638
00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:49.000
or has the potential to be more
than that. So you've convinced me

639
00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:52.280
there. I've got my eye on
him definitely. Yeah. And again I'm

640
00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:57.360
not projecting like a regular role for
him just because I tough. It's going

641
00:42:57.400 --> 00:42:59.800
to be tough, but there is
a path there, and I think that

642
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:02.239
one of the things I said when
we talked about him in the off season

643
00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:07.360
was he's got versatility, which the
Phillies do seem to prioritize. They like

644
00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:10.559
having that kind of a guy,
and when they have that guy, they

645
00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:15.320
like to play them like. They
move him around. You know, they

646
00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:20.280
picked up with Maryfield right for that
exact purpose. They've moved Home around,

647
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:23.760
They've moved Harper around like they seem
like, if you can hit and then

648
00:43:23.840 --> 00:43:28.280
you can like kind of make it
work on defense, that's their kind of

649
00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:30.440
guy, and I think I think
Kroon fits that bill with a chance at

650
00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:35.480
being actually quite good at defense.
I've seen some good looks at him in

651
00:43:35.519 --> 00:43:38.000
an outfield at least where he looks
pretty good. Yeah, agreed. Now,

652
00:43:38.199 --> 00:43:43.519
Matt, I wanted to do a
minor league preview show. And I

653
00:43:43.519 --> 00:43:46.760
have tried to do minor league preview
stuff in the past, but it's hard

654
00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:52.000
because we don't know, especially hya
a ball, we don't know, we

655
00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:57.400
don't have the information of like who's
on what lineup. You get bits and

656
00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:01.079
you get pieces, but my experience
over the last since MiLB dot TV,

657
00:44:01.199 --> 00:44:05.719
you don't know a lot of the
answers to those questions until the games start.

658
00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:08.079
A lot of times you don't even
know who's pitching and what the lineup

659
00:44:08.199 --> 00:44:12.960
is until the game starts. So
I wanted to just kind of run through

660
00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:17.280
if you're gonna watch some minor league
baseball and share some things and perhaps some

661
00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:22.440
lineups in different leagues or rosters in
different leagues that might be kind of interesting

662
00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:24.880
and who I might be watching some
more and stuff of that. ILK.

663
00:44:24.920 --> 00:44:29.039
Are you down for something like that? That sounds awesome, And you've got

664
00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:32.280
one of the best research tools out
there for anybody that's interested in minor league

665
00:44:32.320 --> 00:44:37.480
baseball, which is who has a
good feed you know what teams actually broadcasts

666
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:40.239
and who's a good broadcast to turn
into to tune into, because you know,

667
00:44:40.599 --> 00:44:44.639
as people who spend a lot of
time watching minor league baseball, a

668
00:44:44.639 --> 00:44:47.519
a bunch of these teams. Their
broadcasts are horrible, their cameras terrible,

669
00:44:47.800 --> 00:44:52.000
the you know, no offense to
the announcers, but they're of questionable quality.

670
00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:55.960
I think your list of who's got
the cameras and who's got the good

671
00:44:55.960 --> 00:45:00.000
ones, like that's such an invaluable
resource. It could be a little bit

672
00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:04.679
data now because I put this out
right before the twenty twenty two season started,

673
00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:07.000
but if you want to look this
up, it's still up there on

674
00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:10.760
pitcher list, MiLB dot TV preview. And at that time, I shared

675
00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:15.480
every camera angle on a spreadsheet and
then got into some of the better ones.

676
00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:20.400
Now, since then, some teams
have started to broadcast. I think

677
00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:22.039
a few of the angles may have
changed, but for the most part,

678
00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:27.280
that is what you're going to get
when you tune in to different broadcasts.

679
00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:29.960
Just to run through quick, you're
gonna if you want to watch, you're

680
00:45:29.960 --> 00:45:34.719
gonna get all the Triple A and
all the Double A affiliates broadcaster games.

681
00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:37.119
In high A. It starts to
get less. The Sale League, you

682
00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:43.039
got what. It's a twelve team
league and two of the teams don't broadcast,

683
00:45:43.239 --> 00:45:47.039
Hickory Rangers affiliate and Ashville Astros affiliate. So if you want to watch

684
00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:50.599
those two teams, you got to
catch them on the road. In the

685
00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:53.519
Midwest League, that's a twelve team
league, all twelve of the team's broadcasts.

686
00:45:53.880 --> 00:45:58.920
In the Northwest League, which is
just a sixteen league, it is

687
00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:04.079
probably the second hardest league to view
because two of the six teams, Spokane

688
00:46:04.119 --> 00:46:07.519
and Tri City, do not broadcast, and Everett does now, but I

689
00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:12.440
believe Matt, they're mostly just press
box, right, Yeah, I think

690
00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:15.039
they are. Yeah, I don't
think I've seen a center field. So

691
00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:19.320
really it's like Vancouver, Eugene or
Hillsboro is where you want to watch those

692
00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:22.000
guys. And Vancouver's broadcast is new. I think last year was the first

693
00:46:22.039 --> 00:46:25.719
year they started broadcasting. So tougher
league to see there. We'll have you.

694
00:46:25.719 --> 00:46:29.320
We'll have you on the ground for
some Everieck games though, so that'll

695
00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:32.039
be nice. Yeah. Yeah,
then when you get to a ball The

696
00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:37.079
Florida State League the toughest league to
watch. It's a ten team league and

697
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:43.000
only two teams broadcast Saint Lucy and
Bradenton throughout the course of the year,

698
00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:46.199
I will be giving I'll share every
episode. I'll share like some matchups from

699
00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:50.920
every league that I'm probably going to
be tuning into, maybe something interesting to

700
00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:53.719
watch. You could just count on
me just sharing who's playing in Saint Lucie

701
00:46:53.800 --> 00:46:58.360
that week and who's playing in Brandon
that week, because the way that the

702
00:46:58.360 --> 00:47:01.039
schedule works and stuff is it's a
four team league or fourteen division and a

703
00:47:01.239 --> 00:47:06.599
sixteen division. And there have been
times when it was like just Bradenton that

704
00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:08.400
like you didn't even get to see
Palm Beach at all all year yep.

705
00:47:08.440 --> 00:47:12.320
But now that with Saint Lucy broadcasting, you're going to get I think at

706
00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:16.559
least two series two weeks series and
minor leagues are one week long of every

707
00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:22.039
team. That's the tough one.
Shout out, shout out Bradenton for not

708
00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:27.239
only being the longest running Florida State
League team to broadcast, but their camera

709
00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:31.880
view is phenomenal, Like it's zoomed
in to the pitcher and the hitter better

710
00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:37.480
than even big league broadcasts, Like
you're right on top of the pitcher and

711
00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:39.960
the hitter. You can get great
looks. So anybody that goes through Bradenton,

712
00:47:40.079 --> 00:47:43.679
like I watch a lot of Brandonton
games, and hat tip to their

713
00:47:43.679 --> 00:47:45.840
announcer too. He does a he
does a pretty good job. I think

714
00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:51.360
they've they've put together a pretty good
outfit there in Bradenton. Yeah, the

715
00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:55.400
broadcast quality of the angle quality,
plus you get stat cast stuff with Bradon

716
00:47:55.760 --> 00:48:02.280
probably the best. It really is
the best minor league viewing experience with everything

717
00:48:02.280 --> 00:48:07.239
involved there. And then in the
Carolina League, it's a twelve team league

718
00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:12.760
and everyone broadcast there except for down
East, which is the Rangers affiliate.

719
00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:16.519
So it's interesting with the Rangers because
both they're the only team that has two

720
00:48:16.599 --> 00:48:20.760
levels that do not broadcast. They're
High A and they're A do not,

721
00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:23.159
so it can be tougher to get
eyes on. Made it kind of frustrating

722
00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:28.320
when you wanted to watch more Evan
Carter and why some of his months were

723
00:48:28.360 --> 00:48:32.000
so hot and some of them were
less than so. And then the third

724
00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:37.199
A ball league is the cal League, which I happen to watch quite a

725
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:39.920
bit of. It is an eight
team league. Six of the team's broadcast.

726
00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:45.920
The two that do not are Stockton
and Rancho Cucamongo, which is the

727
00:48:45.960 --> 00:48:49.960
A's and the Dodgers affiliates. I
heard, I think it was Beck or

728
00:48:50.079 --> 00:48:53.679
Veen talking about this and something that
I maybe didn't really think a ton about.

729
00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:57.519
Oh they were talking about the Northwest
League. I'm sorry, but such

730
00:48:57.519 --> 00:49:00.639
a small league. You see so
many of the same pitchers, you know.

731
00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:05.280
And it's interesting too, you know, since they consolidated and went to

732
00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:07.360
this format, you play the same
team for a whole week, like you

733
00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:12.320
get to see the relievers more than
once, and I don't know, this

734
00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:15.800
is kind of an interesting little wrinkle
to it. As far as the best

735
00:49:16.039 --> 00:49:20.840
broadcast angles, like I said before, Triple A is tough man, there's

736
00:49:21.039 --> 00:49:24.599
really not I don't think there's like
one good like straight on centerfield camera.

737
00:49:24.840 --> 00:49:30.159
The best angle to watch some pitching
in the Carolina League is probably augusta pretty

738
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:35.320
nice straight on angle. That's probably
one of the best viewing angles in all

739
00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:39.000
minor league Minor league baseball, like
we mentioned, Florida State League's braydonon in

740
00:49:39.079 --> 00:49:44.480
the Eastern League Hartford is pretty nice
and you get like v low at least

741
00:49:44.519 --> 00:49:47.320
the I don't know if that's probably
the stadium gun. Also in the In

742
00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:52.840
the Carolina League, Charleston has a
pretty alright angle. Also in the Eastern

743
00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:55.840
League, Erie has a decent angle. In the Midwest League, I think

744
00:49:57.039 --> 00:50:00.639
South Bend probably has. It's not
the greatest, but it's probably the best.

745
00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:04.880
Down in the KL League, Modesto's
angle isn't too horrible. In the

746
00:50:04.880 --> 00:50:08.159
Eastern League, Somerset isn't so bad. Also in the Carolina League, Myrtle

747
00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:13.480
Beach is pretty decent. And then
in the Texas League, Midland is probably

748
00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:15.920
the best angle to watch. But
those are those are probably the best ten

749
00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:19.519
spots to watch some pitchers. Now, Matt, I don't know, Uh,

750
00:50:19.719 --> 00:50:23.400
you've got your eye on some teams
or some some players or certain rosters

751
00:50:23.880 --> 00:50:27.840
that stick out to you. I've
got a few If you don't, Yeah,

752
00:50:27.880 --> 00:50:30.519
I mean, like we said,
we don't know all of the ross

753
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:35.000
just yet, and a lot of
the ones yet are I mean, a

754
00:50:35.000 --> 00:50:37.880
lot of the ones that are the
most interesting for us to like see are

755
00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:42.800
those lower level ones that start,
you know, in a couple of weeks

756
00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:45.800
and then and I actually it's kind
of a funny thing. I was looking

757
00:50:45.840 --> 00:50:51.519
over my couple of my deeper Dynasty
League teams and this year, I've skewed

758
00:50:51.559 --> 00:50:54.559
really young on a lot of them
because a lot of my major League side

759
00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:59.519
of teams are firmly in contention,
and you know, I've got a couple

760
00:50:59.519 --> 00:51:04.440
of like upper level depth arms,
especially, but most of my hitters are

761
00:51:04.679 --> 00:51:07.280
projected to be at A or even
on the complex this year. A lot

762
00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:12.679
of my personal rooting interest in some
of these prospects, I'm not gonna be

763
00:51:12.679 --> 00:51:15.000
able to see him for a while. I was thinking about that too,

764
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:20.599
trying to take advantage of early season
jitters from some owners that like want to

765
00:51:20.639 --> 00:51:22.519
get rid of you know, whoever's
the slow starter of the week. But

766
00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:27.360
I don't have a lot of like
sexy prospects to offer them anymore, because

767
00:51:27.360 --> 00:51:29.679
all my guys that I think are
going to be really good by the end

768
00:51:29.679 --> 00:51:31.119
of the year, they know their
season doesn't start for a while. So

769
00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:36.239
yeah, that's a strategic faux PA
by me. Yeah. So Double A,

770
00:51:36.559 --> 00:51:38.880
Hya, and A will all start
Friday. Mm hm. Triple A

771
00:51:38.960 --> 00:51:43.360
has got they did a weekend series, but then they'll have a full week

772
00:51:43.440 --> 00:51:46.079
series this week. But I've got
some some teams that I'm kind of it

773
00:51:46.079 --> 00:51:50.000
probably will definitely be tuning into now
Florida State League. I want to pay

774
00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:53.880
attention to when Clearwater Saint Lucy well
Saint Lucy. I'll be able to watch

775
00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:58.920
all their home games, but Clearwater
in particular because I want to see Aiden

776
00:51:58.960 --> 00:52:04.559
Miller up Waka Grego, TJ Walton, Saltaban. I'm thinking we'll all be

777
00:52:04.639 --> 00:52:07.360
there, and they happened to play
at Bradenton the first week of the season,

778
00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:13.199
so that is definitely my That is
definitely my Florida State League series of

779
00:52:13.199 --> 00:52:15.800
the week to watch. Obviously,
we know the Triple A rosters right now.

780
00:52:15.960 --> 00:52:20.360
If you go on the Double A
roster pages, the guys that are

781
00:52:20.440 --> 00:52:23.440
on there, Okay, they're probably
on the Double A roster, but a

782
00:52:23.480 --> 00:52:27.519
lot of them are incomplete. Still, when you get to the A levels,

783
00:52:27.519 --> 00:52:30.760
it's a lot trickier right now and
a lot harrier. But I think

784
00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:36.519
though it's safe to say that those
players will be with clear Water now.

785
00:52:36.599 --> 00:52:40.599
Matt two. Going through the MiLB
transactions log I have noticed that, Nah,

786
00:52:40.599 --> 00:52:45.039
I got just some guys that I
was some my B siders, and

787
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:50.519
some guys I was really interested to
watch this year have been hitting sixty day

788
00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:55.599
ils and full season ils. I
saw that too, Dude, like Dylan

789
00:52:55.679 --> 00:53:01.199
Ray sixty day already, like,
well, that was interesting. It seems

790
00:53:01.239 --> 00:53:06.039
like all through every league. I
was just looking at the Tampa right here.

791
00:53:06.519 --> 00:53:09.039
You know, interesting that jose coleman
aias to me he's on IL for

792
00:53:09.119 --> 00:53:15.920
full season. My Yankees arm tyrone
Yuli full season IL. But Tampa's still

793
00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:20.000
I think will be a little interesting. Whenever they're visiting. We can see

794
00:53:20.199 --> 00:53:24.599
Lombard Reggio first year player bat that
I was interested in, Kobe Morales kind

795
00:53:24.639 --> 00:53:30.519
of a deeper cut there. Lakeland
is going to be interesting too, is

796
00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:35.039
Prisania Personna might be in hi A. I don't know, but Kevin McGonagall,

797
00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:38.239
Max Clark will be in Lakeland,
and then uh was in was in

798
00:53:38.360 --> 00:53:43.400
a ball for chunk of last always
a catcher, Maybe they want him to

799
00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:46.760
get more catching reps. So yet
to be determined. Jupiter, I'm guessing

800
00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:51.800
we'll probably have Noble Meyer and Thomas
White. Carolina League. Lindsburg's got a

801
00:53:51.840 --> 00:53:55.960
couple interesting pitchers I want to see, kind of early Clemmy Jackson Humphries.

802
00:53:57.280 --> 00:54:00.559
Their first series is at down East, so won't be broadcast. I think

803
00:54:00.559 --> 00:54:07.000
Down East has some interesting bats,
potentially Chedrie Vargas, Anthony Gudurerez, some

804
00:54:07.079 --> 00:54:12.360
of their DSL guys might get in
there this year. Salem. Miguel Bliss

805
00:54:12.480 --> 00:54:15.760
probably going to be in Salem.
I'm thinking, I don't know, that's

806
00:54:15.800 --> 00:54:20.679
my guess. He'll be interesting to
watch Knnapolis in the Carolina League. Noah

807
00:54:20.679 --> 00:54:23.719
Schultz, Peyton Palette potentially, although
I'm guessing he might be high A.

808
00:54:23.920 --> 00:54:28.440
Maybe we'll see Walkyle there. I
think he's on the he's on the roster

809
00:54:28.599 --> 00:54:34.119
right now. I'm really interested to
see Fayetteville the Astros e tem their lineup,

810
00:54:34.480 --> 00:54:37.320
especially, I mean, Bloss will
probably be there on the pitching side.

811
00:54:37.360 --> 00:54:39.400
I don't I don't know if Flurry
will be there. But they're young

812
00:54:39.519 --> 00:54:43.960
bats. That flurry. I think
they're well flurry. I think they said

813
00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:46.239
they were gonna assign to double A. Okay, okay, but they're young

814
00:54:46.280 --> 00:54:50.920
bats. Is one I'm most interested
in there. Guessing we'll probably see Wayne

815
00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:55.199
or Luciano, Neil mar atoa Kenny
gome As. Those are three what teenage

816
00:54:55.239 --> 00:54:59.840
bats I'm interested. I saw a
tweet with those three guys on the rosters.

817
00:55:00.119 --> 00:55:05.000
That's that's safe to say. And
them at Myrtle Beach is my Carolina

818
00:55:05.079 --> 00:55:07.480
League matchup of the week. I
want to get eyes on call league.

819
00:55:07.519 --> 00:55:10.440
I mean, to me, the
call league is always pretty interesting. Logan

820
00:55:10.519 --> 00:55:14.800
Evans is on the Modesto lineup right
a roster right now, but I doubt

821
00:55:14.840 --> 00:55:17.639
he starts in modesto right But who
knows. I don't know. It's hard

822
00:55:17.639 --> 00:55:22.199
to say. Yeah, I'm not
sure. Fresno. The Rockies like to

823
00:55:22.239 --> 00:55:24.639
stand up, you know, skip
complex more or less for a lot of

824
00:55:24.639 --> 00:55:29.480
their younger guys, So I imagine
they'll have some interesting bats and probably like

825
00:55:29.519 --> 00:55:31.440
Cole Carrig will still be there.
I don't know if I think Sean Sullivan,

826
00:55:31.679 --> 00:55:36.440
the interesting lefty they drafted in the
second round, I think will be

827
00:55:36.880 --> 00:55:39.639
with Fresno to start. San Jose
is interesting to me because they have a

828
00:55:39.719 --> 00:55:44.679
slew of just kind of deeper first
year player bats and a couple of arms,

829
00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:49.519
A couple of arms kil Lansville's Joe
Whitman. I think we'll start there,

830
00:55:49.960 --> 00:55:53.800
some bats, Cole Foster, Qui
McDaniel, Justin, Justin Wishkowsky,

831
00:55:54.639 --> 00:55:59.280
just the name a couple got very
not a lot of name recognition, but

832
00:55:59.320 --> 00:56:02.559
I think some inter rest the offense
there. I do think Inland Empire will

833
00:56:02.599 --> 00:56:07.639
have a couple of interesting arms,
maybe my B side, Carlos Espinosa who

834
00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:10.320
got traded over there, and Barrett
Kent. Theyre prep first year player.

835
00:56:10.639 --> 00:56:15.719
I think Peyton Martin will probably be
pitching for Kuckamongo, and then I don't

836
00:56:15.719 --> 00:56:20.159
know if Vassalia, I mean,
Drew Jones will probably be there, Christopher

837
00:56:20.159 --> 00:56:23.079
torren a first year player, back
Kevin sim that's a little interesting to me.

838
00:56:23.280 --> 00:56:28.360
You got any thoughts on Modesto.
Yeah, I'm just looking at Modesto

839
00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:31.239
might be an interesting rotation. It
looks like Teddy mcgrab might be there too.

840
00:56:31.480 --> 00:56:36.000
Logan enselists at their resource as well. And I haven't seen that minor

841
00:56:36.079 --> 00:56:38.119
league transaction for that yet, but
yeah, there's going to be a lot

842
00:56:38.239 --> 00:56:43.760
of minor league transactions. With shifts, like the day of the season starts,

843
00:56:43.800 --> 00:56:45.519
there will be a lot of movement. Yeah, yeah, for sure

844
00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:49.559
they'll you'll see most of the run
too, But that could be a pretty

845
00:56:49.599 --> 00:56:53.039
interesting rotation, so especially early in
the season, like if that's if that's

846
00:56:53.039 --> 00:56:57.360
what they got there, a lot
of those guys could see moving up to

847
00:56:57.400 --> 00:57:02.840
Everett pretty quickly. And I'd say
ritz rotation is the worst of the Mariners,

848
00:57:02.880 --> 00:57:07.360
minor leaguer ones like that Minesta one
that's pretty interesting, like an interesting

849
00:57:07.519 --> 00:57:13.719
bunch there. And I really only
like Michael Morales a very tiny bit and

850
00:57:13.719 --> 00:57:16.320
he's the only one of the five
listed starters on Ruster resource that I have

851
00:57:16.360 --> 00:57:22.079
any interest at all. So that's
I could see Evans McGraw and even Ford

852
00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:27.320
pitching in the ever rotation before too
too long, so that one will be

853
00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:30.480
interesting. You know, I'm gonna
be tune it into Arkansas and see reedvan

854
00:57:30.719 --> 00:57:37.159
Scooter hopefully dominate. Moving on to
the High A level the South Atlantic League

855
00:57:37.239 --> 00:57:42.760
Sale League, I've got highlighted Jersey
Shore in part Jersey Shore is a pretty

856
00:57:42.760 --> 00:57:46.440
decent spot to watch some pitching because
they do have v Loo not the greatest

857
00:57:46.480 --> 00:57:50.519
angle, but Eldegari I think will
be there. Matt. I don't know

858
00:57:50.519 --> 00:57:53.280
if you saw this, but when
Hoopon is on the sixty day il Oh,

859
00:57:53.360 --> 00:57:57.960
I did not. I'm guessing Brian
Raccone will be there, justin Crawford.

860
00:57:58.360 --> 00:58:00.840
Also, I think Rome be kind
of interesting. Matt. I don't

861
00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:04.880
know. You tell me you're more
You're Braves guy, but I'm thinking,

862
00:58:05.159 --> 00:58:09.880
uh, Lucas bron Blake Burholter,
d Grand Prix, Gian Carlos, Laura

863
00:58:12.159 --> 00:58:15.239
Munjos, Owen, Murphy, Spencer, Schwellenbach Like, that's a that's a

864
00:58:15.280 --> 00:58:20.280
slew of interesting arms that I think
will we'll be there. On the bat

865
00:58:20.320 --> 00:58:22.599
side, I don't know it's not
going to be there. You think they

866
00:58:22.960 --> 00:58:25.159
move him up to double A.
Oh, I'd be surprised if he wasn't

867
00:58:25.199 --> 00:58:28.639
in double A. Yeah, right, me too. But I think Isaiah

868
00:58:28.719 --> 00:58:31.000
Drake will probably be there. Yeah, I think, yeah, so that's

869
00:58:31.039 --> 00:58:35.800
kind of interesting, but some good
arms there. I think Winston Salem might

870
00:58:35.800 --> 00:58:38.239
be kind of an interesting watch too. Pitching side they got. I think

871
00:58:38.320 --> 00:58:43.760
Juan Corella will be there, Connor
McCullough, my guy, Tyler Schwartz,

872
00:58:43.880 --> 00:58:46.960
Schweitzer, I think he starts there
because a double A rotation I think is

873
00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:52.880
pretty set. I think Brooks Baldwin, you're a little mini guy. Trapelli

874
00:58:52.039 --> 00:58:57.719
I think will be there Asheville.
Ashwell is always kind of interesting, I

875
00:58:57.760 --> 00:59:00.960
think with their arms. Not a
lot of big names, but I'm anxious

876
00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:05.159
to see my guy Dinson Batista get
back. I think he probably starts there.

877
00:59:05.320 --> 00:59:08.960
I don't know if Palma still starts
the season there I'm guessing maybe they

878
00:59:08.960 --> 00:59:15.760
have some interesting outfielders Sernie Cole and
Whittaker the Midwest League. I think if

879
00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:19.360
it stays as they have the roster
now, I think Dayton's gonna have some

880
00:59:19.440 --> 00:59:24.039
interesting bats or at least some fun
bats. And Sal Stewart, Hector Rodriguez

881
00:59:24.239 --> 00:59:30.119
and then my guy Ruben Ibera Vogels
guy. Actually you ever watch him that,

882
00:59:30.360 --> 00:59:35.039
He's like, he's huge, dude, He's like an offensive lineman,

883
00:59:35.119 --> 00:59:37.639
but like, but he's athletic though, and he's got I mean, I

884
00:59:37.679 --> 00:59:42.079
don't think he's I mean, this
isn't like prospecting, so just a fun

885
00:59:42.119 --> 00:59:45.960
guy to watch hit. Great Lakes
might be interesting with the Dodgers in there,

886
00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:50.400
I think project Arms. I think
Bronze and Farris will be there,

887
00:59:51.159 --> 00:59:54.400
maybe Huarterback. I think my guy
Rosario is there. I don't know if

888
00:59:54.480 --> 00:59:57.880
Robleski is still there, but I
don't think they have him on the double

889
00:59:57.880 --> 01:00:00.519
A roster yet. Ro think it'll
be a. I thought I saw something

890
01:00:00.519 --> 01:00:04.920
about that and I don't know there. I'm still kind of interested in Junior

891
01:00:04.960 --> 01:00:08.599
Garcia, who I think will be
there. Yeah, Dulton Russian also like

892
01:00:08.880 --> 01:00:13.159
uh, I think Cedar Rapids is
kind of an it could do you have

893
01:00:13.199 --> 01:00:16.280
an interesting roster. I think Culpepper
will still be there. Corey Lewis is

894
01:00:16.280 --> 01:00:21.400
fun to watch. Zebby Matthews.
I think Kisha will be there. Gabby

895
01:00:21.440 --> 01:00:27.559
Gonzalez, Jose Salis Rosario I think
could still be there. You don't think

896
01:00:27.559 --> 01:00:31.440
Gabby Gonzalez is gonna be from Double
A Maybe? Maybe it's tough to say.

897
01:00:32.840 --> 01:00:37.639
Peoria, I think we have some
fun arms. Potentially if Beadell and

898
01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:44.199
Serpe and Austin Love and Piniagua all
stay on the roster there, I'll be

899
01:00:44.400 --> 01:00:49.440
tuning in watch some my guy,
Alex Decernia quad Cities. We think you

900
01:00:49.440 --> 01:00:52.840
think Werner starts with quad Cities.
I was gonna ask you where you thought

901
01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:57.039
Warner starts. He was one that
I was pondering what his early season might

902
01:00:57.079 --> 01:01:00.039
look like. I could very well
be wrong, but I'm gonna guess he

903
01:01:00.119 --> 01:01:02.320
starts a quad Cities. Well,
do you think Carter Jensen will be there

904
01:01:02.360 --> 01:01:07.960
too? But maybe a couple of
interesting bats. Yeah, probably they got

905
01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:13.559
some arms like I don't know on
Borderline, interested in tuning into and like

906
01:01:13.679 --> 01:01:19.639
Kundra and Masokato and Benzini potentially moving
on to the Northwest League. Of course,

907
01:01:19.719 --> 01:01:23.199
Everett's gonna be a super interesting watch, right, I mean, yeah,

908
01:01:23.239 --> 01:01:28.079
who are you most excited to see
in Everett? Well, Everson for

909
01:01:28.159 --> 01:01:30.639
sure, and I think that's where
he's gonna start. I saw, I

910
01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:36.559
thought I saw a tweet her somebody
shared something that Arroyo maybe was gonna stick

911
01:01:36.639 --> 01:01:39.280
in Modesto, Michael Arroyo, and
I thought that was a little bit of

912
01:01:39.280 --> 01:01:43.880
a surprise. And then they would
leave, like Pete and Smith and Farmelo

913
01:01:44.039 --> 01:01:46.760
in Modesto again to start the season. I'm not again, all this is

914
01:01:46.880 --> 01:01:52.559
subject to change, and I think
can move pretty quickly. I'm curious which

915
01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:58.039
of the young outfielders makes it up
to Everett first. I think Montes probably

916
01:01:58.079 --> 01:02:04.840
is gonna be at Everett with but
I haven't heard where Farmelo, Smith or

917
01:02:05.519 --> 01:02:09.519
Williamson or Reat are going to be. And I wonder if all those guys

918
01:02:09.559 --> 01:02:14.119
go back to Modesto at least to
start the year and see, ye see

919
01:02:14.159 --> 01:02:15.639
who shows out. So that'd be
fun. It'd be fun if we knew

920
01:02:15.679 --> 01:02:21.440
that, like you know, before
the game started. A lot of the

921
01:02:21.480 --> 01:02:23.880
times, but if you follow on
Twitter and follow some of the minor league

922
01:02:23.920 --> 01:02:29.880
clubs, sometimes they get that information
out to you beforehand. But Matt in

923
01:02:29.880 --> 01:02:31.800
the Northwest League, dude, we
I think we get the best, the

924
01:02:31.800 --> 01:02:37.239
most fun matchup the first week ever
it visits Hillsboro, and it'll be on

925
01:02:37.480 --> 01:02:40.800
a decent broadcast. I think Hillsboro. I think Hillsborough's lineup is going to

926
01:02:40.880 --> 01:02:45.960
be pretty fun at least from like
the side standpoint, I think what we

927
01:02:46.039 --> 01:02:52.320
might have Serda Conticello or Countaicello,
Gino Groover, a guy who I'm really

928
01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:58.880
interested in watching, Emmanuel Pana,
Tommy Troy, Jack Hurley, Wildered Pettino,

929
01:02:59.239 --> 01:03:02.679
Andrew Pinta. That's a lot of
just from a watching interest standpoint,

930
01:03:04.159 --> 01:03:07.440
a good slew of interesting bets for
Hya. I think, yeah, definitely.

931
01:03:07.639 --> 01:03:12.280
And I saw a few of those
guys there last year. So like

932
01:03:12.840 --> 01:03:15.880
Hurley and Groover, I think are
both going to be you know, Groover

933
01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:20.760
are both going to be back there. Troy, I'd be surprised if he

934
01:03:20.840 --> 01:03:22.920
was there. I think they're going
to I think they're gonna push him to

935
01:03:22.960 --> 01:03:28.360
double A. I don't think they
have anybody else there because he didn't get

936
01:03:28.559 --> 01:03:30.639
he didn't get a lot of run, right, I mean he didn't,

937
01:03:30.679 --> 01:03:35.440
I mean he went, he went
like, I think maybe a high A,

938
01:03:35.599 --> 01:03:37.599
but it was like, not that
much after this season, you know,

939
01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:42.000
so who knows? Who knows what
the plan is? There could be

940
01:03:42.039 --> 01:03:45.440
a bazillion different reasons that players get
placed in certain places. But I'm a

941
01:03:45.440 --> 01:03:50.000
lot of hoping that Drew Jones was
going to be there to start the season.

942
01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:52.199
But I haven't said anything about that
either, because that would be fun

943
01:03:52.239 --> 01:03:55.280
to see Drew Jones live, Like
I would go out to see that one

944
01:03:55.320 --> 01:04:00.800
for Do you agree that those are
probably the two most fun lineups in that

945
01:04:00.880 --> 01:04:05.119
league are going to be? Certainly? The problem is like, are they

946
01:04:05.119 --> 01:04:09.519
going to be the most fun lineups
to start the year? They certainly could

947
01:04:09.599 --> 01:04:14.719
be, Like you could stack two
fascinating lineups on both of those And I,

948
01:04:14.760 --> 01:04:16.440
like I mentioned, I think the
Everett pitching staff is going to be

949
01:04:16.440 --> 01:04:20.719
not very good, so it could
be fun to watch Hillsborough hit against the

950
01:04:20.760 --> 01:04:26.639
ever pitching staff. But I'm just
curious where they're gonna slot everybody at this

951
01:04:26.679 --> 01:04:30.000
point. And if you haven't watched
a lot of minor league baseball, I

952
01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:33.039
think it's it's worthwhile to note,
like there's the first half of the season

953
01:04:33.159 --> 01:04:39.199
and the second half of the season
and rosters can be very different. This

954
01:04:39.320 --> 01:04:43.679
is just a starting point of players
are moving around a lot and stuff.

955
01:04:43.719 --> 01:04:46.679
But just keep that in mind.
The rosters are going to change as the

956
01:04:46.719 --> 01:04:51.079
season moves on. I think Try
City kind of an interesting rotation. Now.

957
01:04:51.119 --> 01:04:56.079
I don't mat did you notice this, but they got Caden Dana on

958
01:04:56.119 --> 01:05:00.320
the Tri City roster right now really, which is interesting me because he finished

959
01:05:00.320 --> 01:05:03.480
the season on the Double A.
I don't know what that is. Well,

960
01:05:03.599 --> 01:05:08.320
I mean that could be just like
they wanted him to get an extra

961
01:05:08.360 --> 01:05:11.239
start in with the Double A or
an extra couple starts with the Double A

962
01:05:11.280 --> 01:05:13.719
team, and then they just want
them to just because I think Salas is

963
01:05:13.760 --> 01:05:15.599
doing the same thing. He obviously
made it up to Double A, but

964
01:05:15.639 --> 01:05:17.880
I think it was just to get
another week of at bats or whatever.

965
01:05:18.360 --> 01:05:21.000
Like you know, it wasn't like, hey, the seventeen year old should

966
01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:26.239
be playing in Double A. And
I'm thinking my Angels B side on from

967
01:05:26.480 --> 01:05:30.639
last season, Ryan Gusteau is back
from injury and I think he will be

968
01:05:30.679 --> 01:05:33.599
starting there. This Hamilton Mendez that
I'm really interested in. And then a

969
01:05:33.599 --> 01:05:38.159
couple of bats Andy Blake and Joe
Redfield and I want to see more of

970
01:05:38.559 --> 01:05:41.840
and cool should get a chance to
when they're on the road. For the

971
01:05:41.880 --> 01:05:45.960
Cal League, I think Fresno at
San Jose might be the most interesting watch,

972
01:05:46.039 --> 01:05:49.320
but it's kind of splitting hairs this
week. I think in the Salle

973
01:05:49.440 --> 01:05:53.800
League, I want I'm going to
tune into Hickory at Rome and see what's

974
01:05:53.840 --> 01:05:57.239
up with some of those pitches pitchers
versus the bats that we're not going to

975
01:05:57.320 --> 01:06:00.000
see a lot of. And then
the Midwesley League, I think I'm probably

976
01:06:00.079 --> 01:06:04.599
most interested in Peoria at Wisconsin,
just because I want to see some of

977
01:06:04.639 --> 01:06:09.360
the arms or Wisconsin has. I
think it's going to have a slew of

978
01:06:09.519 --> 01:06:13.400
arms that I'm not really familiar with. You might have a couple that are

979
01:06:13.719 --> 01:06:17.079
higher brown names, and Wisconsin has
a decent angle to watch pitching. I

980
01:06:17.079 --> 01:06:20.400
didn't mention them before, and they
have a gun and I think Laura will

981
01:06:20.400 --> 01:06:26.519
be there for Wisconsin, who is
really kind of the the only real interesting

982
01:06:26.679 --> 01:06:30.559
bat at least to me right now
at this junker for Wisconsin. But then

983
01:06:30.639 --> 01:06:34.280
double A Eastern League, I think
Somerset will be kind of fun with Augustin

984
01:06:34.360 --> 01:06:40.880
Ramirez, Ben Rice Spencer, Jones, Chase Hampton, Jack Neely, that's

985
01:06:40.880 --> 01:06:46.239
a slew of interesting players. He'll
be on a bit. Okay, Binghamton

986
01:06:47.119 --> 01:06:50.880
is going to be fun to tune
into. Of course, Leander Suarez,

987
01:06:50.920 --> 01:06:55.480
I think we'll be there, Blade
Tidwell, Tyler Stewart, Williams, Chett

988
01:06:55.480 --> 01:06:59.800
Williams. Yeah, that'll be a
fun one. I think Hartford will be

989
01:06:59.800 --> 01:07:01.880
fun. I know people don't care
about Rocky's pitching very much, but I

990
01:07:01.920 --> 01:07:06.480
think pom Quist starts there. Of
course, Amador, Ritter Sirlan Thompson,

991
01:07:08.119 --> 01:07:13.320
Yeah, at least to start.
Yeah, I think we can be pretty

992
01:07:13.320 --> 01:07:16.239
confident here because these guys aren't on
the Triple A rosters, so yeah,

993
01:07:16.239 --> 01:07:19.039
I think it's safe to say that
they're there. So you know, I'm

994
01:07:19.079 --> 01:07:25.360
just a fan of Hunter Stowall,
Rocky middle infielder, just a fun guy

995
01:07:25.400 --> 01:07:27.920
to watch play. But they he
like got demoted. Man, he was

996
01:07:27.920 --> 01:07:31.039
getting into some major league games,
but they sent them back down to Hartford

997
01:07:31.079 --> 01:07:34.719
after playing in Triple A last year. It's kind of interesting to me,

998
01:07:35.480 --> 01:07:40.199
Richmond. I'm definitely going to be
tuning in to watch some Trevor McDonald and

999
01:07:40.239 --> 01:07:44.760
some Barracodo. But I gotta say
Eastern League has been like kind of one

1000
01:07:44.800 --> 01:07:46.360
of the funnest leagues for me to
watch the last couple of years, but

1001
01:07:46.400 --> 01:07:50.599
I'm not quite as excited this year, at least to start. I have

1002
01:07:50.679 --> 01:07:54.719
a feeling in the Eastern League is
going to hot, be hot middle of

1003
01:07:54.760 --> 01:07:57.920
the season, and that is true
a lot of the time. Like the

1004
01:07:57.960 --> 01:08:00.920
guys that perform at high A,
yeah, double A is like yeah,

1005
01:08:01.400 --> 01:08:04.440
double A, step up, Yeah, double A in the second half of

1006
01:08:04.480 --> 01:08:09.079
the season is so much fun.
Yeah, Yeah, definitely, because there's

1007
01:08:09.079 --> 01:08:14.039
a lot of guys that I think
are targeted for hya that are gonna see

1008
01:08:14.039 --> 01:08:17.199
We're going to see them in double
A before like maybe a month, maybe

1009
01:08:17.239 --> 01:08:23.000
two. Yeah. And so I
think like the summer in the Eastern League

1010
01:08:23.039 --> 01:08:26.359
and the Southern League is going to
be pretty hot. I think there's gonna

1011
01:08:26.359 --> 01:08:28.920
be a lot of fun people to
watch. Yeah, And I think you

1012
01:08:29.000 --> 01:08:31.760
gotta you gotta note too, some
of these leagues, like the you know,

1013
01:08:31.840 --> 01:08:35.640
the Northeast Division of the Eastern League
and the Midwest League like this pretty

1014
01:08:35.640 --> 01:08:40.520
crappy weather in the beginning of the
year. Perhaps part of that plays into

1015
01:08:40.560 --> 01:08:43.439
some of the assignment is like we
just don't want this guy playing in the

1016
01:08:43.479 --> 01:08:46.119
crappy April Weather. Yeah league,
Yeah, and that might be in the

1017
01:08:46.159 --> 01:08:50.800
Southern League. I think Birmingham could
be, even though it's White Sox and

1018
01:08:50.840 --> 01:08:55.239
I hate them so much. There's
I think there's gonna be an interesting rotation

1019
01:08:55.359 --> 01:08:59.680
there. Mason Adams, your guy, Erie Arteky Bush, Jake Eater,

1020
01:09:00.079 --> 01:09:02.600
Jared Kelly, Threw Thorpe, and
then I think they got Edgar Kira and

1021
01:09:02.920 --> 01:09:06.279
Bryan Ramos on that roster right now. Yeah, I was. I was

1022
01:09:06.359 --> 01:09:12.359
kind of surprised that Ramos isn't in
Triple A right and Jose Rodriguez, who's

1023
01:09:12.359 --> 01:09:15.319
been in the BIGS. They had
Telko there, Wilfred Veres, who you

1024
01:09:15.439 --> 01:09:18.560
like. Kind of I think that
that might be the most interesting team in

1025
01:09:18.600 --> 01:09:21.399
the Southern League to me, especially
right now. I mean like that,

1026
01:09:21.560 --> 01:09:25.039
I don't think that's going to be
their team for all that long. I

1027
01:09:25.039 --> 01:09:28.479
think a lot of those guys are
going to be up in Triple A pretty

1028
01:09:28.520 --> 01:09:31.840
quickly in Charlotte, and then I
think, I mean the poor White Sox,

1029
01:09:31.880 --> 01:09:35.920
man, they look absolutely atrocious.
They got curb stumped by the Braves

1030
01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:40.199
today, Eloy is already hurt.
I don't know what they're gonna do but

1031
01:09:40.319 --> 01:09:44.760
like, does Robert make it through
the year with the White Sox, like

1032
01:09:44.920 --> 01:09:47.079
I mean, and then if they
do that, like, okay, clearly

1033
01:09:47.119 --> 01:09:50.279
we're full tank. Job are they
just going to bring up a bunch of

1034
01:09:50.279 --> 01:09:53.840
those guys? We see Montgomery,
we see Ramos, we see Caro,

1035
01:09:54.079 --> 01:09:57.479
you know, like it'd be interesting. I don't know, ye see what

1036
01:09:57.479 --> 01:10:00.119
they do. I have to say, I've watched zero second of any White

1037
01:10:00.119 --> 01:10:05.359
Sox game so far this season that
I don't know. The Crochet starting.

1038
01:10:05.439 --> 01:10:09.359
Yeah, he looked good too,
actually, and it's held up through the

1039
01:10:09.720 --> 01:10:12.600
outing. You know, I was, I was pretty skeptical because I just

1040
01:10:12.600 --> 01:10:16.279
think he's his command I think is
not quite good enough to start. But

1041
01:10:16.399 --> 01:10:20.600
he looked great in the Texas League. I mean to me, Wichita is

1042
01:10:20.680 --> 01:10:25.640
always kind of fun, always have
interesting bats there. I think my guy

1043
01:10:25.640 --> 01:10:30.479
Ben Ross will be there showbol of
course, your guy Emrod's starting there the

1044
01:10:30.520 --> 01:10:34.199
backup a little bit. I was
surprised Julian agu Are still Double A.

1045
01:10:34.680 --> 01:10:38.479
I kind of thought that he would
have been starting in Triple A this season.

1046
01:10:38.600 --> 01:10:41.680
But yeah too, Yeah he's not
on Louisville's roster, you know,

1047
01:10:41.960 --> 01:10:45.199
he's on he's with Chattan Nugas.
Still, I wonder if that's like because

1048
01:10:45.239 --> 01:10:48.479
of the all the rehabbers, because
they've got a few injured guys that are

1049
01:10:48.520 --> 01:10:53.640
coming up to like Lodolo and Brandon
Williams and I think are both rehabing there.

1050
01:10:53.960 --> 01:10:59.239
Yeah, I think San Antonio will
be fun crabs there. Maser Snelling,

1051
01:10:59.399 --> 01:11:01.000
I think the sound is still on
the roster, but he will be

1052
01:11:01.000 --> 01:11:06.439
starting in high A couple of interesting
bats and Casinone and Martorella are still on

1053
01:11:06.479 --> 01:11:11.399
the Double A roster, and they
still Marci is on the Double A roster,

1054
01:11:11.600 --> 01:11:15.199
which is interesting. I thought he'd
be with El Paso. Yeah.

1055
01:11:15.439 --> 01:11:16.800
Yeah, Triple A. Like I
said before, Triple A is kind of

1056
01:11:16.920 --> 01:11:19.600
it's just a little bit different than
the other levels to me, for for

1057
01:11:19.720 --> 01:11:24.279
our purposes or what I like to
watch. But I think Buffalo is actually

1058
01:11:24.359 --> 01:11:27.920
kind of interesting with the arms.
Ricky Titeman's there, counter cook, that

1059
01:11:28.039 --> 01:11:30.880
Cuban guy, the ari L Rodriguez. I'm interested to watch some of him.

1060
01:11:31.079 --> 01:11:35.199
Chad Dallas is interesting to me.
I think he's probably more suited for

1061
01:11:35.279 --> 01:11:41.239
bullpen roll in the long run.
But nonetheless, Addison Barger, Leo Yemanez

1062
01:11:41.920 --> 01:11:46.079
or Elvis are there. Rochester I
think is a little interesting because Mitchell Parker

1063
01:11:46.119 --> 01:11:50.119
and James Wood. I think Syracuse
might be kind of as fun as it

1064
01:11:50.159 --> 01:11:54.720
gets for a triple A roster,
and like sort of prospecting. They got

1065
01:11:54.840 --> 01:11:59.760
Jose Budo, Dominic Hamill, Christian
Scott, Mike Vasil. Then on the

1066
01:11:59.800 --> 01:12:02.600
back side they Gotuna and Drew Gilbert. You see they went back to back

1067
01:12:02.840 --> 01:12:08.159
in the game. Yeah, Charlotte
might be I think Charlotte's interesting just because

1068
01:12:08.159 --> 01:12:11.159
Colson Montgomery's there, and then they
got a couple of arms that might be

1069
01:12:11.239 --> 01:12:14.600
kind of interesting. I'm curious when
Sean Burke might get back, and I'm

1070
01:12:14.640 --> 01:12:17.960
curious if Oscar Colis is anything that
we should still pay attention to. And

1071
01:12:18.000 --> 01:12:21.880
then of course we've talked about Toledo. Toledo's just that's such a fun team

1072
01:12:23.039 --> 01:12:27.159
to me. Man, Yeah,
the mud Hens, Yeah, mud Hens.

1073
01:12:27.359 --> 01:12:30.960
But like you got Engler, who
I mean, I'm still curious about

1074
01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:34.399
Flores Herder, Kader, Montero Manning
is there right now. On the bat

1075
01:12:34.439 --> 01:12:39.760
side, you got Dylan Dingler,
Cassin, Hira, Jace Young, Kridler,

1076
01:12:40.840 --> 01:12:45.119
Leonard Justin, Terry, Malloy,
Wentzel, Perez, big b Madras

1077
01:12:45.399 --> 01:12:48.039
and bid like that's it's about as
fun of a Triple A team as it

1078
01:12:48.199 --> 01:12:50.600
kind of gets. I think,
Yeah, a lot of those guys either

1079
01:12:50.720 --> 01:12:53.800
have been in the big leagues are
going to be in the big leagues.

1080
01:12:53.880 --> 01:12:57.880
Yeah, real soon, Like that's
a big league quality team, you know.

1081
01:12:58.000 --> 01:13:00.920
Yeah, And it's not like and
it's still guys who who's career trajectory

1082
01:13:01.000 --> 01:13:03.439
is still pointing up, you know, for the most part. I mean

1083
01:13:03.439 --> 01:13:09.039
there's like Kira do or who are
You? A little bit of Madras to

1084
01:13:09.079 --> 01:13:12.439
a certain extent too, like a
little bit of reclamation projects. But there

1085
01:13:12.439 --> 01:13:15.640
are a lot of the rest of
those guys like Henry malloy and Young and

1086
01:13:15.119 --> 01:13:18.199
a bunch of those other guys,
like they're all arrow up. So I

1087
01:13:18.600 --> 01:13:20.840
like that rest a lot. I
think I'm going to turn into tune into

1088
01:13:20.840 --> 01:13:25.720
a bunch of those games. Yeah, and then the PCL, like obviously

1089
01:13:25.800 --> 01:13:28.840
I have a bias, but Albuquerque, I think is one of the more

1090
01:13:28.960 --> 01:13:32.520
fun rosters. Keep an eye on
Drew Romo, Beef Goodman Beck's there,

1091
01:13:32.800 --> 01:13:35.039
your guy, Jimmy Harron, he
had a home run the other day.

1092
01:13:35.319 --> 01:13:39.439
John Bouchard is there. So some
bats to keep an eye on that might

1093
01:13:39.479 --> 01:13:43.279
get some MLB run this year.
Las Vegas is interesting to me as well.

1094
01:13:43.439 --> 01:13:46.640
Joey Estis Domingo, Roebliss is there, who we've talked about, Saderstrom,

1095
01:13:46.800 --> 01:13:53.000
Jordan Diaz, Brett Harris, excuse
me, Max Munsey, lazarro Arminteros,

1096
01:13:53.279 --> 01:13:56.319
some bats that might get some MLB
run this year. And I think

1097
01:13:56.359 --> 01:13:59.960
Sacramento's pretty fun too. I feel
like Sacramento is always kind of fun.

1098
01:14:00.560 --> 01:14:04.399
Mason Black Blaine, Enlow's there,
Carson Seymour, Carson wizen Hunt, your

1099
01:14:04.399 --> 01:14:09.000
guy, Trenton Brooks. Yeah,
I saw Dario Lopez. I think is

1100
01:14:09.039 --> 01:14:12.279
on their Triple A ross or might
just be kind of a formality, but

1101
01:14:12.319 --> 01:14:15.760
I saw he's on the sixty day
il. He must have really jacked up

1102
01:14:15.800 --> 01:14:18.840
his knee last year, man,
but that was a bummer. Luciano's there,

1103
01:14:19.199 --> 01:14:25.520
Casey Schmidt, David vr Brett Wisely, Wade Meckler and Ishmael Menguia.

1104
01:14:25.760 --> 01:14:30.439
Yeah, I don't know, man, that's a little rundown. Lots of

1105
01:14:30.439 --> 01:14:32.920
good highlights, and we'll see.
We'll see more of those announcements later this

1106
01:14:33.000 --> 01:14:36.920
week when we actually get the get
close to the opening day for a and

1107
01:14:36.920 --> 01:14:41.880
and for a kind of a matchup
of the week. New Hampshire's at Binghamton.

1108
01:14:42.079 --> 01:14:45.520
I want to see, uh mostly
I want to see when Johander gets

1109
01:14:45.560 --> 01:14:49.640
to throw day he'll be throwing.
In the Southern League. Got Chattanooga at

1110
01:14:49.640 --> 01:14:54.039
Birmingham. Like we mentioned, I
think Birmingham is the most interesting look there

1111
01:14:54.119 --> 01:14:57.840
right now. And then Frisco at
Wichita. I want to see Ross and

1112
01:14:57.920 --> 01:15:02.600
the Wichita bats versus some resting arms
for Frisco, and Frisco has a They

1113
01:15:02.600 --> 01:15:08.079
got a good slew of some of
some arm like like bullpen arms that I'm

1114
01:15:08.319 --> 01:15:13.199
interested in seeing. Mostly Syracuse plays
at Scranton. That could be fun.

1115
01:15:13.279 --> 01:15:17.159
Durban Gilbert be some decent pitching there. And then in the PCL, I

1116
01:15:17.199 --> 01:15:23.159
got Las Vegas had sugar Land,
Estes, Dies Harris and those guys versus

1117
01:15:23.199 --> 01:15:28.039
lots of interesting arms for the what
are they called the Space Cowboys now and

1118
01:15:28.159 --> 01:15:30.760
the sugar Land's got a lot purfeito. They had a great weekend. Yeah,

1119
01:15:30.880 --> 01:15:33.960
great weekend. Yeah yeah, Quincy
Hamilton, so that could be a

1120
01:15:34.000 --> 01:15:38.399
fun one. Imagine some runs will
get put up on the scoreboard there.

1121
01:15:38.479 --> 01:15:42.560
We are going to try to report
on Monday nights for the rest of the

1122
01:15:42.560 --> 01:15:45.560
season, and I will try to
get the podcast out the next day.

1123
01:15:45.680 --> 01:15:48.279
I think we'll kind of run down
the week's action, whatever Matt wants to

1124
01:15:48.279 --> 01:15:51.720
talk about and what he was watching
and interested in, and I'll probably have

1125
01:15:51.840 --> 01:15:55.800
like a picture of the week or
a start of the week sort of thing

1126
01:15:55.840 --> 01:15:59.760
that I'll get into. I'll again
share matchups coming up. Then I'm going

1127
01:15:59.800 --> 01:16:01.720
to be tuning into the next week, try to We'll probably try to do

1128
01:16:01.760 --> 01:16:08.239
a rundown of prospects that are getting
picked up in leagues whose roster percentages might

1129
01:16:08.319 --> 01:16:13.079
be spiking for whatever reason, and
maybe sharing a couple of cents on those

1130
01:16:13.119 --> 01:16:16.319
guys, or maybe finding some assignments
and some guys that we should start tuning

1131
01:16:16.399 --> 01:16:19.439
into. Does that sound good to
you, Matt? Absolutely, the minor

1132
01:16:19.479 --> 01:16:25.279
league season is here, the major
league season is here. Welcome back Baseball.

1133
01:16:25.560 --> 01:16:29.520
Yeah, Friday morning, just clicking
on all the roster pages and whatnot

1134
01:16:29.560 --> 01:16:31.520
and seeing who's going where. Yep, Yeah, No, I think that'll

1135
01:16:31.560 --> 01:16:35.319
do it for episode twenty seven of
the Prospect B Sides podcast. You can

1136
01:16:35.319 --> 01:16:40.760
follow me on Twitter at pitching Specs. You can find that, and I

1137
01:16:41.439 --> 01:16:45.079
in the Dynasty Dugout Discord and yeah, I don't know, man, anything

1138
01:16:45.079 --> 01:16:47.319
else you want to say, you
feeling good about your fantasy teams to start

1139
01:16:47.439 --> 01:16:51.920
or what? I had a tough
luck loss in the show. I think

1140
01:16:53.000 --> 01:16:56.039
I put up the seventh most points
and lost to the guy who put up

1141
01:16:56.039 --> 01:16:58.960
the most points or the second most
points or something. It's hard to beat

1142
01:16:59.000 --> 01:17:01.760
those guys who put up the most
points. You know, it is difficult.

1143
01:17:01.960 --> 01:17:05.920
It is difficult. I had,
Yeah, I had that in another

1144
01:17:06.119 --> 01:17:11.159
of my leagues. I put up
the fifth or fourth most points and lost

1145
01:17:11.239 --> 01:17:13.359
the guy who put up the most
points. Head dead leagues. You know

1146
01:17:13.560 --> 01:17:16.039
that happens. Didn't love that Sean
Murphy got injured on the first day,

1147
01:17:16.840 --> 01:17:20.640
sucked in the show That wasn't wasn't
great. What do you think? Is

1148
01:17:20.680 --> 01:17:26.439
this your first run at doing half
week periods and what do you think of

1149
01:17:26.479 --> 01:17:30.399
it? It is interesting. I
think the question I asked you the other

1150
01:17:30.479 --> 01:17:33.319
day about, oh, it's daily
moves, but we just have shorter periods.

1151
01:17:33.479 --> 01:17:36.960
It makes some of the other team's
rosters make a lot more sense,

1152
01:17:38.279 --> 01:17:42.920
Like there are some teams that had
a lot more relievers than I thought made

1153
01:17:42.960 --> 01:17:45.640
sense just given the scoring format.
I was like, I don't know why

1154
01:17:45.680 --> 01:17:47.119
you would do that, like you
want to hit your four starts, and

1155
01:17:47.159 --> 01:17:49.640
so you want like a decent number
of starters to make sure that you can

1156
01:17:49.720 --> 01:17:51.760
hit that. But then a lot
of teams, like I was like,

1157
01:17:51.800 --> 01:17:56.239
why do they have all these middle
relievers on their teams? But I think

1158
01:17:56.279 --> 01:17:59.640
it's because you have a middle reliever, go, you just PLoP in the

1159
01:17:59.720 --> 01:18:02.439
next one for the next day.
And like I noticed some teams were kind

1160
01:18:02.479 --> 01:18:05.399
of churning that, and that seems
like a good use of roster spots.

1161
01:18:05.399 --> 01:18:10.479
And then the other thing on the
show, at least because I inherited these

1162
01:18:10.520 --> 01:18:13.880
two teams, one of which then
I did a dispersal draft in the other

1163
01:18:13.960 --> 01:18:15.760
was just a straight inheritance. And
then the one that I inherited. When

1164
01:18:15.800 --> 01:18:18.079
I first looked at this roster,
I was like, this, this roster

1165
01:18:18.239 --> 01:18:23.079
is so weird. It's got like
a couple of great players like Akunya and

1166
01:18:23.199 --> 01:18:26.239
Robert Junior and a couple others that
are like really good, and then a

1167
01:18:26.319 --> 01:18:30.760
bunch of like crappy role players.
This is such a weird roster for a

1168
01:18:30.920 --> 01:18:33.479
contender. But I kind of get
it now because it's a daily moves league.

1169
01:18:33.520 --> 01:18:38.199
When guys are in platoons like I've
been like trying to pick and choose

1170
01:18:38.239 --> 01:18:42.039
the right ones on the given day
in WGM, and like, you know,

1171
01:18:42.079 --> 01:18:44.600
it's like a little bit of an
edge that maybe you can find in

1172
01:18:44.960 --> 01:18:48.159
that league. So they're both interesting
leagues. And the four starts thing is

1173
01:18:48.199 --> 01:18:51.880
going to be interesting, especially in
WGM for me because I have like four

1174
01:18:51.960 --> 01:18:56.720
actual starters. So I did better
week one than I think I'm going to

1175
01:18:56.800 --> 01:18:59.000
do in week two. And you
know, yeah, that could be a

1176
01:18:59.039 --> 01:19:01.359
little tricky too, because you can
get stuck. I had this one season

1177
01:19:01.479 --> 01:19:04.920
I just could not get out of
it. But I had like my seven

1178
01:19:05.000 --> 01:19:09.600
guys would start one half of the
week and then I'd have like one start

1179
01:19:09.760 --> 01:19:13.479
the other half. So I started
just making trades just to change up the

1180
01:19:13.600 --> 01:19:16.560
rotation. Like, well, we'll
see. It's it's fun to it's like

1181
01:19:16.680 --> 01:19:20.039
fun playing in these different formats and
trying to keep them all straight. I

1182
01:19:20.079 --> 01:19:23.880
finally moved all my leagues over to
fan tracks. Did I tell you that?

1183
01:19:23.960 --> 01:19:28.680
Congratulations? Yeah, like my long
running home league that I have just

1184
01:19:28.760 --> 01:19:30.840
dominated, Like I don't know why
these guys keep playing with me. I'm

1185
01:19:30.840 --> 01:19:35.079
already in first place again, Like
I don't know these guys this is a

1186
01:19:35.119 --> 01:19:41.359
super shallow twelve team mixed league that
we'd run on ESPN for like fifteen sixteen

1187
01:19:41.439 --> 01:19:44.920
years, and yeah, we finally
moved it over to fan tracks this year,

1188
01:19:45.000 --> 01:19:47.039
which was was no effort, like, it was really easy to do.

1189
01:19:47.199 --> 01:19:51.199
It was great. I was I
was sitting around waiting at the end

1190
01:19:51.199 --> 01:19:57.920
of my workshift this morning, and
I decided just to put a cumulative batting

1191
01:19:57.960 --> 01:20:01.079
average together for all of my fantasy
to over the first four days or whatever,

1192
01:20:01.119 --> 01:20:08.840
and total my batting average was point
zero nine to seven. Oh my

1193
01:20:08.960 --> 01:20:12.560
god, that's bad. That's your
cold, that's your coold to start.

1194
01:20:12.600 --> 01:20:16.159
But good news is we're like one
percent of the way through the season or

1195
01:20:16.199 --> 01:20:20.239
something like that, so long ways
to go. Yeah long season four.

1196
01:20:20.359 --> 01:20:26.520
Sure, quit overreacting, everybody,
stay calm, Everything's fine. But you

1197
01:20:26.560 --> 01:20:30.520
guys be well and we will talk
to you next week later an hour.

1198
01:20:30.039 --> 01:20:36.760
Riding to his head, you have
him down first with the long, bonius

1199
01:20:36.920 --> 01:20:45.039
face, and on the very next
pitch he up in stove second face with

1200
01:20:45.399 --> 01:20:56.279
gretest be he wasn't born. He
had yes uniform